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30016 bin Laden inspired by Asmiov? -- rank: 1000
<http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,779530,00.html> War of the worlds It has become synonymous with the terrorist attacks of September 11 - but what is the origin of the name al-Qaida? Giles Foden on how Bin Laden may have been inspired by Isaac Asimov's Foundation Saturday August 24, 2002 The Guardian In October last year, an item appeared on an authoritative Russian studies website that soon had the science-fiction community buzzing with speculative excitement. It asserted ...
Document Size: 5617
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Aug 25 22:21:39 PDT 2002
30017 DeLong: America's Date With Deflation -- rank: 1000
Bradford DeLong wrote: >Surely we should struggle to preserve pre-modernist, modernist, and >post-modernist High Culture as parts of our Plan for Human >Liberation, shouldn't we? Damn right, comrade. Doug
Document Size: 4765
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Aug 25 21:56:42 PDT 2002
30018 secret court -- rank: 1000
U.S. Appeals Secret Court Ruling on Wiretaps Thu Aug 22, 9:55 PM ET By Deborah Charles WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department ( news - web sites) on Thursday said a secret court had limited the ability of investigators to coordinate surveillance against terrorism suspects and announced plans to appeal the ruling. In an unprecedented move, the government appealed a May ruling by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, saying it "unnecessarily narrowed" new anti-terror l ...
Document Size: 8301
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Aug 23 03:33:18 PDT 2002
30019 Communes (Re: "post-leftism") -- rank: 1000
Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >Yeah, not into the idea that one can live 'outside' >the system, but who is going to pluck the chickens >come the revolution? I suppose we'll have to take turns, but, still, egads. Doug
Document Size: 4772
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 22 20:39:19 PDT 2002
30020 Communes (Re: "post-leftism") -- rank: 1000
JCWisc at aol.com wrote: >The magazine is also full of many useful tips on things like raising goats, >canning tomatoes, composting, keeping the deer out of your garden, plucking >chickens, and generating your own electricity. Egads. Doug
Document Size: 4867
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 22 20:23:27 PDT 2002
30021 abortion and eugenics -- rank: 1000
JCWisc at aol.com wrote: >No slack. If a "seamless garment" nun also protested the School of the Americas or the U.S. war on Central America, or hit a nuclear missile with a hammer, I'd give her lots of slack. Otherwise not much. I interviewed Dennis Kucinich once and thought he was pugnacious and crude. Does he have virtues I'm missing? Doug
Document Size: 4790
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 22 19:42:17 PDT 2002
30022 abortion and eugenics -- rank: 1000
Marta Russell wrote: >>Nathan wrote: >> >>And frankly on the abortion issue, I spent too much >>time fundraising from Planned Parenthood members on the >>phone not to recognize that the euthanasia strain of >>pro-choice politics and funding is very real. I don't >>agree with the "seamless garment" leftwing Catholicism >>of David Bonior and Dennis Kusinich, but it serves more >>respect on its own terms than many folks on the left &g ...
Document Size: 6359
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 22 16:31:32 PDT 2002
30023 Poverty levels in India decline sharply to 26 pc -- rank: 1000
Ulhas Joglekar wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Ulhas Joglekar wrote: >> >> >I am a maverick in terms the Leftwing attitudes. >> >> In what ways? > >Orthodox Left Nationalist perspective is still the dominant view in the >Indian Left. I >don't subscribe to that perspective. What perspective do you subscribe to? If you don't feel like going into detail, I can understand, but I'm curious. Doug
Document Size: 5196
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 22 10:42:44 PDT 2002
30024 Poverty levels in India decline sharply to 26 pc -- rank: 1000
Ulhas Joglekar wrote: >I am a maverick in terms the Leftwing attitudes. In what ways? Doug
Document Size: 4728
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 22 08:42:11 PDT 2002
30025 education in America -- rank: 1000
[The full report is at <http://www.edtrust.org/main/documents/teacherquality.pdf>.] Chronicle of Higher Eduation - web daily - August 22, 2002 Many Schoolteachers Lack Subject Mastery, Report Contends By ELIZABETH F. FARRELL A staggering number of public-school teachers at the middle- and high-school levels have little if any college training in the subjects they teach, especially those in low-income and high-minority school districts, according to a report released Wednesday by the Educat ...
Document Size: 8131
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 22 07:54:18 PDT 2002
30026 academic freedom -- rank: 1000
Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - August 22, 2002 U. of South Florida Accuses Professor of Links to Terrorism and Asks Court to Approve Plan to Fire Him By SHARON WALSH The Board of Trustees of the University of South Florida on Wednesday accused Sami Al-Arian, a tenured professor who is an outspoken defender of the Palestinian cause, of terrorism and asked a Florida court to rule on whether firing him would violate his constitutional rights. Mr. Al-Arian has been investigated by feder ...
Document Size: 13210
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 22 07:52:10 PDT 2002
30027 Ace on "outside Jewish money" and other things -- rank: 1000
Marta Russell wrote: >Maybe AC does do this quite a bit but as another writer who just had >her book reviewed in the Nation explained the use of "cripple" >instead of "disabled" to me -- the reviewer used cripple for shock >value. This is for Nation readers, a kind of way to make the story >more controversial, to draw in a reader. So what does that say about >what the media demands from people who write for them? I can speak from experience that the Nation e ...
Document Size: 5394
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 22 07:40:15 PDT 2002
30028 Ace on "outside Jewish money" and other things -- rank: 1000
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Actually, some politicians are already saying that -- "I happen to >believe the Palestinians should leave" (Dick Armey) -- without >anything untoward happening to them. And Rummy recently defended Israel's taking of the occupied territories - and no outside Jewish money was involved at all. Nothing untoward is happening to him either, because, Michael Neumann to the contrary, the Bush gang thinks that Israel is a fine ally. Doug
Document Size: 5194
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 22 06:27:11 PDT 2002
30029 Gallup on civil unions -- rank: 1000
<http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr020822.asp> POLL ANALYSES August 22, 2002 New York Times Policy Focuses Attention on Homosexual Civil Unions A slight majority of Americans now oppose same-sex unions by Frank Newport and Joseph Carroll GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- The issue of society's reaction to formalized unions between gay and lesbian partners was thrust back into the news this past week when The New York Times said it will begin to publish announcements of same-sex comm ...
Document Size: 6166
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Aug 21 21:38:43 PDT 2002
30030 additions to radio archive -- rank: 1000
I've just added two more shows to my web radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: >June 13, 2002 Robert Brenner, author of The Boom and the Bubble, >talking about the 1990s boom, the subsequent bust, and the prognosis >for the U.S. and world economies. And Gilberto Buenaño, Vice >Minister of Planning and Regional Development in the government of >Venezuela, talks about the coup attempt against the Chavez >government, and what they're trying to do th ...
Document Size: 5506
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Aug 21 16:41:17 PDT 2002
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