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28366 anti-abortion nuts target patients -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - May 26, 2002 Abortion Protesters Use Cameras, Raise New Legal Issues, Lawsuits By YOCHI J. DREAZEN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL DENVER -- As soon as he saw the blue minivan turning into the parking lot of Planned Parenthood's small abortion clinic here, Kenneth Scott grabbed his digital camera, clambered up his rickety metal ladder and started snapping pictures. "You'll have nightmares about this day the rest of your life," he bellowed, photographing ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 28 08:04:59 PDT 2002

28367 Fwd: NYTimes.com News Alert: Taliban and Qaeda Believed Plotting Within Pakistan -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 21:22:56 -0400 From: NYTimes.com News Alert <nytdirect at nytimes.com> Monday, May 27, 2002 -- 9:26 PM ET ------------------------------------------------------------ Taliban and Qaeda Believed Plotting Within Pakistan Virtually the entire senior leadership of Al Qaeda and the Taliban have been driven out of eastern Afghanistan and are now operating with as many as 1,000 non-Afghan fighters in the anarchic tribal areas of western Pakistan, the commander of Ameri ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 27 20:51:34 PDT 2002

28368 The Devil and Mr. Hicks -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >anyone hear coop's interview of Gore Vidal on radio nation today? >vidal had to correct coop's biased use of language in a couple of >coop's "questions." thankfully, coop shut up and let vidal talk >for most of the interview. heck, i could have done that. I've got an interview with Vidal I did for my radio show the other week. If someone has some spare server space, I could convert it to MP3 and upload it there. Or to RealPlayer, if anyone's got that softwar ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 26 14:28:28 PDT 2002

28369 The Devil and Mr. Hicks -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >I mean, what exactly is The Plan? Who knows? You have some principles, and in your fantasy a utopia where there's no violence (except the consensual kind) and no exploitation, and youdo what you can to promote those principles, and see what happens. You push for better standards of living, better work, more leisure, less hierarchy; against the usual discrimiantions and state violence and repression. You form alliances with other like-minded people - institutions like par ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 26 12:15:53 PDT 2002

28370 "Peace Activists" (a misnomer) Re: Do Everythinger -- rank: 1000

Chuck Munson wrote: >Looks to me like the Empire has no self-control and is very insecure. But hasn't it always reacted massively? Kissinger's Madman in the White House wasn't just a negotiating ploy - the U.S. has made it clear it will kill huge numbers of people to make a point. It killed fewer in Afg than it did in Central America in the 80s, no? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 26 11:49:14 PDT 2002

28371 The Devil and Mr. Hicks -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: > >From Cooper's piece: > >"Hicks' more diplomatic tone is a special challenge to the left. It's the >left, after all, that lays claim to independent and critical thinking. It >should welcome Hicks' polemics as one more invitation to reflect and >rethink. Not to run up a white flag and surrender to the right, nor to whip >out a sledgehammer and try to beat Hicks -- or Horowitz for that matter -- >into the ground. But rather to rise to the deb ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 26 10:31:01 PDT 2002

28372 Greens Go Nuts- Nominate opponent to Wellstone -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The Greens argued that they differed from progressive Democrats in that they >would create an organization that could consistently elect good candidates. >What Minnesota shows is all they have created is an organization bent on >nominating spoiler candidates, whatever their politics. As much as it hurts to say this, I have to agree with you Nathan. This seems stupid. It's ok to run "spoiler" candidates to punish some DLC prick, but Wellstone is about a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 26 10:11:46 PDT 2002

28373 Hitchens takes on SA and Tarique Ali -- rank: 1000

And saying things that Tariq himself said. I'm about to post to the LBO website the interview I did with him long ago, and he made the same points about "the servants and satraps of the Empire" that Hitch makes here. I'm very confused. Doug Max B. Sawicky wrote: >Where's the original Hitch piece? > >I don't understand this. He seems to be saying stuff >he was roasting others for saying last year. > >max > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-lbo-talk at ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 26 09:52:25 PDT 2002

28374 Another claim of negligence -- rank: 1000

Michael McIntyre wrote: >FT reported the total number of Indian attack helicopters as 32. >Not enough to be more than a minor part of any offensive. In a piece in the Week in Review section of today's New York Times, Howard French quotes two Pakistani sources that suggest a more than casual alliance between the U.S. and India: >"India's relationship with Washington has acquired a real depth, it >has become strategic and not just tactical, like Pakistan's," said >Mushahid ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 26 09:49:33 PDT 2002

28375 second-wave attacks -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Seems like this would be a good place to invoke Godwin's law--or is >that only for Usenet? Thank you. All this Nazi-flinging is unseemly, pointless, and dull. Enough all around. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 25 12:55:42 PDT 2002

28376 the coming firestorm (Fisk) -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - May 25, 2002 There is a firestorm coming, and it is being provoked by Mr Bush by Robert Fisk More and more, President Bush's rhetoric sounds like the crazed videotapes of Osama bin Laden So now Osama bin Laden is Hitler. And Saddam Hussein is Hitler. And George Bush is fighting the Nazis. Not since Menachem Begin fantasised to President Reagan that he felt he was attacking Hitler in Berlin - his Israeli army was actually besieging Beirut, killing thousands of civilians, &q ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 25 12:54:31 PDT 2002

28377 another view of Daschle -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >And when is the Left going to tell the "American people" that the nation HAS >to become poorer? It is going to happen, has too. Unless Europe and Asia >get blown up again. Hey, Paul Volcker - whose middle name is Adolph, by the way, though he tries to keep that under wraps - said it over 20 years ago, when he told Congress "the American standard of living has to decline." Of course, it's ok for central bankers to say that. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 25 11:59:24 PDT 2002

28378 Summa Contra Orwell/Hitchens -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray forwarded Andy Croft: >Like Orwell, Hitchens repeats >the banal claims of orthodoxy disguised as the lonely voice of dissent. You could make a long list of such: Camille Paglia, Hilton Kramer... >the "sub-literate" Raymond Williams Eh? >As for the notebooks containing the names of 86 suspected communists, >which Orwell passed to the cold warriors in the shadowy Information >Research Department, Hitchens regrets that "too much has been made of >this ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 25 11:50:59 PDT 2002

28379 The Rapper's Red Glare -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >David Segal, "The Rapper's Red Glare," _Washington Post_ 22 May >2002, C01, ><http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52882-2002May21.html>. Amazon.com reports: >Customers who bought this title also bought: > >* Is This It ~ The Strokes >* Vespertine ~ Bjork >* Genocide & Juice [EXPLICIT LYRICS] ~ Coup >* Ten New Songs ~ Leonard Cohen >* Mulholland Drive DVD ~ Justin Theroux It's a funny old world, as Mrs T said in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 25 11:44:00 PDT 2002

28380 japan last -- rank: 1000

jean-christophe helary wrote: >don't you have anything about what is going on now in japan in your press ? The most frequent story about Japan in the U.S. press is that it's fucked up because it's not enough like the U.S. Everything else takes a distant back seat to that narrative. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 25 11:33:53 PDT 2002