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33826 Hartung excerpt -- rank: 1000

[An excerpt from Bill Hartung's piece in the Progressive...] It was Al Gore who first tested the DLC's pro-military themes in his hapless Presidential campaign of 1988, when he was one of a cast of relatively unknown and inexperienced Democratic Presidential contenders referred to derisively by some commentators as the "seven dwarfs." I remember scratching my head when I attended the Presidential debate held at Manhattan's Javits Convention Center in the spring of that year and learned ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 20 15:28:55 PDT 2000

33827 Gore vs Bush on foreign policy -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 16:02:25 -0400 From: "Frida Berrigan" <BerrigaF at newschool.edu> Subject: World Policy Institute Critique of Gore Foreign Policy October 20, 2000 To: Friends and Colleagues of the Arms Trade Resource Center From: Frida Berrigan, Michelle Ciarrocca, Bill Hartung, and Dena Montague Re: New cover story in The Progressive on the Gore/Lieberman foreign Policy ================================================================ Our project director Bill Hartung has ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 20 15:22:57 PDT 2000

33828 Obviously -- rank: 1000

Oh yeah, it strikes me as particularly odd when Chuck0 says: >It must be a unique form of consciousness for First World white >people to be able to believe that human history has naturally led to the >stage of existence that they enjoy. Never mind that several billion >people are hungry and living miserable lives. The hunger and misery of billions is a fact that I'm quite aware of, and it's one of the reasons I'm a socialist and not working for Forbes. But it's a unique form of consc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 20 15:02:33 PDT 2000

33829 Fwd: thought you might -- rank: 1000

French Communists recruit Jesus, top models By Lee Yanowitch PARIS, Oct 19 (Reuters) - With their finances shaky, ranks thinning and leaders on trial for corruption, France's Communists are turning to supermodels and Jesus Christ to drum up some cash and boost their flagging image. The cultural revolution started last week when the party's headquarters - known as ''the bunker'' - hosted a glamorous late-night bash for Italy's not-exactly-proletarian fashion house Prada. Supermodel Adriana Karemb ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 20 12:41:41 PDT 2000

33830 Obviously (what's the Left problem with GM food?) -- rank: 1000

brettk at unicacorp.com wrote: >Given the choice between being a hunter gatherer, or working in the English >coal mines in the 1800's, which would you choose between? > >Granted this is a false binary, since you might choose to live in 1800 >England over living in Africa a 50,000 years ago, and you might prefer to >live in the US in 2000 most of all. > >But the point is, as Carrol said, the notion that things are getting >monotonically better every day for everyone is ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 20 12:36:29 PDT 2000

33831 Obviously (what's the Left problem with GM food?) -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >>Carrol Cox wrote: >> >>>Most changes are >>>destructive. >> >>So reject the idea of Progress and turn it into its exact opposite. >>That's progress indeed! Were things really better in 1840? 840? >>When did things start getting worse?... >>Doug > >With the invention of hand-axe technology.... Now we know it's the invention of agriculture, which caused arthritis in women several millennia ago. Let's doff all ou ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 20 11:08:55 PDT 2000

33832 TrotFest 2000 -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an attachment] From: LeoCasey at aol.com Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:54:02 EDT Some interesting comments on the Trotskyism conference posted on the DSA listserv by Tim Wohlforth, a past leader of some of the more loony of Trot sects (Sparts and then American Healeyites) and now a rather sensible voice in DSA. I thought that this was Michael Pugiliese's job to crosspost these little ditties, but he seems to have missed this one. I guess he is a little consumed today by the still loo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 20 11:05:01 PDT 2000

33833 whence the surplus -- rank: 1000

[hey Max, what do you make of this?] New York Times - October 20, 2000 Taxes, the Market and Luck Underlie the Budget Surplus By LOUIS UCHITELLE In all the political debate about how to spend the rapidly emerging budget surplus, almost nothing is said about where it came from. It is a patchwork creation, hard to keep sewn together. Taxes thrown off by the soaring stock market contributed handsomely to the surplus. So did higher tax rates on the rich, enacted just before their incomes surged ahea ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 20 10:59:22 PDT 2000

33834 Obviously (what's the Left problem with GM food?) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Most changes are >destructive. So reject the idea of Progress and turn it into its exact opposite. That's progress indeed! Were things really better in 1840? 840? When did things start getting worse? Is there any hope, or is it straight from here to perdition? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 20 09:00:07 PDT 2000

33835 Fwd: {FP} (Fwd) Crackdown on Democracy Now! -- rank: 1000

From: "Sam Husseini" <sam at accuracy.org> Subject: Crackdown on Democracy Now! Date sent:Thu, 19 Oct 2000 18:14:00 -0500 The Institute for Public Accuracy received this today: To: Pacifica Executive Director Bessie Wash and Board of Directors From: Amy Goodman Cc: Personnel File Date: 10/18/00 CRACKDOWN ON DEMOCRACY NOW! A few days ago, I was given a shocking memo from Pacifica Program Director Stephen Yasko and Pacifica attorney Larry Drapkin. In the 3-page memo, Yasko listed a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 20 08:32:45 PDT 2000

33836 Class Politics and Elections -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >BTW, isn't it strange that single mothers don't share this ultra-leftist >insight? Yes, it's very strange. Gore was the most vigorous proponent within the Clinton administration for signing the end-of-welfare bill. Every cabinet member, including Rubin, advised Clinton to veto it. But Gore - and Dick Morris - prevailed. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 20 08:29:40 PDT 2000

33837 Obviously (what's the Left problem with GM food?) -- rank: 1000

brettk at unicacorp.com wrote: >Personally I am not against genetic modification per se, but my impression >is that companies like Monsanto are simply forging ahead because they see >dollar signs without giving the public a chance to weigh in on the >potential risks and benefits. I guess that means we really need to >eliminate capitalism, but since that is unlikely, it seems reasonable for >the public to oppose GM crops until it is satisfied that they are safe. Why? Wouldn't i ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 20 08:27:35 PDT 2000

33838 Fwd: Latest Presidential Election Numbers from www.gallup.com -- rank: 1000

************************************************ The Gallup Poll: Presidential Election NewsAlert ************************************************ The latest presidential poll results are now on www.gallup.com Results for Oct 16-18, 2000 ** Bush: 49% Gore: 39% Buchanan: 0% Nader: 5% Don't Know: 7% ** among Likely Voters For a complete analysis of current presidential poll standings, go to: http://www.gallup.alerts.com/alerts/ClickThrough?Address=dhenwood@panix.com&SiteName=gallup&Cr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 20 08:28:25 PDT 2000

33839 Said on American Zionism -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Weapons are, after all, ultimately useful only as ways of changing >other people's minds... Or, if they don't change their minds, you can kill lots of them and scare the rest into silence. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 19 15:07:49 PDT 2000

33840 guns & purses (was Re: guns & crime) -- rank: 1000

Matt Cramer wrote: >Sorry, should have added a smilie. It was sarcasm poking fun at this >list's perception that the internet is infested with libertarians >everywhere. Well it is. Moreover, U.S. political thought in general is infected with libertarian thinking - individual, self-reliant, ad hoc and antisystematic. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 19 14:21:14 PDT 2000