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26656 Hitch: Bush for Pres! -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >At 10:08 AM 2/4/03 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote: >>We had a girlfriend in common -- I didn't know then -- who's since >>become a very famous radical lesbian." > > >heh. heh. heh. Word is that the woman in question is Sara Maitland. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 4 08:38:40 PST 2003

26657 Hitch -- Mandela -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >Hitch understood the Great Power cynicism last time around. He >analyzed it and debated against it brilliantly, but here takes it at >face value. He's become a credulous publicist for imperial power. All those years of contrarianism end up with him shilling for the lowest gang of imperialist scum we've produced in a long time. I guess it shows that politics based on personalities and bons mots are pretty insubstantial. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 4 07:22:29 PST 2003

26658 Hitch: Bush for Pres! -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - February 4, 2003 Hitchens's Right-Wing Stuff By Lloyd Grove We remember when our friend Christopher Hitchens was a card-carrying (or at least Scotch-hoisting) member of the left. But the British-born polemicist has apparently come a very long way since he stopped writing for the Nation magazine last year. In the new issue of Doublethink, a Washington-based right-wing quarterly, Hitchens reveals that if the election were today he'd support President Bush -- never mind his recent ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 4 07:08:42 PST 2003

26659 Gross: loss of US hegemony bad for investors -- rank: 1000

[Bill Gross manages the world's largest bond portfolio.] <http://www.pimco.com/ca/bonds_commentary_investmentoutlook_recent_index_bottom_archive.htm> Bill Gross | February 2003 Hegemonic Decay [...] The initiation of U.S. hegemonic decline can't be blamed on any single source. Excessive build up of private debt, which in part led to an investment and stock market bubble, has been a primary culprit. Our overvalued dollar and a near historic trade deficit are in the running for the hegemonic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 3 17:19:53 PST 2003

26660 Intention (was Re: Unhooking famous violinist) -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >It actually seems quite conceivable to me that within the next hundred years >or so most people in the US won't think of fetuses as persons. And it wasn't much more than a century ago that they didn't. Funny how selective about tradition the Trad Vals crowd is. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 3 15:08:22 PST 2003

26661 eBay thwarts shuttle debris sales -- rank: 1000

<www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/1578201> eBay Thwarts Shuttle Debris Sales By Beth Cox February 3, 2003 Auction giant eBay in many ways is the very model of capitalism at work, and that means that it affords opportunities for both the best - and the worst - in human nature. Saturday's space shuttle disaster afforded an opportunity for some of the worst, as a handful of people listed debris from the fallen Columbia. But San Jose, Calif.-based eBay (Quote, Company Info) went on ale ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 3 09:22:34 PST 2003

26662 wwar support rises -- rank: 1000

[this is a small sample with a wide margin of error, but still the news isn't good - though this bounce may decay as the speech is forgotten] Washington Post - February 2, 2003 Support for a War With Iraq Grows After Bush's Speech Half the Nation Favors Military Action Without U.N. Backing By Richard Morin and Claudia Deane President Bush has reversed the downward drift in public support for war with Iraq despite widespread fears that the conflict would continue for many months and produce large ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 3 09:11:44 PST 2003

26663 Fwd: Guernica -- rank: 1000

From Artdaily.com: Guernica Reproduction Covered at UN NEW YORK.- The "Guernica" work by Pablo Picasso at the entrance of the Security Council of the United Nations has been covered with a curtain. The reason for covering this work is that this is the place where diplomats make statements to the press and have this work as the background. The Picasso work features the horrors of war. On January 27 a large blue curtain was placed to cover the work. Fred Eckhard, press secretary of the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 3 06:29:53 PST 2003

26664 Unhooking famous violinist -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >So we need to come clean: even the anti-abortion crowd doesn't think >"life is sacred". Not really. They are willing to sacrifice >innocent people if it makes their lives more efficient or pleasant. Or if they're Iraqis. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 2 11:39:24 PST 2003

26665 Molly Ivins Cain't Say That Was Re: Sam Donaldson explains it all -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: > > An article in the last issue of (the scandalously underknown) Bitch >> <http://www.bitchmagazine.com> took strong exception to this.! > >Well Doug, If you will pardon the expression, that looks >like a pretty bitch' mag, but which article were you >referring to? Can't find it on the website - I think it was only in the print ed. But everyone should subscribe to Bitch. And the fact that Bitch said nice things about LBO has no bearing on that endors ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 2 11:30:10 PST 2003

26666 NYC book event: Implicating Empire -- rank: 1000

[maybe Ellen Willis will beat the war drums!] From: Gautney777 at aol.com Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 13:16:20 EST Subject: SAVE THE DATE: Feb 14 Implicating Empire Book Release Implicating Empire Reading and Release Party Friday, February 14, 2002 7pm, at The Brecht Forum 122 West 27th Street 10th Floor (b/w 6th & 7th aves) Implicating Empire: Globalization and Resistance in the 21st Century World Order (Basic Books) is a collection of the works of 21 authors who critically examine the future of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 1 10:34:49 PST 2003

26667 Molly Ivins Cain't Say That Was Re: Sam Donaldson explains it all -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: >"you guys" *is* gender neutral! (where I come from anyway :) An article in the last issue of (the scandalously underknown) Bitch <http://www.bitchmagazine.com> took strong exception to this.! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 1 10:16:19 PST 2003

26668 my argument's bigger than yours -- rank: 1000

Julie Burchill wrote: >"It's all about oil!" Like hyperactive brats who get hold of one phrase and >repeat it endlessly, this naive and prissy mantra is enough to drive to the >point of madness any person who actually attempts to think beyond the clichés. >Like "Whatever!" it is one of the few ways in which the dull-minded think they >can have the last word in any argument. So what if it is about oil, in part? >Are you prepared to give up your car and centra ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 1 10:05:42 PST 2003

26669 Cool War -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Joy Gordon's excellent article in the November Harper's about what's wrong >with the Iraq Sactions regime turns out to be one of the half dozen >articles they have available online: > >http://www.harpers.org/online/cool_war/?pg=1 A paragraph like this: >Over the last three years, through research and interviews with >diplomats, U.N. staff, scholars, and journalists, I have acquired >many of the key confidential U.N. documents concerning the >admi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 1 10:00:00 PST 2003

26670 [lbo-talk] wish -- rank: 1000

[making the rounds, of unknown origin] Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 31 12:47:02 PST 2003