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25546 NYC school walkout -- rank: 1000

March 3, 2003 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW YORK CITY HIGH SCHOOLS TO WALK OUT IN PROTEST OF IRAQ WAR New York Youth Bloc, a coalition of New York City high school students, along with the Not in Our Name Student/Youth Coalition, has called for a city-wide high school walkout on March 5th, 2003, in conjunction with the National Student Strike being organized by the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition. The National Strike has been given the theme "Books not Bombs," as an expression o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 3 18:27:55 PST 2003

25547 destruction of the snow penis -- rank: 1000

[Dennis Perrin posted links to the original stories on this a week or two ago.] Harvard Crimson - March 3, 2003 Women's Group Debates Snow Penis By HERA A. ABBASI Crimson Staff Writer The destroyers of the nine foot snow phallus explained their motivations to the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) at a meeting last night, receiving a mixed reaction from the feminist group. The sculpture's destroyers, Amy E. Keel '04 and her roommate Mary C. Cardinale '03, said they leveled the ice penis in order ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 3 17:23:27 PST 2003

25548 Telling the Left From the Right By Frank Smyth -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> >> And if you're going to think about it, you have to think about how >> compatible social democracy is with open borders, and how much SD >> depends on having imperial wealth to distribute to the workers of the >> imperialist countries. >> > >Were I to say this ("imperial wealth to distribute to the workers of the >imperialist countries") it would be labelled doctrinaire Leninism. :- ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 3 17:20:20 PST 2003

25549 Telling the Left From the Right By Frank Smyth -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >This presumes what I call the Swedish superpower >option -- the scenario, not to say fantasy, of a united >social-democratic coalition that could stand >half a chance of being called an army of >liberation. Interesting to think about. And if you're going to think about it, you have to think about how compatible social democracy is with open borders, and how much SD depends on having imperial wealth to distribute to the workers of the imperialist countries. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 3 16:47:04 PST 2003

25550 bigger lifting dicks good for carrying groceries -- rank: 1000

DoreneFC at aol.com wrote: >How many lbo-talk folk just routinely delete unopened all email that contains >any synonyms of larger and penis in the same Subject line???? What, and miss a possible chance for genuine heft and breadth? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 3 16:10:13 PST 2003

25551 working both sides -- rank: 1000

[better late than never] San Francisco Chronicle - February 26, 2003 General reverses his role The retired general tapped by the Bush administration to oversee rebuilding of post-war Iraq was, until just a few weeks ago, an executive at a leading defense contractor working on missile systems that would be used to bomb Baghdad. Although a Pentagon official said Jay Garner's new role as head of the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance does not constitute a conflict of interest, et ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 3 15:18:18 PST 2003

25552 Butler speaks -- rank: 1000

[Richard, not Judith. From Sam Smith's Progressive Review.] >[From an interview on Australian Broadcasting with former UN Chief Weapons >Inspector Australian Richard Butler by ABC's Terry Lane] > >RICHARD BUTLER - I believe that there is a very real prospect now that the >United States of America will attack Iraq without the approval of the UN >Security Council. That is contrary to international law, it should not >happen, and I believe the consequences of such an action cou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 3 15:15:54 PST 2003

25553 the shirt story -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than list] From: "ChrisD(RJ)" <chrisd at russiajournal.com> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 12:44:57 +0300 > ...and that no one on the staff knows Russian, and that they were too > provincially American to ask what they words meant? God bless > American, man. > > Doug > > -- For the record, these are snippets from the Komsomolskaya Pravda > article (translated by me). > > Tatu gave the war three letters > The scandalously famous d ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 3 11:38:26 PST 2003

25554 Hillary the Hawk -- rank: 1000

New York Post - March 3, 2003 HILLARY HAWKS UP WAR TALK By DEBORAH ORIN Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton "fully supports" President Bush's Iraq policy, her office said last night - on the eve of her visit today to an upstate arsenal that makes military hardware like mortars and howitzers for U.S. troops. "Sen. Clinton fully supports the steps the president has taken to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction," said Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines. That puts Clinton (D-N.Y.) s ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 3 11:40:17 PST 2003

25555 captured or killed? -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 08:50:25 -0800 (PST) From: MichaelP <papadop at peak.org> To: unlikely suspects: ; Just "captured" Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was "killed" by US last year http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/DJ30Df01.html Asia Times Oct 30, 2002 A Chilling Inheritance of Terror By Syed Saleem Shahzad

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 3 11:53:57 PST 2003

25556 Telling the Left From the Right By Frank Smyth -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: > > Today, Iraqi Communists, and most Iraqi leftists, firmly oppose the Bush >> administration's war plans - but not necessarily war itself. Unlike many >of >> their American counterparts, Iraqi leftists offer a policy alternative >> other than a vague call for "peace." Instead of a unilateral U.S. >invasion, >> Iraqi leftists want the international community to back an Iraqi-led >> military uprising against Saddam. S ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 3 13:45:46 PST 2003

25557 Gold -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >Aren't 'paper assets' now largely databases of asset computations >'representing' >claims on future output? Money as a relatively stable, if chaotic, bundling of >algorithms? Sure, but conceptually it doesn't matter if they're on paper or on a spinning metal disk. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 3 13:38:44 PST 2003

25558 Ari on bugging -- rank: 1000

[from today's White House press briefing] Q May I also ask you about a report in The Observer newspaper in London, of a memo purported to be from the NSA -- an email message from a man who actually works at the NSA they established -- in which he describes a surge in surveillance of U.N. Security Council members to see what these nations are thinking about an Iraq vote. What's your response? MR. FLEISCHER: Terry, as a matter of long-standing policy, the administration never comments on anything ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 3 13:25:50 PST 2003

25559 Ignorance on stilts -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Mr. Wolfowitz took issue with the contention, noting that Iraq had had >none of the ethnic strife that has characterized other regional conflicts >where US troops have been used, such as the Balkans. > ><unquote> > >Right, it's just a regular Sweden in there. Everyone gets along famously. "These people wouldn't be fit to run a kebab stand in Iraq." - Anatol Lieven

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 3 13:20:31 PST 2003

25560 Turkish addresses -- rank: 1000

I don't know how much this can do, but it can't hurt. Sabri Oncu, a Turk living in the U.S., forwarded this list of email addresses for the Turkish leadership and parliament. An email urging them to hold fast might help ever so slightly. Of course, now they're going to see a massive upsurge in penis enhancement emails too. Doug ---- tayyiperdogan at rterdogan.com,, abdullah.gul at tbmm.gov.tr,, aaoglu at tbmm.gov.tr,, abdulkadir.aksu at tbmm.gov.tr,, abdullah.caliskan at tbmm.gov.tr,, abdullah.c ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 3 11:10:15 PST 2003