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37051 Montgomery in NYC -- rank: 1000

>Leading labor historian David Montgomery of Yale University will deliver a >presentation entitled "Some Lessons from Workers' Struggles in the Twentieth >Century" on Friday, September 24, in New York City. The talk will take place >at the Worker Education Extension Center at 25 West 43rd St. in mid-town >Manhattan, at 6:30 p.m. The meeting has been organized by the Labor Party's >New York Metro Chapter. Also, songs by George Mann. Suggested donation $5; >Labor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 11:41:55 PDT 1999

37052 Detained American Journalist Faces Imprisonment -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:02:39 -0400 From: "John M. Miller" <fbp at igc.apc.org> For Immediate Release Contact: Amy Goodman 212-209-2812 John Miller 718-596-7668 DETAINED AMERICAN JOURNALIST FACES IMPRISONMENT Journalist Allan Nairn remains in military detention after three days of questioning by Indonesian authorities. Nairn is being held and interrogated by the local Immigration Chief in Kupang, West Timor, Mr. Zurya. According to Zurya, the Indonesian regime is divided over ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 11:25:03 PDT 1999

37053 Buchanan: taking on Hitler was a mistake -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >The truth is that the allies were the inheritors and beneficiaries of >Hitler's war against the left in Europe. ...and Hitler's intelligence apparatus was absorbed by the CIA at its birth. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 11:39:37 PDT 1999

37054 LBJ, sensitive guy -- rank: 1000

[An old favorite, quoted in Alexander Cockburn's New York Press column.] "The leftish Papandreou regime in Greece was protesting the U.S. decision to establish NATO bases on Cyprus. The Greek ambassador to Washington invoked the Greek parliament as unlikely to accept the U.S. plan. Johnson exploded at the uppity diplomat: 'Fuck your parliament and your constitution. America is an elephant. Cyprus is a flea. Greece is a flea. If these two fellows continue itching the elephant, they may get w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 10:35:41 PDT 1999

37055 American politics [was Reps delaying -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Wasn't there a bit in one of the Clinton bio's -- one >of the respectable one, not the right-wing hatchet jobs -- >that raised this possibility? I don't mean that I >suspect he is a career agent, only that his character >is consistent with being a CIA stringer on a >temporary basis, not unlike the Nat'l Student Assn >types. Oh yes, I've heard such speculation. I was just a bit surprised that you were giving it any credibility - doesn't seem like your kin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 09:18:32 PDT 1999

37056 global riot! -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >* Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell >* Animal Farm by George Orwell I'm curious about how an informer to British intelligence ends up on an anarchist reading list. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 07:41:33 PDT 1999

37057 American politics [was Reps delaying -- rank: 1000

[Max addressed this to me rather than the list. Max, what's this "Clinton planted as agent" business?] From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 10:17:54 -0400 We can't let this puppy pass w/o comment. It resembles commentary from the right, admittedly springing from different motives, that reflects a jaundiced, distorted view of the now aging U.S. New Left. >>> Jim heartfield (jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk) The way I see it, the contemporary political ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 07:29:24 PDT 1999

37058 Internet Radio -- rank: 1000

David Jennings [MSAI] wrote: >On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Tom Lehman wrote: > > >Doug, I was able to listen to about 80% of your interview with the > >bankruptcy lady yesterday and then the connection went dead. I didn't > >catch her name and you were having some technical difficulties with the > >tape. Why don't you talk to WBAI about taking internet radio seriously. > >A setup like Pacifica et al has on the webactive site would be >very useful. There the real ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 07:09:56 PDT 1999

37059 'Identity Politics' -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >I agree with the proposal to retire "ip" and "pc" from leftist >discourse. However, I think we should bring back referring to a >political position or action we agree with as "correct". In other >words, what we need to get rid of is "pc" as a sarcastic pejorative >term and replace it with "correct" as a genuine endorsement, its >plain meaning. > >So, for example, Yoshie is correct in what she says be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 07:20:09 PDT 1999

37060 'Identity Politics' -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I think the term 'identity politics' (as well as 'political correctness') >should be retired from use at least in conversations among leftists. As far as I know, the term PC originated among leftists as an ironic comment on people who were being too PC. But where'd "identity politics" come from? It sounds almost like a disparaging term from the first. Did anyone ever stand up and say, "I'm an identity politician"? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 07:05:37 PDT 1999

37061 impossibility of soc dem in U.S. -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >so, let me get this right: by 'bank-centred systems' you mean what? a >central govt bank? the US does not have a central govt bank, ever had? >only treasury? is this what you see as the key or rather that in >combination with (as the astract alluded to) the degree of connection >between ownership and control, the extent of public enterprises (i was >unclear about which of these was being referred to or highlighted)? Bank-centered means that banks hold large amou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 06:58:52 PDT 1999

37062 day trading numbers -- rank: 1000

from today's Financial Times: "State securities regulators have estimated that three out of four day traders lose money. Regulators have said that day traders must make a 56 per cent profit to cover commissions and fees." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 06:46:07 PDT 1999

37063 mad money -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > >Not enough emphasis is given here to the power of the global financial > >regulatory community acting through the BIS and sister organisations. > >Strange analyzes at length how the regulatory community has been and is >being circumvented. I'm very skeptical when I hear this sort of thing, so I'd like to see Strange's argument. The "regulatory community" has been more interested in promoting capital mobility than restricting it. If the maj ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 06:33:39 PDT 1999

37064 'Identity Politics' -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: >Yoshie is quite right about the pragmatic need for identity politics. I agree, though I think the name gives it an image problem. >And Charles... > > >By the way, women are the majority , not a minority. > >There is an argument that 'minority' is not about numbers but about a >position in relation to a privileged norm or standard. But it's one of >those dark post-structuralist things, so perhaps I should discuss it here. Do tell... But didn't ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 16 17:04:13 PDT 1999

37065 impossibility of soc dem in U.S. -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >Doug, what's the weather like in NYC. Are you having an LBO hurricane >watch? Lots of rain. Schools closed. Malathion washing into the storm sewers. Rudy strutting about, lacking only a balcony (as someone, Jimmy Bresln? Al Lewis? said) Bond market closed early, but the NYSE stayed open until 4, trying to show all those electronic traders that they're not obsolete wimps at the corner of Broad & Wall. Subways are still running, though, so I'm off to do a radio show. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 16 13:06:03 PDT 1999