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26476 US to pull out of nuke treaties? -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - February 19, 2003 US plan for new nuclear arsenal Secret talks may lead to breaking treaties Julian Borger in Washington The Bush administration is planning a secret meeting in August to discuss the construction of a new generation of nuclear weapons, including "mini-nukes", "bunker-busters" and neutron bombs designed to destroy chemical or biological agents, according to a leaked Pentagon document. The meeting of senior military officials and US nuclear s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 19 15:14:06 PST 2003

26477 Boring Lefties -- rank: 1000

DoreneFC at aol.com wrote: >I think there's another hand in here, the LIBRARIAN who bought the >book. Never underestimate the power of librarians. Susie Bright credited the librarian involved. And I agree. I love librarians. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 19 14:02:37 PST 2003

26478 Fwd: HNIC #3: Al Sharpton and the Slow Death -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Although the odd thing about the article is the whole animosity to >recognizing leadership based on actually receiving votes by blacks. That's not his argument at all: >This is exactly the HNIC syndrome, in which maverick presidential >campaigns and Million Man March franchises are high-profile symbolic >actions instead of real programs or policies. Like Jackson's >campaigns or Farrakhan in the afterglow of the MMM, Sharpton will >become a nationally kn ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 19 14:01:46 PST 2003

26479 Decline of the Print Media Re: Boring Lefties -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >How about union publications which go out to millions of people each month? >UAW's Solidarity is pretty decent and some others are pretty good. Huh? Solidarity sucks. Teamster sucks. The last time I saw 1199 News, it sucked. There's no political education at all. What do you have in mind here? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 19 13:53:43 PST 2003

26480 "Average Joe" -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >At 3:06 PM -0500 2/19/03, Doug Henwood wrote: >>NYC isn't a hotbed of prowar sentiment. > >Evidence? A giant demo the other day with almost no counter-protesters for one. For two, conversations and eavesdropping. For three, the absence of flags and signs. During the hostage crisis, you could hardly walk down the block without some asshole singing "Bomb Iran" (to the tune of "Barbara Ann"). I haven't seen anything like that lately. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 19 12:44:52 PST 2003

26481 "Average Joe" -- rank: 1000

David Jennings wrote: >original point was that even among said workers, support for >war is thin and based more on fear than Taibbi's version of resentment. Fear of what? Car bombings in Athens, Ga.? Sarin at the strip mall? New Yorkers are the most likely targets in the U.S., and NYC isn't a hotbed of prowar sentiment. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 19 12:06:03 PST 2003

26482 Fwd: Re: HNIC #3: Al Sharpton and the Slow Death -- rank: 1000

[I forwarded Carrol's comments on Norman Kelley's piece to the author, who writes:] I really don't know how to respond to this since I was talking about, uh, what goes on amongst black, which is a subset of national politics. Obviously, the man didn't really read the article. I'm not blaming blacks for the general state of American politics, but for the general state of black politics. I do contend that since blacks have stopped engaging in direct mobilization they haven't received much in the w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 19 11:51:32 PST 2003

26483 Fisk -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Almost all radicals _first_ get >involved in some sort of activity, some sort of struggle for (what will >seem to them) a perfectly simple and achievable goal. For someone who denouces generalizations and mindreading, you do a lot of both. How do you know this? Lots of radicals I know got that way by reading, me included. But maybe I have a biased sample. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 19 11:54:59 PST 2003

26484 Boring Lefties -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Those who speak for us to our >larger audience, do just that _speak_, not write. So the young woman who discovered a Susie Bright book that changed her life in a small town library in Ohio - she's an anomaly? I know it's about sex, but still... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 19 11:04:03 PST 2003

26485 Taibbi on Lawrence -- rank: 1000

I forwarded the comments about Lawrence, Kanas to Matt Taibbi, who responds: >As for the Lawrence, Kansas thing, I got a letter from a bill >collector once that was based in Lawrence. So that means there are >probably cubicles there. What's the point of being from New York if >you have to apologize to Kansas? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 19 11:00:03 PST 2003

26486 Fwd: HNIC #3: Al Sharpton and the Slow Death -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >So we blame black Americans for the state of the nation? You're the one who's always talking about taking black leadership. But a black person does something you don't like - e.g. invoke Jesus, vote Democratic, or write an article like this - you refuse to go along. So I guess the key is to find a black person who says something you like, and then you accept that leadership. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 19 10:57:09 PST 2003

26487 Using the "UN Process" to Help Organize a Massacre--Ed Herman -- rank: 1000

Christopher Hitchens wrote: >A more gruesome political alliance I have never seen. Oh, how about that of a demented former leftist and the Bush regime (which is already betraying the Kurds before the war begins)? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 19 06:34:40 PST 2003

26488 Fwd: HNIC #3: Al Sharpton and the Slow Death -- rank: 1000

HNIC #3 Al Sharpton and the Slow Death of Black Politics by Norman Kelley "I'm qualified, probably more qualified than any other person who is expected to be on the Democratic ticket for 2004, because I actually have a following and I speak for the people." So boasts Rev. Al Sharpton as he prepares his campaign to secure the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination, a campaign that has all of the markings of a Jesse Jackson redux. The reverend's entrance into the race is evidence of a d ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 19 06:22:32 PST 2003

26489 Nixon admin: firebomb Brookings! -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - February 18, 2003 'Insanity' in Nixon's White House Presidential scholars hear about 1971 plan to firebomb a think tank, from John Dean. By Elizabeth Mehren Times Staff Writer BOSTON -- Even by the standards of the Nixon White House, the plan to blow up Washington's preeminent think tank seemed crazy, presidential counselor John W. Dean III recalled here Monday. But there was White House aide John Ehrlichman on the phone one day in 1971, telling Dean that "Chuck Colson w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 19 06:10:48 PST 2003

26490 another pious eruption from Lerner -- rank: 1000

The guy writes this stuff himself in the third person, right? This man should be let nowhere near a speakers' platform. At 5:15 PM -0500 2/18/03, TikkunMail wrote: >TIKKUNMAIL: An email publication of Tikkun Magazine. >---------- > >IN THIS ISSUE: Report from the Tikkun Table on 2/16 > >SUBSCRIPTION/UNSUBSCRIPTION: See end of this message. >Please do not reply to this message - instead, >direct correspondence to magazine at tikkun.org >---------- > >Thanks to all ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 18 19:46:59 PST 2003