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33766 Revitalizing American Unionism -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >But I have to tell you, after >14 years of daily teaching in an inner city high school which started by >walking through metal detectors in the hopes of preventing the introduction >of weapons into the school, the suggestion that nobody has it harder than a >graduate students sounds so empty. It instantly evokes for me a picture of a >whining suburban kid talking about the problems of ennui without the >slightest conception of what it might mean t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 25 15:48:47 PDT 2000

33767 it's heating up -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Since we are on unaswered questions, I've continually raised the issue of >why leftists don't run serious candidates in Democratic primaries? Because the Dem party is a large, rich, pre-existing institution that sucks the life out of people. Look what happened to Jackson. Or listen to Justin's stories. You think you can capture the party, but it ends up capturing you. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 25 15:36:59 PDT 2000

33768 It's Heating Up -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >Nathan's real crime to his electoral critics on LBO is that he lives in the >political present, not a mythical past, and doesn't pretend that a "real >political party" of the left is about to burst upon us. Hell, it didn't >emerge when the left, both organized and mass, was a 100 times stronger than >it is today. > >Defeat for the Democratic national ticket will only produce what the >Reagan-Bush years did: defensive struggles for our ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 25 15:29:26 PDT 2000

33769 Fwd: [stop-imf] Bloomberg: World Bank starts to retreat on user fees -- rank: 1000

World Bank to Stop Pushing Poor to Pay for Health Care, School Washington, Oct. 25 (Bloomberg) -- The World Bank is halting its decade-old practice of encouraging borrowing governments to charge the poor for school and health services, acknowledging that those fees deprive many people of basic needs, an official said. The move comes as the bank is under pressure by the U.S. Congress, anti-poverty groups and others to make its policies more sensitive to the poor. The Congress last night agreed to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 25 15:03:51 PDT 2000

33770 Vidal on the Bushes -- rank: 1000

Gore Vidal, interviewed in the October issue of Talk: "The Bush family, starting with Senator Prescott Bush, father to George I, has always been a middling sort of family, undistinguished intellectually and largely ineffective politically. Nixon the Wise told Murray Kempton after Bush became president, 'There's really nothing there. He's the sort of person you appoint to things.' Then the dark, wise old face gleamed satanically, 'Now that Barbara, she's something else. Really vindictive.'&q ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 25 14:38:22 PDT 2000

33771 Naderites pull ad in Calif -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Doug, this was a supporter, not Nader. > >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> [Hmmm, maybe Workers Vanguard had a point when they described Nader > > as a "spare tire for the Democrats."] Ok. But I just read the latest issue of WV last night, and I'm rarin' to deploy some quotes. My fave may have been a subhead on the Yugo article: "fake left drummer boys for imperialism." Nothing, of course, can match their description of purged WV edi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 25 14:08:42 PDT 2000

33772 Cato on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Cato Daily Dispatch October 25, 2000 http://www.cato.org/ http://www.cato.org/dispatch/10-25-00d.html [...] THE WAR THAT NOBODY TALKS ABOUT In a front page story today, The Washington Post questions the continuing U.S. policy of aggression toward Iraq, saying it is characteristic of U.S. military missions in the post-Cold War era: It is small-scale, open-ended and largely ignored by the American people. Even though U.S. warplanes are routinely dropping bombs on a foreign country, it has not been ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 25 14:01:35 PDT 2000

33773 LBO = flame city? (was RE: Survivor!) -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >he's getting at the tendency to have no patience for those who >started out where we were once. Of course I don't see it that way. I see some recent fire concentrated on a particular target - not because of inexperience or point of view so much as a deliberately offensive "why should I give a fuck about other people?" provocation. If I thought someone was being attacked just because of inexperience, I'd don my moderator's cap and initiate some discipline! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 25 14:04:26 PDT 2000

33774 Democracy Now -- rank: 1000

Danny Schechter has a good piece on Pacifica's pressure on Amy Goodman at <http://newsforchange.com/news/article.cfm?ItemId=8769>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 25 13:59:55 PDT 2000

33775 Nader a factor in 160 electoral votes; clumps of tired liberals -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review; most of the stories Sam identifies as "following" have already been posted here, so his excerpts aren't included] MORNING LINE Bush is slipping but still leading in the popular vote and holding his own in the electoral count We have added a line in our electoral vote chart that shows with how many votes Nader is a critical factor. Right now Bush is ahead with a point spread of 89, but Nader is a critical factor in 160 votes. MORNING LINE http://pro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 25 13:16:33 PDT 2000

33776 it's heating up -- rank: 1000

Marco Anglesio wrote: >If you want to build that principled party of the opposition, like the >Greens are elsewhere, then I believe that the best forum for such would be >in the legislative, not the executive, branch. When in Washington or in >state capitals, Green legislators could build track records and >credibility. Parachuting Ralph Nader in to be the Green presidential >candidate is great for attracting the protest vote, but I'm not sure if >it'll do anything for the G ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 25 13:13:30 PDT 2000

33777 it's heating up -- rank: 1000

Dennis Breslin wrote: >Rather than focusing such much on the Dems, it would seem that >they represent a relatively bumbling and fumbling defense against >a several decades long onslaught of a conservative offensive. Really? I thought they represented its consolidation. When Clinton said in the State of the Union that the era of big government is over, and Gore now promising to shrink government further (except, of course, the military budget, which he wants to expand more than Bush does ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 25 11:49:03 PDT 2000

33778 it's heating up -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >how does the lbo election model work? It's proprietary! Paid-up subscribers will learn the results in a few days. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 25 11:09:30 PDT 2000

33779 it's heating up -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >In this case, Nathan doesn't understand thay many people would like to >see the Democratic Party die a slow painful death. A quick death wouldn't be so bad either. But this is the point: like the IMF, the Dems are essentially unreformable. They're the problem, not a potential solution. A Gore defeat would be good news, since it would throw the party into confusion and despair. Speaking of the party, what does it mean to be a Democrat, anyway? Gore should be claiming Clinton' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 25 10:58:28 PDT 2000

33780 it's heating up -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >On the other hand, there is never a good time to do strategy #1, >so to invoke the lesser argument is tantamount to perpetual >reconciliation with the status quo. The conclusion to the "endorsement" edit in this week's Nation: >In another season, when our insurgent values have accumulated more >momentum and self-confidence, we might see things differently. This >time around, we believe the practical priority of keeping the Bush >squad from winni ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 25 10:41:36 PDT 2000