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37321 Fwd: LM NEWS: LM to host debate on foxhunting -- rank: 1000
[Happy to see James Heartfield's comrades out there at the forefront of social progress!] Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 13:25:31 +0100 From: LM <lm at informinc.co.uk> LM debate: 'Foxhunting - a bloody outrage or just good sport?' Dr Richard Ryder, author and past chairman of the RSPCA Mike Huskisson, wildlife and investigating consultant, League Against Cruel Sports vs Roger Scruton, writer and philosopher Mick Hume, editor of LM Dr Richard Ryder: 'Foxhunting is cruel and out of date. It damages ...
Document Size: 8312
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Oct 15 08:22:44 PDT 1999
37322 Fwd: Re: Eagleton on Spivak -- rank: 1000
Mr P.A. Van Heusden wrote: >although a lot of the stuff in >LBO is still a bit impenetrable Could you give some examples? When you're immersed in this stuff, it's sometimes hard to remember what less-immersed people find impenetrable. Doug
Document Size: 4822
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Oct 15 08:17:38 PDT 1999
37323 NATO hinders DU inquiry -- rank: 1000
Financial Times - October 15 1999 KOSOVO: Nato 'hindered' inquiry By Frances Williams in Geneva, Christopher Brown-Humes in Stockholm and Neil Buckley in Brussels A United Nations task force looking at the environmental impact of Nato's 70-day bombing campaign against Serbia said yesterday it had been hindered by the refusal of the alliance to co-operate in its investigation of the use of depleted uranium weapons. Presenting the report of the Balkan task force, set up by the UN environment progr ...
Document Size: 7150
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Oct 15 06:46:07 PDT 1999
37324 Greenspan scares 'em -- rank: 1000
[This is about the speech that Enrique posted excerpts from yesterday. This morning's producer price index report mentioned in this story came in way above expectations, which should cause much anxiety among rentiers.] Financial Times (website only) - October 15 1999 Greenspan urges banks to prepare for a fall By Our Summaries Staff Stock markets around the world were sent into decline on Friday after Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve, warned banks to set aside more money as ...
Document Size: 8012
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Oct 15 06:33:23 PDT 1999
37325 Rhetorical Gestures (was Re: Spivak sez...) -- rank: 1000
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >That, too, is a kind of moralism that I mentioned above (i.e. intellecutals >accusing other intellectuals of being intellectuals). One can't get rid of >this kind of moralism by subscribing to another kind (e.g. mulling over >'complicity'). You are far too smart to waste time doing so. So what should one do instead? Bound confidently on? In what direction? Perhaps I'm dizzy & confused. Doug
Document Size: 5052
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Oct 14 20:00:12 PDT 1999
37326 Rhetorical Gestures (was Re: Spivak sez...) -- rank: 1000
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Indeed, but so what? I just wonder why intellectuals who work in >English-speaking countries (especially in the USA) tend to get tied in >knots about their being intellectuals and apologize for this fact in a >convoluted way (e.g. accusing other intellectuals of being intellectuals, >'acknowledging complicity,' etc.). I find this rhetoric moralistic (the >word 'complicity,' for instance, suggests something of prosecution in >criminal justice). Oh, ...
Document Size: 6006
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Oct 14 18:31:44 PDT 1999
37327 EU & WTO labor standards -- rank: 1000
Michael Perelman wrote: >Will the environmentalists and labor fall for the old NAFTA side agreement >shuffle again? I just recorded a long interview with Walden Bello for the Nation's WTO special ish. Walden says this is a big point of contention between Northern & Southern enviros & unions, with the Southerners largely hostile to the side agreement shuffle, and the Northerners all too eager to play along. Doug
Document Size: 4848
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Oct 14 10:50:45 PDT 1999
37328 Fwd: Re: Eagleton on Spivak -- rank: 1000
[Rakesh Bhandari asked me to forward this. I'm a little disturbed by the characterization of the list as compulsively antifeminist; perhaps Rakesh can expand on this when he has a minute.] From: "bhandaric" <bhandaric at prodigy.net> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 02:21:33 -0700 Dear Doug and LBO list, I am with a family member recovering from surgery. I shall resub in a few weeks. It is true that Kelley and I had an argument over her assessment of the subaltern studies project. As for E ...
Document Size: 7071
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Oct 14 09:13:53 PDT 1999
37329 Spivak sez... -- rank: 1000
Eric Beck wrote: >Sounds like Spivak has been studying the collected works of Eddie Vedder >and Billy Corgan; that is, the school of popular, widely influential, >far-from-underdog intellectuals and artists* who trumpet their own (usually >imagined) oppression, the rhetorical goal being, of course, to point to >their daring and nonconformism. I think this overstates things a bit. Spivak is pretty aware of her influence and prestige. One of her themes the other night was wondering ...
Document Size: 5546
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Oct 14 09:05:48 PDT 1999
37330 An Indian take on "globalization" and kakistocracy -- rank: 1000
Lisa & Ian Murray wrote: > For now here's an interesting article from India on an >aspect of the economy we don't hear much about from the WTO, economists and >many others. Actually that's not exactly true. "Corruption" is one of the obsessions of the World Bank these days. Go to their website <http://www.worldbank.org>, or if you're impatient directly to the search page <http://www.worldbank.org/search.htm>, and do a search for "corruption" and you g ...
Document Size: 5634
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Oct 14 08:39:13 PDT 1999
37331 Pakistan coup -- rank: 1000
[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] PAKISTAN FACING ECONOMIC ISOLATION AFTER COUP. Pakistan was facing international economic isolation last night as global financial lenders cut off the new military regime off from financial assistance, reports the Guardian (p.5). The IMF said it had suspended the loan discussions it had been holding before the coup with Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, and said talks would not resume until democracy was restored. The US also hinted that futur ...
Document Size: 8947
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Oct 14 08:21:14 PDT 1999
37332 EU & WTO labor standards -- rank: 1000
Financial Times - October 14, 1999 WTO WASHINGTON PLANS ITS STRATEGY US expects EU support over labour The US expects European Union support for the first time in its effort to bring labour issues under the rubric of the World Trade Organisation, Charlene Barshefsky, US trade representative said yesterday. The administration has acknowledged that it must win support from labour and environmentalists if it is to get trade negotiating authority from Congress for a new round of trade talks, to be l ...
Document Size: 7334
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Oct 14 07:51:10 PDT 1999
37333 Fwd: BOUNCE lbo-talk at lists.panix.com: taboo header: /^Content-Type: multipart\/mixed/i -- rank: 1000
[bounced bec of attachment] Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 22:33:55 -0500 From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> **************************************************************************** In Toronto listen to RED ALERT RADIO on CKLN 88.1 FM Monday's at 7:15pm **************************************************************************** http://www.web.ca/~newsoc http://www.geocities.com/tnsg.geo **************************************************************************** ---------- Forwarded messag ...
Document Size: 13684
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Oct 13 20:40:06 PDT 1999
37334 Eagleton on Spivak -- rank: 1000
[Kelley's address issues again. Eagleton's review follows.] >From: kcwalker at syr.edu >Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 20:00:42 -0400 > >dennis, > >i've not read this since rakesh and i had a debate over it months ago. i >honestly can't say that i got the impression that third worlders should be >hauling AK47s was his position. so i was wondering how you made this >assessment? > >kelley ====== London Review of Books - May 31, 1999 In the Gaudy Supermarket Terry Eagleto ...
Document Size: 30423
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Oct 13 17:40:24 PDT 1999
37335 Clinton Agenda for The Seattle WTO -- rank: 1000
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 17:09 -0400 From: The White House <Publications-Admin at pub.pub.whitehouse.gov> <http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/19 99/10/13/12.text.1> THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release October 13, 1999 The Clinton Administration Agenda For The Seattle WTO October 13, 1999 Today President Clinton will o ...
Document Size: 18966
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Oct 13 17:17:38 PDT 1999
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