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30676 Marc Cooper on Pacifica -- rank: 1000

X-From_: mcooper at thenation.com Mon Sep 10 00:46:22 2001 Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 21:47:12 -0700 From: Marc Cooper <mcooper at thenation.com> Subject: Marc Cooper On Pacifica Crisis X-Sender: mcooper at mail.thenation.com To: mug at ncws.com, "rwmcches at uiuc.edu" <rwmcches at uiuc.edu>, Given the Pacifica meltdown, I am issuing the following statement. Please circulate widely --MARC MARC COOPER'S PUBLIC STATEMENT ON PACIFICA SEPTEMBER 10, 2001 Several individuals have a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 10 06:26:30 PDT 2001

30677 WB investigates in-house critic -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >>[Easterly's article follows. It was reprinted in today's FT, having >>appeared only in some editions on July 4.] >> >>New York Times - September 7, 2001 >> >>World Bank Presses Inquiry on Economist Who Dissents >>By JOSEPH KAHN > >Jesus H. Christ! Could you expand on that a bit? Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 10 06:31:01 PDT 2001

30678 Fwd: Nuremberg Files adds 'Dubya' to its internet hit list -- rank: 1000

Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 10:38:00 -0700 Subject: Nuremberg Files adds 'Dubya' to its internet hit list From: Michael Novick <part2001 at usa.net> 'Satanic' Bush is on anti-abortion website's hit list By David Wastell in Washington (Filed: 09/09/2001) THE name of President George W Bush has been added to an internet "hit list" compiled by anti-abortion campaigners after his decision to allow federal funding for limited human embryo stem-cell research. President Bush: supports stem c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 9 19:04:15 PDT 2001

30679 Bond against _Empire_ -- rank: 1000

Once again: > I agree with that sense of priority-i.e., capturing, >democratising and retooling the nation-state, which in turn entails >rejection of international neoliberal policy pressure. What is >advocated is no return to nationalism (even if it is apparently >important for Sibanda to debunk Zanu PF's deformed, exhausted >nationalism with a class-oriented 'chimurenga' discourse), but >instead, a firm restatement of the need to rebuild national >sovereignty (and la ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 7 11:48:50 PDT 2001

30680 men and women -- rank: 1000

David Jennings wrote: >Here's what the eXile's Mark Ames has recently said on this question: Wow, the eXile is being sold, and the original gang is out? I haven't been following the paper for a while - what's happened? Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 7 11:45:37 PDT 2001

30681 John Fund scandal! -- rank: 1000

Dennis wrote: >Any fallout over this? I admit I'm hooked on the saga. Dunno. Sources are being contacted. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 7 11:20:32 PDT 2001

30682 men and women -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >What's interesting (if not surprising) is that while Americans, male >or female, are on the average among the fattest of the world, >American actors in Hollywood movies now display the best toned >bodies of all movies of the world. Fat is a class issue. I've heard it said - and though I haven't factchecked this, it sounds entirely right from what I've seen - that there isn't a single fat CEO of a Fortune 500 company. And contrast slender marathon runner Rober ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 7 11:03:48 PDT 2001

30683 Fwd: Re: Conference on Racism:Jewish Caucus Statement -- rank: 1000

[Leo, please direct these at the list, not me!] >X-From_: LeoCasey at aol.com Fri Sep 7 12:13:54 2001 >From: LeoCasey at aol.com >Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 12:13:18 EDT >Subject: Re: Conference on Racism:Jewish Caucus Statement >To: lbo-talk-digest <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com> >Mime-Version: 1.0 > >Matthew: > >>Max, sincere question: what other states are made up of a population >>brought from somewhere else after 1900 (or 1945 for that m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 7 09:55:27 PDT 2001

30684 nference on Racism:Jewish Caucus Statement -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> Macdonald Stainsby wrote: >> >> >I mean Israel. A country founded on that notion cannot remain. >> >It's sad I need to say this, but of course I mean the state not the people. >> > >> >I would also add in all settler states and Britain (just for kicks). >> >> So where are all these people supposed to go? Into the seas? Is >> Canada included? >> > >Everyone ha ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 7 09:54:49 PDT 2001

30685 nference on Racism:Jewish Caucus Statement -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I would suggest that for another half century (minimum) such calls could >only ignite the kind of battles purely in the mind that Marx mocks in >the German Ideology. If the paradigm does dissolve it will happen >invisibly, behind the backs of the actors, and its dissolution will only >be discovered decades or centuries after the fact -- at about the time >that whatever paradigm replaces it will already be decaying at the >edges. So there's no room for cons ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 7 09:49:35 PDT 2001

30686 NYC area: Hear Doug Talk -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >At least 8 hrs away from the Bad Apple, here I am >plugging for Doug Thanks, but that's DC. I am yakking on "globalization" on Monday evening, Sep 10, 7 PM, at West Park Presbyterian Church, 86 & Amsterdam (NE corner), to a group of Upper West Side peaceniks. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 7 09:34:45 PDT 2001

30687 WB investigates in-house critic -- rank: 1000

[Easterly's article follows. It was reprinted in today's FT, having appeared only in some editions on July 4.] New York Times - September 7, 2001 World Bank Presses Inquiry on Economist Who Dissents By JOSEPH KAHN WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 - The World Bank is conducting a disciplinary investigation of one of its highest-ranking economists, who sharply criticized the bank's record on fighting poverty in a recent book and newspaper opinion article. The economist, William Easterly, came under investigati ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 7 07:38:14 PDT 2001

30688 men & women -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: > >Australian men lead in this category. That's one reason they >>were so high up there. I don't think FHM interviewed people in Afganistan. >>It is a silly magazine and not to be taken seriously. > >Nevertheless, it has already been quoted with great seriousness by students >in my tutes. Another myth born'n'raised ... The Australian edition of FHM is one of the most amazing publications I've ever seen - extravagantly, exuberantly vulgar. Makes the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 7 07:32:17 PDT 2001

30689 Jackson Hole query -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >And I think it's not so very surprising that a laissez-faire type like Andrei >Shleifer would come to the conclusion that a massive misallocation of capital >by a free market was the fault of a few Very Bad People who Cheated >and Must Be >Prevented From Interfering In The Workings Of A Basically Fine Market >Mechanism. Explaining that everything would have been fine except for a few >bad apples is practically an industry in itself. It's the explanati ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 7 07:30:05 PDT 2001

30690 John Fund scandal! -- rank: 1000

All you fans of troglodytic WSJ editorialist John Fund: <http://www.weaselsearch.com/jfund4654544318.htm>. Sex, betrayal, abortion!!! Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 7 07:11:37 PDT 2001