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36166 (p)opulism -- rank: 1000
J Cullen wrote: >small farmers who are struggling to stay on the land Who vote Republican, rail against Washington, and live on federal farm subsidies, right? And want the U.S. government to force open foreign markets so they can export grain there, while evoking the homey virtues? Doug
Document Size: 4562
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Dec 25 08:16:07 PST 2000
36167 Yoshie Furuhashi (Quote Kvetching) -- rank: 1000
Roger Odisio wrote: >And on that point, you >shouldn't flatter yourself that I would waste my time trying to show >that my intellect is superior to yours. Now what kind of holiday spirit is this? Doug
Document Size: 4680
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Dec 24 11:46:47 PST 2000
36168 (p)opulism -- rank: 1000
J Cullen wrote: >However I agree that class analysis is most usefully presented in >American tones rather than German or Russian ones. You hear a lot of >anti-corporate sentiment among working-class people, and even the >Pope warns about the dangers of globalization, but you just don't >win over many of them by longing for the "good old days" of the >Comintern. Does it have to be an either/or thing like this? A lot of anti-corp sentiment is about the defense of or nos ...
Document Size: 5452
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Dec 24 07:27:18 PST 2000
36169 Bello on Bush & the BWIs -- rank: 1000
Washington's Political Transition Threatens Bretton Woods Twins By Walden Bello* The coming to power of the Republicans in Washington, DC, spells deep trouble for the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The Bretton Woods institutions will lose their liberal internationalist protectors like Treasury Secretary Larry Summers who believe in using the Fund and Bank as central instruments to achieve US foreign economic policy objectives. And coming in with President-elect George W. Bush wi ...
Document Size: 19562
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Dec 23 12:57:44 PST 2000
36170 cheerleading -- rank: 1000
Peter K. wrote: > I read the religious Ashcroft doesn't >smoke, drink, or dance, but he did sing in Trent Lott's barbarshop >quartet. Trent Lott is one of three former cheerleaders in the Senate (the last Senate; don't know about the incoming one). The others are Thad Cochran and Kay Bailey Hutchison. Speaking of cheerleaders, here's a juicy quote from Medea Benjamin of Global Exchange. Benjamin, after participating a high-profile anti-Nike campaign, cut a deal with Phil Knight after N ...
Document Size: 5762
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Dec 23 12:07:10 PST 2000
36171 Fwd: {FP} WBAI update: 3:30 am 12/23 -- rank: 1000
From: "Lyn Gerry" <redlyn at loop.com> Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 03:51:58 -0500 On The Light Show, the hosts took some calls. People called in from a vigil outside the station, Callers expressed concern about whether the teach in scheduled to air at 8:30 am would happen. The host didn't know. A DEMO has been called for noon tomorrow to protest the changing of the locks and failure to consult community a caller said The acting operations director said that he had just been given keys ...
Document Size: 5848
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Dec 23 11:52:02 PST 2000
36172 Ashcroft, neo-Confederate -- rank: 1000
Ashcroft has expressed sympathy for the neo-Confederate movement - among other places, in an interview with the scary magazine Southern Partisan (which has something of a crush on the Genoveses, apparently returned). For more, see <http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/Ashcroft.htm>. That site is run by Ed "Crawfish" Sebesta, who devotes his life to studying the neo-Confederates. Doug
Document Size: 5013
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Dec 23 11:31:01 PST 2000
36173 for your amusement -- rank: 1000
Patrick Bond wrote: >Although jan carowan is a classical e-jerk (especially re election >comments), the main point he's making here is real... Yes it is, and anyone else who wants to make it, or follow up on it, is welcome to. Just not him (and I'm assuming this Jan is a him). It was interesting to see George Becker saying nice things about our Treasury Secretary-designate, Paul O'Neill, in the NYT the other day: >But just as often, he has displayed an independent streak. He >reached ...
Document Size: 5554
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Dec 23 11:40:34 PST 2000
36174 Yoshie Furuhashi (Quote Kvetching) -- rank: 1000
Jim Westrich wrote: >Granfalloon is in the Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy (not the books, >the web reference site which I often use to reference the obscure): > >http://www.h2g2.com/A179589 > >It's a Vonnegut word but since this whole thread is about clicks on >links you will have to click yourself . Wow. Distinguished company: >Some examples of granfalloons are: > >* The Communist Party. >* The Daughters of the American Revolution. >* The General Electric Compa ...
Document Size: 5337
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Dec 22 12:27:16 PST 2000
36175 for your amusement -- rank: 1000
jan carowan wrote: >I thought Mr Hep Ingram would find amusing Mr Sawicky's reply to a >post which I sent him off list. I have edited Mr Sawicky's reply >just a bit: >_______________ >please go f... yourself. >I have no interest in talking to you. And I have no interest in listening to you. Warmly, Doug
Document Size: 4726
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Dec 22 10:59:29 PST 2000
36176 Yoshie Furuhashi (Quote Kvetching) -- rank: 1000
Michael Hoover wrote: > > Yoshie - you just copied and pasted three web pages >> to the list, WHICH ARE PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE. >> I don't think that anybody's reading them - >> Barry > >a fuckin' hall monitor, omniscient to boot...YF's posts (including >those being complained about) are just about only reason for sticking >around lbo granfalloon... So sorry to bore you most of the time. "Granfalloon" stumps dictionary.com; I'm always eager to learn ...
Document Size: 5097
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Dec 22 10:23:57 PST 2000
36177 Jamie Galbraith on election etc. -- rank: 1000
<http://www.prospect.org/webarchives/00-12/galbraith-j1221.html> [...] With those steps taken, Democrats must also recognize and adapt to the new political landscape that emerged from this election. Outside of Florida, Democrats are finished in the South. But they have excellent prospects of consolidating a narrow majority of the Electoral College -- so long as, in the next election, there is no Ralph Nader defection. What can prevent such a thing? Only a move away from the main Clinton co ...
Document Size: 5473
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Dec 22 09:48:26 PST 2000
36178 The Democratic Party & the Illusion of Splits in the Ruling Class, was Re: Cockburn: The Coup -- rank: 1000
Justin Schwartz wrote: >In my experience, the Marxist critique of capitalism is common sense >to most working people; it's pretty obvious that the rich run >things, that democracy is a joke, that work is drag because the >bosses exploit us, etc. These ideas can gain wide currency if >expressed without Marxist technical vocabulary,w hich is offputting. >The basic ideas of socialism, that democracy would be extended to >the economy, that we can run things ourselves without bos ...
Document Size: 6223
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Dec 21 17:10:45 PST 2000
36179 The Democratic Party & the Illusion of Splits in the Ruling Class, was Re: Cockburn: The Coup -- rank: 1000
Chris Kromm wrote: >Alexander Cockburn puts the point nicely in one of his essays, that you can >win over lots of people to radical ideas (even marxist ones) in America, but >only if dressed in the language of populism. Hmm, what's that mean? Put a petit bourg spin on everything? Doug
Document Size: 5353
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Dec 21 16:42:54 PST 2000
36180 hardening landing -- rank: 1000
John Gulick wrote: >As Henwood would insist, >forecasting recession is an art, not a science (or perhaps more akin to >divining entrails), but I'm curious, what are LBO-listers' speculations >and projections ? What with the global economy being propped up by U.S. >consumer spending, now certain to nosedive as on-line shoppers can no longer >use their stock portfolios as collateral for their credit card accounts, >and the likely plunge of the dollar as the out-of-whack U.S. b ...
Document Size: 5401
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Dec 21 16:37:17 PST 2000
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