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37786 labor rights & WTO -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - November 1, 1999 WTO SET FOR SHOWDOWN ON LABOUR RIGHTS by Guy de Jonquières in Berlin The US set the stage at the weekend for a showdown in talks on the agenda for a new world trade round by tabling a controversial proposal that the World Trade Organisation should examine the links between international trade and labour. The long-awaited US demand is expected to speed up the pace of debate and horsetrading in the WTO over plans to launch a round at its ministerial meeting in Se ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 1 07:18:00 PST 1999

37787 foucault? relativist? ROTFL!) -- rank: 1000

James Farmelant wrote: >Radical skepticism has throughout history been >more often an ally of conservatism rather than radicalism. Where'd this opposition between "radical skepticism" and personal possession of scientific truth, with no apparent intervening ground, come from? Since when does a bit of doubt - including self-doubt - lead you down the proverbial slippery slope to conformity to the existing order? It's especially odd to see these claims to certainty made in the name ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 1 07:01:37 PST 1999

37788 first Pinochet, then on to Castro -- rank: 1000

New York Times - November 1, 1999 ONE DICTATOR AT A TIME By Mario Vargas Llosa WASHINGTON -- The efforts in Spain and Britain to bring Gen. Augusto Pinochet to trial for human rights crimes in Chile should be hailed not only by the millions around the world who have been persecuted for their ideas, but all who refuse to accept that democratic customs and culture are the exclusive province of a few select countries. There are those who question Spain's decision to charge General Pinochet in its o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 1 06:24:03 PST 1999

37789 U.S. fiscal follies -- rank: 1000

Max, time for a budget briefing. Today's NYT says the Reps have pretty much come around to Bill's priorities, despite all the posturing. They're busting the budget caps, too. What's going on? What are they spending money on? What are the president's priorities, and how can someone come around to them? Are we still on track for a decline in the federal share of GDP? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 1 05:53:23 PST 1999

37790 stiffening Al Gore -- rank: 1000

[Here's a new meaning for feminism - teaching a beta male to be alpha!] New York Times - November 1, 1999 ADVISER PUSHES GORE TO BE LEADER OF THE PACK By Katharine Q. Seelye WASHINGTON -- Vice President Al Gore has been paying Naomi Wolf, the feminist author, thousands of dollars a month to help him figure out how to become the top dog -- literally. Ms. Wolf has been telling Gore that he is a beta male, a subordinate figure, and must learn to become the alpha male, or leader of the pack, before ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 1 05:49:56 PST 1999

37791 Jamie Shea: NATO pays for tribunal -- rank: 1000

from Jamie Shea's May 16 daily NATO press briefing <http://www.nato.int/kosovo/press/p990516b.htm>: "Question : Jamie, I wonder if you could comment on a speech made by Justice Arbour of the International Criminal Tribunal last week, a copy of which I left with your very fine secretary so that you would have reference to it. Judge Arbour in her speech said that as a result of the NATO initiatives being initiated on 24 March the countries of NATO have 'voluntarily submitted themselves ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 31 19:40:23 PDT 1999

37792 curious -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >Hey Doug. US dumping semiconductors on Taiwan. What's the deal? >Overcapacity or obsolesence? Ain't that a switch. Everybody's always blaming everyone else for dumping. Just a family fight among capitalists, I say. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 31 12:37:21 PDT 1999

37793 jim o'connor: absolute and relative surplus value -- rank: 1000

Barbara Laurence wrote: >Has anyone seen any study indicating that temp and part-time employment, >speed-ups and stretch-outs, longer hours, forced overtime and other modes >of extracting absolute surplus value themselves increase or multiply during >or after industrial restructuring of various kinds that aims to lower unit >labor costs. >Straight economists wouldn't even raise the question; bent economists would >raise the question without necessarily being able to answer i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 31 11:43:46 PDT 1999

37794 old folks' home hit -- rank: 1000

[This story describes Times of London reporter Eve-Ann Prentice's injury as unconfirmed; the Times has reported it on their website <http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/05/31/timkoskos02006.html?1143120> .] May 31 12:58 PM ET NATO Hits Serbia Sanatorium, 10 Said Killed By Slobodan Spanic BELGRADE (Reuters) - At least 10 people died when NATO warplanes bombarded a sanatorium in southeastern Serbia Monday, state media said. Another person was killed when her house in a village just ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 31 11:39:31 PDT 1999

37795 Life under Empire by Michael Hardt -- rank: 1000

Michael Hardt wrote: >When I talk of Empire I mean something like the political order that >corresponds to and supports the construction of the world market. But >whenever one deals with globalization, one has to maintain a kind of dual >strategy of discussion, because within the various processes of >globalization many old boudaries are maintained (sometimes partially) and >new ones created. So, I agree with Angela that one cannot talk about this >global order as if it we ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 31 11:34:51 PDT 1999

37796 German plans; -- rank: 1000

Times (London) - May 31 1999 Roger Boyes on a 'stability pact' that could benefit the Balkans in an expanded EU GERMANY LOOKS BEYOND COMBAT FOR LONG-TERM BENEFIT WAR - vivid, simple and telegenic - supplants domestic political issues and squats like a fat toad on all debates. No one doubts that this week's European summit in Cologne will be more about Kosovo than about unemployment. There are rows going on, above all between Germany and France; there are tricky decisions to be taken (for example ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 31 11:07:51 PDT 1999

37797 invasion talk "premature" -- rank: 1000

Telegraph (London) - May 31, 1999 TALK OF INVASION PLAYED DOWN AS AIR RAIDS CONTINUE By Ben Fenton in Washington and Jon Hibbs MINISTERS and generals played down talk of an imminent ground invasion of Kosovo yesterday as Nato stepped up its air attacks on targets across Yugoslavia. Reports that Britain would provide up to 50,000 troops as part of a 150,000-strong army to invade the province to get Kosovo refugees home before winter were described as premature in Whitehall and Brussels. Smoke ris ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 31 10:38:14 PDT 1999

37798 blown bridge, unready forces -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - May 31, 1999 NATO KILLS CIVILIANS ON BRIDGE IN ANOTHER DEADLY BLUNDER By Kim Sengupta in Skopje Nato was accused of committing another deadly blunder in the Balkan war yesterday after a warplane reportedly destroyed a bridge in south-eastern Serbia, killing at least 11 civilians and hurling dozens more into the river. Authorities in Belgrade said the fighter returned and hit the bridge a second time, just as villagers reached the scene to help those hurt in the first strik ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 31 10:28:35 PDT 1999

37799 Hardt responds to responses -- rank: 1000

Peter Kilander wrote: >The Euro is in trouble, no? I think it has sank more than 10% versus the >dollar since its creation. Some of the reasons for this sagging I've read in >the press are the "concessions" made to the Italians on budgetary matters >and the failure of the ECB to find a single voice. Those are as good reasons as any. Those, plus the economic weakness of the EU relative to the US. >I don't know about there >being no coincidence with the war and the Eur ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 31 10:20:13 PDT 1999

37800 Replacing IMF with Asian Fund -- rank: 1000

Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >Attack on IMF could lead to revival of Asian Monetary Fund I wonder, with Rubin off the scene, the sense of crisis abated, and the war dominating the attention of the political class, if the U.S. might be less prone to interfere with this scheme than it was last year? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 31 09:51:42 PDT 1999