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38686 American Front -- rank: 1000

alister air wrote: >They seem like classic fascists - pro (white) worker and pro-government all >at the same time, with a healthy dose of family thrown in. > >I don't think it's too hard to spot what they're on about. No, what's different about these folks from classical Nazis is that they don't celebrate (explicitly) the superiority of the white race and posit an entire hierarchy of races - they say we're all just different. Which is why it's a "multicultural" racism. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 6 18:49:39 PDT 1999

38687 Marcos on Yugo: the alchemy of money -- rank: 1000

[From Autopsy.] Date: Saturday, June 5, 1999 10:15:41 -0500 From: Contact Office for the International Consulta <campanas at laneta.apc.org> **************************************************** Zapatista Army of National Liberation Mexico June of 1999 To the peoples in struggle against the war: To Social Europe: To the men and women who are saying "No!": Brothers and Sisters: Greetings to all from the zapatistas of Mexico. All over the world different mobilizations and activ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 6 18:06:25 PDT 1999

38688 Hitchens's best seller -- rank: 1000

Peter Kilander wrote: >Chrisopher Hitchens' No One Left to Lie To is in a three-way tie for 11th >place on the New York Times Best Seller List. Probably a first for Verso, >no? Oh yes, sales are strongest in "conservative" cities, they say. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 6 09:28:12 PDT 1999

38689 Hitchens's best seller -- rank: 1000

Peter Kilander wrote: >Chrisopher Hitchens' No One Left to Lie To is in a three-way tie for 11th >place on the New York Times Best Seller List. Probably a first for Verso, >no? Yes. 80,000 units moved at last count. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 6 09:24:24 PDT 1999

38690 White Power fantasies -- rank: 1000

Damn, the White Power crowd is on the march. The central New York chapter of White Aryan Resistance just sent me their latest bulletin, along with a personal note. What did I do to deserve this?!? Among the contents, this little paranoid fantasy. Like the U.S. government would really print up coupons labeled "PETROL." Doug ---- >MEAT & PETROL > >From: wotansfolk at usa.net (bob kelly) >Date: Sat, May 22, 1999, 9:09 pm >To: CNYWP at webtv.net >Subject: *** URGENT * ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 6 09:09:31 PDT 1999

38691 Russian health crisis -- rank: 1000

[From the Heritage Foundation, of all places, via Johnson's Russia List. The full piece is about 72k. The irruption of ideology towards the end betrays the source. So are the 5 million "excess deaths" the partial work of the IMF and U.S. government, just as Chinese famine deaths were Mao's fault?] Policy Review June & July 1999, No. 95 Published by The Heritage Foundation, Washington DC http://www.policyreview.com/jun99/eberstadt.html Russia: Too Sick to Matter? By NICHOLAS EBERSTA ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 6 08:22:34 PDT 1999

38692 More on Racism -- rank: 1000

Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >Will there be no end? I think this exchange over racism has reached the end of its useful life. Positions are well known, and no minds are about to be changed. No doubt it will come up again, but can we leave it behind for now? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 6 08:00:35 PDT 1999

38693 politics of chlorine -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Sun, 30 May 1999, Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> from David Harvey's Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference, >> pp. 399-401. ><snip> >> The demand to cease the >> production of all toxins, hazardous wastes, and radioactive materials, if >> taken literally, would prove disastrous to the public health and well-being >> of large segments of the population, including the poor (Greenpeace's >> parallel campaign ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 6 07:58:54 PDT 1999

38694 Rowthorn in IMF Staff Papers -- rank: 1000

Robert Rowthorn has a paper, co-written with Ramana Ramaswamy, in the new issue of IMF Staff Papers. Ramaswamy is a staff economist at the IMF. The paper argues that deindustrialization is "explained primarily by developments that are internal to the advanced economies" - productivity growth and shifts in demands away from mfg and towards services. "North-south trade explains less than one-fifth of deindustrialization," and has had little effect on manufacturing output in the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 5 21:01:01 PDT 1999

38695 Kosovo compromise -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >We'ren't they under that anyway? For that they had to go to war? >There's evidence the IMF was stepping all over Serbia. But is >there evidence that Milo's regime was putting up some kind of >resistance? It looks like they haven't been servicing their debts since 1992. The IMF/WB/BIS/OECD joint debt figures are blank, but the 1997 figures in the WB's Global Development Finance show $15.1 billion in total debt, with $2.0 billion in interest arrears and $6.7 billi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 5 19:02:32 PDT 1999

38696 drugs -- rank: 1000

Ok, here's what Briefing.com says about drugs & biotech. "2" is their rating on a system of 1 (best) to 5 (worst). I'm not citing this as wise, just an example of Wall Street opinion. Doug ---- 15) MEDICAL, BIO....2...........6/01...........(=) Comment: Living up to our expectations, Biotechs continued to outpaced the market over the past few months. However, reflecting a trend in the broader market, leadership torch was passed from the large-cap industry leaders to second tier pla ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 5 12:17:46 PDT 1999

38697 Ruder Finn Labelling Serbs as Nazis w/ picture -- rank: 1000

By the way, LM's version of the story is at <http://www.informinc.co.uk/ITN-vs-LM/index.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 5 11:35:16 PDT 1999

38698 Kosovo compromise -- rank: 1000

W. Kiernan wrote: >"Surrender"? NATO is now ready to buy essentially the same deal they >could have gotten in March before the aerial blitzkrieg. But there is >an enormous difference between then and now. One difference is that Yugoslavia is a wreck. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 5 11:08:48 PDT 1999

38699 Debut of retailworker.com -- rank: 1000

[from the folks that helped bring you the Borders organizing campaign...] From: "Kevin LaPalme" <klapalme at atecone.net> To: ankh at retailworker.com Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 09:25:45 -0400 Subject: Debut of retailworker.com Reply-to: kevin at retailworker.com Joanne King, Jason Chappell, Wesley Gibbs, and I are pleased to announce the debut of a new website, <http://www.retailworker.com>. Retail Worker is a source for retail labor and activism news. It is also the new home ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 5 11:06:04 PDT 1999

38700 Russia's contribution -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Los Angeles Times - June 4, 1999 PERSPECTIVE ON KOSOVO Like It or Not, Russia's the White Knight This Time By bringing Moscow front and center in peace negotiations, NATO is weakening itself as key arbiter. By ROBERT HUNTER Robert E. Hunter, a Senior Advisor at Rand Corp. in Washington, Was U.S. Ambassador to Nato From 1993-98 The Kosovo peace plan accepted on Thursday by the Serbian parliament was the product of intense bargaining between NATO--represented by the U ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 5 10:48:44 PDT 1999