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29626 crossing the border -- rank: 1000

[don't know the provenance of this, sorry to say] INTERROGATION AT US BORDER My name is John Clarke and I am an Organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP). In the early afternoon of February 19th, 2002, I crossed the international bridge between Sarnia, Ontario and Port Huron, Michigan. I was on my way to a speaking engagement that had been set up by students at Michigan State University. When I pulled up my car at the customs booth, the officer asked where I was bound and I tol ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 26 08:31:52 PST 2002

29627 query -- rank: 1000

Dennis wrote: > > On what census was Allen Ginsberg relying when he asked America, in >> the poem of the same name, when it would be worthy of its million >> Trotskyites? >> >> Doug > >I think it was merely poetic license -- a million sounds nice and round and >rolls easily into the hardness of "Trotskyites." In an early version, >Ginsberg had "million Christs," which I prefer, but which he obviously >spurned for something more ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 26 07:58:44 PST 2002

29628 query -- rank: 1000

On what census was Allen Ginsberg relying when he asked America, in the poem of the same name, when it would be worthy of its million Trotskyites? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 25 13:41:42 PST 2002

29629 Amsterdam -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >How about some news about your visit to Amsterdam, and how is Boris >K? I met him last year at a friend's house; it was really great to >meet an unneurotic socialist (from Russia AND Jewish) who was >actually optimistic and whose writing was comprehensible. It was a good conference - smart people, though a bit too fond of crisis for my taste. Boris most of all - I always like to hear what he has to say (though I never quite get his frequent "old Jewish jokes ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 25 13:24:07 PST 2002

29630 Max weighs in -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address] From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) Subject: From the heartland Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 11:29:09 -0500 <http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthtribune/news/opinion/2741000.htm>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 25 11:01:00 PST 2002

29631 Italy Indymedia under attack -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 11:17:31 -0500 Subject: DEBATE: Italy Indymedia under attack From: francois l'écuyer <francois at alternatives.ca> To: <debate at sunsite.wits.ac.za> ITALY INDYMEDIA UNDER ATTACK This morning around 7.00, police knocked at the doors of a few social centers: Gabrio in Torino, Cecco Rivolta in Firenze, TPO in Bologna, as well as those of the Cobas offices in Taranto. The huge mobilitation (a lot of cars, vans, and riot cops) was due to an order from Genova's atto ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 25 10:59:03 PST 2002

29632 Soviet philosophy -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Wasn't Kagarlitsky in prison for a while in the Brezhnev era? Yup. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 25 10:13:26 PST 2002

29633 does FBI know anthrax perp? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/feb2002/anth-f25.shtml> FBI knows anthrax mailer but won't make an arrest, US scientist charges By Patrick Martin 25 February 2002 A leading US expert on biological warfare said the FBI had identified the perpetrator of last fall's anthrax attacks on the congressional Democratic leadership and other targets, but was "dragging its feet" in making an arrest and pressing charges, for fear that secret government activities would be exposed. Barbara ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 25 09:48:03 PST 2002

29634 Fwd: Obadike's Net.opera -- rank: 1000

Keith Obadike is the guy who put is blackness up for sale on eBay. Here's his latest project. >For Immediate Release > >Please forward > >Keith+Mendi Obadike, whose past projects include ><http://obadike.tripod.com/ebay>Blackness for Sale and ><http://blacknetart.com/keepingupappearances.html>Keeping Up >Appearances, launch a net.opera The Sour Thunder from ><http://blacknetart.com/sour.html>http://blacknetart.com/sour.html >Thursday Feb 28th - Sa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 25 09:44:37 PST 2002

29635 Fwd: US Genocide Against Iraq -- rank: 1000

How The US Intentionally Destroyed Iraq's Water Supply By Thomas J. Nagy Progressive.org 2-22-02 Over the last two years, I've discovered documents of the Defense Intelligence Agency proving beyond a doubt that, contrary to the Geneva Convention, the U.S. government intentionally used sanctions against Iraq to degrade the country's water supply after the Gulf War. The United States knew the cost that civilian Iraqis, mostly children, would pay, and it went ahead anyway. The primary document, &qu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 25 08:23:29 PST 2002

29636 Perle: "the most evil man in the world" -- rank: 1000

February 25, 2002 Please Kill the OSI, asap Memo To: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld From: Jude Wanniski Re: Office of Strategic Influence You are aware, Don, that over the 30 years I've known you, I have never failed to give you good advice. Sometimes you have taken it and profited. Sometimes you have ignored it, and not profited. I can't recall any times when you took my advice and got burned. So I ask you to take seriously my counsel when I recommend you immediately shut down the infant Off ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 25 08:19:02 PST 2002

29637 Capitalism Forever? -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >Personally, apart from thinking that Schweickartian market socialism >is our best alternative, my view is this: capitalism is not >foreover, no social system is. It's probably around for the long >haul, though, this century anyway; we might be surprised, but it's >pretty resilient. You're probably right, but 20 years ago, who'd have imagined the USSR would be gone? And Jeremy Rifkin - who's not the most reliable source, so I'd like to check this out - quote ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 24 15:58:52 PST 2002

29638 Soviet philosophy (Was : marxist sociology) -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >She was very frustrated with the teaching of dialectical >materialism, which was utterly lifeless as she experienced it - >which also sounds quite plausible. She was re-training herself in >the philosophy of Heidegger, which sounds quite a waste to me, but >the work she showed me was impressive, if a little unworldly (on >'Ariadne's thread' if I remember right). >-- I heard Susan Buck-Morss give a talk the other day. She recounted some of her experie ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 24 12:29:11 PST 2002

29639 O'Neill: "WB has driven poor countries into a ditch" -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >>>And how are countries to get the hard currency to buy the >>>western-made capital goods that embody so much technology? >> >>That's not the most urgent priority for a low-income country, which >>needs to feed and house people and teach them to read. A lot of >>hard currency debt is just a millstone, and the compulsion to earn >>dollars and euros is a distraction from a lot of humanly urgent >>tasks. >> >> ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 24 11:10:58 PST 2002

29640 La France n'existe pas -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >The last French movie I saw in which there was much talk of "jouir" >(coming) was some really stupid neaderthal flick called "Coup de >Torchon." It NEVER ceases to amaze me how this nation (the French) >who pride themselves on their theory and intelligence have such >stuuuupid movies and such stuuuupid theory. A friend who recently visited Cuba asked a highly placed official what she thought of U.S. media. Her reply: "Everyone in Cuba ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 24 10:55:13 PST 2002