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21496 [lbo-talk] privatizing spycraft -- rank: 1000
Financial Times - May 17, 2004 MIDDLE EAST: US turns to private sector for spies Financial Times; May 17, 2004 By Joshua Chaffin in Washington For Dave Tittle, who has run an executive placement company in northern Virginia for the last 30 years, business has never been so good. That is because Mr Tittle's speciality is supplying talent for the growing number of private companies that do the US government's spying. "An awful lot of activity has been outsourced," says Mr Tittle, who him ...
Document Size: 9035
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon May 17 11:48:03 PDT 2004
21497 [lbo-talk] Darby's hometown -- rank: 1000
Washington Post - May 17, 2004 When Joseph Comes Marching Home By Hanna Rosin Corriganville, Md. - On TV, Spec. Joseph Darby's neighbors here in the Allegheny Mountains have heard him called a hero, a brave soldier who tipped off superiors to the abuses at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison. And given the way small towns usually honor their soldiers, you might expect preparations for a proper homecoming, maybe even an impromptu parade. But at the bar in the community center just down the road from Darb ...
Document Size: 17938
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon May 17 11:32:00 PDT 2004
21498 [lbo-talk] Younge on white trash in Iraq -- rank: 1000
Guardian (London) - May 17, 2004 Blame the White Trash by Gary Younge Two young women have achieved iconic status in US President George Bush's battle between good and evil currently touring Iraq. And if the administration's propaganda machine is to be believed, one of them is good and the other one is evil. One the side of good there is Jessica Lynch. When we first met her, in April last year, she was the plucky soldier who had been captured after a "valiant gunfight", slapped around ...
Document Size: 11883
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon May 17 10:54:44 PDT 2004
21499 [lbo-talk] Hersh: How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib. -- rank: 1000
Carrol Cox wrote: >It is strange that the people who complain about left writing being dull >are the same as those who argue that the left's message should consist >of content which no one outside the left will ever read. If the >municipal water supply were polluted, we would demand clean water, and >if the reply was a demand that we explain the necessary technology our >answer would be go fuck yourself -- that's your job. This is the juvenile reaction of someone who's just don ...
Document Size: 5973
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon May 17 10:28:05 PDT 2004
21500 [lbo-talk] Hersh: How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib -- rank: 1000
C. G. Estabrook wrote: >Surely you're not suggesting that, because we might not be able to prove >Osama bin Laden's responsibility for 9/11 in a court of law (as the head >of the FBI admitted eight months after the bombing), we therefore get to >kill thousands of Afghans and Iraqis? We've been talking about the "police" alternative to killing thousands of Afghans and Iraqis (and I don't know how Iraqis entered into a 9/11 conversation, since no one outside the loony right t ...
Document Size: 5836
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon May 17 10:12:13 PDT 2004
21501 [lbo-talk] Hersh & Woody -- rank: 1000
[cf Jeet Heer's excellent column - from Romenesko] Hersh, Woodward called best reporters of their generation <http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/cl-ca-shaw16may16.column> Los Angeles Times By David Shaw. "Many reporters came of age at a time when journalism was seen as a calling and an obligation, not a steppingstone to fame and fortune," he writes. "But the work of [Seymour] Hersh and [Bob] Woodward stands out, all the more so in a media climate that has spawned of ...
Document Size: 5331
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon May 17 09:59:56 PDT 2004
21502 [lbo-talk] Hersh: How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib -- rank: 1000
C. G. Estabrook wrote: >Assume that, in the fall of 2001, forces from UNOTKIDN (UN Office for >Terrorist Kinesis, Informatics, and Dire Noetics -- headed by three >generals, a Brazilian, an Iranian, and an Indian) Unless I'm badly misinformed, such a thing doesn't exist. So you're not dealing with the here and now, are you? Doug
Document Size: 5163
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon May 17 09:58:11 PDT 2004
21503 [lbo-talk] the democracy business: a new angle -- rank: 1000
Dennis Perrin wrote: >In other words, the black/white picture is starting to crack. We >should help to utterly shatter it. Financial Times - May 17, 2004 UK snubs France over arms trafficker By Mark Turner at the United Nations, and Mark Huband and Andrew Parker in London The UK is backing the US in pressing for a notorious arms trafficker alleged to be involved in supplying goods to coalition forces in Iraq to be omitted from planned United Nations sanctions, in defiance of French demands ...
Document Size: 11217
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon May 17 09:40:22 PDT 2004
21504 [lbo-talk] more torture -- rank: 1000
[this appears in a mag edited by Fareed Zakaria] Newsweek International - May 24, 2004 A NEWSWEEK investigation THE ROOTS OF TORTURE By John Barry, Michael Hirsh, and Michael Isikoff ** The road to Abu Ghraib began after 9/11, when Washington wrote new rules to fight a new kind of war. ** It's not easy to get a member of Congress to stop talking. Much less a room full of them. But as a small group of legislators watched the images flash by in a small, darkened hearing room in the Rayburn Buildin ...
Document Size: 7495
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon May 17 09:32:08 PDT 2004
21505 [lbo-talk] Hersh: How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib. -- rank: 1000
Jon Johanning wrote: >On Sunday, May 16, 2004, at 12:04 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>I'm guessing, given your professions in the past, that you more or >>less agree with this (I do). So what agency would identify, pursue, >>and capture the perps? The NYPD? The Red Cross? Or something like >>the CIA? > >Certainly not the present U.S. CIA -- perhaps an Interpol sort of >multinational entity, but under the control of governments which >themselves were under ...
Document Size: 5878
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon May 17 07:15:16 PDT 2004
21506 [lbo-talk] Hersh: How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib. -- rank: 1000
Jon Johanning wrote: >On Sunday, May 16, 2004, at 10:19 AM, snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com wrote: > >>who's going to grass it? >> >What I mean is that the Bushies and their media allies will go after >him with a vengeance to destroy his credibility: "This guy Hersh >makes things up -- nobody should believe him." Outside of a few loony circles, like Free Republic and now apparently Counterpunch, Hersh has lots of credibility. Journalists and "opinion le ...
Document Size: 6027
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon May 17 07:13:52 PDT 2004
21507 [lbo-talk] Israel to demolish hundreds of houses -- rank: 1000
Ha'aretz - May 17, 2004 Gazans pile up their belongings and flee Rafah residents expect IDF to close in for unrestrained demolition of homes By Amira Hass RAFAH - The streets of Rafah were filled yesterday evening with horse-drawn carts, trucks and pick-ups, all laden to the brim with any and every item that the town's residents could remove from their homes - mattresses, water tanks taken down from roofs, clothes, blankets, doors and windows removed from their hinges, dismantled beds and closet ...
Document Size: 8794
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon May 17 07:07:02 PDT 2004
21508 [lbo-talk] Electoral Performance of the Left in India, 1951-2004 -- rank: 1000
Michael - people tease you about your formatting, but really, can't you do better than this? There are readers on the other end of the send key. Could you give some consideration to what appears on their screens? This is a jumble, like so much of the other stuff you churn out. - Doug Michael Pugliese wrote: >Electoral Performance of the Left in India 2004 1999 1998 1996 >1991 1989 1984 1980 1977 1971 1967 1962 1957 1951 >CPM 5.69 5.40 5.16 6.12 6.14 6.55 5.72 6.24 4 ...
Document Size: 9673
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon May 17 06:51:11 PDT 2004
21509 [lbo-talk] Glick on Greens -- rank: 1000
Future Hope column, May 17, 2004 Time of Testing for Green Party By Ted Glick 2004 is a big year in many ways, what with the Presidential election, the war in Iraq and other pressing issues. It is also a big year for the Green Party of the United States. The Green Party (GPUS, www.gp.org) is in the midst of what I would call an identity crisis, precipitated by Ralph Nader's decision to run as an Independent rather than going for the GPUS' Presidential nomination, a nomination he likely would hav ...
Document Size: 14511
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon May 17 06:46:54 PDT 2004
21510 [lbo-talk] Re: Barbara Ehrenreich -- rank: 1000
Tim Francis-Wright wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >>I'm going to have Cynthia Enloe on my fundraising radio special >>this Thursday to discuss exactly these issues. >> >>Also, by the way, Gary Younge (thanks to whoever suggested him) and >>George Monbiot. > >I'm glad that I finally did something constructive for LBO or WBAI >(besides subscribing, of course). I had a good chat with Gary the other day - I'll be editing it this afternoon. We talked ab ...
Document Size: 5347
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon May 17 06:11:54 PDT 2004
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