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38851 those dumb workers -- rank: 1000

[This bounced because it was posted from a non-sub'd address.] From: "kelley" <d-m-c at worldnet.att.net> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 20:48:34 -0400 during the npr coverage of clinton's state of the union address last year, the program visited three different areas of the country to speak to 'ordinary' people. they visited a latino family in their living room an upper middle class black family in their living room and in their church, and then they visited an irish bar in working cla ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 20 17:55:34 PDT 1999

38852 Pseudo-populism, the idiotic masses, and gadfly Nation columnists -- rank: 1000

Alex LoCascio wrote: >I hate to break it to >some folks, but a gift subscription to Extra and a collection of >Chomsky's works isn't going to turn the working class around. The >problems are a lot deeper than mere ignorance. No kidding. Which is why it's important to figure out how ideology works, and to return to one of the founding concerns of this list, Judy B's analysis of the origins of the subject in subjection. All those hardheaded sorts who think that a better empiricism wil ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 20 17:54:08 PDT 1999

38853 prison labor -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Just out of curiousity, is he related to Michael Parenti? Yup. Son. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 20 17:50:20 PDT 1999

38854 KPFA on 'net -- rank: 1000

[this bounced because it was posted from a non-sub'd address] From: "Alex Lantsberg" <alex at saej.org> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 14:23:42 -0700 KPFA TO BE BROADCAST LIVE OVER INTERNET FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sameer Parekh 650 812 9400x134> 510 291 2283 Within the next few days, KPFA programmers will continue their regular programming. Because The Pacifica Foundation has shut down the radio station and seized control of the KPFA frequency and transmitters. The new Free KPF ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 20 15:31:30 PDT 1999

38855 John-John, RIP -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Hitchens, though perhaps not the best authority, >did a persuasive piece in Salon which explained >why, given his circumstances, John Jr. was not a >bad guy. It's almost enough to make you believe Hitchens is a sexist. It's ok to make fun of Mother T and Lady D, but John-John, a pampered dimwit with a crappy magazine, well he's not a bad guy after all. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 20 13:33:10 PDT 1999

38856 let teachers kill unruly students! -- rank: 1000

Things are getting mighty strange on the so-called left. I just read this in the new Counterpunch (an item I believe that the CP editor on this list had nothing to do with, which is another way of saying it was written by Alexander Cockburn): "One of the pleasures of talking to Larry Pratt, executive director of the Gun Owners of America, is hearing Charlton Heston denounced as a chardonnay-swilling Hollywood sellout.... Pratt's solution to the schoolyard killings: Let the teachers bear arm ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 20 13:19:43 PDT 1999

38857 John-John, RIP -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >btw, why is it that polls are frequently attacked on this list for being >the tripe that they are, but when it comes to a poll that mirrors a view of >the world that's acceptable then a-okay and hurray to polls. So the American masses don't really revere the church, the army, and cops after all? Were they really disturbed that their military bombed the fuck out of some poor slobs in the Balkans, and just kept that concern under wraps? Ditto their great underappreciated co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 20 12:57:01 PDT 1999

38858 currency boards -- rank: 1000

Oh yes, the present crisis in Argentina, with its much touted currency board (i.e., effective dollarization), is a good negative example of the relationship between a currency's value and national productivity levels. Argentine industry is just no match for the U.S., but it's adopted the U.S. currency as its standard. The effect of this is to make Argentine products progressively more expensive on world markets. Without the dollar peg, the Argentine peso would sink in value if it were freely tra ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 20 11:32:50 PDT 1999

38859 John-John, RIP -- rank: 1000

alexlocascio at juno.com wrote: >Christ, all the fawning makes one wonder if people truly want to be free. > It's no wonder that for the past quarter century or so Leftists have >been looking to the Third World for liberation struggles. Apart from a >few brave labor and black liberation fighters, this country is full of >snivellers. ...who, as Gallup told us yesterday, most respect (in descending order) the army, the Church, and cops. Who needs fascism when you've got a polity li ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 20 11:39:59 PDT 1999

38860 Green Malthusians promoting cause -- rank: 1000

[This is from the frightening folks at Negative Population Growth <http://www.npg.org>. They've got some big bucks on their side in the Packard Foundation.] Packard Foundation CEO: 'More attention needed on population issues' By Reshma Prakash Earth Times News Service July 20, 1999 Governments need to increase their spending on population and reproductive health activities, while the media should pay more attention to how population growth affects economic and social development, according ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 20 11:21:18 PDT 1999

38861 The Irish Miracle -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: > Doug wrote: > > > Wolf himself says: > > > > >Ireland has prospered by offering investors a stable, profitable, > > >English-speaking base for production aimed at the EU market. > > > > How many of those are there? > > > > > The IMF would say that any developing country could be another >Ireland if it only got its policies in order. (Unless you're referring to >the "English-speaking" part, which ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 20 10:07:30 PDT 1999

38862 Macdonia on brink of crisis -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - July 20 1999 MACEDONIA IS 'ON THE BRINK OF CRISIS' The government says the international community has failed to fulfil promises made at the height of the Kosovo conflict, writes Joe Cook Macedonia is on the brink of an economic crisis that could trigger conflict between the country's Slavic majority and large Albanian minority, say government leaders and diplomats. The government of the former Yugoslav republic blames its desperate economic plight on what it perceives as the ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 20 09:07:04 PDT 1999

38863 prison labor -- rank: 1000

[When the topic of prison labor in the U.S. came up here recently, I mentioned that Christian Parenti told me that its role is far smaller than you'd guess from the hype. I've got galleys for his forthcoming Verso book, Lockdown America, and here's the relevant passage. Christian argues that the real significance of mass imprisonment isn't the narrow economic interest that appeals to muckrakers, but U.S. capital's attempt to manage a surplus population.] PRISON LABOR: SAVIOR, DEMON, OR DUD? Anot ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 20 08:53:27 PDT 1999

38864 Ghana joins protests over gold sales -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >I take your point, Chris - but it's a damned diffcult call - impoverishing >Africans by supporting their economic marginalisation in the hope that a >continental support mechanism involving all nation-states might ensue is >placing an awful lot of faith in a system where clout is ever more a >function of one's relevance to the global economy. I, too, was under the >impression gold was on its way to the status of lapis lazuli, but Doug and >not a few other ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 20 08:45:14 PDT 1999

38865 Ghana joins protests over gold sales -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >Hanging on to a declining metal for the sake of some jobs is a reform that >is quite reformist. Economist in fact. "[G]old has become part of the apparatus of conservatismŠ." - Keynes, Treatise on Money. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 20 08:04:34 PDT 1999