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35536 Greenspan on Seattle -- rank: 1000
Rakesh - >Well, there's NAFTA and many other attempts at regionalism that stand >opposed to an integrated world market--India being a main victim of this >as Sachs notes; anti dumping laws have been invoked and threatened much of >late (e.g., against Russian rolling coils?). This seems overstated. Sure, there's lots of regional integration going on, but, as the cliche goes, these integrated regions are the building blocks of a global regime. I don't see that NAFTA has seriously imped ...
Document Size: 5745
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Jan 15 13:28:55 PST 2000
35537 Greenspan on Seattle -- rank: 1000
Nathan Newman wrote: >I do have to say that the one thing law school has done for me is to help >understand the ideology that promotes all this centralization in the name of >free market competition and it does return us to our friend Richard >Posner (and >Coase). The argument is that perfect competition is only the ideal model that >needs to include transaction costs. All the costs of negotiation and conflict >lead to very different needs in the economy that the ideal of ...
Document Size: 5715
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Jan 15 12:40:40 PST 2000
35538 Greider on WTO -- and a new Conspiracy Theory -- rank: 1000
Max Sawicky wrote: >Now here's a conspiracy theory for you. General Dynamics bribes a >Korean politician so Congress can pass a law against it so 30 years >later some asshole in the Nation can use it as a model for diverting >new political activity into the Democratic Party. It's positively >providential. >Carrol > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > >Greider is one of the most useful journalists alive today. > >Of course, he's no Carr ...
Document Size: 5499
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Jan 15 10:52:05 PST 2000
35539 bleh -- rank: 1000
t byfield wrote: >if, like me, you subscribe to this list as a digest, the TOC at >the top of each 'issue' looks more or less like this: > > > Re: Valid Conspiracy Theory > > Re: Valid Conspiracy Theory > > Re: Valid Conspiracy Theory > > Re: Valid Conspiracy Theory > > Re: Valid Conspiracy Theory > > Re: Valid Conspiracy Theory > > Re: Valid Conspiracy Theory > > Re: Valid Conspiracy Theory > > Re ...
Document Size: 5301
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Jan 15 10:50:06 PST 2000
35540 Valid Conspiracy Theory -- rank: 1000
matt hogan wrote: >Doug, what about Watergate, Iran-contra, the theft of PROMIS >software by the Dept. of Justice under Meese, etc. Weren't those >conspiracies? Don't you think that the Watergate conspiracy was >significant? If not, why not? Conspiracies happen, though that whole PROMIS thing seemed like a pretty weird obsession to me. They're not the driving force of history. Watergate could be read as Nixon's conspiracy, or a conspiracy by the East Coast elite against Nixon, or bo ...
Document Size: 5092
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jan 14 15:17:57 PST 2000
35541 Valid Conspiracy Theory -- rank: 1000
Charles Brown wrote: >criminal conspiracies - COINTELPRO That wasn't a conspiracy, it was basic police work. What's gained by calling it a conspiracy? Cops have been spying, infiltrating, and fucking-with radicals since the dawn of time. Doug
Document Size: 4617
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jan 14 15:21:06 PST 2000
35542 Greider on WTO -- rank: 1000
The Nation - January 31, 2000 Global Agenda After the WTO Protest in Seattle, It's Time to Go on the Offensive. Here's How. by WILLIAM GREIDER The promise of Seattle was captured in an antic moment observed by one young environmental activist. Amid broad ranks of protesters, he saw that a squad of activists dressed as sea turtles was marching alongside members of the Teamsters union. "Turtles love Teamsters," the turtles began to chant. "Teamsters love turtles," the truck dri ...
Document Size: 7908
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jan 14 15:09:22 PST 2000
35543 Valid Conspiracy Theory -- rank: 1000
Charles Brown wrote: >If you'll notice I tend to think that the Kennedy assassination was >mainly motivated by Kennedy's actions internationally ( aside from >the lifestyle things). Do you really think JFK was less an anticommunist than LBJ? You buy that whole Oliver Stone line? Seems like a crock to me. Doug
Document Size: 4714
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jan 14 15:05:57 PST 2000
35544 Valid Conspiracy Theory: the Bourgeois finesse -- rank: 1000
Charles Brown wrote: >From another approach, think how many youth have been dissuaded from >becoming progressive political leaders and activists by the >assassination of Martin Luther King ? Probably not as many as those who've been seduced by college scholarships or Ford Foundation grants. Doug
Document Size: 4877
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jan 14 15:04:12 PST 2000
35545 email cures poverty -- rank: 1000
More proof that computers can work miracles. Bill Clinton said this yesterday to a group of bigwigs collected by Jesse Jackson and his Wall Street Project at the Sheraton Towers Hotel in NYC: >I went to Hudson County, New Jersey, which has a lot of >first-generation immigrants, in a school that had so many problems it >was almost closed by the state. And then the principal of this high >school not only started making sure all the immigrant kids whose first >language was not Engli ...
Document Size: 5490
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jan 14 14:58:03 PST 2000
35546 Greenspan on Seattle -- rank: 1000
Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >In what sense can the following be called competition in the economist's >wierd sense of the word: a high tech sector enjoying massive rental income >protected by intellectual property rights; the greatest merger wave in >close to a century; the use of national and regional tarriffs, non tarriff >barriers and subsidies to secure the position of centralized domestic >capital both internally and externally. Tariffs are trivial in most countries for most co ...
Document Size: 5532
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jan 14 14:52:02 PST 2000
35547 An ostensibly beautiful story for the new year (fwd) -- rank: 1000
[bounced bec of an attachment] From: Stephen E Philion <philion at hawaii.edu> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 15:18:40 -1000 Folks, Can anyone help me get a handle on the class politics of the folks who put this out? Aside from having read Ahmad's Classes, Literature, and Nations...My acquanitance with Indian politics is far from strong enough. I would greatly appreciate any informed left critiques of this article below. I'd be especially interested in more info on the class politics of the organi ...
Document Size: 15067
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jan 14 10:30:50 PST 2000
35548 Fwd: (50 Years) report on Washington meeting to plan WB/IMF action for April -- rank: 1000
From: "50 Years Is Enough Network" <wb50years at igc.org> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 01:00:34 -0500 Report on WASHINGTON, D.C. MEETING TO PLAN IMF/WORLD BANK PROTEST FOR APRIL 16 - 17, 2000 On Tuesday, January 11, 2000 a group of 62 activists met in Washington at the University of the District of Columbia to begin planning in earnest for a big mobilization around the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings, April 16-17, 2000. This is seen as a logical follow-up to the WTO protests in Seattle. ...
Document Size: 11540
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jan 14 10:39:26 PST 2000
35549 Greenspan on Seattle -- rank: 1000
from Alan Greenspan's speech to the Economic Club of New York last night <http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/BoardDocs/Speeches/2000/200001132.htm>: >The clash between unfettered competitive technological advance and >protectionism, both domestic and international, will doubtless >engage our attention for many years into this new century. The >turmoil in Seattle last month may be a harbinger of an intensified >debate. >It is the degree of unbridled fierce competition within and am ...
Document Size: 5496
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jan 14 10:23:14 PST 2000
35550 Fwd: Davos Bans Demonstration -- rank: 1000
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 08:54:40 PST Anti-WTO-Koordination, PF 7611, 3001 Bern, Fax: 031 302 78 74 Info: http://www.reitschule.ch/reitschule/anti-wto Dear friends! Yesterday the city of Davos announced that it won't tolerate the international demonstration against the 30. World Economic Forum WEF on january 29th for which the anti-WTO-coordination switzerland and other groups called. For the security of US-president Bill Clinton and against any resistance (We guess they know what happened in Seat ...
Document Size: 5989
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jan 14 10:12:20 PST 2000
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