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38581 Left and Right converge on Economic Nationalism -- rank: 1000

Pat Buchanan wrote: > America First. We need a new foreign policy that ends foreign aid, and >pulls up all the trip wires laid down abroad to involve American soldiers >in wars that are none of America's business. And we need to demand that >rich allies begin paying the full cost of their own defense. > > Economic Nationalism. Rather than making "global free trade" a golden >calf which we all bow down to, and worship, all trade deals should be >judged by wheth ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 20 08:49:14 PDT 1999

38582 prisoners replace workfare -- rank: 1000

[Having just argued that prison labor's role isn't as important as some people think, here's an interesting report to the contrary that someone just passed along to me.] PRISONERS 'HIRED.' EX-WELFARE CLIENTS FIRED. By Rhonda Cook, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution To save money, a struggling South Georgia recycling plant fired workers hired off welfare to sort trash for $5.25 an hour. They were replaced with free convict labor, bypassing a Georgia law that prohibits prisoners' taking the place of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 20 08:45:02 PDT 1999

38583 Y/E -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >And all of those countries are more egalitarian than the US. So average >people in those countries are better off than we are in money terms -- in >the case of Germany, *way* better off. How come this never stops us from >pitying them and lecturing them on how to be like us? Because the pundits and economists who do the lecturing are the slavish lackeys of big capital, and because the U.S. is big capital's paradise, of course! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 20 08:32:35 PDT 1999

38584 laws of capitalism -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >Well, I know Castells has said exploitation is passe. Exclusion is the >phobic phenomenon du juour for him. Does this not imply that the ensnaring >of the unexploited into capital relations might now count as progressive? Why's this an either/or thing? What's wrong with Joan Robinson's formulation, which I quote too often, that under capitalism the only thing worse than being exploited is not being exploited. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 20 08:15:40 PDT 1999

38585 Russia eats humble pie -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - June 20, 1999 HARD-UP RUSSIA EATS HUMBLE PIE Rupert Cornwell in Cologne One glance at the unsmiling, expressionless features of Igor Sergeyev at the press conference late on Friday night in Helsinki was enough. The Kosovo peacekeeping deal achieved after three gruelling days of negotiation was close to a Russian capitulation - and the country's defence minister knew it. How different from a week ago when Moscow, master of diplomatic chess, executed what looked to be a dazz ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 20 07:58:13 PDT 1999

38586 Bush on Iraq: "we have to have a war" -- rank: 1000

[An excerpt from Bob Woodward's new book.] Washington Post Magazine - June 20, 1999 The glare of congressional and media scrutiny complicated Bush's deliberations about the Persian Gulf crisis. In January 1991, Bush met with his national security team to discuss what to do about Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait the previous August. "So if he gets out without a war, that's okay?" Bush asked his chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Colin Powell. "Yes, s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 20 07:46:38 PDT 1999

38587 caravan -- rank: 1000

[This bounced as a non-member submission, but it seemed worth forwarding.] Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 03:45:02 +0200 To: Recipient List Suppressed:; From: PGA Secretariat <pga at agp.org> Subject: Inter-Continental Caravan Reaches Cologne *** please distribute widely *** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Inter-Continental Caravan Reaches Cologne for G8 Summit ******************************************************** Cologne, 16th June 1999 - Around 450 representatives of peoples' movements from the South a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 20 07:30:17 PDT 1999

38588 Sachs -- rank: 1000

[This bounced for an incredibly obscure technical reason.] Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 01:02:11 -1000 From: Stephen E Philion <philion at hawaii.edu> X-Sender: philion at uhunix1 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Mr. Sachs In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19990619142733.013a459c at pop.gn.apc.org> Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9906200100450.25667-100000 at uhunix1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII This man has done enormous damage to massess of people in Russi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 20 07:04:44 PDT 1999

38589 Fwd: 1999-06-19 Statement On Presidents Trip To Americas New Markets -- rank: 1000

["New markets" indeed. Their vulgarity knows no bounds.] Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 19:36 -0400 From: The White House <Publications-Admin at Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.Gov> To: Public-Distribution at Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.Gov Subject: 1999-06-19 Statement On Presidents Trip To Americas New Markets Keywords: Arizona, Business, California, Economy, Government, Kentucky, Legislation, Midwest-Region, Mississippi, Missouri, Plains-States-Region, Social, South-Dakota, South-Region, Urban, West-Region ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 19 20:37:57 PDT 1999

38590 Unemployment 4.2% -- rank: 1000

Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >What ever the implied relationship is between weekly new unemployment claims >and the actually number of workers not working has changed in recent years, >just as p/e ratio norms have changed. Thus it is reasonable to suspect that >the 4.2% unemployment distorts the true unemployment picture more severely now >than a decade ago. What's changed is the narrower coverage of the unemployment benefit system. So, back in the early 1970s, the insured rate was abou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 19 12:57:09 PDT 1999

38591 Unemployment 4.2% -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >At any rate, I don't believe the US unemployment rate measures the >tightness of the labor market in which US capital operates. There are not >only the numerous invisible discouraged American and uncounted migrant >workers on whom US capital can call, there is now a massive surplus global >labor supply that has become available due to decreasing transportation >costs, the capability of building skills into transportable machines (see >MR Raghavan, The ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 19 10:33:51 PDT 1999

38592 debt relief -- rank: 1000

Inter Press Service - June 18, 1999 ECONOMY: G-7 DEBT REDUCATION PLANS DISAPPOINT By Abid Aslam WASHINGTON, Jun. 18 -- Leaders of the "Group of Seven" (G-7) industrial powers have yet to finalize plans to ease the burdens of their poorest debtors -- which has cast a shadow over their summit with Russia this weekend. The G-7 and Russian leaders will be meeting in Cologne, Germany, and while Kosovo is expected to dominate the agenda, they are due to approve plans to bolster the much-vaun ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 19 10:25:51 PDT 1999

38593 unflation -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >And what I'd like to know is, if this effect is being historically >intensified by the Internet? I havn't read biz history, but it seems >there's more that normal of the *change or die* stuff going on in >capitalism because of the Internet. A whole other type of crisis I wonder, >or just an extension of "accumulation by crisis" that Marx talks about. >Maybe it's very close to his experience because of the Industrial Rev.? Rupert Murdoch says the Internet ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 19 10:14:24 PDT 1999

38594 katie roiphe -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >In Europe women have, throughout the greater part of the century, tended >to vote to the right of men. The respectable wing of the British >suffragette movement embraced the war effort in 1914, many of them >playing a leading role in the 'white feather' campaign, in which men who >failed to enlist were denounced as cowards. Today women play a war- >mongering role again, with Louise Arbour, Madeleine Albright and Clare >Short all playing their part. Poi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 19 09:34:24 PDT 1999

38595 Unemployment, poverty and prisoners -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >but, on another related point: if prisoners increasingly work, then why >would prisoners be counted in unemployment stats? wouldn't this mean they >(the proportion of prisoners that do work) be counted as employed? Actually I had a conversation with Christian Parenti, whose book on the U.S. carceral state will be published by Verso in the fall, on just this topic last night. Christian says that there are only a few thousand prisoners working for private corporations, and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 19 09:12:51 PDT 1999