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30181 war plans -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >One possibility is that Iraq is merely a diversion, and the real >targets are Saudi Arabia and Iran. Attacking these countries makes >perfect sense from the point of view of "war on terrorism" because >these countries are main sponsors of terrorist networks. Any >thoughts? Hey, Saddam tried to kill W's Daddy, or so they say. As Dennis Perrin put it years ago, if it were a movie it would be "Gulf War II: This Time It's Personal." Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 6 09:47:57 PDT 2002

30182 war plans -- rank: 1000

[Happy Hiroshima day.] New York Post - August 6, 2002 WAR PLAN By NILES LATHEM WASHINGTON - These dramatic satellite photos show just how far U.S. preparations for war with Iraq have advanced. They are images of the state-of-the-art al Udeid air base in Qatar, which has been significantly upgraded over the last six months and is expected to be used as America's base for military operations against Saddam Hussein. The images, taken by the commercial satellite company Digital Globe, show that betw ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 6 07:39:13 PDT 2002

30183 nader -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >hold on... aside from his austerity, he wrote a book about the campaign >which made the charts ,he's been all over the country speaking, >promoting it, was recently interviewed in Time, and has been in my >county - Marin - in california twice this year, before standing room >only crowds at a book store which regularly presents the most >mainstream authors...granted, major media have not followed his every >step and word, but tens of thousands of citizen ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 6 07:22:06 PDT 2002

30184 Anti-Capitalism Reader -- rank: 1000

<http://www.akashicbooks.com/acr.html> The Anti-Capitalism Reader: Anti-Market Politics in Theory and Practice, Past, Present and Future edited by Joel Schalit Nonfiction/Paperback 325 pages $16.95 ISBN 1-888451-33-5 Forthcoming September 2002 The collapse of Enron and WorldCom and the increasing evidence of corruption at the highest levels of corporate life has opened the door to a remarkable whirlwind of dialogue about the prevailing economic ideology of the post-Cold War era. While trad ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 5 17:02:09 PDT 2002

30185 Manhattan Young Republican street fair -- rank: 1000

[Could some direct action types please visit this?] Annual N.Y. Young Republicans Street Fair 8/17/2002 IT's HERE!! The annual NYYRC Street Fair. On August 17th, we host one of the largest street fairs in Manhattan, on Seventh Ave from 46th to 57th Streets. Come join us between the hours of 11am and 5pm while we organize one of the best showings of right-wingers in New York. We will registers new voters, convert already registered voters, distribute information for candidates that help spread th ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 5 15:57:49 PDT 2002

30186 Fast Track Passage -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >But heck-- let's just say I vote for Nader for prom king. He's a >heck of a guy. No he's not. He's an austere one-dimensional petit bourgeois who's largely gone missing since November 2000. And if he's the reason Gore lost, you're really in trouble! Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 5 15:03:05 PDT 2002

30187 Fwd: scott ritter -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 17:13:22 -0400 From: Jude Wanniski <jwanniski at polyconomics.com> Subject: scott ritter Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter interview on C-SPAN's Washington Journal. Ritter at his best in a sensational show. Everyone I know who has watched it has raved about its importance in weighing against war with Iraq. You will need realvideo to watch. He is emphatic in arguing that Richard Butler was compromised in permitting his team of weapons inspectors to violate the ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 5 14:19:03 PDT 2002

30188 Fast Track Passage -- rank: 1000

Alan Jacobson wrote: >Gore ended up with 50,999,897 votes to Bush's 50,456,002 (FEC website). Your >candidate won the popular vote and by all fairness should be president. If you >want to be mad, be mad at the Electoral College and the whole way we elect >presidents. And Gore forbade his supporters from demonstrating in the streets - or countering in any way the Reps' "bourgeois riot" (in Paul Gigot's memorable phrase). He chose to litigate, and lost. Truly a pud-puller, th ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 5 14:10:39 PDT 2002

30189 Intellectuals vs. activism -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The classic Marx statement on it all was "The point is not to understand he >world but to change it." Yes, but Marx spent *lots* of time trying to understand the world. Not to mention writing theory. He was not one to subordinate his interests to the immediate needs of activists. Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 5 13:44:17 PDT 2002

30190 next RM conference - mark your calendars now! -- rank: 1000

ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS "MARXISM AND THE WORLD STAGE" 6-9 NOVEMBER 2003 UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AT AMHERST <http://www.nd.edu/~remarx/> PURPOSE The editors of RETHINKING MARXISM announce "Marxism and the World Stage," the fifth in its series of international Gala celebrations of the Marxian tradition. Marxism continues to inspire rich and diverse analyses and politics across the globe. Within academia, Marxism provokes new critical insights and excites pass ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 5 12:53:18 PDT 2002

30191 US pilots on speed -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - August 3, 2002 Friendly fire deaths linked to US pilots 'on speed' By Andrew Buncombe in Washington American pilots in Afghanistan, blamed for a series of "friendly fire" incidents and devastating erroneous attacks on innocent civilians, were routinely provided with amphetamines to tackle fatigue and help them fly longer hours. Pilots were allowed to "self-regulate" their own doses and kept the drugs in their cockpits. The pilots were provided with the ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 5 12:30:09 PDT 2002

30192 another way to do journalism -- rank: 1000

How Neal Travis, NY Post gossip columnist, does his job, according to a profile in this week's New York magazine: >One word for Travis's reporting methods is unorthodox -- as he is >the first to admit. "I do things that the Columbia School of >Journalism might not approve of," he says with a sly grin. "There >was a very fast-rising politician, for example. I knew that he'd >been out to Aspen with his current girlfriend, and that he had a >penchant for not paying ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 5 12:13:23 PDT 2002

30193 Report: Pakistani leader says bin Laden did not plan Sept. 11 att acks -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >Report: Pakistani leader says bin Laden did not plan Sept. 11 attacks Hey, Gore Vidal agrees - he says the Pakistani intelligence agency did! Maybe Musharraf knows of what he speaks. Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 5 11:44:26 PDT 2002

30194 Fast Track Passage -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >There's been remarkably little commentary on the passage of Fast Track last >week. > >How about a Thanks Ralph for the result. I thought maturity consisted in part of recognizing your own contributions to your problems rather than blaming others. Your guy lost, Nathan, because he sucked, not because of Ralph. Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 5 11:43:31 PDT 2002

30195 Americans believe in Heaven -- rank: 1000

New York Post - August 5, 2002 HALO THERE! MAJORITY SAYS HEAVEN'S REAL By DAN KADISON A large majority of Americans believes there's a heaven, a new poll has found. Newsweek magazine surveyed 1,000 American adults, ages 18 and up, in July. Seventy-six percent said they believe in the existence of heaven. The reason is because "it's threatening to one's entire self" to imagine one's own death, says Sherwin Nuland, author of "How We Die: Reflection in Life's Final Chapter." &qu ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 5 11:32:38 PDT 2002