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37066 impossibility of soc dem in U.S. -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: > >"Political Preconditions To Separating Ownership from Control: > The Incompatibility of the American Public Firm with Social > Democracy"< > >tell me there's something i've missed here, but what do they think >they've uncovered? I haven't read the paper yet, but it sounds like an argument I've made myself - that U.S.-style capitalism, with strong pressures coming from impatient stockholders for profit maximization, puts downward pressure on wag ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 16 12:26:44 PDT 1999

37067 Pacifica owes debt to Berkeley -- rank: 1000

[from FreePacifica] Letter to the Editor, Berkeley Daily Planet, 14 Sept 1999: PACIFICA OWES DEBT TO CITY This is my 10th year as Police Chief, and I have never found it necessary to write a letter to the editor until now. Pacifica Foundation's Executive Director Lynn Chadwick has accused the men and women of the Berkeley Police Department as being responsible for the high costs associated with the civil dispute with its employees between May and August of this year. As Police Chief, I resent th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 16 11:45:45 PDT 1999

37068 the master's tools -- rank: 1000

alex lantsberg wrote: > The master's tools will never destroy the master's house. > - Audre Lorde in Sister Outsider > > [From the 50 Years is Enough list, reformatted by your humble > moderator. I don't think I agree with Audre Lord's aphorism at the > end of Njoki's sig file, but that's another story.] > >what do folks on the list think about the statemen? i'm >particularly interested in doug's story. > >frankly, i think that since the mast ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 16 11:35:29 PDT 1999

37069 humanitarian imperialism -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Maybe it is a surprise to you, but no 'military intervention' by >imperialists was ever undertaken for the purpose of saving some oppressed >people's lives, nor will be in the future, for all their rhetoric -- >period. I was just reading chunks of Eric Thomas Chester's book, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee, and the CIA last night, because it's got some stuff on Irving Howe & Dissent's relation to the U.S. imperial project ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 16 10:38:28 PDT 1999

37070 Bush = Clinton? -- rank: 1000

[From Chris Caldwell's column in New York Press.] Gush And Bore ...There's a conventional wisdom developing that the reason Al Gore is running a tractionless, Bob Dole-style campaign is that he's "weighed down" by the baggage of Bill Clinton. Isn't there something fishy about that? Didn't Clinton win the last two presidential elections by a wide margin? Didn't he rally a solid two-thirds of the country behind him to defend his right to lie to them? Under this same c.w., Bush benefits f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 16 10:20:11 PDT 1999

37071 impossibility of soc dem in U.S. -- rank: 1000

"Political Preconditions To Separating Ownership from Control: The Incompatibility of the American Public Firm with Social Democracy" BY: MARK J. ROE Columbia University School of Law Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=165143 Contact: MARK J. ROE Email: Mailto:mroe at law.columbia.edu Postal: Columbia University School of Law 435 West 116th Street New York, NY 10027 USA Phone: (212)854-5441 Fax: (212)854-7 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 16 10:25:15 PDT 1999

37072 Fwd: The AFL-CIO's capitulation on East Timor -- rank: 1000

[A friend writes...] From: TRox51 at aol.com Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 12:43:58 EDT Subject: The AFL-CIO's capitulation on East Timor To my friends and comrades in the labor movement and others that care about human rights: With the Australian unions and human rights movement in the lead, the Australian people are refusing to buy, load or unload Indonesian goods in response to Indonesia's terror campaign in East Timor. The Canadian Labor Congress has done the same, and has begun a nationwide boycot ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 16 09:55:48 PDT 1999

37073 Fwd: 10 troubling facts : 1999 UN Human Development -- rank: 1000

[From the 50 Years is Enough list, reformatted by your humble moderator. I don't think I agree with Audre Lord's aphorism at the end of Njoki's sig file, but that's another story.] Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 10:01:45 -0400 From: Njoki Njoroge Njehu <wb50years at igc.org> Toward Freedom Online Magizine Website <http://www.towardfreedom.com/aug99/un_list.htm> What a World! Ten troubling facts from the 1999 UN Human Development Report <http://www.undp.org/hdro/99.htm> 1. One fifth of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 16 07:32:26 PDT 1999

37074 UK: we would have risked heavy casualties -- rank: 1000

[What about that witticism about Blair fighting to the last American?] Press Association (UK) - Thursday September 16, 12:46 AM 'We Would Have Risked Heavy Kosovo Casualties' - Robertson Britain would have risked heavy casualties in a ground war in Kosovo if Slobodan Milosevic had not capitulated to the bombing campaign, Defence Secretary Lord Robertson has disclosed. Allied forces planned for a scenario in which the Yugoslav President persisted with his ethnic cleansing of Albanians despite sus ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 15 18:41:09 PDT 1999

37075 dinosaurs in the boardroom, not the classroom -- rank: 1000

michael at ecst.csuchico.edu wrote: >I assume that we can rest assured that the U.S. will lead the world in the >biotechnology industry in the future with so many children so well >grounded in science. Does it matter? Doesn't our ruling class prefer a populace that thinks dinosaurs are movie characters? I wish I knew the answer to that. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 15 18:10:23 PDT 1999

37076 manna for bears -- rank: 1000

[This was the lead story in today's FT. Gotta love this quote: "Foreign investors are asking themselves why they should keep funding the US to consume itself silly."] Financial Times - September 15, 1999 DOLLAR SINKS AS DEFICIT REACHES RECORD HIGH Analysts fear that the trend will continue, as stock prices fall and the value against the yen hits a three-year low. By Alan Beattie in London and Mark Suzman in Washington The dollar sank sharply yesterday as a record current account defici ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 15 12:01:43 PDT 1999

37077 dinosaurs in the boardroom, not the classroom -- rank: 1000

[I got an offlist request to post the WSJ piece on Christian charter schools. Here 'tis.] Wall Street Journal - September 15, 1999 Many Christian Parents Opt For Religious Charter Schools By DANIEL GOLDEN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- At one of America's fastest-growing school systems, 44% of the teachers come from Bible colleges. Mothers pray in the school buildings. Students learn about Adam and Eve in science class, and are asked not to wear costumes to scho ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 15 10:00:11 PDT 1999

37078 "intellectual" property rights -- rank: 1000

[bounced for a taboo word] A posting of another list. While reading this, it is hard to avoid the conclusions that intellectuals are in the dire need of a forced labor camp, just as doctor Stalin presecribed. wojtek >Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:12:37 -0700 (PDT) >From: Peter Kosenko <kosenko at netwood.net> >Subject: [stormingheaven] "intellectual" property rights >To: stormingheaven at onelist.com >Reply-to: stormingheaven at onelist.com >X-Mailer: <IMail v4. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 15 09:41:17 PDT 1999

37079 rah rah America! -- rank: 1000

[this guy can't quote Brad De Long enough!] Financial Times - September 15, 1999 America rules OK Given the alternatives, the world should be grateful for the hegemony of the US throughout the 20th century, writes Martin Wolf <Martin.Wolf at ft.com> The end of the 20th century witnesses the arrival of a global commercial civilisation that embraces most of the world's population. To take one instance, Deng Xiaoping made China's 1.2 billion people, if not economically free, far freer than ev ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 15 08:27:10 PDT 1999

37080 Reps delaying EITC -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >That plus their invention of a 13th month of the fiscal year >is pretty incredible. They seem hell-bent on appearing ridiculous. >This is made to order for Clinton. Not only is he going to get his >way on the tax bill (which died last week), but he'll probably get >them to cave on the appropriations bills too. Net result is >oodles of debt reduction, as predicted not too long ago. What about the spending caps, Max? They still tightly screwed on? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 15 07:37:15 PDT 1999