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28531 Zionism and Anti-Zionism -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Or is it that critics of Sharon say that it isn't a car if you >remove the air conditioner and the GPS system? Quoting Uri Dan's story in today's NY Post: >A weary-looking Sharon said later: > >"I will continue to lead the state of Israel and the people of >Israel according to the same ideas that led me always - security for >the state of Israel and its citizens and our desire for real peace." > >He insisted that in any case, no move towar ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 13 13:03:26 PDT 2002

28532 "The Nazification of Israel, " by Aijaz Ahmad -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >>And what about the content? Editors and authors have been known to >>put inflammatory titles on pieces to attract attention. What does >>Ahmad say, and what do you disagree with? > >Can you escape responsibility for the title you place on your work? >The title, after all, is the set of words that is going to be read >the most... I have no idea what the practice at Frontline is, but authors often have little say in what titles are applied to thei ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 13 13:01:23 PDT 2002

28533 cheap morality -- rank: 1000

michael pugliese wrote: > > Fropm a pal in S.F. that took a class from Isaac, I hear he's >a creep too. That said, since it isn't on the Dissent website, >can the list have a taste, with the benefit of your scanner? Why? You said it was a good piece. Tell us what was good about it. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 13 12:29:47 PDT 2002

28534 Stopping The Crimes One Pays For -- rank: 1000

michael pugliese wrote: >Apparently, the premise of the piece in New Politics,(on the >Frances Stonor-Saunders book on the CIA and the CCCF) , the left >socialist journal, did not/cannot sink in to certain brain cavities. >Uncritical alignment with either Cold War Empire With All It's >Requisite Means of Coercion and Consent exerted a powerfully >baleful influence on the Broad Left from 1917 on. Apparently Saunders' book didn't sink into certain brain cavities. She's not a Sovi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 13 12:26:40 PDT 2002

28535 Suicide Bombers -- rank: 1000

michael pugliese wrote: >My problem, I guess, is that I've spent way too many yrs. >reading leftist magazines from the anti-Stalinists at New Left >Review to the dreadful hacks of Political Affairs of the CPUSA >augmented by neo-con and anarchist and libertarian communist >journals like Workers Liberty in the U.K. and trots like at >WSWS, not to spot pro-Soviet apologetics from a mile away. There's your problem. You spend so much time reading sectarian loons of the left and ri ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 13 12:28:42 PDT 2002

28536 Zionism and Anti-Zionism -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: > >On Mon, 13 May 2002, Brad DeLong wrote: > >> So is the fact that Ariel Sharon is now speaking in support of the >> rights of Palestinians to a state of their own a positive sign or a >> negative sign? > >Sharon wants the same thing the Likud wants: that the Palestinians should >accept permanent oppression. He just wants to call the resulting set-up a >state. It's like saying it's still a car if you've removed the wheels and > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 13 12:18:35 PDT 2002

28537 "The Nazification of Israel, " by Aijaz Ahmad -- rank: 1000

michael pugliese wrote: > http://www.flonnet.com/f11908/119080100.htm >Not Found >The requested URL /f11908/119080100.htm was not found on this server. > The very title of the piece, is deliberately inflammatory. And what about the content? Editors and authors have been known to put inflammatory titles on pieces to attract attention. What does Ahmad say, and what do you disagree with? >Solid, empirically based reports by groups like Human Rights >Watch, which, I remind y' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 13 12:10:53 PDT 2002

28538 Fwd: Bill Clinton, Conservative -- rank: 1000

From: "Bull Moose" <bullmoose at mail.conservativereform.org> Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 09:17:02 -0400 PROJECT FOR CONSERVATIVE REFORM http://www.conservativereform.org The Moose muses that, up until this point, the previous Presidency may be viewed as more conservative than the current one. Politics moves in mysterious ways. President Bush has already signed into law a dramatic expansion of the federal role in education. He has violated free trade principles by signing on to increa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 13 09:57:59 PDT 2002

28539 Fwd: ENRON: THE WEIGHTLESS CORPORATION -- rank: 1000

[Enron is so three months ago, but...] ISSUES IN LEFT ECONOMICS -- an ongoing lecture/discussion series presented by New York Union for Radical Political Economics and the Brecht Forum at the Brecht Forum, 122 West 27th St., 10th floor , 212-242-4201 $6/$8/$10 (sliding scale) Wednesday, May 15, 7:30 pm ENRON: THE WEIGHTLESS CORPORATION Doug Henwood sees Enron's demise as a "rich symbol of the political economy of today ... So much comes together in the Enron story - deregulation, financiali ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 13 09:26:34 PDT 2002

28540 Suicide Bombers -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Doug>...Or Frances Stonor Saunders' The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the >World of Arts and Letters: > >http://www.wpunj.edu/newpol/issue31/johnso31.htm > >The Cultural Cold War: Faust Not the Pied Piper > >Alan Johnson > >[from New Politics, vol. 8, no. 3 (new series), >whole no. 31, Summer 2001] > >ALAN JOHNSON is a reader in the Center for Studies in the Social >Sciences, Edge >Hill of Higher Education, England. He is ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 13 09:05:59 PDT 2002

28541 Cheap Morality, was Re: anti-zionism -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > The Jeffrey Isaac piece on the campus left is a great piece. Oh? What's so great about it? Isaac seems like a creep to me. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 13 08:54:35 PDT 2002

28542 Cheap Morality, was Re: anti-zionism -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >God knows I would never bring up Kosovo to convice anyone here of anything, >since there continues to be more sympathy here for the Serbs in Kosovo who >participated in the cultural suppression and then murder of the Albanian >Kosovars than for their victims. Nathan, you're lapsing into propagandist mode. There's a big difference between thinking that the imperial power of the U.S. and NATO is not a humane instrument, and sympathizing with Milosevic. This is W-i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 13 08:42:54 PDT 2002

28543 Suicide Bombers -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: > >Or Frances Stonor Saunders' The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the >>World of Arts and Letters: >> >>>But Orwell himself was not entirely innocent of such Cold War >>>manipulations. He had, after all, handed over a list of suspected >>>fellow travellers to the Information Research Department in 1949, a >>>list which exposed thirty-five people as fellow > >Like the Dennis Miller attribution (which anyone familiar with ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 11 12:49:34 PDT 2002

28544 Welfare State -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >In that sense, our tax plus welfare system at the federal level may be more >progressive than European welfare states that depend much more heavily on >payroll and VAT sales taxes that fall much more heavily on working families. Uh, Nathan, you should really read some of the Smeeding/Rainwater stuff. Max posted some links here the other day, but in case you missed 'em, here they are again: <http://www-cpr.maxwell.syr.edu/faculty/smeeding/papers/livingstandards.p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 11 12:44:25 PDT 2002

28545 Welfare State -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >But out of a $2 trillion federal >budget, and about another trillion dollars at the state and local level, the >money goes overwhelmingly to poor and working class folks. Overwhelmingly? Could you be a bit more specific? The U.S. welfare state, such as it is, does very little to reduce poverty - i.e., compared to other countries, it barely adjusts market income distributions. Thanks to the mortgage interest tax deduction, the bulk of federal housing subsidies go to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 11 12:23:43 PDT 2002