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41311 Kilander on WSJ -- rank: 1000

Greg Nowell wrote: >I do know that one of the editorial page guys is a >friend of the Scaife/Starr set. But what I can't >figure out is how a paper which appeals to high income >well educated people thinks that its best >political-marketing strategy lies in a right-wing quasi >fundamentalist political agenda. My take on their best >political strategy is a kind of Rockefeller >Republicanism. > >If anyone could provide sound "materialist" reasons for >t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 23 13:40:55 PST 1998

41312 Salon on Doug Henwood -- rank: 1000

Peter Kilander wrote: >If Conniff and Hitchens and Doug are good at >that sort of thing, I wish them all the best. The Salon piece also exaggerated my CNN-ability. I've been on the main CNN once - on Moneyline, when Lou Dobbs was away on vacation and a sympathetic producer thought she could slip me on for their Labor Day 1997 special. I talked up the militance of the new AFL-CIO (more than I really believed, actually) in the hopes of scaring the rentiers in the audience. And I've been on C ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 23 09:37:26 PST 1998

41313 Larry Bensky fired from Pacifica -- rank: 1000

Louis Proyect wrote: >(I don't know how many people listen to Pacfica nowadays, but Larry Bensky >was the main commentator during the Iran-Contra hearings, when the radio >station was at its best. They seem to be purging themselves of good people >like him and systematically replacing them with NPR types.) According to the folks on the freepacifica list, Bensky's been reinstated with a weekend program that will be carried on all 5 Pacifica stations. But the broader story, the NPR-iza ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 23 09:32:15 PST 1998

41314 tobacco -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >Doug seems still to be stuck in a moralism-antimoralism polarity here >instead of analysing the class forces behind the phenomena. Class forces behind smoking? I really don't think they're very important. I think a lot of liberals have hopped on the anti-tobacco bandwagon because it's a low-cost way of bashing capital. You can get the emotional thrill of denouncing greedy profiteers at no political risk. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 23 09:17:32 PST 1998

41315 Iraqi deaths -- rank: 1000

The Washington Post Thursday, December 17, 1998; Page E01 The Deaths He Cannot Sanction: Ex-U.N. Worker Details Harm to Iraqi Children By Michael Powell There is no easy way to make this argument as bombs and missiles rain down. No fashionable way to rebut those intent on vengeance against a nation run by the likes of Saddam Hussein. So Denis Halliday offers only a quick instruction in the mathematics of death, of the pure and deadly efficiency of the United Nations sanctions he helped oversee i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 23 08:20:27 PST 1998

41316 D.Duke -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: >On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Sam Pawlett wrote: > >>> Also, wasn't Duke in on that nazi, klan, bikers attempted invasion of a >Caribbean island from Louisiana?>> > >Sam, what is this about? Over-quota Lou posted to his list: The New York Times May 8, 1981, Friday, Late City Final Edition KLANSMEN ARE AMONG 10 INDICTED IN PLOT ON CARIBBEAN ISLAND NATION A Federal grand jury today indicted 10 alleged mercenaries, six of them linked to the Ku Klux ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 22 15:58:06 PST 1998

41317 Cramer raves about the net -- rank: 1000

[From TheStreet.com. Cramer's pretty bullish on all this New Economy business, and here's his theory on why the U.S. isn't in the throes of a vast bubble.] Wrong! Tactics and Strategies: Pricing Power and the Net By James J. Cramer 12/22/98 8:19 AM ET How did we get here? How did we get where only a handful of stocks plus the Net matter? When people look back at this era, will they hold it in contempt, like that era in the '70s in which only a few stocks worked, or that era in the '60s that dest ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 22 11:06:07 PST 1998

41318 Comments on Stoll vs. Menchu -- rank: 1000

William S. Lear wrote: >Yes, yes, yes. Menchu was probably attacked by someone with "an >agenda". But, if she knowingly told falsehoods, that is not something >to be defended. It goes without saying, of course (but on mailing >lists you sometimes have to be explicit for some reason) that the >crimes committed against Menchu's community for which she speaks >outweigh any peccadillo she may have committed in print. But I just >can't support this "everyone ha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 22 08:54:46 PST 1998

41319 Salon on Doug Henwood -- rank: 1000

Apsken at aol.com wrote: >Give us a break! Besides Carrol Cox's perfectly valid points, Christopher >Hitchens rubs our noses in his personal chumminess with everyone who's anyone >in England, even as he slurs them with stereotypically British upper-crust >snobbishness, while treating his readers as though we need him to interpret >these specimens fully. It is this cartoon Brit of Hitchens's self-portrait who >richly deserves the darts -- at least until I'm shown some grime unde ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 22 08:09:55 PST 1998

41320 Impeachment: Clinton's Service to the Democrats -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >In message <19981221.154155.3366.0.farmelantj at juno.com>, James Farmelant ><farmelantj at juno.com> writes > >>But Doug, you don't see the big picture. The Republicans in my judgement >>are in danger of imploding the way that the Canadian Tories, the >>British Tories, and the French right have all done in recent years. > >This seems all too plausible to me. One of the most destructive things >that happened to critical opin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 22 08:01:24 PST 1998

41321 tobacco -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >This is similar to the ingenious argument from the industry about >advertising. Advertising is not designed to attract more smokers, it is >just a complex way of competing for market share that is already fixed. >(Hence the even more ingenious counter-argument in the UK that the tobacco >companies have to advertise cigarettes to make up for the tens of thousands >of smokers who die every year). Do you really know how advertising works? If you do, you know ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 22 07:52:30 PST 1998

41322 social discipline -- rank: 1000

The more paranoid among us have long thought that the anti-smoking campaign was part of a broad campaign of intensified social discipline, along with the drug war. Two items from today's Wall Street Journal confirm this. First, a short from the front page: <quote> EMPLOYERS GO BEYOND background checks and test employee attitudes. Employers long used honesty tests to screen new hires, but many now want to find out potential employees' attitudes toward drug use, workplace violence and sexual ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 22 07:36:17 PST 1998

41323 debt and bankruptcy -- rank: 1000

Oh yes, on Angela's bankruptcy question. Corporate bankruptcies are another matter. There's a lot less protection of debtor corp's than individual debtors, though U.S. law is still more indulgent than most. With corp bankruptcy, creditors and judges do decide how much blood is left in the body and either liquidate (if the firm has bleak prospects) or reorganize (wipe out some debt and hope they can make a fresh go of it). Creditors sometimes complain that the corporate law is too debtor-friendly ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 21 20:39:13 PST 1998

41324 kicking -- rank: 1000

Ok, the vote is now 9-1 to keep Boddhi, 10-1 counting my vote. Polls have closed. So some people find Boddhi irritating. I pick up & read the New York Press every week even though it irritates me. One person pointed out that a kick would cause people to self-censor and things would get very dull. That's right, I think. You have to be pretty egregious to get kicked from here. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 21 13:38:29 PST 1998

41325 3% of lobbying total is huge -- rank: 1000

Greg Nowell wrote: >With all the capitalist interests in a 5 trillion >dollar economy, for one subset to reach 3% of lobbying >contributions is huge. Really? Did you look at all the other interests on the CRP page? Just look at all the money financial interests have spent over the rewrite of Glass-Steagall. In my more cynical moments I suspect that Congress hasn't passed a comprehensive rewrite of G-S because the threat of doing so was a great way to shake the money tree. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 21 11:56:24 PST 1998