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26746 [lbo-talk] complications of the Saddam trial -- rank: 1000

Debate heats up over Saddam trial; Bremer says he escaped attack Fri Dec 19,12:11 PM ET BAGHDAD (AFP) - Controversy mounted over the planned trial of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) as violence continued to rock Iraq (news - web sites) and US overseer Paul Bremer said he escaped an attack earlier this month. With Iraq's interim leadership insisting Saddam should be tried by Iraqis, calls came for the United States too to be held to account for its past support for the Iraqi str ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 19 21:27:25 PST 2003

26747 [lbo-talk] Online Poll: Tell Nader to Go Fuck Himself -- rank: 1000

Andrei wrote: >I dunno, I just don't see what the point of your comments is ? Maybe >you just don't like Kucinich and would like to add to the notion that >"he's not electable" (because he actually believes in protecting animals >and trying to work towards peace) !? I'm all for protecting animals (though I like eating them too), and working towards peace too. But saying things about the Goddess of Peace and the creatures of the forest displays either a tin ear or a lust for ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 19 18:15:05 PST 2003

26748 [lbo-talk] Online Poll: Tell Nader to Go Fuck Himself -- rank: 1000

Andrei wrote: >I love Kucinich Do you really think that someone who talks about the Goddess of Peace taking us in Her arms, and who brags about the endorsement by the forest animals, stands a chance of getting more than 2% of the vote? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 19 17:16:21 PST 2003

26749 [lbo-talk] our old friend Saddam -- rank: 1000

[tomorrow is the 20th anniv of the Rummy-Saddam handshake - picture on NSA site] <http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/special/iraq/index.htm> 18 December 2003 For more information: 202/994-7000 Thomas Blanton/Malcolm Byrne Saddam a "presentable young man" with "engaging smile," Let's "do business," said British Embassy in 1969. Rumsfeld met Saddam in 1984 with instructions to improve relations, Despite chemical weapons use and sanctuary for terrorists. U.S. construct ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 19 16:53:00 PST 2003

26750 [lbo-talk] pre-industrial civilization no paradise -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:35:03 +0000 From: Andrew <andrewflood at eircom.net> Subject: Re: AUT: Hunter gather life expectancy To: aut-op-sy at lists.village.Virginia.EDU On 18 Dec 2003, at 15:02, Doug Henwood wrote: > >Very interesting. Do you have some cites on this? > Child mortality rates for modern hunter gatherers http://harpend.dsl.xmission.com/pennington/humannature/lectures.fall.2003/hgdemo_nofigs.pdf Hazda, Kung life expectancy and cause of death http://www.anthro.utah.e ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 19 14:59:36 PST 2003

26751 [lbo-talk] competitive shopping, or perils of deflation -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - December 19, 2003 Crazed Consumers Shop 'Til They Drop -- Sometimes Like Flies Folks Lined Up for Sales Get Injured in Stampedes; Stores Try Crowd Control By RICK BROOKS and CHAD TERHUNE Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL The day after Thanksgiving, KSLA-TV cameraman Bobby Baker drove to the Toys "R" Us store in Bossier City, La., ready for a fight. Three years ago, he had videotaped a fracas over $99 television sets at a local Kmart. Now, more than 400 pe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 19 14:47:08 PST 2003

26752 [lbo-talk] Cato: to end terrorism, don't intervene -- rank: 1000

<http://www.cato.org/pubs/fpbriefs/fpb-050es.html> December 17, 1998 Does U.S. Intervention Overseas Breed Terrorism? The Historical Record by Ivan Eland Ivan Eland is director of defense policy studies at the Cato Institute. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Executive Summary According to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, terrorism is the most important threat the United States and the world face as the 21st century begins. High-level U.S. offic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 19 14:26:07 PST 2003

26753 [lbo-talk] Lazare on Vidal -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20040105&s=lazare> The Nation - January 5, 2004 Skeletons in the Closet by DANIEL LAZARE "Negro President": Jefferson and the Slave Power by Garry Wills An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America by Henry Wiencek Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson by Gore Vidal [...] Gore Vidal's Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, on the other hand, is not an example of the new American h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 19 14:18:47 PST 2003

26754 [lbo-talk] Bush polls -- rank: 1000

Looks like he's getting a good bounce, our Leader: <http://www.usatoday.com/news/polls/tables/live/2003-12-17-poll.htm>. Question 11 shows 53% now believing SH was involved in 9/11, up 10 points from September. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 19 14:11:09 PST 2003

26755 [lbo-talk] Re: barbarian of the moment -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I wonder. Somehow I had always taken it for granted that subscribers to >this list would have general knowledge of "our own vast stockpile" of >horror, but maybe many don't. That would be one explanation of the >perverse tendency to see u.s. intervention abroad as possibly positive. Who said anything about U.S. intervention as positive? The closest anyone came to that argument was saying that having destroyed the Iraqi state, pulling out now with no succe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 19 11:16:46 PST 2003

26756 [lbo-talk] encyclopedia of counterculture -- rank: 1000

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS The Encyclopedia of the American Counterculture M.E. Sharpe, a New York-based academic and reference publisher, is seeking contributing scholars for a two-volume reference work on the history of the counterculture in America from colonial times to the present-day. The project is aimed at the academic high school and undergraduate levels. The General Editor is Dr. Karen Karbiener of New York University. The encyclopedia will include articles on individuals, organizations, th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 19 11:12:39 PST 2003

26757 [lbo-talk] Iraq poll numbers -- rank: 1000

After Hussein's Capture... BUSH RALLY, BUT NO FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE IN CONCERNS ABOUT IRAQ The public holds more positive opinions of President Bush and the war in Iraq in response to the capture of Saddam Hussein. The president's job approval gain -- from 50% in November to 57% currently -- is on par with rallies experienced by Ronald Reagan following the invasion of Grenada and Bill Clinton after the Oklahoma City bombing. But the latest Pew Research Center survey, conducted Dec. 15-17, finds no ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 19 11:06:56 PST 2003

26758 [lbo-talk] RE: They simply 'failed' -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Most of the progressive left have spent the last two years running >interference for the Bush administration giving Bush & Co. lots of >time to get their story straight about their 'failure' to prevent >the attacks. The notion that 'Bush Knew' was either ignored and when >it was addressed it was only to attack and ridicule those who raised >the issue as 'conspiracists'. "Bush knew" isn't the same as "the U.S. government fucked up bigtim ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 19 11:04:12 PST 2003

26759 [lbo-talk] Iraqi debt restructuring -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >Le Club De Paris Sometime in the late 1980s, the FT quoted a French treasury official as saying the Paris Club has no rules, and doesn't officially exist. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 19 10:55:53 PST 2003

26760 [lbo-talk] Homeland Sec Protects Us From Journalist -- rank: 1000

It's scary and depressing how hostile the U.S. government has gotten to foreigners. A British friend who's a freshly naturalized U.S. citizen is having severe problems with the authorities over his lawful wife, who'd be arrested if she ever set foot back in her native Uzbekistan. Another Brit friend is having trouble bringing over his Spanish girlfriend for an extended visit. And these are all educated people from countries who are supposedly our good allies in the war on terror. Obviously there ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 19 10:49:56 PST 2003