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25396 emergency appeal -- rank: 1000
[at the risk of opening a can of worms...] At 11:11 AM -0500 3/21/03, Katha Pollitt wrote: >Dear Friends, some of you know the work of the New York Abortion >Access Fund, through my column or coming to the fundraiser last year >at my house. Today NYAAF is trying to help four women pay for their >second-trimester abortions (see below). This is an emergency. If >you can help, even with $25 or $50, that would be great. You don't >have to write the check today -- just call Shaun ...
Document Size: 9235
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Mar 21 09:03:46 PST 2003
25397 Seventy Percent -- rank: 1000
Carl Remick wrote: >Let's hope I'm wrong, but the outlook seems bleaker than it did >during the Vietnam era. For one thing, due to 9/11 Americans feel >personally threatened now in a way they never did during the Vietnam >war and are obviously more willing to countenance any amount of >aggression in the name of "defense." Yeah, but an awful lot of people are saying that the war will make us more vulnerable to terrorism, not less. There is tremendous skepticism about the ...
Document Size: 5466
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Mar 21 06:53:45 PST 2003
25398 Dems wave the flag -- rank: 1000
New York Post - March 21, 2003 DASCHLE AND DEMS DITCH DIVISION AND RALLY 'ROUND DUBYA BY DEBORAH ORIN WASHINGTON - A few days after blaming President Bush for war with Iraq - and getting blasted for it - Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle yesterday said it's time to unite behind the commander-in-chief. "We may have differences of opinion about what brought us to this point, but the president is the commander-in-chief, and today we unite behind him," Daschle (S.D.) said at a news conf ...
Document Size: 6096
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Mar 21 06:42:51 PST 2003
25399 more idiocy -- rank: 1000
eric dorkin wrote: >But king of idiocy goes to peter jennings who (eaming with pride) >said that Richard Engel was a real asset to have reportiong from >Iraq because he spoke arabic and, after all, not many people speak >arabic...if you missed that gem, I shit you not. To be fair to Jennings, he probably meant that few American reporters speak Arabic, not that few people in the world speak it. Which is the scandal of most U.S. reporters abroad - they barely speak the language of the ...
Document Size: 4927
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Mar 21 06:41:12 PST 2003
25400 more idiocy -- rank: 1000
Dennis Perrin wrote: >This of course led to cries of "pro-Saddam bias" from the >Bozell/Irvine crowd, who were kind enough to remind us that >Jennings' first wife was Lebanese, and, well, you know what that >means . . . And he's Canadian! Doug
Document Size: 4567
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Mar 21 06:33:29 PST 2003
25401 Daily Show Q -- rank: 1000
budge wrote: >Last night in an effort to get the true scoop on the war I >tuned into the Daily Show. Jon Stewert ran a clip of a New >Year's eve style celebration (ballons, confetti, etc) >presided over by Shepard Smith on FOX as the 48 hr deadline >expired. Was that for real? Did Fair and Balanced FOX >really do that or was Jon just making that up? I didn't watch last night, but as a frequent Daily Show viewer, I've found that the clips are real. I can't think of an excepti ...
Document Size: 5014
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Mar 21 06:32:15 PST 2003
25402 make war - and money too! -- rank: 1000
New York Times - March 21, 2003 Pentagon Adviser Is Also Advising Global Crossing By STEPHEN LABATON WASHINGTON, March 20 - Even as he advises the Pentagon on war matters, Richard N. Perle, chairman of the influential Defense Policy Board, has been retained by the telecommunications company Global Crossing to help overcome Defense Department resistance to its proposed sale to a foreign firm, Mr. Perle and lawyers involved in the case said today. Mr. Perle, an assistant defense secretary in the R ...
Document Size: 11576
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Mar 21 06:23:27 PST 2003
25403 BEA is hiring! -- rank: 1000
All you econogeeks, accountants, and IT types - the Bureau of Economic Analysis is hiring. For info, see <http://www.bea.gov/bea/beajobs.htm>. Doug
Document Size: 4560
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 20 16:24:01 PST 2003
25404 protests aplenty -- rank: 1000
Hundreds Arrested in Wide U.S. Anti-War Protests 19 minutes ago By Adam Tanner SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - More than 500 people were arrested in San Francisco on Thursday as thousands protested across the country to show the world that not every Americansupported the U.S. war against Iraq (news - web sites). "If this was happening in every city, there would either be martial law or an end to war," said one Berkeley student who chained himself to 16 others on a major San Francisco street. ...
Document Size: 8950
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 20 15:55:30 PST 2003
25405 another diplo resigns -- rank: 1000
Third U.S. Diplomat Resigns Over Iraq Policy Thu Mar 20, 2:58 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A third U.S. diplomat has resigned partly because of opposition to U.S. policy toward Iraq (news - web sites), a State Department official said on Thursday. Mary Wright, deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, cited U.S. policy toward Iraq, North Korea (news - web sites) and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as reasons for her decision to step down, said the official, who asked ...
Document Size: 5903
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 20 15:51:51 PST 2003
25406 feels good, sez W -- rank: 1000
[from a Knight-Ridder account of last night's speech] "On my order, coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military importance to undermine Saddam Hussein's ability to wage war," President Bush said during a four-minute address to the nation Wednesday night. "These are the opening stages of what will be a broad and concerted campaign." Minutes before the speech, an internal television monitor showed the president pumping his fist. "Feels good," he ...
Document Size: 4890
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 20 15:02:13 PST 2003
25407 rifle-bombs -- rank: 1000
Wired News - 02:00 AM Mar. 20, 2003 PT When a Gun Is More Than a Gun By Noah Shachtman PICATINNY ARSENAL, New Jersey -- It is among the most horrific weapons in any army's collection: the thermobaric bomb, a fearsome explosive that sets fire to the air above its target, then sucks the oxygen out of anyone unfortunate enough to have lived through the initial blast. Last year, the U.S. military used such weapons for the first time in combat, to incinerate suspected underground al-Qaeda hideouts in ...
Document Size: 8605
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 20 14:24:30 PST 2003
25408 some reservists write... -- rank: 1000
From: Dan Sinker--Punk Planet Magazine <sinker at punkplanet.com> To: "inde-press at igc.topica.com" <inde-press at igc.topica.com> Subject: [IPA] NON TECHNICAL - Troops respond to "support" Date: Thu, Mar 20, 2003, 11:19 AM I got this in my in-box today from a couple Punk Planet readers in the reserves. It gives a troop's perspective on all the "support the troops" rhetoric going around. These guys want to get this published in as many places as possibl ...
Document Size: 10090
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 20 14:05:06 PST 2003
25409 A cost analysis -- rank: 1000
Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >If this is true, then why does the Market seem to rally >every time a bomb is dropped? They're anticipating the end of the war already. Same thing happened in 1991 - the market took off as soon as the war began. This is by no means a long-term consideration. The Wall Street consensus is that the economy has been held back by the uncertainty of the run-up to war, and that uncertainty is now being resolved. They've already priced in a quick victory (not only in stoc ...
Document Size: 4905
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 20 14:01:42 PST 2003
25410 brought to you by Clear Channel! -- rank: 1000
Chicago Tribune - March 19, 2003 Media Giant's Rally Sponsorship Raises Questions by Tim Jones Some of the biggest rallies this month have endorsed President Bush's strategy against Saddam Hussein, and the common thread linking most of them is Clear Channel Worldwide Inc., the nation's largest owner of radio stations. In a move that has raised eyebrows in some legal and journalistic circles, Clear Channel radio stations in Atlanta, Cleveland, San Antonio, Cincinnati and other cities have sponsor ...
Document Size: 9667
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 20 13:34:15 PST 2003
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