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39646 Is the Coalition Falling Apart? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I would like to point out for the record that those plunging ahead >dogmatically on their own, ignoring all other coalition participants, >are everyone but marxists. Oh c'mon Carrol. You're looking for trouble. The world presents us with enough on its own without your promoting it. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 8 15:56:12 PST 1999

39647 Fwd: McGehee offers his CIA collection to good home -- rank: 1000

X-From_: ken at brasscheck.com Wed Dec 8 16:30:48 1999 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: (Unverified) Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 16:59:55 -0500 To: Recipient List Suppressed: ; From: Brasscheck <ken at brasscheck.com> Subject: McGehee offers his CIA collection to good home IMPORTANT CIA FILE NEEDS HOME RALPH MCGEHEE WRITES: Due to health problems I am moving early next year and must divest all of the holdings of CIABASE including nearly one thousand books on intelligence, numerous Congressional st ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 8 13:35:42 PST 1999

39648 neurotoxins in Seattle? -- rank: 1000

[What do people make of this?] X-From_: ken at brasscheck.com Tue Dec 7 20:14:47 1999 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: (Unverified) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 21:02:19 -0500 To: Recipient List Suppressed: ; From: Brasscheck <ken at brasscheck.com> Subject: Neurotoxic agents used in Seattle gas attacks? December 7, 1999 Neurotoxic agents used in Seattle gas attacks? In addition to eye witness accounts that some Seattle "police" were armed with M-16s, some doctors are concerned that tear ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 8 12:56:18 PST 1999

39649 Fwd: THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT.... -- rank: 1000

[via Michael Eisenscher] Here's a nice summation of the WTO goings-on by a prominent trade union activist from Boston. Amongst other things, it has a bit more rounded perspective on the property destruction that went on than some of the posts I've just been reading. Definitely worth a read. -Eric Odell THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT.... I went to Seattle with 15 members of unions in the North Shore Labor Council, from the area between Boston and New Hampshire in Massachusetts. Eleven were from IUE Local ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 8 08:42:20 PST 1999

39650 Bello on WTO -- rank: 1000

[excerpted from] FOCUS ON TRADE Number 42, December 1999 Focus-on-Trade is a regular electronic bulletin providing updates and analysis of trends in regional and world trade and finance, with an emphasis on analysis of these trends from an integrative, interdisciplinary viewpoint that is sensitive not only to economic issues, but also to ecological, political, gender and social issues. Your contributions and comments are welcome. Please contact us c/o CUSRI, Wisit Prachuabmoh Building, Chulalong ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 8 07:32:35 PST 1999

39651 Martin Wolf: defending capitalism -- rank: 1000

[The FT's teaser headline on their website for this article is just "Defending capitalism." It's nice they feel they have to make the effort.] Finanical Times - December 8, 1999 IN DEFENCE OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM Policymakers need to find a constructive response to the anti-market prejudice displayed on the streets of Seattle, writes Martin Wolf President Bill Clinton personally offered to host the ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation. But then, in Seattle, he killed all ho ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 8 06:36:43 PST 1999

39652 Seattle election fallout? -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - December 8, 1999 [CAPITAL JOURNAL by Gerald F. Seib] To Really See Seattle's Legacy, Watch the Races for the House CAN TEAR GAS LINGER for a year? In some places, it probably will. Certainly the protesters who prompted police to send clouds of tear gas wafting over the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle fully intend to register their antitrade sentiments all the way through the 2000 election next November. These activists' immediate and oft-advertised goal is to gun ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 8 06:34:04 PST 1999

39653 hey hey hey check it out -- rank: 1000

kayak3 wrote: > > Henwood, it was August of 1998, > > > > and he was proclaiming the > > > > arrival of the Big Bear Market that > > > > would undo nearly two decades' > > > > worth of prosperity. [dd: is this true?] > > >Oh Doug, say it isn't so. You spend so much print stating that you >refuse to predict a collapse of capitalism and the stockmarket. They >must be mistaken. I was my usual equivocal self. The last par ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 7 19:49:27 PST 1999

39654 EU blames US for WTO collapse -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - December 7, 1999 EU blames US for collapse of Seattle talks By Neil Buckley in Brussels Pascal Lamy, the European Union's trade commissioner, on Monday blamed the collapse of the Seattle world trade talks on the pressure of looming US presidential elections and suggested the timing and venue of the meeting had been a mistake. Mr Lamy added that the inability of the World Trade Organisation's decision-making structures to cope with so many members and complex issues had also bee ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 7 19:43:52 PST 1999

39655 WTO, labor standards, and developing countries -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >Or maybe you recall when the four AFL-CIO conventioneers got machine gunned in >Latin America some years ago. Was that back when the AFL-CIO was working with the CIA? They've mostly disbanded that stuff now, haven't they? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 7 16:12:38 PST 1999

39656 Japan needs another fix -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of attachment] From: DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 19:30:20 +0000 It's reading ill-thought-out guff like this that reminds me why I stopped buying the FT in the first place (a survey of the nearest seven stockbrokers reveals that myself, the head of insurance and the head of banking have all given up on the FT within the last year!!!). Financial Times - December 7, 1999 JAPAN'S JUNKIE ECONOMY IS IN NEED OF ANOTHER FIX By Paul Abrahams in Tokyo <snip purely f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 7 16:05:57 PST 1999

39657 Fwd: Seattle on Pacifica -- rank: 1000

[I was asked to forward this. WBAI refused to pick up the excellent RadioNation reports from Seattle, hosted by Marc Cooper, John Nichols, and me. Really good radio, I have to say. It's going to be up on the Nation's website <http://www.thenation.com> in RealAudio soon, if it isn't already.] X-From_: john.halle at yale.edu Tue Dec 7 13:09:21 1999 X-Authentication-Warning: mars.its.yale.edu: jh284 owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 13:09:09 -0500 (EST) From: John Halle <john ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 7 15:54:35 PST 1999

39658 NYC "festival of resistance" -- rank: 1000

>Seattle is just the beginning. > >This Saturday at Charas the Festival of Resistance continues.... > >F E S T I V A L O F R E S I S T A N C E > >Creating the World We Want > >Post-WTO Teach-in/ Celebration/ Fundraiser > >SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1999 Noon to Midnight >at Charas /El Bohio Community Center - 605 East 9th Street between >Avenues B & C > >With live music, paintings, food, beer, photos, piņatas, spoken word, >reports, discussion, i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 7 15:41:45 PST 1999

39659 Fwd: Fw: NYC MAYDAY 2K -- rank: 1000

[hey why not?] No-WTO New York City on May 1st. 2000. Shut Down Wall Street. Logisitically NYC makes a lot of sense. A) Very high Union Density B) High Student Density C) Strong Activist Community New York is the Financial Center of the World. It is a natural site to confront Global Capitalism. MayDay seems the natural time for international action. If anybody else is interested let me know. If people are intereseted in seeing this happen, e mail me at Nitsu1999 at aol.com. Let the Revolt con ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 7 15:16:34 PST 1999

39660 Seattle anecdote -- rank: 1000

Apparently the special WTO issue of the Nation, free copies of which were distributed all over Seattle last week, was put to many uses. A long-time Nation subscriber reports: >by wednesday night, both the cops and the protestors were losing patience. >as one seattle officer roughed up a protestor he was arresting, several >protestors in the scrum began shouting at the officer and beating him >with -- yes, you guessed it -- rolled up copies of The Nation. Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 7 14:33:31 PST 1999