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28516 truck seized with TNT traces, Israelis driving -- rank: 1000

[another one of those odd Fox stories that no one else seems to follow] <http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,52681,00.html> Fox News - May 13, 2002 Police Seize Rental Truck With TNT Traces By Carl Cameron A Budget truck was pulled over in Oak Harbor, Wash., last Tuesday near the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station and found to have traces of TNT on the gearshift and traces of RDX plastic explosive on the steering wheel, Fox News has learned. Traces of explosives were also fo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 14 07:02:20 PDT 2002

28517 Why the Venezuelan Coup failed (Palast) -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - May 13, 2002 Opec chief warned Chavez about coup Greg Palast The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, had advance warning of last month's coup attempt against him from the secretary general of Opec, Ali Rodriguez, allowing him to prepare an extraordinary plan which saved both his government and his life, an investigation has revealed. Mr Rodriguez, who is Venezuelan and a former leftwing guerrilla, telephoned Mr Chavez from the Vienna headquarters of the Organisation of Petrole ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 14 06:54:47 PDT 2002

28518 Bushies - desperately avoiding Calif -- rank: 1000

The sometimes annoying truthout has a White House email from May 2001 urging the drafter of the energy policy to avoid talking about Calif - "desperately." Waxman is incensed. <http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/05.14A.WH.E.Mail.htm>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 13 16:47:59 PDT 2002

28519 Yugo gets IMF loan -- rank: 1000

[What you get after the civilized world saves you - budget cuts, tight money, and wage restraint.] Press Release No. 02/25 May 13, 2002 International Monetary Fund 700 19th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20431 USA IMF Approves US$64 Million Tranche Under Stand-By Credit and US$829 Million Extended Arrangement for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia/Montenegro) The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today completed the third and final review of the Federal Republic of Yu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 13 16:36:39 PDT 2002

28520 "The Nazification of Israel, " by Aijaz Ahmad -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Many reporters, too. Those who begin conversations with, "Don't you >think that..." They're under the idiot constraints of American journalism, which means that they're not allowed to have opinions, or even independent analyses. They're supposed to be neutral, objective conduits for the wisdom of "experts." To get around this, they seek out people who will say the things they want to say. If you don't play along, they get annoyed. Back during the '92 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 13 15:21:07 PDT 2002

28521 drug money funding U.S. allies -- rank: 1000

eric dorkin wrote: >based on this email, we now know that Doug knows of, if not condones >the use and cultivation of drugs, which aids the terrorists (and >which means Doug is "against us"), which allows the department of >justice secretly to get all of the books and movies Doug ever has >rented and purchased..... Last video bought: Querelle. I'm doomed. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 13 15:02:41 PDT 2002

28522 intl labor rights -- rank: 1000

Steve Diamond urges people to check out the program for a conference on international labor rights: <http://www.law.stanford.edu/ilc/>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 13 14:38:13 PDT 2002

28523 Leninists vs. liberals, social democrats, anarchists, libertarian/council communists (and other Leninists) -- rank: 1000

michael pugliese wrote: > Now, I'm not saying that Doug, who has been on the receiving >end, as I have to a much lesser extent, of Stalinoid, paranoid >rantings from certain quarters has ANY sympathies with bankrupt >Leninist polities or economic systems. But, why is it that one >cannot have, simultaneously, a critique of Capitalist Imperialism, >in all it's UGLYNESS and Brutality, AND, a forthright confrontation >with the anti-socialist, anti-democratic paractice and ideol ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 13 14:37:10 PDT 2002

28524 drug money funding U.S. allies -- rank: 1000

alex lantsberg wrote: >where would one get the seeds? Pretty much anywhere. Garden-variety poppies produce opiates. It's illegal to grow them for this purpose, though. A friend used to make a potent tea from dried poppies, which he got from a retail shop in Manhattan's flower district. He was quite the opiate connoisseur, too. Not, of course, that I recommend doing any of this. It would be illegal. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 13 14:28:49 PDT 2002

28525 those durned Yurpeans - the hell with 'em -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> >To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> >Cc: "Dan Lazare" <Dhlazare at aol.com> >Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 1:43 PM >Subject: those durned Yurpeans - the hell with 'em > > >> Washington Post - May 13, 2002 >> >> Uncle Sam, Made Ugly >> By Sebastian Mallaby > >Your subject line seems to be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 13 14:10:11 PDT 2002

28526 killer cars -- rank: 1000

Editorials War on the roads The public health community must intervene The last thing the world needs is another war. Nevertheless, this week the BMJ exposes one more - the war on the world's roads <http://bmj.com/cgi/ijlink?linkType=FULL&journalCode=bmj&resid=324/7346/1139>. But to what extent can the global road trauma epidemic be likened to war? War is often waged by the powerful on the weak. In this case, the interests of pedestrians, cyclists, and other vulnerable road users a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 13 13:47:09 PDT 2002

28527 those durned Yurpeans - the hell with 'em -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - May 13, 2002 Uncle Sam, Made Ugly By Sebastian Mallaby LONDON -- Here in Europe, you get a fresh view of the United States. It is a country "increasingly in thrall to a very particular conservatism"; it languishes in "the extraordinary grip of Christian fundamentalism"; its democracy is "an offense to democratic ideals." The aforementioned "overblown conservative rhetoric" sadly "prevents self-knowledge and intelligent self-criticism ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 13 13:43:53 PDT 2002

28528 "The Nazification of Israel, " by Aijaz Ahmad -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Yet another example of how editors are Childen of the Devil. It's >hard enough making your own points in what you write, without having >someone else load their points on your back too... Since several esteemed editors of my acquaintance lurk on this list, I don't want to dis the species. But they do have a way of saying, "We think this piece would work better if...," and then proceed to outline the article they'd write if they weren't editors, not the one ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 13 13:34:09 PDT 2002

28529 drug money funding U.S. allies -- rank: 1000

[Why do people import poppies from halfway around the world when they could grow them in their own backyards?] Agence France Presse - May 10, 2002 DRUGS FUNDING WARLORDS: EXPERT Money earned from the opium and heroin trade in Afghanistan is what is allowing pro-US warlords in the country to operate, a high-profile Washington lawyer and expert in international financial crime said today. "The revenue of poppies is essential for the warlords supporting the United States," Jack Blum told ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 13 13:37:59 PDT 2002

28530 Zionism and Anti-Zionism -- rank: 1000

Yes. Given how the U.S. right adores Bibi, it's going to be interesting to watch them work out this family squabble. Doug Michael Perelman wrote: >Isn't that what Bush is calling for? > > >On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 04:03:26PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> So, Israel's idea of a Palestinian state is one whose leadership and >> structure they specify. That's not an independent state - it's >> somewhere between a colony and a bantustan. >> >> Dou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 13 13:14:10 PDT 2002