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31276 WB: developing countries "won" in Doha; UAE to host Afghan talks -- rank: 1000

[from the WB's daily clipping service - "years of riots by ignorant hordes" is a nice touch] DEVELOPING COUNTRIES PREVAILED IN DOHA, ACTIVISTS DENOUNCE DEAL. After seven years of back-room haggling, the 142 nations of the World Trade Organization finally agreed to launch a new round of trade talks that keep the global economy on track toward freer trade and investment, the Wall Street Journal (p.A1) reports. The negotiations in Doha, which extended a full 24 hours past the scheduled e ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 15 09:20:40 PST 2001

31277 cultural imperialism -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >> >>Actually I spent a good deal of my life denouncing U.S. cultural >>imperialism, and attributing it purely to economic power. It's only >>over the last year or so that I started thinking that things were >>more complicated than that. > >Intriguing, Doug. Would you please expand on this? I think it really started when I was in Essen in February. The signs of American pop culture - ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 15 08:06:38 PST 2001

31278 Omar wants extinction of America -- rank: 1000

Thursday November 15 9:45 AM ET Omar Wants 'Extinction of America' By KATHY GANNON, Associated Press Writer KABUL, Afghanistan (news - web sites) (AP) - Despite a series of stunning setbacks that cost the Taliban their grip on the capital and deprived them of huge swaths of territory, Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar remained defiant in a BBC interview broadcast Thursday, saying he'd rather die than ``join an evil government'' with the country's former leader. The Taliban pullback fro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 15 07:20:52 PST 2001

31279 RAWA -- rank: 1000

[I've been so busy cashing my checks earned apologizing for imperialism that I may have missed this if it was posted here. If it's a dupe, sorry.] <http://rawa.fancymarketing.net/na-appeal.htm> RAWA's appeal to the UN and World community The people of Afghanistan do not accept domination of the Northern Alliance! Now it is confirmed that the Taliban have left Kabul and the Northern Alliance has entered the city. The world should understand that the Northern Alliance is composed of some ban ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 15 07:05:45 PST 2001

31280 [Fwd: brad on stupidity] -- rank: 1000

If Rakesh wants to post things here, he can join the list. Otherwise, stop forwarding his stuff. Assuming, of course, the list has a life beyond this afternoon, which is looking rocky right now. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 15 06:55:10 PST 2001

31281 Question -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >For you economisty types out there: In 2000, Russia's current account >surplus relative to GDP was $46 billion, or 18.5%. How big is this? Enormous. Except that the c/a is measured in US$ and GDP in rubles, right? How does the market exchange rate for rubles compare with a purchasing power parity rate? The World Bank has Russian GDP per cap at $7,473 PPP and $2,051 market. The market rate is close to Peru's? But the PPP rate is almost twice Peru's. Which is closer to rea ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 15 06:40:57 PST 2001

31282 Hitch gloats (like a fool) -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >>Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 18:44:23 -0500 >>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >>Subject: Hitch gloats >> >>Guardian (London) - November 14, 2001 >> >>Ha ha ha to the pacifists >>Christopher Hitchens > >Has he completely lost it? What do you (dis)agree with? What's your evaluation of the war? You've been away a long time; bring us up to date. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 14 21:21:27 PST 2001

31283 cultural imperialism -- rank: 1000

Mina Kumar wrote: >My point wasn't that you didn't or that you don't know, it's that >these comments don't reflect that knowledge, and this is what makes >people react. I've been writing for an audience that I assumed knew the things I've said here and elsewhere. There's a sad convention in a lot of left writing that you have to invoke a whole litany of sins and crimes before you can say anything. Maybe it's just an American thing, I don't know. But it often makes the stuff clotted and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 14 17:59:12 PST 2001

31284 Hitch gloats -- rank: 1000

Chuck Munson wrote: >Thank god the Northern Alliance is in power. They have such an >upstanding record on human rights. Are they in power? Or did they just walk into some cities and start shooting people? Will there be anything like a functioning government, or will it just be anarchy (in the bad sense, of course)? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 14 17:53:22 PST 2001

31285 cultural imperialism -- rank: 1000

Mina Kumar wrote: >>Well that's something. Not the taxes part, but the less white. One >>of the more admirable things about this place is that people from >>all over the world come here > >It's this kind of comment that eggs me on to a caustic response. I get the impression it doesn't take much of a stimulus. > I mean, if it admitted any of the none-too-admirable reasons that >America is more non-white than Germany, maybe I wouldn't feel the >knee jerk desire t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 14 16:32:50 PST 2001

31286 Hitch gloats -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - November 14, 2001 Ha ha ha to the pacifists Christopher Hitchens There was a time in my life when I did a fair bit of work for the tempestuous Lucretia Stewart, then editor of the American Express travel magazine, Departures. Together, we evolved a harmless satire of the slightly drivelling style employed by the journalists of tourism. "Land of Contrasts" was our shorthand for it. ("Jerusalem: an enthralling blend of old and new." "South Africa: a har ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 14 15:44:23 PST 2001

31287 media concentration? -- rank: 1000

At 3:40 PM -0500 11/14/01, MediaChannel wrote: >IS MEDIA CONCENTRATION A MYTH? >Media conglomerates may not be as powerful as they seem, argues >Benjamin Compaine in this challenge to conventional wisdom. >(From openDemocracy) >http://www.mediachannel.org He says some absurd stuff about democratic ownership, but the stats on concentration are interesting. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 14 15:03:42 PST 2001

31288 conspiracy distilled -- rank: 1000

For a distilled version of the conspiracy theory of 9/11, see <http://www.guerrillanews.com/newswire/211.html>. Complicating everything, it claims that Le Figaro is owned by the Carlyle Group. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 14 13:53:41 PST 2001

31289 cultural imperialism -- rank: 1000

Mina Kumar wrote: >>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com >>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com >>Subject: Re: cultural imperialism >>Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:14:15 -0500 > >>I'm curious, though. You're from someone else, and are here. Other >>folks on this list who are full of criticism of the U.S. were born >>elsewhere and are here. Why? Mainly for economic reasons? Family >>reasons? School ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 14 13:48:16 PST 2001

31290 cultural imperialism -- rank: 1000

Mina Kumar wrote: >I mean, "just the bellyaching of a displaced bourgeoisie"? The >cheapness of the dismissal fails to address the actual content of >the critique. What can I say? I'm cheap. Just wait til I don a uniform, cue the Sousa, and start saying "Love it or leave it!" >and 2) the social origins of the >>anti-colonial leaders help explain the disappointing course of >>post-independence life, which often involves betrayal, exploitation, >> ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 14 13:20:53 PST 2001