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27361 [lbo-talk] is this your liberation? -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > And for three cents tell a Kurd or member of the Iraqi Communist >or Worker-Communist Parties that Ramsey Clark, Richard Becker and >Gloria LaRiva are comuing to Baghdad to have a crude rip-off of the >Bertrand Russell Tribunal and get a shitload of rotten eggs if they >are lucky. Yawn.

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Date:	Fri Apr 11 14:45:41 PDT 2003

27362 [lbo-talk] The Sting Meister -- rank: 1000

<npchilds at connect.ab.ca> wrote: > >And one of his handlers was Miles Copeland, father of Sting's >>colleague in The Police. "I'll be watching you" indeed. > >>Doug > >Which would help explain the Stinger's friendship with Adnan Kashoggi >(Weapons-R-Us) in the 1980's. And, I've always assumed, the name of the band, as some sort of creepy joke. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 11 14:31:22 PDT 2003

27363 [lbo-talk] Q's for SZ? -- rank: 1000

If all goes well I'll be interviewing Slavoj Zizek on Sunday and broadcasting it on Thursday. Any questions you'd like me to ask him? Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 11 14:30:39 PDT 2003

27364 Fwd: RE: [lbo-talk] is this your liberation? -- rank: 1000

[Not sure whether Steve meant this for the list or me, but it seems too important to pass up. I'm no fan of Jefferson nor of God, but I've been internally quoting this remark a lot lately: "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever...."] >From: Steve Perry <SPerry at citypages.com> >To: 'Doug Henwood ' <dhenwood at panix.com> >Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] is this your liberation? >Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 11:41:47 - ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 11 14:22:11 PDT 2003

27365 [lbo-talk] Two Takes -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >Compare this: > ><<http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=396051>http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=396051> > >to this: > ><<http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12829827&method=full&siteid=50143>http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12829827&method=full&siteid=50143> > >That is, if they are in any way comparable. Hitch sa ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 11 14:16:09 PDT 2003

27366 [lbo-talk] Price of patriotism: $50K -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Okay, that clinches it--we need to nominate Doug to be a correspondent >on the Daily Show. Awww thanks. Speaking of the Daily Show, last night's guest was Dennis Miller, who spewed a toxic stream of racist jokes about Iraqis (of course) and then French and Germans (of course). Really vile stuff. I always thought he was an asshole, but has he always been this much of an asshole? Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 11 13:56:28 PDT 2003

27367 [lbo-talk] is this your liberation? -- rank: 1000

loupaulsen at attbi.com wrote: >There is plenty of death and awfulness to go around this week. Yes, there sure is. ------------------- Financial Times - April 11, 2003 The marines shot anything remotely considered a threat By Paul Eedle in Baghdad The 1st battalion of the US 5th Marines in the streets of Baghdad yesterday were so unnerved by attacks from Iraqi fighters in civilian clothes that they opened fire repeatedly on unarmed men, women and children. Three times in three hours I saw tro ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 11 13:38:28 PDT 2003

27368 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >Hasn't his father told him... > >(a) "the Jews don't vote for us. > >(b) when Ariel Sharon was Israeli Defense Minister, he made two >commitments to Ronald Reagan's personal representative Philip Habib: >(i) that Israel would observe the ceasefire Habib had negotiated >with Assad, (ii) that Habib could assure Yasser Arafat that >Palestinians in refugee camps near Beirut would be safe once the PLO >had departed for Tunis On (a), no doubt ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 11 12:40:34 PDT 2003

27369 [lbo-talk] Price of patriotism: $50K -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >"Those who deface a Hummer in words or deed," he added, "deface the >American flag and what it stands for." ... Social isolation and wretched excess? Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 11 12:34:04 PDT 2003

27370 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Letter to the Editor: What kind of government for Iraq? -- rank: 1000

>Dear Editor: > >If the United States is to take upon itself the responsibility for >installing a new government in Iraq, it should stop talking about >democracy and focus instead on forming a government based on the >principles of the American system. > >America is *not* a democracy (which means unlimited majority rule). >America is a *constitutional republic*. America was founded on the >principle that the rights of the individual (to life, liberty and the >pur ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 11 12:20:45 PDT 2003

27371 [lbo-talk] is this your liberation? -- rank: 1000

Mosul Falls, Baghdad in Chaos By Khaled Yacoub Oweis BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. and Kurdish forces completed their conquest of northern Iraq (news - web sites) Friday by taking Mosul without a fight, but Baghdad and other captured cities descended into anarchy. The fall of Mosul, Iraq's third largest city, left Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s home town of Tikrit, 110 miles north of Baghdad, as the last significant target for the United States. U.S. bombers continued to pound positions around t ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 11 09:52:44 PDT 2003

27372 [lbo-talk] British peace activist shot by IDF - braindead -- rank: 1000

GUSH SHALOM - pob 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033 - http://www.gush-shalom.org/ After coming home from a good demonstration in support of the increasing number of refusers of military service in Israel, we found the terrible news on the Ha'aretz site. Another ISM activist shot at and in extreme condition. Tom Hurdell from the UK is in the Jarusi hospital in Khan Younes. As soon as we know more we will pass on to you the information. Ha'aretz: British peace activist shot by IDF troops in Gaza Strip Israel D ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 11 09:36:09 PDT 2003

27373 [lbo-talk] CIA-Saddam ties -- rank: 1000

Michael McIntyre wrote: >It turns out that CIA ties to Saddam go much further back than the >Rumsfeld handshake. This UPI story fills in some great details. >Osama...Saddam...damn if we don't know how to pick 'em! > >http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030410-070214-6557r And one of his handlers was Miles Copeland, father of Sting's colleague in The Police. "I'll be watching you" indeed. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 11 08:23:24 PDT 2003

27374 [lbo-talk] French whine -- rank: 1000

New York Post - April 11, 2003 EATERIES GET FRENCH-FRIED By BRADEN KEIL They came to whine, not dine. Top French chefs and restaurateurs gathered at Le Cirque in Manhattan yesterday to speak out against what they call a boycott of the city's French eateries. To stem an anti-French backlash fueled by France's pro-Saddam Hussein political stance, Cristyne Lategano Nicholas, president of NYC & Company, the city tourism agency, unveiled a print ad that will appear in newspapers with the headline ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 11 07:50:59 PDT 2003

27375 [lbo-talk] 10k prowar hardhats -- rank: 1000

[no word on which unions, and 10k - a generous estimate, no doubt - is pretty small, but "periodic chants of 'U.S.A!'" can compensate for paltry numbers] New York Post - April 11, 2003 10,000 PATRIOTS RALLY 'ROUND THE FLAG AT GROUND ZERO By NEIL GRAVES New York's labor unions stood front and center yesterday to lend their voices in support of U.S. troops with a noontime rally at Ground Zero. The supporters, about 10,000 of them, flooded some five blocks up West Broadway. They said they ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 11 07:46:03 PDT 2003