Can we say, Been There, Done That?
Didn't Alexander Cockburn do a column for the Nation about 15 years ago in which he had an imaginary debate on the McNeill-Lehrer N.H. (or something like) between a conservative advocate of slavery and a liberal critic of its excesses, with the abolitionist speaker always getting shut up?
This is why Tom Lehrer gave up satire. The real world are far sicker than merely Poisoning Pigeons in the Park.
^^^^^ CB: Yea. I keep reading this "press release" and wondering , "are they putting me on ? Maybe this is from the Onion".
When the guy says: "This is what free trade's all about," said Schmidt. "It's about the freedom to buy and sell anything-even people."
He's got to be kidding. I guess that's a real refutation of the Wood-Brenner-Dobbs position on the origin of capitalism.
Check it out for me. Maybe I'm tripping or something.
http://www.gatt.org/wharton.html
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--- Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk> > wrote:
> WTO NEWS: 2006 PRESS RELEASES
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> November 13, 2006
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> US Trade Representative to Africa, Governor of
> Nigeria Central Bank weigh in
> at Wharton