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24106 [lbo-talk] DU in GIs -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review <http://prorev.com>] DEPLETED URANIUM FOUND IN TROOPS http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/180333p-156685c.html JUAN GONZALEZ, NY DAILY NEWS - Four soldiers from a New York Army National Guard company serving in Iraq are contaminated with radiation likely caused by dust from depleted uranium shells fired by U.S. troops, a Daily News investigation has found. They are among several members of the same company, the 442nd Military Police, who say they have ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 5 14:58:55 PDT 2004

24107 [lbo-talk] note from a publicist -- rank: 1000

As reported by the Associated Press: "With just a flicker of blue light, little Johnny's mother may know for sure whether her son washed his hands before dinner. New light-scanning technology borrowed from the slaughterhouse promises to help hospital workers, restaurant employees - one day, even kids - make sure that hand washing zaps some germs that can carry deadly illnesses." I invite you to interview ________, _________'s President and CEO, regarding his company's new hand-scannin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 5 14:41:11 PDT 2004

24108 [lbo-talk] the empire speaks... -- rank: 1000

ATTENTION JOURNALISTS: BACKGROUND ON THE NEWS from the COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS An arrest warrant was issued for Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shiite cleric who allegedly organized and encouraged this weekend's anti-coalition uprisings in Iraq. Q&A FACTSHEET: Who is Muqtada al-Sadr? He is a young, fiercely anti-U.S. Shiite cleric making a bid for power in Iraq. He poses a formidable challenge to both the traditional Shiite religious hierarchy and the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 5 14:26:01 PDT 2004

24109 [lbo-talk] Re: Paul Felton: Open Letter to Progressive Democrats -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >Carrol Cox wrote: > >> To respond first to Ulhas's last question: "Is it the drive for higher >> profitability that behind this programme?" The answer is tautological, >> of course, that's what being a capitalist class _means_. > >The question was specific to the US capitalism. The European and Japanese >capitalisms have not found it necessary (or possible) to think of the >rollback of the the entire framework of civil righ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 5 13:54:45 PDT 2004

24110 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 4, Issue 40 -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >It's a bit much, Doug, to call that "the Counterpunch line," The CP collection on anti-Semitism is full of contributions that make that argument. And it's creepy how Ace himself loves to say provocative things about Hitler ("waxworks villain" and "Keynesian" were some choice recent examples). Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 5 13:26:12 PDT 2004

24111 [lbo-talk] W slipping -- rank: 1000

Date: 5 Apr 2004 20:01:01 -0000 Subject: Pew Research Center Report From: mailprc at people-press.org Public Support for War Steady, But Bush Job Ratings Slip After Falluja Public support for war in Iraq has been unaffected by the murders and desecration of the corpses of American citizens in Falluja. However, continued turmoil and violence in Iraq may be taking a toll on President Bush's approval ratings. More Americans now disapprove of the way he is doing his job than approve, though by only ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 5 13:08:15 PDT 2004

24112 [lbo-talk] CPA press office full of GOP hacks -- rank: 1000

Bush Loyalists Pack Coalition Press Office in Iraq By JIM KRANE, AP BAGHDAD, Ir aq (April 4) - Inside the marble-floored palace hall that serves as the press office of the U.S.-led coalition, Republican Party operatives lead a team of Americans who promote mostly good news about Iraq. Dan Senor, a former press secretary for Spencer Abraham, the Michigan Republican who's now Energy Secretary, heads the office packed with former Bush campaign workers, political appointees and ex-Capitol Hill staff ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 5 12:50:09 PDT 2004

24113 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 4, Issue 40 -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >"He blames U.S. imperialism more than Israeli influence" > >Is there a dimes' worth of difference between the two in the Middle >East? Your foregrounding of Israeli "influence" is, you know, icky. It's too close to the Counterpunch line - that Israel and a small group of rich American Jews have hijacked U.S. policy against our national interests - which is too close to classic anti-Semitic discourse for my taste. The U.S. doesn't need lessons in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 5 09:38:27 PDT 2004

24114 [lbo-talk] Fwd: PROBLEM OF THE MEDIA/MCCHESNEY & MILLER -- rank: 1000

THE PROBLEM OF THE MEDIA: U.S. COMMUNICATION POLITICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY Friday, April 16, 6:30pm, Free admission The New School, 66 West 12th Street, Wollman Hall With Robert W. McChesney and Mark Crispin Miller The symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-known: a decline in hard news, the growth of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and concentration of ownership, increasing conformity of viewpoint and suppression of genuine debate. McChesney's new book, The Problem of the M ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 5 07:30:54 PDT 2004

24115 [lbo-talk] Chalmers Johnson, April 2nd -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >Clearly not a "commie", but he sees the same forces at work as does >Michael Mann and Emmanuel Todd: > >Chalmers Johnson Interview on Empire, Blowback and a daffy President > >"As for further war in the Middle East, the people who have been making >policy, concentrated above all in the Pentagon around people like Paul >Wolfowitz and under the influence of Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice, have >certainly proclaimed their desire to carry t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 5 07:20:46 PDT 2004

24116 [lbo-talk] Air America Radio: Democratic Party Business as Usual -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Direct producers and listeners should run the radio stations. Have you ever listened to a Pacifica station? Or do you just have an answer for everything, whether you know about the issue or not? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 4 09:09:34 PDT 2004

24117 [lbo-talk] Bush & Blair agreed to war on Iraq in 9/01 -- rank: 1000

Observer (London) - April 4, 2004 Bush and Blair made secret pact for Iraq war - Decision came nine days after 9/11 - Ex-ambassador reveals discussion by David Rose President George Bush first asked Tony Blair to support the removal of Saddam Hussein from power at a private White House dinner nine days after the terror attacks of 11 September, 2001. According to Sir Christopher Meyer, the former British Ambassador to Washington, who was at the dinner when Blair became the first foreign leader to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 4 09:08:09 PDT 2004

24118 [lbo-talk] Air America Radio: Democratic Party Business as Usual -- rank: 1000

Fed. of Fortune 500 Killers wrote: >The Federation >encourages listeners to turn off Air America Radio and >instead push for democratization of troubled Pacifica >stations like WBAI (NYC), KPFA (Berkeley), and KPFK >(Los Angeles) and to participate in community-based >independent broadcasting. What does "democratization" mean in this context? Who should run the radio stations? The listeners? If so, which listeners? How much professionalism should there be? Too much of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 4 08:16:44 PDT 2004

24119 [lbo-talk] Re: Paul Felton: Open Letter to Progressive Democrats -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >1. I'm tending to the view that both Yoshie and I should forget the >election for a month or two and explore more interesting questions, but >one does tend to scratch an itch. I'm tending to the view that we all should. It's just the same old back and forth, no forward motion. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 4 08:15:02 PDT 2004

24120 [lbo-talk] final poll results -- rank: 1000

Way behind...turnout was appx 25%. Catherine Driscoll wrote: >What was the turnout? > >Quoting Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>: > >> The final results of the lbo-talk presidential poll: >> >> Whom do you support for president of the U.S.? >> percent votes >> George W. Bush 3% 3 >> John F. Kerry 60% 68 >> ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 3 12:46:03 PST 2004