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38431 Horowitz -- rank: 1000

[this bounced because of conflicting addresses] Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 09:04:13 -0800 From: kirsten neilsen <kirsten at infothecary.org> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Re: Horowitz's center References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990303103832.6575A-100000 at gsbalum.uchicago.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit from http://www.cspc.org/ The Center for the Study of t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 3 09:29:52 PST 1999

38432 Horowitz's center -- rank: 1000

T. C. Frank wrote: >The story on Horowitz's latest doings cited him as a director of the >"Center for the Study of Popular Culture." Anybody know what this is or >what they do? Well they've got a website (who doesn't these days? even the Baffler does now) at <http://www.cspc.org/>. The front page has an ad for the Matt Drudge legal defense fund, a promo for a talk (more likely a scream) by CNBC's Chris Matthews, and links to their legal arm (the Individual Rights Foundat ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 3 09:26:10 PST 1999

38433 job opp't'y -- rank: 1000

[I've been asked to circulate this. - Doug] Job Opening Foreign Policy Analyst/Editor Foreign Policy in Focus Project* Interhemispheric Resource Center Job Responsibilities · Managing editor for Foreign Policy In Focus Project · Work with Project Codirectors in assigning and editing policy briefs, reports, and books · Guide materials through production process · Help expand project's relations with other think tanks, scholars, and analysts · Share responsibility with project directors and instit ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 3 08:33:51 PST 1999

38434 Horowitz v Menchu -- rank: 1000

[What that scumbag Horowitz is up to now...] Chronicle of Higher Education - daily web update - Wednesday, March 3, 1999 Through Ads, Conservative Group Attacks Professors Who Defend Controversial Book By DENISE K. MAGNER A conservative think tank is running advertisements in student newspapers at six leading universities attacking professors who have defended Rigoberta Menchú's controversial autobiography even though the book has been labeled a fraud. The Center for the Study of Popular Culture ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 3 08:03:26 PST 1999

38435 Horace Tapscott on WKCR in NY -- rank: 1000

Sam Pawlett wrote: >The following has nothing to do with left business observing but... That's not a requirement for posting here. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 3 07:30:17 PST 1999

38436 Buchanan and the Balkans (was Re: Buchanan, sole voice against free trade?) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The only thing that's right about Buchanan was his position on Bosnia. Is there a Nazi angle to it? Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 20:50:08 PST 1999

38437 Buchanan, sole voice against free trade? -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >I haven't seen any of these cheap consumer goods that you mention on any >recent trips to any department stores or discount-department stores. Hey, c'mon. I bought a Sony 19" color TV, basic model, for $420 in 1981; in 1997, I bought one for $300. I'd say that's a cheap consumer good. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 20:47:09 PST 1999

38438 Alex LoC sez... -- rank: 1000

[Alex sent this after unsub'ing.] To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 20:33:19 +0000 Subject: Unsubbing temporarily Message-ID: <19990302.203337.-70169.0.alexlocascio at juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 2.0.11 X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-1,3-7 X-Juno-Att: 0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit LBOriginies, Will be visiting my brother in Miami, be back on the 14th. Send any interesting articles, alerts, petitions, etc. to my address. Cheers, Alex

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 20:16:11 PST 1999

38439 State of the Left -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Excerpt from: > >http://www.progressive.org/conniff9903.htm >Here, before he was quickly cut off by Chairman Archer, Kemp let >the cat out of the bag: If we continue having even modest >economic growth, there is no reason to believe the Social >Security system will reach a crisis. . . . Max, you truncated your excerpt before this wonderful passage: <quote> The projected shortfall in Social Security, around the year 2032, according to the system's tr ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 12:52:06 PST 1999

38440 EPI, Max and Free Trade -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >This was well-taken. You could see 'takings' legislation >as a type of deregulation. In both cases, democratic >prerogatives are reclassified as "rights" and vested >in property owners. Speaking of takings, there's this little item from today's CLEAR View, a (Rockefeller-funded) anti-wise-use e-newsletter: >"Kansas has a group that utilizes ideals put forth in the Communist >Manifesto and practiced by the Nazis in W.W. II. The name of this ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 12:47:00 PST 1999

38441 cynical slippages and meta-narratives... -- rank: 1000

Paul Henry Rosenberg wrote: >I'm not a text. I'm a roomful of monkeys. That may be, but to me, you're still a series of texts. You type very well for a bunch of simians. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 12:42:00 PST 1999

38442 Brenner on dollar devaluation -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Moreover, recent devaluations in Thailand, South Korea, Malaysia, etc have >not stimulated the kind of export boom that Mexico's peso devaluation >enabled in 1994. There seems to be at best a weak linear relationship >between devaluations and exports. It's not simple, that's for sure. U.S. MNCs took advantage of Mexico's collapse and stepped up investment and production, since the devaluation cut Mexican costs to a fraction of what they were beforehand; nothin ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 09:33:33 PST 1999

38443 well not Eden exactly.... -- rank: 1000

["Into this Eden there enters a thrift campaign..." - Keynes, Treatise on Money, vol. 1, p. 158] From: socsec_list at mail.socsec.org To: socsec_list at mail.socsec.org Subject: Media Advisory: Economists for Increased National Savings Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 11:22:19 -0500 Originator: socsec_list at mail.socsec.org X-GroupMasterUser: TCF ECONOMISTS FOR INCREASED NATIONAL SAVINGS **MEDIA ADVISORY** Use through MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1999, 10 a.m.EST Top Economists, Including Six Nobel Prize W ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 08:37:40 PST 1999

38444 cynical slippages and meta-narratives... -- rank: 1000

Paul Henry Rosenberg wrote: >"The world" does not exist! Only texts! One thing's for sure - for me, *you* exist only as a text. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 08:34:46 PST 1999

38445 Buchanan, sole voice against free trade? -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >The presidential nominee race is obviously >thin on the Democratic side, and neither >candidate has any chance of criticizing >trade rules. But it should be recognized >that the media consistently elevate Buchanan >(who is announcing for prez today) >as the sole political critic of free trade >and neglect everyone on the liberal side >except Ralph Nader, who isn't a politician. > >So equations of anti-free trade and the >right should be re ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 08:21:30 PST 1999