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27616 dangerous men -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: > > I myself have suffered pretty severely from depression over the years. > >> Carrol > >I'm seriously sorry to hear that. I've not much use for your pessimistic >Marxist outlook, but you are one of the most literate posters here, and I do >enjoy reading you on matters literary. Speaking of which... Carrol, I don't recall you saying much about how, as a Marxist, you read Milton - or even if you did that sort of reading. The proto-bourgeois in it ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 20 08:58:04 PDT 2002

27617 Anniversary -- rank: 1000

jean-christophe helary wrote: >where do opec countries stand in your picture ? I'm not Brad, but I'd say that at least in the case of Persian Gulf producers, they've got a pretty good deal. Cost of production is probably $5/barrel or less, and they sell it for $20-30. That's a lot different from coffee growers or tin producers. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 20 08:44:04 PDT 2002

27618 Mass wants Spitzer to hit CSFB -- rank: 1000

Reuters Company News Mass. recommends criminal charges against CSFB Thursday September 19, 6:21 pm ET (Adds CSFB statement, paragraphs 6,7) NEW YORK, Sept. 19 (Reuters) - Massachusetts state securities regulators on Thursday recommended that the New York State Attorney General bring criminal charges against Credit Suisse First Boston over its stock research. ADVERTISEMENTNew York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer hasn't decided how to proceed, a spokeswoman said. "We need to consult with the M ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 19 18:18:26 PDT 2002

27619 ratting on profs -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >With a dial-up it's really impossible to listen to much over the internet. I've been doing low-bandwidth (16 kbps) versions along with the higher, so a dialup should be able to cope. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 19 13:27:48 PDT 2002

27620 ratting on profs -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >Are you saying that there was no physical confrontation in Montreal? Don't know - I was just reacting to Pipes's hyperbole. > I wish >I could listen to your show. It'll be archived on the web within a few days. > Is it expensive to post transcripts as you did >with the Vidal show? A noble listmember did the Vidal transcription for free. Otherwise, transcribing can be quite expensive, yes. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 19 12:43:43 PDT 2002

27621 Radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

Today on my radio show, 5-6 PM eastern US time, WBAI, 99.5 FM in New York and <http://www.wbai.org>: * Eyal Weizman, one of the organizers of a banned exibit, The Politics of Israeli Architecture, and Dan Monk, author, The Architecture of Occupation, on how Israeli domination of Palestinians is manifested in the built environment * Hamid Dabashi, professor of Iranian studies at Columbia (and one of the targets of the Campus Watch thugs), on internal Iranian politics, what it's like belongi ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 19 11:32:04 PDT 2002

27622 ratting on profs -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >Anyone know what really happened in Montreal? > > >The War on Campus >by Daniel Pipes >New York Post >September 17, 2002 >http://www.danielpipes.org/article/465 > >Last week, two prominent Middle Easterners traveled to two North American >campuses to deliver speeches mainly about the Arab-Israeli conflict. Both >met protests. One succeeded in giving the speech; the other did not. Therein >hangs a tale. > >On Monday, former Israeli prime mi ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 19 10:47:59 PDT 2002

27623 some bear market -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - September 19, 2002 CECE Cord is a dog's best friend. The socialite ex-wife of Barry Cord and mother of uberhottie Elisabeth Kieselstein-Cord has launched a luxury line of clothing and accessories for pampered pups. The line, Travels with Tiger - named for her Yorkshire terrier - features $200 doggie sweaters, crocodile tote bags for $1,800 and pooch beds for up to $700. Cord's boutique opened on Bergdorf Goodman's seventh floor last Friday, and the stuff is flying off ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 19 07:36:10 PDT 2002

27624 Lefty Despair -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Self-criticism within an existing and coherent left, at least roughly >unified around both goals and strategy, is of course essential. >So-called "criticism" of THE LEFT (which doesn't exist) is not >self-criticism but selfconscious withdrawal in amused superiority to all >those folk struggling in adverse circumstances to create a left in which >self-criticism would be possible. It is either whining that others do >not recogize the superior wisdo ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 19 07:27:24 PDT 2002

27625 ratting on profs -- rank: 1000

[The "monitors'" web site is <http://www.campus-watch.org/>. Hamid Dabashi is supposed to be on my radio show this evening to talk about Iran.] Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - September 19, 2002 Web Site Lists Professors Accused of Anti-Israel Bias and Asks Students to Report on Them By SCOTT SMALLWOOD In an attempt to combat what it sees as anti-Israel bias in academe, the Middle East Forum has created a new Web site that lists faculty members it is monitoring and al ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 19 07:23:36 PDT 2002

27626 Anniversary -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The working class of the United States pay the costs of the Empire >while profits of the Empire are pocketed by the ruling class of the >world. I'll say it again - our poverty line is at the 98th percentile of the world income distribution. How's that fit into this exculpating picture? Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 19 07:18:17 PDT 2002

27627 Fwd: Meanwhile, in Somalia... -- rank: 1000

[also sent to me rather than the list] From: topp8564 at mail.usyd.edu.au Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 12:57:06 +1000 To: lbo-talk-digest <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com> Subject: Meanwhile, in Somalia... MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.0 With all the bruhaha about Iraq, what has happened to that other "ungovernable territorial entity," Somalia? Wasn't the point of taking over Afghanistan supposed to have been to stabilise these dens of terror ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 19 07:12:28 PDT 2002

27628 Anniversary -- rank: 1000

[This was sent to me rather than the list. THanks for the clarification.] topp8564 at mail.usyd.edu.au wrote: >On 19/9/02 6:23 AM, "lbo-talk-digest" <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com> >wrote: > >> If I was correctly informed, the extermination of the aboriginal >> population of Tasmania is the only case of successful total genocide >> in history. Do you deserve some retribution for this too? >> >> Doug > >Just a quick note ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 19 07:11:59 PDT 2002

27629 Fwd: Austrian Team Splits 'Ding-An-Sich' -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > Austrian Team Splits 'Ding-An-Sich' Too bad Stanley Aronowitz is running for governor of New York rather than editing Social Text! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 18 19:05:34 PDT 2002

27630 autonomist Marxism -- rank: 1000

Alec Ramsdell wrote: >A few days ago Doug mentioned that Tahir is an >autonomist Marxist. What are some distinguishing >characteristics of this autonomist Marxism? Sometimes people are prickly about these attributions. If so, Tahir, sorry. Just evoking a tendency - antistatist, antihierarchical, antiparty, pro the self-organizing activity of the working class. Here's a bit from Harry Cleaver's intro to his AM archive: <http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Cleaver/txarchintro.html>. ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 18 18:49:14 PDT 2002