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37861 Building Socialism: Role of Government -- rank: 1000

G*rd*n wrote: >Margaret: >> >> What should the role of government be, under socialism? > >It would depend on what you thought the notion of ownership- >or-control was in "means of production owned or controlled >by the working class, or by the people generally." Most of >the proposals for socialism I've seen suppose familiar >liberal ideas of o-o-c, but I would think that if socialism >were constructed in a community without a liberal history, >s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 26 09:26:35 PDT 1999

37862 Mary Daly update -- rank: 1000

[The Mary Daly saga continues... Anyone know anything about Duane Naquin? Is he a right-wing troublemaker, or was he seriously interested in the Daly experience?] Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - 5/26/99 JUDGE DENIES FEMINIST PROFESSOR'S BID TO BLOCK HER RETIREMENT FROM BOSTON COLLEGE By ROBIN WILSON A Massachusetts judge refused on Monday to stop Boston College from declaring a feminist theologian -- who had barred male undergraduates from her courses -- to be retired. The judge said ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 26 09:23:24 PDT 1999

37863 anti-G8 in NYC -- rank: 1000

Reclaim the Streets NYC - http://reclaimthestreetsnyc.tao.ca RECLAIM THE STREETS NYC! STREET PARTY PROTEST FRIDAY JUNE 18TH LIBERTY PLAZA 3:00 PM (Broadway, 3 blocks below Fulton St.) HELP MAKE IT HAPPEN!! (212)539.6746 *Dancers, actors, stilters, fire eaters, musicians, poets and preachers* *Come and lend a hand, call the hotline for info* ______________________________________________________________________ A STRIKE AT THE HEART OF GLOBAL CAPITAL On June 18th the G8 (8 most industrialized nat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 26 09:14:19 PDT 1999

37864 Fwd: BUSH'S INTERNET NIGHTMARE CONTINUES -- rank: 1000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 26, 1999 BUSH REQUESTS "LIMITS TO FREEDOM" Internet bites Bush: Not news. Bush bites Internet: News! Contact: Ray Thomas (mailto:bushinfo at rtmark.com) Zack Exley (mailto:zackexley at yahoo.com) The satirical website GWBush.com has received several million hits since a press conference Friday at which Texas governor and probable presidential candidate George W. Bush called its owner "a garbage man" and said "There ought to be limits to freedom. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 26 09:09:17 PDT 1999

37865 Fwd: 1999 G8 Summit Online: Open Registration -- rank: 1000

From: G8 Info <info at g8online.org> Subject: 1999 G8 Summit Online: Open Registration Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 00:44:40 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 eCollege.com (www.ecollege.com) and the G8 Research Group at the University of Toronto (www.g7.utoronto.ca) are joining forces to present The 1999 G8 Summit Online (http://www.g8online.org). We invite you to participate in this unprecedented interactive dialog with the world's top leaders at the G8 Summit. Attendees will interact on the Internet wit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 26 09:04:56 PDT 1999

37866 a letter on Greenspan -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - May 26, 1999 <http://www.ft.com/search97cgi/vtopic?action=view&VdkVgwKey=%2Fapache%2Fdocs%2Fh ippocampus%2Fqddf72%2Ehtm&DocOffset=1&DocsFound=2&QueryZip=%3CMany%3E%27Henwood% 27&Collection=Coll2&Collection=Coll4&Collection=Coll6&Collection=Coll7&Collectio n=Coll3&Collection=Coll8&SortOrder=Desc&SearchUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eft%2Ecom%2F search97cgi%2Fvtopic%3FQueryZip%3D%253CMany%253E%2527Henwood%2527%26Filter%3Dftf ilter%252Ehts ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 26 08:44:52 PDT 1999

37867 British TV jury finds against Nato -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >While I welcomed the end of western imperialist appeasement of Serbian >fascism in Bosnia, I specifically denounced and exposed the ethnic >cleansing by the Croat regime of Kraijina, as zealously as Doug and others >are exposing the imperialist features of the present war by NATO. So, Chris, you'll admit that if what Serbs are doing in Kosovo is a genocidal war crime, then what the Croats did was a genocidal war crime too, and that U.S. assistance to the Croats ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 25 12:17:57 PDT 1999

37868 bourgeosie at thought -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: >What is your source for 1968 as the year of >greatest income equality in the US? The Census Bureau's annual gini indexes. Quintile ratios tell a slightly different story; the ratio of the richest quintile to the poorest bottomed out in 1974, though the top/middle ratio also bottomed out in 1968. I know the Gini index isn't a perfect single measure - that Ginis, Atkinsons and Theils are all sensitive to different points of the distribution. I suppose the cauti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 25 12:11:26 PDT 1999

37869 Fwd: War Powers Violation Today? -- rank: 1000

Institute for Public Accuracy 915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa at accuracy.org ___________________________________________________ Tuesday, May 25, 1999 WAR POWERS VIOLATION TODAY? WASHINGTON -- From all indications, today will mark the first time since enactment of the 1973 War Powers Resolution that a President has openly violated the termination requirements of that law. Air strikes against Yugoslavia began on March 24. The Hou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 25 11:51:26 PDT 1999

37870 British TV jury finds against Nato -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: > Since you are so insistent on applying the >charge of genocide against Milosevic based >on his forced deportation of hundreds of thousands >of Albanians (which I have denounced with such >vigor that I have been told to shut up about it over >on pen-l), then would you support a similar charge >against Croatian president Franjo Tudjman who >ordered and enforced the nearly complete deportation >of ethnic Serbs from the Croatian provinc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 25 10:39:42 PDT 1999

37871 Kaplan on Balkans -- rank: 1000

[An otherwise unremarkable statement by the Yugoslav Sociological Assn forwarded to the Marxist Literary Group list quoted a Washington Post op-ed by Robert Kaplan, theorist of humanitarian imperialism, that said we needed the Balkans to gain access to Caspian Oil. According to Saturday's New York Times, Bill Clinton learned much of what he knows about the region by reading Kaplan's book. Here's Kaplan's piece. It actually opens with a cabbie's wisdom - one hack to another. - Doug] Washington Po ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 25 09:41:29 PDT 1999

37872 bourgeosie at thought -- rank: 1000

Juan Jose Barrios wrote: >(snip). Summers: > >> Thoughtful people in the middle of the >> political spectrum, including those charged with developing policies to >> resolve economic and financial crises in developing countries, had >> considerably more trouble effecting a resolution. They faced a complex set >> of trade-offs rather than clear precedents and had to make difficult >> judgments without either adequate background information or much time fo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 25 08:09:57 PDT 1999

37873 US stock market & balance of payments -- rank: 1000

Dennis R Redmond wrote: >On Mon, 24 May 1999, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> As of the end of 1998, foreign financial claims on the U.S. were $5.4 >> trillion, while U.S. claims on foreigners were $2.7 trillion, for a net >> balance of -$2.7 trillion. That's deteriorated by about $1 trillion since >> 1996. About half of that has gone into Treasury bonds, and a quarter into >> corporate bonds. This gusher of foreign money has kept the real and the >> financial ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 25 07:51:40 PDT 1999

37874 reverence for the constitution -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >The use of replacement workers i.e.scabs and free trade agreements like >NAFTA that encourage run-away shops haven't helped any and should be viewed >as an assult on the Constitution. No, they should be viewed as an assault on the working class! Excuse me for repeating myself but why fetishize some goddamn document written by property owners instead of a real live group of human beings? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 25 07:18:57 PDT 1999

37875 bourgeosie at thought -- rank: 1000

[This is from the Fund's biweekly PR sheet <http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/surveyx.htm>. IMF Survey - May 24, 1999 Social issues In the keynote address opening a session on social issues in development, Lawrence Summersrecently nominated U.S. Secretary of the Treasurydescribed some of the political and economic lessons he had learned since entering government and suggested areas in which further work needed to be done to improve the resolution of economic and financial crises i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 24 21:33:29 PDT 1999