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5296 The Beam in the Eye of the Empire (was Re: Kosova Redux)/RE: Kosova Redux -- rank: 149

>a large spectrum from neo-fascists like the Radicals in Seselj's >party (Yoshie, you missed the almost permanent presence of these >thugs in one of your posts on the SSP/JUL), "moderate" nationalists >like that clown Draskovic, social democrats and liberals like Vesna >Pesic, the "Red Bourgeoisie" in the ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon Jan 29 20:02:51 PST 2001

5297 The Beam in the Eye of the Empire (was Re: Kosova Redux) -- rank: 149

>a large spectrum from neo-fascists like the Radicals in Seselj's >party (Yoshie, you missed the almost permanent presence of these >thugs in one of your posts on the SSP/JUL), "moderate" nationalists >like that clown Draskovic, social democrats and liberals like Vesna >Pesic, the "Red Bourgeoisie" in the ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Jan 29 16:52:28 PST 2001

5298 Null on AIDS -- rank: 149

> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > Steve Perry wrote: > >what's the genealogy of the anti-HIV line? and the political economy of it? > >i've never understood how it survived. > Dunno where it came from, but it's sustained by people who are deeply > suspicious of mainstream science ...

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Author:	Patrick Bond
Date:	Tue Jan 23 22:56:13 PST 2001

5299 a healthy and lucid disgust -- rank: 149

>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > >>It seems to me that Brad Mayer's is a much more plausible >>interpretation of _Empire_. > >Have either of you read it? > >Doug I haven't bought _Empire_, but I skimmed through it in a local bookstore (& must confess that the skimming didn't motivate me to ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Jan 23 20:10:04 PST 2001

5300 The sun also goes down... -- rank: 149

Brad Mayer wrote: > At bottom, I'm headed thus: To show that this is a crisis of capital > accumulation (i.e., profits) - in this context , a highly socialized > capital (which is what the phrase "essential commodity like > electricity" means for me), not of the "market" (which, in relatively > deregulated form is ...

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Author:	Roger Odisio
Date:	Mon Jan 22 22:41:32 PST 2001

5301 Camille -- rank: 149

... of an oddity: a fifth-rate hack who actually _defended_ Nader. -- Franklin Ridgway Graduate Instructor Department of English University of Mississippi ...

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Author:	Franklin W. Ridgway
Date:	Mon Jan 22 16:41:44 PST 2001

5302 The sun also goes down... -- rank: 149

>So where are you headed with your study, Brad? My friend at FERC is >very interested in a public discussion of the lack of market info, and >FERC's disinterest in its reponsibilities, despite publicly claiming >otherwise, as a way to get to the bottom of things. Like what sense ...

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Author:	Brad Mayer
Date:	Mon Jan 22 11:23:40 PST 2001

5303 Counter-Inauguration! (Columbus, Ohio) -- rank: 149

Today (January 20, 2001), local activists held two counter-inauguration protests in Columbus, Ohio. The Green Party organized a demo in front of the Office of the Ohio Secretary of State (180 East Broad St.), protesting against the absence of democracy; the Ohio Chapter of NOW held a rally at Founder ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Jan 20 15:24:06 PST 2001

5304 the Defense of Parasitic Finance -- rank: 149

>I come back to my first and main point. The >equation of financial reform with anti- >semitism bespeaks political marginalization, >not any kind of more profound economic >analysis. The critics of financial reform >have no political program worthy of the name. >mbs The reason that "different" issues have become entangled ...

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Author:	Brad Mayer
Date:	Wed Jan 17 13:20:00 PST 2001

5305 Why the Left Always Loses: What is to Be Done? -- rank: 149

... very *bad* showing for a third-party > candidate in America. Nader wanted to demonstrate the strength of the > left without throwing ...

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Author:	Gordon Fitch
Date:	Sun Jan 14 10:27:55 PST 2001

5306 Join Students for an Undemocratic Society! -- rank: 149

... to one Billionaire while I waited in line to hear Nader speak in Ann Arbor. But the Billionaires staged an election ...

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Author:	Dennis Perrin/Nancy Bauer
Date:	Thu Jan 11 06:31:26 PST 2001

5307 Fw: SNET: [Fwd: Inauguration protest summary] -- rank: 149

Let me straighten out a few things. This is an unattributed excerpt from L.A. Kauffman's recent article, titled "Free Radical Guide to the Inauguration Protests." Kauffman is a freelance journalist who has been writing about protests since Seattle. She's not affiliated with the IAC, which is pretty clear ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Mon Jan 8 10:59:55 PST 2001

5308 Fw: SNET: [Fwd: Inauguration protest summary] -- rank: 149

Looks like this Gun nut, Mr. Smith, on the SNETNEWS list at topica.com, is watching the IAC listserv to do CI all the other lefties about to desend on Washington, D.C. About halfway through this is the IAC viewpoint(?) on the various political forces that will be protesting from ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon Jan 8 10:25:21 PST 2001

5309 In Democratic Party, stirrings on the left -- rank: 149

OK, I'll take a bite at a couple of the items here. > > Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 10:01:32 -0500 > From: "Chris Kromm" <ckromm at mindspring.com> > Subject: In Democratic Party, stirrings on the left > > FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 2001 > Christian Science Monitor > > In Democratic Party, stirrings on the left ...

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Author:	John Halle
Date:	Sun Jan 7 10:49:29 PST 2001

5310 Dude, Where's My Party? -- rank: 149

(Sigh) The structural situation of the US Greens is considerably different than that of a more politically-culturally advanced country such as Germany. In the latter case, said advancement permits the 'mainstreaming' of what we in the US call 'third parties'; but in the US case even a relatively marginal ...

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Author:	Brad Mayer
Date:	Thu Jan 4 11:55:50 PST 2001