Search LBO-Talk Archives

37546 Hell Yeah!!!!!! -- rank: 1000

[posted from a non-sub'd address] From: "Mark Rickling" <mrickling at hotmail.com> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 13:10:57 -0500 District 1199P/SEIU Press Release AGH RNs Vote for Union To Protect Quality Patient Care, Gain a Voice Major Improvements Seen in Health Care for Patients, Community In an election with major implications for improving health care in Pittsburgh, nearly 1,500 registered nurses at Allegheny General Hospital have voted to protect patient care and gain a voice in t ...

Document Size:	10730
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 20 10:38:02 PST 1999

37547 blowing up churches -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - November 20, 1999 Nato turns a blind eye as scores of ancient Christian churches are reduced to rubble By Robert Fisk in Djakovica A DAY after Nato forces entered Kosovo in June, I discovered an abandoned Serb Orthodox church in a field 10 miles north of Prizren. It was a small, box-like building and its doors were open. I gingerly walked through a steel gate and into the small field in which it stood and entered the building. It had been left in haste, its doors unlocked, ...

Document Size:	10454
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 20 10:25:12 PST 1999

37548 Rudy to homeless: find a bedroom or you're under arrest -- rank: 1000

The latest eruption of NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani: after a pedestrian was badly beaten with a brick last week, he's decided to crack down on the homeless. This follows upon a new policy a couple of weeks ago of requiring homeless people to work if they want accommodation in one of the city's horrific shelters. Here's Rudy's reasoning, as reported in today's New York Times: >"Streets do not exist in civilized societies for the purpose of >people sleeping there," the mayor said Friday ...

Document Size:	5412
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 20 09:13:45 PST 1999

37549 AFL-CIO on WTO -- rank: 1000

[At a talk the other night, AFL-CIO chief economist Tom Palley said they were shocked by the administration's trade deal with China. As a questioner pointed out, the shock is odd since the deal's been in the works for about a dozen years.] New York Times - November 20, 1999 Trade Pacts Must Safeguard Workers, Union Chief Says By STEVEN GREENHOUSE WASHINGTON -- Raising the stakes in labor's dispute with President Clinton over trade, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s president, John J. Sweeney, called on the ad ...

Document Size:	11208
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 20 08:25:45 PST 1999

37550 Hating Louis Proyect -- rank: 1000

Many of us have a position on the Proyect question, and probably an unalterable one; those who don't will no doubt find extended debate on the topic painfully tedious. So can we forget about LNP3 please? Doug

Document Size:	4562
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 19 11:02:01 PST 1999

37551 "Real" Privacy -- rank: 1000

jf noonan wrote: >These people are scum. They have what is rumored to be the >largest e-address database in the world (53M last time I saw a >count) and they use it to spam you to death, even if you check >the box saying you don't want mail from them. They are in my >site-wide database of spammers here now so no mail is accepted >from any address on their network. Weren't the Real people some sort of political "progressives," at least at some time, by some definitio ...

Document Size:	4942
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 19 10:25:10 PST 1999

37552 Greenspan, Marxist -- rank: 1000

[The explanation of Marx's theory of exploitation is odd, but you never know where the Old Man's going to turn up.] Thu, 18 Nov 1999, 10:21pm EST Greenspan and Marx, United in Proletariat Views By Caroline Baum New York, Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- After declaring war on the army of the employed yesterday, raising interest rates because of the diminishing pool of available labor, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan should clarify for the markets -- not to mention the American public -- exactly what his strat ...

Document Size:	9220
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 19 10:16:11 PST 1999

37553 Anti-semitic, anti-immigrant -- rank: 1000

Katha Pollitt wrote: >Without Christianity, I don't think anti-semitism would exist. So why is there anti-Semitism in Japan and Malaysia? Doug

Document Size:	4576
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 19 10:00:22 PST 1999

37554 SZ on antisemitism -- rank: 1000

A couple of people wrote me offlist asking for a taste of Zizek. Here's an analysis of anti-Semitism. Doug ---- [from Slavoj Zizek, Tarrying With The Negative, pp. 148-153] The Tautological "Return of the Thing to Itself" Although "really existing socialism" has already receded into a distance which confers upon it the nostalgic magic of a postmodern lost object, some of us still recall a well-known joke about what socialism is: a social system that is the dialectical synthes ...

Document Size:	20078
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 19 09:13:21 PST 1999

37555 confounding gender expectations -- rank: 1000

[from today's Wall Street Journal] INQUIRING MINDS: In a survey by Qtopics, an online polling firm, the top question women would ask presidential candidates is about the economy; but the top query by men is, "Are you faithful?" A question 38% would ask multimillionaire Steve Forbes is how much money does he carry in his wallet.

Document Size:	4820
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 19 08:09:48 PST 1999

37556 SZ -- rank: 1000

Sam Pawlett wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > > > > > Actually I was using "Zizekian" as a shorthand for taking collective > > fantasy seriously as a political category. That applies to the day > > care scandals and to the body-part thieving stories that Maureen > > mentioned - I don't think the kinds of political analyses our more > > hardheaded members subscribe to are up to the task. > >What task and why not? What is it exactly that ...

Document Size:	5751
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 19 08:00:07 PST 1999

37557 SF Chron on SV crime -- rank: 1000

The SF Chronicle has a 5-part series on crime and other nastiness in the Silicon Valley. Part I is at <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/199 9/11/15/MN18SIL.DTL>. Is it really that bad? Doug

Document Size:	4749
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 19 07:25:27 PST 1999

37558 Fwd: BOUNCE lbo-talk at lists.panix.com: Non-member submission from [jsegal at pop.mindspring.com (Jacob Segal)] -- rank: 1000

[Bounced for an address oddity. The LBO list has no official position on the Marxism list. Louis Proyect has a history of trying to sabotage reputations and careers, from calling up people's bosses to complain about their net behavior to forwarding what he considers objectionable emails to potential employers. He also has a habit of posting nasty and often wildly inaccurate attacks on admirable people he doesn't like, doesn't understand, and/or hasn't read, e.g. James O'Connor, David Harvey, Ado ...

Document Size:	6430
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 19 06:53:41 PST 1999

37559 [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: Guns etc]] -- rank: 1000

Katha Pollitt wrote: >Tom, How did New York City literary debates--is that what we're having, >btw?-- cost Harris Wofford his election? From the Umberto Eco piece posted the other day: >3. Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action's sake. >Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, >reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect >insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the >i ...

Document Size:	5688
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 19 06:47:21 PST 1999

37560 WTO forum -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >East Asian countries did not "move up the ladder" because the >multi-fiber agreement restricted their exports. There is a profound >difference between saying that developing-country growth can be >aided by infant-industry protection (which is a risky strategy that >often goes wrong) and implying that first-world limits on imports >are really good for India. > >Seems to me that Mr. Bello is not in the business of deepening the >knowledge p ...

Document Size:	5170
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 19 06:45:02 PST 1999