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28291 Fw: David Corn: troubling origins of the anti-war movement -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >I am not sure I understand. Let me say this: I have >no problems with participating in a demonstration >where WWP is active. I do have problems in >participating in a demonstration LED by Workers World >Party. It may have been organized by WWP, but it became far larger than that. The more non-WWP people that are there, the less it is a WWP event. It's not like you have to carry a portrait of Sam Marcy to march. The SWP had a big hand in organizing anti-Vietn ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 1 13:33:47 PST 2002

28292 Fw: David Corn: troubling origins of the anti-war movement -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >My point was, of course, that it does not matter that >you call yourself Left or Right, if you support >oppression, totalitarianism, etc: a rose is a rose is >a rose. So why not the same common standard for being opposed to imperial war? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 1 11:01:15 PST 2002

28293 Wolfie in NYC -- rank: 1000

World Bank pres James Wolfensohn will be speaking at a synagogue on the Upper West Side of Mannhattan this coming Wednesday, Nov 6, at 7 PM. It's at the sancutary of the Congregation B'nai Jeshurun <http://www.bj.org>, 257 W. 88th St. The Wolfie info as at <http://www.bj.org/upcoming.html#Wolfenson>. All welcome, it says. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 1 10:41:24 PST 2002

28294 Fw: David Corn: troubling origins of the anti-war movement -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >As the article makes clear, Corn is reflecting a lot of activists views who >debated endlessly whether they would even attend the event because of its >dominance by the WWP. One problem is that the party structure allows for prompt and effective organizing, while the "activists" you refer to belong to many organizations that don't necessarily talk to each other, and many anarchists might have problems chartering a bus. Into that vacuum steps the WWP. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 1 10:11:04 PST 2002

28295 Doonsebury in Iraq -- rank: 1000

<http://www.doonesbury.ucomics.com/strip/dailydose/index.cfm?uc_full_date=20021028&uc_comic=db&uc_daction=X> and subesquent...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 1 09:58:27 PST 2002

28296 Steve P vs. Chris H -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >The right is exactly the same way, BTW. We didn't hear their plans about >what they'd do the day after until they'd clearly gotten past the halfway >point of getting us into war. I think I've mentioned this before, but in the run-up to the first Gulf War, I interviewed ex-CIA director Stansfield Turner on the radio. (Somehow, the late WBAI program director Samori Marksman had gotten friendly with Turner, and he was a frequent guest on Samori's show. In this case, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 1 09:44:55 PST 2002

28297 80% of straight men have pretended to be gay! -- rank: 1000

Gay.com U.K., October 31, 2002 http://uk.gay.com/news/7240 80% Of Straight Men Have Faked Being Gay At Some Point, Says Survey Apparently 80 per cent of heterosexual men have admitted to pretending to be gay at some point in their lives in order to achieve something of benefit, according to a survey. When respondents were asked to explain situations where a "benefit" may occur from pretending to be gay, popular answers included gaining preferable seats or upgrades when checking in for ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 1 09:29:47 PST 2002

28298 TAP: not dead yet -- rank: 1000

["staunchy liberal"? - isn't that an oxymoron?] Boston Globe - November 1, 2002 Former Globe publisher takes magazine post By Mark Jurkowitz, Globe Staff, Globe Columnist, 11/1/2002 The American Prospect magazine - on the eve of a redesign and restructuring of its publication schedule - announced yesterday that former Globe publisher Benjamin Taylor will become the executive editor of the staunchly liberal journal of politics and culture. The decision to appoint Taylor was based on ''h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 1 09:06:23 PST 2002

28299 Pat Buchanan, apologist for terror -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >Am I missing something here, Doug? Far from being an apologist for >terror, Buchanan is arguing against it. That was a joke. You know, to explain is to excuse. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 31 21:33:55 PDT 2002

28300 Sandusky, Ohio -- Paris, Texas -- Etc. Re: Chomsky News Network -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Doug could totally live in San Francisco, and he knows it. All those damn hills. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 31 17:17:46 PDT 2002

28301 Pat Buchanan, apologist for terror -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >So is anyone else creeped out by the fact that the self-styled >"Progressive Review" is promoting the quasi-fascist xenophobe Pat >Buchanan along with a link to the whacko-right World Net Daily? > >So we oppose empire by being apologists for racism, sexism, >heterosexism, and antisemitism? Details, details, Chip. Sam Smith, proprietor of the Prog Rev, is...quirky. He, Pat, and Gore Vidal have many points in common. The WSJ editpage's site, OpinionJ ...

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Date:	Fri May 31 15:26:51 PDT 2002

28302 Pat Buchanan, apologist for terror -- rank: 1000

At 4:43 PM -0400 5/31/02, PROGRESSIVE REVIEW wrote: >Patrick J. Buchanan, world net daily - The price of empire is terror. The >price of occupation is terror. The price of interventionism is terror . . . >Before, not after, the next terror attack on this country, America's leaders >should start telling the truth: Evil though they may be, Islamic killers are >over here because we are over there. They are not trying to kill us because >they dislike our domestic politics, but beca ...

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Date:	Fri May 31 14:45:45 PDT 2002

28303 a list -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Was D.W. Winnicott the London psychoanalyst who was raked over the coals >by a former patient a year or so ago in the LRB? He was a London psychoanalyst, yes. The LRB doesn't have the article - by the economist Wynne Godley, of all people - on its website, but from some subsequent letters it seems that the piece was mainly about Masud Khan, to whom Godley was referred by Winnicott. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 31 14:44:37 PDT 2002

28304 How Great We Are -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >for all the yakking about races to the bottom Speaking of which, what is the evidence that "globalization" is actually resulting in that, despite frequent claims that it is. Where are wages actually falling? Doug

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Date:	Fri May 31 14:33:40 PDT 2002

28305 How Great We Are -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >At 04:35 PM 5/31/2002 -0400, Doug asks: >>Ok, Max, how do you run a welfare state that anyone could walk in >>and claim benefits in? > > >European Union does it, no? How welcoming would they be if a million Poles and Turks sauntered in looking for a dole check and free healthcare? Doug

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Date:	Fri May 31 14:30:41 PDT 2002