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34741 Women and Lists -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >If you want an ambassador to FEMECON, I'm not your boy. >Doug was over there. Still am. If I had a spare $800, I'd go to Istanbul for the International Association for Feminist Economics meeting, too. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 22 05:46:34 PST 2000

34742 [Fwd: THE TEARS OF THE MIGHTY] -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Put it down in your diary. Doug took a definite position on something. > >This is not a Marxist list, but it is definitely for state >protection of Nazi and KKK speech. And the protection of your speech too, even when what you say is utterly perverse. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 22 05:43:47 PST 2000

34743 Misc. threads -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >A question for Doug to ask, Barbara Ehrenreich. One male list member >wanted to know if you consider yourself the Martha Stewart of >progressive politics? That is finding all the interesting and useful >things to do with Marxism, without actually getting to close to the >testosterone laden, dirty fingernailed, and sweaty business of it >all. [I actually like reading her, but in the last thing Kelley >posted, I notice BE dodged the hard part about class.] ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 22 05:42:03 PST 2000

34744 Fed tightening unusual -- rank: 1000

[The Financial Markets Center, Tom Schlesinger's outfit, has a new report out showing how unusual the Fed's latest round of tightening is for an election year. Here's the press release; the full report (in Acrobat format) can be gotten at <http://www.fmcenter.org/fmc_superpage.asp?ID=300>.] A new analysis by the Financial Markets Center reveals that the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee has raised interest rates significantly more in 1999-2000 than in previous presidential election c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 21 14:53:21 PST 2000

34745 Greenspan -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >The Bubblemeister raised another 1/4 point. He indicated that there's more >where that came from. The official announcement <http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/BoardDocs/Press/General/2000/20000321/default.HTM>. "[R] isks are weighted mainly toward conditions that may generate heightened inflation pressures in the foreseeable future" does indeed sound like there's more to come. Doug ---- Release Date: March 21, 2000 For immediate release The Federal Open ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 21 14:28:55 PST 2000

34746 Rudy Heclers forming a united front -- rank: 1000

[apologies to those outside NYC, but this sounds like a wonderful project] From: "rhayduk" <rhayduk at igc.org> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:26:34 -0500 Reclaim the Streets NYC - http://reclaimthestreetsnyc.tao.ca Get ready to Heckle RUDY! The word is out that Rudy Hecklers are organizing to make his public appearances as troublesome as he is making our city. We want to make sure that Rudy gets the proper and full UN-welcome he deserves. There is NO reason to let Rudy walk the stree ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 21 14:41:33 PST 2000

34747 Bush & DP -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >Doug, these figures make no sense at all. --jks > >Executions by State > > since 1976 since 1979 > Texas 211 47 Ooops. Sorry. That should be: since 1976 since 1999 Texas 211 47 Virginia 76 17 Florida 46 3 Missouri 41 9 Louisiana 25 1 South Carolina 24 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 21 09:10:37 PST 2000

34748 Summers defends IMF/WB -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] SUMMERS SHUNS US COMMISSION'S CALLS FOR WORLD BANK REFORM. The US Treasury yesterday rejected demands for a sweeping overhaul of the World Bank and defended the Bank's role in lending to emerging market economies, reports the Financial Times (p.5). Speaking to the US Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers dismissed calls by the congressional advisory commission [chaired by economics professor Allan Meltzer] ea ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 21 09:03:44 PST 2000

34749 Bush & DP -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - March 21, 2000 Bush May Be Hurt by Handling Of Capital Punishment Issue By JOHN HARWOOD Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Two months ago, Illinois Gov. George Ryan made an announcement that once would have represented a remarkable political risk. But when the first-term Republican unilaterally imposed a moratorium on executions in this state, what was remarkable was the absence of public protest. Shaken by the exoneration of 13 death-row inmates ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 21 08:39:57 PST 2000

34750 Rebuttal to Nathan -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >In the case of Kosovo, I think it is the rhetoric on this list continually >citing the 100,000 figure that is the distortion and is itself a form of >propaganda. My sense is that you've mentioned the 100,000 figure more than anyone else, perhaps more than everyone else combined. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 21 08:23:12 PST 2000

34751 Rebuttal to Nathan -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >So what does democracy mean here? What is the proper unit of democratic >deliberation? Kosovo or Serbia? Bosnia or the Serb Republic? Croatia or >Krajina? Yugoslavia or Bosnia? I'm not sure there are any certain answers. Follow out the logic of the interventionists and the fundamental democratic unit is the ethnic group, which, given the mixing of groups in the Balkans, requires lots of displacement. When Serbs do it, it's genocide; when others do it, it's in the p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 21 08:16:20 PST 2000

34752 Women and Lists -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >since angela, i, and now cat lately are not by any stretch of the >imagination marxist enough according to some, then i suspect it highly >unlikely that more women will make this list more satsifactory in that >regard. indeed, we know already that paula, maria, catherine, margaret >have serious shortcomings in their politics as well (according to some) >since those women have been variously called "a rube" and told they need to >read more marx. Wh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 21 08:06:57 PST 2000

34753 Kaiser/Maxxam -- rank: 1000

[Labor & environmentalists, still together in the northwest...] This e-mail contains the latest info about the March 25-27 Kaiser/Maxxam Protest in Tacoma. Please copy and circulate widely. Table of Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Event Locations/Directions 3. Calendar of events 4. Action Info 5. Transportation/Housing/Food 6. Contact Info/Needs **************************************************** (1) INTRODUCTION PROTEST KAISER ALUMINUM/MAXXAM SUPPORT LOCKED OUT KAISER STEELWORKERS DEFEND HEAD ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 20 14:30:33 PST 2000

34754 Fwd: AUT: Window Smashing in Seattle -- rank: 1000

[From the aut-op-sy list, somewhat reformatted. As usual, forwarding does not constitute endorsement.] WINDOW-SMASHING HURT OUR CAUSE By Medea Benjamin THERE HAS BEEN SOME controversy about a quote from me that appeared in the New York Times Dec. 2. The quotation implied that I was calling for the arrest of those people who destroyed property in downtown Seattle during the WTO protest. I want to make it clear that the quote was distorted, taken out of context, and not reflective my true feelings ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 20 13:38:28 PST 2000

34755 Class Ceiling--Ehrenreich -- rank: 1000

kelley quoted Barbara Ehrenreich (who, when she isn't attacking "postmodernism," sure is very very good): >I know it sounds scary, but it will be a lot less so if we can make >sharing stylish again Speaking of which, a sign I saw this morning only blocks from the Forbes.com "Proliferate capitalism" billboard, this an ad for FT.com, the Financial Times's recently relaunched (and largely inscrutable) website: COMMUNISM [x'd out] didn't work SOCIALISM [x'd out] too much sh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 20 11:47:15 PST 2000