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37771 60% in market: Gallup -- rank: 1000

[from Gallup's weekly update] BUSINESS & THE ECONOMY Seventy Years After Stock Market Crash, Six of Ten American Households Invested in Stock Market Seventy years ago October 29 the stock market plummeted, signaling the onset of the Great Depression, the worst financial crisis this country has ever experienced. By the early 1950s, more than twenty years after the crash, only 8% of Americans reported having some investments in the stock market. But according to a Gallup poll conducted October ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 1 18:36:33 PST 1999

37772 it's the Science vs. Ideology show -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >it seems less than >obvious to me why so many self-declared marxists would worry themselves >over postmodernism in such a epistemological and rhetorical way without >once considering seriously a materialist and dialectical account of >postmodernism I suspect lots of them - and it's not just Marxists, but a lot of "class first" folks, from Wojtek to Todd Gitlin - feel besieged and lonely, and "postmodernism" is a convenient thing to blame for their ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 1 14:41:51 PST 1999

37773 Garten of undelight -- rank: 1000

Business Week - November 8, 1999 A SOPHISTICATED ASSAULT ON GLOBAL CAPITALISM DANGER: Activists have given free trade a rotten rep--and if governments and business don't get busy, it's going to get even worse. By Jeffrey E. Garten In late November, Seattle is likely to be the scene of a big test for global capitalism. That's when more than 1,000 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are planning to disrupt the kickoff of a new round of global trade negotiations. The NGOs' collective claim is that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 1 12:47:31 PST 1999

37774 linguistic left II, the sequel -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >so here's a question for you: if "the people" cared >about politics, who on the left would they be >listening to? Me, of course. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 1 11:54:14 PST 1999

37775 today's Suck -- rank: 1000

Today's Suck <http://www.suck.com> is by the very fine "Ambrose Beers" (real name: Chris Bray). Beers disappeared from the Suck roster a few months ago when he signed up for the Army. Apparently he had a spare moment to write a Suck. There may not be another for a while. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 1 09:23:32 PST 1999

37776 linguistic left II, the sequel -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >but of course i could be wrong. doug et al.--tell me >how we can take butler and zizek to the people! I'm not sure I'm up to that project yet. But maybe you can tell me why (most of) the people don't give a fuck about politics, and what "we" could do about that? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 1 09:27:15 PST 1999

37777 foucault? relativist? ROTFL!) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The object of James F.'s criticism here is not 'a bit of doubt,' unless you >want to argue that 'radical skepticism' means the same thing as 'a bit of >doubt.' Criticizing radical skepticism in no way precludes 'a bit of >doubt' in one's inquiry, I'd think. Or is your argument that doubt is >unquantifiable after all (despite your wording) and therefore that a >criticism of radical skepticism is in effect the same as an exclusion of 'a >bit of doubt ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 1 08:56:40 PST 1999

37778 litcritter bashing...) -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >Pree-cisely. Which evokes the question of speech codes >and hate speech proscriptions; I have always wondered >how it is that the pomo-istas--well, that term seems >to chafe, so call them the linguistic left-- Does that make their left opponents the pre-linguistic left? Or, less teleologically, the non-linguistic left? >fail to >see that speech codes could, by an easy rhetorical >flourish, be turned to proscriptions of "hate speech" >against ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 1 08:47:59 PST 1999

37779 U.S. fiscal follies -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >What's going on is basically the Dems are torturing >the Repugs on two counts -- the R's have busted the >caps and run a "deficit" How? What are they spending money on that Bill doesn't want to? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 1 08:44:53 PST 1999

37780 Richebacher's bleak scenario -- rank: 1000

[This bounced for an address oddity. I know the author of this article, Rick Ackerman. He's been saying this sort of thing since I first met him over 10 years ago. Richebacher's been saying the same thing since the mid-1980s. Maybe they're right this time.] Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 23:20:30 -0500 (EST) From: Jeffrey W Sommers <jsommers at lynx.dac.neu.edu> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 01:55:42 +0100 From: Jan Straathof <janstr at chan.nl> To: WORLD SYST ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 1 07:54:15 PST 1999

37781 litcritter bashing...) -- rank: 1000

James Farmelant wrote: >On Mon, 1 Nov 1999 09:18:37 -0500 Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> >writes: > >Rob wrote: > > > > >Given his own practice, Foucault fails to justify his 'theoretical' > >call to > >dispense with the science/ideology distinction. > > > >Without the science/ideology distinction, what's the reason to prefer, > >say, > >Gabriel Kolko's or Noam Chomsky's account to Henry Kissinger's or > >Rober ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 1 08:38:23 PST 1999

37782 it's the Science vs. Ideology show -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >speaking of ideologies, which one are you going to be caught in this >saturday: the xenophobic merchant capital patriotism of the 'yes' campaign >or the hokey de tocquevillian populism of the 'no' campaign? Ok, could the Australians on the list brief us on what this is all about? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 1 08:31:00 PST 1999

37783 Clinton "finds" $5m for Iraqi opposition -- rank: 1000

From: The White House <Publications-Admin at pub.pub.whitehouse.gov> URL: <http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/19 99/11/1/3.text.1> THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary (Atlanta, Georgia) ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release October 29, 1999 October 29, 1999 Presidential Determination No. 2000-05 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF DEF ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 1 08:29:23 PST 1999

37784 abortion & kids -- rank: 1000

[This one's for all you "progressive" critics of abortion out there....] The Nation - November 15, 1999 ANTI-CHOICE, ANTI-CHILD Katha Pollitt One of the favorite tactics of pro-lifers--especially ones who are self-described "progressives"--is to accuse abortion rights supporters of being anti-child, hyperindividualistic, unwilling to protect the vulnerable and generally in favor of "death." The truth is almost the opposite. Around the world, there's a general correl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 1 08:09:37 PST 1999

37785 Well-Regulated Militias, and More -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug writes, " Dan argues, among other things, that the BoR and the rest > >of the U.S. constitutional structure has effectively demobilized >popular struggle:" Do you have a citation for this, or are you just >paraphrasing personal conversation? I've gotten a lot of it in personal conversation, but see also Dan Lazare's book, The Frozen Republic, and his piece "America the Undemocratic" in New Left Review #232. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 1 07:45:52 PST 1999