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38491 Kissinger on humanitarian war -- rank: 1000

Telegraph (London) - June 28, 1999 COLD WAR WARRIOR SCORNS 'NEW MORALITY' Whatever happened to wars fought in the national interest? Boris Johnson talks to Henry Kissinger IT'S just too much: the celestial choirs, the haloes. Henry can't stand it. Never mind the conduct of the Kosovo war; he objects to "the appalling, oozing self-righteousness with which it is being presented to the American public - the distinction also being made by your people between moral wars and national interest war ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 28 07:57:35 PDT 1999

38492 Meatpacking in the Mid-West -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >http://www.thenation.com/1997/issue/970203/0203coop.htm > >Read the above---you may decide to become a vegetarian. Of course, we shouldn't forget about the people who tend & pick those vegetables. And organic farming requires more stoop labor than the chemical kind. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 28 07:06:10 PDT 1999

38493 NYSE-FARC -- rank: 1000

[The "president of capitalism" touts shareholder democracy to armed revolutionaries....] Financial Times - June 28 1999 NYSE CHIEF MEETS COLOMBIAN GUERRILLAS By Adam Thomson in Bogotá Richard Grasso, chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, travelled to Colombia at the weekend to sell capitalism to the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), a leftwing group that has a tradition of targeting US interests in Colombia. Mr Grasso spent several hours with Raúl Reye ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 28 06:59:35 PDT 1999

38494 Pacifica hires armed guards -- rank: 1000

Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 21:52:51 -0800 From: dennis bernstein <dbernstein at igc.org> To: "freepacifica at penguin.josephson.com" <freepacifica at penguin.josephson.com> Subject: {FP} FOUR ARMED GUARDS FOIL DUET AT KPFA FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 4 ARMED SECURITY GUARDS FOIL SINGING DUET AT KPFA FREE-SPEECH RADIO Sunday, June 27, 1999 A new twist in the battle for the soul of Pacifica. The network has hired plain- clothes armed guards to "defend" the station round the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 28 06:25:23 PDT 1999

38495 Marxian vs. bourgeios categories [was Marx on Smith] -- rank: 1000

Roger Odisio wrote: >Doug has a point about much of the previous stat work in this area. It >hasn't been very good. My point, however, is that it is fertile ground, the >kind of analysis most likely to produce real understanding. What kind of understanding? You concede: >The ratio of unproductive to productive labor has been growing in this >century (see Fred Moseley, James Becker), rather continuously, with no >necessary connection to either prosperity or depression. The qu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 27 10:50:39 PDT 1999

38496 prison -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >in _Discipline & Punish_, Foucault reminds us to judge a society by its >prisons... And, though this quote has become a bit of a cliche, Foucault's questions are always worth asking: "Is it surprising that the cellular prison, with its regular chronologies, forced labour, its authorities of surveillance and registration, its experts in normality, who continue and multiply the functions of the judge, should have become the modern instrument of penality? Is it ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 27 08:48:16 PDT 1999

38497 Fwd: Re: class struggle -- rank: 1000

[I asked Jamie Galbraith about his Nation edit, and here's his response. He ok'd forwarding this. - Doug] X-Sender: Galbraith at mail.utexas.edu Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 14:06:11 -0500 To: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> From: "James K. Galbraith" <Galbraith at mail.utexas.edu> Subject: Re: class struggle Mime-Version: 1.0 Well, intimidating labor may be their game, but that isn't fighting inflation and no amount of semantics can turn it into fighting inflation. It does ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 26 20:13:08 PDT 1999

38498 NYSE boss meets Colombian rebel -- rank: 1000

[Fred Rosen, editor of NACLA's Report on the Americas, told me the other night that the Colombian rebel groups have pretty much lost their ideological passions and are just in it out of habit by now. Don't know how true that is, but that's what he said.] Reuters - June 26 8:46 PM ET NYSE Chief Meets Top Colombia Rebel Leader BOGOTA (Reuters) - The head of the New York Stock Exchange held face-to-face talks Saturday with a leader of Colombia's main Marxist rebel group, government sources said. Th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 26 19:24:06 PDT 1999

38499 Fisk -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: > >And I decided that this was not the time for my terrible questions. > >Perhaps it is not the time on these lists either. Eh? If you're implying that there's no interest in investigating Serb atrocities, there's no objection from me. They're no angels in my book. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 26 11:20:01 PDT 1999

38500 immigrant meatpackers on the line -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >What stuff! Continuing declines in the rate at which real wages are >increasing!! The best way to get the increase in the real wage at 1% >(aside from admitting how much inflation has been downplayed) would be to >push the unemployment rate down to 3%. Seriously! Perhaps the good news >will push potential immigrants over the hump; the forbidding news will >force capital to speed up its ability to relocate. The paradox of a >declining official unemplo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 26 10:46:55 PDT 1999

38501 Marxian vs. bourgeios categories [was Marx on Smith] -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: > So I think >I understand part at least of what Doug means when he insists on >using the term "political." What I'm talking about is the origin of surplus value in exploitation, and the origin of the phenomenal categories of profit, interest, and rent as being a division of SV in the real world (a division that involves an intra-capitalist power struggle). Those seem like facts to me, but of course I'm biased (along with being superficial). I'm still convinc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 26 09:39:56 PDT 1999

38502 What is the interest of bondholders? -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >It will be interesting to see if, in the event of a significant >equity market decline, whether Mom & Pop Day Trader will turn their >interest to bonds on eTrade. I can think of all kinds of interesting >ways to re-productize bonds for an individual investor that could >make this possible ... Whatsamatta, futures and options on futures not good enough? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 26 09:31:05 PDT 1999

38503 the fringe center -- rank: 1000

[Micah Sifry's look at the state of 3rd party politics in the U.S., a hotbed - or warmbed - of the "radical center."] From: msifry at publicampaign.org Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 17:04:11 -0500 To: msifry at publicampaign.org Subject: Sifry on Reform Party MIME-version: 1.0 Friends and colleagues--here's an advance, pre-edited version of my report on the Reform Party and the presidential campaign of 2000, which will be up on Salon's website later tonite. Micah ----- Micah L. Sifry What's w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 26 09:30:13 PDT 1999

38504 What is the interest of bondholders? -- rank: 1000

Juan Jose Barrios wrote: >Bondholders (correct me if I am wrong) >usually are long term players, while currency and stock holders are more >short-term guys, who play with the *value* rather than the *interest >rate* they get. > >In other words, bondholders may well want higher interest rate because >they probably want to keep the bonds instead of selling them. Life insurance companies buy & hold. But there are plenty of traders who turn bonds over almost as quickly as st ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 26 09:05:46 PDT 1999

38505 Marxian vs. bourgeios categories [was Marx on Smith] -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Jeez, Doug, I think I have shown how on the basis of said distinction a >marxist analysis of state spending was developed that demonstrated the >unsustainability, impotence, and counterproductiveness of debt financed >state spending even before the Keynesian project went up in smoke in the >70s, provides an explanation for the weak macro effects of deficits in the >80s, and clarifies why govts around the world have been trying to get their >houses in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 26 09:04:08 PDT 1999