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34876 Congressional panel on IMF -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - March 7, 2000 Panel Assails IMF, World Bank Policies; Says Institutions Failed Developing World By MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- The International Monetary Fund and World Bank have largely failed to bring financial stability or economic growth to the developing world and should sharply curtail their lending, a special advisory commission is set to tell Congress. The panel's report, scheduled to be released Wednesday, will likely ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 8 10:52:52 PST 2000

34877 Fwd: ICFTU OnLine - March 8 (I) -- rank: 1000

[the Sweeneyite social imperialist line on women] INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS (ICFTU) ICFTU OnLine 047/000308/DD International Women's Day (I) Working Women Launch World Women's March March 8 2000 Brussels (ICFTU OnLine): Trade union women round the world will be using International Women's Day, March 8, to launch the trade union aspect of the World March of Women Against Poverty and Violence. The march has already attracted the interest of 3000 groups in 143 countries, and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 8 06:25:50 PST 2000

34878 Social Protectionism -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >Thanks for the comments, comrade Max, and if I bent the stick too far >in my argument, then I owe an apology... but I'll take you on... > >> From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) >> I see no automatic inconsistency between 'abolitionism' and the >> 'Social Clause' (SC) position, > >Right, if a) the WTO isn't the enforcer of the Social Clause (people >should be, whether university students studying sweatshirt labels or >d ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 8 06:25:50 PST 2000

34879 Fwd: {FP} Feature Stories News: Is it Pacifica or Is it Fox? -- rank: 1000

From: Rumarur at aol.com Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 20:22:28 EST This is an article by Vanessa Tait, one of the organizers of the Pacifica Strike. She did some research on Feature Stories News, the corporate service that's frequently used by Pacifica Network News. As this article documents, Pacifica listeners may think they're listening to and paying for alternative news, but with the increasing use of FSN, they're actually getting (and paying for) the same stories that are aired on several other co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 8 06:25:50 PST 2000

34880 Social Protectionism -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Yes, this is the question that could be put to Malaysian labor leader >Rajakekaran and other AFL CIO friendly union heads. <sgmtuc at tm.net.my>. You write this as if he has no domestic constituency - as if Sweeney is pulling his strings from The Building. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 7 22:31:31 PST 2000

34881 Fwd: two articles by Gerald Greenfield -- rank: 1000

[I find the claim that the AFL-CIO doesn't care about labor standards in the US a little odd, since they spend most of their work lives trying to raise those standards. Also, I'm not convinced that the US government really wants to include labor standards in the WTO. But Greenfield's a smart and interesting guy, so here are a couple of articles of his.] (originally published in the latest issue of the Hong Kong-based Chinese language zine Globalization Monitor -- QuanQiuHua JianCa at <http:/ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 7 22:25:56 PST 2000

34882 FW: Jay Mazur Responds to Friedman 3/7 Column -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >It would seem to me that core labor rights are meant >at one level simply to appease American workers that jobs won't be lost to >foreign competition What's your position on these American workers who might lose their jobs to "foreign competition"? Are they right or wrong to be worried? Is their union right or wrong to try to defend them? What stance should the workers and their union adopt? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 7 22:20:46 PST 2000

34883 Social Protectionism -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >The stance of labor and other insurgents in LDC's is >well-taken as a concern, at least in principle. Mazur said African unions were on UNITE!'s side in this dispute. Dunno about this; maybe he's right, maybe he's fantasizing, maybe he's lying, maybe said unions are running dog lackeys of the Sweeneyite social imperialists. But I'd like to seem some evidence one way or the other before I make up my mind. I found this passage from Patrick Bond's piece mystifying: > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 7 22:16:45 PST 2000

34884 tree hugging nazis (was Peter Singer & Vegetarian Dogs) -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >Is Arrowhead seven-grain breakfast cereal okay? Of course not. "Arrowhead" clearly partakes of some vitalist indigenism; dangerous on the face of it. And seven-grain - clearly linked to apocalypticism, via the 777 numero-mysticism. Cue Jello Biafra on "orgo-deco-fascism." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 7 22:05:38 PST 2000

34885 Social Protectionism -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >Yeah Doug, you and other comrades have to understand that Rakesh is >putting forward a perfectly sound point of view, one that has the >support of the majority of radical development critics and better >trade union intellectuals in my Jo'burg/CapeTown circuits. Do they - and you - support the Africa Growth & Opportunity Act? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 7 20:48:34 PST 2000

34886 tree hugging nazis (was Peter Singer & Vegetarian Dogs) -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >Again, I'm surprised I have to explain these things in a >mailing list where the names and works of Marx, Adorno, Who was extremely critical of the cult of naturalism that was one of the prodromes of Naziism. > and >Heidegger A Nazi! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 7 16:23:58 PST 2000

34887 SA's disciplinarian -- rank: 1000

[Patrick, is this guy as bad as he sounds? Maybe Bob Naiman should go into the pie-baking biz.] Financial Times - March 7, 2000 S AFRICA'S FINANCIAL DISCIPLINARIAN Central bank governor Tito Mboweni places stability above everything else, write Victor Mallet and Martin Wolf When Tito Mboweni sits in the boardroom of the Reserve Bank of South Africa, the bank's 40-year-old first black governor must chuckle. There hang the pictures of his predecessors: a rank of grave white men. This former econom ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 7 13:02:07 PST 2000

34888 Fwd: 'Gas-out' apr 7-9 -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: When you say scandalously cheap, I understand what you are >saying, including your description of the history of the prices. >Then I think, well, perhaps from an environmental standpoint the >"externalized" costs are not in the price. Is that what you mean ? Yes. Environmental costs as well as social ones (social isolation induced by solo driving, spreading hideousness in the built environment, etc.) >However, somehow on the straight price issu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 7 12:32:08 PST 2000

34889 K-W out -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Consistent with what I posted here earlier, I do not believe >Koch-Weser's humiliation has been in vain. The pathetic temper >tantrum the U.S. threw concerning this appointment has been well in >keeping with America's ever more ham-handed approach to >international affairs in general. I cannot but believe that the >U.S. has squandered diplomatic capital in getting its way here that >it will find difficult to replace. Yeah, but the other side of it is ho ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 7 12:21:42 PST 2000

34890 Social Protectionism -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Michael Pollak pointed me to this editorial in today's NYT Rakesh, how interesting to see you quoting Tom Friedman approvingly. Politics indeed makes strange bedfellows. I thought most U.S. and African "progressives" opposed the Africa Growth & Opportunity Act pretty intensely. Maybe I'm wrong. Or maybe Friedman is invoking what Marx called the philanthropy of manufacturers in his 1848 speech on free trade. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 7 12:18:49 PST 2000