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22261 [lbo-talk] corporate science -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - June 21, 2004 Guest Editor and Authors Boycott an Elsevier Journal Over Its Rejection of Disputed Article By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK Authors writing for a special issue of a journal devoted to the health and environmental impacts of the electronics and semiconductor industries have told the publisher, Elsevier, that they will withhold their articles to protest Elsevier's refusal to publish a paper that deals specifically with IBM. Joseph LaDou, guest editor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 21 07:24:29 PDT 2004

22262 [lbo-talk] quote -- rank: 1000

[how Hegelian...] "When we begin to love and respect Great Mother Nature's gift to us of gayness, we'll discover that the bondage of our childhood and adolescence in the trials and tribulations of neitherness was actually an apprenticeship for teaching her children new cutting edges of consciousness and social change. In stunning paradox, our neitherness is our talisman, our fairie wand, our gift we bring to the hetero world to....transform their pain into healings; ...transform their tears ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 21 07:22:47 PDT 2004

22263 [lbo-talk] more Hersh -- rank: 1000

[...] A former White House official depicted the Administration as eager-almost desperate-late this spring to install an acceptable new interim government in Iraq before President Bush's declared June 30th deadline for the transfer of sovereignty. The Administration turned to Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations special envoy, to "put together something by June 30th-just something that could stand up" through the Presidential election, the former official said. Brahimi was given the tas ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 21 07:16:19 PDT 2004

22264 [lbo-talk] Israel & Iraq -- rank: 1000

Hersh's latest: <http://newyorker.com/fact/content/?040628fa_fact>. [...] Israeli intelligence and military operatives are now quietly at work in Kurdistan, providing training for Kurdish commando units and, most important in Israel's view, running covert operations inside Kurdish areas of Iran and Syria. Israel feels particularly threatened by Iran, whose position in the region has been strengthened by the war. The Israeli operatives include members of the Mossad, Israel's clandestine for ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 21 07:11:52 PDT 2004

22265 [lbo-talk] Air America's troubles -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - June 21, 2004 Radio Daze Inside Air America's Troubles: Optimism and Shaky Finances In an Election Year, Talk Radio For Liberals Made Sense; A $24 Million Shortfall Al Franken's Kitchen Surprise By JULIA ANGWIN and SARAH MCBRIDE Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL June 21, 2004; Page A1 On March 30, the night before Air America went on the air, the liberal radio network threw itself a $70,000 party at Manhattan's hip Maritime Hotel. More than 1,000 guests, including ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 21 06:45:07 PDT 2004

22266 [lbo-talk] consider the following: -- rank: 1000

N P Childs wrote: >Anybody else losing patience with this thread? Me. I was away all day so I didn't get a chance to, but no more conspiracism. Enough. Doug the Gatekeeper

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Date:	Sun Jun 20 19:24:25 PDT 2004

22267 [lbo-talk] Re: Is Berlet Combat Ready? -- rank: 1000

martin wrote: >Skeptics on the right, true believers on the left, please. > >Martin (who likes suspicion better than 'sides') I swear, you never make any sense. Do you try to be opaque, or does it just come naturally? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 19 16:07:04 PDT 2004

22268 [lbo-talk] consider the following: -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >The Left establishment's attack on 9/11 skeptics > >Soon after revelations concerning Bush administration prior >knowledge of the 9/11 attacks ("Memogate"), a number of well-known >media "liberals" and "progressives" launched a heavy-handed series >of broadsides against independent 9/11 researchers who had been >developing alternative theories in response to the deeply flawed and >fraudulent official story. Why would th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 19 16:06:32 PDT 2004

22269 [lbo-talk] Re: Is Berlet Combat Ready? -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >And how Henwood arrives at the conclusion that this constitutes a >'fuck up' by 9-11 researchers is beyond me. Clearly the people who >have fucked up are in the US National Security apparatus. Which is what I said. Perhaps the antecedents were unclear. The national security establishment fucked up, bigtime. Still, 9-11 "researchers" strike me as a bunch of paranoids who belong on the right. >"Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for un ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 19 15:52:45 PDT 2004

22270 [lbo-talk] young Ron hits W -- rank: 1000

Daily News (New York) - June 19, 2004 Ron Jr. hits Bush team BY MONIQUE EL-FAIZY, DAILY NEWS WRITER Ronald Reagan (news - web sites)'s son harshly criticized the Bush White House for invoking religion and his father's name to justify the Iraq (news - web sites) war and scoffed, "They're no Ronald Reagans." Ron Reagan, the late President's son, unloaded on President Bush (news - web sites) and his advisers to NBC's Chris Matthews in an interview that aired last night on "Dateline.& ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 19 15:09:08 PDT 2004

22271 [lbo-talk] another intelligence professional against Bush -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - June 19, 2004 Bush told he is playing into Bin Laden's hands Al-Qaida may 'reward' American president with strike aimed at keeping him in office, senior intelligence man says Julian Borger in Washington A senior US intelligence official is about to publish a bitter condemnation of America's counter-terrorism policy, arguing that the west is losing the war against al-Qaida and that an "avaricious, premeditated, unprovoked" war in Iraq has played into Osama bin Laden' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 19 14:19:11 PDT 2004

22272 [lbo-talk] Pentagon wants to spy at home -- rank: 1000

<http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,63917,00.html> 02:00 AM Jun. 19, 2004 PT A Pentagon effort to persuade Congress to allow military intelligence agents to work undercover in the United States met with resistance in the House Wednesday when the provision was left out of the highly secretive intelligence funding bill. However, the Senate's version of the Intelligence Authorization Act of 2005 still includes the provision, which exempts Department of Defense intelligence agents from a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 19 10:58:51 PDT 2004

22273 [lbo-talk] Divorce: It's a Red State Thing -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Here's one of my pet theories/speculations about the rise >in the divorce rate in the U. S. over the past 100 years; it >also explains the "red state" divorce disparity. As more >and more of social life becomes commodified, people >take for granted that even intimate relations are (and >should be) market transactions: e.g., the marriage >market, "I'm not getting anything out of this relationship", >the trophy wife, etc. --So wha ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 19 09:13:39 PDT 2004

22274 [lbo-talk] Divorce: It's a Red State Thing -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >via Matthew Yglesias > ><http://www.divorcereform.org/94staterates.html>http://www.divorcereform.org/94staterates.html I make this point (among others) in my contribution to The Nation's special issue on marriage (using figures a few years newer than Yglesias'). The page is at <http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040705&s=henwood>. In my browser the layout doesn't work too well, but you can see the graphic alone (which helps) at <http://www.then ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 18 15:20:46 PDT 2004

22275 [lbo-talk] Re: Is Berlet Combat Ready? -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >If you are not willing or able to use logic and fact-checking when >blasting me in a public forum, then you need to consider why, and what >purpose is served by the repeated attacks and falsehoods you are >posting. At the very least, you have to stop the nasty personal attacks. Yup. The conspiracism is tedious enough, but the personal animosity makes it scads worse. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 18 14:32:43 PDT 2004