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37261 Fwd: offlist - review of bhaskar -- rank: 1000

[someone sent this offlist] radical chains <http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/guest/radical/RCSOCSOC.HTM> Critical Unrealism David Gorman reviews A Meeting of Minds: Socialists discuss philosophy - towards a new symposium Roy Bhaskar (ed.), foreword by Roy Edgely. Published by the Socialist Society for The Socialist Movement, ISBN 1 872481 10 8, £3.95. Edited and mainly written by Roy Bhaskar, this short book seeks to explore the relation between Bhaskar's critical realist philosophy and the polit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 24 19:53:00 PDT 1999

37262 truth as highest truth -- rank: 1000

In the interview with Bhaskar that Yoshie quoted & pointed to <http://www.philosophers.co.uk/current/bhaskar.htm>, he says: "I believe that truth is the highest truth, and that very radical implications can be derived from this idea." This sounds like Deepak Chopra. Could any Bhaskar fans on the list offer explanations to the contrary? Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 24 19:33:54 PDT 1999

37263 singing for shares -- rank: 1000

Wired News - 23.Oct.99.3:00 a.m PDT Rockers Like Their Options by Christopher Jones Walk down a busy city street or subway platform, and you're likely to find musicians playing for loose change. Walk into an event sponsored by a dot-com company, and you're likely to find artists performing for a more lucrative, if speculative paycheck: stock options. Online music companies are aggressively competing to capture mind share in what will likely become one of the Net's biggest businesses. But in orde ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 24 18:26:45 PDT 1999

37264 Russia: sick & shrinking -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - October 24, 1999 A Sick and Shrinking Nation By Murray Feshbach If demography is destiny, then the destiny of Russia for the next 50 years is appalling. Consider: In mid-year 1990, the population of Russia was 148.3 million. By 2015 it is expected to be as low as 138.4 million, and possibly even down to around 131 million. In fact, given some more recent statistics and projections on fertility rates, the lower projection seems more likely, especially given anticipated higher mo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 24 18:12:09 PDT 1999

37265 Asian Monetary Fund -- rank: 1000

[from the excellent Gerard Greenfield] Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 01:01:29 +0800 From: Gerard Greenfield <gjg at PACIFIC.NET.HK> After two years of regional conferences on the Asian economic crisis, the ICFTU's Asian and Pacific Regional Organisation (APRO) has now focused its energy and resources on support for an Asian version of the IMF called the "Asian Monetary Fund" (AMF). For those interested, I've written a short critique of this proposal in a paper called "Democ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 24 10:41:15 PDT 1999

37266 Hillsman, uncovered -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Does anyone know if these numbers are correct? Half of all college age >kids are volunteering to help humanity?? Or are they counting careerwise >internships and after school clubs? > > Bill Hillsman, the Minneapolis ad man who was instrumental > in the Ventura campaign, points out that such twentysomethings are > ripe for recruitment into the political system because, far from being > slackers, they're actively involved in their communiti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 24 10:07:52 PDT 1999

37267 Who pulled my bloody chain? (of marsupials & rarebits) -- rank: 1000

[posted from a non-sub'd address] Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 02:33:06 +1000 From: Rob Schaap <carob at dynamite.com.au> G'day Observers, I'm sure you've all been enduring sleepless nights over this seemingly endless week. Sweat-painted brows furrowing and tired minds churning ... the very consciousness tyrannised by the questions that would just not go away. Was Daniel right? Would Wales beat Australia? For did not the Cambrian sage speak thus: >>I've got a bottle of Laphroaig here wh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 24 09:50:43 PDT 1999

37268 Kim Phillips-Fein reviews Faludi -- rank: 1000

In These Times - November 14, 1999 BACKTRACK By Kim Phillips-Fein Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man By Susan Faludi William Marrow 662 pages, $27.50 Last summer a short news item appeared in the weekly New York Press that nearly made me gag. A truculent reporter described the results of some study using longitudinal data that looked at the childbearing histories of women who scored above average on math tests. Apparently, what the academics found was that these women are significantly mo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 23 21:19:45 PDT 1999

37269 Fwd: (wto) WTO Web Site Launched! -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 17:02:33 -0400 From: Mike Dolan <mdolan at citizen.org> Check it out! Your "one-stop" WTO web site is now up and running: <http://www.seattle99.org> The calendar of all the events planned for Seattle are posted here, you can sign up to volunteer, find housing during the Ministerial, learn more about the WTO and globalization, find tons of great links to organizations, and find out what YOU can do to STOP the WTO! This page will be updated almost daily ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 23 08:07:41 PDT 1999

37270 Hidden Hand of American Hegemony -- rank: 1000

[Rakesh writes...] Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 03:19:07 -0400 (EDT) From: bhandari at Princeton.EDU (Rakesh Bhandari (bhandari at Princeton.EDU)) Doug, would you kindly forward this to the list? All the best, Rakesh ps thanks to Doug, Angela, John M, and Michael Pollak for their concern. All is well. _______________________ Reading note: David E Spiro, The Hidden Hand of American Hegemony:Petrodollar Recycling and International Markets. Cornell University Press, 1999. [the same series in which Gregor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 23 07:54:08 PDT 1999

37271 disability & work -- rank: 1000

[Any comments on this, Marta?] Wall Street Journal - October 22, 1999 Bill Inspires Disabled to Work, Fuels Hiring in a Tight Market By JOSHUA HARRIS PRAGER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Seven years ago, multiple sclerosis forced Karen Huber to quit her job teaching English at Western Wyoming College, leaving her saddled with medical costs of $6,000 a month and forcing her onto the government dole. Ms. Huber's condition has improved over the years, to the point where she no longer us ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 22 09:55:22 PDT 1999

37272 grad student unions -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - October 22, 1999 9 of 10 Professors Say Grad-Student Unions Don't Strain Advisor-Advisee Ties By ALISON SCHNEIDER University administrators have complained for years that graduate-student unions poison relations between professors and their advisees, but a new study challenges that theory. Gordon Hewitt, an institutional research analyst at Tufts University, asked nearly 300 faculty members at five universities with collective-bargaining units whether ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 22 09:45:59 PDT 1999

37273 Russian population collapse -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Russians to Halve Every 40 Years under Present Conditions. MOSCOW, October 21 (Itar-Tass) - Chairman of the State Duma Committee for Health Protection Nikolai Gerasimenko said that "Russia takes one of the last places in Europe as to the mortality rate and life expectancy". The conference is being held in Moscow on a decision of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and the leadership of the State Duma. Its deliberations are attended by ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 22 08:29:48 PDT 1999

37274 arrested for feeding people -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 12:49:56 -0700 (PDT) From: <sffnb at iww.org> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 20,1999 Food Not Bombs Voicemail: + 1-415-675-9928 TWO FOOD NOT BOMBS ACTIVISTS ARRESTED FOR SERVING FREE FOOD! San Francisco- Police arrested two Food Not Bombs activists, Oct. 20th at 6pm in United Nations Plaza. FNB volunteers were distributing free food to low-income and no-income people in the plaza when the police arrived. The police surrounded the food and prevented homeless people fr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 22 07:18:40 PDT 1999

37275 WTO agenda: lots of square brackets -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - October 22, 1999 WTO: Envoys discuss key document for talks By Frances Williams in Geneva World Trade Organisation envoys yesterday began discussing a revised draft of the final declaration ministers will make when they meet in Seattle in about five weeks to launch new trade liberalisation talks. Both the European Union and Japan rejected an earlier version last week but the latest 32-page draft, essentially a compilation of different proposals for the negotiating agenda, goes ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 22 06:43:26 PDT 1999