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33196 MR summer ish -- rank: 1000

Still catching up with the email backlog - Michael Yates asked me to post this: >"The summer issue of Monthly Review examines the US prison system: its >history and its current state. It contains interesting and provocative >articles by both scholars and activists. Several of the writers are >either currently in prison or recently released. Authors include >Staughton and Alice Lynd, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Gregory Frederick (imprisoned >in Sing Sing), Jose Jordan (Puerto Rica ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 3 13:10:03 PDT 2001

33197 Anti-Zionism Is Racism -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote, long ago: If Zionism is racism, so is every nationalism. Yup. Etienne Balibar: "Racism is not an 'expression' of nationalism, but a supplement of nationalism or more precisely a supplement internal to nationalism, always in excess of it, but always indispensable to its constitution and yet always still insufficient to achieve its project, just as nationalism is both indispensable and always insufficient to achieve the formation of the nation or the project of a 'n ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 3 13:07:38 PDT 2001

33198 Goldman Sachs: scrap the strong dollar policy -- rank: 1000

Amazing news: Goldman Sachs, former home of Robert Rubin, leading architect of the Clinton administration's strong dollar policy, now says: "The time has come to scrap the strong dollar policy. It was appropriate when the US economy was in a boom and dollar appreciation helped to keep inflation pressures in check. But it now works at cross-purposes to the goal of stimulating demand, and it undermines US international trade competitiveness." To quote JFK, this is almost like L'Osservato ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 3 11:37:43 PDT 2001

33199 Zionism vs. Black Nationalism -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >The black community (politically defined within that community but in >response to growing repression from "outside") has no choice but to >define itself as the black community. So Colin Powell, Sarah Jones, Louis Farrakhan, Maxine Waters, Chris Rock, and Charlie Rangel should get together in a room and do this? What is this unified thing called "the black community" (or, as you say later, "Black Community")? Adolph Reed got the title of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 3 11:35:01 PDT 2001

33200 lbo net.art -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >heh. someone made net.art out of list exchanges. > >http://members.tripod.com/poetpiet/miscs-n-logs/lbo-talk.htm > >Doug Henwood runs Left Business Observer<...>here is a joke of his >from the mail archive http://nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/ he maintains: >"See my forthcoming "Queer as a $3 Bill: Legal Tender, Authenticity, >and Heteronormativity." And here is a selection or utterances by him >and his sparring partners in digispeech (mos ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 3 10:38:27 PDT 2001

33201 Zionism vs. Black Nationalism -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Groups of people today who are oppressed based on racial >categorization have no problem with you rejecting racial >categorization, but they have no illusions that you rejecting racial >categorization will end the police using racial profiles , for >example. Of course. Racial categories exist in consciousness and behavior, and it'd be silly to pretend they don't. The question is what we do about that. I don't think the answer is to embrace some kind of turnab ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 3 10:17:18 PDT 2001

33202 Zionism vs. Black Nationalism -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >Doug: >> >Hmm, but if a racial category was invented in the process of >> >oppression, then how is accepting that category negating it? Looks to >> >me more like a perverse reinforcement. The negation would be to >> >reject racial categorization altogether. > >Rob Schaap: >> That's you, Foucault, and me in perfect agreement. Had to happen some >> time, I s'pose. > >Desirable / positive / constructive thing ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 3 07:35:00 PDT 2001

33203 don't buy this book:empire_cracked.pdf -- rank: 1000

kwalker2 at gte.net wrote: >empire_cracked >http://www.hup.harvard.edu/pdf/HAREMI.pdf > >empire_cracked.pdf 31-Jul-2001 18:50 1.3M > >empire_original.pdf 31-Jul-2001 18:51 1.3M Wow. How'd they do this? And who's they? Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 3 07:27:12 PDT 2001

33204 Mexican trucks -- rank: 1000

Julio Huato wrote: >As the NY Times suggests, in the short and medium run, Mexican >companies are not even considering competing in the US >transportation market. The US market is too complex for most >Mexican capitalists in the business. Despite all risks and >uncertainties, their business in Mexico is safer and more >profitable, since they already know their way around. Why, then, >has this been blown out of proportion in the US? The likely direct >impact on the liv ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 3 07:08:54 PDT 2001

33205 Zionism vs. Black Nationalism -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Doug says: > >>Why is "Africa" the whole, and not Nigerians, or Zulus, or whatever >>sub-group you want to name? > >Economy of scale, for instance. The bigger the better, as long as >the territory is solidly unified & well governed. The logic of >capitalist development gave an impetus toward the European Union. >Why not the African Union? I'm all for that. But that wasn't the issue - it was kicking the white people out of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 2 16:34:58 PDT 2001

33206 who wants to marry a programmer? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.malaysiakini.com/Foreign/2001/08/2001080102.php3> Malaysiakini (Kuala Lumpur) - August 1, 2001 India's software young bloods no longer such a good catch Jay Shankar 11:56am, Wed: BANGALORE Aug 1 (AFP) - Software engineer B Prakyath has trawled through an exhaustive list of 110 prospective brides in the past 10 months, but the sound of wedding bells remain as distant as ever. The 25-year-old software developer with HCL Perot Systems in India's IT capital, Bangalore, is just one ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 2 16:31:33 PDT 2001

33207 Where is "Nation"? / "Anti-Globalization" movement -- rank: 1000

Archer.Todd at ic.gc.ca wrote: >Avi Lewis of CounterSpin fame here in Canada has >routinely ignored such blunt comments as "It's capitalism that's to blame" >even when a good argument could be had by that observation Hmm, so why does Mr Naomi Klein ignore such comments, do you think? Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 2 15:45:13 PDT 2001

33208 Mexican trucks -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Safety, like other regulatory matters, is a >legitimate concern that can be used or abused. >I have no idea which is the case in this matter. > >But as far as I am concerned, any opportunity to >block the use of low-wage/non-union labor in a >higher-wage/unionized market is a worthwhile >endeavor of any labor movement. That's what >workers do, and it is what they should do. So that's why Junior's been flirting with the Republicans? To protect high- ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 2 12:49:03 PDT 2001

33209 Zionism vs. Black Nationalism -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I don't speak for Art, but it seems to me that it would diminish >racial division if whites accepted blacks' right to >self-determination, just as the division between Jews and >Palestinians (and other Arabs) would diminish if Jews accepted >Palestinians' right to self-determination. Oppression that creates >the oppressed group = negation. Recognition of the oppressed's >right to self-determination = negation of negation. In a >dialectical move ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 2 11:06:04 PDT 2001

33210 Zionism vs. Black Nationalism -- rank: 1000

Very belatedly... Wow. I wish the white bourgeois mentality were as cosmopolitan as Art McGee seems to think it is. I heard some horrific stories in Australia about the treatment of aborigines - just rounding up people & shooting them en masse. And of course there's the wretched treatment of racial(ized) minorities in the U.S. So where is all this cosmopolitanism? And why is the unit of "self-determination" a racialized group? Why is "Africa" the whole, and not Nigerians, ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 2 08:56:40 PDT 2001