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33751 October Le Monde Diplomatique article -- rank: 1000

Maureen Therese Anderson wrote: >Au secours. By chance does anyone subscribe electronically to Le Monde >Diplomatique? (The paid subscription version.) I'm looking for the >following article, from the most recent dispatch (October 2000). Either >English or la version originale would be greatly appreciated. > >merci mille fois De rien. Doug ---- Le Monde Diplomatique - October 2000 CULT OF A DEAD DICTATOR Ivory Coast democracy deferred --------------------------------------- ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 27 09:23:39 PDT 2000

33752 Fwd: Will Gore Throw the Election to Bush? -- rank: 1000

This is going to run in Madison - Wisconsin's afternoon paper, The Capital Times, on Thursday, October 26. It is timed to coincide with Vice President Gore's campaign stop in Madison on Thursday afternoon. Send it to everyone you know! Bob McChesney Will Gore Throw the Election to Bush? Robert W. McChesney This past Friday a dozen former "Nader's Raiders" held a press conference and told Ralph Nader to drop out of the presidential race and throw his support to Vice-President Al Gore. C ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 26 14:02:52 PDT 2000

33753 Chumbawumba freebie -- rank: 1000

Inside.com - October 26, 2000 CHUMBAWAMBA TUB-THUMPS AGAINST GREEDY ROCK STARS You knock downloads, and they get uppity. British anarchist rockers Chumbawamba, who've apparently never met an antiauthoritarian cause they couldn't get behind, have released an Internet-only single, entitled "Pass It Along (MP3 Mix)," which bashes Napster-hating pop stars as greedy hypocrites. The single -- a remix of a track off the group's recent album What You See Is What You Get -- mixes sound bites fr ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 26 13:22:36 PDT 2000

33754 It's Heating Up ( is "class" in the US today a meaningful con cept for analysis and organizing?) -- rank: 1000

Mikalac Norman S NSSC wrote: >so, why is "class" so important a concept to the Left after 150 years of >losing battles over it? > >(OK, so Dear Old Karl is rolling over in his grave.) The ruling class certainly hasn't discarded the concept. Why do you suppose employers fight unions, central bankers obsess about the state of labor militancy, bondholders worry about "fiscal responsibility," cops and armies are so well-armed, and so on? The U.S. ruling class is remar ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 26 13:01:37 PDT 2000

33755 Tom Frank article in Salon -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >BTW, does anyone have a copy handy of that great article Tom Frank wrote >on Thomas Friedman in Le Monde Diplomatique? Le Monde Diplomatique - July 1999 PAEON OF PRAISE TO GLOBALISATION Creation myth of the "geo-architect ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Books celebrating the current economic system and the growing power of the markets are on the increase. Rarely however have their authors shown as much zeal as Thomas Frie ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 26 12:30:29 PDT 2000

33756 Fwd: -- rank: 1000

>Please sign and forward this petition for an Unconditional General >Amnesty. Over 200 organizations including the AFL-CIO, Illinois >Congressman Luis GutiÈrrez, LIUNA (Laborers'International Union of >North America); the NCLR (National Council of la Raza), New York >State Congressman Joseph Crowley; FLOC (Farm Labor Organizing >Committee), and many others have endorsed this campaign. >http://www.petitiononline.com/i1pacman/petition.html > >A.M.D.G.

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Date:	Thu Oct 26 12:23:21 PDT 2000

33757 Revitalizing American Unionism -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >What!? No g&t's!? I like them, they just give me terrible hangovers. Plus all those calories from the tonic water! Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 26 12:00:11 PDT 2000

33758 Fwd: FW: Vanishing Voter Weekly Update -- October 26, 2000 -- rank: 1000

From: Vanishing Voter [mailto:vanishingvoter at ksg.harvard.edu] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 8:42 AM To: vanishingvoter at ksg.harvard.edu Subject: Vanishing Voter Weekly Update -- October 26, 2000 DEBATES BOOST ISSUE AWARENESS SLIGHTLY, BUT MOST AMERICANS ARE STILL UNINFORMED ABOUT CANDIDATES' POLICIES October 26, 2000 from the Vanishing Voter Project http://www.vanishingvoter.org =============================== Americans' recognition of the issue positions of presidential nominees George ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 26 11:22:22 PDT 2000

33759 Article in Today's Salon on The New Economy -- rank: 1000

SergioL652 at aol.com wrote: >Good Article. Do we still have to buy Doug's new book? ;-) Yes. It's longer, more detailed, better written, and funnier. Plus I'll get about $2 a copy. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 26 11:17:16 PDT 2000

33760 LBO = flame city? (was RE: Survivor!) -- rank: 1000

Peter van Heusden wrote: >Maybe the success of LBO-talk is due, in part, to the fact that no one >knows what exactly Doug believes (probably including himself). From time >to time he debunks the cherished beliefs of just about everyone on the >list - so we're probably just a bunch of intellectual masochists. As list moderator, I try to be catholic, though some personalities try my patience. Hey, even a few fake-left drummer boys for imperialism are welcome (just had to work that Spar ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 26 10:56:15 PDT 2000

33761 new biz strategy: kidnap rivals -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - October 26, 2000 Internet chief 'kidnapped rival' By Alexandra Harney in Tokyo The former president of online music distributor Liquid Audio Japan was arrested on Wednesday on kidnapping charges. Masafumi Okanda and four other men are suspected of abducting a Liquid Audio executive who planned to start a rival business in the US. It is the latest in a series of problems at Liquid Audio, which investors once thought was one of Japan's most promising internet companies. The first ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 26 10:45:10 PDT 2000

33762 Revitalizing American Unionism -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >Aren't we sour today? Too much tonic with the gin? Not enough sex? Stocks >went down? No. Don't drink g&t's. Getting plenty. Don't own stocks. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 26 10:13:01 PDT 2000

33763 It's Heating Up -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >What I find tired is the notion that >despite failed attempt after failed attempt, virtually all undertaken in far >more propitious circumstances than the current context, this time we will >find success with a third party that seeks fundamental change. Better yet to give it all up and vote Dem. That way you risk nothing, and the status quo remains safely s.q. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 26 10:07:25 PDT 2000

33764 it's heating up -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Could one say that the most disastrous political decision in all of 20th >century u.s.a. was the decision of the CP in 1936 to support Roosevelt? Dunno about the most, but the CP hasn't stopped. The Peoples Weekly World has for weeks done little more than shill for Gore - though they always phrase it as a vote against Bush. In this week's issue, I learned under the headline VOTE! in what must have been 256-point type that Bush hates women and considers them property - ju ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 26 10:04:39 PDT 2000

33765 it's heating up -- rank: 1000

Lisa & Ian Murray wrote: > >>Since we are on unanswered questions, I've continually raised the issue of >why leftists don't run serious candidates in Democratic primaries? >If Nader had run in the primaries, he could have gotten serious progressive >support and sent a far stronger message to the DLC. > >-- Nathan Newman > >******** > >Yeah, right..........name a leftist that didn't self-mutilate their stance >on tough issues as the DNC transferred the ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 25 16:02:54 PDT 2000