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26446 weasels: the Post clarifies -- rank: 1000

[The NY Post ran a doctored cover photo about a week ago of the French and German UN reps with weasel heads in the place of their own, and captioned it "Axis of Weasel." Their gossip page, Page Six, ran this clarifying item today.] Weasels: too good for Axis? WEASEL enthusiasts don't like it when Germany's Gerhard Schroeder and France's Jacques Chirac are compared to weasels. It's unfair, they say - to weasels. When The Post put weasel heads on the suited bodies of the "Axis of We ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 21 08:00:29 PST 2003

26447 Boris on Russia and the war -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >As usual, just about everything Kagarltitsky says in this piece is dead >wrong. He's doing his Moscow Times Western-audience schtick. Kagarlitsky is >not read in Russia. He is completely out of touch with reality. He also has >a reputation in Russia for holding his audience in contempt. (Sorry Doug, I >know you're friends.) Hey that's no problem. I like Boris, but I don't always agree with him. But what exactly did he get wrong? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 21 07:54:40 PST 2003

26448 Ramsey Clark & the right to counsel -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: ><URL: http://www.marxmail.org/archives/december98/pinochet.htm > >>...A. Olaechea wrote of Pinochet: >"There is ten thousand times more patriotism and anti-imperialism in >a Pinochet - even if belatedly arrived at - than in a >social-democrat renegade sepoy or in a Trotskyist worm!" Oh I miss Adolfo - I so love aristo-Marxists. He was so good with the aphorisms. "An iron broom sweeps clean." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 21 07:37:45 PST 2003

26449 Lonely dog on ice floe -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >>From: LouPaulsen (LouPaulsen at attbi.com) >>Date: Thu Feb 20 2003 - 03:32:46 EST >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Chris Burford" <cburford at gn.apc.org> >> >>> British television this morning says that yesterday all the US networks >>> switched to the drama of a plucky dog alone on an ice flow drifting >>> helplessly down river. >> >>Symbol for Blair? Was it a poodle? > > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 21 07:31:08 PST 2003

26450 Bina on war and empire -- rank: 1000

[Cyrus Bina writes...] From: "Cyrus Bina" <binac at mrs.umn.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:14:34 -0600 Dear Doug, Hope all is well with you. I appreciate putting my piece on your lbo-talk. Copyright is not a first-order question at all. The main point is conversation and clarification. The issue of war and American lost hegemony is now more apparent than the first Persian Gulf War (1990-91). The question of building the so-called collision was flimsy then, but it is farce now ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 20 17:03:07 PST 2003

26451 poll numbers dropping like rocks -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Hey, I've already bet money on Bush to lose in 2004. I wouldn't take the other side of that bet, but that still doesn't answer the question lose to what? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 20 16:05:55 PST 2003

26452 poll numbers dropping like rocks -- rank: 1000

Nomiprins at aol.com wrote: >Interesting dimension. Bush led the overall point declines with 36. > >However, the Dems are right behind him with a 30 point decline of their own. >Their overall popularity of 38% is almost the lowest on the list, >second only to a fairly unknown House speaker. Cue to Nathan to tell us why this is really great news... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 20 15:51:23 PST 2003

26453 poll numbers dropping like rocks -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] HARRIS - The last two months have taken a heavy toll on the president's popularity, but a modest 52% to 46% majority still gives him positive ratings. Two months ago, almost two-thirds of all adults (64%) gave the president positive ratings and only just over a third (35%) gave him negative ratings. Other members of President Bush's cabinet, as well as the parties in Congress and congressional leaders, with one exception, have all seen a huge decline in thei ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 20 15:21:38 PST 2003

26454 Ramsey Clark & the right to counsel -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Doug produces some curiously illiberal statements >below about very bad guys not being entitled to good >defenses by lawyers on the political left. What can I say? I'm not a liberal. I don't think it does the cause of fighting U.S. imperialism - which I assume is Clark's cause - any good by being associated with the Rwandan genocide. That's a political judgment, not a legal opinion. I don't have the same feeling at all about, say, Tigar defending Nichols or S ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 20 13:23:52 PST 2003

26455 Ramsey Clark & the right to counsel -- rank: 1000

loupaulsen at attbi.com wrote: >What? The question of the guy's actual guilt or innocence "doesn't really >matter"? Are you saying it's just that anyone and anything he's connected to >can be smeared now, so he was unwise to do it? Nope. But I think the guy has very poor judgment of which fights to pick, to put it mildly. Carrol Cox may think it's fine to be Goering's lawyer; most of humanity would disagree, or at least the non-goosestepping portion of humanity. >Of course ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 20 12:57:50 PST 2003

26456 Ramsey Clark & the right to counsel -- rank: 1000

loupaulsen at attbi.com wrote: >In any case, how do you come to the conclusion that this one guy is WORSE THAN >PINOCHET?? I didn't come to that conclusion, nor did I say that. I picked Pinochet because it's an instance where there's no question about what he did, he's a very high profile thug, and some people have questioned the legitimacy of his arrest. Legit or not, he's politically odious, and I can't imagine anyone volunteering to defend him except maybe some of my old friends from th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 20 12:43:27 PST 2003

26457 Ramsey Clark & the right to counsel -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >OK Doug, explain what would be wrong with Clark choosing >to defend Pinochet, if he so decided? In fact, I know of >a number of people, who were by no means sympathetic >towards Pinochet, who found the circumstances of his >arrest in the UK to be very troubling. After all, presumably, >somebody like Fidel Castro could be arrested on grounds >similar to the ones that were invoked against Pinochet. Yeah, I've heard that argument too. There are also inno ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 20 12:40:50 PST 2003

26458 Ramsey Clark & the right to counsel -- rank: 1000

loupaulsen at attbi.com wrote: >Just so we are all on the same page, so far as this article says, RC is not >the lawyer for Rwandan government or political officials, or a 'gang', or all >Hutus who killed Tutsis considered as a whole. He is the lawyer for this one >clergyman, the elder Ntakirutimana, who was extradited from Texas. The >article says that he was charged with driving other people around. I take it >that you are convinced there is no question of fact about wheth ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 20 12:39:10 PST 2003

26459 Ramsey Clark & the right to counsel -- rank: 1000

loupaulsen at attbi.com wrote: >And yet you would agree, I hope, that the issue in the case may transcend your >personal evaluation of the client? A lot of constitutional law has involved >unsavory defendants and plaintiffs, no? In the cases of Milosevic and of >Ntakirutimana, you have issues of due process and of the legitimacy of the >court itself. Yes, but a politically motivated lawyer should choose his cases because they signal something about his judgment and principles. A ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 20 11:52:13 PST 2003

26460 Ramsey Clark & the right to counsel -- rank: 1000

loupaulsen at attbi.com wrote: >Can you spell out your reasoning a bit? "Everyone needs a lawyer, but these >guys really don't deserve one"? Or should they have gotten a court-appointed >lawyer who would sleep through the trial? Did they deserve a trial at all? >Please tell the lawyers on this list who else they should not defend on pain >of losing all credibility. This reminds me of how some people talked about >Johnnie Cochrane. Cochrane's a defense lawyer who's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 20 11:43:10 PST 2003