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32791 Ah. Another malignant fuck... -- rank: 1000

Charles Jannuzi wrote: >But you used terms like that for others as well, who weren't arguing >anything like what you just outlined above. Which means that here you are >acting like one heck of a self-serving, self-righteous uhhh...ummm....I >know...piss ant. Cool it on the invective. Listmom

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Date:	Fri Dec 28 15:31:04 PST 2001

32792 A Modest proposal for the Empire -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >At any rate, the main point I make is correct. The mental attitude >of the ruling class post Sept. 11. in launching wars from its desk >, as the poster to whom I was responding mentioned, is full of more >military defeat than it has been for a long time That's not the way they feel right now. They've shown the world once again that the U.S. military is a fearsomely destructive force, they've got a whole new array of repressive laws, and >90% approval rating ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 28 15:31:04 PST 2001

32793 Ah. Another malignant fuck... -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >By people who think that in some way September 11 was "an attack >upon Empire," a "doing unto Empire as Empire has done unto you," >rather than an act of mass murder, and one that substantially >strengthened the American right? Ain't dat da troot! Not only has 9/11 strengthened the American right, it's reinforced some of the worst tendencies in the broader U.S. culture (xenophobia, patriotic self-righteousness, etc.) and it's done more to p ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 28 06:02:30 PST 2001

32794 employee relations -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher Online [via yahoo] - Tuesday December 18 07:08 PM EST 'USA Today' Dust-up Continues WASHINGTON -- The holiday mood at Gannett Co. Inc.'s new headquarters in McLean, Va., remains anything but festive two weeks after the firing of three journalists for toying with what they thought was dust on a prized sculpture. "Everyone's very shaken and scared," one Gannett worker told E&P. Several dozen workers at Gannett flagship USA Today are wearing lapel ribbons in sym ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 24 20:25:26 PST 2001

32795 A Modest Proposal for The Empire -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: > >--- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: >Doug himself, in >> his original account >> of Negri & Hardt, made _the_ damning criticism: >> their utter vagueness in >> suggesting the practical import of their >> maunderings > >Carrol, > >Hardt and Negri examine the present political and >ontological landscape in "Empire". > >It is true that they dont prescribe exact actions to >be taken i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 24 17:01:56 PST 2001

32796 Global Capital, Empire and Argentina -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Let me put it as a prediction then, which those of you younger than I >will live to see confirmed or disconfirmed. By the way, what paths did the Marxist-Leninists of 30 years ago follow? In the USSR, they embraced capitalism; in the West, lots have become social democrats or bond traders. Of course, some have stayed true to the faith, muttering on the sidelines about how misguided everyone is. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 24 10:03:00 PST 2001

32797 Global Capital, Empire and Argentina -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Let me put it as a prediction then, which those of you younger than I >will live to see confirmed or disconfirmed. > >All those attracted to Hardt & Negri will follow one of three paths: > >1) They will drop out of politics > >2) They will come to realize the hopelessness of Negri's position and >revert to marxism And those who are repelled & outraged that H&N have any fans at all are bitter and depressed that the world hasn't gone their ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 24 09:59:52 PST 2001

32798 Global Capital, Empire and Argentina -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Do analysts of missing women normally account for war, migration, >ill health induced by masculinized behaviors, etc.? The paper at <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID287035_code011016670.pdf?abstractid=287035>, an update and elaboration of Sen's original thesis, does. Two points from it: 1) European male pops are depressed by the decimation of the male pop in WW2, and 2) the Persian Gulf states male pops are boosted because of migrant inflows ( ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 24 09:49:41 PST 2001

32799 Global Capital, Empire and Argentina -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Rejection of national liberation (including regionalist varieties of >it as advanced by Samir Amin, Pat Bond, et al) Regionalism is a good thing. A debtors' cartel would be a good thing. What is impossible these days is socialism in one small country. It's telling that Patrick (who is this Pat? I've always known him as Patrick) keeps citing Smith's Rhodesia and apartheid SA as examples of national self-sufficiency, both horribly oppressive hierarchical states that ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 24 09:34:23 PST 2001

32800 Cockburn/St. Clair: Enron and the Green Seal -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >a valuable point, i would agree. but is there anything wrong or >valuless with that stance? i see value in someone (pretty assured >to be in the minority) playing the contrarian, keeping alternative >theses, even weaker ones, alive (jks might detect the pkf >influence in this view). Not to mention the Old Man, with his call for the ruthless criticism of all that exists. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 24 07:17:37 PST 2001

32801 neighborhood news -- rank: 1000

New York Post - December 24, 2001 NO PHOTO OP FOR ANTI-PANTY RALLY By ANGELINA CAPPIELLO December 24, 2001 -- About 20 Upper West Side residents who've been complaining about larger-than-life posters of lingerie-clad models on a soon-to-open Victoria's Secret store staged their scheduled demonstration yesterday - undeterred by the disappearance of the photos three days earlier. "We're not prudes. We're not against underwear," said Richard Sharp as he marched past the posterless windows ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 24 07:03:02 PST 2001

32802 Herman - Coalitions Of The Willing, Coerced, And Bribed -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >Maybe Mandela sees something Herman doesn't. World Bank loans? Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 24 06:30:38 PST 2001

32803 wage slave -- rank: 1000

[Greg Boozell had asked for the origin of the phrase "wage slave" - post bounced bec of html tags - please try to send only plain text!!!!!!!!!!!!!!] From: "Jeet Heer" To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Re: wage slave Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 01:53:47 +0000 David Roediger has a good discussion of this in his Wages of Whiteness -- if I remember correctly the phrase "wage slave" was used by working class radicals as far back as the 1830s. Jeet

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Date:	Mon Dec 24 06:28:14 PST 2001

32804 Fwd: Selective Indignation -- rank: 1000

Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 17:05:19 -0500 From: Mark Pavlick <mvp1 at igc.org Selective Indignation: bin Laden's Inhumanity, and Ours Tim Wise December 20, 2001 The reviews came in quickly. And to no one's surprise, the verdict was "two thumbs down." "Can you believe how ruthless this man is? How cold blooded?" "That monster has no regard for human life." "What kind of person laughs about the deaths of thousands of innocent people?" These are but a few of t ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 23 15:25:06 PST 2001

32805 Cockburn on "crackpot realism" -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >YES -- and populists are reactionary elements which must be opposed at every >turn, and environmentalists are dangerous tools of the bourgeouisie. No >wait -- that's *Henwood's* sectarianism, sorry. Did I say that? Populists must be opposed at every turn? And that enviros are dangerous tools of the bourgeoisie? To learn this on the same day I learned that Negri was a pessimist do-nothing, wow, I'm just brimming over with holiday-season gratitude. Yours in sharpening ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 23 12:23:07 PST 2001