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27946 US Out of Everywhere -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The Left has an overwhelmingly negative agenda, especially on foreign >policy, when what is most desperately needed is a positive agenda of global >justice. ...no small part of which would be served by getting the U.S. out of X. Yes, things are more complicated than that - you've got junior and regional imperialists, from the EU to Israel to South Africa, you've got financial markets, you've got all kinds of other forces. But where would global finance be without t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 9 10:17:28 PDT 2002

27947 US used CBW on its own people! -- rank: 1000

[So it's not just Saddam who poisons "his own people"...] New York Post - October 9, 2002 U.S. REVEALS '60S BIO, CHEM TESTS The United States staged open-air biological- and chemical- weapons tests in Alaska, Hawaii, Maryland and Florida during the 1960s in an effort to develop defenses against such weapons, according to Pentagon documents obtained yesterday. The tests, conducted from 1965 to '67, used artillery shells and bombs filled with the nerve agents sarin and VX, the records sh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 9 09:42:45 PDT 2002

27948 Bush Threatens Veto of Defense Bill -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Had the Labor Party acted more quickly and aggressively while the US >economy was still in the middle of the boom, we might be facing a >different political landscape today, but it's too late to mourn the >missed opportunity. Whether we like it or not, we are in for hard >times, perhaps even a hard landing. It's time for the Labor Party >to reassess its strategy, confronting the reality of the empire, or >else it will not have any political future. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 9 09:37:00 PDT 2002

27949 economics Nobel -- rank: 1000

[guess they ran out of Chicago faculty to give 'em to - besides, there seems to be an ideological shift away from laissez faire over the last 5-6 years (Sen, Vickrey, Stiglitz...)] Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - October 9, 2002 Nobel in Economics Goes to 2 Americans Who Brought Markets Into the Lab By DAVID GLENN Two Americans have been awarded this year's Nobel in economic science for separate work that brought experimental methods to bear on economic behavior. Daniel Kahneman, of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 9 09:15:27 PDT 2002

27950 "Jobless get their own reality TV show" -- rank: 1000

Brian O. Sheppard x349393 wrote: >Jobless get their own reality TV show Our old friend Mencken said something like there comes a time in every man's life where he feels like rolling up his sleeves, hoisting the black flag, and slitting throats. I think this is one of those times. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 8 21:25:25 PDT 2002

27951 The Corn-Fed Empire Re: Food for thought -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >In all fairness, I know some Germans who are hippo-like in their girth. I've only been in Bremen, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, and Munich, but I never saw anything like U.S. levels of girth. With all that pork and potatoes and beer they consume in Munich, I was amazed by their trimness. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 8 20:44:15 PDT 2002

27952 Bush Threatens Veto of Defense Bill -- rank: 1000

JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: >Why change our rhetoric every four or eight years? I favor raising >expectations no matter who's in power. You do gotta change with the times. Business cycle, party, what's above the fold in the paper... Not wildly nor without principle, but you can't keep to the same rhetorical line or you'll sound like the ghost of Sam Marcy. >That said, yes, my experience with organizing for the Labor Party is that >when the dems are in power, people can see that the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 8 20:31:12 PDT 2002

27953 Americans think 1 in 5 of Americans are gay -- rank: 1000

GLAAD News Pop October 8, 2002 NEW GALLUP POLL SAYS AMERICANS THINK 1 IN 5 ARE GAY In its Oct. 8th "Tuesday Briefing," the Gallup Organization released the results of its August 2002 poll revealing that Americans estimate that approximately 20% of the general population is gay or lesbian. Over the 25 years that the Gallup Organization has monitored public opinion of gays and lesbians, they have found a continual rise in public acceptance of the LGBT community. Gallup, one of the most r ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 8 18:30:58 PDT 2002

27954 The Corn-Fed Empire Re: Food for thought -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Americans will never be slim and wholesome unless they manage to >pull off a feat beyond a mere "regime change" here: the overthrow of >the capitalist world empire > >Now that is some serious rhetorical overkill! Why is it that people in the other imperialist countries aren't so fat? Is it just being top dog imperialist that produces massive corpulence? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 8 18:25:13 PDT 2002

27955 our old friend Cooper -- rank: 1000

X-From_: philion at hawaii.edu Tue Oct 8 20:12:08 2002 From: "steve philion" <philion at hawaii.edu> To: <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: doug, this is the post Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 19:12:08 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Doug, could you forward this on for me? i can' t seem to get it thru... I wanted to throw in my two cents on Cooper's article, Cooper wrote: So why is the left hav ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 8 18:22:04 PDT 2002

27956 my pal Pete -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >At 05:26 PM 10/08/2002 -0400, you wrote: >>President Bush has taken on a >>specific role that makes it his duty to protect and further the >>interests of Americans. Other countries have their leaders, with >>similar roles in respect to the interests of their fellow citizens. >> >>There is no world political community, and as long as that situation >>prevails, we must have nation-states, and the leaders of those >>nation-stat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 8 17:57:41 PDT 2002

27957 DP will love this!!!!!!!! -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >Dennis will love this...I went to the Harvard website that >sees if China is filtering out certian webpages. > >Doug, you'll be happy to know that Left Business Observer >can be read freely in China. The Chinese edition of Wall Street was published by a house close to the Ministry of Finance. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 8 14:43:35 PDT 2002

27958 Bush Threatens Veto of Defense Bill -- rank: 1000

Steven Hertzberg wrote: >On the same day that Bush spoke to the Nation on Iraq, he threatens to >Veto the $380B defense authorization bill that will pay for that war... >seems Bushie doesn't want to pay for new pension benefits for disabled >military retirees. What a shit. I must make a public confession: he is worse than Gore, and by more than a trivial margin. Zizek says in his Lenin book that one should only make the argument that there's no difference between the two parties (two ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 8 14:18:27 PDT 2002

27959 My pal Pete... -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >Oh sure...tease us with a subscription only link.... > >On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 16:37:54 -0700 > "Luke Weiger" <lweiger at umich.edu> wrote: >> ...seems to agree with me regarding the proper limits of >> national >> sovereignty. He must've missed Justin's sophisticated >> defense on rule >> utilitarian grounds :) >> > > http://chronicle.com/weekly/v49/i07/07b00701.htm Chronicle Review - October 11, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 8 14:11:28 PDT 2002

27960 filibuster -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >What would Wayne Morse do? Ah, Wayne "Kicked In The Head By A Horse" Morse, as the Daily News editpage used to call him. Any time people are tempted to feel nostalgic about the 60s, it pays to remember: 1) most Americans believed the government wouldn't lie to them, 2) anyone who opposed imperialist war was viciously red-baited, 3) and it wasn't until fairly late in the decade there was a large antiwar movement. Now, lots of people don't believe the government ( ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 8 14:07:50 PDT 2002