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26056 shock & awe -- rank: 1000

[time to dust off Workers Vanguard's classic history of US terror bombing] Iraq Faces Massive U.S. Missile Barrage CBS: WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2003 CBS) They're calling it "A-Day," A as in airstrikes so devastating they would leave Saddam's soldiers unable or unwilling to fight. If the Pentagon sticks to its current war plan, one day in March (?) the Air Force and Navy will launch between 300 and 400 cruise missiles at targets in Iraq. As CBS News Correspondent David Martin reports, thi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 26 11:23:21 PST 2003

26057 Digital dilemmas -- rank: 1000

jimmyjames at softhome.net wrote: >a series on the Internet and the economy. > >http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?Story_id=1534303 > >"Despite the dotcom boom and bust, the computer and >telecommunications revolution has barely begun. Over the next few >decades, the internet and related technologies really will >profoundly transform society, argues David Manasian." No shit. Gosh, that's why I love the Economist - so provocative, original, against ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 26 10:35:44 PST 2003

26058 WWP's *Deep Pockets* [!!snort!!] -- rank: 1000

[from the horse's mouth - I have no idea why he's had no luck in re-sub'ing - majordomo tirelessly accepts commands, and when there's trouble with it, so do I] From: "LouPaulsen" <LouPaulsen at attbi.com> Subject: WWP's *Deep Pockets* [!!snort!!] Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 12:12:56 -0600 Although I have had no luck resubscribing to Henwood's list since my e-mail address changed, I still occasionally try to follow what is going on there. A couple days ago Yoshie raised the question of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 26 10:20:17 PST 2003

26059 Fwd: Correction ( Re: WWP's *Deep Pockets* [!!snort!!] -- rank: 1000

[and while we're correcting, it's Sawicky] >From: "LouPaulsen" <LouPaulsen at attbi.com> >To: <dhenwood at panix.com>, <marxism at lists.panix.com> >Subject: Correction ( Re: WWP's *Deep Pockets* [!!snort!!] >Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 12:18:51 -0600 > >> A couple days ago Yoshie raised the question of how it was that ANSWER has >> been so comparatively successful in organizing. > >Sorry, actually it was Max Sawicki. > >LPa

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 26 10:21:29 PST 2003

26060 popular culture -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: > > Speaking of which, have you ever seen a Madonna nursing? It just >> occurred to me, that I haven't. It is implicit in some compositions, >> but I can think of one explicitly depicted. > >Sure. Yes. Major theme. You want names of painters or places of works? I saw a BVM in the Tate about 20 years ago that had a stream of milk flowing from her breast shooting heavenward to form the Milky Way. Is that a topos or an individual moment of extrav ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 26 09:40:35 PST 2003

26061 popular culture -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: >Sure, yeah, if you have the tools for dividing them. I mean, it's a major, an >integral, element of Catholicism that it takes whatever is to hand >and works it >into th Catholic mythos. Guadalupe is a fabulous instance. She's one of my >favourites (too important even to be secreted when people like >Doug&Liza sleeps >in my bedroom). Thank you! I'd have been very distressed if the Virgins had been secreted. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 26 09:38:23 PST 2003

26062 Davos & the U.S. -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >Europe runs largely off Russian gas. A mere empirical distraction. We must use Lenin's Imperialism as our analytical template. It's always comforting when you can set the clock back to more familiar times. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 26 09:33:47 PST 2003

26063 more teen-adult sex -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: >I've just done a websearch for stuff on the case, but... could someone tell me >the subject-line which described the thread to which this is an addition so I >can find it in the archive? I think it's a response to all the Scott Ritter stuff. The only post under this subject heading was the newspaper article. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 26 09:29:21 PST 2003

26064 Davos & the U.S. -- rank: 1000

[This is interesting. In battle of Empire vs. America Firsters in understanding the international order, a lot turns on how much freedom the U.S. has to act alone in Iraq, and how much the global bourgeoisie in Davos can exercise their influence. Mahathir was quoted in the FT the other day saying the U.S. was trying to out-terrorize the terrorist, which won't work.] Globe and Mail (Toronto) - January 25, 2003 By ALAN FREEMAN DAVOS, SWITZERLAND -- Harsh criticism of U.S. policy over Iraq and heat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 25 10:35:42 PST 2003

26065 US papers increase coverage of antiwar movement -- rank: 1000

Editor and Publisher - January 24, 2003 Papers Boost Coverage of Antiwar Movement NEW YORK -- Under scrutiny from both antiwar advocates and media-watchdog groups, most major U.S. newspapers took seriously the sentiment percolating from large rallies Jan. 18 in Washington, San Francisco, and a host of smaller cities. The Washington Post ran a lengthy Page One story the following day with the deck, "Chill Doesn't Cool Fury Over U.S. Stand on Iraq." In the Windy City, where there was no ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 25 10:25:40 PST 2003

26066 Monetary policy & the Economy -- rank: 1000

Steven wrote: >Doug, I didn't see the FT story, but I'm guessing FT is spinning the >dollar's decline on Iraqi war jitters. In part. But the FT has been saying the dollar is at risk for quite a while, for all the usual reasons (c/a deficit, foreign debt, debubble-ification...). >As far as the central banks, exactly what could they possibly be >diversifying in to? Euro(s), I guess: <http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=^XEU&d=c&k=c1&a=v&p=s&t=3m&l=on&z=m&q=l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 25 10:12:07 PST 2003

26067 Badly drafted law? Was Re: Raimondo on Ritter -- rank: 1000

DoreneFC at aol.com wrote: >(As a side note, I think the weapons inspector who is into SM is just >sublime: The whole inspection exercise is a HUGE exercise in dominance and >submission if you ask me.) Nonconsensual, though. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 25 10:00:29 PST 2003

26068 Fwd: Massive DDOS Attack, pt. 2 -- rank: 1000

Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 12:40:27 -0500 (EST) From: alexis at panix.com (MOTD [Panix]) Subject: Massive DDOS Attack, pt. 2 (The following article has been automatically mirrored from MOTD) (Posted by Alexis Rosen) Sat, Jan 25 2003 -- 12:35 PM --------------------------------------------------------------------------- We think we've managed to deal with most of the problems caused by this attack, and we hope that we'll be impervious to further attack. We now know what caused the attack- it wasn't a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 25 09:53:07 PST 2003

26069 Fwd: Massive DDOS Attack -- rank: 1000

[there may be some delays in list mail...] Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 07:54:31 -0500 (EST) From: alexis at panix.com (MOTD [Panix]) Subject: Massive DDOS Attack To: motd-system at panix.com Sender: owner-motd-system at lists.panix.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: staff at panix.com (The following article has been automatically mirrored from MOTD) (Posted by Alexis Rosen) Sat, Jan 25 2003 -- 7:45 AM --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Many Panix services were di ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 25 08:15:14 PST 2003

26070 Hitchens bloviates -- rank: 1000

At 3:30 PM -0800 1/24/03, Slate Magazine wrote: >In Fighting Words, Christopher Hitchens argues that letting Saddam >go into exile--and get off the hook--is a terrible idea: "Saddam >Hussein and his gang are corporeal and material in the extreme, and >they believe that it takes a regime to protect them from what they >have done. If the regime is changed, as it obviously will be soon, >one way or another, then life should change abruptly for them, too. >The point of the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 24 15:36:49 PST 2003