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32566 worlds collide -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: >mediocre seems excessively dismissive > >and to see admiration of che as utterly counter to the desirable cause >well >somehow it seems to me to miss the point >i can see the compromise >but admiring che is so much better than admiring so many much more >frequently admired people I don't share the anarchists' view of Che; I was just trying to parse the graphic. But RATM's music and lyrics just sound ponderous and preachy to me. Most explicitly p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 26 07:27:59 PST 2001

32567 Fwd: QLEFT: Queer participation in multi-issue "convergence" movement -- rank: 1000

[This is a followup to a query from Liz Highleyman asking for thoughts for an article she's writing on the relative absence of queer activists in the "antiglobalization" movement.] Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 17:58:39 -0800 (PST) From: Liz Highleyman <liz at black-rose.com> To: queerleft at dorothy.queernet.org Gary says: > You're right, > "Queer" particapation is minimal. Minimal period.... > I suggest a much better topic. Why is "queer" participation ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 26 06:28:10 PST 2001

32568 Fwd: QLEFT: queers and women in the movement -- rank: 1000

[more] Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 18:17:33 -0800 (PST) From: Liz Highleyman <liz at black-rose.com> Donna, Thanks a lot for your thoughts on this. I've also looked at the writings of Gittlin, Nader and others in the straight left who minimize queer issues -- although in Nader's case, I don't think he was really minimizing queer issues (he had more pro-queer stands on many issues, such as DP and the military, than did Gore), but rather declining to talk about the issues in an identity-focused w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 26 06:30:01 PST 2001

32569 aspiration -- rank: 1000

<http://www.ersatzaudio.com/html/about.html> Ersatz Audio was founded in late 1995 by Adam Lee Miller and R. Saltz. It was created as a medium for what the duo called ultra-synthetic music, a characteristic they found lacking in much of modern electronic dance music. By ultra-synthetic music, Miller and Saltz meant to describe a kind of music that was so extremely synthetic that the "machine feel" might surpass the "human touch" (a task they felt impossible, yet a goal ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 25 20:41:20 PST 2001

32570 Nixon's the One -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >As another note not yet sounded in this discussion, Gary >Wills (in _Nixon_Agonistes_, I believe) made him out to be >some kind of liberal. Yes, the last liberal, in fact, no relation to Katha Pollitt's Last Marxist (Paul Mattick Jr). As I remember Wills's argument, Nixon believed in meritocracy, which to work right requires the proverbial level playing field. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 25 15:49:17 PST 2001

32571 kids v. economists -- rank: 1000

Ted Winslow wrote: >The "oinker" aspect is connected to his acceptance of genetic determinism. Ted, you make a persuasive case that Keynes's utopia was something a Marxian socialist would find appealing - that "the republic of [his] imagination lies on the extreme left of celestial space." Yet to paraphrase Gore Vidal's remark about America, with Keynes there is always the "but...." His anti-Marxism, his praise of how his policies could unleash the full promise o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 25 14:44:11 PST 2001

32572 why I love Workers Vanguard (cont.) -- rank: 1000

Headline in the Feb 16 issue of Workers Vanguard: "California Power Meltdown: Capitalists Wreck Energy Supply, Loot Everyone"

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 25 14:12:36 PST 2001

32573 America Gets Candid About What Colombia Needs -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >The pdf also has a paper by the new UN Ambassador, John >Negroponte. Y'all remember him from the Reagan yrs. Father of new media pundit Nicholas Negroponte, too. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 25 10:44:34 PST 2001

32574 worlds collide -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> The march itself was also an open display of pluralism. There were >> Brazilian communists with hammer-and-sickle banners; a little group >> of drag queens with Lurex jump suits, parasols and lights flashing on >> their belts; anarchists on stilts dressed in black and bearing >> banners with "Rage against the Machine" stenciled over a portrait of >> Che. > >These can't be anarchists. No self-r ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 25 10:19:44 PST 2001

32575 kids v. economists -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >I thought Lord K. was your guy, Doug. He sure isn't mine :-) He's the best of the bourgeoisie. Smart guy, fine writer, but basically an oinker. An elegant oinker, for sure. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 25 10:08:43 PST 2001

32576 the special relationship -- rank: 1000

The conclusion of the Financial Times story (February 24/25, 2001) on the Bush-Blair meeting: "Their press conference turned into a love-in led by the president. 'He's a pretty charming guy,' Mr Bush said. He said they had form not only a good personal relationship but 'an alliance that will stand the test of time.' Asked what they had in common, Mr Bush said: 'We have both got great wives. We are both dads, and proudly so. That's our most important responsibility, being loving dads.'"

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 25 09:37:38 PST 2001

32577 T.N. Srinivasan on Trade Related Intellectual Property Standards -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >The TRIPS Agreement: > >T.N. Srinivasan* Where'd this come from? Was it published somewhere? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 24 14:51:25 PST 2001

32578 Malaysian capital controls -- rank: 1000

<http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8142> Did the Malaysian Capital Controls Work? Ethan Kaplan, Dani Rodrik NBER Working Paper No. W8142 Issued in February 2001 Malaysia recovered from the Asian financial crisis swiftly after the imposition of capital controls in September 1998. The fact that Korea and Thailand recovered in parallel has been interpreted as suggesting that capital controls did not play a significant role in facilitating Malaysia's rebound. However, the financial crisis was dee ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 24 13:35:54 PST 2001

32579 kids v. economists -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Well, I hope our Euro creditors will remember the Marshall Plan and >not U.S. conduct in 1918. The following is from Jane Ridley's >review in The Spectator of _1918: War and Peace_ by Gregor Dallas: > >"The quarrel at the Paris peace conference, vividly described here, >was about war loans. The Americans had made loans to Britain and >Britain made loans to the Allies. When the Americans obstinately >refused to accept the burden of Britain's Allie ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 24 13:30:22 PST 2001

32580 delinking doesn't equal autarky (Jim O'Connor) -- rank: 1000

Jim O'Connor wrote via Barbara Laurence: >Fidel has succeeded in building a real nation Fidel personally? I'm guessing this is shorthand, but still, doesn't this personalize things a bit? Can there be no successful revolution without a charismatic bearded guy? How do you go about "building a real nation" in oppostion to U.S. imperialism now that there's no USSR to sell you oil cheap and buy your sugar dear? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 24 12:47:19 PST 2001