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27856 enemies -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >I agree but no one seems to be complaining about the hard left >newsletter Counterpunch and its >echoes here. Wonder why. Hard left? Eh? Since when are serial flirtations with homophobia, anti-semitism, and anti-feminism, as well as the use of the phrase "fetus killers" qualifications for the hard left? And that's an ugly and stupid piece you forwarded. What are the editors thinking of these days? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 27 13:43:19 PST 2002

27857 Gore Vidal claims 'BUSH JUNTA' COMPLICIT IN 9/11 -- rank: 1000

Observer (London) - October 27, 2002 America's most controversial novelist calls for an investigation into whether the Bush administration deliberately allowed the terrorist attacks to happen by Sunder Katwala (Observer email editor) America's most controversial writer Gore Vidal has launched the most scathing attack to date on George W Bush's Presidency, calling for an investigation into the events of 9/11 to discover whether the Bush administration deliberately chose not to act on warning ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 27 13:36:43 PST 2002

27858 wow... -- rank: 1000

Hmm, lots of eventfulness over the last week it seems, including a visit from an alien! On a quick inspection, I see lots of ad hominems, which are tedious, and seem to have driven 5-10 people away. Can't we all just get along here, eh? Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 27 13:27:27 PST 2002

27859 Fwd: Dana Gioia? -- rank: 1000

X-From_: jktaber at tacni.net Sat Oct 26 14:33:54 2002 Reply-To: <jktaber at tacni.net> From: "John K. Taber" <jktaber at tacni.net> To: "'LBO List'" <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com> Subject: Dana Gioia? Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:32:57 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4920.2300 The papers report that the poet, Dana Gioia is Bush's choice to he ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 27 13:17:12 PST 2002

27860 (no subject) -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >We should be careful not to support fascism or oligarchy as a way to combat >imperialism. Speaking of which, saw a grafitto in Rome that said Ne' USA Ne' Islam (Neither USA Nor Islam), punctuated with a pitchfork-like logo. I'm guessing this was some neo- or crypto-fascist outfit. Anyone know? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 27 12:58:23 PST 2002

27861 A Tub for LBO-TALK -- rank: 1000

Downloading a bunch of messages, and I'm only up til Tuesday. How fascinating to return to Swiftian controversializing. I can't wait to discover What It All Means. Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 27 12:53:41 PST 2002

27862 off -- rank: 1000

Well gang, it's off for a honeymoon week in and around Florence. I'll probably check in once or twice from an internet cafe, but maybe not. I've secretly deputized a listmember to wield the disciplinary whip in case things go awry. Otherwise, may there be many spirited, productive, though fundamentally civilized disputes. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 20 10:03:42 PDT 2002

27863 new postings to website -- rank: 1000

Two freshly posted articles on the LBO website: * How To Default: A Primer. Written by pseudononymous investment banker Norman Strong, advice to middle-income debtor countries (e.g., Lula's Brazil?) on how to cut your debts and get away with it. <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/HowToDefault.html>. * The Telecoms Disaster, by former investment banker Nomi Prins. A review of one of the great bubbles of all time. <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Telecoms.html>. And new to the ra ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 20 09:57:51 PDT 2002

27864 Chomsky -- rank: 1000

By the way, would people hooked into Chomsky fan networks please circulate the availability of that interview? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 19 14:15:01 PDT 2002

27865 postings to radio archive -- rank: 1000

Freshly posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: Interviews from October 17, 2002 marathon special, The World According to W. Broadcast as a two-hour special, part of WBAI's fundraising marathon, a third of the show was taken up by begging for money, something web listeners wouldn't want to endure. So I've posted only the interviews with: TARIQ ALI and NOAM CHOMSKY, who (in separate interviews) put the impending war on Iraq in historical and strategic co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 19 14:13:51 PDT 2002

27866 Tomasky v Rosenbaum -- rank: 1000

[forwarded to me from Eric Alterman's blog] LOOK! STRAW MAN ON FIRE! [by Michael Tomasky] Rosenbaum went to an anti-war rally in Central Park a couple Saturdays ago and discovered, mirabile dictu, that a lot of the anti-American palaver he heard there was insipid, reflexive, and, worst of all, guilty of a grotesque tendency to see only America's evils and not those of al Qaida or Saddam or Joseph Stalin. So Ron says goodbye to all that, evoking the title of a famous 1929 memoir by Robert Graves ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 18 15:03:15 PDT 2002

27867 Hitch on Hardball -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >***** Human Rights Watch >Providing Bush with ammo for attack on Iraq > >By Heather Cottin She's the widow of Sean Gervasi, who was quite pro-Serb (until his death a few years ago). Sean had many virtues, and Heather did too as I rmeember her - I liked them quite a lot. But I just couldn't warm to Slobo. I see this was in Workers World. How sad. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 18 14:58:06 PDT 2002

27868 The Nation's circulation -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >The Nation's circulation is 123,000?! (according to >the audit bureau statement in the 10/8 issue). That's >very impressive. I had no idea it was that high; I >always thought it was in the mid-90s. The editors >must be doing something right. It bottomed out at the low 80s in the early Clinton years, then started rising, and then really started rising after W's coronation. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 18 14:20:21 PDT 2002

27869 Falwell causes riot -- rank: 1000

[missed this at first...] Washington Post - October 15, 2002 Christian Leaders' Remarks Against Islam Spark Backlash Anti-American Feelings Intensify in Muslim Countries By Alan Cooperman Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday,; Page A16 A recent series of disparaging remarks about Islam by the Rev. Jerry Falwell and other evangelical Christian leaders have sparked riots in India, helped religious parties win elections in Pakistan and undermined public sympathy in Islamic countries for the U.S. wa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 18 12:26:30 PDT 2002

27870 Towards a More Sex-Positive -- And More Relevant -- Left -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >If I were to operate in describing the mid-sixties as Doug and Lisa Liza, actually. You do go ballistic when someone misspells your name, as I recall. >operate in describing "the left" as it now exists, I would describe the >Civil Rights Movement as a bunch of seat-belt haters. That is, around >1966 several members of SCLC were in town fund-raising. I drove them >around town in my 1964 Plymouth, which had that newfangled device, >seatbelts. They al ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 18 12:23:24 PDT 2002