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38551 NATO Bomb Kills Two Peacekeepers -- rank: 1000

kirsten neilsen wrote: >before you are tempted to accuse me of supporting >milo, just stop. One of the things I've found most depressing about this evil war has been all the side-taking. Either you're pro-NATO or pro-Milo. You've got leftists condemning the KLA as a bunch of gangsters, or treating them as a liberation movement worthy of support; condemning Serbia as fascist and genocidal or canonizing it as a hardy outpost of socialism. In other words, there's hardly been a position that d ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 22 10:05:18 PDT 1999

38552 Orange crush -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >it was written......by some wankers: > >"This is the scandal of this mafia left; it is so intellectually insecure >that does not know what to think of what it reads. Until her last post, >Carrol Cox was convinced that TRANSFORMATION was quite a "good" thing... >now she is not so sure anymore. Soon, undoubtedly Henwood will change his >view on LUDIC FEMINISM, Cox will perform (as all performative leftists do) >an interpretive acrobatics and ch ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 22 09:15:59 PDT 1999

38553 Unemployment, poverty and prisoners -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >this, in the context of late capitalism >is an affront, since it makes the unemployed commensurate with the idle rich. Who hardly exist anymore. Today's rich, at least those in the U.S., typically work long hours. Even today's rentiers often put in 10-12 hour days at trading desks. As far as I know, pure coupon-clippers aren't a significant social force. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 22 09:06:30 PDT 1999

38554 Marx on Smith -- rank: 1000

It's hard enough, it seems, to define "productive" labor. But leaving that aside, what's the point of the category? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 22 08:46:19 PDT 1999

38555 World Bank & Tibet -- rank: 1000

[Interesting. Is this the Hollywood influence on the Clinton administration? From the World Bank's daily press briefing.] US, ALLIES ASK WORLD BANK TO RECONSIDER CHINA PROJECT The US and its allies have asked the World Bank to revise a controversial new project in China, saying a vote scheduled for today on whether to finance it would likely fail, AFP reports. Twelve of the World Bank's 24 Executive Directors urged World Bank President James Wolfensohn in a letter to "find a compromise&quo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 22 08:41:49 PDT 1999

38556 more on UC unionizing -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education web daily - June 22, 1999 TEACHING ASSISTANTS ON 2 MORE U. OF CALIFORNIA CAMPUSES VOTE TO UNIONIZE By COURTNEY LEATHERMAN Graduate teaching assistants on all eight University of California campuses where the unionization question was put to a vote have won their battles. Now comes the real test -- bargaining for contracts. Organizers with the unions -- all affiliates of the United Auto Workers -- claimed a 68-percentage-point margin of victory statewide and a 55-per ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 22 08:35:13 PDT 1999

38557 dissent on Greens -- rank: 1000

[This bounced because it had an attachment. I got this info from Janet Biehl of the Left Green Network in Vermont. She said that one of the founders of the German Greens - whose name escapes me right now - went over to the neo-Nazis during the Gulf War for the reason I cited. I'll try to track down more info.] Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:52:39 +0200 From: Harald Schumann <HSchumann at spiegel.de> Organization: DER SPIEGEL Redaktionsvertretung Berlin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [de] (Win95; I) MIM ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 22 07:05:29 PDT 1999

38558 Africa - war & refugees -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - June 22, 1999 WAR IN AFRICA - THE BIGGEST CONFLICT IN THE WORLD By Patrick Gilkes Away from the gaze of most of the world's media, Eritrea and Ethiopia are fighting the world's biggest war. Tens of thousands have been killed, wounded and captured on each side, in fighting that uses First World War tactics, combined with modern weapons. Last week Eritrea failed to re-take Badme, the disputed triangle of desert in the Horn of Africa which all the fighting has supposedly been ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 21 21:39:02 PDT 1999

38559 Blair: no turning back -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - June 22, 1999 BLAIR: NO RETURN TO OLD LABOUR Ewen MacAskill and Michael White Tony Blair will today dismiss calls from union leaders to switch the focus of the government's attention to Labour's traditional voters in the wake of the disastrous European election result. The prime minister will use a speech in Birmingham to make clear that he sees the middle-class and Tory vote as a key Labour target. "New Labour was elected by people of all ages and backgrounds," he ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 21 21:34:42 PDT 1999

38560 Italy wavering on euro? -- rank: 1000

Telegraph (London) - June 22, 1999 EURO PLUNGES AS PRODI SAYS ITALY MAY QUIT By Toby Helm in Luxembourg and George Jones THE euro was hit by another crisis of confidence yesterday when Romano Prodi, president-designate of the European Commission, questioned Italy's long-term ability to remain inside the single currency. Mr Prodi was quoted by Italy's main news agency, Ansa, as saying: "We have had a very low inflation, only two per cent, but other European competitors have had one per cent. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 21 21:25:14 PDT 1999

38561 Fwd: GDP per person living with HIV/AIDS -- rank: 1000

>Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 20:30:03 -0400 >From: James Love <love at cptech.org> >To: Multiple recipients of list INFO-POLICY-NOTES ><info-policy-notes at essential.org> >Subject: GDP per person living with HIV/AIDS > >Shivan Mehta has put together a web page >on the GDP per person living with HIV/AIDS >in several countries, here: > > http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/sa/aidsgdp1.html > >A few countries show the problems in access to >HIV/AIDS dr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 21 19:42:38 PDT 1999

38562 Making the rich richer -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >I don't understand how they can live with the cognitive dissonance >here: on one hand, the government should not "give" people any >resources because it undermines their motivation to work; on the >other hand, giving people inheritance money is an incentive to >acculmulate yet more wealth. Any logically consistent, rugged >individualist capitalist would reject the notion of wealth transfer >via inheritance. Interesting how the rhetoric of &q ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 21 18:59:06 PDT 1999

38563 more Pacifica -- rank: 1000

[This bounced because of the taboo word "s*bscribe" at the end.] Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 20:26:25 -0500 (CDT) From: jf noonan <jfn1 at msc.com> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: LAB members challenge Pacifica by-laws changes (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.10.9906212020461.8324-100000 at pcjfn.msc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII There's been interest on the list about the goings on at Pacifica. I've been a mostly lurker and sometime fla ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 21 18:56:40 PDT 1999

38564 Fwd: KPFA arrests ongoing -- rank: 1000

[The latest news on the Pacifica wars.] NEWS June 21, 1999 Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica Andrea Buffa 415-546-6334 x309 or mobile phone 415-303-3540. KPFA Air Goes Dead as Programmers, Listeners Protest Pacifica Arrests Nine Peaceful Demonstrators BERKELEY, CA - On the morning of June 21 Berkeley Police arrested nine peaceful demonstrators at community broadcaster KPFA at the request of Pacifica Radio Director Lynne Chadwick. Over 300 outraged KPFA listeners and staff gathered on Sunday Ju ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 21 18:18:53 PDT 1999

38565 katie roiphe -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >also, greg, i pointed out who i knew was an addict/alcoholic. is that not >enough for you? and personally, who cares if they're drunk, high. is it >less wrong to beat someone else up? Besides, lots of us drink and/or consume other intoxicants and don't beat anyone up. So chemicals can explain only part of the problem. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 21 15:27:13 PDT 1999