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28606 Gore Vidal -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >At 02:16 PM 05/06/2002 -0400, Doug wrote: >>I'm interviewing Gore Vidal this afternoon (though I won't run it on >>the show until the WBAI fundraiser, probably May 16). The hook is his >>new book, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, but that's only a >>beginning. Any suggestions of questions I should ask him? > >Ask him about Italy. He used to spend half of every year there. I >don't know if he does anymore. Maybe he has some inside info on ...

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Date:	Mon May 6 14:01:10 PDT 2002

28607 Fwd: [queerleft] Pim Fortuyn shot dead -- rank: 1000

>http://www.indymedia.nl/ >Pim Fortuyn shot dead >Pim Fortuyn doodgeschoten > >On May 6, Dutch popular right wing politician Pim Fortuyn was shot >dead after a radio interview. This was just 9 days before general >elections where Fortuyn was expected to cause an upheaval. All >political parties have now ceased their campaigns. More details to >follow.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 6 11:54:37 PDT 2002

28608 terror poll -- rank: 1000

<http://www.umich.edu/%7Enewsinfo/Releases/2002/May02/r050302a.html> ANN ARBOR---For many Americans shaken by September 11, the emotional insecurity continues, according to a University of Michigan survey released today that is among the first to go back to the same group of people to track changes over time in a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults. About 11 percent of 613 Americans surveyed in March by the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR) are more sha ...

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Date:	Mon May 6 09:19:40 PDT 2002

28609 Osama fashion update -- rank: 1000

New York Post - May 6, 2002 OSAMA SIGHTED IN PAKISTAN By JOHN LEHMANN May 6, 2002 -- Sporting a neatly trimmed beard, Osama bin Laden has been spotted in Pakistan's northern tribal lands and appears to be in good health, according to new reports. Afghan chief of military intelligence Hazrat Uddin said he has received "credible reports" that the terror lord and his top lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri, are in the mountains in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province, Newsweek reports today. ...

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Date:	Mon May 6 08:46:34 PDT 2002

28610 Gore Vidal -- rank: 1000

I'm interviewing Gore Vidal this afternoon (though I won't run it on the show until the WBAI fundraiser, probably May 16). The hook is his new book, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, but that's only a beginning. Any suggestions of questions I should ask him? Doug

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Date:	Mon May 6 07:07:12 PDT 2002

28611 HISTORIC ANTIWAR DEMONSTRATION -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >I disagree w/a lot of JS's Hudson Valley columns, >but the Guardian was a good paper and I'm glad >he's still in the game. And I'm glad he posts his stuff here. I like a forum where anarchists, autonomists, Leninists, and the unchurched can all go at each other. Nicely, of course. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 5 20:04:58 PDT 2002

28612 'Terrism' Inc. -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >By the way, this is the reason the Kremlin has been so in favor of the US >actions. There are radical Islamic movements who want to establish >theocracies in most of the Central Asian countries, and are fond of blowing >stuff up. And of course there is the Chechnya situation. The Kremlin has >been telling the US for years that the No. 1 threat is Islamist terrorism. How true is this? Is it a case of Russia framing any political opposition as "Islamic terror ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 5 08:48:03 PDT 2002

28613 Russian stock market -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >How big an increase is 77%, anyway? Very big. Best the S&P 500 has done in the last century was 42% in 1936; it was up 34% in 1983 and 30% in 1997. I think the best any major stock index has ever done was the Nasdaq in 1999, which was up something like 80% using yearly averages (though it was up 100% from March 99 to the peak in March 00). Small stock markets like Russia's, though, are a lot more volatile than big ones. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 5 08:46:26 PDT 2002

28614 Swedes worse off than poorest Americans -- rank: 1000

[gotta love the headline, "AMERICANS CAN BUY MORE"] Saturday May 4, 10:47 am Eastern Time Reuters Market News Swedes less well off than poorest Americans -study STOCKHOLM, May 4 (Reuters) - Swedes, usually perceived in Europe as a comfortable, middle class lot, are poorer than African Americans, the most economically deprived group in the United States, a Swedish study showed on Saturday. The study by a retail trade lobby, published in the liberal Dagens Nyheter newspaper 19 weeks befo ...

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Date:	Sat May 4 15:41:03 PDT 2002

28615 irreversible neural damage and the study of economics -- rank: 1000

"If Teaching Economics Discourages Cooperation, Can the Damage Be Undone?" BY: JEFFREY P. COHEN University of Hartford Barney School of Business HARVEY S. JAMES University of Missouri at Columbia Department of Agricultural Economics Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=296134 Date: December 2001 Contact: HARVEY S. JAMES Email: Mailto:HJames at missouri.edu Postal: University of Missouri at Columbia Department ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 4 13:15:43 PDT 2002

28616 "freedom" -- rank: 1000

Ah, it's beautiful when economists try to think politically... >"The Guarantees of Freedom" > > BY: RAFAEL LA PORTA > Harvard University > Department of Economics > National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) > FLORENCIO LOPEZ-DE-SILANES > Yale University > International Institute of Corporate Governance > National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) > ...

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Date:	Sat May 4 13:08:26 PDT 2002

28617 McReynolds on war without end -- rank: 1000

"I write about what happened on September 11 because otherwise my own fury at George Bush cannot be understood. He has hijacked a tragedy and used it to commit this country to wars beyond our imagining. That single terrible act on September 11 has become the excuse for a dictatorial reach for power by those in the White House." <http://www.warresisters.org/war_without_end.htm>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 4 12:55:20 PDT 2002

28618 Terror Inc. -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >Doug, > >Hersh was all over the place in that thing. Exactly. Which is what the situation requires? We've got some bad people who hate us for many bad reasons, and a bunch of ham-handed imperialists trying to kill them and repress us in the process. I feel like we're back where we were six months ago, though with considerably less emotional intensity, with people taking extreme, caricatured positions, and unable to listen to anyone on the other side. Doug

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Date:	Sat May 4 10:46:17 PDT 2002

28619 Terror Inc. -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: > > This is just the point that got me in trouble when Rick Perlstein >> quoted me in the NY Observer saying that it would take considerable >> force to capture these motherfuckers. > >Clearly. But how much less than was employed, Doug? I don't know. I wish I did. And I wish I knew who'd apply it. The UN doesn't have an army - it needs member states to sign over their troops. And who would those be? The Netherlands? Suriname? On a related topic, how ...

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Date:	Sat May 4 10:39:39 PDT 2002

28620 Terror Inc. -- rank: 1000

Dennis Breslin wrote: >You're doing the Hitchens thing here, characterizing those who oppose war >because they endorse terrorists. Did anyone read that long Seymour Hersh transcript I posted? He made several points that don't fit into the black/white binary that usually surrounds this issue. >"We didn't win the war in Afghanistan; I don't care what George Bush >says. I don't care that George Bush doesn't know much, but the >people around him should know more who don't seem to ...

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Date:	Sat May 4 10:18:06 PDT 2002