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26416 focus gropus & demos -- rank: 1000

[Amazing comment from Luntz at the end.] New York Times - February 23, 2003 To Bush, the Crowd Was a Blur By TODD S. PURDUM WASHINGTON -- Most politicians around the world were impressed by the scale and intensity of last weekend's global protests against a probable war with Iraq. Not President Bush. "Size of protest -- it's like deciding, well, I'm going to decide policy based upon a focus group," Mr. Bush said. Not quite. A focus group is a handful of people, carefully culled to refl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 23 12:04:16 PST 2003

26417 Palestinian Exiles' Right of Return -- Feasibility -- rank: 1000

Bryan Atinsky wrote: >But this doesn't mean that one should >stop questioning publically, the morality/oxymoron status/long >term-practicality of having a Jewish Democratic State. How live an issue is this within Israel? Is it only a lunatic fringe that questions the notion of a Jewish state, or is it broader than that? Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 23 11:46:49 PST 2003

26418 Rove and Wolfowitz's role -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >>Two men driving Bush into war >> >>Ed Vulliamy in New York profiles the religious figures behind a >>'Texanised presidency' who believe war will mean America is >>respected in the Islamic world > > >Ed Vulliamy is an excellent investigative journalist on the Guardian >and Observer newsgroup. > >I am copying the URL of this Observer article to LBO-talk because >although a lot will be known in the US, it is possible that wit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 23 10:29:58 PST 2003

26419 Iraq statement -- rank: 1000

Liza Featherstone wrote: >One question I had about this statement is, is it kind of dreamy to speak of >supporting "efforts by the Iraqi opposition to create a democratic, >multiethnic and multireligious Iraq." I mean, are any of the many and >divided elements of the Iraqi opposition actually trying to do that in any >meaningful way? In other words, if I sign this statement will I look like a >naive sucker, and contribute to a mass disinformation campaign? Or is this ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 22 17:56:45 PST 2003

26420 Fwd: -- rank: 1000

>Dear Friends: > >Like all of you, we are deeply concerned about the prospects of war >in Iraq. Especially with mounting popular opposition to that war, we >thought there might be special value at this point in a very simple >statement from American intellectuals (academics and nonacademics) >also declaring their opposition. Our hope is to get something into >the NYT quickly, during the week of Feb. 24, signed by as large and >ideologically diverse a group as we can pu ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 22 15:46:15 PST 2003

26421 I'm Not Sorry -- rank: 1000

At 10:24 PM -0500 2/21/03, Katha Pollitt wrote: >Take a look at www.ImNotSorry.net -- in which women who are glad >they had an abortion tell their stories. Amazing that this side of >abortion still needs to be presented, but there it is. > if you like what you read, pass the word along, This is a new site >and could use good word-of-mouth-and-email. > >katha

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Date:	Sat Feb 22 15:45:11 PST 2003

26422 On ANSWER and Washington demo and Leftist Parties -- rank: 1000

Michael - Please format this stuff so it's readable! First it's double spaced, then it's a long unparagraphed block of type. There are people on the other end of the send button, you know. Doug Michael Pugliese wrote: >On ANSWER and Washington demo and Leftist Parties > > > >By Ted Glick > > > >There's been a fair amount of back-and-forth recently on several email > >lists I'm on regarding Workers World Party. WWP is the group without which > >there would b ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 22 09:21:55 PST 2003

26423 Ramsey Clark & the right to counsel -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >Back in 1938 Trotsky wrote: > >"I will take the most simple and obvious example. In Brazil there >now reigns a semifascist regime that every revolutionary can only >view with hatred. Let us assume, however, that on the morrow >England enters into a military conflict with Brazil. I ask you on >whose side of the conflict will the working class be? I will >answer for myself personally -- in this case I will be on >the side of 'fascist' Brazil ag ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 22 09:17:39 PST 2003

26424 Has anyone heard about a new debt ceiling yet? -- rank: 1000

Steven wrote: >Doug, not sure I understand your comment: "and alienating your creditors >with your political Belligerence." How should I interpret this? With Rummy going on about Old Europe and such, it probably makes some investors less willing to buy U.S. assets. >As far as being one of those "left Austrians" ... I'm not sure yet as I >am still progressing up the learning curve in an attempt to find my way. >But honestly, I like what the Austrian economist h ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 22 09:09:26 PST 2003

26425 Rice Protest Idea -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >But in respect to causing trouble for workers _at_ work, out of the >public view, my response remains, > >FUCK ALL. > >I may have some bias here. Jan worked for the post office for nearly 20 >ears, was a shop steward for over 10 years and local president for 4 >years. I know something about the conditions under which postal clerks >work. > >I think everyone who has approved of scaring postal clerks are ... well, >I don't to have much to do w ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 22 08:54:47 PST 2003

26426 Hardt -- rank: 1000

[the article Patrick appended to this made it bounce for length - Patrick, is there a URL you could refer people to for this?] From: "Patrick Bond" <pbond at sn.apc.org> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: Re: Hardt Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 08:52:14 +0200 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> > Yeah, but it's quicker now. Info spreads almost instantly, and events > can be planned. I used to see you once a year ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 22 08:31:06 PST 2003

26427 Which Book? Re: Ramsey Clark & the right to counsel -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> > >> The former - which has a very groovy draft cover. The latter is still >> in negotation. >> >> Doug >> >=============== > >When will it be on shelves etc.? If I finish it in a week, in the fall. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 21 18:35:06 PST 2003

26428 Which Book? Re: Ramsey Clark & the right to counsel -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Which book? Your book on the death of the "New Economy" or the one >about anti-intellectualism in activism (among other things) you are >co-authoring? The former - which has a very groovy draft cover. The latter is still in negotation. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 21 18:20:11 PST 2003

26429 Lenni replies to Max -- rank: 1000

From: BrennerL21 at aol.com Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 20:48:41 EST Subject: Reply from Lenni Brenner 2 21 03 Doug, Thanks for sending me Max Sawicky's rant. Frankly its hard to follow, especially when he attributes something to Lerner that I said: "[Later in his post, Lerner makes fun of the kabbalah, itself an intrinsic part of NK religious faith.]" Like Lerner, the NK believes in Kabbala. But Lerner wasn't excluded from speaking because he believes in it, but because he called WWP anti- ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 21 18:05:43 PST 2003

26430 Has anyone heard about a new debt ceiling yet? -- rank: 1000

Steven wrote: >Not sure about an end of the world scenario, but a higher debt ceiling >will put downward pressure USD, which needs all the help it can get >right now. That is, if you believe the Bush administration's public >statements about a strong dollar policy. Yeah the US$ is looking wobbly <http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=^XEU&d=c&k=c1&a=v&p=s&t=6m&l=on&z=m&q=l>. Foreign exchange trends often last a long time. If the Bush admin believed in a ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 21 17:08:09 PST 2003