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41266 GM strike -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >Quite. But theirs is an internal critique by people who have paid their dues. Hey, I quite literally pay my dues - $120 a year to the UAW, for membership in its Local 1981, a/k/a the National Writers Union. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 1 08:56:12 PDT 1998

41267 GM strike -- rank: 1000

C. Petersen wrote: >I visited New York last summer, and I thought it was interesting how you >could go from extremely wealthy areas in the upper east and west sides >with old ladies in fur coats walking their afghan hounds etc. and then >within a mile, or a few blocks even, it becomes much more poor looking in >Harlem and north of that, with lots of burned down buildings and vacant >lots. Why didn't the area north of the park gentrify a long time ago, >given the high rent pr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 1 08:53:43 PDT 1998

41268 Stiglitz' loose talk again -- rank: 1000

World Bank top economist Joseph Stiglitz seems to be taking issue with his colleagues again. Last January, it was reported that he was virtually locked in a closet by his superiors after he was quoted in the Wall Street Journal criticizing the IMF's programs for East Asia. And now here he is saying that there's no vice, and maybe even virtue, in capital controls. Today's Financial Times reports (here's the lead and two grafs from the midsection - the story is not on their free website, but I sna ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 1 06:51:30 PDT 1998

41269 Ehrenreich on fun -- rank: 1000

[By coincidence, the 90th anniversary issue of The Progressive, a publication not known for its wit or exuberance, just arrived, containing this piece by Barbara Ehrenreich.] Was It Good for You.? BY BARBARA EHRENREICH Over the last ninety years of this magazine's existence, many thousands of people whose ideas were generally in tune with it have marched, rallied, sat-in, struck, petitioned, organized, and otherwise struggled for progressive social change. Other writers, perhaps in this very iss ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 31 11:53:54 PST 1998

41270 more Russian gloom -- rank: 1000

[More bad news on Russia, from Johnson's Russia List] DEAD SOULS by Murray Feshbach The Atlantic Monthly January 1999 [for personal use only] Health in Russia is even worse than most Russians and foreign commentary would indicate, and the consequences for Russian society, the Russian economy, and the Russian military will be enormous. Environmental issues lurk behind much of the public-health problem. Radioactive contamination is rife. Chemical contamination such as by dioxin, is largely to bla ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 31 10:49:57 PST 1998

41271 Thurow and Euro -- rank: 1000

J Cullen wrote: >If there is a run on the dollar, causing it to fall in value versus the >euro, could that be a good thing for American producers, since American >products would be more competitive on the world market? In other words, who >gets burned if the dollar falls, bankers or workers? If there's a run on the dollar, pretty much everyone within these borders would be burned, though obviously in varying degrees, and debtors more than creditors. If the U.S. couldn't borrow freely ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 31 10:47:15 PST 1998

41272 Pollitt on West -- rank: 1000

I forwarded Daniel Vukovich's comments on Katha Pollit's comments on Cornel West, and here's her response. Doug ---- The War Against Parents, which Cornel West co-wrote with Sylvia Ann Hewlett, is basically communitarian in politics. The argument is that our society hates parents and undermines them economically and culturally. It sees "the family" as a unit, with a single set of interests, so there's no discussion of power within the family: ie that women are doing most of the domes ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 31 08:33:38 PST 1998

41273 I feel so dirty. -- rank: 1000

d-m-c at worldnet.att.net wrote: >At 11:30 PM 12/30/1998 -0500, you wrote: >>I must confess to you, my respected friends. I was seduced by that bitch, >>Martha Stewart, in a K-mart tonight. She lured me there with promises of >>really cheap, and pretty tasty lace, but once there, well I surrendered to >>base desire. >>I'm so ashamed. And I've yet to pay. > > >This is why you really must read Judy on the production of desire. > >Oh Paula. I kno ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 31 08:21:01 PST 1998

41274 landscape & climate -- rank: 1000

[From the Environmental News Network <http://www.enn.com/news/enn-stories/1998/12/123098/landscape.asp>] Landscape changes may alter climate Wednesday, December 30, 1998 The supercomputer-driven model used by the scientists showed that a significant deforestation of the Amazon, combined with increased carbon dioxide levels, would reduce annual rainfall by as much as 20 percent.Transformations in the Earth's landscape may affect climate change, according to a climatologist from the Universi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 30 09:10:46 PST 1998

41275 fewer Russians -- rank: 1000

Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >Are there data to show that alcoholism in Russia increase since the shift from >communism? Plenty, but I don't have it at hand. >The attribution to declining health care standards is intriguing. China also >suffer a general decline in public health, but Chinese population did not >decline, not to mention a near total environmental collapse in term of >polluted >air and water. >Has anyone looked at the cultural impacts of the shift from a socialist ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 30 08:34:24 PST 1998

41276 chap volunteers -- rank: 1000

d-m-c at worldnet.att.net wrote: >So here's on my list of people who said they'd take a stab--figuratively >speaking--at Judy: > >Frances (w/ an E) Bolton (Ch. 1) >Kelley Crouse (Ch. 3) >Christian Gregory >Doug Henwood (Intro) >William Kiernan >William Lear >Alex Locascio >Alec Cat Ramsdell >Paul Rosenberg >Max Sawicky >Doyle Saylor > > >So, we need someone to take on the following: > >Chapter 2: Circuits of Bad Conscience: Nietzsche &am ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 30 08:18:27 PST 1998

41277 fewer Russians -- rank: 1000

[The demographic implosion continues...] Russian Population down in 1998 MOSCOW, Dec. 29, 1998 -- (Agence France Presse) Russia's population fell by 311,000 people, 0.2 percent, to 146.4 million in Jan.-Oct. 1998, the Interfax news agency reported Thursday, citing figures from the state statistics committee. The birth rate amounted to 1.085 million, compared to 1.069 million in 1997. The death rate during the period this year totaled 1.654 million, down from 1.689 million last year. The Russian ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 30 07:54:00 PST 1998

41278 the Butler did it -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >> MBS wrote >> > >> >On the plus side, while rummaging I found a copy >> >of "The Populist Reader" for $2.50. >> >> Was that the Trautman book, or was there an earlier Populist Reader? >> >> -- Jim Cullen >> > >the older one. I have both now. >Wrote a review of the new one in RRPE Tell us about it, Max. Who reads the RRPE anyway (ha-ha, just a joke!)? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 30 06:23:15 PST 1998

41279 the Butler did it -- rank: 1000

d-m-c at worldnet.att.net wrote: >Accchhh. Frances! Everyone! Judy just arrived at my door! >Hey, can we start this reading around the week of the 18th or so? >No exact date has been set, though there've been demands regarding when we >can begin: AFTER the tenth. So, how's everyone with the 18th or even the >25th. That'll give me time to get this copied and sent to Paul--cause I'm >moving yet again, but finally, finally to a permanent place. Hurray!!! Hmm, Jan 10's been ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 29 11:58:40 PST 1998

41280 The Price of Oil (and thanks, Jim H) -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >Hey gang, how about a poll? > >Who thinks it's possible that the missle strikes in Iraq, and talk of >Saddamn rejecting the oil=-for-food program,(who starts these rumors?) >could have to do with the Big Cigars need to bolster oil prices. > >Do you think it is: > >a. Highly possible >b. Somewhat possible >c. Hardly possible >d. It could never happen Who in the U.S. power structure wants significantly higher oil prices? Oil people mainly. Who wa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 29 08:40:16 PST 1998