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28951 Alterman -- rank: 1000

eric dorkin wrote: >Where is Bill Wolman now? Semi-retired and recovering from cataract surgery on the Upper West Side. He was replaced on CNBC by an absolute idiot (who had a PhD in economics, which is no antidote to being an idiot) from the Dallas Fed and reliably right wing. She's gone now too, replaced by a WSJ alum, a cheerleader for a renewed boom. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 18 11:19:25 PDT 2002

28952 FW: The anti-imperialism of fools -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Is not the "struggle for Palestinian liberation" (which includes, >inter alia, blowing up school buses) overwhelmingly supported by the >members of this list? For a social scientist, you assume a lot of things without any evidence. I support the "struggle for Palestainian liberation," but I think blowing up school buses is repulsive. As is bulldozing houses, of course. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 18 10:57:49 PDT 2002

28953 FW: The anti-imperialism of fools -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >There so much a part Eek. I can't believe I typed that. Sorry. I'm sending myself to the woodshed. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 18 08:59:53 PDT 2002

28954 FW: The anti-imperialism of fools -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > Nothing fancy, I agree, but at least it does not involve rallying >behind violent goons and nazi-like thugs using bodies of murdered >civilians as their stairway to heaven. Just checking - who does that? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 18 08:53:56 PDT 2002

28955 Israeli editors purged -- rank: 1000

[I gotta say this gives me the creeps.] Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - June 18, 2002 British Journals Oust 2 Israeli Scholars From Their Boards By HAIM WATZMAN Two Israeli faculty members have been dismissed from the boards of British journals of translation studies as part of the academic boycott of Israel declared in April by a group of European scholars and intellectuals. Miriam Shlesinger, a senior lecturer in translation studies at Bar-Ilan University, was dismissed from the ed ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 18 08:29:46 PDT 2002

28956 Alterman -- rank: 1000

Joe R. Golowka wrote: > > what do The >> Nation and MSNBC see in this guy? His chief role seems to be that of "left >> politics cop," > >Which is exactly what MSNBC sees in him. They need someone who seems "left" but who really isn't - the appearance of balance without any measurable effect on the prevailing centrist discourse. Funny that a guy who made his name writing a book about pundits ends up serving this role. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 18 08:02:51 PDT 2002

28957 rights during wartime -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] REHNQUIST: LOSS OF LIBERTY PAR FOR COURSE IN WAR TIME LA TIMES - Chief Justice William Rehnquist, reviewing the history of civil liberties during wartime, said the courts are inclined to bend the law in the government's favor during a time of hostilities. "One is reminded of the Latin maxim inter arma silent leges. In time of war, the laws are silent," Rehnquist said in a speech to federal judges meeting in Williamsburg, Va. He cited as examples Pre ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 18 07:59:49 PDT 2002

28958 FW: The anti-imperialism of fools -- rank: 1000

Chuck Munson wrote: >Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >> >> At 06:28 PM 6/17/2002 -0400, Doug wrote: >> >> >Oh yeah? So why are so many of today's activists the offspring of 60s >> >activists? >> >> Perhaps because so many 60s activists became respectable members of the >> establishment. > >We all know that this claim isn't true. Only a few activists sold out. But that's not the way it seemed in The Big Chill! Better to defend land rape ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 18 07:38:13 PDT 2002

28959 Alterman on Chomsky -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >But I take your question to be, "Is the U.S. rich because it buys >the products of Haiti,the Philippines, and Mexico for less than >their labor values?" And I can't see any way to get that number up >above 2% of the current U.S. standard of living at most... Let me try a different tack. Does servicing foreign debt, by draining surplus that could be re-invested at home; or does the IMF, by enforcing the collection of that debt; or does the world intellect ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 18 07:33:56 PDT 2002

28960 God-ness this stuff gives me a headache. -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I don't remember which of his texts it was, but someplace where Marx >denies that manipulation of money can affect the real economy (or >something like that), he adds that this does not mean that governments >by stupid management of money can't fuck up the works badly. I think its >in C3 but I'm not sure. There's some rich stuff in C3 about how business groans when the Bank [of England] "puts the screw on." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 17 17:09:30 PDT 2002

28961 Michael Tigar -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Justin Schwartz wrote: >> >>Chuck was >> saying that all right wingers in govt were mediocre idiots. I listed a few I >> thought were pretty smart. >> > >My own feeling, not developed in any detail, is that all judgements in >terms of intellectual capacity (low or high as the case might be) belong >in the same order if not the same genus as conspiracy theories. They >turn the focus away from social relations and history to focu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 17 16:30:09 PDT 2002

28962 Alterman on Chomsky -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >And what he said in the mid-1990s about the pivotal geostrategic >position held by the Bosnian Muslims? And the claim in the fall of >2001 "'Western Civilization' was basing its plans on the assumption >that they might lead to the death of several million innocent >civilians"? And the claim that the Taliban forces displayed >"astonishing endurance" in their fight against the U.S., its allies, >and the Northern Alliance? etc etc. It see ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 17 16:28:47 PDT 2002

28963 Uncle Sam and Pol Pot -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >***** The Long Secret Alliance: Uncle Sam and Pol Pot > >by John Pilger > >Covert Action Quarterly Fall 1997 And for people who don't trust Pilger or CAQ, try Nayan Chanda's Brother Enemy. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 17 16:05:13 PDT 2002

28964 jury -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >That strengthens public confidence in the jury system, no? I forget, are you pro- or anti-jury? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 17 15:37:23 PDT 2002

28965 FW: The anti-imperialism of fools -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Does not surprise me. The politics of protest nowadays is an >adolescent fashion statement - picked mainly for its capacity to >piss off the parents. Oh yeah? So why are so many of today's activists the offspring of 60s activists? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 17 15:28:43 PDT 2002