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36661 RES: a trip to North Korea -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >Debased then to admire the beneficiaries of the slave-owning democracy >of Athens, Socrates, Aristotle and Plato, too, I guess. Socrates & Co. are admirable aside from their personal practices. Ezra Pound was a stinking fascist but he wrote beautiful poetry. The U.S. "Founding Fathers" created a system designed to limit popular sovereignty and insulate a propertied ruling class against the depredations of the mob - or, as Madison listed the dangers in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 24 08:46:34 PDT 2000

36662 hiring ex-cons -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - April 24, 2000 With Unemployment Low, Employers Turn to Ex-Cons to Fill Open Positions By MARK TATGE Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL LIMA, Ohio -- Car dealer Tom Ahl's disinclination to hire ex-convicts diminished when the unemployment rate here dipped below 5%. Suddenly, people released from the three prisons that ring Lima represented a labor pool he couldn't ignore. Against his better judgment, Mr. Ahl hired a convicted killer as a car salesman. That was three ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 24 08:35:20 PDT 2000

36663 RES: a trip to North Korea -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >It's debased to admire Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Adams, >Franklin? Slaveowners, several of them, all of them apologists for the propertied, architects of a regime designed to defend the rich against democratic expropriation... So, yes, debased. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 23 14:52:58 PDT 2000

36664 Klein's No Logo -- rank: 1000

James Ledbetter wrote: >Yet there's a strange selectivity in Klein's examples that leaves you >wondering if she's told the whole story. She spends immense amounts of time >analyzing the ''cool'' brands of the early 90's -- Starbucks, Microsoft, >Nike -- but fails to train her microscope on such industries as tobacco, >liquor, financial services and petroleum (except Shell), none of which have >been shy about branding in recent decades. She does go after DuMaurier for their spon ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 23 13:05:39 PDT 2000

36665 Wallach interview -- rank: 1000

Peter K wrote: >So does this mean it's okay to put up a 22k message? What's the limit? I was >going to just give the URL, but with the 22k people can easily print it out. The technical limit is 35k. The moral limit is whether you think it's of compelling general interest or not. >Doug, did you find Summers arrogant? Can we have a taste of the interview? Yes to #1; for #2, hey, I can't give *everything* away for free. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 23 13:00:04 PDT 2000

36666 Dumb Money -- rank: 1000

Dumb Money is hilariously funny, even if it does describe me as "a stick-in-the-mud socialist critic of financial markets." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 23 12:22:11 PDT 2000

36667 RES: a trip to North Korea -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >But it won't make anything better for any North Korean; it will only >reinforce the long-standing reactionary U.S. government policy >toward North Korea and other poor nations (especially Cuba, Iraq, >Yugoslavia, etc. that are under its sanctions). I suppose that's >the foremost political duty of American "leftists." What America >does to the rest of the world, if they ever disobey, is to napalm >them first and laugh at their scarred face ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 23 11:59:16 PDT 2000

36668 Wallach interview -- rank: 1000

Lisa & Ian Murray wrote: >Yeah, but she completely fudged on the Luddites/technology issue as well as >a couple of other issues... Please, if you're going to respond to a 22k posting, don't quote the whole thing. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 23 11:55:50 PDT 2000

36669 RES: a trip to North Korea -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >It seems to me that for a Japanese or an American person to be >yucking about North Korea & feeling oh-so-superior is unseemly, not >to mention immoral, given Japan's & America's past & present >imperial politics. And who exactly was doing that? People criticize me for writing and talking about the U.S. too much, in fact. There are many U.S. leftists who know more about Bosnia than they do about their own city council. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 23 11:41:24 PDT 2000

36670 Japan went wrong long ago! -- rank: 1000

[In 1964, according to the Penn World Tables, Japan had a per capita GDP 401% of the U.S.'s; South Korea, 9%. In 1992, Japan's had reached 86% of U.S. levels, South Korea, 42%. For Mexico, the figures were 29% and 34%. Yet as these distinguished professors will tell you Japan & SK made terrible mistakes.] "Trade and Growth: Import-Led or Export-Led? Evidence From Japan and Korea" BY: ROBERT Z. LAWRENCE Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government National Bureau of Econ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 23 11:34:36 PDT 2000

36671 RES: a trip to North Korea -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Isn't there a contradiction between the above two responses? >Reparations are a "fantasy" (tell that to the folks in Jubilee >2000!), you think, because American leftists would never, ever, be >able to control the American government. The question is what should about 4-5 billion people in the world do today and tomorrow, when American socialists - all 100 of us - don't control the U.S. government. Amin's proposals are designed for that world, not t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 22 14:59:38 PDT 2000

36672 Debtors' Cartel & Collective Debt Repudiation (was Re: RES: a trip to North Korea) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Just imagine how the North Korean "Juche" might work, if it were >practiced in alliance with a number of Third World governments which >collectively repudiated international debts & were working to create >a new regional South-South aid & trade regime. Then it wouldn't be "juche" - it'd be a commitment to interdependence, not self-reliance. Hang together or hang separately, as someone said. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 22 14:22:32 PDT 2000

36673 gender mix of black block -- rank: 1000

Chuck, anyone... On another list, someone described the black block as "heavily redolent of male privilege." What's the gender makeup? My impression was that there are plenty of non-privileged females involved. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 22 13:47:18 PDT 2000

36674 another view of Wall Street -- rank: 1000

The New Yorker - April 24-May 1, 2000 [The Money Issue] DAY JOB Street vender. I work a coffee-and-doughnut pushcart in lower Manhattan. The day for me starts at 5 A.m. That's when I meet the truck that comes to unload the cart on the street. Usually, the gas is already lit and the water is heating up. I can start making the coffee as soon as the truck leaves. Then, later, another little truck comes around with boxes of pastry. The first customers start trickling in at six. From seven until elev ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 22 13:40:41 PDT 2000

36675 "Meet the New New Left: bold, fun, and stupid, " in TNR -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >The reporter might have buzzed Dan Brudney at the U of C philosophy dept or >Charles Mills at UIC if going to Palgrave, the Enclopaedia of Philosophy, or >the net was too much trouble, but he didn't. He preferred the cheap and >ignorant shot. Now, here's an interesting contrast. I have a late 40's Life >magazine full of Cold War craziness ("Lenin, the Evil Genius who launched >Glogab Red Threat!"), but iut has a long, dense, thoughtful, and r ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 22 13:23:27 PDT 2000