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37471 ignore this, it's about women and sexism ... -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >d. mccloskey actually undermines yoshie's claim that the social/discursive >isn't real. if mccloskey feels more like a woman with the sex change op >it is b/c she does not, despite her claims to feeling that she was born a >woman in a man's body, feel completely like a woman without the features >we've come to think of as signifying woman-ness. McCloskey has some very conventional ideas of what women (and men) are - women are nurturing and girly, and men are th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 25 08:36:34 PST 1999

37472 what is globalization, anyway? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Are there are measures out there that calculate how many US labor-hours >versus foreign labor-hours go into US consumption? Not that I know of. But we'd have to historicize this measure too - all the uncounted, unpaid hours of slave and near-slave labor in the colonies that enriched Europe and in our own South that fed raw cotton to Manchester - the profits of which were recycled as loans to the "developing" U.S. I'd really like to see some rigorous demonstr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 25 08:24:51 PST 1999

37473 Stiglitz leaving WB -- rank: 1000

New York Times - November 25, 1999 Outspoken Chief Economist Leaving World Bank By RICHARD W. STEVENSON WASHINGTON -- Joseph E. Stiglitz said Wednesday that he would resign as the World Bank's chief economist after using the position for nearly three years to raise pointed questions about the effectiveness of conventional approaches to helping poor countries. Stiglitz, who joined the World Bank in February 1997 after serving as chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers, said h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 25 08:01:24 PST 1999

37474 EU-Mexico FTA -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - November 26, 1999 FREE TRADE: Mexico and Brussels sign agreement By Henry Tricks in Mexico City Trade officials from the European Union and Mexico yesterday signed an outline free trade agreement, the first between Europe and a Latin American country. The agreement, signed in Brussels by Herminio Blanco, Mexico's trade minister and Pascal Lamy, the EU trade commissioner, aims to bolster transatlantic commerce and investment and provide a counterweight to Mexico's increasing bus ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 25 07:55:39 PST 1999

37475 [Fwd: Re: ignore this, it's about women and sexism ...] -- rank: 1000

Katha Pollitt wrote: >ps.What makes your son your son and not your daughter? Your friend Judy B. writes: >Certain formulations of the radical constructivist position appear >almost compulsively to produce a moment of recurrent exasperation, >for it seems that when the constructivist is construed as a >linguistic idealist, the constructivist refutes the reality of >bodies, the relevance of science, the alleged facts of birth, aging, >illness, and death. The critic might also ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 25 07:12:46 PST 1999

37476 what is globalization, anyway? -- rank: 1000

[A ZNet daily commentary <http://www.zmag.org/ZSustainers/ZDaily/1999-11/26henwood.htm>] Nov 26, 1999 What Is Globalization Anyway? By Doug Henwood If there's one thing that analysts and activists across the political spectrum agree on today it's that we live in an era of economic globalization. This is taken by both critics and cheerleaders as self-evident and largely unprecedented. We should think twice about this consensus. The concept that has now entered daily speech as "globaliz ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 25 07:02:40 PST 1999

37477 WTO web stuff -- rank: 1000

The WTO summit site official site is at <http://heva.wto-ministerial.org/>. On that site, WTO boss Mike Moore complains about the impostors that are "undermining WTO transparency." These include: <http://www.gatt.org/> (a product of <http://rtmark.com/>) and <http://www.seattlewto.org/>. Says Moore <http://heva.wto-ministerial.org/english/press_e/press151.htm>: >PRESS RELEASE >Press/151 > >WTO DG Moore deplores fake WTO websites: They "und ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 24 18:48:35 PST 1999

37478 ATTAC INFO 89 -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec it was too long - here are the first couple of screens] Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 10:36:25 +0900 From: "Jean-Christophe Helary" <helary at eskimo.com> I am sure some of us will be interested by this newsletter. Attac is an association (partner of Le Monde Diplomatique) that has been fighting to promote the Tobin Tax, and that is actually organizing demonstrations against the OMC meeting. Their page (http://Attac.org/) is bilingual : > A group linking citizens, assoc ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 24 18:12:01 PST 1999

37479 Spiro on American hegemony (Jim O'Connor) -- rank: 1000

Barbara Laurence wrote: >I believe that U.S. and UK financial institutions recycled many petro >dollars to the South -- more than "very little." How else could so many >Third World countries borrow so much in 1970s-early 1980s, and get so deep >in debt? Spiro argues that only a few large Third World/developing/Southern/soon-to-be-emerging-market countries got a piece of the action, like the big Latin American countries that became the most notorious debtors. Some of the big ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 24 15:53:50 PST 1999

37480 White House: Seattle WTO agenda -- rank: 1000

<http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/19 99/11/24/2.text.1> THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release November 24, 1999 The Clinton Administration Agenda For The Seattle WTO: November 24, 1999 On October 13, in a speech to the Democratic Leadership Council, President Clinton outlined his agenda for the new round of World Trade Org ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 24 15:04:41 PST 1999

37481 General status of gender relations vs. Quibbles -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >It is inaccurate to speak of "gender phenomena" as simply >"social/discursive phenomena." Gender is an effect of oppression, just as >race is. No oppression, no gender. No oppression, no race. Isn't oppression a social phenomenon? And what's so simple about social/discursive phenomena? They seem as complex as hell to me. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 24 14:55:40 PST 1999

37482 General status of gender relations vs. Quibbles -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >So, Doug. Are you saying gender phenomena are *always* >social/discursive phenomena, and never grounded in some unalterable Real? Never say never. I'll just say that I get very suspicious when people invoke biology: I think it's highly likely that a rhetorical trick is being played. And there's an awful lot of the "Real" that is quite alterable; even genes are activated and/or repressed by environmental stimuli. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 24 14:44:59 PST 1999

37483 Mugger writes... -- rank: 1000

Gosh, this list is becoming unpaid fodder for New York Press columnists, thanks to some busy faxer. Who is it, someone from Dissent? This is from Russ "Mugger" Smith's column in this week's issue: >Oh Dear, I've Offended Someone > >Last week I received an anonymous fax that contained Katha Pollitt's >early admission entry for the National Magazine Awards. It's quite a >stunning piece, actually, a reaction to a friend's critique of >NYPress, and I can only hope The Nat ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 24 13:30:35 PST 1999

37484 General status of gender relations vs. Quibbles -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >Our sexual preferences are not entirely the product of historical social >power/media manipulation. I reckon they might have something to do with >procreation, too. Call it a hunch. > >A younger woman is a much more likely candidate to help a man's genes >project themselves into the future than a woman over 50. A man of 50 is >generally still a reliable source of fertile sperms, and the woman's genes >do not have as dramatically a lessened chance of ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 24 08:55:51 PST 1999

37485 WTO & forests -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - November 24, 1999 'Greens' Take Aim at WTO Plan To Eliminate Tariffs on Lumber By JIM CARLTON Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL SAN FRANCISCO -- When thousands of environmentalists descend on the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle next week, they will be protesting the group's influence on everything from marine destruction to global warming. But the most heated issue of all is over a proposal by the U.S. and some other WTO members nearly to eliminate tariff ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 24 08:47:52 PST 1999