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27871 Hitch on Hardball -- rank: 1000

Christian Gregory wrote: >I was just assuming, perhaps wrongly, that if, say oil were no longer invoiced >in dollars and ME countries no longer recycled their current account surpluses >in US instruments, that could crimp Americans' styles seriously. Do you think >that if the US were no longer clearly dominant power in the ME that oil prices >and supplies wouldn't be seriously changed or disturbed? No short or medium >term volatility? There's a war premium in oil prices right n ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 18 12:19:35 PDT 2002

27872 Hitch on Hardball -- rank: 1000

Christian Gregory wrote: >To be fair, though, JB does just use a kind of reckless "they" in making these >charges, as Hitch does. It's all the more contradictory for a student of >Derrida, who is supposed to be about rigor and attention to detail. And it was >most appalling to me b/c she would put everyone from Greider and you to Nancy >Fraser into bed with Alan Sokal, which seems to me a bit much. The nuts at >Syracuse and SUNY okay, but you? . . . That was reckless ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 18 11:57:22 PDT 2002

27873 Hitch on Hardball -- rank: 1000

Christian Gregory wrote: >The problem for the American left is that any policy that doesn't maintain or >enhance the US' hegemonic position in the region will imply serious downside >effects for just about every American--short and medium term. What do you have in mind? A retreat would probably lower the chances of violence against us, and wouldn't have much effect on oil prices either. What's the danger, if you're not an ExxonMobil or Lockheed Martin shareholder? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 18 11:41:46 PDT 2002

27874 Hitch on Hardball -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Was Hitchens pushed or did he jump from the Nation? It was obviously a case >of both, as the immediate excommunication he suffered shows. Excommunication? By whom? Almost everyone on the Nation masthead except Alexander "Dwarf Tosser" Cockburn was sad to see him go. He was never in the least censored, either. Hitchens is the one who's being nasty to his former colleagues and comrades. I've invited him to be on the radio several times, but he doesn't answer ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 18 11:26:50 PDT 2002

27875 Hitch on Hardball -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >This is exactly what I've been saying for years about Judith Butler's >NLR article. It also applies to most of what appears on this list in the >guise of left self-criticism. What part, the dour, humorless part? One could assemble some of your own posts into a proof text for that, or pick up an issue of Z. And as for Butler's criticisms, you mean to tell me there are no Marxists who think that feminism and the gay/lesbian movement are diversion from the real struggle, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 18 11:21:57 PDT 2002

27876 Hitch on Hardball -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Is Lapham wrong. bin Laden will pass. He may even be dead now. The >Ashcroft madness may be much harder to reverse. Noam was telling Doug >yesterday about the hard won victories for more enlightened policies in >the US, yet Ashcroft can extinguish them. To be fair, Noam also said that was very unlikely for people like him & me, as he put it. For the vulnerable - immigrants and Taliban non-POWs - things are dire. But for mainstream Americans, he though ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 18 11:17:50 PDT 2002

27877 Hitch on Hardball -- rank: 1000

philion at hawaii.edu wrote: >I'd also note, in addition to Doug's comments on Hitch's bizarre take >on the left and Kurds that his argument that the left argued that Bin >Laden was a worthy revolutionary is also loopy at best and outright >false at worst. The rightward turn seems to do wonders to seriousness >in argument....What's notable is that Matthews and the mainstream media >don't see anything wrong with making that assertion with no evidence to >back it up... Yeah, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 18 10:01:09 PDT 2002

27878 Hitch on Hardball -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Of course you are misreading me since I sure don't think this administration >has a good-faith vision of peace and democracy in the region. So yes, a >postive vision has to come from somewhere other than DC. My complaint is >that the Left is failing at providing that vision, instead relying on >negativity, which is why they are so irrelevant to the debate. As Hitchens >notes, if the mainstream and rightwing antiwar folks were not articulating a >stro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 18 09:57:14 PDT 2002

27879 Hitch on Hardball -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Why do I get the feeling that Hitchens isn't talking about Chomsky, but >instead is talking about 'al the rest' ...? Shouldn't he pick on people his own size? Besides, he did hammer Chomsky pretty hard after 9/11. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 18 09:34:59 PDT 2002

27880 Hitch on Hardball -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: >(Thanks for the good show yesterday, the woman from Clark >whose names escapes me at the moment was quite good too.) You're welcome, and thanks. She's Cynthia Enloe. Sadly, she didn't make the pledge phones ring - the response was OK, but not great. Tariq was a bit better - and Noam made the phones ring off the hook. I should have started him at 5:15 and drawn it out even more. One of the pledge-takers came in and said, "I don't know what you did, but all of a sudden the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 18 09:33:56 PDT 2002

27881 Hitch on Hardball -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Have to say, I still have great sympathy for what Hitchens is saying about >too much antiwar rhetoric lacking new analysis, his point that the Kurds >barely get mentioned by the antiwar left being spot on. In the interviews I did with Tariq Ali and Noam Chomsky for yesterday's radio show - which will be up on the web, if all goes well, this afternoon - both mentioned the treatment of the Kurds, and both denounced both Saddam and Osama as monsters. These are two ic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 18 08:24:28 PDT 2002

27882 Hitch on Hardball -- rank: 1000

[what a performance... and what a transcription...] MATTHEWS: "Vanity Fair" columnist and author Christopher Hitchens latest book is called "Why Orwell Matters." Celebrating his departure from "The Nation," the "New York Observer" columnist Ron Roosevelt recently announced he too was disillusioned with the left, writing quote, good bye to a culture of blindness that tolerates this part of peace marches, women wearing suicide bomber belts as bikinis. Good b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 18 07:42:39 PDT 2002

27883 Another Anti-American Subversives List -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I have found a new goal in life! I must get my name on this list! Me too. Damn. I'm so disappointed. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 17 08:46:37 PDT 2002

27884 Radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

Today I'm doing a two-hour special radio show, as part of WBAI's fundraising marathon. So, please listen, and if you're so moved, please pledge during my time slot, to impress the higher-ups. And, it's going to be a good program: * TARIQ ALI and NOAM CHOMSKY (in separate interviews) put the impending war on Iraq in historical and strategic context - what Bush is after, how it relates to long-standing U.S. policies, relations between the U.S. and its allies, and what might be next on the agenda. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 17 08:22:49 PDT 2002

27885 call centers -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Wed Oct 16 09:27:59 PDT 2002