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32296 former Teamster "boss" Carey indicted -- rank: 1000

John Halle wrote: >Does Fitch have more info on this? He's working on a book for Public Affairs press called Sellout! Could be a while before it appears, though. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 29 10:54:18 PST 2001

32297 former Teamster "boss" Carey indicted -- rank: 1000

So it doesn't matter that the institutions of the organized working class in the U.S. are deeply tainted by corruption - many of them quite literally run by organized crime - and who have little to show for all the millions of dollars they routinely give to Democrats other than having their leaders temporarily shielded from indictment? There's a 1999 article on corruption by Bob Fitch at a Laborers Union dissident site <http://www.laborers.org/Fitch_Corruption_10-21-99.html>. Here's an exc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 29 10:46:40 PST 2001

32298 financiers -- rank: 1000

Johannes Schneider wrote: >Doug Henwood quoted: >> New U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill in a WSJ interview: >> >> "I just don't understand what that conversation is about," >> he said, describing some financiers as "people who sit in >> front of a flickering green screen ... and they make >> decisions on a carefully constructed, but nevertheless >> speculative, basis about three-basis-point movements." >> Though co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 29 10:11:34 PST 2001

32299 financiers -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >While his attitude toward securities traders is >commendable, we should perhaps be a little concerned >that the man at the helm of the "New Economy" still >thinks that computer screens are green. More colors have not been accompanied by an increase in wisdom, have they? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 29 09:55:03 PST 2001

32300 financiers -- rank: 1000

New U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill in a WSJ interview: "I just don't understand what that conversation is about," he said, describing some financiers as "people who sit in front of a flickering green screen ... and they make decisions on a carefully constructed, but nevertheless speculative, basis about three-basis-point movements." Though confessing that "I don't know how to do that," he quickly asserted that "I probably could learn in about a couple wee ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 29 09:10:30 PST 2001

32301 former Teamster "boss" Carey indicted -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: > >Are these guys next-having now lost what Fitch called their "get out of > >jail free" card? > >By chance, I just talked to Fitch an hour ago, and he used exactly >that phrase, predicting that there's a good chance that Trumka's >next. He says the main reason the unions gave the Dems $45m in this >election cycle was to assure the validity of their GOOJF card. Doug > > >I agree that Trumka's in trouble, but the idea >that th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 29 09:00:38 PST 2001

32302 Harrington's stats and Chip -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >Milton Friedman, a member of the Mont Pelerin group of libertarian >economists (von Hayek and von Mises were but two notable colleagues) had >long argued for an end to fiscal policy. Until the 1970s, Friedman's many >writings had found favour in some conservative quarters (Kemp on Capitol >Hill and the American Enterprise Institute for two) but had failed to >capture the public imagination. Mainstream economist Paul Krugman (1994: >40) avers, > > & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 29 08:06:11 PST 2001

32303 Davos -- rank: 1000

[The bit on Colombia hasn't been reported anywhere, so I'm told.] The Standard.com - January 28, 2001, 11:20 AM PST Gabfest of the Haves and Have-Nots At the annual World Economic Forum in Switzerland, officials from the first and third worlds talk about bridging the divide. By Industry Standard Staff DAVOS, Switzerland - While the rich Western countries are busy predicting the U.S. economy's rebound and discussing the Internet's next wave, officials from developing countries are still trying to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 29 07:55:13 PST 2001

32304 Kosova Redux -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >I think many people felt that, reactively. The left interventionist >position, with sanctions, peacekeeping troops, and if necessary, >peace making ie offensive ground troops, was not a reactive position >but was a proactive one. > >Not all situations can be changed, but I would have to put it to you >and others that if you did not want a repetition of Bosnia and >Srebenica, had you been in any position to influence the response of >a western gove ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 28 14:45:58 PST 2001

32305 two summits -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - January 27, 2001 To have and have not The Davos summit is being mirrored by an anti-globalisation forum in Brazil. Guy de Jonquières and John Lloyd report Two thousand business and political leaders have been experiencing a distinctly "morning after" feeling in Davos this week. After the exuberant optimism that suffused many participants at last year's World Economic Forum, this time they are awaking bleary-eyed and nervous to a grey dawn. Gone are the breathless exci ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 28 12:04:09 PST 2001

32306 God and the GOP -- rank: 1000

Reading Max's Greenspan-inspired cri du coeur, I thought of this passage from the lead in today's NYT, a Bush-legitimizing story on what a groovy transition it's been so far: >"Talk about a windfall, he got a gigantic break with Greenspan's >testimony," said Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., a Delaware Democrat. >"Why God is so good to Republicans is beyond me." Is Biden really this naive? Or is a guy who could plagiarize Neil Kinnock's life story as his is own incapable ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 28 11:01:35 PST 2001

32307 Empire: Hardt responds -- rank: 1000

[I forwarded some of the comments on Empire to Michael Hardt. Here's his response, which he asked me to forward with the caveat that he can only reply to some reactions and probably with a certain delay.] Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:19:10 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Hardt <hardt at duke.edu> I think it is important to view Empire or globalization as multifaceted phenomena, which comprise a variety of processes and elements. My position is that Empire is a negative development (it brings new, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 28 10:52:44 PST 2001

32308 Gloomy Sunday -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address] From: "Max Sawicky" <sawicky at bellatlantic.net> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 10:42:50 -0500 The outlook for fiscal and monetary policy has never been worse. The main symptom is Greenspan Worship, the root problem is fealty to financial markets, a.k.a. Capital. The other side of the coin is varieties of left stupidity. The clue on the first count is the response to Wacky Al by Members of Congress. Instead of outrage, there was puzzlement and propitiat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 28 10:45:40 PST 2001

32309 OK to hit workers in the head with a hammer -- rank: 1000

AP - January 27, 2001 Investigations of factories find illegal practices PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Investigators say they have discovered illegal labor practices at a Mexican factory that makes athletic-themed apparel for several companies, including Beaverton-based sports apparel giant Nike. Nike sells clothing from the Kukdong International factory in the Mexican state of Puebla to universities, including the University of Oregon. One investigation of the Korean-owned factory found managers are il ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 27 14:40:35 PST 2001

32310 World Bank killers -- rank: 1000

From: "Patrick Bond" <pbond at wn.apc.org> To: debate at sunsite.wits.ac.za Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 07:49:41 +0000 Will just have to let Britain's leading medical journal know it was the World Bank, not the IMF, which set the stage for cholera to break out. ______________________________________________________ Prevention fails to halt South Africa's well-treated cholera epidemic Editorial by Kelly Morris The Lancet - January 27, 2001 WHO officials have lauded South African health ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 27 09:54:26 PST 2001