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26401 that was then... -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] GEORGE BUSH I & BRENT SCOWCROFT, TIME, MARCH 2, 1998 - While we hoped that popular revolt or coup would topple Saddam, neither the U.S. nor the countries of the region wished to see the breakup of the Iraqi state. We were concerned about the long-term balance of power at the head of the Gulf. Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guideline about not changing objectives in midstream, engag ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 24 15:31:30 PST 2003

26402 Bush cites nonexistent report -- rank: 1000

Newsday - February 23, 2003 By James Toedtman CHIEF ECONOMIC CORRESPONDENT Washington - There was only one problem with President George W. Bush's claim Thursday that the nation's top economists forecast substantial economic growth if Congress passed the president's tax cut: The forecast with that conclusion doesn't exist. Bush and White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer went out of their way Thursday to cite a new survey by "Blue-Chip economists" that the economy would grow 3.3 per ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 24 15:30:18 PST 2003

26403 Feds bust bong ring! -- rank: 1000

[I feel safer already...] New York Times - February 24, 2003 U.S. Says It Has Cut Off Supplies of Drug Paraphernalia By ERIC LICHTBLAU ASHINGTON, Feb. 24 - Federal officials said today that they had shut down the major suppliers of drug paraphernalia in the United States in a series of nationwide raids, arresting 55 people who prosecutors said had trafficked in an array of merchandise that included lipstick-shaped marijuana pipes and gas-mask bongs. Drug paraphernalia, once the province of neigh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 24 15:14:39 PST 2003

26404 Poor White Republicans was Re: white trash -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >You're pulling the same stunt that Lou Pryect pulls on you. I make a >statement in a specific context, and you turn it into comprehensive >statement about the universe. Not really. I've been reading your stuff for years. You keep saying there's not much "we" can do to recruit people to the cause. It'll happen when "they're" ready. You frequently sound as if you think that history happens because of big macro forces that operate beyond the intention ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 24 15:09:11 PST 2003

26405 that top 1% poll -- rank: 1000

An alleged Time mag poll that found 39% of the U.S. public imagining itself in the top 1% of the income distribution came up here recently. David Brooks and Chris Caldwell of the Weekly Standard have both cited it in articles. Turns out the truth is a little less stunning. The actual question reads: "Do you think you will be in that top group that will benefit from Bush's proposed tax cut right away?" That's a long way from "are you in the top 1%?" Makes a better story that w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 24 14:56:54 PST 2003

26406 Poor White Republicans was Re: white trash -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Why should they do any damn thing but get by day by day? Who's gonna make your revo then? Or is revolution just one of those things that happen beyond human agency, like imperialism, which is a "mode of existence" and not something that actual people actually do? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 24 14:05:32 PST 2003

26407 Poor White Republicans was Re: white trash -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >Not sure where Woj was trying to go when he was talking >about "consumption levels", but it does seem odd that there >are poor whites who generally vote Republican...it would be >a good question as to "Why"? Race, sex, religion. Why else? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 24 13:00:05 PST 2003

26408 Bernadette Devlin barred from landing in US -- rank: 1000

Newsday - February 24, 2003 Finding Trouble in U.S. Jimmy Breslin "I'm a 55-year-old granny with a gammy leg after years of to'ins and fro'ins, and I'm here on a cheap holiday in New York, sourced on the Internet by my daughter," Bernadette Devlin McAliskey was saying yesterday. "We were going for our luggage. We were in Chicago. The cheap flight takes you to New York that way. We didn't have to go through immigration, they pass you through in Dublin now. The loudspeaker calls out ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 24 10:28:40 PST 2003

26409 white trash -- rank: 1000

Funny how it's ok to be bigoted against "white trash." Reminds me of Zizek's riff on how it's ok to be prejudiced against Eastern Europeans - yeah, they're white, but, not really, you know? Esp the dark and mysterious Balkans... Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 24 10:20:13 PST 2003

26410 class & fiscal crisis -- rank: 1000

ANNOUNCING - updated Fiscal Crisis through the Lens of Class A conference to help develop a coherent working-class presence in New York City life Friday March 28, 2003 - - 6:30 p.m. Saturday March 29, 2003 - - 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. At the City University of New York Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, at 34th Street, Manhattan Friday night plenary is free and open to the public Saturday conference fee: $10 / $5 for students, retired, unemployed Plenary speakers include: Larian Angelo, Director, NYC Co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 24 10:08:42 PST 2003

26411 The Things They Carried Re: Rove and Wolfowitz's role -- rank: 1000

billbartlett at dodo.com.au wrote: >But for fundamentalist Christianity to retain a strong hold in a >nation like the USA would be strange. Dogmatic thinking, which is >basically what any religion amounts to, is seemingly incompatible >with social and technological innovation which seems so much a part >of the USA. So am somewhat suspicious about the claims that yanks >are a nation of backward dogmatics. Huge majorities of Americans - 70-80% and higher - tell pollsters they be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 24 09:41:02 PST 2003

26412 EUrocommunism -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese pointed this out: the hammer & sickle meets the EU: <http://www.boomspeed.com/dissidentf/euroflag_1.gif>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 23 20:14:23 PST 2003

26413 new radio product -- rank: 1000

Just added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: * February 13, 2003 MARATHON SPECIAL: IF A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE, WHAT MIGHT IT LOOK LIKE? Walden Bello on the World Social Forum (WSF) and rural development * Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and Fences and Windows, on how Argentines are taking governance and businesses into their own hands and the arrested adolescence of the globalization movement * Njoki Njehu, director of the U.S. 50 Years Is Enough campa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 23 17:58:15 PST 2003

26414 Reason asks do we really need IP? -- rank: 1000

[thanks to nettime - the Boldrin/Levine paper is at <http://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/sr/sr303.pdf>.] <http://www.reason.com/0303/fe.dc.creation.shtml> Reason March 2003 Creation Myths Does innovation require intellectual property rights? By Douglas Clement The most forceful performance at last year's Grammy ceremony was a speech by Michael Greene, then president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Speaking not long after the 9/11 attacks, Greene gravely war ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 23 16:39:07 PST 2003

26415 Rove and Wolfowitz's role -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Given X, the answer to "Does X emerge from the guts of capital?" is >always, Of Course Not. > >This is in part the point Yoshie and I have been trying to make. Oh really? Let me refine this. By "emerging from the guts of capital" I mean a policy or set of policies that attract broad support and well-funded lobbying from the likes of the Business Roundtable and the bulge-bracket firms on Wall Street. An example is the deregulation agenda of the 1 ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 23 14:27:23 PST 2003