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35731 Sweeney on trade -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Doug, I am shocked by your endorsement of this statement now that I have >read all of it (you hadn't downloaded all of it before). > Rakesh, I'd never "endorse" the AFL-CIO without qualification. As I said here the other day, the only thing you can say about them with confidence is that they're organizationally and ideologically full of contradictions. There's some bad stuff in the statement, and there's some good stuff. In the international area, the A ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 29 17:30:57 PST 2000

35732 Fwd: MEMO: Thinking About Pat -- in 1996 -- rank: 1000

[Jude on Pat, again.] Polyconomics' Daily Memo on the Margin (commentary taken from http://www.polyconomics.com) February 29, 2000 Thinking About Pat -- in 1996 To: Pat Buchanan From: Jude Wanniski Re: Among My Souvenirs Four years ago this month, when you were still fresh from your victory in the New Hampshire Republican primary, but just before you were stopped cold in South Carolina, I wrote a Polyconomics client letter, "Thinking About Buchanan." I ran across it by chance yesterday ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 29 16:53:56 PST 2000

35733 WSJ on Koch-Weser -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - February 29, 2000 EU, Ministers Choose Koch-Weser For IMF Post Despite U.S. Protest By MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS and GEOFF WINESTOCK Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL After months of wrangling, the European Union finally chose Germany's Caio Koch-Weser as their choice to head the International Monetary Fund, only to have President Clinton shoot him down as unqualified. In a phone call Saturday, Mr. Clinton told German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder that he'd like the 15-na ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 29 08:26:38 PST 2000

35734 Sweeney on trade -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > >Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >> >>>For the AFL-CIO to >>>demand universal labor standards, while at the same time pledging to lower >>>other countries' trade barriers, is social imperialism. > >Doug, I am just referring to the AFL-CIO statement/manifesto that you >downloaded here. I invite everyone else to read that statement <http://www.aflcio.org/convention99/res1_6.htm> and consider if this is an accurate characterizat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 29 08:13:51 PST 2000

35735 hate crimes weirdness -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >Incidently, Sam Smith, who posted this libertarian drivel on his Progressive >Review site, stopped being progressive years ago There's lots in Sam's politics I don't agree with, but he does come up with some interesting stuff, which is why I read & forward him. A livelier read than, say, The American Prospect. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 29 07:59:05 PST 2000

35736 Mayday 2000 Global Day of Action against Capitalism -- rank: 1000

Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 01:45:42 -0800 (PST) From: Thomas Johansson <tcjohans at yahoo.com> Subject: [mayday2k-mod] Mayday 2000 Global Day of Action against Capitalism (Feb 28) Sender: sentto-403722-62-DHENWOOD=PANIX.COM at returns.onelist.com Mayday 2000 Global Day of Action, Resistance and Carnival against Capitalism (Information as of February 28, 2000; see www.lobster1.dircon.co.uk for translations.) May 1 will be the next Global Day of Action against Capitalism after June 18 and Novemb ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 29 07:40:59 PST 2000

35737 Europe gets pissy over Koch-Weser -- rank: 1000

Agence France Presse - February 29 8:52 PM SGT US REJECTION OF EUROPE'S IMF CANDIDATE AN "UNFRIENDLY ACT": GERMANY BERLIN, Feb 29 (AFP) - The US rejection of the German and European Union candidate for the International Monetary Fund top job was branded by the coordinator of German-American relations in the German foreign ministry Tuesday as an "unfriendly act." Karsten Voigt told Hesse region radio: "The behaviour of the USA -- after Caio Koch-Weser became the common ca ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 29 06:36:50 PST 2000

35738 third world debt and Cambodia -- rank: 1000

Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: >One of the main road in Cambodia has been reconstructed thanks to a Japanese >loan. The money was used mostly to pay Japanese engineers, Japanese >machinery, Japanese materials etc... Only the low level work was handled by >Cambodian workers. > >Does this means that Japan's loan has basically been used to support >Japanese economy right now (Cambodia is paying Japanese staff and Japanese >factories with the loan) but also that Cambodia will ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 28 22:55:55 PST 2000

35739 DP support -- rank: 1000

[from Gallup's weekly update] SOCIAL ISSUES & POLICY Support for Death Penalty Drops to Lowest Level in 19 Years, Although Still High at 66% 2/24/00 -- Although a significant majority of Americans still favor the death penalty for persons convicted of murder, the percentage has been gradually decreasing over time since its high point in 1994, and is now -- at 66% -- at its lowest level since 1981. A new Gallup poll also shows that even those who favor the death penalty agree that innocent pe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 28 22:50:08 PST 2000

35740 Mencken -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >I was reading the excerpt from the National Letters by Mencken in >W.Kiernan's site (yank lefties love to refer to him, so I thought I'd >see what the fuss was all about). Lemme get this straight - the great >problem with America is...(drum roll)... that it lacks a properly >careless, decadent, idle aristocracy!? Give me a break. Hey, all you >had to do was ask Spain, and we would have been happy to send you ours, >free of charge. As is, no retur ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 28 22:44:59 PST 2000

35741 1/2 of Moscow "poor" -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] One In Two Muscovites Below Poverty Line MOSCOW, Feb 28, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) Over half the inhabitants of Moscow live below the poverty line, the city's deputy mayor for social issues declared Monday. On the other hand, the gap between the richest and poorest Muscovites is enormous, with the incomes of the wealthiest 10 percent of the population 61.3 times higher than those of the poorest, Lyudmila Shvetsova told AFP. Figures released by the deputy mayor s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 28 22:47:39 PST 2000

35742 Friday's event: cancelling all debt? -- rank: 1000

Joseph Friendly wrote: >Your being one of the participants in this coming Friday's Judson >Church teach-in about the April DC protest of the IMF/WB invites >this suggestion: Broadening the demand for cancellation of debt for >only Third World nations, for whom it is stifling growth, to all >debt, personal, corporate, governmental, as well as international. >Set the counters to Zero! True, US domestic debt is not the >jurisdiction of the IMF/WB but it is not much of a stre ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 28 22:40:43 PST 2000

35743 WB/IMF event: improved self-promotion -- rank: 1000

It was pointed out to me offlist that I failed to mention the time of this event. Uh, sorry. It's 6:30 PM. In New York City, borough of Manhattan. >3/3 IMF/World Bank Teach-In > Judson Memorial Church > 55 Washington Square South, > between Thompson and Sullivan. > Speakers include: Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director > of UNIFEM; Doug Henwood, Editor of the Left Buisness > Observer, Andrew Kliman, Prof. of Economics at Pace > University; Njoki Njoroge Njehu, Direct ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 28 18:33:30 PST 2000

35744 drug war madness -- rank: 1000

[more from Sam Smith] DRUG REFORM COORDINATION NETWORK: The Higher Education Act Reform Campaign kicks back into high gear this month, as students nationwide have begun filling out financial aid forms. For the first time ever, this year's forms ask applicants if they have ever been convicted of a drug offense. This question represents the practical application of the drug provision of the Higher Education Act of 1998). The provision denies or delays all federal financial aid eligibility to any ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 28 18:12:25 PST 2000

35745 hate crimes weirdness -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] LIBERTARIAN PARTY: Early this month, an 18-year-old black man went on a bloody crime spree, attacking two elderly white men and bludgeoning an 82-year-old woman to death. The suspect, Obie Weathers, was arrested on February 15, and reportedly told police, "I hate all white people." Prosecutors are now investigating the case as a possible hate crime, which puts Obie Weathers in a fast-growing category of criminals: African-Americans who face extra-l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 28 18:11:02 PST 2000