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39451 Hillary, centrist creep like her husband -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >What I think is missing in the understanding of Clinton and Blair is that >the Third Way is so consciously, openly, and conscientiously opportunistic >that it is rather succesful in riding the balance of forces and making them >to a small degree accessible to more democratic pressure. Really? The NY Observer article on Hillary noted: >But once you accept the point that Mrs. Clinton really, really is >every bit as much a New Democrat as Mr. Clinton, you hav ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 24 08:38:32 PST 1999

39452 Hillary, centrist creep like her husband -- rank: 1000

New York Observer - December 27, 1999 The Mystery of Hillary: Her Record Versus Rhetoric by Tish Durkin Some left-wing lunatic Hillary Rodham Clinton is turning out to be. In fact, if you have been writing checks to the Republicans in the belief that Mrs. Clinton doesn't wear all those Mao jackets for nothing, these past few weeks may be enough to make you want your money back. With the notable exceptions of that business about gays serving openly in the military and her tip of the hat to the ho ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 23 20:44:19 PST 1999

39453 Divided Decade -- rank: 1000

[only 8 days late...] United for a Fair Economy For Immediate Release Dec. 15, 1999 Contact: Betsy Leondar-Wright (617) 423-2148 x13 Complete Report: HTML <http://www.stw.org/my_html/Divided.html> PDF <http://www.stw.org/assets/DivDec.pdf> Printed copies are $3.00. To order, contact UFE (see info at bottom of page). More billionaires, more bankruptcies New report reveals growing divide at decade's end The record-breaking economic boom of the 1990s has left Americans more polarized a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 23 16:36:37 PST 1999

39454 legal changes -- rank: 1000

[A friend writes... Can any legal experts on the list help him out? - Doug] I'm wondering where I could find a good, and ideally concise, summary of the major federal legal changes from the late '70s to the late '80s that make up what we all refer to as "financial deregulation". You know -- stuff like raising the FDIC insured account max to $100k, expanding the types of investments S+Ls could make, and so on. Ideally this summary would also include plant-closure laws (if any), tax laws ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 23 16:17:22 PST 1999

39455 Fwd: IMF/World Bank Annual Meeting, September 2000, Prague -- rank: 1000

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY, SORRY FOR CROSS POSTING ________________________________________________ Report of the First International Preparatory meeting for the IMF/World Bank Annual Meeting, September 2000, Prague December 11-12 1999, Prague, Czech Republic Organised by: CE Bankwatch network, A SEED Europe, Friends of the Earth International _______________________________________________ Dear friends, On December 11-12 1999, a small group of people gathered in Prague at the office of Hnuti Duh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 23 15:42:17 PST 1999

39456 race & imperialism -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >racism/colonialism You're treating these as if they're synonymous, but maybe they're not. Does colonization produce our notions of "race"? Did Ron Brown push U.S. capital's interest abroad for racial reasons? Was British exploitation of Ireland "racist" in the sense we understand it? Is Japanese investment in Thailand "racist"? Taiwanese investment in El Salvador? Did capitalism contribute to the end of apartheid? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 23 12:59:58 PST 1999

39457 Kant, Christianity, and Free Will -- rank: 1000

[speaking of Xianity...] Wall Street Journal - December 23, 1999 HOW CHRISTIANITY CREATED CAPITALISM By Michael Novak, winner of the Templeton Prize in 1994 and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Capitalism, it's usually assumed, flowered around the same time as the Enlightenment -- the 18th century -- and, like the Enlightenment, entailed a diminution of organized religion. In fact, the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages was the main locus for the first flowerings of capitalism. Ma ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 23 10:07:27 PST 1999

39458 Fed's print-a-thon -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an address oddity] Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 22:54:48 -0500 From: Enrique Diaz-Alvarez <enrique at ee.cornell.edu> >From Tice's twice weekly commentary. Yeah, Austrians are full of crap. On the other hand, it is a bit surprising that T-bill rates will not stop rising in spite of Uncle Al's unprecedented orgy of money printing, with almost daily coupon passes and twice-daily repos (I know, Y2K and all that, but you don't see other central banks running the presses 48 hours a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 23 08:12:00 PST 1999

39459 contingency -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I am not sure why this shows exaggetation of the issue: these numbers >show nationally, contingent plus "alternative" employment comprises 11.2% >to 13.6% of the economy. You're adding two numbers that shouldn't be combined; not all "nontraditional" work arrangements are contingent - they include some rather well-off consultants and self-employed people. Some of the employees of temp firms consider themselves in a long-term situation. A bit ove ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 23 08:08:11 PST 1999

39460 Who Killed Vincent Chin? (was Barkley on WTO, etc) -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CAPITALISM is racist to the core, always has been. Does it have to be? If we're supposed to be paid according to our marginal product, isn't discrimination opposed to basic capitalist principles? I really don't know the answer to this, but it seems to me you could argue there are anti-racist tendencies within capitalism too, and to declare it as essentially racist is to overstate the case. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 23 07:57:45 PST 1999

39461 undercover work -- rank: 1000

Anyone with an address in the Southern U.S. who's willing to subscribe to some icky neo-Confederate publications on behalf of a fellow who keeps tabs on them (but who doesn't want to use his own name), please contact me offlist. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 23 07:40:42 PST 1999

39462 WB: Asia recovered too quickly -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] POST-CRISIS EAST ASIA DUCKING HARD CHOICES. Asian countries want "to have their cake and eat it" when it comes to badly needed financial and economic reforms, Agence France Presse reports the World Bank's Asia-Pacific vice president Jean-Michel Severino as saying yesterday. Foreign banks have also failed to come to grips with a new climate for business in the aftermath of the financial crisis which swept across the region two years ago, he ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 23 07:40:42 PST 1999

39463 China & Its Critics (was RE: Who Killed Vincent Chin?) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Without the Chinese government's pragmatically repressive management toward >capitalist development, wouldn't China be "Russia"? Chinese workers' >option is a choice not between China and "Sweden" but between China and >"Russia," it seems to me. If you're saying that the Chinese government is acting like an effective developmentalist state along largely capitalist lines, I'd agree with you. But China is one of the few places in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 23 06:59:58 PST 1999

39464 Who Killed Vincent Chin? (was Barkley on WTO, etc) -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >He probably was arguing like Keynes , on the "pure" economic element. I don't know how many times this point has to be made: the reason Nazi Germany could tolerate full employment was because of severe political repression. There's no separating the "economic" and the "political." Do I have to quote Kalecki again on this? >As to China's current economic policy, the facts you cite don't >amount to an argument that the current governmen ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 22 13:32:36 PST 1999

39465 Who Killed Vincent Chin? (was Barkley on WTO, etc) -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Sort of like Keynes , wasn't it ? Yes and no. Keynes wrote a preface to the German edition of the General Theory that praised Nazi economic policy. But, though Keynes shared the anti-Semitism of the British upper class, he wasn't at heart a Nazi. >But what did that have to do with the arguments about anti-Asian >racism, the topic of this thread ? You said that "Henry Liu had the better side of the arguments he was in." I was wondering if you included that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 22 12:17:13 PST 1999