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28186 Fwd: FW: shopping mall protests, Dec. 21 Solstice -- rank: 1000

[Wow, talk about well-crafted inteventions: 4 days before Xmas, invade shopping malls and chant "Stop the buying, stop the dying!" Do these people have tin ears or what?] Call to action for countrywide shopping mall protests on Winter Solstice, December 21, the last Saturday before Christmas http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/dec21 to stop getting these NYC event announcements: mailto:redscares at mindspring.com?subject=PleaseStop Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 To: nobloodforoil at lists.rise ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 13 13:23:20 PST 2002

28187 David Corn: troubling origins of the anti-war movement -- rank: 1000

Dddddd0814 at aol.com wrote: >Doug: >Huh? Does the name Robert Rubin mean anything to you? Who ran around >the world prying open capital markets? Contrast that with the >Bushies, who have no Wall Streeters of any consequence in the admin, >and a former industrialist at Treasury. > >David: >Huh? Does the name Paul Krugman mean anything to you? The term "insider >trading"? Whahahah? You're making no damn sense again. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 13 13:14:30 PST 2002

28188 does the U.S. know what it's doing in Iraq? -- rank: 1000

<http://hnn.us/articles/1091.html> History News Network - 11-11-02: News Abroad Has the Pentagon Consulted Enough Middle East Experts About Iraq? By William O. Beeman Mr. Beeman is director of Middle East Studies at Brown University. He has lived and conducted research in the Middle East and Central Asia for more than 30 years. U.S. interventions in Afghanistan and its contemplated interventions in Iraq will demand a depth of non-military historical, social and political expertise that the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 13 13:00:54 PST 2002

28189 David Corn: troubling origins of the anti-war movement -- rank: 1000

Dddddd0814 at aol.com wrote: >It just occurred to me what Jenny is trying to do in these posts. She is >trying to get wage workers to do her dirty-work for her, to do the practical, >analytical, and theoretical work necessary to justify the oppression of wage >workers in the eyes of the bourgeoisie. Historically, it has been the >oppressed who have taken up the cudgels to dutifully ease their oppressor's >consciousness, whether in the form of the minstrelsy of black slaves in ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 13 12:48:29 PST 2002

28190 biz leaders: war is not our biz -- rank: 1000

[This doesn't sound like the impulse to war is coming from big capital.] Reuters U.S. business leaders steer clear of war advice Wednesday November 13, 1:39 pm ET By Jim Wolf WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - A drawn-out war in Iraq would be rotten for the economy but U.S. companies have no business advising the government on a showdown with President Saddam Hussein, corporate titans told a business forum on Wednesday. "I can't foresee that a war with Iraq would be in any way good for business ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 13 11:42:18 PST 2002

28191 Greenspan: economy soft, not falling down -- rank: 1000

[Former Review of Radical Political Economics ed board member Bruce Steinberg got bounced during Merrill Lynch's last round of layoffs. His successor is quoted below.] Greenspan: Economy Soft, Not Falling Down 59 minutes ago By Glenn Somerville WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve (news - web sites) Chairman Alan Greenspan (news - web sites) said on Wednesday the U.S. economy was weighed down by worry over possible war and falling stock prices but not by dangerous imbalances that tended to her ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 13 11:38:39 PST 2002

28192 for Negri fans -- rank: 1000

<http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/13/100202> "Approximations: Towards an Ontological Definition of the Multitude" by Antonio Negri (Translated by Arianna Bove) 1) The multitude is the name of an immanence. The multitude is a whole of singularities. On these premises we can immediately begin to trace an ontological definition of what is left of reality once the concept of the people is freed from transcendence. [...]

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 13 10:25:23 PST 2002

28193 Ruy Teixeira on the elections -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >This guy is one of the very few psephologists I really respect. He'll be on my radio show tomorrow. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 13 11:00:45 PST 2002

28194 Lerner: condemn Palestinian terror -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:24:43 -0500 From: <RabbiLerner at tikkun.org> Subject: Condemn Palestinian Terror WHY WE MUST UNEQUIVOCALLY CONDEMN PALESTINIAN ACTS OF TERROR (and mourn the dead at Kibbutz Metzer) --Rabbi Michael Lerner The murder of five Israeli civilians at Kibbutz Metzer (a kibbutz famous for its cooperation with Palestinians and its support for peace) by a group affiliated with the military arm of Fatah (Yassir Arafat's branch of the Palestinian national liberation movement) ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 13 11:00:01 PST 2002

28195 Cook: the election was "over-interpreted" -- rank: 1000

OFF TO THE RACES Election 2002: No Tidal Wave By Charlie Cook Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2002 Perhaps the most pertinent question in American politics today is: What did last Tuesday's midterm elections really mean? In my judgment, the 2002 midterm election is one of the most over-interpreted, or perhaps even misinterpreted, elections I have ever seen. I should add that my strong competitor and close friend Stu Rothenberg, editor and publisher of the Rothenberg Political Report, feels very much the same. ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 13 10:34:40 PST 2002

28196 academic freedom at Stanford -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of HIgher Education - web daily - November 13, 2002 Stanford Law School Withdraws 'Mentor' Title From Lawyer Facing Charges of Aiding Terrorists By KATHERINE S. MANGAN A defense lawyer indicted on charges of helping her client direct terrorist activities from jail may not serve as a mentor for Stanford University law students, the law school's dean has announced in a decision that has angered some students. The dean, Kathleen M. Sullivan, said that the head of the law school's public-i ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 13 10:21:37 PST 2002

28197 academic freedom at Harvard -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - November 13, 2002 Harvard U.'s English Department Cancels Lecture by Poet Who Has Strongly Criticized Israel By MEGAN ROONEY Harvard University's English department has canceled a lecture planned for Thursday by Tom Paulin, an award-winning poet and professor at the University of Oxford, after complaints from students and faculty members about Mr. Paulin's political views, particularly his harsh critiques of Israel. Mr. Paulin, who grew up in Belfast, ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 13 10:20:36 PST 2002

28198 "a lot of world to subjugate" (from www.maxspeak.org) -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >This maybe true, but I doubt it. If it is it would be thanks to Osama. >People seem to forget that Bush repeatedly said he was against >nation-building during the 2000 campaign and Rumsfeld echoed >this up until September 2001. And what nation-building are they doing in Afg? A few hundred mill in aid, a "shambolic puppet government" (as Anatol Lieven put it in his interview with me last week) that controls a couple of cities, and whole regions under the con ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 13 10:28:21 PST 2002

28199 Anarchism Defined? (was Re: Village Voice: Abandon Democrats and join the anarchists) -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >We could learn a lot from the Jehovah Witnesses. And they sure do the door >knocking I think the left should do more of. But it's weird and cultlike and they believe a load of nonsense. Do you want to be more like tthat? Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 13 09:55:02 PST 2002

28200 ho-hum, 4m dead -- rank: 1000

[this is the entirety of the story - evidently Post editors don't think it merits much more coverage] New York Post - November 13, 2002 4 MILLION LIVES AT STAKE LONDON - A war against Iraq could escalate into a nuclear conflict that would kill nearly 4 million people and have catastrophic health and environmental consequences, medical experts said yesterday. "The need to ensure that Iraq is disarmed of its weapons does not warrant a war," said Gill Reeve, the assistant director of Meda ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 13 06:26:35 PST 2002