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27541 Anti-Imperialism 101 Re: Hitchens quits Nation -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Was US sanctions against the South African regime imperialist interference? The ANC and the SACP, organizations with real roots in SA society, supported the sanctions. The document Yoshie forwarded a little while ago says that what Iraqi left organizations survive oppose sanctions and war. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 27 15:44:43 PDT 2002

27542 Fwd: [Infoshop News] Anti-capitalists shut down Washington, DC; Over 600 arrested -- rank: 1000

Anti-capitalists shut down Washington, DC; Over 600 arrested by Chuck0 This story will be updated throughout the day September 27 | 3:00 pm EDT The residents of Washington, DC were treated to a small version of the general strikes which shut down Argentina earlier this year. Thousands of anti-capitalists and concerned citizens converged on Washington, DC this morning in a successful effort to shut down the capital of Empire (the United States). Protesters used a wide variety of tactics to shut d ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 27 12:09:58 PDT 2002

27543 no-fly blacklist -- rank: 1000

San Francisco Chronicle - September 27, 2002 No-fly blacklist snares political activists Alan Gathright, Chronicle Staff Writer A federal "No Fly" list, intended to keep terrorists from boarding planes, is snaring peace activists at San Francisco International and other U. S. airports, triggering complaints that civil liberties are being trampled. And while several federal agencies acknowledge that they contribute names to the congressionally mandated list, none of them, when contacted ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 27 12:00:22 PDT 2002

27544 polling crisis -- rank: 1000

Jewish World Review Sept. 26, 2002 / 20 Tishrei, 5763 Dick Morris The perils of polling Polling is in trouble. Big trouble. The data is no longer reliable and won't be for several more years. Why were all the national polls (except Zogby) wrong in predicting that George Bush would get more votes than Al Gore in 2000? Why were all the polls wrong again in predicting a close Senate race between Rep. Rick Lazio (R) and Hillary Clinton in New York that same year? The telephone poll is no longer a cr ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 27 11:19:09 PDT 2002

27545 Hitchens Quits Nation -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >I'm with Chomsky and Cockburn on the war, but I think >Nathan raises excellent points. I know several >progressives who quietly but passionately support the >Afghan war and who bite their tongues when anti-war >lefties (like me) monopolize the table talk. I took some shit, here and elsewhere, over my ambivalence about the Afghan war. But the war on Iraq is completely different - a pure imperial adventure with nothing remotely self-defensive about it. It was di ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 27 09:47:32 PDT 2002

27546 Hitchens quits Nation -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Hitchens is being both personally high-handed but also reacting to the >high-handed ideological litmus testing around the left on these issues. >It's a bad situation and while Hitchens is a poor poster child for the >problem, his exit from what he sees as his progressive home parallels many >others alienation from it. This alienation is not visible in the Nation's circulation figures. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 27 09:13:39 PDT 2002

27547 The nature of anarchism (Lefty Despair etc.) -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >The theory is that whatever social structures the anarchists >set up will be voluntary and transparent and that people >will adhere to them because they wish to, not because they >are compelled to. 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 transparency and harmony - a completely ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 27 09:06:10 PDT 2002

27548 "Hitchens' nervous breakdown" -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >I don't really have a horse in this race, since Hitchens no longer appears >in the Evening Standard, and I don't read the Nation, but is the >resignation of a newspaper columnist really an appropriate occasion for >people being so bloody nasty? It strikes me that if the guy has a drinking >problem, or if he's had a breakdown, it's pretty bad taste to be gloating >about it; if he hasn't, it's probably libellous. A guy who calls Mother Teresa a "hellba ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 27 09:08:49 PDT 2002

27549 Calling Imperialism by name -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow wrote: >Of course the words "socialism"(used positively) and "working class" >remain beyond the pale <wry grin>. No, not working class! In polls, a plurality or close to it of Americans self-identify as working class when that is offered as an option. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 27 08:48:34 PDT 2002

27550 Hitch's nervous breakdown -- rank: 1000

Chris Beggy wrote: >Hitchens personally interviewed the Czechs involved and came to a >conclusion different than the FBI. The FBI doesn't have the benefit of a Trot sectarian past. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 27 08:43:53 PDT 2002

27551 Hitch's nervous breakdown -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >Peter K. wrote: >> >>>--quick, someone call Condi, Hitch has got the goods on Saddam and >>>Al Qaeda. Or Hitch is having a >>>nervous breakdown...hard to call this one... >>>----- >>>Or it's an inconvenient truth. Condi and Rummy already started saying >>>this, not that we should take them at their word.... >> >>Inconvenient truth? Are you following Hitch down this path? >> >>Doug > >All ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 27 04:39:35 PDT 2002

27552 Blair hits welfare state -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - September 27, 2002 Blair: don't defy me on PFI deals Michael White and David Walker The Guardian Tony Blair today warns increasingly vocal Labour critics of his sweeping changes to public services that they risk becoming "prisoners" of an outdated model of the welfare state created by the party's heroic generation after 1945. In a full-blooded defence of the private finance initiative (PFI) strategy, made today in the Guardian on the eve of next week's turbulent Lab ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 26 18:42:45 PDT 2002

27553 Hitch's nervous breakdown -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >--quick, someone call Condi, Hitch has got the goods on Saddam and >Al Qaeda. Or Hitch is having a >nervous breakdown...hard to call this one... >----- >Or it's an inconvenient truth. Condi and Rummy already started saying >this, not that we should take them at their word.... Inconvenient truth? Are you following Hitch down this path? Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 26 18:35:01 PDT 2002

27554 Hitch's parting shot -- rank: 1000

The Nation - October 14, 2002 <http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021014&s=hitchens > Minority Report by Christopher Hitchens Taking Sides I suppose I can just about bear to watch the "inspections" pantomime a second time. But what I cannot bear is the sight of French and Russian diplomats posing and smirking with Naji Sabry, Iraq's foreign minister, or with Tariq Aziz. I used to know Naji and I know that two of his brothers, Mohammed and Shukri, were imprisoned and tortu ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 26 16:47:53 PDT 2002

27555 ANyone heard about Putin's statement? -- rank: 1000

Cian wrote: >"Also Thursday, readiness for military action against Iraq was the reason, >defence officials said, that thousands of British troops have been pulled >off a training program where they were learning to act as replacement >fire-fighters in case the Fire Brigades Union decides to strike in a pay >dispute." > >I wonder what will happen if we're at war in Iraq and the fire brigade are >on strike. Could be interesting. Interesting test of bourgeois prior ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 26 16:35:05 PDT 2002