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37516 Bello on Seattle -- rank: 1000

["Corporate-driven globalization." People just can't say capitalism anymore, can they?] FOCUS ON TRADE Number 40, November 1999 Focus-on-Trade is a regular electronic bulletin providing updates and analysis of trends in regional and world trade and finance, with an emphasis on analysis of these trends from an integrative, interdisciplinary viewpoint that is sensitive not only to economic issues, but also to ecological, political, gender and social issues. Your contributions and comment ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 22 19:57:04 PST 1999

37517 Fwd: US 'lost count of uranium shells fired in Kosovo' for security reasons -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - November 22, 1999 US 'lost count of uranium shells fired in Kosovo' for security reasons By Robert Fisk in Pristina American aircraft used so much depleted uranium ammunition during the Nato bombardment of Serbia that US officials are now claiming - to the disbelief of European bomb disposal officers - that they have no idea how many locations may be contaminated by the radioactive dust left behind by their weapons. British and other ordnance officers ordered to defuse liv ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 22 17:52:36 PST 1999

37518 Butler on Spivak (was SZ) -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >oh and the sparticans or whatever....what kind of marxists were/are they. >i know they're connected to the wanker that doesn't like doug --some >exchange on doug's website re his book. but what's the scoop with >sparticans in terms of marxist history. Sparticists. Particularly wacked-out breed of Trot, broke off from the SWP sometime in the 1960s I think. Their paper, Workers Vanguard, used to be very good when it was edited by Jan Norden - if you overlooked the oblig ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 22 17:50:38 PST 1999

37519 Phillips on the WTO -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>Is anyone familiar with Phillips? > >He wrote "The Emerging Republican Majority" back in the '60s, >setting the basic Sun Belt strategy that has proved such a winner >for the GOP ever since. In recent years he seems to have been >heading leftward, decrying the growing gap between rich and poor and >now -- obviously -- lambasting the WTO. I think his first appearance in public life was in Garry Wills's Nixon Agonistes, where explained his th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 22 17:31:13 PST 1999

37520 Butler on Spivak (was SZ) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >That said, Butler doesn't sound too interested in Marxism, practically or >theoretically. Generally speaking, late modernists define their politics >_against_ Marxism. True. She's much too uninterested in Marxism - and issues of class & economic power - for my taste. But just because writers are non- or anti-Marxist doesn't mean that Marxist and Marxish readers and writers should return the favor; you learn what you can where you can. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 22 09:37:36 PST 1999

37521 WTO coverage on LBO website -- rank: 1000

I'm going to be posting reports from Seattle to the LBO website - and with pictures, thanks to Ted Byfield, who's lending me his snazzy digital camera. More details to follow as I figure out just what I'll be doing. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 22 09:34:38 PST 1999

37522 L.A. Food Not Bombs Harassed -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an attachment] Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 08:55:55 -0800 From: Marta Russell <ap888 at lafn.org> Similar going-ons in L.A. -- Marta Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 21:09:17 -0500 Message-Id: <199911220209.VAA16308 at lists.tao.ca> From: Dan <dipasquo at ISI.EDU> Subject: [LA-AMN] L.A. Food Not Bombs Harassed Sender: worker-la-amn at lists.tao.ca Precedence: bulk To: la-amn at lists.tao.ca X-Sender: Dan <dipasquo at isi.edu> The city is trying to push Food Not Bombs out ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 22 09:12:13 PST 1999

37523 In Praise of Hypocrisy -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - November 22, 1999 In Defense of Hypocrisy By Roger Kimballl, managing editor of The New Criterion. When I was in college, there was a story going around about the German philosopher Max Scheler (1874-1928). Scheler was known for inspiring ethical meditations with titles like "On Man's Place in the Cosmos." He was also, according to this story, known for his energetic philandering. A distraught admirer approached him about this discrepancy: How could he write all t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 22 09:15:28 PST 1999

37524 WTO agenda stalled -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - November 22, 1999 Agriculture stalls WTO agenda By Frances Williams in Geneva With only a week to go before the opening of the World Trade Organisation's third ministerial meeting in Seattle, trade envoys in Geneva were last night still locked in negotiations over key portions of the draft declaration by ministers which is supposed to set out the agenda for a new trade liberalisation round. Trade diplomats said yesterday the US, the European Union and the Cairns Group of agricu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 22 08:18:43 PST 1999

37525 Butler on Spivak (was SZ) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Then I'll specify the nature of the dishonesty. She is lying. The critics she >is replying to, or the conservative marxists she is attacking, don't exist. When I heard her delivering that paper at the Rethinking Marxism conference in December 1996 I had the same reaction. "Who the hell is she talking about?," I asked myself. Conversations, personal and electronic, with many Marxists over the next 3 years have convinced me that there are plenty of people like th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 21 14:46:54 PST 1999

37526 Proto-fascist structure -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >Oh come on Doug, you know better about what I have written to make such an >assertion. I'm quite familiar with what you've written and like most of it quite a lot. It wasn't an assertion - I was asking what your criteria are. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 21 11:08:15 PST 1999

37527 Buchanan, Brandeis, bongos, & Jose -- rank: 1000

The Brandeis crack was even more interesting than I remember it. As James Bennet put it in the March 3, 1996, New York Times: >"How did Brandeis' football team do this year, guys?" he asked a >group of young protesters near the podium at one point. It was not >clear why Mr. Buchanan inferred that they were from that university. Brandeis doesn't have a football team. So he wasn't only Jew-baiting, he was sissy-baiting too. And I don't think it's assuming too much to assume he k ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 21 10:46:39 PST 1999

37528 moral hazzard -- rank: 1000

michael at ecst.csuchico.edu wrote: >Don't the credit card companies also get a share of the sales price? Yes. That's the merchant fee I mentioned. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 21 10:33:19 PST 1999

37529 moral hazzard -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Wow. this should all be discussed in a book--ever thought about it, Doug? >Providian, issuer of credit cards to the highest risks, is being sued in >CT, I believe, for selling people credit insurance they did not need under >false pretexts, as well (I believe) not informing people of interest rate >changes on outstanding debt. As for late payments, it seems to me that many >may not know that by paying up every two months, they are only covering the >l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 21 10:37:46 PST 1999

37530 Spriro on American Hegemony -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Far from >dissing the union movement for racism, I also am surprised to learn that >blacks may be even less represented in open shops than in union firms. This >seems to be an unexpected result given the so called laws of economics (non >union shops should have made greater use of cheaper black labor once >unconstrained by unions). I don't know if you heard Adolph's answer to your question about how comfortable blacks should feel about working with unio ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 21 10:32:34 PST 1999