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27511 Iraq War: Not About Oil, but Euros vs. Dollars -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >The critiques of this theory on pen-l were fairly convincing in strictly >economic terms. There still remains the question for me of why most of >the metropolitan dailies (which I assume [?] represent a fair >cross-section of the ruling class) are either going along with a few >murmurs of dissent or are actively supporting Bush. Bush, Perle, Cheney, >may be cultists. Why does the ruling class accept such leadership? As no less an authority than Goldman Sachs ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 1 11:56:21 PST 2003

27512 "Bad" Mothers: The Politics of Blame Re: Radio Doug -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Catharsis is a fundamental concept for Freud. Release the >unconscious conflict indirectly (e.g., by watching violent >sports or Macbeth), and direct manifestations of aggression >should be reduced. That's psychoanalysis 101 as I >understand it! Rather an early one. It's a much more extended process than that (as any Woody Allen fan knows), involving lots of association, narrative, speculation, introspection, reliving, recalling.... There's hardly some magi ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 1 11:50:09 PST 2003

27513 list move -- rank: 1000

Sometime soon, maybe even by tonight, this list will move to Jordan's Infothecary server. The first step will be to freeze subs/unsubs so the subscriber list can be moved. Watch this space for further announcements. Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 1 11:37:29 PST 2003

27514 Hitch responds -- rank: 1000

I asked Christopher Hitchens for an explanation of why shock and awe didn't work as advertised, and why, contrary to his prediction, many are willing to die for Iraq, if not Saddam Hussein personally. His reponse: >Dear Doug, > Just back. I'm not wrong yet, even literally, and I didn't see >anyone in Safwan ready to die for SH - though there are those >willing or coerced to kill for him. As you know/knew. > On the northern front it's much more classic, with US power >rei ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 1 06:54:05 PST 2003

27515 insulting sodomy -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Say what? Have we got a sodomy interest group here? :) I'd be very disappointed if we didn't. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 30 16:25:13 PDT 2002

27516 Kiss Senate Dem Majority Goodbye! -- rank: 1000

SergioL652 at aol.com wrote: >Torricelli Quits. Does that mean I can now vote green without remorse? Cue to Nathan, who will tell us why it's important to keep Daschle in place. As far as I know, Ted Glick is one of the best Green candidates in the country. Anyone have other opinions? Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 30 16:09:51 PDT 2002

27517 lament -- rank: 1000

A quote from a Reuters market story: >"We're just now realizing how aggressive the accounting really was >in the '90s," said Charles Pradilla, a strategist for more than 30 >years, currently chief investment strategist at S.G. Cowen >Securities. "We also have high valuations, disappointing economic >growth, no pricing power, terrible psychology, and if that weren't >enough, how about a war?"

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 30 14:48:26 PDT 2002

27518 workers of the world...relax -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Some like overtime, but forced overtime was a big issue among workers. Yup, it is, but not among U.S. autoworkers in the late 1990s. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 30 13:06:18 PDT 2002

27519 workers of the world...relax -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >1) Because there's no large, organized labor movement? UAW leaders wanted to make an issue of overtime, but there was no interest in it among the rank and file. Quite the contrary, the workers liked putting in long weeks and pulling down $100k/yr. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 30 12:48:24 PDT 2002

27520 No war. Market bounces smartly. -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >I was just reading this weird article from SunSpot about >October being open season on Bears (ie, Bear Killers) Maybe so - it's not a bad month on average. But there were those nasty exceptions (in ascending order) 1989, 1987, and 1929. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 30 12:47:33 PDT 2002

27521 American Tali-Queer -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >I'd say this was a new low for the Post How can they beat their 1980s masterpiece, in which they illustrated some propaganda leak from the Reagan admin on how Khadaffy/Gadafi/etc. liked to dress up in women's clothes with a crude, pre-Photoshop simulation of how he would look in drag? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 30 12:04:48 PDT 2002

27522 unusual headline concerning UNESCO -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >The way I see the US looking at UNESCO is this: one underfed, skinny >little whore paid to roll over for the US's big, fat, ugly old >sodomizing ritual---a few dollars, a little sweet talk and kissing >followed by deep ripping and tearing. There you go sweety, now didn't >that feel good? This insults sodomy. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 30 11:41:54 PDT 2002

27523 Exams, Protests, Iraq -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >But despite this weekend's protest, there is little likelihood that >opposition to the war will form into a real protest movement, since >it is for the most part, just an expression of the establishment's >own anxieties about what to do next. This sounds a bit like the old LM analysis of Thatcherism as lacking the real balls to be truly capitalist. Sooo, James - what should happen? Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 30 11:23:41 PDT 2002

27524 Cooper on Iraq & the peace movement -- rank: 1000

[for the throngs of Cooper fans out there who may have missed this one!] Los Angeles Times - September 29, 2002 PROTEST A Smart Peace Movement Is MIA By MARC COOPER Marc Cooper is a contributing editor to The Nation and editor-at-large at the LA Weekly. George W. Bush seems fixed on going to war against Baghdad no matter what. No matter if Iraq does or does not represent an actual threat. No matter whether Saddam Hussein allows weapons inspectors in. No matter what our allies think or what the r ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 30 11:22:02 PDT 2002

27525 The nature of anarchism -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Therefore I have to laugh when people worry that anarchism will >impose some kind of corecive, antlike, pacifying existence....I >mean, that's where we are now. Not impose so much as presuppose. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 30 11:18:34 PDT 2002