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41581 under-35s -- rank: 1000

So Frances Bolton grew up without Commies being demonized? Anyone else here under, say, age 35 who didn't imbibe the equivalence of Reds and Satan from birth? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 15 21:06:27 PDT 1998

41582 LBO web updates -- rank: 1000

I've just added some new stuff to the LBO website <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>. * "Why TV sucks" <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Why_TV_sucks.html>, a review of Pierre Bourdieu's On Television (New Press). Peppered with links, Bourdieu-related and otherwise. * July U.S. employment <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Stats_empl.html>, unemployment <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Stats_unempl.html>, and earnings <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Sta ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 15 18:35:52 PDT 1998

41583 Buchanan on IMF & Global Economy (fwd) -- rank: 1000

[from the stop-imf list at essential.org] Global drowning- A partner in the marketplace, Asia is taking us down By Patrick J. Buchanan, a syndicated columnist. as published Friday, August 14, 1998, in the San Jose Mercury News AS the talking heads of the cable channels chatter on about what Bill Clinton should tell the grand jury -- the truth is among the options being discussed -- an event of epochal significance is taking place beyond our shores. The Global Economy is careening toward disaster ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 15 14:33:14 PDT 1998

41584 Cassidy in New Yorker -- rank: 1000

Mark Jones wrote: >I probably forgive you Doug, but if the $120bn which the IMF >alone according to the back of my envelope has doled out this >year to Indonesia, Korea, Thailand, Russia etc doesn't count >as real money, then what does? You're just proving my point >actually. How much have they actually disbursed, and how does it compare to need? According to an IMF release at <http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/facts/asia.pdf>, total disbursements in Asia, as of the end of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 15 11:18:00 PDT 1998

41585 CULTURAL LOGIC, issue #2 -- rank: 1000

[from another list] The second issue of CULTURAL LOGIC is now on line at Carnegie Mellon's English Server (http://eserver.org/clogic). Along with articles and reviews by Kenneth Surin, Barbara Foley, Warren Montag, Greg Dawes, Grover Furr, et al., we are also pleased to be featuring an interview with Theodore W. Allen, as well as Allen's summary of his landmark 2-volume work, THE INVENTION OF THE WHITE RACE. As always, we look forward to your comments and suggestions. Regards, The Editors, CULT ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 15 09:35:27 PDT 1998

41586 Cassidy in New Yorker -- rank: 1000

Mark Jones wrote: >The short answer to Kilander's ideas about flooding markets with dosh is that >that is what the US, Japanese and EU have been doing most of 1998. The IMF >spent >$18bn in Russia and the bailout went wrong in 3 weeks. The longer answer would >have to start with the world-system, not end with it. When the crash of 1987 >happened I was in Moscow and there were big street parties to >celebrate the 70th anniversary of the October Revolution (yes, really) >am ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 15 09:34:58 PDT 1998

41587 Cassidy in New Yorker -- rank: 1000

Louis Proyect wrote: >One of the things that I find so extremely interesting about how this >situation is being discussed in the bourgeois press is that "globalization" >has disappeared as a descriptive term. All the pundits are trying to make >the case that the crises are localized. What was only a few years ago the >buzz-word on everybody's lips has now become extinct. My guess is that >since bourgeois economics is basically "false science" or ideology, it ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 15 09:20:36 PDT 1998

41588 Malthus and Darwin -- rank: 1000

WolfSave at aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 8/15/98 4:38:37 AM, you wrote: > ><<ps unrelated note: what a period of scientific creativity, the mid-19th >century: Darwin, Mendel, Maxwell and Marx! >>> > >And Freud. A bit later. Remember, though the Interpretation of Dreams was actually published in 1899, Freud made sure the title page said 1900. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 15 09:18:33 PDT 1998

41589 more on genetic engineering -- rank: 1000

I got a fax from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy this morning about anti-Monsanto campaigns. If recent mergers are approved, writes IATP's Kristin Dawkins, Monsanto will control 85% of the world cotton seed market and well over half of soybean and corn seed markets. It's got a joint venture with Cargill to distribute its seed worldwide. The IATP has a website at <http://www.iatp.org/iatp>. The fax also included a copy of a letter to IATP from A SEED Europe (Action for Solida ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 15 09:14:51 PDT 1998

41590 Soros letter -- rank: 1000

MScoleman at aol.com wrote: >in the ny times today (8/14) the article on Russia's falling market said bonds >had become completely worthless, with interest rates approaching 300%. I think the whole Russian stock market is now capitalized at something like $18 billion, or about 1/3 of Bill Gates's personal net worth. Trading volume, if I read the TV screen correctly yesterday, was $23 million (an m, not a b). Clearly, Microsoft should buy Russia. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 15 08:47:26 PDT 1998

41591 Black freedom struggle and the CP's contributions [sic] -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: >I think this might be a generational thing. I'm 30, and never, ever, heard >about the party, except for the occasional story about my great-Uncle Joe, >who was a member in the 20s and 30s. I am at my parents house as I'm >writing, and to quote my father (just now told me) that Uncle Joe referred >to everyone who was *not* a member of the Party as "hoodlums, hooligans, >capitalist pigs, and warmongers." To continue quoting my father, >&q ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 14 15:33:00 PDT 1998

41592 more on genet eng etc. -- rank: 1000

[more forwards from Mark Ritchie] >AGRICULTURE-INDIA/ VIGIL AGAINST GENETICALLY ENGINEERED SOYABEANS > >August 13, 1998 > >NEW DELHI - Inter Press Service via NewsEdge Corporation : A campaign >against the landing of one million tons of soyabeans from the United >States, suspected to be genetically engineered, got off today with a >farmer's rally in the capital. > >The suspicions arise from the fact that soyabean consignments from the U.S >have been found to be m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 14 15:14:33 PDT 1998

41593 Black freedom struggle and the CP's contributions [sic] -- rank: 1000

Andrew Kliman wrote: >Doug: "Andrew, anyone who's drawn more than 3 or 4 breaths in >the U.S. over the last 60 or 70 years is fully aware of the >shortcomings of the CPUSA." > >I really don't believe so, not after all the revisionist history >and the putrid propaganda films like "Seeing Red" and the "Good >Fight," which had not a word about their involvement in the >slaughter of leftists in the >Spanish Civil War. And it isn't a matter o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 14 11:30:24 PDT 1998

41594 Mumia ad -- rank: 1000

[This post from Michael E bounced] Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 09:22:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <2.2.16.19980814092443.4d178180 at pop.igc.org> X-Sender: meisenscher at pop.igc.org X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: DennisNFD at aol.com (by way of Michael Eisenscher <meisenscher at igc.apc.org>) Subject: mumia ad Update on the Campaign to Place a Support Ad for Mumia A ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 14 10:32:27 PDT 1998

41595 Cassidy in New Yorker -- rank: 1000

I read Cassidy's piece last night. After talking up the possibility of a crash, he then closes with a reassuring quote from Milton Friedman, of all people. "'I suspect we will have a recession when the bubble bursts.' But, he added, 'It need not be more than am ild recession - if the Fed does its job.'" So why devote thousands of words to evoking the dramatic parallel with 1929 to end on such a whimper? Cassidy also assures us that the Fed will tighten, perhaps as soon as next week. Th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 14 10:18:40 PDT 1998