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27901 FW: BOYCOTT!!! -- rank: 1000

I never quite got this kind of boycott. Is there a good oil company? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 14 07:35:32 PDT 2002

27902 Bush admin pulling visas of Marxist intellectuals -- rank: 1000

[This is from the excellent Turkish political economist Sungur Savran, who's been a guest on my radio show twice. Please spread far & wide.] Dear Friends, This is a circular letter aiming to warn friends living in the US about the treatment meted out to Dr.Haluk Gerger, one of the foremost Marxist intellectuals and human rights activists of Turkey, by the Bush administration and the INS. This incident is even graver than that experienced by Tariq Ali at the beginning of this year as he was f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 11 15:02:38 PDT 2002

27903 Economics of menstruation. -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >"We were not surprised by the findings," said Cumming. Wow. If that name appeared in a novel, you'd say it was contrived. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 11 14:46:26 PDT 2002

27904 abortion -- rank: 1000

I'm hoping the additional posts on abortion were just in the pipeline when I issued my call to desist. This is not productive controversy, nor terribly relevant at the moment, given the imminence of war. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 11 13:09:42 PDT 2002

27905 Iraq's oil -- rank: 1000

Ulhas Joglekar wrote: >King of Iraq? Some foreign policy analysts here are wondering if Iraq would >survive as a single unified entity. Would Kurds accept autonomy with the >framework of Iraqi state? Dunno. You'll have to ask the Bush admin. Note the word "Kurd" doesn't appear in the following story. Note the words "control the second largest proven reserves of oil in the world" do. Doug ---- New York Times - October 11, 2002 U.S. Has a Plan to Occupy Iraq, Officials ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 11 11:19:20 PDT 2002

27906 Iraq's oil -- rank: 1000

Ulhas Joglekar wrote: >American oilmen insist that any new regime would tear up existing contracts. >After all, they were signed by a ruthless tyrant with companies eager to >keep him in office. Why would any democratic Iraqi government, especially >one brought to power by America's efforts, honour them? The head of the >Iraqi National Congress, an umbrella opposition group, has openly declared >that "American companies will have a big shot at Iraqi oil"-if he gets to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 11 09:54:47 PDT 2002

27907 abortion -- rank: 1000

I don't really think a debate on abortion would be very productive. It's well-trod ground and minds won't be changed. There's a lot more going on right now that's new and challenging to think and talk about. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 11 09:47:49 PDT 2002

27908 interview questions? -- rank: 1000

I'm doing a three-hour special this Thursday for the WBAI fundraiser, focusing on the Bush admin's lust to remake the Middle East. I've lined up interviews, which I'll record early in the week, with Tariq Ali and Noam Chomsky, and I think I've got Cynthia Enloe signed up too. Two questions: 1) any suggestions on what I should ask them, and 2) any suggestions on another guest or two (another woman would be very nice). Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 11 09:37:52 PDT 2002

27909 abortion -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >If the Left continues to draw out the implication of its principles, it >will discover the marginalization of the unborn and unwanted as for >example it discovered the marginalization of women in the first and second >waves of feminism in the 19th and 20th centuries. For most of human history, including most of Catholic Church history, no one thought there was anything problematic about abortion. It wasn't until a 19th century pope and a U.S. medical lobby kee ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 11 08:43:34 PDT 2002

27910 Fwd: Hillary sit-in report -- rank: 1000

From: "L.A. Kauffman" <laklak at erols.com> Subject: Hillary sit-in report Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 23:35:28 -0400 October 10, 2002 / forward freely Today a group of six people, predominantly NYU students, staged a nine-hour sit-in at the New York City office of Senator Hillary Clinton. They entered her office demanding that she sign a statement opposing the war in Iraq; by the time the day was through, she had done very much the opposite, voting to support Bush's war resolution in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 10 20:43:08 PDT 2002

27911 Fwd: Connie Chung: Skeptical of Skepticism -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Mike Thompson was a student of mine. He also helped me maintain my >tractor. His wife babysat for us. Oh wow, I'm gonna tell fox news! Congressman brainwashed by orgo-eating, bike-riding red professor! So what are his politics like? Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 10 19:17:59 PDT 2002

27912 Bush Threatens Veto of Defense Bill -- rank: 1000

John K. Taber wrote: >It's like Theory X and Theory Y. X managers say get the work out >of me by kicking my ass. Let him fear us. Y managers say, no treat >him nice (within limits) and get more work out of him because >he will want to. > >So, which is better, being treated a little better but working >harder, or being treated worse and not working so much? > >I used to think Theory Y, but now I'm not so sure. Yeah, but political parties have constituencies. Both X and ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 10 19:14:43 PDT 2002

27913 Fwd: Stay Free! | attn: NYC and LA people -- rank: 1000

X-From_: carrie at stayfreemagazine.org Thu Oct 10 21:51:15 2002 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: carrie at mail.stayfreemagazine.org Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:44:04 -0400 To: Carrie McLaren <carrie at stayfreemagazine.org> From: Carrie McLaren <carrie at stayfreemagazine.org> Subject: Stay Free! | attn: NYC and LA people Hello. Whatever you think of Michael Moore the man, his new movie, Bowling for Columbine, ROCKS. It opens this weekend and his distributors will decide how many theater ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 10 18:58:17 PDT 2002

27914 Montana gay hairdresser flap -- rank: 1000

Billings (Montana) Gazette - October 10, 2002 Taylor quits Senate race in Montana By JIM GRANSBERY of The Billings Gazette staff and Associated Press State Sen. Mike Taylor, Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, will withdraw from the race this afternoon, saying a Montana Democratic Party television ad has destroyed his campaign. Taylor said at a press conference in Helena that the ad, which he said insinuated that he was a gay hairdresser, had pushed his poll numbers through the floor. Alth ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 10 17:47:10 PDT 2002

27915 Decline of American Power? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >If the extravagances of the Bush Administration drive radicals back to >the embrace of an illusory "progressive wing" of the DP there will be no >resistance to the next offensive of capital either. It's an empirical fact that a liberal government makes it easier to do radical politics. It's generally less repressive and less likely to scare the working class and dissidents, but very limited in the good things it can do, which makes the limits of the system m ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 10 16:40:39 PDT 2002