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5791 Marx on free trade -- rank: 149

Max Sawicky wrote: >Is Nader really homophobic, or does he merely take >a jaundiced view ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 29 12:58:55 PDT 1999

5792 Marx on free trade -- rank: 149

... 28 Sep 1999, Max Sawicky wrote: > > Plus when you add Nader to Buchanan they mostly neutralize > each other and you come ...

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Author:	jf noonan
Date:	Wed Sep 29 10:13:11 PDT 1999

5793 Marx on free trade -- rank: 149

... something you said, to be precise. Plus when you add Nader to Buchanan they mostly neutralize each other and you come ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Tue Sep 28 12:51:10 PDT 1999

5794 Marx on free trade -- rank: 149

When I have read more careful critiques of NAFTA and the WTO, the more pungent point, including the unhappiness of US organized labor seems to end up focusing on free capital mobility. Although US auto and steel workers have had unpleasant experiences in recent decades with imports cutting jobs, what is ...

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Author:	J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Date:	Mon Sep 27 14:09:47 PDT 1999

5795 Marx on free trade -- rank: 149

I noticed in this morning's business news that Huffy bike of Dayton, Ohio is shutting down their remaining American manufacturing plants. Last year Huffy whacked about 1000 jobs in the Dayton area when they closed their Dayton plant. This is a sad story because over the years Huffy had from ...

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Author:	Tom Lehman
Date:	Mon Sep 27 09:50:46 PDT 1999

5796 Marx on free trade -- rank: 149

I agree with Max's conclusion. Of course, part of the problem on this thread is anti-Leninism, with its updating of Marxism to analyze capitalism in its impeialist stage. There is no sensible Marxism today that doesn't include the development of Marxism-Leninism, on this particular point Lenin's ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Mon Sep 27 11:25:50 PDT 1999

5797 Marx on free trade -- rank: 149

... from markets in general - so much so that you have Nader et al bellyaching about monopoly and insufficient competition. >Try listening ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 27 09:08:54 PDT 1999

5798 Marx on free trade -- rank: 149

JH: >I don't think that 'the worse, the better' is Marx's central point. . . Clearly not central, but plain enough and wrong. We should get straight from the outset that "protectionism" is the neo-liberal translation of any infringement on unregulated capital and merchandise flows across national boundaries. Buchanan gives ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Mon Sep 27 07:52:14 PDT 1999

5799 Fw: International campaign in defence of iranian students -- rank: 149

----- Original Message ----- From: <echap at eng.gla.ac.uk> Dear All Re: International campaign in defence of Iranian students: Stop another massacre of political prisoners. You will undoubtedly be aware of the large number of arrests of students and political activists after last July's pro-democracy demonstrations in Teheran ...

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Author:	rc-am
Date:	Wed Sep 22 08:07:42 PDT 1999

5800 car-free Europe -- rank: 149

I'm not sure how this falls, but I wonder if the example of Atlanta GA could be instructive. Atlanta is notorious for its absymal air quality, due to a combination of geography and automotive congestion. The latter is due primarily to white flight -- young suburbanites pursuing the american dream of ...

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Author:	David Jennings [MSAI]
Date:	Tue Sep 21 06:23:45 PDT 1999

5801 self-organizing in Seattle against the WTO/Seattle Times article -- rank: 149

This was on the front page of the paper yesterday. "Things" are starting to catalyze rather quickly. For more info see http://www.seattlewto.org and http://www.peopleforfairtrade.org http://www.ruckus.org These sites have been updated quite a bit in the last few weeks and have info of ...

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Author:	Lisa & Ian Murray
Date:	Sat Sep 11 07:37:58 PDT 1999

5802 [CTRL] new Website by Dick Morris: VOTE.COM [a must] -- rank: 149

Guys, Is this the toe sucking Dick Morris? This appears to be an opportunity for these people to double dip. One - he gets paid by the advertisers. 2 - He gets you to feed him poling data without even dropping a dime. It would be a revolutionary tactic to fuck up his ...

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Author:	Nurev Ind Research
Date:	Sun Oct 31 18:02:14 PST 1999

5803 [Fwd: November's World Trade Organization summit in Seattle is shaping up to be the mother of all political demonstrations] -- rank: 149

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: November's World Trade Organization summit in Seattle is shaping up to be the mother of all political demonstrations Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 11:28:35 -0400 From: Chuck0 <chuck at tao.ca> Reply-To: south at lists.tao.ca To: AnarchyAreWe <anarchy-list at lists ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Tue Oct 12 08:41:55 PDT 1999

5804 Starting to pull our plugs... -- rank: 149

... deputy director of Global Trade Watch, a branch of Ralph Nader's Public Citizen, a consumer-rights group based in Washington ...

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Author:	Lisa & Ian Murray
Date:	Sat Oct 9 07:56:24 PDT 1999

5805 WSJ on WTO: agenda, primer, hilarious editorial -- rank: 149

Wall Street Journal - November 26, 1999 Global Trade Talks Are Almost Certain, And Their Success May Be Set in Seattle By BOB DAVIS Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- Trade ministers are almost certain to launch a global round of trade talks next week in Seattle, but they face ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 26 10:05:02 PST 1999