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37996 Katha Pollitt -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >I think Pollitt's reasoning is that the column is where she expresses her >own opinions, and the editorial board is where she casts a vote to >determine the magazine's line. Despite her former title, Katha had almost no influence over editorial policy. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 14 07:44:43 PDT 1999

37997 A plea -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >The British government has been going into fits over the posting of the >names of 1000 of their secret agents on the web by one disgruntled >employee. But nobody here is allowed to report the address (still less >the list). Can any responsible cyber-netizen out there enlighten us >blacked-out Brits? It was on Geocities, but it was deleted. I've just forwarded a Larouche document with some names in it. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 14 07:39:56 PDT 1999

37998 Fwd: <nettime> MI6 list -- rank: 1000

[from nettime - the Deja.com article has been deleted] Source: http://x31.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=476738791&CONTEXT=926607512.2031419433&hitnum=6 9 (Accessed at 13:45 US-EST) Deja.com advertising removed. No authentication, may be genuine, a folly or a black op. Jump to list of officers >> Community: >> Forum: alt.talk.royalty >> Thread: <,_,o ` o,,_ > <,_,o ` o,,_> MI6 Drops their pants??? - THIS IS UNREAL <,_,o ` o,,_><,_,o ` o,,_ > <,_,o ` o, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 14 07:39:11 PDT 1999

37999 009098.html -- rank: 1000

Peter Kilander wrote: ><http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/metro/chicago/ws/item/0,1267,28089-28085-28 >543,00.html>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/metro/chicago/ws/item/0,1267,2808 >9-28085-28543,00.html Well Peter, is the acquitted Kilander any relation? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 14 07:32:28 PDT 1999

38000 new stuff on LBO web site -- rank: 1000

I've just added three articles to the LBO website - a review of George Soros' latest book <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Soros.html>, a polemic on the war in Yugoslavia <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Kosovo.html>, and an interview with Robert Hayden <<http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Hayden.html>. Those of you who inexplicably don't subscribe can check them out, and those of you who do can experience the same texts in a new medium, peppered with hyperlinks. Also, a redesigne ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 13 19:21:24 PDT 1999

38001 Curtis Le May Jr.? -- rank: 1000

CounterPunch wrote: >This on pulverising civilian targets in Belgrade from US Air Commander Lt. >Gen. Michael Short in today's NYT. > >JSC > >"I think no power to your refrigerator, no gas to your stove, you can't get >to work because the bridge is down - the bridge on which you held your rock >concerts -- and you all stood with targets on your heads. That needs to >disappear at 3 o'clock in the morning." Is the rhetoric around this war more violent than the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 13 13:30:06 PDT 1999

38002 Greenspan on military conversion -- rank: 1000

Excerpt from statement of Alan Greenspan Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System: Conduct of Monetary Policy Committee on Banking and Financial Services House of Representatives, February 24, 1999 "It is difficult to judge whether these significant shifts in the market environment in which firms function is sufficient to account for our benign overall price behavior during the past half decade. Undoubtedly, other factors have been at work as well, including those tempora ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 13 13:25:10 PDT 1999

38003 correction -- rank: 1000

Salon is about to post this correction: "Early versions of the story 'Wall Street Lovefest' included a quote by Doug Henwood of the Left Business Observer referring to outgoing Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin as 'an abrasive prick.' Henwood actually used the phrase to describe Lawrence Summers, Clinton's nominee to succeed Rubin. Salon regrets the error." I think that's better than their having gotten it right the first time! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 13 12:45:25 PDT 1999

38004 Intellectual Conservatism -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Bombing has always been primarily a terrorist action against the >civilian population and a nation's infrastructure. Doug posted a >long detailed account of U.S. bombing theory, from Billy >Mitchell to the present, a few weeks ago. > >Doug, perhaps you should repost that. It contained invaluable >information. If you overlook the Spart boilerplate scattered throughout, an excellent history... Doug ---- THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF U.S. TERROR BOMBING How Washingto ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 13 11:33:06 PDT 1999

38005 Intellectual Conservatism -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >i agree about the hysteria. but, as i understand it, the point of bombing >has always been about destryong strategic communications, transportation, >and energy infrastructure. Don't forget terrorizing the civilian population! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 13 11:03:04 PDT 1999

38006 TSC's 21-40 -- rank: 1000

[Today's installment of TheStreet.com's top 100.] 40. The OPEC oil shock: 1973-74. Angered at the West's support of Israel in the Arab-Israeli War, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia in October 1973 sanctions an oil embargo by the powerful Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The countries, including pals like Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Nigeria, keep much of the world at their mercy for five months, with effects stretching well beyond. Among the most significant: Sammy Hagar's I Can't Drive 55. T ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 13 10:52:28 PDT 1999

38007 Forward on Balkans Action Committee -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown forwarded: >Today's NY Times has an ad sponsored by a group calling itself the Balkans >Action Committee calling for Nato ground forces in Yugoslavia. It is signed >by an odd mixture of neoconservatives and "leftists" including Bianca >Jagger.... Bianca Jagger had an editorial in a recent issue of The Nation that was actually written by Ian Williams, the magazine's UN correspondent. Williams also wrote, along with Wing Commander Bogdan Denitch, a Nation editor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 13 10:29:49 PDT 1999

38008 correction to correction -- rank: 1000

Ooops. That's "abrasive prick," not "abusive." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 13 10:23:33 PDT 1999

38009 Today's Salon (continued) -- "Abrasive prick" -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick quoted: >Rubin was the darling of Wall Street 'because he was one of them,' >Henwood continued. 'But he's also known as an abrasive prick and a lot >of people don't like him. A lot of people on Wall Street look at Summers >as more of a pointy-headed Harvard boy, whereas Rubin was one of their >own. He may have to prove himself by being more of a hard-ass than Rubin >was.' Oh damn, I missed this first time around. It's Summers that's the abusive prick, not Rubin. By ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 13 10:21:38 PDT 1999

38010 MAI mk2 - Int'l Network to Stage Protests in Seattle US against WTO -- rank: 1000

D.L. wrote: > It seems to me that Marxists, particularly Marxists in and around the >Seattle area, should come up with something a little better than a >demonstration by workers on antiquated capitals against free trade. Free >trade, as such, is something that socialism would clearly foster, if it >could. What we protest against is capitalism, not markets, not free trade, >not industrial development, and it is time to say that. The conclusion to Marx's 1848 speech on free tra ...

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Date:	Thu May 13 09:21:59 PDT 1999