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30031 The Blithedale Romance Re: Milton the Anarchist.... -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >I love this passage too. But that last sentence is of course nonsense. > >Michael Pollak >Alumnus >Deep Springs College Is that that place where you had to tend pigs and such that recruited National Merit finalists aggressively in the early 1970s? I'm so glad I went to a college where I didn't have to grow my own food. I'm guessing you liked it Michael. Say more. Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 21 16:53:08 PDT 2002

30032 Fwd: Update: Argentine Military Believed U.S. Gave Go-ahead for Dirty War -- rank: 1000

National Security Archive Update, August 21, 2002 *ARGENTINE MILITARY BELIEVED U.S. GAVE GO-AHEAD FOR DIRTY WAR* - New State Department documents show conflict between Washington and US Embassy in Buenos Aires over signals to the military dictatorship at height of repression in 1976 Contact: Carlos Osorio/Thomas Blanton - 202/994-7000 http://www.nsarchive.org/NSAEBB/NSAEBB73/index3.htm Washington, D.C – State Department documents released yesterday on Argentina’s dirty war (1976-83) show that th ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 21 15:18:11 PDT 2002

30033 Ace on "outside Jewish money" and other things -- rank: 1000

dave dorkin wrote: >Are you saying that jews in the US are aggrieved? > >If arabs, moslims and blacks received one thousandth >of the attention jews' grievances receive and the >attention paid to them in the media i think i would >faint. Is there some law, like the conservation of hatred, that says you can't object to slurs against both Arabs and Jews? That you have to pick one or the other? Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 21 12:45:58 PDT 2002

30034 Ace on "outside Jewish money" and other things -- rank: 1000

dave dorkin wrote: >I dont understand why you get quite so worked up about >this. I am of Jewish origin and really dont see why >every statement about the Jews must be examined in >this way when almost no effort is ever expended on >anti-Arab or Muslim sentiment which isnt even >debatable but rather plainly stated. I certainly didnt >take the phrase to be racist. No effort expended by whom? Not me, not most members of this list, and certainly not AC. Why get worked up? For t ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 21 12:44:43 PDT 2002

30035 Ace on "outside Jewish money" and other things -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: >You mean the guy that in a recent Nation column referred to >Ron Paul as "the great Texas libertarian"? That AC? You >think is giving up the rightwing nutballs? Don't count on >it. Ron Paul is "great" (and he'd no doubt endorse calling abortion "killing fetuses"). Wellstone is bad, though probably not as bad as Sanders. That clarifies things, right? Doug

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30036 Ace on "outside Jewish money" and other things -- rank: 1000

eric dorkin wrote: >Two things: (1) the "money" was from "outside" the >state and from "jewish" sources. Your repsonse to AC >is muted compared to the crap McKinney took for her >"outside Arab money." So? "They did it too" isn't much of a defense, unless you're about 5 years old and dealing with your kindergarten teacher. And the crap she took was vile poisonous crap and I hate it. Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 21 11:52:03 PDT 2002

30037 Enron & the newspapers -- rank: 1000

San Francisco Chronicle - August 20, 2002 Enron sues over newsprint hedge deals Enron sues media firms Newsprint hedge deals contested Newspapers have been beating up on Enron Corp. for the better part of this year. Now it's Enron's turn to fight back. Enron, the now-notorious bankrupt energy trader, is suing two of the nation's largest newspaper companies, including San Jose's Knight Ridder, for backing out of newsprint deals. Enron, based in Houston, is seeking $22.9 million from Tribune Co. a ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 21 11:48:33 PDT 2002

30038 Milton the Anarchist Re: "post-leftism" -- rank: 1000

JCWisc at aol.com wrote: >There's also a long history in the US of people trying to found alternative >institutions, withdrawing to one degree or another from the surrounding >society and its horrors. The 19th century was full of them, and there was >another wave of it in the 1960s-early 70s. A lot of people tried the >back-to-the-land commune thing then, and while a few of them are still >around, most failed--same thing in the 19th century. Someone who's more >clued in t ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 21 11:30:45 PDT 2002

30039 Ace on "outside Jewish money" and other things -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >I agree with Max but think that the Greens in Minnesota are following a >defensible course. But then I may be prejudiced. Your former presidential and vice presidential candidates, Nader and LaDuke, don't agree. So why are you supporting a pro-military guy? Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 21 10:51:26 PDT 2002

30040 Ace on "outside Jewish money" and other things -- rank: 1000

eric dorkin wrote: >On this one, I think you are being a little to >hypersensitive... Remember, this came from the typing fingers of the same guy who complained recently that you can't point out that the New York Times is owned by Jews without being take for Goebbels. Indeed. But, whatever AC's faults, insentitivity to language isn't one of them. He wrote the phrase "outside Jewish money" knowing exactly what its connotations were and how they would be taken by lots of Nation rea ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 21 10:48:32 PDT 2002

30041 Ace on "outside Jewish money" and other things -- rank: 1000

Cian wrote: >Doug Henwood said > >...the use of the rather repulsive phrase "outside Jewish money," > >What would be a better phrase? Name the contributors and institutions instead of using a phrase rich with racist associations that invokes images of a vast Jewish conspiracy, outsiderhood, great riches, etc. Doug

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30042 Ace on "outside Jewish money" and other things -- rank: 1000

[This Counterpunch version looks pretty much identical to AC's column in this week's Nation. This is looking like a record low for Ace, with the idiotic defense of McGaa, the use of the rather repulsive phrase "outside Jewish money," the equally repulsive comments on abortion and Malthusianism, and the patronizing remark addressed to Katha Pollitt. To conclude a column this awful with a swipe at Paul Krugman is pretty rich, since Krugman is doing far better work than Cockburn is these ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 21 08:00:33 PDT 2002

30043 Arabs and USD -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >Saudis want to withdraw investments from US Financial Times - August 21, 2002 Saudis withdraw billions of dollars from US By Roula Khalaf in London Disgruntled Saudis have pulled tens of billions of dollars out of the US, signalling a deep alienation from America. One analyst said the total funds withdrawn by individual investors amount to $200bn. Other bankers put the figure nearer to $100bn. The US-Saudi alliance was put under severe strain after September 11, when 15 of the aer ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 21 07:46:51 PDT 2002

30044 Stiglitz in FT -- rank: 1000

[It's a blow to one's narcissism not to be named, but hey, all for the struggle!] Financial Times - August 21, 2002 Avenue of the Americas Starting over It could safely be said that relations between the International Monetary Fund and Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist of its sister institution the World Bank, aren't all sweetness and light. Stiglitz, one of the IMF's harshest critics for years, was recently the subject of a diatribe by Kenneth Rogoff, IMF chief economist, over his persist ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 21 07:18:34 PDT 2002

30045 Poverty levels in India decline sharply to 26 pc -- rank: 1000

Ulhas Joglekar wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Ulhas Joglekar wrote: >> >> >HindustanTimes.com >> > >> >Sunday, August 18, 2002 >> > >> >Poverty levels come down sharply to 26 per cent >> >> So is this true? What does Vandana Shiva have to say? > >Yes, its true. I don't know what Vandana Shiva says. Indian Left isn't >interested in Shiva. This contradicts a lot of what the Western "anti-globo" l ...

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