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35686 Gore on Bradley -- rank: 1000

This spectacle of Gore positioning himself to the right of Bradley is pretty funny. From Slate's Today's Papers: >USAT leads with Al Gore's charge in an interview with the paper >that as president, Bill Bradley would endanger the economic >expansion and risk "blundering into another recession" because he >would take the entire projected surplus over the next ten years and >"just blow it" on health care reform. Imagine, blowing the surplus on health care reform! ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 4 08:33:05 PST 2000

35687 Populism (as shown in *The Progressive Populist* -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >My basic position on Buchanan/Fulani/Perot >is shoot the messenger, figuratively speaking, >but take a good part of the message seriously. Why shoot the messenger if the message is worth taking seriously? Or, alternatively, is there no relation at all between messenger and message? And in Buchanan's case, isn't he the author rather than the messenger? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 4 08:24:43 PST 2000

35688 Y2-nuthin'? -- rank: 1000

Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: >I'm pretty sure that a few years from now, we'll be informed that in fact >such and such company/gvt agency had really a major problem but for >security/publicity reasons it was covered up... :-) And if we can't tell, does it matter? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 3 21:49:03 PST 2000

35689 thegreatcrash.com -- rank: 1000

Zack Exley wrote: >In addition to the silly merchandise (not actually produced yet), I want to >keep a record of all the insane statements by the bulls that will look >ridiculous after a crash, and to make very clear and concise arguments on >why this is indeed a bubble and can't last. At 10:04 PM -0500 1/3/00, TheStreet.com wrote: >Wrong! Rear Echelon Revelations: Amateurs Trounce the Pros > >By James J. Cramer > >1/3/00 5:35 PM ET > >The individual investor sur ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 3 19:56:26 PST 2000

35690 Tax breaks and WTO -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >The title is "Five Easy Pieces on the Economics of Tax Justice." >I don't remember when I posted it. Can't find anything from a fellow named Sawicky with the words "five easy pieces" or anything like this matching "tax justice." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 3 19:52:03 PST 2000

35691 Carrol's riposte -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 21:11:02 -0600 From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at mail.ilstu.edu> Sorry, I was trying to be cute. I meant, would you consider the possibility that Amin was the most important theorist *because* he was not into "contemporary theories of ideology and discourse"? Carrol "Daniel F. Vukovich" wrote: > > >> One wishes Amin were a bit more into > >> contemporary theories of ideology and discourse, but its an excellent > >> b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 3 19:25:52 PST 2000

35692 Yeltsin deal? -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Jamestown Foundation Monitor January 3, 2000 DID "KOMPROMAT" FORCE YELTSIN OUT? A conventional wisdom seems to be emerging that Russia's first democratically elected head of state spontaneously stepped down on the eve of the new millennium in order, as Yeltsin himself said in his resignation speech, to ensure a smooth transition to a new generation of politicians. "Mr. Yeltsin," as the New York Times put it, "for one last time, seemed to be b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 3 17:35:09 PST 2000

35693 Fwd: (50 Years) Call to Action on the IMF -- rank: 1000

From: wb50years at igc.org Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 18:08:46 -0500 X WTO in Seattle/November 29 - December 3, 1999 IMF & World Bank in Washington / April 16, 2000 Stand Again for Economic Justice! Oppose Oppressive Globalization! A powerful U.S. movement for economic and human rights and fair trade had its coming-out party at the WTO meetings in Seattle. A range of forces who value human and ecological dignity over corporate profits and trickle-down economics came together there. We challe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 3 17:28:02 PST 2000

35694 post-WTO musings -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an address oddity] Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 16:07:27 -0600 From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at mail.ilstu.edu> Doug Henwood wrote: > A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E > <http://www.ainfos.ca/> > ________________________________________________ > > Bias # 4 (or perhaps dilemma #1) is > that there is an inherent friction between these two needs of > involving more people and amplifying the edge of protest. This illustrates my reaso ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 3 16:51:03 PST 2000

35695 Democratic party -- rank: 1000

Scott Marshall wrote: >And it is true that in the last period we have seen the main thing >as defeating the Gingrichite ultra right wing of the Republican >party. I know others don't agree with us but we do see a fascist >danger in these guys. The merger mania, the globalization of >capital, etc, in our opinion does have within it the seeds of a much >greater anti-democratic, anti-working class and racist danger that >is qualitative, not just more of the same old shit. Yeah, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 3 13:59:31 PST 2000

35696 State and Democracy (was Re: Who Killed Vincent Chin?) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I think that China has a very good chance of becoming like Taiwan, >Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, and Indonesia and is trying to do so by the >same means. Not a rosy picture. Taiwan, Singapore, and Korea, while not workers' paradises, did achieve substantial industrialization and massive improvements in material living standards in a relatively short period of time. It's hard to think of any precedents for or rivals to them in economic history, in fact. Hong Kon ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 3 13:47:13 PST 2000

35697 Theory & PE -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an address oddity] Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 15:26:36 -0600 From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at mail.ilstu.edu> "Daniel F. Vukovich" wrote: > One wishes Amin were a bit more into > contemporary theories of ideology and discourse, but its an excellent > book. And Amin of course (imho) is perhaps the most important > theorist/political economist taking breath. Would you consider the hypothesis that these two features are inter-connected? Carrol

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 3 13:39:37 PST 2000

35698 profit rates & Brenner critique -- rank: 1000

[This came with a critique of Robert Brenner's NLR article on global turbulence attached (in Acrobat 3.x format). I'll forward it to anyone who asks. I haven't read it yet, so this forwarding doesn't constitute an endorsement.] Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 14:43:14 +0100 To: (Suppression de la liste des destinataires) From: Dominique Levy <dominique.levy at cepremap.cnrs.fr> FRANCAIS: Nous sommes heureux de vous signaler que nous avons placé sur notre site internet les résultats d'une recherche ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 3 13:36:28 PST 2000

35699 post-WTO musings -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of a taboo word; reformatted by list management] Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 13:14:35 -0800 From: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net> ----- Original Message ----- From: jeff <jeff at tao.ca> To: <a-infos at tao.ca> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 12:09 PM Subject: (en) post-WTO musings ________________________________________________ A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E <http://www.ainfos.ca/> ________________________________________________ i personally don ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 3 13:26:56 PST 2000

35700 Rattling the global corporate suites in Seattle -- rank: 1000

Tom Trouble wrote: >From: Scott Marshall <scott at rednet.org> > >childish vandalism of a few "ninja anarchists," > > >Jose Bove is well known in the European Union countries. In Seattle he > >became an instant hero. His celebrity grew as word spread quickly that Jose > >was the French, goat and cheese farmer who drove his tractor into the > >middle of a McDonalds restaurant being built in the South of France. > > >Those anarchist ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 3 13:05:51 PST 2000