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40381 NP and fusion again ( was Re: converts to the left) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >What cesspool of humanity is supposed to form the most capitalist party if the >Dems are only second? The Republicans, of course, at least by Kevin Phillips' estimation. But who gave us the CIA, the IMF, and the World Bank? Who signed NAFTA and the welfare bill? Who's pushing for the IMF capital increase today? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 24 15:58:16 PDT 1998

40382 technical problems -- rank: 1000

Panix has been experiencing problems all afternoon, and mail is bouncing back to me saying that perfectly good addresses can't be found. Of course those affected may not get this, but I'll give it the old college try anyway. For the technically minded, I've appended Panix' explanation of the problem. Doug ---- Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 14:25:22 -0400 (EDT) From: alexis at panix.com (MOTD [Panix]) Subject: Service problems resolved To: motd-system at panix.com Sender: owner-motd-system at lists.pani ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 24 15:49:26 PDT 1998

40383 UNDERNEWS: Scandal Stats -- rank: 1000

[for connoisseurs of scandal...] Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 09:07:27 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: ssmith at pop.igc.org Mime-Version: 1.0 To: ssmith at igc.org From: The Progressive Review <ssmith at igc.org> Subject: UNDERNEWS: Scandal Stats THE UNDERNEWS SCANDAL STATS EDITION By Sam Smith Sep 24, 1998 Handy help for harried hacks from the Progressive Review, Washington's most unofficial source. 1739 Conn. Ave. NW Washington DC 20009 202-232-5544 Editor: Sam Smith Fax: 202-234-6222 E-mail: ssmith a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 24 12:29:38 PDT 1998

40384 Allende's Second Way -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >I forgot to mention Ralph Miliband's fine essay on the fall of Allende, >reprinted in Class Power, State Power. A high minded and angry bit ofa nalysis >with the usual clarity and depth Ralph could command. And Ralph's son David is now paid to think for Tony Blair. At the Third Way NYU event the other day, Blair was accompanied by his press guy on one side and David Milliband on the other. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 24 09:36:34 PDT 1998

40385 Jamie Galbraith seminar -- rank: 1000

Seminar on Created Unequal with James K. Galbraith Jamie Galbraith online in a pkt (post Keynesian thought) Seminar October 26 to November 2, 1998. Welcome is the latest of a series of on-line seminars conducted under csf and pkt-seminars. Our current seminar features James Galbraith, author of Created Unequal. See what the critics have said about his book: >From The Kirkus Reviews, May 26, 1998 "A tour de force by an economist not so handicapped by theoretical orthodoxy that clear think ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 24 09:34:26 PDT 1998

40386 Promoting mass purchasing power -- rank: 1000

James Devine wrote: >the >Pres.'s underlings will look them up in the index of who's given money and >who has the most money to give or whose district is most crucial. That >means they're more likely to be invited to lunch (or bed) in the >Whitehouse. Don't forget that Monica got her job in the WH because her mother's boyfriend, Peter Straus, had given something like a quarter mil to the Dems. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 24 08:40:39 PDT 1998

40387 NP and fusion again ( was Re: converts to the left) -- rank: 1000

Alex LoCascio wrote: >...which brings us back to the question of why one cannot be a Marxist >and still endorse the New Party's fusion strategy. Why is it that >fusion is regarded as a dead end simply because it helps Democrats? The >Democrats endorsed by the NP, if I'm not mistaken, are "progressive" >ones. Because regardless of how "good" an individual Dem is - and on close examination, lots of their goodness frequently dissolves (e.g. Wellstone's vote for ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 24 08:37:13 PDT 1998

40388 words & ideas -- rank: 1000

"I've been able to string more words into fewer ideas than anybody I know, and I'm continuing to do that." - Alan Greepsan to the Senate Budget Committee, September 23, 1998

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 24 06:55:24 PDT 1998

40389 Max bounces -- rank: 1000

[This bounced because there was a huge HTML file appended to it.] From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: Ultra Means You're Too Much Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:17:42 -0400 Message-ID: <000101bde726$d665a100$02f246d1 at epi59.EPI> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0002_01BDE705.4F540100" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.21 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 23 13:14:46 PDT 1998

40390 No Privacy for Privacy Hypocrites -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:13:02 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: love at cptech.org Originator: info-policy-notes at essential.org Sender: info-policy-notes at essential.org Precedence: bulk From: James Love <love at cptech.org> To: Multiple recipients of list INFO-POLICY-NOTES <info-policy-notes at essential.org> Subject: No Privacy for Privacy Hypocrites MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Comment: To unsubscribe from this list, send the message "unsubscribe info-policy-notes" to "listproc at ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 23 13:08:02 PDT 1998

40391 Promoting mass purchasing power -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >You can say that the one-step-to-the-left-of-the-center party is making a >*mistake* when it shifts right, smelling that that's the way the votes have >moved. But if you want to guarantee that it the shift right will >*accelerate*, just let the one-step-to-the-left-of-the-center party be >defeated--then all of its office-holders and potential office-holders will >say: "Gee. There are even more voters to our right than we believed..." Well, since i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 23 12:07:08 PDT 1998

40392 Promoting mass purchasing power -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >>Christopher Hitchens said last night that he hopes Kohl wins - he's within >>two points in the latest polls. With Blair down, Clinton sort of down, >>these Third Way folks need to take a whipping. >> >>Doug > >For God's sake why? > >Each defeat of the (relatively) left candidate moves the terrain of >political engagement a bit further to the right... Because the rightward move by the established "left" parties (kind of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 23 07:45:35 PDT 1998

40393 NP in NY. URGENT. WE MEAN IT. -- rank: 1000

[So the New Party is starting the "Working Families Party" - what's with the Families, really? - to get on the ballot in NY State. If enough of you vote for the Democratic candidates, the odious Vallone and the not-odious but still bourgeois McCall, on their party, they get a permanent line on the ballot. NYS election laws are among the most arcane and restrictive in the country, and getting on the ballot is hard. This takes their "critical support" of the Democrats to opport ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 22 15:45:21 PDT 1998

40394 Promoting mass purchasing power -- rank: 1000

Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote: >All part of the right-wing salami tactics >that has led us to Clinton/Blair/Prodi/Schroeder et al. Christopher Hitchens said last night that he hopes Kohl wins - he's within two points in the latest polls. With Blair down, Clinton sort of down, these Third Way folks need to take a whipping. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 22 15:27:22 PDT 1998

40395 transnational portfolio investment -- rank: 1000

Louis Proyect wrote: >It is the same buildup of >contradictions that preceded WWI and WWII. The system will continue to >generate powerful self-destructive tendencies that have to be met head-on. Self-destructive is optimistic; destructive you can't argue with. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 22 12:09:00 PDT 1998