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27526 Now THIS is a conspiracy theory! -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >I think Doug is holding out; he was at Yale, he must have taken part in >at least some of the ritualistic-male-sex-mate-coffin-trial-by-fire-etc. >stuff this guy 'reputes' ... Hey I just wasn't cool enough for Skull & Bones, Jordan, so I don't know anything about coffin rituals. >C'mon, Doug. Tell us about the (counter-?)coup! Holy fucking god, that's amazing stuff. So Bush has a male "sex-mate" he picked up at Skull & Bones, and had the Enquir ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 29 19:29:18 PDT 2002

27527 NYC antiwar demo, 10/6 -- rank: 1000

Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 10:18:07 -0500 From: Leslie Cagan <lesliecagan at igc.org> Please feel free to share with others. ------------------------------------------------- On Sunday, October 6th I will join with others in what hopefully will be a massive demonstration of opposition to the drive toward war. NOT IN OUR NAME grew out of the insane and horrifying direction the so-called leaders of this nation are taking us, and the rest of the world - war against Iraq, war at any time against a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 29 08:53:46 PDT 2002

27528 polling on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - September 29, 2002 Simply Put, The Public's View Can't Be Put Simply By Andrew Kohut Sunday, September 29, 2002; Page B05 Ask a pollster if there is public support for war with Iraq and the answer is likely to be "yes." Ask reporters doing man-in-the-street interviews or traveling around the country, and they are likely to say "no." As New York Times columnist Tom Friedman wrote on Sept. 18, "Don't believe the polls that a majority of Americans favor a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 29 07:20:48 PDT 2002

27529 Turkish uranium -- rank: 1000

Isn't the timing of this uranium bust in Turkey just a tad suspicious? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 28 18:03:50 PDT 2002

27530 John Major, stud -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - September 29, 2002 The real mystery is how she kept her mouth shut so long Edwina Currie's decision to kiss and tell casts new light on the goings-on and flounces-out of John Major's No 10. By Andy McSmith, the new Political Editor of 'The Independent on Sunday' John Major's authority was never greater than it was 10 years ago, in April 1992, after he had secured for the Conservatives an unprecedented fourth consecutive general election victory. Having returned from the ca ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 28 14:08:41 PDT 2002

27531 huge marches in London & Rome -- rank: 1000

[It's interesting how Google news features lots of non-US sources - algorithms are more catholic than editors!] ABC News Online (Australia) - Posted: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 5:12 AEST Thousands march in UK, Europe in anti-war protest over Iraq Hundreds of thousands have demonstrated in London and Rome to protest the drumbeat of conflict in Iraq, with speakers claiming Washington was only on the warpath because it wanted Iraqi oil. Several hundred thousand people thronged London to protest a looming war ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 28 12:53:43 PDT 2002

27532 Joan Jett in Afghanistan -- rank: 1000

/ dave / wrote: >I don't know that a USO gig, perfoming for US troops abroad at a >fortified military base, quite lives up to what's suggested by the >statement "first female rocker to perform in Afghanistan"... I think I'll close the Joan Jett window in iTunes now. Doug

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Date:	Sat Sep 28 12:23:23 PDT 2002

27533 Joan Jett in Afghanistan -- rank: 1000

Brian O. Sheppard x349393 wrote: >According to today's Dallas Morning News, Joan Jett became the first >female rocker to perform in Afghanistan today. I'm not sure what that means, but I'm going to listen to Bad Reputation now. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 28 11:49:26 PDT 2002

27534 Anti-Imperialism 101 Re: Hitchens quits Nation -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I don't believe in simple "sovereignty" or "self-determination"-- I've >repeatedly over the years stated as such. I am an internationalist and a >democrat, small d, and the only role for local sovereignty is as a unit of >democratic decision-making. I don't get this. If you accept local sovereignty, the South was right to resist federal desegregation orders. Then on what basis was it ok to send federal troops in - to enforce national law o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 28 10:29:30 PDT 2002

27535 War, Deflation, and the Three Bears -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The "developmental state" isn't a useful term in my view. I was >simply trying to paraphrase Redmond posts on the subject in the >above. There is a strain of thinking that attributes faster rises >in GDP per capita and other conventional indices of economic >development mainly to "developmental states" (which are seldom >precisely defined -- most often, they are implicitly defined >tautologically as states of nations that have e ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 28 10:22:37 PDT 2002

27536 The nature of anarchism (Lefty Despair etc.) -- rank: 1000

topp8564 at mail.usyd.edu.au wrote: >On 29/9/2002 2:25 AM, "lbo-talk-digest" ><owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com> >wrote: > >> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >>> And doesn't this take 100% consensus? In a crowd of 1000, all you >>> need is one wiseguy to cause trouble. Suppose you have a crowd of 300 >>> who don't agree with the other 700? This model of anarchism sounds >>> like a fantasy of perfect tra ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 28 10:14:06 PDT 2002

27537 Rashid: Afghanistan Imperiled -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Another of my earliest responses to 9/11 was that I was worried it would >provides support for those political currents that believe in terrorism >-- and I agree with the orthodox Marxist condemnation of terrorism as a >strategy or tactic. And so far 9/11 is proving an extremely effective >tactic for AQ and other reactionary forces in the Arab world. Has it? Do we really know that? I've seen claims to the contrary - that AQ is on the run and not recruiting new m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 28 10:02:24 PDT 2002

27538 yakking with a pwogwessive Dem -- rank: 1000

<http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/sep2002/lev-s28.shtml> World Socialist Web Site - September 28, 2002 Democrat Carl Levin rebuffs Michigan peace activists By Shannon Jones A September 21 meeting between pacifist opponents of the US war drive against Iraq and Democratic Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, provided an object lesson in the futility of basing opposition to war on appeals to the Democrats. It underscored the fact that the Democrati ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 28 09:29:11 PDT 2002

27539 Anti-Imperialism 101 Re: Hitchens quits Nation -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >As far as the South was concerned, the North had as much right to send in >troops as the UN has to send troops into Iraq. Eh? They lost the Civil War. Federal authority won. What "the South" thought wasn't worth a hill of beans. Iraq is a sovereign country, not a region of the U.S. Of course you don't really believe this, but you backed yourself into a corner, and now you're trying hard to describe it as roomy and with excellent views. Doug

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Date:	Sat Sep 28 09:13:20 PDT 2002

27540 will the real Saddam please step forward? -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] REUTERS - A German television network said it had made a scientific study of 450 photographs of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and The ZDF public television network, working with a German coroner, said it took the photographs and film clips of Saddam which it had in its archives and used facial recognition technology to determine that men said to be him were lookalikes. "In the film sequences since 1998 only the doubles appear," said Dieter Buhmann, a Hombu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 27 15:55:15 PDT 2002