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26551 NYT: Polls recover from Powell speech -- rank: 1000

Curiously, this poll shows more people disapproving of Bush's foreign policy than approving. Since the war is the centerpiece of his foreign policy, what does this mean? I suspect there's a lot of confusion and thinly held opinion around Iraq - people have been propagandized into thinking Iraq is a problem but don't know what exactly that means or what to do about it. And of course, direct questions always excite the patriotic reflex to support the troops. But the broad aggressively imperialist ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 14 08:20:00 PST 2003

26552 dirty bomb alert a scam? -- rank: 1000

<http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/US/terror030213_falsealarm.html> False Alarm? Terror Alert Partly Based on Fabricated Information By Brian Ross, Len Tepper and Jill Rackmill Feb. 13 - A key piece of the information leading to recent terror alerts was fabricated, according to two senior law enforcement officials in Washington and New York. The officials said that a claim made by a captured al Qaeda member that Washington, New York or Florida would be hit by a "dirty bomb" ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 14 08:09:59 PST 2003

26553 The Lerner Affair -- rank: 1000

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

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 13 16:52:38 PST 2003

26554 Legal Information for February 15th -- rank: 1000

[a warm welcome indeed! snow, cold weather, and 40,000 cops - and scores of thousands of people resisting the empire] A WARM WELCOME TO NEW YORK CITY February 15th Legal Support People's Law Collective(PLC) -- Association of Legal Aid Attorneys(ALAA) -- National Lawyers Guild ~NYC~ Mass Defense Committee (NLG) We have a large number of identified (NLG = green hats, green badges ALAA = green armbands, PLC= red armbands) lawyers and legal observers on hand to try to ensure that the New York Cit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 13 16:51:51 PST 2003

26555 Arms inspectors vote on BBC -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >--- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote: > I am sick and tired of cashiers, >> waitresses, and other >> service workers making faces when their hear >> accented English. >> > >Well, even though I have argued against >"generalization", I do think it is important to >recognize what you are saying. So in your experience, >do you find that working class folk, "blue collar" are >more racist, xeno ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 13 16:44:38 PST 2003

26556 Noam signs on -- rank: 1000

kjkhoo at softhome.net wrote: >I read --I think it was -- Hitchens account -- and a fine one it was. ...which is at <http://www.zmag.org/Chomsky/other/85-hitchens.html>. Peter K has apparently removed it from his archive (and I don't see that fine column on Horowitz' second thoughts conference there either, which is the best commentary written on Hitchens' own turn). Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 13 16:33:33 PST 2003

26557 Saturday: Be in Times Square at 3pm -- rank: 1000

The NYPD, under the watchful eye of the federal government, has refused to grant a march permit for the protest this Saturday. Clearly, any protest large enough to actually influence policy is too dangerous to be allowed. The only way to respond to this outrage is to throw a party. We must liberate Midtown Manhattan for non-violent protest. At 3pm, following the official rally, all those who can should reassemble in Times Square for a peaceful but unauthorized mass _expression of our opposition ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 13 16:12:06 PST 2003

26558 More on Holland Tunnel protest -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >The response to the protest from commuters was mostly positive. The >first driver who was blocked got mad, until they saw the anti-war >banner being put up. Lot of commuters honked in support and gave the >thumbs up sign. When I opened the door to pick up the newspapers this morning, I noticed that our neighbors across the hall have a flyer for Saturday's demo taped to their door. They aren't political people - just folks with jobs and a kid. I just don't remember anyt ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 13 15:59:42 PST 2003

26559 Noam signs on -- rank: 1000

Chomsky just signed the Lerner letter. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 12 21:29:24 PST 2003

26560 The Lerner Affair -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >How about a statement that people can sign that promotes the ideo of >multiplicity and the idea of unity through diversity? I could sign something like that, but is your idea of diversity diverse enough to include ANSWER? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 12 15:55:11 PST 2003

26561 The Lerner Affair -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >The gig is up Lou. It's time to kick the WWP out of the peace movement. Kick 'em out? Or just make their "leadershp" role obsolete? Purges sound so, you know, Stalinist. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 12 10:33:25 PST 2003

26562 The Lerner Affair -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Look here, this is a diversion, can we get back to opposing the war? Yup. This weekend could be really exciting - worldwide mass protest against imperialism (even if a lot of participants wouldn't call it that). And here we are - like many, I'm sure - talking about Michael "Heidegger Is Very Important" Lerner. Misplaced priorities. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 12 10:25:44 PST 2003

26563 Tax on interest -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > > From: "Michael Pollak" <mpollak at panix.com> >> >> What was the original justification for not charging tax >> on interest? > >The same one that's for any other deductible expense: it's a cost of >generating revenue. A concept that applies only to capital. Workers absorb all kinds of expenses to keep themselves healthy and skilled when they deliver themselves at the factory or office door, and all they get is a tiny sta ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 12 10:04:58 PST 2003

26564 The Lerner Affair -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >People bash Doug on this list. Would Doug be right to boot his >critics off the list? Only if they have no redeeming social value. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 12 10:02:38 PST 2003

26565 Joint statement by SF organizers on the Lerner business -- rank: 1000

LouPaulsen wrote: >One of the first agreements that was made between the groups organizing the >Feb. 16 anti-war protest was that none of the coalitions would propose rally >speakers who had publicly attacked or worked to discredit one of the >coalition groups. Just curious - does this apply to anyone besides ANSWER? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 12 09:54:36 PST 2003