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40771 ITT on Third Way -- rank: 1000

The November 29 ish of In These Times features a giant load of mush - so formless you wonder how it sticks to the page - called "Finding The Third Way," written by David Dyssegaard Kallick (author of the piece on surveying the left in this week's Nation, too - busy guy!). I think there's a misprint in the title, though - he must mean "Funding the Third Way," since this seems to be government of, by, and for the foundations. These folks who promote "civil society" sh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 9 12:19:30 PST 1998

40772 1998-10-06 Clinton-Gore Administration Labor Accomplishments -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >Question for the number crunchers: >The Labor Dept always tracks how many jobs were "created." What about the >number >of jobs derailed by corporate restructuring, corporate flight, mergers, >etc. Does >the labor department track that? Is there anyone making those tallies, or >is there >a source for such information? The BLS does two surveys, one of households and one of employers. The household survey asks people if they were employed o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 9 09:53:46 PST 1998

40773 Why the Left Crys even When We Win (Re: Gingrich falls -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >The Republicans lost the momentum they've enjoyed since Reagan, and >they've lost all sense of party discipline. The latter, for a >right-wing party, is particularly devasting. > >IMO, this was a pivotal election. I'm no fan of Clinton in an >ideological sense. But I think his survival and Newt's departure marks >one thing positive: The nation has been in a hole for many, many years; >now, at least, it has stopped digging. Uh, just a moment. The Re ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 9 09:05:02 PST 1998

40774 Why the Left Crys even When We Win (Re: Gingrich falls -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Conversely, under Newt it was the filibuster in the Senate that pushed >forward the minimum wage. Dems like Kennedy and Wellstone in 1996 began >attaching the minimum wage to every bill and filibustering the whole >operation until the Senate agreed to vote on the minimum wage. Curiously, those wonderful Dems did nothing to raise the minimum wage when they controlled Congress in 1993 and 1994. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 8 08:28:37 PST 1998

40775 Democracy in Amerca -- rank: 1000

[from another list...] Marijuana Vote Results Kept Secret By Peter Slevin and Caryle Murphy Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, November 4, 1998; Page A37 Voters made their choices, machines counted ballots, but the results of the District's medical marijuana initiative must remain secret to comply with rules passed by Congress, the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics decided. To avoid crossing Congress, election workers used white-out to hide the results on computer printouts, said Kenneth ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 8 08:17:45 PST 1998

40776 Purging of Social Democratic Traditions in the DemocraticParty? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >But which President was more progressive than Clinton? The revolutionary regime of William Henry Harrison, of course. Look, Nathan, Clinton was one of the founders and prime agents behind the DLC, whose purpose in life was to complete the task of running away from McGovern. The whole point of his administration has been to solidify governance by the bond market, the Fed, and free trade. He snuffed one of the greatest hopes of pwogwessive Democrats, national health insura ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 7 15:18:54 PST 1998

40777 The Nation -- rank: 1000

Greg Nowell wrote: >Not enough vulgar materialism. "Vulgar Marxism explains 90% of what goes on in the world." - Robert Fitch

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 7 14:44:36 PST 1998

40778 urgent question -- rank: 1000

Thomas Kruse wrote: >I need a good, short working defintion of what a "maquila" is Wow, go to <http://www.hotbot.com/?MT=maquila&SM=MC&DV=0&LG=any&DC=10&DE=2&submit=SEARCH&_v =2&OPs=MDRTP> (i.e., search Hotbot for "maquila") and you get lots of stuff selling cheap labor to manufacturers. For example <http://www.apparel.com.gt/maquila.html>: <quote> THE MAQUILA INDUSTRY IN GUATEMALA WHAT IS MAQUILA? The term comes from the a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 7 14:26:17 PST 1998

40779 Tobacco -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >The NY Stock Exchange rose on the Mid-Term election results. > >Does anyone know what happened to tobacco shares? Off a bit, but near the old highs. http://quote.yahoo.com/q?s=^SPTOBC&d=5d Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 7 13:45:30 PST 1998

40780 Purging of Social Democratic Traditions in the Democratic Party? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Clinton is not a socialist >or even very progressive, but he is far more so than any other Democratic >president of this century. Nathan, is it Yale Law School doing these things to you? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 7 13:02:43 PST 1998

40781 Why the Left Crys even When We Win (Re: Gingrich falls -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Newt lost not because Clinton has co-opted "the center." No, because Clinton had co-opted the right! Killing Rickey Ray Rector wasn't very centrist. His crime and welfare stuff is a direct descendant of the Nixon/Phillips southern strategy. >This repeats an endless debate, but Doug, do you argue that all these >labor voters and black voters are just stupid for turning out to dump >these Republicans? Look Nathan, it's wonderful to see the Reps and the p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 7 12:52:40 PST 1998

40782 1998-10-06 Clinton-Gore Administration Labor Accomplishments -- rank: 1000

[Is this payback for all the get-out-the-vote work?] Delivered-By-The-Graces-Of: White House Electronic Publications Precedence: Bulk To: Public-Distribution at pub.pub.whitehouse.gov Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 07:42 -0500 From: The White House <Publications-Admin at pub.pub.whitehouse.gov> Reply-To: Publications at pub.pub.whitehouse.gov Subject: 1998-10-06 Clinton-Gore Administration Labor Accomplishments Keywords: Business, Civil-Rights, Economy, Education, Fact-Sheet, Fiscal-Policy, Governm ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 7 12:46:31 PST 1998

40783 controversy -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >One of Louis's methods is to try to control the content of a list by >demonstrating his ability by hostile posts to drive certain individuals off >a list. The target is actually the list as a whole, rather than the >individual. Oh, I think that's just a bit overstated, Chris. Lou can be rough, but he's never dumb or witless, and there's always a political point to what he writes. You each embody for the other a set of exasperating opinions, and your fights are a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 7 12:22:03 PST 1998

40784 Gingrich falls -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >As far as this thread here is concerned, I quoted from the end of Doug's >book on Wall Street, which talked, in pragmatic terms, about a sort of >market socialism, a term on which Louis has heaped abuse in the past in the >same one-sided personalised way, as at times he does to myself. > >Those posts will be on another computer so I cannot easily quote them. But >I would put the much more interesting challenge to Louis: does he accept >that the prosp ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 7 12:16:58 PST 1998

40785 Gingrich falls -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >So what is the underlying movement here expressed through the mid-term >election and the crisis in the Republican, not the Democratic Party? I think it's yet another manifestation of the depressing centrism of the U.S. electorate, which is itself a function of the constitutional structure (the three branches, the Senate as a consciously obstructive body) and historical practices (restrictive ballot laws, the two-party system, the role of big money in politics). Clinto ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 7 08:30:15 PST 1998