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2086 Populism (as shown in *The Progressive Populist* -- rank: 1000

I can't claim to any great insight into the US far right, but certain parallels with the experience of Europe do keep ringing through. First, the left is prone to talking up the threat from the right. It is a way of dramatising our own claims, and lending them the imperative of avoiding pending disaster. The European left has been exaggerating the Fascist menace for the last ten years now, with a decisive 'no-show' from the neo-Nazis the only striking consequence. Second, a great mass of middle ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Jan 2 05:32:30 PST 2000

2087 "Economic Nationalism"? (was Re: Who Killed Vincent Chin?) -- rank: 1000

In message <012701bf53d6$a72e4f40$9ee13ecb at rcollins>, rc-am <rcollins at netlink.com.au> writes >if you mean to ask 'do you think there are good nationalisms and bad >nationalisms?', then the answer is 'no'. the difference between the >nationalisms of countries like the US and countries like Indonesia's is >that the former affects more people than the latter; but quantitative >morality has never been a favourite of mine, as you know. not to mention >that i th ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Jan 1 10:50:18 PST 2000

2088 productivity miracle or workhouse? -- rank: 1000

In message <v0422080cb4ce5074f73b@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes > I >wonder: just how significant are they to overall output? Movies and >software are chic, but they're not *that* big a share of GDP. The new Blair administration in Britain made a big song and dance about the 'creative industries' as a model for the future. This year all the results came in. British Phonograph industry, profits down; Museum attendance down one million; British ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Feb 15 01:43:58 PST 2000

2089 Fw: SNET: SEX is the ANSWER: those wacky leftists -- rank: 1000

In message <00b601bf7751$c8378000$975769cf at oemcomputer>, Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net> writes >Icke believes that when the aliens landed a >couple of thousand years ago, a genetic mutation, half-reptilian half-human, >became the origin for the bloodline of European Royal families and the >Bushes, yes, as in George. And apparently he used to be some type of >spokesperson for the Greens. David Icke was a sports commentator of some standing, and a former g ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Feb 15 00:44:34 PST 2000

2090 Can you help me? -- rank: 1000

Can anyone help me? I am looking for good insiders' accounts, i.e. memoirs or articles, of the New Right in the late seventies and eighties, in America mostly. I'm especially interested in accounts of how it all came together and of how it all fell apart. -- Jim heartfield

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Feb 13 09:56:28 PST 2000

2091 "new times" -- rank: 1000

In message <d9.1243d8b.25d79432 at aol.com>, JKSCHW at aol.com writes >In a message dated 00-02-12 17:36:18 EST, you write: > ><< I also believe the CPGB was big on the new times theme. Marxism > Today, under the editorship of Martin Jacques, was another major > organ, right? >> > >Yes, that's right. Jim H ought to be able to say more here. There was an NLR >piece-is it the same one I was thinking of by Anderson? on Marxism Today. >--jks Well, I'm pre ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Feb 13 08:32:19 PST 2000

2092 Kissinger's skewering -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000211120839.29438C- 100000 at falcon.ece.uci.edu>, Prashanth Mundkur <mundkur at ece.uci.edu> writes > >Do you know if there is realaudio for this? > >--prashanth I couldn't find it, but this transcript and report is taken from the Guardian (UK) newspaper: 'Did you feel a fraud?' Tuesday June 29, 1999 The exchanges in full: Jeremy Paxman: "It's been 17 years since the last volume of your memoirs. You said you wanted to let the dust settle ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Feb 12 10:02:46 PST 2000

2093 Ramsey Clark article -- rank: 1000

In message <016d01bf7195$1ab07160$1401aace at oemcomputer>, Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net> writes > Wish we could get Henry K >cornered and yell, Vietnam, Cambodia, Chile, East Timor, at that poobah. He >only seems to get heckled by LaRouchites. On Radio 4, a few months ago, tough interviewer Jeremy Paxman skewered Kissinger over his support for Pinochet and just would not let him go. Kissinger lost it muttering that he did not know this sort of thing was acceptab ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Feb 11 03:33:12 PST 2000

2094 inflation -- rank: 1000

In message <v0422080db4c8b46f3ff9@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Yup. I know why the bourgeoisie hates inflation - I was curious to >hear Rakesh explain how it liked inflation at one point and stopped >liking it another. I think you have to unpick 'the bourgeoisie hates inflation' as a proposition. In the early 1970s the US oil manufacturers did not seem to mind inflation when they sought to boost their profits through price hikes, even though ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Feb 11 03:40:25 PST 2000

2095 Zizek on Haider -- rank: 1000

In message <005601bf73fb$52e3a760$a5e8fea9 at nsn2>, Nathan Newman <nathan.newman at yale.edu> writes > I want >progressive Austrians denouncing the racism of Israel's immigration policies >and Israelis denouncing the racism of Austria. And everyone denouncing the >racism and brutality of the US economic and judicial system. Sounds suspiciously like the first world war to me. British propagandists became adept at denouncing German imperialism, and likewise Germans at expo ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Feb 11 03:33:01 PST 2000

2096 Black conservatism -- rank: 1000

In message <s8a2c2a3.046 at mail.ci.detroit.mi.us>, Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> writes >Anyway, in case you didn't notice, the Reaganite counter-reform has been >roaringly successful, and the U.S. has been in a free fall to reaction since >1980 or so. Black people seeing radical politics as an anachronism is an >accurate vision. The idea that Black people in general , one of the most >reviled and despised groups in America, would move drastically ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Feb 11 03:14:37 PST 2000

2097 Reed on Mumia -- rank: 1000

Reading this passage of Mumia's I think I see the anti-working class rhetoric of 'white skin privilege' >people find that their only option in terms >of personal survival is to become a part of what has been called a >"fortress economy." Increasingly, when people look for jobs, they are >finding jobs in the security field America's industrial working class is the biggest in the world, but, perhaps understandably given his present situation, what Mumia sees is cops, prison ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Feb 10 00:36:41 PST 2000

2098 Desire & Scarcity (was Re: Desire under the Elms) -- rank: 1000

In message <s8958e08.015 at mail.ci.detroit.mi.us>, Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> writes >CB: There must be a drastic change in the satisfaction Americans are able to >derive from a radically , qualitatively different standard of living. > >I'm not talking barracks socialism here either. Our lives can be gentily >fulfilling, our stomachs full with less hardware. A sort of qualitative >miniaturization of our whole modern basic kit. Not ditching al ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Feb 7 01:57:24 PST 2000

2099 rape offender profiles -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.3.32.20000201073522.0130fbb4 at pop.flash.net>, Kelley <oudies at flash.net> writes >I found the on the web when Ken and I were putting together the pulp >culture theory pages. In any >event, I'm sending it along to accompany the rape piece that's in the news >because it is an analysis of the "rape offender" that many investigators >use when investigating sex crimes. It's clearly founded on a >psychoanalytic theory and presents a sharply ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Feb 6 11:13:22 PST 2000

2100 Ramsey Clark article -- rank: 1000

In message <v04220812b4bd547adab6@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Can't vouch for this, but Chuck0 pointed me to an article on Ramsey >Clark that makes you wonder just who he is. He always seemed a bit >fishy to me, but then I'm a suspicious guy. ><http://shadow.autono.net/sin001/clark.htm>. I just read this through, also being interested in Clark's genesis. But the author of this piece considers it a criticism of Clark that he opposed ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Feb 6 11:04:58 PST 2000