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27466 [lbo-talk] Re: College students support war? -- rank: 1000

David Mandl wrote: >>From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com> >> >>[Disgusting. From the NY Times:] >> >>Professors Protest as Students Debate > >Why is it disgusting? Hi Dave. Liza could say much more, but I thought it was one of those diseased emissions of American journalism, the man-bites-dog story that ends up utterly conventional. Ha ha, students conservative, aging boomer profs radical. Except that it's hard to get tenure as a yo ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 5 10:43:01 PST 2003

27467 [lbo-talk] Re: College students support war? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >There was a great line on South Park recently: "There's a time and >a place for everything, and it's called college." Undergraduate >years are an intermission in your active adult life -- a break >between being dominated by parents and being dominated by >corporations. It's the time when you have the greatest opportunity >to speak out about really matters to you. If you don't have to work 20 or 30 hours a week, it helps. Sometime during the 1970 ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 5 10:38:45 PST 2003

27468 [lbo-talk] Fwd: PRESS RELEASE: THE REBIRTH OF PROTEST MUSIC! -- rank: 1000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE APRIL 7, 2003 THE REBIRTH OF PROTEST MUSIC! "PEACE NOT WAR" 2XCD COMPILATION (PNW1CDX) Peace Not War is a not-for-profit 2xCD produced to protest against the war, to inform and inspire music listeners, and raise funds for the peace movement. The combination of established and unsigned acts on Peace Not War bring a unique mix of genres and 31 new and old songs which redefine what protest music sounds like. Produced and funded by a few people from America and Austra ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 4 18:19:02 PST 2003

27469 [lbo-talk] stats -- rank: 1000

<http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=394172> Independent (London) - April 5, 2003 130,000 British and American troops are in action in Iraq from a total force of 250,000 in the Gulf. The Allies have launched 725 Tomahawk cruise missiles, flown 18,000 sorties, dropped 50 cluster bombs and discharged 12,000 precision-guided munitions. There have been an estimated 1,252 Iraqi civilian deaths, 57 Kurdish deaths and 5,103 civilian injuries. 88 Allied troops have ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 4 16:35:47 PST 2003

27470 [lbo-talk] W & God -- rank: 1000

Bush Mix of God and War Grates on Many Europeans Fri Apr 4, 9:13 AM ET By Tom Heneghan PARIS (Reuters) - The religious overtones in President Bush (news - web sites)'s speeches increasingly grate on many ears in Europe, where leaders invoking God in times of war are widely suspect of misusing faith for political purposes. No less than the German president, French prime minister and Belgian foreign minister have joined religious leaders in expressing concern about Bush's beliefs and the place of ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 4 15:53:00 PST 2003

27471 [lbo-talk] fierce clashes -- rank: 1000

<http://english.aljazeera.net/topics/article.asp?cu_no=1&item_no=1726&version=1&template_id=277&parent_id=258> Fierce clashes erupt in key cities Cilina Nasser US forces said they had accelerated their advance on the Iraqi capital on Wednesday, staging ground attacks on three fronts against Iraqi fighters trying to prevent them from approaching Baghdad. Fierce clashes erupted in Iraq's southern cities of Karbala and Najaf and the key crossing over the Tigris River near Kut ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 4 13:32:28 PST 2003

27472 [lbo-talk] AJ news -- rank: 1000

[might as well circulate this stuff while it's working] <http://english.aljazeera.net/topics/article.asp?cu_no=1&item_no=1799&version=1&template_id=277&parent_id=258> Fierce clashes for control of Baghdad airport Residents fled their homes near Baghdad's Saddam International Airport on Friday, seeking shelter in the city center after US forces staged a fierce attack to seize the airport complex. "There was bombing all night. It was a night of hell," said one woman ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 4 13:30:58 PST 2003

27473 [lbo-talk] poor Miami -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - April 4, 2003 Outta here CONSERVATIVE pundit Ann Coulter is so upset by Mayor Bloomberg's Tali-ban on smoking, she's moved to Miami. "[Bloomberg] is wrecking New York City and I didn't want to pay for his fascist smoking police . . . Soon he'll be mandating that New Yorkers have a glass of milk and engage in calisthenics every day," Coulter fumed. "He seems to imagine that New Yorkers were drawn to that city for the clean living . . . I'm not sure even [ ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 4 13:00:55 PST 2003

27474 [lbo-talk] AJ news -- rank: 1000

At 3:56 PM -0500 4/4/03, CBS MarketWatcher wrote: >ENGLISH AL JAZZERA SITE MAY BE LIVE > >Doha, Qatar (CBS.MW) - The English language Web site of Aljazeera was >online early Friday. A relaunch of the week-old site >(http://english.aljazeera.net/) followed hacker attacks which blocked >its availability. "We hope very much it will stay, but there's no >guarantee," Joanne Tucker, managing editor, told the Wall Street >Journal. > >But there may be more troub ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 4 12:41:56 PST 2003

27475 [lbo-talk] war at home -- rank: 1000

New York Press - April 4, 2003 Norman Kelley The War at Home The United States will win the war (and that means, Inshallah, the end of Saddam Hussein), but it'll probably lose the peace if it stays longer than it should or tries to set up a puppet regime. More attention ought to be paid to a new war. No, not in Iran or North Korea (although they may be coming to a tv screen near you). The next war will be a war at home, and it has already begun against one citizen, Maher (Mike) Hawash. Hawash, a ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 4 11:22:22 PST 2003

27476 [lbo-talk] Atlantic Monthly Editor Killed in Iraq -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >Doug, do you have that Foucault quote on 'the enemy' readily available? Yup, though this dispute isn't just about intellectual war. Doug ---- from REMARKS ON MARX, Michel Foucault interviewed by Duccio Trombadori [Semiotext(e), 1991] Duccio Trombadori: But still apropos of polemics, you have also stated clearly that you don't like and will not accept those kinds of arguments "which mimic war and parody justice." Could you explain to me more clearly what you meant ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 4 11:06:15 PST 2003

27477 [lbo-talk] Atlantic Monthly Editor Killed in Iraq -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >Don't tell me that "our" side is gonna cheer Kelly's death. Is it ok if we take a pass on the mourning garb?

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Date:	Fri Apr 4 09:14:39 PST 2003

27478 [lbo-talk] Luntz, anti-American? -- rank: 1000

The Washington Times - April 4, 2003 Inside the Beltway By John McCaslin Suspicious stash Erstwhile Washington political pollster Frank Luntz got a rude awakening while traversing the globe to conduct focus groups on the Iraqi war. Mr. Luntz's focus sessions on behalf of NBC in Egypt, the West Bank and Israel went off without a hitch, but the pollster wasn't so lucky in Turkey, where he suddenly found himself "embedded" with antiwar demonstrators. So embedded that the mob of Istanbul p ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 4 08:09:04 PST 2003

27479 [lbo-talk] shacking up still illegal in ND -- rank: 1000

N.D. Law Forbids Unmarried Cohabitation By MEGAN BOLDT BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - The state Senate has voted to keep a 113-year-old law that makes it a crime for unmarried couples to live together. A proposal to repeal the anti-cohabitation law, which says a man and woman may not live together ``openly and notoriously'' as if they were married, was defeated 26-21 on Tuesday. The offense is listed among other sex crimes, including rape and incest. Violations carry a maximum 30 days in jail and a $1,00 ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 4 06:51:09 PST 2003

27480 [lbo-talk] Hedges on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Editor and Publisher - April 2, 2003 Chris Hedges on 'Distorted' War Coverage For Chris Hedges, the veteran journalist who has covered over a dozen conflicts around the globe, it's clear that the U.S. military's use of embedded reporters in Iraq (news - web sites) has made the war easier to see and harder to understand. Yes, "print is doing a better job than TV," he observes. "The broadcast media display all these retired generals and charts and graphs, it looks like a giant game ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 3 16:51:19 PST 2003