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28156 more on Islamism as 'new social movement' -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >the leftist habit of >reducing everything bad to "fascism." You mean a habit among a majority of leftists? A significant minority of leftists? I'm confused about what's the correct language when making sweeping claims about that entity which does not exist. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 15 10:44:34 PST 2002

28157 FW: next Absurd Response: 11/29 roving bake sale -- rank: 1000

Liza Featherstone wrote: >From: "L.A. Kauffman" <laklak at erols.com> >Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 12:18:20 -0500 >To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;> >Subject: next Absurd Response: 11/29 roving bake sale > >forward freely, and you'll get a cookie..... > >An Absurd Response to an Absurd War invites YOU to a >*Procession for Perma-War* and *Roving Bake Sale for >the Military* > >date: 11.29 (aka "Buy Nothing Day") >time: 4-6 pm >plac ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 15 10:39:35 PST 2002

28158 Baudrillard "weighs" in -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >You fell for it. "The Left" vs "Majority of Leftists." I don't know >whether my claim is verifiable or not -- it may be false. But it is a >concrete claim. Statements about "The Left" are unprincipled in nature. While you're at it, could you remind me of the theological consensus on how many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 15 09:39:49 PST 2002

28159 Sokal on Bogdonovs -- rank: 1000

I asked several headliners in the Sokal affair - Sokal himself, Stanley Aronowitz, Bruce Robbins, and Andrew Ross - to comment on the Bogdanovs maybe-hoax. Almost a week has passed; Robbins and Ross declined to comment, Aronowitz hasn't responded, and Sokal just filed this: > > Hello. I'm wondering if you have any comments on the Bogdanov affair. >> I love it that no one can tell if it's a hoax or not - so much for >> the more rigorous truth claims of hard science. > > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 15 09:43:01 PST 2002

28160 the Times reviews a critic -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> [Don't know if this book is any good, but MK's reactions to serious >> criticism of the U.S. sort of proves Hertsgaard's point.] >> >> > >Who is MK? The question was answered several lines below. >[Don't know if this book is any good, but MK's reactions to serious >criticism of the U.S. sort of proves Hertsgaard's point.] > >New York Times - November 15, 2002 > > >BOOKS OF THE TIMES | 'THE ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 15 09:38:12 PST 2002

28161 the Times reviews a critic -- rank: 1000

[Don't know if this book is any good, but MK's reactions to serious criticism of the U.S. sort of proves Hertsgaard's point.] New York Times - November 15, 2002 BOOKS OF THE TIMES | 'THE EAGLE'S SHADOW' Americans and Those in the World Who Resent Them By MICHIKO KAKUTANI -------------------------------------------------- THE EAGLE'S SHADOW Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World By Mark Hertsgaard 236 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $23. ---------------------------------------------- ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 15 08:41:15 PST 2002

28162 USG confirm activist "no-fly" list -- rank: 1000

I wonder - is the USG stupid enough to think that lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights are going to blow up airplanes, or is it just a way of harassing dissenters? My guess is the latter, but when you think back on declassified docs from the Red Scare days, you gotta wonder. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 15 08:23:37 PST 2002

28163 World Bank summary of Argentina news -- rank: 1000

============================================= Argentina Makes Partial Payment to World Bank ============================================= Argentina has defaulted on a debt repayment to the World Bank of more than $800 million that was due on Thursday, BBC News Online reports. "The World Bank today confirmed that it has received a partial payment of $79.2 million from the government of Argentina against a scheduled payment of $805 million," the World Bank said in a statement. The Bank s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 15 08:14:52 PST 2002

28164 more on Islamism as 'new social movement' -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >So if Marxism is the West, and Islamism is the West, and >postmodernism and modernism are the West, and of course >liberalism and capitalism are the West, what is the >not-West? Hey, as David Bowie put it in like 1975 or 1976, "the European planet is here." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 15 07:59:35 PST 2002

28165 Big Vic gets stuck in traffic -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - November 15, 2002 Straphanger MAYOR ("MetroCard Mike") Bloomberg didn't have any trouble arriving on time in the pouring rain Monday night at Daniel, where the literary crowd was honoring E.L. Doctorow with the Kenyon Review's first annual Literary Achievement Award. While such others as George Plimpton, Victor Navasky, Roger Rosenblatt and the New York Times' Judith Miller couldn't find cabs or got caught in traffic, Bloomberg rode uptown from City Hall on h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 15 07:50:24 PST 2002

28166 NYT eyeing FT? -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >Are you serious? I thought you might approve of a little injection of >hetero Amercian populism into that notoriously faggy British >snobbery you've been going on about. Eh? Was that an attempt at a joke, or have I been badly misunderstood? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 15 07:33:41 PST 2002

28167 Baudrillard "weighs" in -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >The main weakness of a huge majority >of individual leftists today Wait a minute. Isn't this just the sort of generalization you get all red-faced and huffy about when others make it? You get some free pass because of your age and wisdom? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 15 07:16:00 PST 2002

28168 Baudrillard "weighs" in -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >in any event, baudrillard is hardly the postmodernist i would choose >to dig in my heels about, as i tried to hint at. he seems to somehow >think of himself as the heir to bataille and the "postmodern" strain >opposing that represented by zizek. i know, i know, to a lot of you, >fights between baudrillard and zizek seem like dull or even annoying >squabbles among relatives, but still. No! B's a charlatan; Z's my intellectual hero! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 15 07:12:56 PST 2002

28169 USG confirm activist "no-fly" list -- rank: 1000

Grounded A federal agency confirms that it maintains an air-travel blacklist of 1,000 people. Peace activists and civil libertarians fear they're on it. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Dave Lindorff Salon.com Nov. 15, 2002 | Barbara Olshansky was in Newark International Airport at the JetBlue departure gate last March when an airline agent at the counter checking her boarding pass called airport security. Olshansky was subjected to a close search and then, though she was in view of other travelers, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 15 07:08:35 PST 2002

28170 Argentina defaults on World Bank debt -- rank: 1000

Argentina defaults with World Bank, IMF talks stall Thursday November 14, 7:34 pm ET By Mark Egan and Simon Gardner (updates with IMF statement, adds details throughout) WASHINGTON/BUENOS AIRES, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Argentina on Thursday defaulted on its World Bank debts, as last gasp talks to restart International Monetary Fund aid stalled over persistent fears that Buenos Aires cannot deliver on its promises. Argentine Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna personally delivered the bad news in Washing ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 14 16:51:06 PST 2002