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27826 Bush: sports or war only, please -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/29/politics/29PLAN.html> New York Times - October 29, 2002 Peace and Political Status at 39,000 Feet By ELISABETH BUMILLER ASHINGTON, Oct. 28 - Before President Bush boards Air Force One, his staff makes sure that the jumbo jet's televisions are tuned to ESPN or anything other than the relentless bleat of cable news. Otherwise, Mr. Bush might spot an offending CNN or Fox news crawl and demand, as he has in the past, "Who turned that on?" Sometimes ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 29 10:18:00 PST 2002

27827 18 ways to hate your neighbor -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Incredibly bloody is a history of humankind - so why Europe or any other >natios should be thought to be different? When it's Europeans, it's just humankind. When it's black Americans, it's a culture of violence promoted by Hollywood. That's kind of creepy, Wojtek. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 29 10:13:04 PST 2002

27828 US developing germ bombs -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - October 29, 2002 US weapons secrets exposed Julian Borger in Washington Respected scientists on both sides of the Atlantic warned yesterday that the US is developing a new generation of weapons that undermine and possibly violate international treaties on biological and chemical warfare. The scientists, specialists in bio-warfare and chemical weapons, say the Pentagon, with the help of the British military, is also working on "non-lethal" weapons similar to the narc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 29 09:15:47 PST 2002

27829 NYT photog staged shot of kid with toy pistol -- rank: 1000

Newsday - October 29, 2002 New York Times Photographer Staged News Picture By James T. Madore Staff Writer The New York Times acknowledged Friday that one of its staff photographers violated journalism ethics and company policy when he had a child pose for a news photograph that was published last month in some of the paper's editions. The controversial picture shows a 6-year-old boy aiming a toy pistol alongside a sign reading "Arabian Foods" outside a store in Lackawanna, N.Y., a sub ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 29 09:11:17 PST 2002

27830 appeal -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >With Doug's permission, I'm taking the liberty of making the following >appeal. Hey Carl, mailing checks a week before the election is a slow way to transfer funds. Why not set up a Paypal account with your email address <galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>? Takes only a few minutes, and transfers are very quick. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 29 09:08:23 PST 2002

27831 Antiwar Protest Largest Since '60s -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >And look at the date of that assessment -- different time, different mindset >completely. And there was still the "Crisis of Democracy" wailing to come >after Vietnam. > >I highly doubt that a bunch of pro-North Korean dicks spouting clichés at >outdoor events rattles the quo all that much. Dennis, have you been to any of these marches or demos? Yeah, there are the usual sectarian hacks, but there are also all kinds of other people too. And the m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 29 09:06:04 PST 2002

27832 Antiwar Protest Largest Since '60s -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >Do they have any effect? They disturb the bourgeoisie. They're a break in the everyday, and fill our rulers with an anxiety that things might slip out of hand. There's a quote in the famous early 1970s McCracken report on inflation done for the OECD which I must track down again that made it clear that "inflation" also meant crowds in the streets and the palpable feeling that the ruling class was losing control. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 29 08:47:33 PST 2002

27833 18 ways to hate your neighbor -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >A cheap shot from the hip. Of course it was a cheap shot. It was from the eXile, and it was satire. But really, Woj, you're not denying that Europe has an incredibly bloody history based on all kinds of national and ethnic conflicts. And Europe now is obsessed with its own internal purity - keeping out refugees and immigrants. As Robert Hayden said in my interview with him <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Hayden.html>: >What has triumphed in Europe in th ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 29 08:25:04 PST 2002

27834 Anderson weighs in -- rank: 1000

Christian Gregory wrote: > > Peter Gowan is the guy who holds the bizarre >belief that at the start of 1997 Larry Summers and Bob Rubin plotted out the >Asia crisis in >order to destroy the "Asian model" of development? > >Where did he say that? I recall that his argument about the US interest in the >crises of the 70's and 80's made it seem as if they knew what they were doing >all along--ie that 1982 was mapped out in 1971. (I could be misremembering, > ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 29 08:18:48 PST 2002

27835 Antiwar Protest Largest Since '60s -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Come on-- the point of big DC rallies is to get media attention. Not entirely. It's to remind the elite who live & work there that there are lots of people who disagree strongly with what they're up to. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 28 20:45:11 PST 2002

27836 18 ways to hate your neighbor -- rank: 1000

<http://exile.ru/151/1510101113.html> 18 Ways to Hate Your Neighbour Europe 's Lesson To The World The Europeans have turned against America in the War On Terror. They believe that Americans don't understand a thing about the world. That Americans are ignorant, shallow and drunk with military might. In such a people's hands, all that weaponry and the willingness to use it poses a greater danger to the world, or more specifically to Europe, than even Osama bin Laden. America's handling of I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 28 14:32:42 PST 2002

27837 Fwd: You can now have a Radical Society! -- rank: 1000

X-From_: editors at radicalsociety.org Thu Oct 24 08:46:16 2002 Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 05:46:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Radical Society <editors at radicalsociety.org> Subject: You can now have a Radical Society! To: editors at radicalsociety.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Radical Society is a fresh attempt at grappling with serious issues -- a political magazine that breaks through discussions of social movements, political strategies, foreign policy, economics, and culture with clarity, dash, humor, a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 28 16:29:33 PST 2002

27838 Hitchens in the Post -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >I think this probably has a lot more to do with economic inequality than >institutionalized racism. 1) If it weren't for institutionalized racism, why would there be any correlation between race and income, and 2) black people aren't seven times as poor as white people. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 28 20:39:01 PST 2002

27839 Anderson weighs in -- rank: 1000

Jeet Heer wrote: >It is true that Perry Anderson and his intellectual allies (notably Peter >Gowan), repeatedly emphasize how powerful the US is and play up the weakness >of any real or potential opposition to US hegemony. It might be interesting >to speculate why they are so fixated on the power of the US. In his long and >very interesting article on Eric Hobsbawm, which just ran over 2 issues of >the LRB, Anderson argues that during the Cold War the left repeatedly >under- ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 28 07:47:53 PST 2002

27840 Lieberman: the hell with the UN -- rank: 1000

New York Post - October 28, 2002 LIEBERMAN: WE DON'T NEED U.N. By VINCENT MORRIS WASHINGTON - A leading Democrat yesterday urged President Bush to get tough with the United Nations, saying that the United States should go it alone on Iraq if France and other countries drag their feet. Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) said it was "really very disappointing" that the United Nations has taken six weeks to debate a resolution on using force against Saddam Hussein. "I think that the admini ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 28 07:56:00 PST 2002