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28321 Anti-americanism is a fool's anti-imperialism -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >See, I think Chomsky should have declined. Why? I'm with Gore Vidal on this - you never refuse an invitation to have sex or be on TV. The TV audience is so big and varied, and you never know whom you'll reach with even just one sentence. You think up your soundbite or three and work them in regardless of the question and hope for the best. Sure there are massive constraints, but there's so much potential that you can't turn down an invitation from CNN. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 31 08:32:02 PDT 2002

28322 Bashing Al Sharpton (Was: Re: Chomsky News Network) -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Is there anyone who does not believe "the very worst" about the >Brawley affair? I didn't know that Sharpton had any defenders on >that--anyone who would say anything but, "That was a long time ago; >he's changed..." The Transition interview is very impressive, but I'm kind of a Sharpton fan anyway. The guy is very smart, and lots of white liberals and leftists seriously underestimate him. The Brawley affair was disgraceful - race relations in ...

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Date:	Fri May 31 08:14:47 PDT 2002

28323 i have a passport therefore i am a citizen -- rank: 1000

Speaking of The Internationale, I've been Gnutella-ing a bunch of versions of it. I came across one by a Scottish singer, Alistair Hulett, which is pretty good, but it's only the first minute or so of the full version. I've emailed the address given on his website to find out how to get the whole thing, but no answer. Anyone know anything about him, or the recording? Doug

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Date:	Fri May 31 08:16:57 PDT 2002

28324 Chomsky News Network -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Well, as a descendant of some of the few slaveholders in colonial >Maine, I am prepared to take a measure of historical responsibility >for slavery, but I'm unwilling to say that I am part of a >slavery-creating "we." It's a "they"--definitely a "they"... As Americans, we're all heirs of slavery - it shaped the physical and social environment from the first, and many of the issues around race we live with today are its sequelae. And h ...

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Date:	Fri May 31 08:10:32 PDT 2002

28325 Dollar: No comment -- rank: 1000

pms quoted: >ODJ DJ. Fed's McTeer: Jobless Rate A Lagging Indicator McTeer actually said "employment is a lagging indicator." Lots of people say this, but it just isn't true. On average, employment bottoms out in the month of the business cycle trough (which isn't that much of a surprise - employment is one of the indicators the NBER uses to date cycles). Ditto unemployment, though it's a little stickier, since signs of an improving economy bring people into the job market. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 31 08:04:55 PDT 2002

28326 knaves or fools, psst, Joanna -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >Where is Hakki? I really miss him. He said tempers were too hot when he signed off. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 31 08:06:28 PDT 2002

28327 i have a passport therefore i am a citizen -- rank: 1000

jean-christophe helary wrote: >From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >> > I don't consider myself to be "part of" any country. >> Have a passport? Pay taxes? Like it or not, you're part of it. > >that's a very technical way of looking at the world. i have a french >passport but i've been living in japan and paying taxes here for a >few years and intend to be here for quite a few more. what am i a >part of ? does my experience (and yoshie's ...

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Date:	Fri May 31 07:59:29 PDT 2002

28328 Chomsky News Network -- rank: 1000

jean-christophe helary wrote: >critics of bourdieu say he never really managed to understand television. How's that? I liked his TV book <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Why_TV_sucks.html>, and I thought it showed a great understanding of TV. And his analysis of why commercial broadcasting is so bad - that it's more a function of profit and audience maximization than concentration of ownership - is much more accurate and compelling than the barely shallow Mark Crispin Miller's <h ...

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Date:	Fri May 31 07:45:44 PDT 2002

28329 new LBO website uploads -- rank: 1000

Finally, after all too long an interval, I've uploaded some new stuff to the LBO website <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com>. As always, the articles are richly peppered with links. * Articles on the collapse of the twin neoliberal models - Enron <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Enron.html> and Argentina <<http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Argentina.html>. * An interview (from last fall, but still quite relevant) with Tariq Ali on terrorism, fundamentalism, and the w ...

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Date:	Thu May 30 17:14:03 PDT 2002

28330 "the greatest country in the world" Re: Chomsky News Network -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Besides, constant boastings that "America is the greatest country in >the world" tend to begin to look like a obsessive-compulsive >behavior. Far from demonstrating "faith in the country," it rather >suggests its opposite: lack of confidence and self confidence, which >must be covered up the fetish of patriotism. Yup. Kinda like family values. If traditional families were so unambiguously wonderful, why the round-the-clock advertising ...

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Date:	Thu May 30 15:43:44 PDT 2002

28331 Chomsky News Network -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >I took a beating last fall for saying agreeing with the WSWS that >anti-Americanism is the anti-imperialism of fools,... Doug > >------------ > >As the world's only super-power, Empire incarnate, what is the >difference between anti-Americanism and anti-imperialism? 1) Other First World elites benefit from imperialism, as do many Third World elites. 2) "America" is a complex, diverse place - some of us are pro-imperialist, some of us are anti-i ...

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Date:	Thu May 30 13:04:37 PDT 2002

28332 Chomsky News Network -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I can't quite understand why anyone would expect the likes of us to make >a difference now. If I were to indulge in psychological theorizing >(which would be false, but I'll do it anyhow) I would say the only >intelligible reason is that they put their own immediate social comfort >ahead of the survival of the human species, including their own >children. They don't give a fuck about how many millions die miserably 5 >years from now as long as they don't g ...

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Date:	Thu May 30 11:42:02 PDT 2002

28333 Chomsky News Network -- rank: 1000

Chuck Munson wrote: >Because of this country's track record, which I briefly outlined in a >response to Nathan. It's as one-sided as his version. As is Carrol's moralizing hyperbole. >I don't consider myself to be "part of" any country. Have a passport? Pay taxes? Like it or not, you're part of it. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 30 11:41:03 PDT 2002

28334 WTC toxins -- rank: 1000

At 1:52 PM -0400 5/30/02, MMWR Questions wrote: >* Occupational Exposures to Air Contaminants at the World Trade > Center Disaster Site --- New York, September--October, 2001 > http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5121a1.htm

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Date:	Thu May 30 11:30:37 PDT 2002

28335 Chomsky News Network -- rank: 1000

Chuck Munson wrote: >I was telling friends shortly after 9-11 that it was high time that we got >rid of the U.S., because none of the world's problems willbe solved until >we eliminate this disgusting country from the face of the planet. Chuck, you & I & lots of other people on this list are part of "this disgusting country." Why do people take such absurd extreme positions on the good or evil of the U.S.? Doug

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Date:	Thu May 30 11:29:59 PDT 2002