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35386 CIA feminist backs Gore -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >More cop-baiting? > >Why should anyone take seriously condemnation by leftists of red-baiting by >liberals when various leftists are so willing to engage in this kind of >cop-baiting? > >Especially when the statute of limitations should have run out on this one. Hell no. It's not cop baiting to point to GS's involvement with the Congress for Cultural Freedom and other CIA fronts in the 1950s. Nor is it cop-baiting to point out that, as Liza said, Steine ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 09:00:52 PST 2000

35387 Rising margin debt -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >I think the real indicator here is default and bankruptcy, not how >much debt people take on. Debt isn't a priori 'bad' or 'good' -- >it's just an exchange of risk. For many people, exchanging a >mortgage for a house that is their's is "worth it" -- despite the >higher net cost of the house over time. The same can be said of >autos, on down the line to big screen TVs in time for the Super >Bowl. Borrowing to buy a high-flying stock can also ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 08:54:56 PST 2000

35388 Summers touts; Stiggy kvetches -- rank: 1000

[From the World Bank's daily clipping service. Something really seems to be changing... into what, I have no idea.] SUMMERS LOBBIES FOR GLOBALIZATION. US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers on Monday urged Americans not to neglect the rest of the world, and said global markets had helped the vast majority of citizens in the world's biggest economy, Reuters reports. "In many ways, the US, in the final decade of the 20th century, is more successful than it has ever been," Summers said ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 08:17:48 PST 2000

35389 UNCTAD: Time to Challenge the WTO -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak quoted Walden Bello: >What UNCTAD should be doing, in the aftermath of Seattle, is challenging >the role of the WTO as the ultimate arbiter of trade and development >issues. UNCTAD should instead be putting forward an arrangement where >trade, d evelopment, and environment issues must formulated and >interpreted by a wider body of global organizations, including UNCTAD, >ILO, the implementing bodies of multilateral environmental agreements, and >regional econ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 07:55:30 PST 2000

35390 Russian economic upturn? -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 From: Stephen Shenfield <Stephen_Shenfield at Brown.edu> THE CURRENT ECONOMIC GROWTH: WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR RUSSIA'S FUTURE? Stephen D. Shenfield Many people, bombarded by apparently contradictory information, must have trouble trying to form a coherent picture of what is going on in the Russian economy. On the one hand -- reports of continuing economic growth. On the other -- reminders that the deep structural problems are still there, s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 07:37:25 PST 2000

35391 Marx and Equality (Was: Why Decry the Wealth Gap?) -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Suppose I have an expensive hobby -- jumping >out of airplanes, and someone else is into >tiddly winks. Under communism, you will no longer want to jump out of airplanes. Your desire to do so is a product of your alienation under capitalism: a temporarily exhilarating mix of conspicuous consumption and risky behavior distracts you from your alienation, but once you hit ground, you are back in the fallen world. After the revo, no "need" to skydive. But, as a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 07:30:10 PST 2000

35392 CIA feminist backs Gore -- rank: 1000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Chris Lehane January 25, 2000 615-340-3251 STATEMENT FROM GLORIA STEINEM I'm happy to see the two major Democratic candidates debating over who is more pro-choice, because it proves two facts. First, the huge majority of Americans believe that the abortion decision should be made by a woman and her doctor. Second, the Republican Presidential nomination is in the hands of anti-choice extremists who don't represent the majority of even their own party. Still, it isn' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 07:12:56 PST 2000

35393 Spivak & Eagleton -- rank: 1000

Daniel F. Vukovich wrote: >psycho-cyber-stalinist in Furuhi A couple of people have complained that this is, oh, excessive. It probably is. And it's Yoshie Furuhashi; don't know a Furuhi. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 26 21:03:52 PST 2000

35394 Greenspan on Seattle (Jim O'Connor) -- rank: 1000

Barbara Laurence wrote: >Why has the capitalist world become more dependent on world trade (X/GDP >1950 = 8 percent. X/GDP 1998=26.5 percent)? Why use the word "dependent"? Is a leopard dependent on its spots? A century or two ago you could have asked why capitalism was so "dependent" on creating national markets. The system is voracious; it must grow in volume & scope. "Dependent" sounds like a 12-steppers way of putting this. What was X/GDP in 1870? 191 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 26 19:12:32 PST 2000

35395 Hillary & Waco -- rank: 1000

New York Press - January 21, 2000 Is Waco Investigator Onto Something Or Off His Rocker? Will New York Voters Care? Hillary's Holocaust by Jim Knipfel & John Strausbaugh Last August, after six years of denial, Janet Reno made the astonishing public admission that the FBI had indeed used incendiary gas canisters during the siege of Waco in 1993. It's unlikely ever to be determined whether these devices had anything to do with starting the fires that roared through the Branch Davidians' Mt. Ca ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 26 18:52:27 PST 2000

35396 civil rights vs HMOs -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - January 26, 2000 A Disabled Attorney's Novel Strategy Puts A Civil-Rights Spin on HMO Litigation By MILO GEYELIN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Over lunch with a group of lawyers from the Texas Medical Association four years ago, attorney Robert Provan heard how doctors trying to treat chronically ill patients in managed-care plans were being dropped from their contracts, apparently for running up big bills. Mr. Provan threw out an idea: Why couldn't the doctors ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 26 13:20:02 PST 2000

35397 death penalty again (was: Responsibility) -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Joanna, I'm replying off list to avoid being dragged before Doug's tribunal >for overposting. Please check my posting to the list in reponse to Charles >Brown (attached below). Ooops. A general reminder: there's been lots of posting in excess of three-a-day lately. I won't name names, but you know who you are. Better fewer but better, as Lenin said. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 26 13:33:51 PST 2000

35398 U of T strike -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an address oddity] Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:16:02 -0600 (CST) From: Daniel Frederick Vukovich <vukovich at students.uiuc.edu> Kelley, and Ken, Good points. I have forwarded your intitial and ken's post to the marxist lit. group, an affiliated org of the mla, and which has of course done much "activist" stuff within the field, incl. writing letters and "lobbying" on behalf of striking grads, of Berkeley Ethnic studies and such. These havent gone throug ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 26 12:21:17 PST 2000

35399 CBO Shows Brighter Picture for Social Security, Weak Profits for Wall Street -- rank: 1000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, January 26, 2000 by the Center for Economic and Policy Research For more information, contact Dean Baker (202 332-5218) or Mark Weisbrot (202 265-3263). CBO SHOWS BRIGHTER PICTURE FOR SOCIAL SECURITY, WEAK PROFITS FOR WALL STREET The latest projections by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) show a very different picture for the Social Security program than what is assumed in the most recent Social Security trustees' report. The CBO projections for the next ten years show ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 26 10:26:58 PST 2000

35400 U of T strike -- rank: 1000

[posted from a non-sub'd address] Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 11:36:58 -0500 From: kelley <kcwalker at syr.edu> dream date ken writes: >I'll recommend the idea. Likely it will float down the same tube as my "moon >the administration day." well, you know, i did one of my research projects on this topic -- or rather i did it on political action/social movement/citizenship stuff and then happened upon this war taking place among participants over tactics. it was really splitting u ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 26 09:55:48 PST 2000