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39526 Great Cockburn/St. Clair piece on Seattle -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >Great. Now give us more help (as I know you have, to the WB bond >boycott campaign) on strategy and tactics, ok? You folks seem to be doing fine, but let me know how I can help. >How do we nix the >embryonic global economic-(de)regulatory state? Fuck with it, a la Seattle. Two, three many Seattles. >Yah yah, good point, we do tend to talk metaphorically in all of this >(mainly because key Jubilee North technocrats have done strange >things like endorse t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 17 09:25:22 PST 1999

39527 Fwd: Re: Zim economy "near implosion" -- rank: 1000

[sent to listowner rather than list] From: "Patrick Bond" <pbond at wn.apc.org> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 06:40:12 +0200 This is where I'll be for the first two weeks of January. My guess is that after about a year of Z$40/$1US (in November 1997 the Z$ was 9 to US$1, and inflation has averaged around 35% since then), the currency will be fairly radically devalued, then exports will rise and the implosion will be avoided. But yes, structural flaws associated with the 1990s IMF/WB mac ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 17 07:07:03 PST 1999

39528 Grumpy lefties and VENONA -- rank: 1000

bill fancher wrote: >Of course, there is the inconvenient fact that conspiracies do exist. We >might look to the recent ADM lysine price fixing convictions as an >example. So why did the Wall Street Journal investigate ADM and the government successfully prosecute them? There's a difference between a criminal conspiracy and conspiracy as the normal mode of operation. "Conspiracy" seems like a vastly oversimplified version of class analysis, and one that treats the conspirators ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 17 09:02:41 PST 1999

39529 state & markets -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Let's stop here for a second, since this is the crux of the debate (and it >effects a whole lot of issues). Does global capitalism need these >multinational institutions to exert its power? Unlike you, I am not >convinced that the answer is yes or even that capital would be weaker >without them. That's a good question, and I can't figure out the answer. There was a WSJ op-ed during WTO week arguing that capital didn't need the organization. But I wonder if ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 16 16:00:38 PST 1999

39530 Neither Nix-it or Fix-it (RE: Great Cockburn/St. Clair piece on Seattle -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >join hands and sing kum-bai-ya >together. That's where I draw the line. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 16 16:01:10 PST 1999

39531 Fwd: (50 Years) Jubileee 2000 April Convergence -- From Trade to Debt -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 15:39:12 -0500 From: Doug Hunt <dhunt at center1.com> The Jubilee 2000/USA Steering Committee has issued a clear call to all supporters! April 9, 2000 is going to be an day to remember -- mark your calendar today, start looking into transportation options. Tens of thousands will converge on Washington DC -- you should be one of them. Circulate this announcement to everyone in your network! (also please see important mini-bulletins at the end of this message) ====== ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 16 12:59:30 PST 1999

39532 Grumpy lefties and VENONA -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >And so said fairy tale in no way invalidates the specific >hypothesis that the most reactionary sector of U.S. capital , so it >concluded, had to resort to assassination of Kennedy and coup d'etat >to hold on to power in the U.S. Did they succeed by installing Johnson, or fail? Johnson did pass all the civil rights and social welfare legislation JFK couldn't. Or do you buy the Oliver Stone line that Kennedy wanted to end the war against Vietnam and therefore ha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 16 12:22:20 PST 1999

39533 Zim economy "near implosion" -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - December 16, 1999 ZIMBABWE'S ECONOMY 'NEAR IMPLOSION' By Stephen Fidler in Washington Zimbabwe's reserves have fallen to levels covering no more than a few days of imports, according to a British government assessment of the country's economic crisis. The assessment is an indication of mounting international concern over the deteriorating economy of the landlocked African state. Zimbabwe's government has denied there is a crisis, saying its economy is being battered by speculat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 16 11:31:23 PST 1999

39534 Sniff. Sniff. -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey St. Clair wrote: >it sure strikes me as odd to hear people like the RadioNation Squad >endorse, for >example, Gerald McEntee's crystal-meth performance at the Labor Parade, where >the guy quoted Carl Oglesby at the same time he has endorsed for >president a man >that is far to the right of Humbert Humphrey or even LBJ. Oh yeah, the other thing is the reaction of the crowd, which cheered this stuff, just as it cheered the South African miner who quoted Marx (and someone ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 16 10:15:09 PST 1999

39535 Sniff. Sniff. -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey St. Clair wrote: >"Portions of U.S. organized labor are showing the most >internationalism they have in my memory, which, despite my advancing >age, is still a fairly limited range. These signs should be >encouraged, and not disparaged. Hoffa's Mexico- and China-bashing >deserve nothing but scorn, but for a movement that was long a junior >partner in the Cold War, this is progress." Isn't it? Damn, even Angela thinks so, and she's no friend of social democracy ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 16 10:11:46 PST 1999

39536 Fwd: Memo: Pat Buchanan's Clean Slate -- rank: 1000

[The weirdness evolves. I'll be asking Jude about this later today...] From: julie at polyconomics.com (Julie Bloomberg) To: <memo at polyconomics.com> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 12:43:21 -0500 Polyconomics' Daily Memo on the Margin (commentary taken from http://www.polyconomics.com) ****Notice: Jude will be on "Behind the News," with Doug Henwood of _Left Business Observer_ . Program starts at 5:00pm (EST) at WBAI (99.5 FM), simulcast can be found off http://www.wbaifree.org **** De ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 16 10:05:09 PST 1999

39537 Malthusians on the March -- rank: 1000

Russell Grinker wrote: >Speaking of houses - I >personally wouldn't quote Venturi - he's a lousy architect. Can't say I like his buildings, though the only one I've seen in person is a fire station in New Haven. But his books are amusing, and certainly appealed to my impressionable undergraduate mind in 1975. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 16 09:45:28 PST 1999

39538 Sniff. Sniff. -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey St. Clair wrote: >Power >must shift and not, as Doug suggests, incrementally, through the microscopic >reforms of calcified and corrupt institutions. I don't suggest that at all. Here's what I said in my Seattle report, which my Suck critic singled out as an "unapologetic Machiavellianism" worthy of Don Corleone, one that showed the presence of "Lenin's syphilitic ghost": "Sober reformists are incapable of understanding that they need immoderates to help ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 16 09:31:41 PST 1999

39539 Groundhog's Day -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >This is only half fair, Doug. Of course we need (a) a coherent vision of an >alternative to the current order, (b) a plausible transitional program, (c) a >powerful, articulkated, institutionalized movement based on our own political >organizationto to move us from (b) to (a), and several other good things >besides. > >However, most of all, just now, we need movement, some degree of some sort of >organization that is doing something that might ha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 16 09:22:54 PST 1999

39540 Grumpy lefties and VENONA -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >And was it a lone gunman who killed King, B. Kennedy , et al. too ? >I don' t think so. From Slavoj Zizek's essay on "The Matrix": >The theory of risk society and its global reflexivization is right in >its emphasis one how, today, we are at the opposite end if the >classical Enlightenment universalist ideology which presupposed that, >in the long run, the fundamental questions can be resolved by way of >the reference to the "objective k ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 16 09:01:54 PST 1999