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30661 Hey Doug -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Are you in one piece? > >max Yup. Extraordinary fucking shit here. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 11 07:27:38 PDT 2001

30662 Bond against _Empire_ -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >real >alternatives to internationalization. and those are...? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 10 19:14:05 PDT 2001

30663 job announcement -- rank: 1000

Job Announcement: Director of Outreach The Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), a non-profit organization working to end sweatshop conditions in the global apparel industry, is seeking a Director of Outreach. Background on the Worker Rights Consortium The WRC was founded in 2000 and has emerged as a leading labor rights monitoring and enforcement organization. The WRC: * Investigates working conditions in factories around the world that produce clothing and other merchandise bearing the names of U.S. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 10 18:22:14 PDT 2001

30664 "jobless rate" -- rank: 1000

Forstater, Mathew wrote: >I thought the "jobless rate" included discouraged workers and >involuntary part-timers? Does this mean that those using that term >chose one that the BLS uses as a synonym for the unemployment rate and >the BLS uses a term as a synonym that they are aware us being used as an >alternative indicator. I have seen what I defined as the jobless rate >also called the "marginalization rate" I believe (by Boston, R. >Williams). "J ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 10 18:10:04 PDT 2001

30665 States, Nationalisms, & the American Empire -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >On one hand you seem to be saying that all leftists must consciously >struggle against all nationalisms, regardless of contents of given >nationalisms, advancing a consistently anti-statist position. On >the other hand, you seem to be saying to Palestinians, "Israel >exists & will not go away -- deal with it," thus legitimating the >nationalisms of Zionists while negating the nationalisms of >Palestinians, at best perhaps advocating &q ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 10 16:03:19 PDT 2001

30666 Bond against _Empire_ -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >>What small to medium sized poor country could really make a go of >>it on its own for any length of time? Maybe a big one with some >>technological resources, like Brazil or India, could for a while, >>but Zambia or Argentina? > >Why do you think that Brazil or India could do it? "mabye...for a while" - could I have qualified the statement more? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 10 12:24:59 PDT 2001

30667 Bond against _Empire_ -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >I agree with all of this. But I'm a little confused: I thought you regarded >regional groupings of poor countries as a mask for local hegemony. That would be to define local to include large chunks of the globe. >And what would Hardt & Negri say about this, given their belief that "the >autonomy of the political" is a mere illusion? I have no idea what they'd say. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 10 12:03:23 PDT 2001

30668 Hawkes on the fetish -- rank: 1000

<http://www.palgrave-usa.com/Literature/> Featured for September IDOLS OF THE MARKET PLACE Idolatry and Commodity Fetishism in English Literature, 1580-1680 David Hawkes Postmodern society seems incapable of elaborating an ethical critique of the market economy. Early modern society showed no such reticence. Between 1580 and 1680, Aristotelian teleology was replaced as the dominant mode of philosophy in England by Baconian empiricism. This was a process with implications for every sphere o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 10 12:01:34 PDT 2001

30669 Cooper to Yasko -- rank: 1000

[hope this isn't getting too inside baseball - Yasko is going to resign from the Pac board - the FreePac crowd were going on last week about how the fact that Yasko runs a gay porn site proves he's a misogynist, or something like that] From: Marc Cooper To: Steve Yasko Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 8:45 PM Subject: From Marc Steve: I have been around Pacifica Radio for more than 20 years (most of them as an observer fortunately) and I have seen it produce a bumper crop of mediocrities and incomp ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 10 09:09:41 PDT 2001

30670 Bond against _Empire_ -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >How can "a bunch of countries" make an alliance, "take a common >stance with their creditors, make some serious attempt at developing >serious economic and social links, and arrange some sort of trading >system with a division of labor" without states? States, plural. I don't like states, and look suspiciously on any proposal that would increase their power, even when they're coming from "our" side. But they exist (like Israel ex ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 10 09:06:14 PDT 2001

30671 med journals on corporate research -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - September 10, 2001 12 Medical Journals Issue Joint Policy on Research Supported by Business By LILA GUTERMAN Twelve medical journals, including several of the world's most prominent, announced today a uniform policy intended to assure the independence of the academic researchers whose work they publish and whose work is supported by businesses. The journals released a joint editorial announcing that they will reject manuscripts submitted by authors who ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 10 08:11:45 PDT 2001

30672 Derrida: communism not dead -- rank: 1000

SCMP Saturday, September 8, 2001 Communism 'alive and kicking' JASPER BECKER in Beijing Communism is not dead and China has an important role to play in the development of Marxism, French philosopher Jacques Derrida said yesterday. Speaking to a packed lecture hall in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the left-wing founder of the school of "deconstruction" attacked the notion that the democratic revolutions in Russia and Eastern Europe had killed off communism. "It's not ove ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 10 07:34:18 PDT 2001

30673 nference on Racism:Jewish Caucus Statement -- rank: 1000

Macdonald Stainsby wrote: >Your "Lenin" baiting is disappointing. I would expect >better from Lou Proyect's supposed arch nemisis than this silly >mirror image of >his "argument" tactics. Did I say anything about Lenin? I was reacting to your rather unsubtle style of thought and argument. If you think that's anti-Leninist, that's your conclusion, not mine. And please keep certain personalities out of this. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 10 07:26:08 PDT 2001

30674 global "antiglobalizer" -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - September 10, 2001 Rock Star Protested Globalization in Genoa But Makes Music for Major Record Label By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL NIMES, France -- Thanks to a global corporate giant, the face of one of the best-known antiglobalization protesters hangs over this southern French town. There are Manu Chao billboards on the roads. A life-size Manu Chao towers at the entrance to the FNAC department store. And at electronics dealerships, TV sets ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 10 06:44:48 PDT 2001

30675 Bond against _Empire_ -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> nationalist/autarkic >. >Is autarky necessarily the same as nationalism? Do, say, controls on foreign >exchange holdings necessarily lead to exclusionary politics? Why exactly >can't you have exchange controls *and* internationalism? Maybe you could, but the examples Patrick and others point to were nationalist. What small to medium sized poor country could really make a go of it on its own for any length of time? Maybe a bi ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 10 06:40:46 PDT 2001