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37561 ICFTU on WTO -- rank: 1000

[The ICFTU stuff on the WTO is at <http://www.icftu.org/campaigns/WTOclause.html/index.html>.] Financial Times - November 19, 1999 EMPLOYMENT: RIGHTS ARE 'VITAL TO TRADE' By Robert Taylor, Employment Editor The promotion of labour rights must be linked to the development of trade if basic living standards are to be raised across the developing countries, the Brussels-based International Confederation of Free Trade Unions argues in its manifesto for the Seattle summit of the World Trade Org ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 19 05:46:27 PST 1999

37562 WTO forum -- rank: 1000

A package of interviews I did on the WTO for the Nation's special issue on the WTO is up on the magazine's website <http://thenation.com/>. Direct, frameless access is at <http://thenation.com/issue/991206/1206forum.shtml>. Participants: Walden Bello, author of Dark Victory: The United States and Global Poverty (Food First), is executive director of the Bangkok-based Focus on the Global South <http://focusweb.org> and a professor of Public Administration at the University of th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 19 04:53:41 PST 1999

37563 Larry Pratt - bringing death squads home -- rank: 1000

Thanks to Michael Pugliese for pointing out an article on Alex Cockburn's friend Larry Pratt's links to Central American death squads and other enterprises of U.S. imperialism, as well as his anti-immigrant agitation, at: <http://www.totse.com/files/FA004/antifas1.htm>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 19 04:47:01 PST 1999

37564 affirmative action and labor -- rank: 1000

[bounced for an address oddity] Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 15:30:01 -0600 (CST) From: Jayson P Harsin <jph419 at casbah.acns.nwu.edu> Rakesh writes:> > What are we to make of Arthur Fletcher and Nixon's attempt via the > Philadelphia Plan to challenge the monopolisation of the labor market by > building trade unions through control of apprenticeship programs (esp. > electricians, plumbers, carpenters)? Nixon seems to have given up on a > serious effort but why was he mo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 18 16:00:14 PST 1999

37565 gun stats -- rank: 1000

>The November 19, 1999 edition of the Morbidity and Mortality >Weekly Report is now available in Adobe Acrobat format on the >Internet. View this week's MMWR as a web page at: > http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr > and > ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Publications/mmwr/wk/mm4845.pdf > >November 19, 1999/Vol. 48/No. 45 (file size 291,041 bytes) > >* Nonfatal and Fatal Firearm-Related Injuries --- United > States, 1993--1997 > http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/preview/mmw ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 18 16:07:08 PST 1999

37566 US-China WTO accord -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >Prior to this deal China had to get yearly most favored nation approval >from congress; now this latest trade accord makes that approval >meaningless as I understand it. Am I correct about this? That's the detail that Congress has to vote on. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 18 16:04:53 PST 1999

37567 [Fwd: Re: Alex Cockburn writes....] -- rank: 1000

Katha Pollitt wrote: >But shouldn't someone make sure Alex sees all the nasty things Proyect >has said about Alex? Sounds like AC doesn't know LP the way we all seem >to! Right. Lou, be sure to forward this, in the interest of completeness! There are so many errors in this, it's hard to know where to start, but just for the record... ><http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/archives/Nov1999/msg00274.html> > >Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 17:00:20 -0500 >* From: Louis Proyect <lnp3 at ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 18 15:51:44 PST 1999

37568 P/E -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Something I haven't quite figured out yet is why there's this big >concern about P/E, as though it were some Law Of Physics. Yes, in >the long run, P/Es have been lower than they are today. But also >in the long run, every index we've come up with have been lower >than they are today. > >Who says P/E has this magical property of having a historical >anchor? There's the theoretical reason - valuation vs. competing assets, like bills and bonds. There' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 18 15:56:49 PST 1999

37569 Larry pratt on Warsaw ghetto Jews and Guns -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Back with my wife in Tennessee, When one day she called to me, >"Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee!" >Now I don't mind choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good. >Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest, >But they should never have taken the very best. Does this mean we're supposed to get all throat-lumpy about the head general of the CSA? >I'm reminded of C. Vann Woodward's remark that >the people of the South we ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 18 12:24:38 PST 1999

37570 SZ -- rank: 1000

Katha Pollitt wrote: >Gee doug -- do you need Zizek for that? No, but he helps. 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. I'd even say that about a lot of the discourse around "globalization" - which ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 18 11:16:50 PST 1999

37571 Alex Cockburn writes.... -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Charles: Doug, tell Alex C. his facts about your list are >inaccurate. You have list members who or horrified ,not enamored, of >idealist, neo-Kantian , Nietszchian, postmod flights of fancy. And >we have as sharp a critique of these reports on Cockburn as anybody. >And we hangout with workers as much as he does. Will whoever's keeping Alex apprised of the list's goings-on be sure to include Charles's point? Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 18 10:49:37 PST 1999

37572 alternative to IPRs -- rank: 1000

"Rewards versus Intellectual Property Rights" BY: STEVEN SHAVELL Harvard Law School National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) TANGUY VAN YPERSELE Tilburg University Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=145292 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://www.law.harvard.edu/Programs/olin_center/ SSRN only offers technical support for papers downloaded from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection location. When URLs wr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 18 08:37:37 PST 1999

37573 Hillsdale update: Bennett-Buckley split -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - November 18, 1999 William Bennett Opts Out of Role in Hillsdale College Presidential Search By MARTIN VAN DER WERF William J. Bennett, the best-selling author and former U.S. Education Secretary, has stepped down from a committee searching for a new president of Hillsdale College, generating a rift in the conservative movement. Mr. Bennett said the college has "an obligation" to its students, faculty members, and supporters to make clear what ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 18 08:17:47 PST 1999

37574 Religion (was Re: women?feminism?) -- rank: 1000

James Farmelant wrote: > the pomo wing of the intelligentsia A large wing with many feathers. How would you like it if people lumped you with Enver Hoxha just because you're both "Marxists"? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 18 07:58:05 PST 1999

37575 booms & social movements -- rank: 1000

[This reminds me of a late-80s Economist editorial that theorized that green politics enjoy an upsurge late in a long expansion. I'm not sure how the same cause is said to explain nativism in the 1920s and the civil rights movement in the 1950s. Can they do one of these things without calling Todd Gitlin?] Wall Street Journal - November 18, 1999 AS PERSONAL INCOME INCREASES, SO DO THE CRIES OF SOCIAL DISSENT By Bob Davis Staff Reporter Of The Wall Street Journal Late this month in Seattle, thous ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 18 07:31:47 PST 1999