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26641 ex-radical -- rank: 1000

Reed Tryte wrote: >The same strange vagueness seems to afflict most >people making this case. Unless I've missed something, >Peter K. still hasn't, despite being asked by several >people (including me), explained who the "leftist >flacks for Saddam and Osama" are. I guess it's enough >just to assert they exist, rather than going to the >trouble of naming them and quoting what they've said. Hey, it's just like calling someone a comsymp during the Cold War. Very effe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 5 13:05:21 PST 2003

26642 US terror map -- rank: 1000

The NYC Indymedia Center has put together a map of the U.S. terror infrastructure. Details here: <http://www.indypendent.org/>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 5 12:52:14 PST 2003

26643 Fwd: Re: It's Chalabi -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than list] From: JBrown72073 at cs.com Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 15:19:35 EST Subject: Re: It's Chalabi DP quoted: >"He said Mr Chalabi had been in talks with another major Iraqi opposition >group, the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq and the Iranian >Government while in Tehran. Yes, just what Iraq needs, an Islamic Revolution. Over to Hitch for comment? Saw the 'The Trials of Henry Kissinger' Monday. It was a bit surreal to listen to Hitchens detaili ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 5 12:49:22 PST 2003

26644 Fisk on Afg -- rank: 1000

[The WSJ piece Fisk refers to is at the bottom.] Independent (London) - February 5, 2003 The near collapse of peace in this savage land is a narrative erased from the mind of Americans [by Robert Fisk] There's one sure bet about the statement to be made to the UN Security Council today by the US Secretary of State, Colin Powell -- or by General Colin Powell as he has now been mysteriously reassigned by the American press: he won't be talking about Afghanistan. For since the Afghan war is the &qu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 5 09:10:56 PST 2003

26645 Page Six on the "puffy-faced polemicist" -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - February 5, 2003 Was Bill Clinton a CIA spy? PUFFY-faced polemicist Christopher "Hellbound" Hitchens claims Bill Clinton, whom he calls a "lousy crook," was working for the CIA when they were at Oxford together. "I think he was a double," Hitchens tells Washington-based right-wing quarterly Doublethink. "Someone was giving information to [the CIA] about the antiwar draft resisters, and I think it was probably him . . . I had every rea ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 5 08:57:03 PST 2003

26646 ex-radicals? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Which speaks to why Hitchens left the Nation, since even dissenting views >from long-time columnists are not welcome there. A guy who says he'd vote for Bush, who's glad Thatcher won, and who said what's quoted below to Adam Shatz <http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20020923&s=shatz> is a dissenter? >Hitchens's enthusiasm for the war on terror has led him to adopt >some strange positions. You would think that, as a longstanding >champion of P ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 5 08:46:53 PST 2003

26647 ex-radicals? -- rank: 1000

rhisiart at mail.earthlink.net wrote: >the role of The Nation comes as no surprise, either. How's that? Despite Corn & Cooper's associations with The Nation, these articles haven't appeared there, because such attacks on the antiwar movement aren't welcome in the magazine. Corn's appeared in the LA Weekly, Cooper's in the LA Times, and the odious Gitlin's in Mother Jones. Perhaps you should rephrase this. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 5 06:45:20 PST 2003

26648 Cool! -- rank: 1000

westrich at miser.umass.edu wrote: >For retro that works try FischerSpooner. Hey, can I like 'em both? I've even played both FS and Tatu on my radio show. Sure, Tatu makes dumb pop songs, but they sound really good (esp Mark's Intellectual Vocal remix of "All the Things She Said"). And they're really cute. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 5 06:41:08 PST 2003

26649 rhyme... -- rank: 1000

...just incanted by Brit Hume on Fox News Channel: "Chirac, rhymes with Iraq."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 4 21:20:26 PST 2003

26650 Brenner in LRB -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >As ever he relies on his fave one factor causal model (exchange rates / >international "competition"), but in this piece it doesn't really much >figure Robert Brenner, you still lurking here? Any response? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 4 19:40:34 PST 2003

26651 Weekly Standard Right Wing Geek Picture of the Day -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >A lot of professional rightwingers are wimpy, doughy types. I briefly hung >around a crowd of ex-Dartmouth Review editors in the early 90s, drinks >mostly, and they were physically out of shape and lacked any real muscular >definition -- but they all loved Reagan's wars! I went to the Party of the Right's annual banquet - the 50th anniversary edition, this one - last Saturday. A report will appear on The Nation's website on Thursday. For now, I'll just say it wa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 4 14:27:17 PST 2003

26652 who is Jeffery Blankfort? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I agree with you on that, but I think further implications about Jeffrey >Blankfort may not hold. He is a longtune Bay Area activist, and is >himself Jewish. He posts on the Sixties-L list, and apparently he and >two others have won a lawsuit against the San Francisco ADL. Here is a >post of his to that effect. William Mandel responded to the following >post with a brief congratulatory post. Mandel is also Jewish. I don't get what the identifications of Blank ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 4 13:46:15 PST 2003

26653 happy b'day Maynard -- rank: 1000

Today would be Keynes's 120th birthday. Gone, and almost thoroughly forgotten! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 4 12:48:24 PST 2003

26654 who is Jeffery Blankfort? -- rank: 1000

I came across Blankfort during the Pacifica civil wars. He lives in the SF Bay Area and was active in the KPFA struggle. Compared to some of the loons in the Free Pacifica world he seemed pretty sane. (Check out Bob Feldman for an example of rank conspiracy theorizing: <http://www.radio4all.org/fp/foundations-feldman.htm> on Pacifica, and <http://www.radio4all.org/fp/sagner.htm> for his crazy theory of who runs The Nation. Not surprisingly he has a piece in Counterpunch <http://ww ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 4 10:47:08 PST 2003

26655 Learning from Wellstone -- rank: 1000

Learning from Paul & Sheila Wellstone How to Transform the Democratic Party from the Inside and from the Outside Monday, February 24 6:30-9:30pm The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue @ 34th Street $10; free to students Call 212-817-8215 to pre-register or email continuinged at gc.cuny.edu Drawing on the inspiring example of Paul and Sheila Wellstone, this symposium will explore strategies for transforming the Democratic Party. Well-known leaders of social movements and electoral politic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 4 08:54:01 PST 2003