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13216 Health-nut hoodlums -- rank: 46

>From a report by Tom Zoellner in the April 29 issue of the Salt Lake Tribune, a daily newspaper in Salt Lake City: Two college students who were smoking cigarettes on a Salt Lake City street Saturday were confronted by a gang of twenty bleach-haired teenagers wielding chains, bricks ...

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Author:	Louis Proyect
Date:	Fri Aug 28 06:37:22 PDT 1998

13217 The Thousand Youth March -- rank: 46

... and went nuts. Perhaps it was in response to the police massing to attack the rally, but in any case the ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Fri Sep 11 08:42:50 PDT 1998

13218 Ecuador -- rank: 46

Hey Doug, >Ecuador seems to be blowing up - economic crisis, strikes, protests. >Does anyone know what's going on? Not really, but here's something from A-Infos. It seems there is a lot of stuff around, but most of it's in Spanish, which I can only barely read. Eric ...

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Author:	Eric Beck
Date:	Mon Jan 17 18:18:03 PST 2000

13219 David Bacon: can workers beat globalization? -- rank: 46

A great well-balanced piece on the complicated divisions within both developed and developing countries over labor standards and the WTO. Bacon is probably one of the best leftwing journalists on labor and immigration issues in the country. -- Nathan CAN WORKERS BEAT GLOBALIZATION? By David Bacon SAN FRANCISCO (1/16/00 ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Mon Jan 17 14:37:30 PST 2000

13220 More Shoes Dropping -- rank: 46

... GOP Congressional Confessional Meltdown! It's finally happening. The "Morality Police" are finding that hypocrisy kills. First Dan Burton, then Helen ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Fri Sep 11 07:32:34 PDT 1998

13221 FW: Insurrection in Ecuador -- first news -- rank: 46

Doug, I received this, so I'm forwarding it. -- Nathan ======================================== Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 4:41 PM Subject: Insurrection Against Neo-Liberalism in Ecuador PGA Action at WTO Seattle - http://members.aol.com/pgacaravan -- please spread widely -- Dear All, I just received this fwd message coming from Ecuador saying that ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Mon Jan 17 10:30:03 PST 2000

13222 Ecuador -- rank: 46

As far as I can see off the Reuters, the country is in a pretty bad way, but not very much worse than Mexico in '94 and certainly not as bad as it got in Asia (Russia is another matter). This is exactly the sort of time when the government ought ...

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Author:	DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com
Date:	Mon Jan 17 10:03:51 PST 2000

13223 [lbo-talk] the CFR worries about decline -- rank: 46

Missing from this discussion is that there is not one but two Americas, and that perceptions of US decline are very much coloured by class. There is corporate America and working class America, and it is American workers rather than CEO's who have experienced by far the more dramatic loss ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Sun Sep 12 07:03:58 PDT 2010

13224 West on Bradley's Gravitas -- rank: 46

Well I should read the next digest too (looks like more than on this thread!) before I jump back in again but, 'cuz its Nathan and Max who I always read (not that I don't each and every word of every lbo'er of course...btw who is this Doug ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Jan 16 19:25:26 PST 2000

13225 [lbo-talk] Well, damn. You can't trust anybody -- rank: 46

... there aren't lots of plots by the US secret police forces.

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Author:	c b
Date:	Tue Sep 14 09:02:22 PDT 2010

13226 [lbo-talk] Fidel on dolphins & the Cuban model -- rank: 46

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:47 PM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote: > What do Americans have to gain from socialism as a world system? > > ^^^^ CB: Reduce the military budget by 95%, close 100 military bases, > get rid of nuclear weapons. > > *********************************************************************** > A higher standard of living. We're ...

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Author:	Matthias Wasser
Date:	Tue Sep 14 11:12:43 PDT 2010

13227 fwd: neo-malthusianism; or, the reproduction of human capital in the former yu -- rank: 46

[apologies for the formatting of the previous version of same.] "WAR, PEACE AND THE CRISIS OF THE REPRODUCTION OF HUMAN CAPITAL IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA" (This text was included in an anti-war brochure published by the group The Balkan Interior Enemy in Athens in June 1999. The authors can be ...

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Author:	rc-am
Date:	Sat Jan 15 21:01:14 PST 2000

13228 a day without the Pentagon -- rank: 46

[forwarded from David McReynolds <DavidMcR at aol.com>] Dear friend, This is going to lots of people, batch by patient batch, to make sure you have information on the Day Without The Pentagon. Some of you living in countries far from the United States may wonder why you are getting ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 10 06:40:38 PDT 1998

13229 [lbo-talk] The problem with the NSA -- rank: 46

... highly unlikely that NSA will be volunteering information to local police in every Podunk. Nor do I think that a bunch ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Wed Jun 12 11:37:43 PDT 2013

13230 fwd: neo-malthusianism; or, the reproduction of human capital in the former yu -- rank: 46

"WAR, PEACE AND THE CRISIS OF THE REPRODUCTION OF HUMAN CAPITAL IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA" (This text was included in an anti-war brochure published by the group The Balkan Interior Enemy in Athens in June 1999. The authors can be contacted at: Ta pedia tis galarias (The children of the ...

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Author:	rc-am
Date:	Sat Jan 15 08:06:40 PST 2000