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34246 Palestinian economy -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] ISRAELI CLOSURES WIPE OUT PALESTINIAN ECONOMIC GAINS. If Israel pulls back its tanks from Palestinian towns and cities in the coming days, the gesture may be too late and too little for the Palestinian economy, reports the Financial Times (p.6). According to Palestinian economists, even if Israel lifts the closures imposed on the Palestinian territories that prevent free movement of goods and people, gains made by the economy in the past year have ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 6 10:54:21 PST 2000

34247 words -- rank: 1000

Peter van Heusden quoted Michael Hardt: > It is quite clear that > in the various processes of globalization the locus of sovereignty > has shifted away from the nation-state, at least in part, but it is > not so easy to identity its new locus, if indeed it can be located > at all. This reads oddly in a time when U.S. imperial power is so mighty, whether operating unilaterally or through NATO or the IMF. Or are we talking about the apparently dispersed, centerl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 6 10:45:50 PST 2000

34248 anti-Ralph petition -- rank: 1000

Peter van Heusden wrote: >And finally, I think understanding this non-profit maximising behaviour is >vital for a full understanding of capitalism - there are tensions within >capital, tensions whose source becomes apparent as soon as view capital as >embedded in a human society where labour power is not an abstract input >but something which must be created and controlled in a manner appropriate >to the maintaince of the capitalist social relation. But the maintenance of the c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 6 09:51:57 PST 2000

34249 Fwd: FW: Open Letter to Born Again Gore Supporters -- rank: 1000

Open Letter to Born Again Gore Supporters Scott Tucker To Tim Miller, Holly Hughes, and other citizens: The Gores, Al and Tipper both, became Born Again in 1977, the same year which heralded national crusades against queers. Of course they have a right to bring their real ideas and values into the public realm, where can all take a good close look. Tipper went on to crusade against dirty music, and even testified at Congressional show trials against American pop culture. Tipper, a cofounder ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 6 09:10:30 PST 2000

34250 Fwd: Start With Gore When Blame Game Begins -- rank: 1000

Boston Globe - November 5, 2000 Start With Gore When Blame Game Begins by Robert Kuttner AL GORE MAY YET prevail, just as the Boston Red Sox may yet win next year's World Series. But don't hold your breath. And the recriminations have already begun. Did Gore run too populist a campaign or one not populist enough? Did Ralph Nader recklessly ruin Gore's chances or were Gore's own ample liabilities quite sufficient? Was Gore foolish to distance himself from the Democrats' most popular president in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 6 09:02:07 PST 2000

34251 The Green Machine -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >4. The Greens don't have many blacks, but I predict that will >change. The NYT/CBS poll in today's paper has Nader's black support at 4%, right in line with the national average. (This is a "likely voter" poll.) Men are 6% for Ralph, and women at 4%. Given that the gender gap usually has women favoring the more leftish candidate, this is exactly the reverse of what it should be. But, the gender gap between Bush & Gore is surprisingly narrow (don't have th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 6 08:57:12 PST 2000

34252 [Fwd: Fwd: Re: Sarah Jessica Parker pressed into service] -- rank: 1000

[I asked Katha Pollitt to comment on the Stenberg thread.] X-From_: kpollitt at thenation.com Sun Nov 5 19:04:12 2000 Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 19:04:21 +0000 From: Katha Pollitt <kpollitt at thenation.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dhenwood at panix.com Subject: [Fwd: Fwd: Re: Sarah Jessica Parker pressed into service] Hi Doug -- you can post this if you like Stenberg v Carhart was the "partial birth abortion" ban case which originated in Nebraska and was decided by SC last June (?). ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 6 08:37:01 PST 2000

34253 What Do Unions Get for Helping Dems? -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >health care reform was the number one priority. Wow. They sure fucked that one up, didn't they? Did they do as well with #2 and #3? Where'd NAFTA rank? Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 5 14:45:35 PST 2000

34254 What Do Unions Get for Helping Dems? -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >A higher minimum wage? Why didn't the Dems raise the min wage when they controlled Congress in '93 and '94? They didn't even hold a single hearing on the topic, right? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 5 13:54:28 PST 2000

34255 lbo-talk-digest V1 #3577 -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >Surely you can find a better way of securing your credentials as an orthodox >Marxist here. Justin? Anxious to secure his credentials as an orthodox Marxist? Did you borrow Sandra Feldman's Marxist Detector for the weekend? You need to recalibrate the settings to be a bit less sensitive. Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 5 13:46:20 PST 2000

34256 Steve Emerson resurfaces -- rank: 1000

[Is "murky" a synonym for, oh, how to phrase this non-litigiously, a special friend of the Mossad?] New York Observer - November 5, 2000 The Murky Steve Emerson Surfaces in the Senate Race by Gabriel Snyder If the recent history of New York Senate races is any guide, elections have a tendency to boil down to one oversimplification. In 1998, Senator Chuck Schumer won after it was revealed that incumbent Al D'Amato had called him a "putzhead" in a closed-door meeting. In 1992, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 5 13:31:37 PST 2000

34257 Sarah Jessica Parker pressed into service -- rank: 1000

B. Deutsch wrote: >NARAL's claim is both hypocritical and inaccurate. Justice Kennedy, who was >one of the four dissenting votes in Carhart, voted with the majority in Casey, >and it doesn't appear his opinion has changed. Kennedy's dissent in Carhart >still seems to support Casey's "undue burden" standard, he just doesn't feel >that banning the "partial birth" proceedure but keeping other proceedures >available constitutes an undue burden. Gore supports th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 5 13:25:16 PST 2000

34258 Poms watching the Yank election -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >Ain't the two contenders within the margin of error right now? And ain't >what little momentum there is with Gore right now? Aren't reports of this >death somewhat previous? Or do you northerners know something we >antipodeans do not? No one knows. I held back on sending LBO #95 to press until Wednesday, so I could make some post mortem remarks instead of speculating wildly before the fact. As the late, great Ed Hart, the late FNN's credit market analyst, used t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 5 13:24:34 PST 2000

34259 Deconstructing Gang Bangs and Rhetorical Deviousness -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >circle jerks, cocks and limp rag dolls Follow this out, Leo; this is far more promising. Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 5 13:10:22 PST 2000

34260 An Ode To Douglass, Not Doug -- rank: 1000

Gregory Geboski wrote: >Say, I've never heard Douglass and John Brown put in contrast like >this before. I understood that Douglass always admired Brown (if not >always agreeing with him), that he himself briefly considered going >on the Harper's Ferry raid, and that he considered this act of >"self-contented, suicidal righteousness" a feat of heroism that >helped the great cause. Or am I missing something? If you ever want a good union staff job, you have to understa ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 5 13:08:29 PST 2000