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33451 regional chauvinism -- rank: 1000

TheStandard.com - April 2, 2001 <http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,23256,00.html> The West Goes Overboard Dot-coms are dead. Tech companies are bleeding. Easterners gloat over Silicon Valley's demise. But the West remains the land of opportunity. By Jonathan Weber In the age of the Internet, people once thought "place" would be irrelevant. But place - particularly the West, and especially Silicon Valley - was at the heart of the business and technology revolution ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 2 12:51:31 PDT 2001

33452 Ralph Nader's political olive branch to Bush -- rank: 1000

John Gulick wrote: >Subtract the annoyingly formulaic ultra-leftism from this article, >and the author has several good points to make about the seamier >homologies b/w Nader's anti-globalism and Bush and Company's >imperialist unilateralism ... > >Ralph Nader's political olive branch to Bush > >http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/mar2001/nad-m30.shtml Here's the WSJ article. The WSWS analysis seems a bit overdone, no? Doug ---- Wall Street Journal - March 7, 2001 Ending Co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 2 12:20:49 PDT 2001

33453 European protectionism -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >All of your critical capacity seems to have gone. If the US treasury put >out a statement saying that 'there is strong evidence for a causal >association between full employment and inflation' you would be >objecting straight away. If the statement went on to say that 'the >absence of inflation in areas of high unemployment supports this causal >association' you would be spitting feathers. But somehow, at a time when >the US is lobbying for farm prod ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 2 10:34:01 PDT 2001

33454 European protectionism -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >Do you want to buy a used car? Nope. My drivers license has expired. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 2 10:13:08 PDT 2001

33455 European protectionism -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >By all means let's go into the mechanics of how panics happen. But don't >just rubbish anything that disturbs the received opinion of the moment. >By that method, you would have taken the Soviet Threat as good coin, >before asking what was driving the Cold War. The USSR was a threat to U.S. domination of the world. The internal Communist movement was once a threat to American capitalism. People may valorize that threat in different ways - myself, though no fa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 2 08:40:15 PDT 2001

33456 European protectionism -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >Doug quotes a government source > >>Best tell the Centers for Disease Control, which says >><http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/cjd/bse_cjd.htm>: >> >>>Since 1996, evidence has been increasing for a causal relationship >>>between >... >>BSE and nvCJD > >Other strongly held beliefs of the British authorities: > >That NATO is a peace-keeping body; > >That too many foreigners will upset the British w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 2 06:15:38 PDT 2001

33457 Fwd: online conference -- call for papers -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 12:37:11 +0930 From: Catherine Driscoll <catherine.driscoll at adelaide.edu.au> Subject: online conference -- call for papers Adelaide Research Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences GLOBALISATION <LIVE & ONLINE> 13 JULY - 10 AUGUST Please forward to anyone interested (apologies if you receive this more than once) ONLINE CONFERENCE -- CALL FOR PAPERS Key participants include Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri and Slavoj Zizek. Key speakers in a concurren ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 2 05:59:26 PDT 2001

33458 Reaching Out: Some Considerations wasRe: MLK & -- rank: 1000

Kelley Walker wrote: >contrary to Doug, i fail to see how Chris's question was reasonable. >"we" are discussing Brown and other campuses where a ruckus was >raised because that's what made the media and that's what fit into >the media's terms for presenting these issues--they like it simple >like that. Ah, so radicals should take their cue from the mainstream media about what are effective political actions? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 1 17:59:39 PDT 2001

33459 (no subject) -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote (quoting Carrol Cox): ><< We are focusing on the Brown rather than the Duke episode because the >political importance of the latter is trivial, while the latter raises the >whole question of the relationship of white radicals to the black liberation >struggle. > >And to repeat, since the Horowitz ad did not even make a good pretence of >being a serious argument, to respond to it as if it were would be simply to >acknowlege the legitimacy of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 1 17:57:53 PDT 2001

33460 Reed on Horowitz etc. -- rank: 1000

[By chance, Adolph Reed just sent me a draft of his next Progressive column on the Horowitz issue.] Readers of The Progressive know that I do not support attempts to generate a movement around the demand for reparations for injustices perpetrated against and its legacy. In fact, among the reasons that I don't is that couching demands for justice in those terms opens space for exactly the kind of demagogy and sophistry that David Horowitz displays in the obnoxious ad that he has placed in several ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 1 14:38:23 PDT 2001

33461 Reaching Out: Some Considerations wasRe: MLK & -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I can't read the intentions of the students before they acted, but after >the fact one can see that the main difference between their action and >the one suggested here is that had they made the latter choice the LBO >discussion would never have taken place, there would have been no BLC >press release -- no one, that is, outside of a very small sprinkling of >indifferent Brown students would ever have heard of them. As a result of >the choice they did make ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 1 14:18:59 PDT 2001

33462 European protectionism -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >In message <p05010408b6ebca11ee8e@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood ><dhenwood at panix.com> writes >> >>James, do you still think there's no risk to humans from mad cow disease? > >Well, yes, this was recently confirmed by some Cambridge scientists here >in a TV report. Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis and Creutzfeld Jakob >Disease are, as far as anyone can tell, not directly related. Best tell the Centers for Disease Control, which ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 1 14:05:19 PDT 2001

33463 sweatshop kids update -- rank: 1000

[The Nation didn't put this on their website; I scanned it, so apologies for any uncaught glitches.] The Nation - October 16, 2000 The Student Movement Comes of Age Liza Featherstone They must be afraid of the movement," says Jonathan "Doe" Bradley, a former US Army medic who is now a student activist at the University of Arkansas, "or they wouldn't be reacting this way." The "movement" he is talking about is the student movement, and "they" are the p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 29 12:51:00 PDT 2000

33464 whee! -- rank: 1000

WSJ.com - September 29, 2000 Savings Rate Hits Record Low As Spending Increases 0.6% WASHINGTON -- Incomes rose solidly in August, but spending went up faster, pulling the nation's personal savings rate down to a record low. Personal income, which includes wages, interest and government benefits, grew by 0.4% last month, while spending rose by a brisk 0.6%, the Commerce Department reported Friday. All that spending drove down the personal-savings rate -- savings as a percentage of after-tax inco ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 29 12:10:06 PDT 2000

33465 stunned -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Well, don't you think it is? Wouldn't you be very happy if African >air had more sulphur dioxide in it, and Africa were a richer place? >The question is: "how much of one, and how much of the other?" Yeah, but that's not exactly what he said: >_Nuggets_ > >3. _"Dirty" industries_ Just between you and me, shouldn't the >World Bank be encouraging more migration of the dirty industries to >the LDCs? I can think of three reasons: > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 29 11:35:09 PDT 2000