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34981 Fwd: Fishing with Fidel -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >Obviously the bourgeoisie don't need the death penalty to >remain in power. Dunno about that. Part of the U.S. international strategy has been a willingness to use extravagant levels of force to make a point - closely related to Henry Kissinger's "madman in the White House" negotiation strategy. Why not use the same strategy at home? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 25 13:26:19 PDT 2000

34982 Patrick Bond: Report from Zimbabwe -- rank: 1000

Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 23:48:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Patrick Bond <patrick_bond at yahoo.com> Greetings, comrades! Here's an update from the field for e-debaters wondering what's going on here in Zimbabwe this weekend. From all the reports I've been getting, the election seems to be going smoothly. I spent yesterday travelling 500km through Manicaland Province, and found only two kinds of systematic problems: the local poll monitors (from churches and human rights groups especially) had been ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 25 13:21:11 PDT 2000

34983 radio yakker Dr Laura: gay blasts made me a sob-sister -- rank: 1000

New York Post - June 25, 2000 Dr. Laura: Gay blasts made me a sob sister By Devlin Barrett Controversial talk-show host Dr. Laura -- under fire from critics for branding gays as "biological errors" -- admits her critics have reduced her to tears. Dr. Laura Schlessinger has come under fierce criticism from gay groups for harsh words about homosexuals, but refused to back down in an interview in next week's Time magazine. "I've cried more times than I would like to admit," say ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 25 12:51:42 PDT 2000

34984 another World Bank resignation -- rank: 1000

Peter K wrote: >Economists are still sweating the details, but this much is clear: Progress >against poverty is becoming a litmus test for global economic leaders. It takes the special skills of the New York Times to end a story about Kanbur's resignation with this astonishing news. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jun 25 12:48:13 PDT 2000

34985 Twisted Sister endorses Gore -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> [Frank Zappa's child] Diva asked Tipper to sit in on drums during a > > performance last December. > >Did she accept? Can she play amateur drums as well as Bill plays amateur >sax? Alas, Reason didn't disclose. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 24 16:00:13 PDT 2000

34986 Jane regrets... -- rank: 1000

"I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an antiaircraft carrier, which looks like I was trying to shoot at American planes." - the born-again Jane Fonda, interviewed in O, THe Oprah Magazine, quoted in Business Wek, July 3

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 24 15:40:13 PDT 2000

34987 Twisted Sister endorses Gore -- rank: 1000

The July issue of Reason magazine reports that Dee Snider & his colleagues in Twisted Sister have endorsed Al Gore for president, mainly because of Al's alleged concern for the environment. Back in 1985, Snider was hauled before Gore's Senate Commerce Committee during TIpper's great campaign to clean up rock lyrics. While Frank Zappa loudly denouced the Gore's decency campaign, Zappa's widow Gail has given Clinton and Gore hundreds of thousands of dollars since 1995, and Zappas kids, Moon, D ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 24 15:17:08 PDT 2000

34988 Savings vs Social Security? -- rank: 1000

Dennis R Redmond wrote: >Real hegemons don't borrow, they lend. But what if the U.S. is enjoying a long upwave, characterized by a high and rising profit rate and the leading edge of technical innovation, and the laggards are lending money to the "re-developing" leader? Yours in devil's advocacy, Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 24 14:59:30 PDT 2000

34989 Mander, adman -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an address oddity] Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 23:03:48 -0500 From: "t. c. frank" <t-frank-3 at alumni.uchicago.edu> Subject: Jerry Mander, former adman Doug Henwood wrote: Something. Tom Frank replies: Jerry Mander was indeed an adman in the Sixties, one of the crew working with the legendary Howard Gossage of San Francisco. Gossage's ads, like those of many of the best agencies of that period, were heavily, if obliquely, politicized. They always hinged on criticism o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 24 14:57:04 PDT 2000

34990 Amazon takes a hit -- rank: 1000

TheStandard.com - June 23, 2000, 4:34 PM PDT Jeff Bezos' Lesson in Hinduism By Steven Zeitchik The company that rode Henry Blodget's bullishness to fame today learned what else can happen when anxious investors listen too closely to analysts. Acting on comments from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter's Mary Meeker and the projection of a Lehman Brothers analyst, investors dumped the stock like a stack of old Time magazines. The price fell $8.13 to $33.88, a drop of just under 20 percent. CNBC knocked do ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 24 13:09:57 PDT 2000

34991 UN condems execution of Graham -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >Mary Robinson, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has written to >Bush to express deep regret at the execution of Gary Graham on the >grounds that this violates the growing global consensus that the >death penalty should not apply to juveniles, and Graham was 17 when >the crimes were committed. > >I suspect that the US, like the UK, usually contemptuously ignores UN opinion. >But it is unwise to do so. A growing consensus is a growing consensus. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 23 15:37:17 PDT 2000

34992 Fwd: Truth is the First Casualty of War -- rank: 1000

SAVING PRIVATE POWER The Hidden History of the Good War A Celebration and a Discussion with Author Mickey Zezima, aka "Mickey Z" 7:30pm Wednesday, July 26th The Brecht Forum 122 W. 27th St. 10th Fl. ( 212 ) 242- 4201 Join Stanley Aronowitz, Sander Hicks, Seth Tobocman & Mickey Zezima! Saving Private Power, a provocative history of the "Good War," questions the ultra- patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. Author Michael Zezima makes the case that the U.S d ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 23 13:18:51 PDT 2000

34993 global exchange -- rank: 1000

TRox51 at aol.com wrote: >Doug writes: >God save us from petit bourgeois intellectuals with a sweatshop >fortune to spend. > >So Doug, what is your take on Global Exchange? Another group of vultures? I'm not crazy over Medea Benjamin's act in Seattle, but I like Kevin Danaher. He's a good organizer and a good talker. Sometime I want to hear what he means by "socialist entrepreneurship." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 23 13:06:00 PDT 2000

34994 Naomi Klein: DC, Seattle, organizational culture -- rank: 1000

Alex LoCascio wrote: >Danaher or Mander? Mander, and more specifically, the IFG's patron, Doug Tompkins, who earned his millions from Esprit <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Globalization.html>. Someone told me Mander was one of those 60s ad guys who appropriated Cool for The Man. Tom Frank, is this true? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 23 13:08:18 PDT 2000

34995 IMF: more Asian votes? -- rank: 1000

[from the WOrld Bank's clipping service] G-7 TO PUSH FOR REDISTRIBUTION OF VOTING POWER IN IMF. Finance ministers from the Group of Seven (G-7) industrial nations are poised to push for a redistribution of voting power within the International Monetary Fund (IMF) when they assemble in Japan next week, Japan Economic Newswire reports an international financial source said today. They will probably make a reference in a report to be submitted to their leaders to a shared eagerness to have voting i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 23 12:36:44 PDT 2000