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39661 Suck -- rank: 1000

Golly, today's Suck <http://suck.com> has fun with my reporting on the WTO. As they say, there's no such thing as bad publicity. Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 7 09:38:46 PST 1999

39662 Gallup on trade -- rank: 1000

[from Gallup's weekly update] Americans Favor China Trade Agreement, but Agree That Workers Could Be Hurt Support is about the same as for NAFTA Tens of thousands of protestors were in Seattle last week for the World Trade Organization meetings, arguing that increased foreign trade with China and other countries will have a multitude of injurious effects on the U.S. and the world's economy and workers, and on the environment. A new Gallup poll suggests that while the American public may agree wi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 7 09:19:04 PST 1999

39663 WTO, labor standards, and developing countries -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >The media have been full of abuse for the Seattle protests. One of their >favorite debating points has been to claim that the developing countries >adore the WTO, and fear only that perfidious Northern unions will impose >labor standards. This of course ignores that the Third World unions and >development groups have fiercely opposed the WTO agenda accross the board -- >intellectual property rights, investment policy, competition, agriculture, >governme ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 7 09:07:25 PST 1999

39664 Japan needs another fix -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - December 7, 1999 JAPAN'S JUNKIE ECONOMY IS IN NEED OF ANOTHER FIX By Paul Abrahams in Tokyo Japan may be heading for another recession in spite of the efforts made by the government to prop up the nation's economy. On Monday it emerged that the economy contracted 1 per cent in the third quarter. Indicators suggest economic performance will be similarly dismal in the fourth. The latest downturn, coming after only two quarters of growth, raises the question of whether Japan is be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 7 07:49:38 PST 1999

39665 HK raises euro reserves -- rank: 1000

[Poll: how many computers character sets have the ¤ symbol?] Financial Times December 7, 1999 HONG KONG RAISES EURO RESERVES By Peter Montagnon and Rahul Jacob in Hong Kong Hong Kong, one of the world's largest holders of foreign exchange, has become a buyer of euros for its reserves despite the currency's slide in foreign exchange markets. Joseph Yam, head of the territory's monetary authority, said the euro's weighting in the reserves would rise to 15 per cent from 10 per cent because of worr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 7 07:47:55 PST 1999

39666 FT edit on WTO failure -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - December 6, 1999 WTO: Disaster in Seattle [editorial] A disaster on the scale of last week's ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation has many causes. But those most responsible are, inevitably, the US and the European Union. The WTO is not some alien monster, but their own creation. They must now save it from the consequences of their cowardice and folly. Many things came together to produce this calamity: the irresponsibility of Bill Clinton, US president; the inex ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 6 21:43:49 PST 1999

39667 From Here to There, by David Schweickart -- rank: 1000

Dhlazare at aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 12/6/99 10:44:33 AM Eastern Standard Time, >dhenwood at panix.com writes: > ><< > 1. It will recognize that the old models of social revolution, drawing their > inspiration from the French, Russian, Chinese and Cuban Revolutions are > largely inappropriate to the world today, even in poor countries. > >> >Boy, this is sloppily worded. Hey, I didn't say that; Schweikart did. I hope that's AOL's crappy mail ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 6 15:39:22 PST 1999

39668 FROM RAKESH [snore alert] -- rank: 1000

Kelley, I don't want this crap on here. Your dispute with Rakesh is your business and his. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 6 15:41:21 PST 1999

39669 LM, doing the Virginia Postrel thing -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >A steelworker guy told me today that their >folks put on turtle masks themselves. Sign in Seattle, carried by a Teamster: "Teamsters & Turtles - Together At Last." Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 6 15:18:56 PST 1999

39670 Race Evolution & Behavior -- rank: 1000

michael perelman wrote: >Didn't Doug once report that Telos gets Moonie money? Heavens no. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 6 13:16:21 PST 1999

39671 Seattle & Henwood -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I just happened to be reading "The Nation Indicators" by Doug in the Dec. >6, 1999 issue of _The Nation_ today. The article & graphs show that, in >very recent years, unemployment has gone down and average weekly earnings >have gone up while the gap between rich and poor has further widened in the >USA. Isn't this mix the most likely recipe for an upsurge in left-wing >activism? Yes. I think the worst mix is that of moderately high unemp ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 6 13:09:03 PST 1999

39672 anarchism -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >chucko wrote: > > >Do I sense some jealousy here?< > >funny, that's exactly what i was thinking. and, 'flat-footed' is an >understatement. No kidding. As Judy B said in her Rethinking Marxism talk which pissed off so many people: >What the resurgent orthodoxy may resent about new social movements >is precisely the vitality that such movements are enjoying. >Paradoxically, the very movements this continue to keep the Left >alive are credited w ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 6 08:49:32 PST 1999

39673 new movement & trade -- rank: 1000

[Is there some computer program that automatically invokes Gitlin in a story like this? Personal note: Greenhouse is a red-diaper baby, and so isn't as politically naive as your average reporter] New York Times - December 6, 1999 Seattle Protest Could Have Lasting Influence on Trade By STEVEN GREENHOUSE The surprisingly large protests in Seattle by critics of the World Trade Organization point to the emergence of a new and vocal coalition that will make it far harder for the Clinton administrati ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 6 08:43:12 PST 1999

39674 From Here to There, by David Schweickart -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an attachment] Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 23:13:52 -0800 From: Sam Pawlett <rsp at uniserve.com> I don't know if this piece has been forwarded yet and I certainly hope David doesn't mind my passing it along to other left lists. --SP >From Here to There: Imagining the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism, with a Little Help from The Communist Manifesto Let me begin, not with Marx and Engels, but with T.S. Eliot: This is the way the world ends, This is the way the world end ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 6 07:35:41 PST 1999

39675 WB on WTO -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] WTO TALKS SUSPENDED WITHOUT AGREEMENT. The WTO ministerial meeting in Seattle last week was suspended without agreement in the early hours of Saturday, after four days of acrimonious talks overshadowed by sometimes violent anti-WTO demonstrations and complaints by many developing countries that their views were being ignored, reports the Financial Times (p.1). US Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky, who chaired the ministerial talks, said resp ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 6 07:32:54 PST 1999