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28336 Chomsky News Network -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Why do lefties have so much praising a country that we had so much of a role >in creating? The multi-racial multiculturalism of this country, which the >Right hates, is based on centures of struggle against slavery, racism, and >nativism, a battle that progressives actually largely won, as shown by the >mass immigration numbers since 1965 and in our culture anytime you look at >the music charts. > >Sure damn the policies we hate, but I always liked ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 30 11:09:51 PDT 2002

28337 Foucault & Israel -- rank: 1000

Excerpt from a piece on Sartre by Edward Said in the LRB <http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n11/said2211.htm>: >Foucault very quickly made it clear to me that he had nothing to >contribute to the seminar and would be leaving directly for his >daily bout of research at the Bibliothèque Nationale. I was pleased >to see my book Beginnings on his bookshelves, which were brimming >with a neatly arranged mass of materials, including papers and >journals. Although we chatted together ami ...

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Date:	Thu May 30 10:36:46 PDT 2002

28338 Fwd: BOUNCE lbo-talk at lists.panix.com: Non-member submission from [kelley <kwalker2 at verizon.net>] -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 13:06:21 -0400 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: kelley <kwalker2 at verizon.net> Subject: Re: Chomsky News Network Cc: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> In-Reply-To: <scf60f7c.033 at wppost.depaul.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 11:39 AM 5/30/02 -0500, Michael McIntyre wrote: >Two points about Chomsky and one about the medium. > >(1) What does one of Chomsky's elementary principles ...

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Date:	Thu May 30 10:11:01 PDT 2002

28339 Chomsky News Network -- rank: 1000

kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >i watched My Beautiful Laundrette the other night again. highly recommended. I saw it when it first came out and it struck me as apologetics for Thatcherism. Was I being unkind? Doug

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Date:	Thu May 30 09:59:59 PDT 2002

28340 Chomsky News Network -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Kelly's question about what Chomsky might have said is very important. >Chomsky has a few seconds to refute decades of propaganda. Either he has >to genuflect to the propaganda, negating his message, or whatever he says >will be discredited in the eyes of most people. True, if he were to be >able to repeat his message several times, it would take on more force. It never hurts, and isn't entirely disingenuous, to damn the leaders and flatter the masses. W ...

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Date:	Thu May 30 09:37:48 PDT 2002

28341 Chomsky News Network -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >And yes, I am completely incapable of saying one decent word about >this jerk-off country---except I like Berkeley. What are you going to >do about? And I like NYC. Both it & Berkeley are part of the U.S. So are you, me, and (at least for the moment) Yoshie. So were Melville, Dickinson, Malcolm X, and Joey Ramone. Don't let the pigs hog the identity. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 30 09:32:59 PDT 2002

28342 Chomsky News Network -- rank: 1000

kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >Chomsky's response is lame. People want to hear him say and mean it: >I live in the greatest country on the planet. they want to hear him >say, I love this country so fucking much that I want us to do >better. I love the people in this country. I know we're a >compassionate people. I know we want freedom and equality and peace. >And I want our nation state to do what i know American people stand >for because I know they don't stand for deat ...

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Date:	Thu May 30 09:30:09 PDT 2002

28343 Bush to Cardoso: you have blacks too? -- rank: 1000

[Translated from Der Spiegel. Original at <http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,196865,00.html>.] <http://www.gwbush.com/copies/trans.html> BUSH'S GENERAL EDUCATION Do you have blacks in Brazil? It is said, that, before September 11, George W. Bush thought the Taliban were a Bavarian brass band. Now, thanks to his comprehensive knowledge, the most powerful man in the world has got into hot water again. Washington - It was Condoleezza Rice, national security advisor, who helped her b ...

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Date:	Thu May 30 07:41:11 PDT 2002

28344 Chomsky News Network -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 19:25:07 -0400 From: Seven Stories Press <info at sevenstories.com> Subject: Chomsky to Debate Live on CNN |Thurs, May 30 | 8:20 A.M. (ECT) Noam Chomsky To Debate William Bennett Live on CNN "American Morning with Paula Zahn," Thursday, May 30, 2002, 8:20 A.M. (East Coast Time) Noam Chomsky's international anti-war bestseller, 9-11 has become the subject of debate in mainstream media. Following controversial feature articles in the New York Times and Washin ...

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Date:	Wed May 29 16:50:34 PDT 2002

28345 Indonesia question -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >Rather a large number. They hang out in hotel lobbies, talk to each other >and talk to the identical same talking (always pro-Western) talking heads. >They speak exclusively to middle- and upper-class Russians who speak >English. They know absolutely nothing about Russia. They can't even watch TV >or read a magazine. Well, the NYT had James Brooke covering Canada from Denver, because they were tired of paying Canadian taxes. I learned this from the Yale alum mag ...

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Date:	Wed May 29 14:01:52 PDT 2002

28346 Berezovsky -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >Boris Abramovich is in France. Hardly had I typed the question that I noticed this in the FT. They say he's in London. Doug ---- Financial Times - May 28, 2002 COMMENT & ANALYSIS: The problem with Putin By Boris Berezovsky Vladimir Putin is everything the west always wanted in a Russian president: the democrat who believes in order; the strongman who has put the criminals and corrupters to flight; the man of sober habits and sound judgment whose behaviour shines against ...

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Date:	Wed May 29 13:57:04 PDT 2002

28347 for wrestling fans -- rank: 1000

At 1:08 AM -0400 5/29/02, editor at thesmokinggun.com wrote: >The Internet, as you know, can be a very strange place. So we rarely >take note of web sites peddling photos and videos featuring young, >Speedo-clad men in suggestive poses. Unless, of course, those sites >are run by priests. Yup, it's just another day on the church scandal >beat: > >http://www.thesmokinggun.com

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Date:	Wed May 29 13:36:37 PDT 2002

28348 Vidal interview - available now! -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >great interview, doug. Thanks. I wish I'd pressed him harder on his softness on the Euro-right. Just before we started recording, I heard that Pim Fortuyn had been shot. I told Vidal that - he hadn't heard - and his first comment was, "Must have been a homophobe." He continued, saying that he was a pretty good guy, etc. In the interview, he explained the rise of the Euro-right as a reaction against U.S. power and a symptom of anxieety over national identity. That's kind of ...

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Date:	Wed May 29 12:47:26 PDT 2002

28349 Vidal interview - available now! -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >great interview, doug. > >what time is your WBAI show? Oh yes, 5-6 PM Thursdays NYC time, 99.5 FM in and around NYC, and <http://www.wbai.org> on the web. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 29 12:47:54 PDT 2002

28350 Vidal interview - available now! -- rank: 1000

Chris Beggy wrote: >Great! > >Is it me, or is the streaming server down (5/29 12:00 EST)? It's working now (3:05 PM EDT). >Will you be making the raw mp3 files available too, or just the >streaming files? I sent the raw MP3s to Jordan, so he should be able to put them up too. Jordan...? Doug

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