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26536 People's Weekly World top stories, Feb 15, 2003 -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >>Tony wrote: >> >>>People's Weekly World top stories, Feb 15, 2003 >> >> >>Wow, so we have someone from the PWW here. Who writes your >>headlines? The one from the other week - "Bush Policies Blasted" >>was as bad as an Against the Current hed. C'mon, guys, don't leave >>all the spark to the Sparts! > >Make 'em go away! By the way, PWW poster. You're welcome to participate in the conve ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 14 13:50:50 PST 2003

26537 LA Weekly: News: Furor in Frisco -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >i'm saying i'm tired of this argument and the venom it's inspiring. Yup, me too. Can we forget about the pious blowhard now and at least show some excitement over the prospect of a weekend of worldwide demonstrations? Last week's Nation had an unusually pungent headline: "Resist War and Empire." A nice motto for all. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 14 13:08:16 PST 2003

26538 People's Weekly World top stories, Feb 15, 2003 -- rank: 1000

Tony wrote: >People's Weekly World top stories, Feb 15, 2003 Wow, so we have someone from the PWW here. Who writes your headlines? The one from the other week - "Bush Policies Blasted" was as bad as an Against the Current hed. C'mon, guys, don't leave all the spark to the Sparts! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 14 13:02:24 PST 2003

26539 Compliance -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Doug writes: > >> the goal is to install a friendly regime. But almost no >> one ever makes this point. > >When you say 'almost no one' do you include the Bush Administration? >Because they've been saying it for months, loud and clear. Not loud and clear, no. They keep saying that war could be averted if "Saddam" disarmed. Bush said that as recently as this morning. But that's bullshit, because the inspections process is making them dis ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 14 13:00:38 PST 2003

26540 mighty in pink -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030303&s=featherstone> The Nation - March 3, 2003 Mighty in Pink by LIZA FEATHERSTONE "It's not easy to be warm and fashionable at the same time," smiled Nina Human of Atlanta, who, ensconced in a billowing pink scarf, was succeeding admirably. It was a sunless late afternoon in January, and Human was at the Women's Peace Vigil in front of the White House, protesting the Bush Administration's impending war on Iraq. Human has never prote ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 14 12:52:47 PST 2003

26541 liberal bourgeoisie -- rank: 1000

I keep in touch with liberal bourgeois opinion via my Yale class of '75 listserv. Almost all Dems, most of them fairly liberal (and not fond of unions, which is true of many liberals these days). They're all antiwar and many are going to demos this weekend. It's impossible to imagine a similar delegation from, say, the class of '40 going to antiwar demos in 1968. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 14 12:48:41 PST 2003

26542 LA Weekly: News: Furor in Frisco -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >round and round she goes, where she stops, nobody knows . . . > >what an utter waste of time. worse, it's only generating more and >more animosity internal to progressives in america. if the left in >america could make itself any less relevant, we might just be >witnessing it . . . Yeah, but does it really make a difference now? Will there be any fewer people at the demos this weekend because of this controversy? I doubt it. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 14 12:45:10 PST 2003

26543 No! -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Dorene FC>...No! > > Dwight Macdonald's great journal from '44-'49, "Politics, " , of a >libertarian socialist/semi-neo-premature New Left/post-marxist >flavor (see the excellent bio by Michael Wreszin) was originally >going to title the journal, "No!, " after a suggestion by C. Wright >Mills. "Behind every no lay a passion for yes that had never been broken." - Wallace Stevens [quoted from memory]

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 14 11:32:52 PST 2003

26544 gee-whiz -- rank: 1000

Japan just reported that its nominal GDP fell by 0.5% in the fourth quarter. But because prices are falling, real GDP rose by 2.0%. I've never heard of such a thing before. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 14 11:28:29 PST 2003

26545 The Lerner Affair -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >But if the charge is antisemitism, then its considered a crank charge that >reflects badly only on the speaker. But in this case it's a bullshit charge. There's no question that many people on the left are often indulgent when anti-Zionism becomes anti-Semitism, but invoking anti-Semitism here is not unlike Netanyahu's claim that accusing Sharon of war crimes is another European "blood libel." Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 14 11:14:48 PST 2003

26546 the lobby has no power... -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >makes you feel warm all over, doesn't it? but of course, the israeli >lobby doesn't have any power over our congress... How do you conclude from this vote that the "Israeli lobby" inspired it? Why couldn't it just as easily be a pat on the head from the imperial master for one of its loyal lieutenants? >the two who voted >against must be holocaust deniers and protocol fans ...right? Uh, no. Who ever said that? Are you capable of anything other than crude ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 14 10:52:20 PST 2003

26547 The Lerner Affair -- rank: 1000

LouPaulsen wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> > >> loupaulsen at attbi.com wrote: >> >> >What message does that send? Isn't that "letting them win"? Anyway, he >wants >> >15. >> >> You serious? The pious gasbag wants 5 times as much time as everyone else? >> >> Doug > >His position is that it is very important to explain the nuances of his >p ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 14 10:48:22 PST 2003

26548 NYT: Polls recover from Powell speech -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >I think support means that people think that he is forcefully standing up >to "terrorism." A great PR success story. Actually not - polls show considerable doubt that Bush is "winning the war on terrorism." As the NYT article put it: > Though 53 percent of Americans said they approved of the way Mr. Bush > is handling Iraq, only 47 percent approved of his foreign policy > management over all. > > Moreover, a year and ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 14 08:30:12 PST 2003

26549 Compliance -- rank: 1000

It's surreal - if the goal were really to disarm Iraq, the inspections are doing that, though slowly. Clearly the goal can't be disarmament - the goal is to install a friendly regime. But almost no one ever makes this point. As the former Christopher Hitchens said during GW I, a state broadcasting service could do no better. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 14 08:24:43 PST 2003

26550 Vive la France, cont. -- rank: 1000

So is it our duty to drink French wine now? I read something about a yahoo restaurateur refusing to serve the Froggy stuff. I normally drink American and Australian wine, but as an act of solidarity, I might have to switch. Hey, I could solidarize with Lula, who Thiago says likes $2,200 bottles of Romanee-Conti. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 14 08:21:39 PST 2003