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25246 Radio Doug -- rank: 1000

s-t-t at juno.com wrote: >Good Behind the News yesterday. Thanks. I was a bit worried it was a bit cerebral and detached for the present moment. And I didn't think I managed to whip the four interviewees into a coherently structured narrative. > But, jeez, Ellen Willis was >exasperating. What gives? It's the military's job to kill, so we >needn't get all "emotional" about the death toll of US foreign policy or >the reasons for this. WTF? > >And why the harping ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 28 14:28:07 PST 2003

25247 UAL delisted -- rank: 1000

Meanwhile, a whole major sector of the U.S. economy is in meltdown. Not only is this a cyclical problem, but the cumulative effects of over 20 years of deregulation. And no one seems to care. At 9:32 PM +0000 3/28/03, CBS MarketWatch Alerts wrote: >Breaking News Bulletin: Bankrupt UAL delisted by NYSE as of April 3 > >NYSE to delist UAL (UAL) By Jennifer Waters >The New York Stock Exchange said after the bell Friday that it will >delist UAL Corp. (UAL) , the bankrupt parent of Uni ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 28 13:43:17 PST 2003

25248 Conflict sapping forces' morale -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >>Steven wrote: >> >>>Quite a few of the troops have said to me that this isn't what they were >>>expecting. >> >>They joined the damned Marines, fer Chrissake. What did they >>expect? A sit-down dinner with a string quartet accompaniment? >> >>Doug > > >To liberate an oppressed people from a cruel dictator... Well that reminds me of what Anatol Lieven said when I interviewed him, characterizing the profo ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 28 13:25:52 PST 2003

25249 Conflict sapping forces' morale -- rank: 1000

Steven wrote: >Quite a few of the troops have said to me that this isn't what they were >expecting. They joined the damned Marines, fer Chrissake. What did they expect? A sit-down dinner with a string quartet accompaniment? Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 28 13:15:40 PST 2003

25250 not one pro-American editorial in a major newspaper worldwide -- rank: 1000

Global media onslaught By Arnaud de Borchgrave UPI Editor at Large Published 3/28/2003 1:46 PM <http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030328-120000-9802r> BEIRUT, Lebanon, March 28 (UPI) -- Under the headline "Reaping the Fiascos of Ideological Wild Men," the Beirut Daily Star editorialized Friday, "One would have thought that the current global power in Washington and the former power in London that set out to change the world would know more about how the world feels and w ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 28 12:56:18 PST 2003

25251 Bible-thumpers ready to invade Iraq -- rank: 1000

[these folks may be more deluded than Rummy!] Christianity Today - March 27, 2003 <<http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/112/45.0.html>http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/112/45.0.html> Evangelism efforts will join relief work, say Southern Baptist Convention and Samaritan's Purse By Mark O'Keefe, Religion News Service Two leading evangelical Christian relief and missionary organizations say they have teams of workers poised to enter Iraq to address the physical and spiritua ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 28 12:07:20 PST 2003

25252 Leninism in 2003 -- rank: 1000

BrownBingb at aol.com wrote: >I might add that, your attention to the specific empirical >developments _is_ "Leninist analysis for 2003". So, in a way, the >answer to your question, " what is it to be...in 2003" is right >under your whatever. But as I say , in a way that is just the sense >in which Leninist analysis is Marxist analysis. It's >empirical,concrete. I'm with you on this. Someone at Zizek's Lenin conference said the essence of L'ism was "con ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 28 11:46:15 PST 2003

25253 Aaron Brown, victim -- rank: 1000

[this was on the "Entertainment" page] Oregonian - March 28, 2003 CNN anchor takes flak for war coverage Peter Ames Carlin Somewhere on the other side of the planet, missiles are launched. A city explodes. Soldiers dodge bullets and try to kill their enemy. And chances are, you're watching it happen live. This is war in the era of Real Time. A struggle fought partly by pocket cams and mini-satellite transponders, beamed through the unblinking eye of 24-hour cable news. It has fueled so ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 28 11:30:30 PST 2003

25254 the more you watch, the sadder you get -- rank: 1000

Date: 28 Mar 2003 19:12:50 -0000 Subject: The Pew Research Center for The People and The Press Update From: mailprc at people-press.org Wall-to-wall media reports on the war in Iraq have not resulted in significant improvement in the public's view of the media's coverage of this war compared with the first Persian Gulf conflict. However, there are signs that 24-7 televised images of war are taking an increasing psychological toll. In recent days, more than four-in-ten (42%) expressed the view th ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 28 11:27:54 PST 2003

25255 Wash. Post reportage -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Clemenceau declared that war was too important to leave to the generals. >Perhaps he was not aware of how many generals-in-civilian-clothes >inhabited the upper regions of the u.s. political elite. War is probably >too important to be left to DoD civilian officials _or_ the generals. So who does that leave? MSNBC anchors? Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 28 11:25:21 PST 2003

25256 cakewalk: a history -- rank: 1000

<http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/26/column.novak.opinion.cakewalk/> No cakewalk [Robert Novak] Wednesday, March 26, 2003 Posted: 12:05 PM EST (1705 GMT) WASHINGTON -- "There were some who were supportive of going to war with Iraq who described it as a cakewalk," Tim Russert told Donald Rumsfeld on NBC's "Meet the Press" last Sunday. The secretary of Defense seemed surprised. "I never did," he replied. "No one I know in the Pentagon ever did." ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 28 09:21:58 PST 2003

25257 Fwd: Working Class Students in Higher Education - two talks -- rank: 1000

PLEASE FORWARD TO INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS AND LISTS Hidden Hurdles and Invisible Injuries: Working Class Students in Higher Education A talk by Barbara Jensen MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2003 6 ? 8 p.m. at Stony Brook Manhattan 401 Park Avenue South (at 28th Street), second floor New York City and TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2003 Noon - 2p.m. at the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) Melville Library, first floor Stony Brook University Campus Barbara Jensen will address the psychological and cultur ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 28 08:48:28 PST 2003

25258 Wash. Post reportage (was: Re: Does Perle Resignation Mean Anything? -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >At 08:31 AM 3/28/03 -0600, Carrol Cox wrote: > >>Kelley makes three assumptions: > >Lou makes several as well. You just agree with his assumptions. When it comes to the rulers, Carrol's a caricature postmodernist - they can't speak with one voice, they don't know their own intentions, meanings slip in a viscious world of radical uncertainty. When it comes to Carrol, though, he's radically certain, and utters pronunciamenti with unshakable confidence! Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 28 08:47:17 PST 2003

25259 consultants: patriotism good for the radio biz -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - March 28, 2003 For Broadcast Media, Patriotism Pays Consultants Tell Radio, TV Clients That Protest Coverage Drives Off Viewers By Paul Farhi Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, March 28, 2003; Page C01 Now, apparently, is the time for all good radio and TV stations to come to the aid of their country's war. That is the message pushed by broadcast news consultants, who've been advising news and talk stations across the nation to wave the flag and downplay protest against the w ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 28 08:29:48 PST 2003

25260 frames -- rank: 1000

<http://www.prospect.org/print/V14/4/mooney-c.html> Breaking the Frame Susan Nall Bales has a lesson for progressive groups: Message matters. By Chris Mooney Issue Date: 3.24.03 When communications consultant Susan Nall Bales talks to environmental groups, she tells them that they can't fix government policies until they first fix themselves. For Bales, that means these groups must become acutely conscious of the stories that they're telling and the hidden chains of reasoning their narrati ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 28 08:23:30 PST 2003