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25351 Wow! -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >That's not what I understand by "puppet," a term I associate with >control by (typically foreign) forces, in the way that the "Marxist" >regime in Afghanistan was a puppet of the Soviets, for example. The >T seem to have run their own show, despite their reliance for >support on the Pakistanis. jks And there never was much of an Afghan state. It was pretty easy to "decapitate" something with almost no budget, no bureaucracy ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 25 07:03:17 PST 2003

25352 Fwd: coalition close to crisis -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >i think this has to do with 9-11 and the fact that people made a >distinction between Saddam Hussein and the citizens of Iraq. The March 24 Financial Times has this, in an article by Christopher Grimes: >You go to Pennsylvania Station and see guards with machine guns, and >it's a little unnerving," says Howard Ginsberg, who was taking a >break from his job in Lower Manhattan to gaze over Ground Zero. "But >you are better off with them than without them. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 24 21:41:54 PST 2003

25353 NACLA seeks editor -- rank: 1000

March 24th, 2003 NACLA Seeks Editor The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) seeks a senior editor to coordinate all aspects of publishing our bimonthly journal, NACLA Report on the Americas. The editor: Coordinates the editing of all sections of the magazine: This includes working closely with the associate editor, other staff members and the editorial board in conceiving of report and article topics, commissioning pieces, working with authors, copy editing, fact checking and proof ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 24 14:32:42 PST 2003

25354 POWs -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Years ago, when I was a prof, I taught a class on democracy, and was >doing James Mill's utilitarian defense of the same; once of his >arguments is that democracy enables people to get what they want, >and so to be happier. This was at Ohio State, a fairly conservative >school. So, I asked, what do people want? More money, education, >health care, less work. etc. The students filled this in. And yet . >. . So, what's the problem? Is there somethi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 24 14:13:51 PST 2003

25355 progress indicator -- rank: 1000

Dick Cheney said shortly after 9/11 that we were in a 50-year war. Just thought you all would like the update. If October 7, 2001, was the beginning (that's when the bombing of Afg began), we're 2.92% of the way into it. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 24 13:51:03 PST 2003

25356 free tickets for new Fox show! -- rank: 1000

Special Invitation We would like to offer YOU a Special Invitation to be a part of our LIVE studio audience, for the premiere of our news driven based talk showŠ. >From the producers of The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes and On The Record with Greta Van Susteren... The show will feature the stories behind the headlines: everything from light-hearted, to topical, to controversial. Audience participation is essential to the success of the show! In addition, studio audience members will ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 24 12:35:54 PST 2003

25357 POW's -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >From: "Mark Bennett" <mab at straussandasher.com> > > > >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Kelley [mailto:the-squeeze at pulpculture.org] >> >> they don't give a rat's ass. the _only- thing that checks them is vocal >> opposition, not outcomes of their wars. >> >> >> __________________________ >> >> Vocal opposition hasn't been much of a deterrent, now or in the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 24 12:30:11 PST 2003

25358 Merrill Lynch: overweight defense -- rank: 1000

[from a research note released this morning by Merrill Lynch] Highlights: We reiterate our preference for defense-related shares to technology related shares. Our short-term preference is based on the combination of the on-set of war and attractive valuations. Our longer-term story is based on our long-standing theme of "returning to a cold-war mentality regarding technological innovation". We continue to believe that investors are defining geopolitics too narrowly by focusing only ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 24 09:59:58 PST 2003

25359 not a police state - yet -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - March 24, 2003 State Attorney General Rejects Virginia Tech Board's Policy on Campus Speech By MEGAN ROONEY Nine days after Virginia Tech's governing board established a controversial policy restricting political speech on its campus, the state attorney general's office declared that the new rules violated constitutional rights to free assembly and free speech. The Board of Visitors subsequently scheduled a meeting next month to discuss the policy. In ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 24 09:54:09 PST 2003

25360 More on Moore -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >There's no ambiguity in Salon's coverage at least. How's that annoying thing keeping its nostrils above water? They've been on deathwatch for ages. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 24 09:51:46 PST 2003

25361 US pissed at Russkis -- rank: 1000

U.S. Demands That Russian Firms Cease Aid to Iraq WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States demanded on Monday that the Russian government immediately stop firms from selling antitank missiles, night vision goggles and other equipment to Iraq (news - web sites), calling the practice "disturbing." "The United States has credible evidence that Russian companies have provided assistance and prohibited hardware to the Iraqi regime, things such as night vision goggles, GPS jammers and a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 24 08:45:24 PST 2003

25362 the indie Oscars -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >For as long as I've been on left maillists I have been objecting to >alleged leftists picking up this cliche. The New York Post is the proper >resting place for it. > >Those who complain about left jargon should _never_ use this charge of >"grimness" or lack of humor on the left. It is a moldier cliche than >anything one can find in the works of stalin's acolytes. I do love your ironic sense of humor, Carrol! Sometimes it just cracks me up. By th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 24 08:38:00 PST 2003

25363 the indie Oscars -- rank: 1000

[I've always missed the parodic element in EC's version of PLU.] New York Post [Page Six] - March 24, 2003 Bashing by Michael Moore MICHAEL Moore, the director of "Bowling for Columbine," led his Hollywood colleagues in a Bush-bashing bonanza which showed why the Academy Awards almost were canceled. The Oscar organizers were afraid of exactly what happened Saturday at the Independent Spirit Awards, where one star after another criticized President Bush and the U.S.-led liberation of Ir ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 24 06:52:28 PST 2003

25364 Fwd: [RTSNYC] NO BUSINESS AS USUAL - MASSIVE ANTI-WAR CD ON 3/27 -- rank: 1000

NO BUSINESS AS USUAL - MASSIVE ANTI-WAR CD ON 3/27 An ad-hoc coaltion of anti-war groups is planning a massive non-violent civil disobedience at 8 am on Thursday, March 27. The group agreed to target the media/government collusion that is promoting this war to further corporate interests. The Rockefeller Center area was chosen as the target since many media and corporations have offices there or nearby. The plan is for a massive die-in on 5th Avenue at Rock Center, with coordinated actions plann ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 24 06:44:39 PST 2003

25365 WSJ on Pacifica -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - March 24, 2004 Pacifica Radio Network Becomes Antiwar Voice By ANNA WILDE MATHEWS Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL A few weeks ago, Amy Goodman played master of ceremonies at a peace rally in Washington. Later that day, she attended a different antiwar protest, involving many of the same people, this time doing interviews for the show she hosts on Pacifica Radio -- and wound up getting arrested outside the White House. Her dual identity captures the unique role tha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 24 06:39:19 PST 2003