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35761 For Richer *and* Poorer (was Re: Liberal Democracy) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The problem of capitalism and imperialism is not that poor nations do not >make any economic progress in absolute terms (though the absolute decline >may be the lot of the least developed region like Africa). The undeniable >empirical fact is that *the longer capitalism goes on, the larger the >disparity between rich and poor nations has and will become* (to say >nothing of the ruling class of rich nations and the poorest poor of the >poorest nation ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 27 17:20:12 PST 2000

35762 Diallo demo -- rank: 1000

Police Academy Training 101 It's a Wallet, Not a GUN Come help educate the police cadets! The New York Police Academy Monday, February 28th, 2000 5:30 p.m. on the dot East 20th b/t 2nd & 3rd Avenues Call 212-260-4561 for more information Bring a disposable wallet This is a community response

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 27 17:11:18 PST 2000

35763 . . . are different from you and me -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >Price: $80,000. Wow. You can buy it online, too, if your VISA has an $80,000 credit line on it! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 27 17:08:24 PST 2000

35764 Liberal Democracy (was Robert Mundell: Genius unbound) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I should like to see someone present a rigorous analysis of replacement >costs of oil and all other imports from the poor nations. The major oil exporting countries are not poor. Many are creditors of the United States, in fact. By the way, someone pointed out to me the other day that Mexico, one of the poorer oil-exporting countries, is now probably hurt on balance by high oil prices, since it damages its exports of cars and other manufactured goods. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 27 10:31:42 PST 2000

35765 Fwd: [stop-imf] Wolfensohn: Debt Relief Screws Up the Market -- rank: 1000

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 08:01:34 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Weissman <rob at essential.org> To: stop-imf at venice.essential.org World Bank chief says debt relief would "screw up" market MANILA, Feb 26 (AFP) - Using Christianity's Jubilee year as a platform to press for debt relief for the world's developing countries is "whimsical" and could "screw up the market," World Bank president James Wolfensohn said here Saturday. "The issue of debt forgiveness is re ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 27 08:33:34 PST 2000

35766 money & marriage -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - February 27, 2000 Breadwinning Wives Alter Marriage Equation By Amy Goldstein Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, February 27, 2000; Page A01 Susan Goldmark works on energy projects for the World Bank, putting in 11-hour days, shuttling to Latin America and drawing a salary in the top 2 percent of Americans' income. Her husband, Kai Bird, spends his days writing in the study of their Adams-Morgan house, working for years at a stretch on historical books that have earned favora ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 27 08:29:51 PST 2000

35767 Fischer: friend of the poor -- rank: 1000

John Gulick wrote: >Also, article seems to rebut what I asserted earlier -- candidates for >IMF top dog are ex-central bankers and multilateral bureaucrats, not >private sector financial K types ... The dreadful Michael Prowse, who turned from a right social democrat into a raving libertarian when the Financial Times moved him from London to Washington in the early 1990s, had a piece in the FT the other day arguing that the next IMF boss should be a markets guy, a la Rubin, rather than ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 26 23:36:27 PST 2000

35768 Kagarlitsky again -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Excerpt February 24, 2000 Novaya Gazeta, No. 7 Boris Kagarlitsky Why Oligarchs Will Not Rise In Defense of Democracy [translation for personal use only] The Enemy Image For ten years now, liberal intellectuals have been frightening the public and each other by the prospect of a communist restoration. As a matter of fact, most of our cultural and journalistic elite existed in quite reasonable conditions under the communists. True, they encountered obstacles in their w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 26 23:34:21 PST 2000

35769 IMF/WB overhaul; US tax breaks violate trade rules; post-N30 middle class anarchists -- rank: 1000

John Gulick wrote: >Maybe I'm unfairly jaded about the "50 Years is Enough" crew b/c a) in my >mind they're closely identified w/the opportunistic and self-promoting >Global Exchange folks The 50 Years people I know are not like this at all. They're admirable, militant folks, in fact. Actually, as far as Global Exchange goes, Kevin Danaher is pretty admirable and militant too. He was one of the first - the first? - to come up with the idea of a World Bank bond boycott. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 26 23:26:54 PST 2000

35770 talk I'm giving -- rank: 1000

Michael Yates wrote: >At the beginning of April, I will be addressing a meeting of the >national staff of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of >America in Wilkes Barre, PA. The title of my talk is "The U.S. Labor >Movement and the Role of the Left in It." I would be grateful for >suggestions from list members both as to what I should emphasize and >what articles, commentaries, etc. I should definitely read in advance to >help me prepare the talk. I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 26 18:55:45 PST 2000

35771 question -- rank: 1000

On seeing Angela's question about how the gays in the military thing became such a big deal in U.S. politics, I forwarded it to Hunter College poli sci prof Ken Sherrill, who knows everything about gay politics. Here's his answer: >I think the answer is that we used the military issue as an extreme test of >politicians' allegiance to the cause and the politicians thought that >movement leaders cared about the issue. It was a great measure of the >commitment of Democratic politicians. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 26 18:46:06 PST 2000

35772 brutal murder -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > >From the NYT website: > >Former Senator Bill Bradley, speaking to reporters in Everett, Wash., said >he was stunned by the acquittals. "I think that it shows that when racial >profiling seeps so deeply into somebody's mind, a wallet in the hand of a >white man looks like a wallet, but a wallet in the hand of a black man >looks like a gun." > >Vice President Al Gore, flying from Ohio to California, >issued a more neutral state ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 26 16:26:15 PST 2000

35773 Ghoul Patrol -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >And it does seem true that the US financial system is structured to allow >the disgorging of cash from mature industries (the Michael Jensen problem >discussed in *Wall Street*) and the gambling of that capital in pursuit of >huge product innovation pay offs But not much of the disgorged cash goes into new, innovative industries. Venture capital commitments are pretty small - though the possibility of floating a post-embryonic venture on the IPO market is what ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 26 15:52:21 PST 2000

35774 Sleeper on Diallo -- rank: 1000

[posted from a non-sub'd address] Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 07:01:09 -0800 Message-Id: <200002261501.HAA31430 at marquez.salon.com> Errors: chris at i4south.org To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: chris at i4south.org Subject: Playing politics with death chris at i4south.org thought you would be interested in this article at Salon.com (http://www.salon.com/). Your friend's message: And now for an asshole's perspective... - - - - - - - - - - - - Playing politics with death By Jim Sleeper Feb ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 26 15:48:32 PST 2000

35775 IMF/WB overhaul; US tax breaks violate trade rules; post-N30 middle class anarchists -- rank: 1000

John Gulick wrote: >On Thursday 24 February, D Henwood forwarded a copy of the following >article: > >>Financial Times - February 24, 2000 >>CALL FOR OVERHAUL OF IMF AND WORLD BANK EXPECTED > >I'm surprised few LBO-talkers had anything to say about this article. >Basking in the glow of their symbolic victory in Seattle, segments of the >anti-WTO coalition (especially the Naderite and the anarchist segments) seem >to have forgotten that both the libertarian rig ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 26 15:39:52 PST 2000