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28771 useful idiots of the empire -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >Hitchens would like to see Saddam gone, but he has pointed out, >as have others on this list, that the Bush Administration doesn't seem >to have a plan for post-Saddam Iraq and they have no faith in the INC. Just wondering why it is that expat Brit journalists and the U.S. administration both think they have the standing to decide who should rule a country halfway around the world. D

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Date:	Sat Mar 16 11:56:09 PST 2002

28772 Regressions and Advances (Was: Re: Walzer on the Left) -- rank: 1000

Kendall Clark wrote: >Would you still think it progress if you were to be convinced by >empirical studies that porn socializes men to be sexually violent >toward women? If someone could show that "porn" did encourage violence against women, I'd be rather disturbed. But: 1) "porn" covers a very wide variety of material, so I doubt that there's any such thing as porn-in-general, much less that it has a measurable effect; 2) I'm pretty close to a free speech fundamental ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 16 11:36:04 PST 2002

28773 Susie Bright responds -- rank: 1000

I asked Susie Bright to respond to one of Kendall's posts. Doug ---- >>At 4:25 PM -0800 3/15/02, Susie Bright wrote: >>>Many feminists (bell hooks, Dworkin, and others) think there's been a >>>regression in advancement toward liberation for women, too. > > >bell hooks and Dworkin would raise hell to be thrown together in the >same sentence like that. Virtually every feminist has analyzed the >progress of,- or backlash against- women's liberation, but there ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 16 11:20:20 PST 2002

28774 volume -- rank: 1000

The volume of postings has veered thoroughly out of control. Please control yourselves. Thirteen posts in twelve hours is just a bit excessive, don't you think? Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 16 11:14:00 PST 2002

28775 Fwd: OAS Urges U.S. to Reverse Detainees Decision -- rank: 1000

From: Human Rights Watch <hrwatchnyc at igc.org> Subject: OAS Urges U.S. to Reverse Detainees Decision Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 23:59:51 +0000 List-Help: <http://igc.topica.com/lists/hrw-news/> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:hrw-news-unsubscribe at igc.topica.com> List-Subscribe: <mailto:hrw-news-subscribe at igc.topica.com> List-Archive: <http://igc.topica.com/lists/hrw-news/read> OAS Urges U.S. to Reverse Detainees Decision (Washington, March 15, 2002) -- The United Stat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 15 16:40:39 PST 2002

28776 Walzer on the Left -- rank: 1000

Chuck Munson wrote: >Just look at the success of Michael Moore's new book for example. Or the >fact that a Chomsky book is on the bestseller lists. Last week, I saw Chomsky's 9-11 book on sale at LaGuardia Airport, alongside a collection of interviews with Eqbal Ahmad. They were part of a special display of war-related books. I was stunned. Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 15 14:47:40 PST 2002

28777 Dicks n' Dough -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: >On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 at 4:03pm Doug Henwood wrote: > >> budge wrote: >> >> > > And don't forget the immortal words of Scott McNealy, "You have zero >> >> privacy anyway. Get over it" >> > >> >Fuck Scott McNealy, and his crappy OS. Why should I give >> >shit what he says? >> >> Because he's right? > >The more I think about this reply, the more it annoys me. Heavens. > I > ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 15 14:44:52 PST 2002

28778 Regressions and Advances (Was: Re: Walzer on the Left) -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >I've never heard someone use "Dworkin" and "nuanced" in the same >sentence before. The funny thing about Dworkin is that she's a compelling writer whose descriptions of what she hates are almost erotic in themselves. In fact, I know someone who had her first pornographic experience reading Dworkin. Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 15 14:40:57 PST 2002

28779 Regressions and Advances (Was: Re: Walzer on the Left) -- rank: 1000

gadfly at exitleft.org wrote: >aren't you assuming that kendall doesn't like porn as much >as you do? Aren't you assuming I like porn? I haven't consumed very much of it in my life. Most of it is terrible, though I have a weakness for Pat Califia. Actually I don't like saying that, since it seems wimpily liberal (or like Laura Kipnis, who told me she doesn't like porn except to the extent that it "fucks things up"). > your quote above seems to remove the context he >attemp ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 15 14:36:47 PST 2002

28780 JEC: objective audits of World Bank needed -- rank: 1000

[somebody at the JEC can't tell its from it's] For Immediate Release Press Release #107-78 March 15, 2002 Contact: Christopher Frenze Executive Director (202) 224-5171 OBJECTIVE PERFORMANCE AUDITS OF WORLD BANK PROJECTS ARE NEEDED WASHINGTON, D.C. - Independent and credible performance audits of World Bank programs are urgently needed, Joint Economic Committee (JEC) Chairman Jim Saxton said today. Current World Bank claims of its project successes often are virtually meaningless because most of ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 15 13:06:39 PST 2002

28781 Dicks n' Dough -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: > > And don't forget the immortal words of Scott McNealy, "You have zero >> privacy anyway. Get over it" > >Fuck Scott McNealy, and his crappy OS. Why should I give >shit what he says? Because he's right? Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 15 13:03:22 PST 2002

28782 $25m? what's that? -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA, TIMES OF INDIA - The popular American theory that money talks, or at least it makes people talk, is in dire threat of being disproved in Afghanistan. The $25 million bounty Uncle Sam has offered for information leading to the capture of Osama Bin Laden hasn't worked, because, US officials are now saying, the Afghans can't comprehend just how large the sum is. The result: Uncle Sam is now "downsizing" the reward. The US will now ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 15 12:54:23 PST 2002

28783 Saudi women & girls may have died because of religious cops -- rank: 1000

From: Human Rights Watch <hrwatchnyc at igc.org> Subject: Saudi Arabia: Religious Police Role in School Fire Criticized Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 19:14:30 +0000 List-Help: <http://igc.topica.com/lists/hrw-news/> List-Subscribe: <mailto:hrw-news-subscribe at igc.topica.com> List-Archive: <http://igc.topica.com/lists/hrw-news/read> Saudi Arabia: Religious Police Role in School Fire Criticized (New York, March 15, 2002) -- Saudi authorities should conduct an independent, thorou ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 15 12:33:24 PST 2002

28784 Regressions and Advances (Was: Re: Walzer on the Left) -- rank: 1000

Kendall Clark wrote: >Instead, the pro-sex Suzie Bright, Pat Califa element of feminism >became dominant, and now porn is more mainstream and more widespread >than ever before. Unlike you, I count this as firmly on the side of progress. Who needs a bunch of censorious prudes speaking in the name of feminism? Susie Bright is a red, besides being a feminist sex writer. Pat Califia has become Patrick. Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 15 11:30:58 PST 2002

28785 Dicks n' Dough -- rank: 1000

Marco Anglesio wrote: >I suspect he'd ask >me if moving LBO-Talk's archive off search engines ever became a priority. I want the archives searchable. There's lots of good stuff here that people could stumble onto. If you're paranoid about identity, get a Yahoo! mail account. And don't forget the immortal words of Scott McNealy, "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it" <http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,17538,00.html>. Doug

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