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29821 #103 -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >"Kindness of strangers" sets out the current and capital account >question clearly. But while exchange is affected in all models >by this question, the political non-market causal nexus has to be given >at least equal weight. It is at least triangular now (depending on how >you see China) and in the recent past: 1. Japan made the banking law >D-Day event demanded by the US Treasury into something that looked like >ridicule of the US and of all the ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 29 09:22:00 PST 2002

29822 Protest ISO Cop-Baiting and Thuggery!/"Stanley Aronowitz, and his pro-imperialist "anti-war" position." -- rank: 1000

David Schanoes wrote: >The question is not what exists at the current moment, the question is what >is to be done? > >The answer is obviously the creation of that coordinated, systematic, >international resistance to the war and the causes of the war. > >It's that simple and that difficult. And how do you get from pronouncement to fact? It's not like god saying "Let there be light" and there was light. By the way, there's an insufficiently enforced posting limit of ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 29 09:07:57 PST 2002

29823 Protest ISO Cop-Baiting and Thuggery!/"Stanley Aronowitz, and his pro-imperialist "anti-war" position." -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >One common misconception that people have about anarchists is that >they all wear some kind of identifiable uniform. There are more >anarchists around than the punk ones that you see dressed in black. >It's just that many of them, espeically the older ones, don't wear >the Circle-A that visibly. Speaking from the experience of having been on a panel with Chuck, I've got to say he's right. You'd never guess he's an anarchist just from looking. Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 29 09:04:27 PST 2002

29824 Brazil Sends Gasoline at Venezuelan's Request -- rank: 1000

David Schanoes wrote: >Come on, there are strikes and then there are strikes. And this strike >needs to be broken. Of course. You don't have to convince me. Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 28 16:15:04 PST 2002

29825 right wing physician in -- rank: 1000

I swear this feels worse than the Reagan years. Am I overreacting? Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 28 15:24:43 PST 2002

29826 #103 -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >baby boomer Left <yawn> Maybe I'm just getting old, but what's this supposed to mean? As Liza just pointed out from over my shoulder, if you go to protests you see young people and old people but no boomers. But I'm guessing you're referring to people in leadership positions in left(ish) organizations. Ossification is a hazard of organizations in general and executive positions in particular. So why this silly generational labeling? Remember, Nathan, you're an old ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 28 10:09:43 PST 2002

29827 Brazil Sends Gasoline at Venezuelan's Request -- rank: 1000

Cue to Nathan to tell us how this is strike-breaking. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 27 20:17:06 PST 2002

29828 Protest ISO Cop-Baiting and Thuggery!/"Stanley Aronowitz, and his pro-imperialist "anti-war" position." -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >Over the past century, wars that begun under Democratic >presidents include WW I, WW II, Korea, Vietnam, >and Yugoslavia. >"If we added up the killed and wounded in Democrat wars in this >century, it'd be about 1.6 million Americans, enough to fill the >city of Detroit." > >- Bob Dole, 1976, vice presidential debate against Walter Mondale

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Date:	Mon Dec 23 12:56:00 PST 2002

29829 Protest ISO Cop-Baiting and Thuggery!/"Stanley Aronowitz, and his pro-imperialist "anti-war" position." -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Cockburn named his rag counterpunch No he didn't! Counterpunch was started by Ken Silverstein, and Alex C only joined him several years later. Ace got a lot of the credit for Ken's work, which was deeply unfair. Ken washed his hands of CP a few years ago, and it's been the Alex and Jeff show ever since. Cockburn & St Clair actually had the balls to slip an ad for CP into their Gore book that said "we started Counterpunch...," which is completely untrue. ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 23 08:34:28 PST 2002

29830 Protest ISO Cop-Baiting and Thuggery!/"Stanley Aronowitz, and his pro-imperialist "anti-war" position." -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >The the U.S. attacked Yugoslavia in 1999 and the American Left had a >massive heart attack, probably because they weren't used to a >Democratic president waging an all out war. Korea? Vietnam? Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 23 08:12:58 PST 2002

29831 The Global Political Economy of Israel -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >***** The Global Political Economy of Israel >Jonathan Nitzan & Shimshon Bichler I'm going to have my interview with Nitzan up on my radio archive very soon - perhaps as soon as this afternoon. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 23 08:07:26 PST 2002

29832 Fwd: <nettime> NYT on Thing.net -- rank: 1000

New York Times - December 23, 2002 Cyberspace Artists Paint Themselves Into a Corner By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL In a 1950's horror movie the Thing was a creature that killed before it was killed. Now in a real-life drama playing on a computer screen near you, the Thing is an Internet service provider that is having trouble staying alive. Some might find this tale equally terrifying. The Thing provides Internet connections for dozens of New York artists and arts organizations, and its liberal attitude a ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 23 08:04:11 PST 2002

29833 Fwd: THING.NET EVICTED FROM INTERNET -- rank: 1000

December 23, 2002 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thing.net assistance page: https://secure.thing.net/backbone/ Contact: mailto:thing-group at rtmark.com ACTIVIST NETWORK IN NY EVICTED FROM INTERNET BY DOW, VERIO Bowing to pressure from the Dow Chemical Corporation, the internet company Verio has booted the activist-oriented Thing.net from the Web. Internet service provider Thing.net has been the primary service provider for activist and artist organizations in the New York area for 10 years. On December ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 23 08:01:08 PST 2002

29834 Fwd: Scottish smoke n'mirrors: Saddam's last snub -- rank: 1000

<http://www.news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?id=1422892002&tid=518 Scotland on Sunday The Scotsman (Edinbugh) - 22 Dec 2002 Saddam's last snub will trigger war THE endgame in the elaborate pre-war contest between America and Iraq is about to be played out. And scientists, not the sudden discovery of weapons of mass destruction, are likely to provide the spark to ignite the long-awaited conflagration. The United States is ratcheting up the pressure on the UN weapons inspectors to fly dozens o ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 22 20:01:30 PST 2002

29835 US excises 8000 pages from Iraqi dossier -- rank: 1000

Sunday Herald (Glasgow) - December 22, 2002 US TORE OUT 8000 PAGES OF IRAQ DOSSIER By James Cusick and Felicity Arbuthnot The United States edited out more than 8000 crucial pages of Iraq's 11,800-page dossier on weapons, before passing on a sanitised version to the 10 non-permanent members of the United Nations security council. The full extent of Washington's complete control over who sees what in the crucial Iraqi dossier calls into question the allegations made by US Secretary of State Coli ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 22 19:57:41 PST 2002