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31801 Organization Kid -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >It's always been >strange to me how journalists have little or no background >in social science research methods. What's strange about that? Mainstream journalists are typically not merely lacking in such background, but hostile to anything that looks like rigorous inquiry. They're some of the most anti-intellectual people around. They'll call one expert, then call another, present them as "balanced" alternatives, and they've done their work. If they're f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 19 07:01:32 PST 2001

31802 Bull market in bromides -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >[No better gauge of market stress exists than experts' tendency go >all hypertruistic at times like these -- e.g., the following, a real >collector's item from an opinion round-up in the NY Times today, >"Caution Is the Watchword as the Markets Gyrate."] > >William Sharpe, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1990 for his academic >research on the relationship between risk and reward, and now >chairman of Financial Engines, an Internet company that g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 19 06:54:55 PST 2001

31803 song -- rank: 1000

Media critic Mark Crispin Miller circulated a demo tape a while back, a folk song called "Queen of the Forest" ("say goodbye to your animal friends..."). I've just MP3d it, and I'll be on Napster with it for the next hour or so (til midnight NYC time) and then most of tomorrow, from about 9 to 6 NYC time, and on into the future. If this is Miller's positive idea of postcorporate culture, Time Warner doesn't seem quite so bad. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 18 20:05:43 PST 2001

31804 Moldova -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Monthly Review commentary www.monthlyreview.org March 13, 2001 Communists Return to Power in Moldova: Hope for a Communist Democracy in the Former Soviet Union? by John Mage (jmage at panix.com) Monthly Review Foundation Director John Mage sees in recent events in Moldavia a glimmer of hope for the much-suffering people of the Former Soviet Union. The February 25, 2001 electoral victory of the Moldovan Communist party marked the first return to power of a Communist p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 18 08:19:09 PST 2001

31805 a fan's notes -- rank: 1000

A lovely formulation from the new ish of Workers Vanguard (the one with the front-page headline "Pink Slips for Workers, Tax Breaks for Millionaires"): "Every four years, we get the chance (sometimes, at least) to choose which class enemy will tell us to sit down and shut up." Also, Mumia's column in this issue includes this quote from Brig Gen William Looney (both the name and the quote seem too good to be true), sourced to William Blum's Rogue State (p. 159): "If they ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 18 06:56:01 PST 2001

31806 Fwd: ISO and SWP Break Up! -- rank: 1000

[via Chuck0] from ISO Steering Committee March 12, 2001 Dear comrades: As some comrades will have already heard, the SWP Central Committee has severed all ties with the ISO and is encouraging other groups in the International Socialist Tendency (IST) to do likewise. On Monday, March 5, the ISO received a letter (attached) signed by Alex Callinicos and Panos Garganas (of SEK in Greece) announcing that they no longer considered us part of the IST. The letter asserts that the "final straw" ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 17 11:19:41 PST 2001

31807 DN -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >Yes, and I would agree on that assessment. I have a lot of respect for Juan >Gonzalez and especially Major Owens, whom I have known personally for many >years, and their interventions had won me over to the >anti-Pacifica/anti-Utrice position. But I found Murdock quite convincing, >because a lot of what he said resonated with my impression of WBAI politics >over the years. The debate gave me some second thoughts. > >>The buzz on the Pacifica ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 17 10:39:18 PST 2001

31808 Richard Pipes -- rank: 1000

[This bounced because it was too long. Anyone interested, email Carrol for a copy.] Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 20:05:24 -0600 From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> Reply-To: cbcox at ilstu.edu Subject: The Scholarship of Richard Pipes [Fwd: Re: BHA: Reply to Sean's reply to me] Lenin Known and Unknown The Errors of Richard Pipes: An Abridged List Lars T. Lih May, 2000 In 1996 Richard Pipes edited a collection of newly released Lenin documents entitled The Unknown Lenin. Many of the Russian te ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 17 09:48:51 PST 2001

31809 FW: Ha! Nader changed the locks! Remind you of anyone we know? -- rank: 1000

Bob Morris wrote: > >Did you know that Ralph Nader is a big supporter of >reparations > >Nader has lots of well-thought-out views like the >above. When I heard him speak Tuesday, he mentioned >reparations as being better schools, better housing, >job training, etc. > >Someone asked about Pacifica and he said "Non-profits >need to pay attention to who is being elected to the >board!" > >Re his run for President and to those who say "Ralph ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 17 09:46:21 PST 2001

31810 DN -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >Yes, and I would agree on that assessment. I have a lot of respect for Juan >Gonzalez and especially Major Owens, whom I have known personally for many >years I don't know much about Owens, but he seems like a fairly interesting guy. What's his story? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 17 09:31:16 PST 2001

31811 tax cut -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Remember that I (and a lot of other fiscally-orthodox Dems) are >capital fetishists: believers in large positive externalities from >investment through learning-by-doing, learning-by-using, and >worker-employer quasi-rent sharing. Thus a low national savings rate >terrifies us. > >Thus we favor the policy mix proposed by Robert Solow back in the >early 1960s: tight fiscal policy (to boost national savings); a >redistributive tax system (to level out ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 16 14:44:56 PST 2001

31812 Neoclassical Logic -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >>Michael McIntyre wrote: >> >>> Anyone hear Lori make an argument like that at the debate with >>>Bhagwati et al. in Seattle? >> >>Lori Wallach wasn't in that debate. It was Ralph Nader, John >>Cavanagh, and Vandana Shiva for the anti-WTO side. The anti side >>was not impressive. >> >>Doug > >Is there a transcript? Why were they not impressive? I have a CD of the audio, but I don't think there's a transc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 16 14:41:39 PST 2001

31813 DN -- rank: 1000

The buzz on the Pacifica lists is that this morning's debate on Democracy Now between boardmember (and corporate lawyer at the unionbusting firm Epstein Becker and Green <http://www.ebglaw.com>) John Murdock (defender of HMOs <http://www.ebglaw.com/atty_bio_59.htm>) and former DN co-host Juan Gonzalez was a clear victory for Murdock, and a "disaster" for the SavePacifica crowd. Anyone hear it? Any comments? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 16 13:14:17 PST 2001

31814 Fwd: FTAA and services -- rank: 1000

X-From_: jplst15+ at pitt.edu Fri Mar 16 15:21:40 2001 Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 15:20:37 -0500 (EST) From: "John P. Lacny" <jplst15+ at pitt.edu> Subject: FTAA and services X-Sender: jplst15 at unixs1.cis.pitt.edu To: dhenwood at panix.com MIME-version: 1.0 Doug, Could you forward this to the folks on LBO-Talk, with the request that they contact me at jplst15+ at pitt.edu if they have more information? Thanks, John ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 15: ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 16 13:09:17 PST 2001

31815 DLC responds to Reich -- rank: 1000

[From the DLC's daily. Something From & Nathan agree on!] 2.) A New Democrat Response to Robert Reich We've gotten a number of e-mails and phone calls from New Democrats wondering if we had anything to say about former Labor Secretary Robert Reich's angry screed in the March 12 Washington Post declaring the Democratic Party "dead." Reich also took a few wild swings at the DLC. DLC founder and CEO Al From responds in a political memo on NDOL.org: http://www.ndol.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 16 12:39:29 PST 2001