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37681 Henwood vs. Cockburn -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >There's a hell of a set-to between this list's moderator and >Alexander Cockburn in the current NY Press letters column, which, >unfortunately, isn't available at the NYP web site. Perhaps Doug >would be kind enough to scan it onto the list for the benefit of >all. What entertainment -- the World Wrestling Federation should >really sign these two up. Unfortunately, NYP scans very badly - too much bleed & print-through, like all newspapers. And Cockburn ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 11 06:42:21 PST 1999

37682 Greater Confidence in Democrats, Poll Finds -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Yale sure is looking more and more like a diploma mill. Boola-boola, indeed. That's the old Yale, before admissions director "Inky" Clark turned it into a meritocracy. I doubt he knew it, but Inky took his cue from a footnote in Capital vol. 3, where Marx says the better a ruling class is able to incorporate the leaders of the subordinate classes, the more solid and dangerous its rule. Besides, George W was a "legacy" candidate, the offspring of at lea ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 11 06:15:54 PST 1999

37683 Hayek & Pinochet -- rank: 1000

[excerpts from an interesting post from the International Political Economy list] Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:02:43 -0500 To: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY <ipe at csf.colorado.edu> From: "Jeffrey L. Beatty" <Beatty.4 at osu.edu> [...] Actually, there was some noticeable Hayekian influence as well. Alfred Stepan writes (1985, 322-323): "Furthermore, whereas the initial control of working-class collectivities came about by direct coercion by the [Chilean] state, after 1 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 10 16:36:58 PST 1999

37684 [FAIR-L] ACTIVISM UPDATE: Chinese Embassy Bombing: Media Reply, FAIR responds -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:43:34 -0500 From: FAIR <FAIR-L at FAIR.ORG> FAIR-L Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting Media analysis, critiques and news reports Chinese Embassy Bombing Update: Media Reply, FAIR Responds Nov. 3, 1999 Since FAIR released its October 22 action alert, "U.S. Media Overlook Exposé on Chinese Embassy Bombing," many readers have written to mainstream media outlets, asking them why they have devoted so little attention to the Chinese embassy story. A ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 10 13:22:33 PST 1999

37685 Nixon on little Negro bastards, Mexicans, homos, & hot pants -- rank: 1000

Chicago Tribune - November 7, 1999 NIXON ON TAPE EXPOUNDS ON WELFARE AND HOMOSEXUALITY by James Warren WASHINGTON Long before the recent release of 445 hours of President Richard Nixon's Oval Office tapes, there was intense dueling between the National Archives and the Nixon family and library. The Nixon clan knew that many of the tapes would be embarrassing and made a variety of claims, such as protection of personal privacy, to try to see that large sections were deleted. By and large, the ar ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 10 13:09:14 PST 1999

37686 French new FinMin on WTO -- rank: 1000

Dow Jones Newswires - November 9, 1999 France Sautter Calls For Boost To WTO Policing Powers PARIS -- France's new finance minister, Christian Sautter, called for a strengthening in the World Trade Organization's regulatory powers Tuesday, saying that tougher laws on competition would allow governments to check the "excessive power" of multinationals. "In a world where capital and goods are moving more and more quickly and more and more easily from one end of the planet to the oth ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 10 08:13:35 PST 1999

37687 NYC RTS WTO -- rank: 1000

Please Forward Widely! Please Forward Widely! RECLAIM THE STREETS! NYC Activists Throw Massive Street Party in Conjunction with Seattle WTO Protest WHAT: Reclaim the Streets Demonstration/Celebration WHEN: Friday, November 26th, 2:00 pm WHERE: Meeting at South End of Union Square (move from there to action site) WHY: Because we think thereís more to life than buying and selling BRING: Radios (for pirate broadcast), scarves, cider, gifts, friends, people you want to be friends w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 10 08:08:46 PST 1999

37688 TradVals scandal -- rank: 1000

[Hillsdale publishes the awful newsletter Imprimis, available free to anyone who asks for it. It includes meditations by the likes of Steve Forbes and Margaret Thatcher on liberty & the meaning of life. The student link referred to in the story is <http://members.tripod.com/~Hillsdale_College/index.htm>. Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - November 10, 1999 Suspended President to Be Questioned About Daughter-in-Law's Apparent Suicide By MARTIN VAN DER WERF Police investigators ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 10 07:55:31 PST 1999

37689 "The Red Tide Turning?" -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >[From the current NY Press] > >The Red Tide Turning? > >By George Szamuely Quite a piece. Seems that Szamuely's main fondness for "Communism" is its nationalism, and not collective ownership and the egalitarian undoing of class and other hierarchies. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 10 06:41:03 PST 1999

37690 more from the NYT -- rank: 1000

Another choice item from today's NY Times, this the conclusion of a profile of Michel Camdessus, the managing director of the IMF who announced his resignation yesterday: >And then he ushered a visitor past his collection of sculptures, >including one of an Indian goddess who "dances on ignorance and is >the force of creative destruction," to a favorite painting. It shows >a blur of hands reaching into the pockets of a pinstriped suit. The >painting is titled "Sorry ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 10 06:38:59 PST 1999

37691 negatives -- rank: 1000

Just when you're about to despair at the state of American politics, some cheering news. From today's New York Times: >The nation's political wild card, the Reform Party, has a strongly >negative image. Fifty-three percent have an unfavorable view, 26 >percent a favorable opinion, and 21 percent no opinion. > >Nor are its potential presidential candidates highly regarded. >Patrick J. Buchanan draws 6 percent of the vote if matched against >Bush and either Gore or Bradley. In ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 10 06:37:30 PST 1999

37692 mortality crisis in E Germany -- rank: 1000

"The Mortality Crisis in East Germany" BY: REGINA T. RIPHAHN University of Munich Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) KLAUS F. ZIMMERMANN Institute for the Study of Labor University of Bonn Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=166329 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://www.iza.org 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:	Tue Nov 9 17:43:57 PST 1999

37693 contra-Blair -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >>I think this refers to the fashionable idea, gleaned from Polyani, >>that all societies have markets, but only under established >>capitalism does the supposedly "self-regulating" market rule all >>society. "We" must subdue the market, make it subordinate to >>society, and serve our needs, instead of being subdued, >>subordinated, and driven into servitude by it. This is very popular >>with folks like Jospin and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 9 16:20:57 PST 1999

37694 Fwd: FAIR's CounterSpin Once Again Censored by a Pacifica Station -- rank: 1000

FAIR News Release - FAIR News Release - FAIR News Release For Immediate Release: Contacts: November 10, 1999 Steve Rendall <mailto:srendall at fair.org> Rachel Coen, <mailto:rcoen at fair.org> CounterSpin Once Again Censored by a Pacifica Station FAIR's national radio show, CounterSpin, was interrupted in mid-show this morning as it aired on WPFW-FM, the Pacifica-owned radio station located in Washington, D.C. The show, which airs on WPFW between 11:00 and 11 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 9 15:59:55 PST 1999

37695 contra-Blair -- rank: 1000

Juan Jose Barrios wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > > > Agence France Presse - November 8, 1999 > > > > "When I say New labour means enterprise and fairness, and Lionel > > (Jospin) says he believes in a market economy but not a market > > society, > >please could somone explain this ? thanks I think this refers to the fashionable idea, gleaned from Polyani, that all societies have markets, but only under established capitalism does the supposedly ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 9 13:56:40 PST 1999