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27451 [lbo-talk] Fwd: NYC: Free the Carlyle Group Arrestees -- -- rank: 1000

At the A7 demonstration against War Profiteers' The Carlyle Group on Fifth Avenue this morning, NYC police arrested a large swath of people -- including people legally demonstrating on the sidewalk across the street from the action! *************************************** from Indymedia post... Call Police Comissioner Ray Kelly 646-610-5410 and demand the release of the Carlyle arrestees! Carlyle Group Arrestees FORWARD TO ALL LISTS NOW! Call Police Comissioner Ray Kelly 646-610-5410 and demand ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 7 13:31:02 PDT 2003

27452 [lbo-talk] the Prozac newsroom -- rank: 1000

Yale Daily News - April 7, 2003 News celebrates 125 years with gala BY WILL SULLIVAN Staff Reporter As a reporter for the Yale Daily News, humorist Calvin Trillin '57 said, he learned that fairness and balance were essential. "I always say I learned the first lesson of journalism at the Yale Daily News," Trillin said. "Which was we try to be equally inaccurate about both sides." Trillin was one of about 500 former Yale Daily News board members who returned to campus over the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 7 13:09:21 PDT 2003

27453 [lbo-talk] UMass Boston tussle -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - April 7, 2003 Professor Arrested on UMass's Boston Campus After Clash With Military Recruiter By PIPER FOGG A faculty member at the University of Massachusetts at Boston was arrested Thursday and charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest after an altercation with a recruiter from the National Guard. According to The Boston Globe, eyewitnesses said that a military recruiter had told Anthony M. Van Der Meer, an adjunct professor of A ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 7 09:42:59 PDT 2003

27454 [lbo-talk] Iraq war "clearer" to Americans than WW 2 -- rank: 1000

[sure is getting harder to do optimistic readings of the poll numbers] WSJ.com / OPINION JOURNAL from THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Editorial Page BEST OF THE WEB TODAY BY JAMES TARANTO Friday, April 4, 2003 5:00 p.m. EST CLEARER THAN WORLD WAR II PollingReport.com presents some fascinating historical poll results. During five different wars, Americans were asked, "Do you feel that you have a clear idea of what this war is all about--that is, what we are fighting for?" Here are the results, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 7 09:28:01 PDT 2003

27455 [lbo-talk] Jerry Brown's forces open fire on protesters -- rank: 1000

Rubber Bullets Used Against Oakland War Protesters OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Police fired rubber bullets on hundreds of anti-war protesters blocking a road near Oakland's port on Monday, witnesses and officials said. Police at the scene said they used two types of rubber bullets to disperse about 750 people protesting against the U.S. war on Iraq (news - web sites). Some arrests were made and the road was reopened.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 7 09:22:40 PDT 2003

27456 [lbo-talk] anyone know the poll source for americans believing iraqis were on the 911 planes? -- rank: 1000

steve philion wrote: >anyone know the poll source for americans believing iraqis were on the 911 >planes? . i can' t find where that was cited in... At 12:16 PM -0500 3/21/03, Doug Henwood wrote: ><http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030314-022023-3781r> > >Analysis: Which American groups back war? >By Steve Sailer >UPI National Correspondent > >From the Washington Politics & Policy Desk >Published 3/20/2003 1:23 PM > >LOS ANGELES, March 20 (UPI) - ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 7 06:51:31 PDT 2003

27457 [lbo-talk] anyone know the poll source for americans believing iraqis were on the 911 planes? -- rank: 1000

steve philion wrote: >anyone know the poll source for americans believing iraqis were on the 911 >planes? . i can' t find where that was cited in... At 12:16 PM -0500 3/21/03, Doug Henwood wrote: ><http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030314-022023-3781r> > >Analysis: Which American groups back war? >By Steve Sailer >UPI National Correspondent > >From the Washington Politics & Policy Desk >Published 3/20/2003 1:23 PM > >LOS ANGELES, March 20 (UPI) - ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 7 06:51:31 PDT 2003

27458 [lbo-talk] Re: war propaganda -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >As for lawyers, they are no more or less prone to use straw >arguments than anyone else. You just get paid better for it! Really, Justin, don't you see that most nonlawyers see lawyers as holding to "a strategic view of the truth" (as a former editor of a celebrity left intellectual once said of said intellectual)? That truth is what you can prove? Granted there are other professions that do that - advertising and PR, Enron's accountants. And all of us ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 6 17:27:16 PDT 2003

27459 [lbo-talk] Syria & Iran next? Americans ask why not? -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - April 5, 2003 THE TIMES POLL Support Grows for Military Actions Americans' backing for Bush rises; many might endorse moves against Iran or Syria. By Ronald Brownstein Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON -- Buoyed by success on the battlefield, most Americans now express support for an expansive U.S. role in the Middle East, with a clear majority backing the war in Iraq and half endorsing military action against Iran if it continues to develop nuclear weapons, according to a new Lo ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 6 17:06:25 PDT 2003

27460 [lbo-talk] Britain admits there may be no WMD's in Iraq -- rank: 1000

Steven wrote: >Britain admits there may be no WMD's in Iraq Post-ABC News Poll Poll: More Say War Justified Without Finding Weapons Washington Post - April 5, 2003 Poll: More Say War Justified Without Finding Weapons By Richard Morin and Claudia Deane A growing majority of Americans believe the war in Iraq is justified even if the United States does not find weapons of mass destruction. At the same time, public optimism about the progress of the fighting has surged as recent gains on the batt ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 6 16:53:11 PDT 2003

27461 [lbo-talk] Atlantic Monthly Editor Killed in Iraq -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >The only other thing I'll say is that anyone >indifferent to or callous in re: the death of >another has not given much consideration to their >mortality. Why do you say that? It could be just the opposite: we all die someday, so why get worked up over an individual instance? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 6 16:13:00 PDT 2003

27462 [lbo-talk] bounces etc. -- rank: 1000

Mailman, the program that runs this list on its new server, has an automated bounce detection feature (unlike majordomo, which ran it at panix). If posts bounce because of full mailboxes or bad addresses, it will unsub the offending party. So if you've got a flaky server (some of you have servers that seem to slip into comas now & then) or your mailbox fills up (as is frequently the case with Hotmail, Yahoo, and other free services) it will drop you without my intervention. Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 6 14:02:27 PDT 2003

27463 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Liu on the war.... -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >oh yeah, and notice, i didn't say that HCKL.exe shouldn't be a >source of enlightenment, amusement, or sedation for members of this >list. that HCKL.exe is an asshole has no bearing on what he has to >say and how it is rec'd. but i do think it has bearing on whether >it's even worthwhile if it's simply another pedestrian lefty >assessment of the war--and this piece is pretty pedestrian, adding >nothing new to our conversations. Hey, there's this death notice: ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 6 11:12:09 PDT 2003

27464 [lbo-talk] hero of war against flatulence is antiwar! -- rank: 1000

New York Times - April 6, 2003 An Antiwar Chief (and Proud of It) By AMY CORTESE ALAN KLIGERMAN is the first to say he has had good fortune. He has prospered as an entrepreneur, he says, and appreciates the rights he enjoys as an American. "I am for this country," he said in an interview last week. "Nobody should misinterpret that." In that assessment, he hardly stands out among the ranks of corporate executives. But he has distinguished himself in one particularly contentiou ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 6 10:44:34 PDT 2003

27465 [lbo-talk] army questions Spearhead mom -- rank: 1000

<http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=17846> Army Questions Spearhead Mom Band's protest ways draws military inquiries "Things are changing" Performing at protest rallies is nothing new for the politically minded hip-hop/soul band Spearhead. What made their March 15th anti-war concert in San Francisco different is that bombs started falling on Baghdad a few days later. But first, on March 16th, across the country in Boston, the mother of the group's human beatbox ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 6 10:41:19 PDT 2003