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21946 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Fear and Favor at the PBS NewsHour -- rank: 1000
FAIR-L Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting Media analysis, critiques and activism http://www.fair.org/activism/newshour-parenti.html ACTION ALERT: Fear and Favor at the PBS NewsHour March 18, 2004 Journalist Christian Parenti was invited to talk about Iraq on the March 2 broadcast of PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. But Parenti's criticism of the reconstruction contracts granted to corporations like Halliburton and Bechtel apparently crossed a line for the program's host. According to a report ...
Document Size: 12795
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 18 13:03:57 PST 2004
21947 [lbo-talk] Iraq poll -- rank: 1000
ABC News along with some foreign partners (including Oxford University, the BBC, NHK, and ARD) have done a poll of Iraq. Results available from <http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/PollVault/PollVault.html>. Opinions are deeply divided. Some highlights: Mo re Iraqis say the United States was right than say it was wrong to lead the invasion, but by just 48 to 39 percent, with 13 percent expressing no opinion - hardly the unreserved welcome some U.S. policymakers had anticipated. As many Iraqi ...
Document Size: 7258
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 18 13:00:23 PST 2004
21948 [lbo-talk] Doug Henwood's Critique of Gary Null -- rank: 1000
Westrich, James wrote: >I am not defending "quackery" at all but it costs money to do >research and clinical trials so you do not see that much >"alternative" trials. If there really were an untapped trove of "cures" in the alternative armamentarium, wouldn't the drug industry be all over them, trying to standardize, patent, and overcharge? Doug
Document Size: 5034
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 18 12:44:41 PST 2004
21949 [lbo-talk] anti-immigrant forces & the Sierra Club -- rank: 1000
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 12:34:55 -0800 From: "Wes Boyd, MoveOn.org" <moveon-help at list.moveon.org> Subject: Save the Sierra Club from Hostile Takeover Dear MoveOn member, Are you a Sierra Club member? The future of the Sierra Club is at stake. Outsiders are trying to take over the Club by placing stealth candidates on the Club's board ballot this year. This is driven by anti-immigration activists, and their tactics are underhanded -- they aren't declaring their real issue posit ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 18 12:37:53 PST 2004
21950 [lbo-talk] Doug Henwood's Critique of Gary Null -- rank: 1000
Miles Jackson wrote: >Oops. Clinical trials have demonstrated that acup. is >an effective therapy for chronic pain and improves the range of >motion in arthritis patients, compared to "placebo" treatments. >Again, I think it's useful if we base our judgments about >medical therapies on rigorous data, not common sense. I completely agree with this. I'd like to see rigorous trials of alternative therapies, but as far as I know, there have been very few. Am I wrong? And if ...
Document Size: 5224
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 18 11:33:16 PST 2004
21951 [lbo-talk] more Martha -- rank: 1000
The WSWS has a nice piece on Martha (thanks, Michael Pug): <http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/mar2004/stew-m12.shtml>. Doug
Document Size: 4683
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 18 09:37:33 PST 2004
21952 [lbo-talk] Dollars Per Vote: Green vs. Democratic -- rank: 1000
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >What's the point of spending $40 million to win *no* vote in the >general election? That's a completely spurious opposition. The only two choices in the world aren't between a $5,000 chimera and a $40 million marketing operation. Your sig line is all about organization - the creation of agendas and institutions beyond the one-man show: >* Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/> >* Calendars of Events in Columbus: ><http://sif.org.o ...
Document Size: 6080
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 18 09:28:05 PST 2004
21953 [lbo-talk] media fell for Iraqi exiles' crap -- rank: 1000
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Doug quoted: >> [The full list of articles is at >> <http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/8173201.htm>. Two >> are by Hitchens.] >> >> San Jose Mercury News - March 16, 2004 >> >> GLOBAL MISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN WAS USED TO BUILD CASE FOR WAR >> By Jonathan S. Landay and Tish Wells >> Knight Ridder >> >> WASHINGTON - The former Iraqi exile group that gave the Bush >> admi ...
Document Size: 5734
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 18 07:55:16 PST 2004
21954 [lbo-talk] JAGs challenge tribunals -- rank: 1000
Wall Street Journal - March 18, 2004 Critics of Tribunals Gain Unlikely Allies: Lawyers in Uniform JAGs Mount Spirited Attack On System for Trying Guantanamo Detainees Bin Laden Hires a Driver By JESS BRAVIN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL On Jan. 31, a military officer showed up at the cell of Osama bin Laden's former driver in Guantanamo Bay with an unusual mission: to try to set the man free. Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift is a Navy lawyer assigned to defend Salim Ahmed Hamdan before a mil ...
Document Size: 20415
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 18 07:43:04 PST 2004
21955 [lbo-talk] Dollars Per Vote: Green vs. Democratic -- rank: 1000
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >(Cf. Norman Soloman reports that, in 1996, Nader "opted to cap his >campaign expenditures at $5,000" ["News That Still Goes Unreported: >"Dollars Per Vote," <http://www.fair.org/media-beat/980604.html>] >and received "685,128 votes nationwide," spending only "seven-tenths >of a penny per vote" ["Bumpy Media Road For A Wellstone Presidential >Drive," <http://www.fair.org/media-beat/980716.ht ...
Document Size: 6043
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 18 07:36:24 PST 2004
21956 [lbo-talk] Barrett responds to Mitch Cohen's quotes -- rank: 1000
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 22:14:58 -0500 To: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> From: "Stephen Barrett, M.D." <sbinfo at quackwatch.org> I don't have a transcript handy and don't recall whether the quote below is exact, but I will assume it is accurate. >"C. Credibility of Plaintiff's experts > >"Furthermore, the Court finds that both Dr. Sampson and Dr. Barrett >are biased heavily in favor of the Plaintiff and thus the weight to >be accorded their t ...
Document Size: 11646
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 18 07:29:04 PST 2004
21957 [lbo-talk] Doug Henwood's Critique of Gary Null -- rank: 1000
mitchelcohen at mindspring.com wrote: >Aluminum Fluoride and other compounds were waste products of the >aluminum industry in the 1940s and 1950s that they didn't know where >to dump. If you read the original "studies," they literally invented >the fluoride/tooth decay model out of thin air. See, for instance, a >great article 10 years ago in Covert Action on this, among a number >of others. Right, that's the place to look for medical evidence. Nonsense like this give ...
Document Size: 8981
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 18 07:24:32 PST 2004
21958 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Journal Intervention -- rank: 1000
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:23:31 +0100 From: Margit Schratzenstaller <schratz at wifo.ac.at> Organization: WIFO User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 To: dhenwood at panix.com Subject: Journal Intervention Dear Doug Henwood, would you please be so kind to distribute the following announcement of a new German/English economic journal off the mainstream via your lbo-mailing list? Thank you very much! Yours sincerely Margit Schratzenstaller Dear Col ...
Document Size: 7342
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 18 06:53:48 PST 2004
21959 [lbo-talk] Doug Henwood's Critique of Gary Null -- rank: 1000
Thomas Seay wrote: >It's hard for some of these alternative therapies to >get the funding to do proper research studies and >lumping them all into the quack basket, which the >medical community is prepared to do, guarantees that >all alternative therapies, whether or not they merit >it, remain at the margin. "Alternative" types make lots of money. Null himself is a millionaire several times over. My father, suffering from some arthritis pain, went to see someone in th ...
Document Size: 6350
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 18 06:52:32 PST 2004
21960 [lbo-talk] Doug Henwood's Critique of Gary Null -- rank: 1000
mitchelcohen at mindspring.com wrote: >We learn a little later in his article what he thinks of Revici's >methods for decreasing the acidity of one's blood and increasing the >alkaline content, which is a crucial co-factor in making the body >inhospitable to the generation and spread of cancerous tumors. I'm going to respond to the rest of this tomorrow, since I'm about to leave the office for the day, but I had some personal experience of Revici. About ten years ago, my uncle was su ...
Document Size: 5771
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Mar 17 16:58:56 PST 2004
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