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40876 Financial times -- rank: 1000

michael at ecst.csuchico.edu wrote: >could you send the financial times letter to the list, or at least to me? Damn, I misaddressed another email. This is getting embarrassing. Anyway, in thorough violation of IP laws... Doug ---- Key Microsoft question is whether it profits from ideas of others 05-21-1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >From Mr Bruce Page. Sir, There is much talk of "innovation" in the context of the US Justice Departmen ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 22 09:32:00 PDT 1998

40877 Historical Society -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman asked why progressives Martin Sklar and Sean Wilentz joined Eugene Genovese's new Historical Society. I asked a historian friend of mine who's been following EG's rightward move (the "Adele" addressed in yesterday's missent query). She said she didn't know about Sklar, but Wilentz has become a neocon, spouting angry white man rhetoric in The New Republic. Speaking of TNR, rumor was that Wilentz was on the short list of possible editors for that plagiarism- and fiction- ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 22 09:18:40 PDT 1998

40878 More on Moore (& ........) -- rank: 1000

Nicholas Garbis wrote: >as far as getting the full text of what has been said so far, i believe >somebody will have to email you those older messages. That's been done, so Michael Moore is now the beneficiary of our great collective wisdom. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 22 08:43:53 PDT 1998

40879 humor -- rank: 1000

Mike - >how can i read this discussion taking place? can you e-mail me some of it?? Already done. >didn't know you were there the other night. I was up front, actually, wearing my only tie. >i had hoped the event was going to >be a bunch of corporate honchos taking me on but it was something less than >that... No kidding. They were barely coherent, most of them, and I don't think it was just the Remy at work. >my comments about microsoft... i was just speaking off the cuff, hav ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 22 08:39:55 PDT 1998

40880 The Tax that Dare Not Speak... -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >What is it? Just a preliminary label of 10 words or so. I didn't ask for >an understanding of it. I asked for a semi-intelligible label of what it >is that is to be understood. If it can't even be named to non-economists >that haven't heard of it before, then..... A Tobin tax is a levy on financial transactions, most typically those in foreign exchange. The most common figure is around 0.5% of the value of the trade. It's designed at least as much to slow trading ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 22 07:47:52 PDT 1998

40881 The Historical Society -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >>Ex-Marxist turned neo-Confederate Eugene Genovese, > >A very nicely turned phrase... very true... In case people think I'm exaggerating, I'm not. Both Eugene Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese have gotten quite close to the magazine Southern Partisan, which is one of the more genteel organs of the neo-Confederate movement. They've been lovingly interviewed by SP, and have also written for the pub. They jointly wrote an obit for M.E. Bradford, a reactionary Texa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 22 07:08:25 PDT 1998

40882 The Tax that Dare Not Speak... -- rank: 1000

Richard Marens wrote: >I recommend a recent Twentieth Century Fund paperback on security market >"reform" of a few years ago. Many of us know that the Fund got its start >with Filene (as in basement) money during the depression as a way of >promoting the humanization of capitalism, so the topic is logical. Tobin >(the model for Star Trek's Q?) himself contributed and ended-up having to >defend his tax in a special dissent because the other vaguely liberal >financ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 22 06:48:02 PDT 1998

40883 humor -- rank: 1000

Louis Proyect wrote: >Another thing to think about under the general rubric of leftists being >INTERESTING. (Humor thus is only one way of keeping people's attention.) >The left groups in the US are generally "vanity" outfits, like Pacifica >radio programming or public access cable TV. Without the need to make a >profit, there is very little feedback mechanism. In the SWP, a group that I >have the most familiarity with, you had a subsidized newspaper. It lost >mone ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 21 15:47:05 PDT 1998

40884 humor -- rank: 1000

This post from Kenny Mostern bounced because of some address trouble. Doug ---- >From: Kenneth Mostern <kmostern at utk.edu> >To: "'lbo-talk at lists.panix.com'" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> >Subject: RE: Moore, Remy, & Fortune >Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 09:02:42 -0400 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="---- >=_NextPart_000_01BD8497.3722D640" > > >I need to say something kind of obvious about this "are ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 21 12:27:03 PDT 1998

40885 The Historical Society -- rank: 1000

Adele - I posted a bit about The Historical Society to my new lbo-talk mailing list, and someone asked: >Why did Martin Sklar and Sean Wilenz (progressives) join? You know? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 21 10:00:52 PDT 1998

40886 The Historical Society -- rank: 1000

Ex-Marxist turned neo-Confederate Eugene Genovese, his wife Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (recently converted to Catholicism), and some of their cronies (including Richard Pipes and Donald Kagan) have started The Historical Society. Info is at <http://home.nycap.rr.com/history/>. They're defending the old ways of doing History against the barbarian hordes. Their publicity is being handled by Jeff Rosenberg, who does PR for a raft of cultural conservatives, including the Independent Women's Forum ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 21 08:47:20 PDT 1998

40887 Gates and Monopolies -- rank: 1000

Richard Marens wrote: >Incidentally Doug, is that why you don't like Korten? Because he makes >populist attacks MNCs rather then dealing with the ruling class behind >them, a class that given modern portfolio theory, could live quite well >sucking rents from hundreds of formally distinct medium-sized >corporations? For many reasons, which are detailed at <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Globalization.html>. Some of which: his opposition to "globalization," as if it ...

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Date:	Thu May 21 08:22:13 PDT 1998

40888 NYC taxi workers -- rank: 1000

This afternoon I went to a press conference, held at the Brecht Forum by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance. Their second taxi strike in a week is slated to begain at 5 AM Thursday. The scene has gotten confusing over the last several days as a group of owner-drivers first proposed to shut the city down with a blockade, which prompted our fascist mayor, Rudy Giuliani, to go mad, threatening to seize licenses and medallions of anyone who participated. There's little doubt he would, though it'd be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 20 16:30:41 PDT 1998

40889 Moore, Remy, & Fortune -- rank: 1000

Louis Proyect wrote: >Knock Moore all you want, but I'll bet you a dollar that there wasn't a >dull moment at the Remy Martin event. Except when the Fortune & Remy hacks were speaking, or the dozers from the floor. You're right Lou, and I hope I made it clear that I think Moore is brilliant at what he does, even if his politics aren't perfect. My pal I met there, who's a liberal columnist for Esquire, said he couldn't understand why the left was so cannibalistic; he said he really didn ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 20 14:34:15 PDT 1998

40890 Moore, Remy, & Fortune -- rank: 1000

Riding up the elevator at the New York Athletic Club was sort of like being trapped in a reunion of the Yale class of 1948. That ruling class feeling was reinforced by sipping Remy & Perrier on the 9th floor balcony overlooking Central Park. Moore didn't show up until about an hour after the festivities began. We were ushered into a dining room, and onto the stage strode Michael Moore; Geoffrey Colvin, editorial director of Fortune; and Hilary Peck, U.S. marketing director for Remy Martin. T ...

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Date:	Wed May 20 10:09:30 PDT 1998