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37936 Neo-liberalism -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long forwarded, in a post with a record-challenging number of >>>>>'s: "First, because the productivity gap between the periphery and the industrial core has never been larger, what Alexander Gerschenkron called the "advantages of backwardness" are now uniquely great." That reminds me of Reagan's old anecdote about the boy who opened the barn door on Christmas day to find a big pile of horseshit waiting for him. But he didn't despair, he was overjoyed - ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 19 11:43:46 PDT 1999

37937 Fwd: <nettime> Amazon knuckles under to Church of Scientology -- rank: 1000

[from nettime] X-Authentication-Warning: basis.Desk.nl: listserv set sender to owner-nettime-l at basis.desk.nl using -f Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 13:34:45 -0400 From: t byfield <tbyfield at panix.com> To: nettime-l at Desk.nl Subject: <nettime> Amazon knuckles under to Church of Scientology Sender: owner-nettime-l at basis.Desk.nl Precedence: bulk [it seems as though Amazon.com has decided not to sell a book that's extremely critical of the Church of Scientology 'as a result of legal i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 19 11:24:03 PDT 1999

37938 Where's BB King and Pol Pot? -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >i'm objecting to the constant >conjunction of fascism with racism. it is quite conceivable that fascism >can exist without racism. Insofar as fascism is a brutal variant of nationalism, are you disagreeing with Balibar's argument that nationalism & racism are inseparable? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 19 10:54:05 PDT 1999

37939 Fed snugs -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >I still think the next rate change will be down. With long-term rates up nearly a point since October? Unless that seriously reverses, they're not going to cut. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 19 10:52:01 PDT 1999

37940 Death in Golconda -- rank: 1000

kphillip at xsite.net wrote: >Steve Fraser is writing a book on Main Street's perception of Wall Street >in pop culture, politics, whatever. Steve Fraser, the bounced book editor who gave Stanley Aronowitz a six-figure contract? That Steve Fraser? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 19 10:14:20 PDT 1999

37941 indictment -- rank: 1000

The full text of war crimes charges lodged against NATO leaders by a group of Canadian lawyers is at <http://www.styx.org/serbia/war_crimes/charges.txt>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 19 10:00:37 PDT 1999

37942 Where's BB King and Pol Pot? -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >nazism, a type of fascism, was indeed racist as it turned out. but it did >not necessarily have to be so. the basic underlying move of fascism is to >create a highly solidaristic *nationalism* by defining the nation, the >people, the soil *against* some Other. that other can be anything. But ethnicities don't exist in nature. Defining a nation means the invention of a nationality or an ethnicity, which is a kind of racialization. As Etienne Balibar says in Race, Nat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 19 09:54:10 PDT 1999

37943 The weakness of the anti-war movement -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >Yes, we are coming down to subtleties of emphasis, but fundamentally I >would challenge good people by suggesting that the weakness of the anti-war >movement is because its basic line has been wrong. I can't speak for the rest of the world, but it seems to me that most Americans don't care too much if their military is bombing other countries as long as no Americans get killed, or are at risk of getting killed. No draft, no antiwar movement. Am I being too cynical? ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 19 09:29:33 PDT 1999

37944 Rugova Calls for Continuation of NATO airstrikes -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: > >On Tue, 18 May 1999, Nathan Newman wrote: >> But those who have argued that the intervention has accomplished nothing for >> the Kosovars and that, in the name of the Kosovars, the intervention should >> end - well, they might take the desires of Rugova and the whole range of >> Kosovar leadership that apparently think the intervention is effective >> enough on their behalf that it should not end. > >This representative argument ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 19 09:06:41 PDT 1999

37945 Hitler -- rank: 1000

Tavia wrote: >Not to open up a can of worms, but as a historian these Time covers always >bother me because they rely so much on the "Great man" theory of the past. >Why believe there was any one person who most influenced the course of >history? Why assume that category even makes sense? It's Time magazine we're talking about, a major bastion of American journalistic vulgarity. Vulgar American journalists only understand personalities. They're colorful. They don't require ...

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Date:	Wed May 19 09:03:06 PDT 1999

37946 Fact Sheet on Americas New Markets -- rank: 1000

[Hey let's rebrand the poor - they're untapped markets!] THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release May 11, 1999 PRESIDENT CLINTON'S CHALLENGE TO INVEST IN AMERICA'S NEW MARKETS May 11, 1999 "We must do more to bring the spark of private enterprise to every corner of America -- to build a bridge from Wall Street to Appalachia, to the Mississippi Delta, to o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 19 08:55:49 PDT 1999

37947 Uruguay -- rank: 1000

[this bounced for an address oddity] Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 20:48:21 -0300 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Alexandre Fenelon <sfenelon at africanet.com.br> Subject: Re: Neo-liberalism There are two other interesting things about Uruguay. It's the only country of Latin America in which massive privatization was not undertaken (people voted against it in 1992, in a referendum). It is also the only South American country that registered significant progress in the fight against poverty ...

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Date:	Wed May 19 08:50:20 PDT 1999

37948 For What It's Worth -- rank: 1000

S Pawlett wrote: >Robert Malecki The one & only: <http://home.bip.net/malecki/>, now with music, where you can download his memoir, "Ha Ha Ha McNamara, Vietnam-My Bellybutton is my Crystalball!" Doug

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Date:	Tue May 18 21:53:46 PDT 1999

37949 Fed snugs -- rank: 1000

[Well apparently all those coupon passes were just a ruse...] <http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/BoardDocs/Press/General/1999/19990518/default.htm> Release Date: May 18, 1999 For immediate release The Federal Reserve released the following statement after today's Federal Open Market Committee meeting: While the FOMC did not take action today to alter the stance of monetary policy, the Committee was concerned about the potential for a buildup of inflationary imbalances that could undermine the favo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 18 15:02:04 PDT 1999

37950 Kosovo: Albanian men are everywhere -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - May 17, 1999 DISPATCH FROM KOSOVO In One Village, Albanian Men Are Everywhere By PAUL WATSON, Times Staff Writer Paul Watson is one of the few western correspondents reporting from Kosovo. VETLJE, Yugoslavia--Something strange is going on in this Kosovo Albanian village in what was once a hard-line guerrilla stronghold, where NATO accuses Serbs of committing genocide. An estimated 15,000 displaced ethnic Albanians live in and around Svetlje, in northern Kosovo, and hundreds o ...

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Date:	Tue May 18 14:52:24 PDT 1999