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25921 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Savage Homophobia on MSNBC -- rank: 1000

FAIR-L Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting Media analysis, critiques and activism ACTION ALERT: Savage Homophobia on MSNBC: Michael Savage tells caller: "Get AIDS and die" July 7, 2003 When radio talkshow host Michael Savage was given his own show by the cable TV channel MSNBC, network executives said that the new show should not be judged by Savage's previous hate-filled remarks, but by what he said on the TV show itself. A recent outburst by Savage, however, suggests that the host' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 7 13:35:08 PDT 2003

25922 [lbo-talk] Rabinowitz: amused by Coulter -- rank: 1000

[When a member of the WSJ edit board thinks you're ridiculous... Though Rabinowitz is the best of the lot by far.] Wall Street Journal - July 7, 2003 CRITIC AT LARGE A Conspiracy So Vast By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ John G. Adams, a key figure in the proceedings that effectively ended Sen. Joseph McCarthy's career, passed quietly from the scene last week at age 91. Not surprisingly, his death made no news; it's been a while since those heady days when McCarthy launched his investigations of the Army, w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 7 12:48:56 PDT 2003

25923 [lbo-talk] The New Domestic Order: What Has Changed, Why It Changed, and How It Matters -- rank: 1000

Chiang Ching quoted: [some boilerplate from RWOR] So...: <http://rwor.org/a/china/chiang.htm> - any relation? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 7 11:47:16 PDT 2003

25924 [lbo-talk] correction -- rank: 1000

New York Times - July 7, 2003 CORRECTIONS [...] An article on Tuesday included an erroneous phrase supplied in a Pentagon transcript of remarks by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld about people who compare the attacks against American troops in Iraq to guerrilla tactics used in the Vietnam war. The secretary criticized "press people" for drawing the comparison, not "oppressed people." [...]

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 7 11:37:29 PDT 2003

25925 [lbo-talk] real hit on landless invasions -- rank: 1000

Bloomberg News Last Updated: July 7, 2003 10:43 EDT Brazil Currency Declines For a Third Day on Landless Invasions July 7 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil's real fell for a third day on investor concern a Senate probe of land invasions by rural peasants may derail legislation before Congress aimed at paring the country's deficit and boosting growth. The real fell 0.9 percent after new land invasions by the MST landless movement this weekend. The MST occupied three farms in Sao Paulo state, TV Globo said. I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 7 11:31:02 PDT 2003

25926 [lbo-talk] Guardian to launch U.S. weekly -- rank: 1000

New York Magazine - July 14, 2003 En Guardian! The British are coming-again. The launch of a U.S. edition of the unabashedly liberal Guardian may be just what the Bush-whacked U.S. press needs. By Michael Wolff It was a daylong conference about the media's role in the Iraq war, sponsored by the Guardian newspaper and held in its archive center-a newly refurbished building with café-across the street from the Guardian's main building on Farringdon Road in London. Everything about the conference s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 7 11:27:57 PDT 2003

25927 [lbo-talk] April & Saddam -- rank: 1000

At 11:00 AM -0400 7/7/03, Jude Wanniski wrote: >On June 25, 1990, a week before Iraq invaded Kuwait, Saddam Hussein >met in his office with U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie to discuss the >gathering crisis. My memo on the margin today presents the entire >transcript, as a refresher on the background to the war then and now. > >http://www.wanniski.com

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 7 11:04:37 PDT 2003

25928 [lbo-talk] The New Domestic Order: What Has Changed, Why It Changed, and How It Matters -- rank: 1000

Chiang Ching wrote: >The New Domestic Order: What Has Changed, Why It Changed, and How It Matters >by C. Clark Kissinger > >Revolutionary Worker #1206, July 6, 2003, posted at http://rwor.org > >The America that we have known for many generations is quickly disappearing. I'm confused. I thought the RCP thought the U.S. was a racist imperialist oppressor. Is that the U.S. we've known for many generations that's disappearing? Or were there some previously unacknowledged virtues t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 7 10:02:34 PDT 2003

25929 [lbo-talk] 'local' youth recently quoted -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >And many of us unemployed activist techies are busy creating neat >things that we didn't have time to work on when we were "working." Damn, I should have said that! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 6 17:02:13 PDT 2003

25930 [lbo-talk] marketing darkness to kids -- rank: 1000

Youth Marketers Walk on the Dark Side By Angela Moore NEW YORK (Reuters) - Grim is in. For America's youth the hot ticket these days is more doom and gloom than happily ever after. From books and games to movies and clothing, sad stories and macabre characters are selling. And a handful of companies are cashing in. Take the success of "A Series of Unfortunate Events," a line of children's books by Daniel Handler writing under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket. The wryly funny books tell the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 6 15:24:50 PDT 2003

25931 [lbo-talk] White House, the brothel -- rank: 1000

US complains about brothel called The White House July 7 2003 The US Embassy in New Zealand had lodged a complaint with a brothel that calls itself The White House. After brothels were legalised in New Zealand this month, The White House in Auckland, which previously described itself as a massage parlour, advertised for prostitutes in a newspaper advertisement last week. The ad, which said the brothel was "looking for more ladies to join the day and night shifts", appeared with a logo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 6 14:35:49 PDT 2003

25932 [lbo-talk] Keynes on Trostky -- rank: 1000

[Thanks to Michael Pugliese for pointing this out. Keynes was deeply bourgeois and anti-Marxist, so he could never admit that Trotsky was right about a lot of things. But JMK has a point about "the plan" - which a lot of Revolutionaries act like they have.] <http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/comments/keynes01.htm> Trotsky On England (Where is Britain Going?) John Maynard Keynes Published: Essays in Biography, Harcourt, Brace, 1933 A CONTEMPORARY reviewing this book sa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 6 14:10:34 PDT 2003

25933 [lbo-talk] Today's "Comparison of U.S. to Fascism": From Boston Review -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >The article seemed banal, but the subject line is interesting. _Of >course_ one can COMPARE the current u.s. to fascism, just as one can >compare oranges to apples _as fruits_ or belts to suspenders (u.s. not >british sense) _as modes of holding up trousers_ or shotguns to 22s _as >modes of shooting rabbits_. ...listen: I know Matthew Arnold is not far off: he's going to come roaring out of the woods, deeply offended by the briars and limber limbs, and mount up ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 6 10:48:25 PDT 2003

25934 [lbo-talk] movie -- rank: 1000

Scalia & Santorum, bound in love: <http://enemyoftheearth.org/cartoons.asp?idnum=&dir=f>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 6 10:18:20 PDT 2003

25935 [lbo-talk] opengov -- rank: 1000

[couldn't get this website to work just now] Boston Globe - July 4, 2003 Website turns tables on government officials By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff Annoyed by the prospect of a massive new federal surveillance system, two researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are celebrating the Fourth of July with a new Internet service that will let citizens create dossiers on government officials. <http://opengov.media.mit.edu>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 6 09:55:48 PDT 2003