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36031 Zizek = the Third Way (was Re: Zizek on Haider) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Zizek _is_ the Third >Way who plays a "_marxisant_ cultural critic" for Verso, the Nation Which is why the Nation rejected his piece? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 10 23:32:41 PST 2000

36032 Fwd: {FP} FAIR response to Chadwick note -- rank: 1000

[Horrible formatting reformatted by your moderator. As for the closing claim - shouted in all caps - "PACIFICA WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ITS NATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WITH JOURNALISTS WHO ADHERE TO THE HIGHEST PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE AND ETHICS": they're presently buying reports from a news service whose other clients include Fox News.] From: Steve Rendall <SRendall at FAIR.org> To: "'LYNNCHAD at AOL.COM'" <LYNNCHAD at aol.com> Subject: {FP} FAIR response ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 10 14:28:36 PST 2000

36033 Nazis etc. -- rank: 1000

[address oddity] Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 22:50:22 +0200 From: jeffrey sommers <jsommers at latnet.lv> Brad, The Soviets, through Litinov, pleaded repeatedly for collective action earlier than this, and Churchill (not in power) wanted to cooperate with them. The Soviets were repeatedly rebuffed. The Soviets then completely lost confidence in Britain in France in 1938 when they refused the Soviet offer to jointly stop Germany in its latest advance against Czechoslovakia. When England and ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 10 14:14:35 PST 2000

36034 Shillary -- rank: 1000

[Commies shilling for Hillary again...] To: List at panix.com From: John Bachtell <jbachtell at cpusa.org> Subject: Forum: The 2000 elections: Building unity to defeat racism, Giuliani and the ultraright Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 14:39:13 -0500 (EST) African American History Month Event Jarvis Tyner, National Vice Chair of the Communist Party, USA will speak at a forum entitled, "The 2000 elections: Building unity to defeat racism, Giuliani and the ultraright" Sunday, February 27 at ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 10 12:29:38 PST 2000

36035 the C -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: If you were designing our governmental structure, what would be >the main features different from the U.S. system ? Would you say the >U.S. system , theoretcially and actually, is better than Cuba's ? >China's ? Is there any in the world that you prefer to the U.S. >system ? Well I supposed I'd prefer a parliamentary system rather than the three branches Justin loves so much. I do, however, cherish freedom of speech, assembly, and the rest, and I don't b ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 10 12:13:43 PST 2000

36036 UK on WTO reform -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] UK TO PUSH FOR WTO REFORM AT BANGKOK. Britain will continue pushing for reform of the World Trade Organization at a United Nations conference this weekend in Bangkok, encouraging talks on how to include other international bodies in global trade talks, reports Dow Jones. UK Trade Minister Richard Caborn Thursday said he will reiterate the government's call for consultative talks on WTO reform during the weekend ministerial UNCTAD. The talks, to be ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 10 12:09:47 PST 2000

36037 Zizek on Haider -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Er, wasn't mockery -- a prime example being Chaplin's (especially >untimely) _The Great Dictator_ -- exactly how the world tried to >defuse the threat of Mussolini and Hitler? The beta version of this >approach doesn't seem to have been a big success. I don't know that "the world" tried to defuse fascism in the 20s and 30s. There was a lot of elite sympathy for Muss & Hitler among the British and American ruling classes, wasn't there? We know that S ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 10 10:52:37 PST 2000

36038 inflation -- rank: 1000

christian a. gregory wrote: >In the 70's, it also precipitated lots of household debt, and made a lot of >it a lot less valuable. The bourgeoisie hates inflation in part because it >lowers the value of the debt they already own. No? Yup. I know why the bourgeoisie hates inflation - I was curious to hear Rakesh explain how it liked inflation at one point and stopped liking it another. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 10 10:31:36 PST 2000

36039 LAPD runs riot -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Kirsten Neilsen] <http://www.latimes.com/news/front/20000210/t000013218.html> February 10, 2000 Police in Secret Group Broke Law Routinely, Transcripts Say Rampart: About 30 officers, including supervisors, celebrated their shootings and frame-ups of innocent people, according to informant's statements. By SCOTT GLOVER, MATT LAIT, Times Staff Writers Disgraced former officer turned informant Rafael Perez has told investigators that an organized criminal subculture thrived within ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 10 10:11:30 PST 2000

36040 Manufacturing Consent (Chomsky) on TV tonight and tomorrowow -- rank: 1000

John Halle wrote: >However, I'm curious as to how you got the impression >there is the slightest interest in Chomsky's ideas on this list. Huh? I'm sure there are lots of Chomsky fans here, and I know I'm one. I admire the guy tremendously. What are you talking about? Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 10 10:23:19 PST 2000

36041 Zizek on Haider -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Yet when Austria elects a racist xenophobic party riddled with ex-Nazis to >government, we are supposed to advocate "mockery" as the solution, rather >than mobilization of political tools to isolate the country? > >Would mockery have been the proper approach to Haider's Afrikaan cousins in >South Africa? There's a big difference between an organized mass movement like the anti-apartheid movement, and the bleatings of Clinton and Blair and liberal ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 10 10:21:15 PST 2000

36042 Zizek on Haider -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Kelley wrote: > > > well, there is *still* nothing new in the analysis. it has been said, at > > least on this list, from its very beginning: > >The sad thing is that Doug himself has written and continues to write >material on the third way so much better than anything included in >Zizek's article -- better in part because Doug's work avoids the >tang of conspiracy theory which (as Ken noted) seems to haunt >Zizek's piece -- and except f ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 10 10:18:09 PST 2000

36043 Cooper on MoJo -- rank: 1000

All you folks who want to take on Marc Cooper... > M O J O U R N A L > A week's worth from the MoJo Wire > and Mother Jones magazine > Feb. 9, 2000 > http://www.motherjones.com/ > > > >T O P S T O R I E S ___________________________________________ > >* What's Mumia Got to Do with It? * - Marc Cooper is a good leftist who >thinks Mumia Abu-Jamal is a bad choice for poster-boy of t ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 10 09:58:27 PST 2000

36044 Japan syndrome -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 02:00:08 -0500 (EST) From: bhandari at mmp.Princeton.EDU (Rakesh Bhandari) Subject: RE: Japan syndrome > >I didn't mention utility, nor was I alluding to it. >If wages go down and employment goes up, total wages >could increase (not necessarily the wage share). It >is possible to construe the aggregate increase as a 'gain' >for the working class, though equally possible to >define gain in some other way. The passage seemed >way too facile. And I'm ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 10 09:58:27 PST 2000

36045 Japan still bouncing -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 02:29:00 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: bhandari at mmp.princeton.edu Message-Id: <v02130501630bde30ec84@[128.112.71.95]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-mailer: Eudora Pro 2.1.3 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: bhandari at mmp.Princeton.EDU (Rakesh Bhandari) Subject: Re: bouncing Japan Christian, here is a short response, and then I am off. Hopefully a real talent will arise in my absence to continue this discussion with you an ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 10 09:58:27 PST 2000