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30361 the infrastructure of terrorism -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review - you'd never see a piece like this in a U.S. paper, would you?] Gideon Levy, Haaretz, ISRAEL -- For the second time in Israel's history, Ariel Sharon is leading the country into a war of choice - as pernicious as any war of choice - and nearly the entire public is following him more than willingly. When history judges this war, only a few will be able to say that they opposed it from the outset. In the last analysis, it will also be very difficult to blame S ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 9 08:02:05 PDT 2002

30362 withdraw Arafat's Nobel, sez Cuomo the Younger -- rank: 1000

New York Post - April 9, 2002 ANDY: ARAFAT IS ANYTHING BUT NOBEL By ZACH HABERMAN and SIMON CRITTLE April 8, 2002 -- Gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo called on the Norwegian Nobel Committee to yank Yasser Arafat's 1994 peace prize yesterday, saying he's doing the award a "dishonor." "The Nobel Committee should rescind the prize because Arafat is not now supporting peace. This is not behavior befitting a Nobel Peace Prize winner," said Cuomo. The Palestinian leader received ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 9 08:41:32 PDT 2002

30363 Fwd: <nettime> Bourgeoisophobia -- rank: 1000

[via nettime - much more at <http://theweeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=1102&R=4FB822EC7>] The Weekly Standard - April 15, 2002 Among the Bourgeoisophobes Why the Europeans and Arabs, each in their own way, hate America and Israel. by David Brooks AROUND 1830, a group of French artists and intellectuals looked around and noticed that people who were their spiritual inferiors were running the world. Suddenly a large crowd of merchants, managers, and traders wer ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 9 08:32:22 PDT 2002

30364 Said: Thinking ahead -- rank: 1000

Micheal Ellis wrote: >wow...am i on the right list? Would the "wrong" list be one where you disagree with other posters? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 9 08:12:08 PDT 2002

30365 Moore's representation of the working class -- rank: 1000

kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >At 05:34 PM 4/8/02 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote: >>joanna bujes wrote: >> >>>Of course, of course. But the working class is represented in the >>>media in exactly the way that Moore presents himself. >> >>While Moore himself lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in a >>duplex he bought years ago for $1.7m. Guess the hat helps keep him >>in touch with his roots. > > >last time he was on FOX he tal ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 8 15:21:32 PDT 2002

30366 steeling elections -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >Now this alternative world was the world that Bob Reich wanted the >Clinton Administration to make--and that had very good prospects of >being realized before the Gingrich Revolution. Money for active >labor market policies once the budgetary picture improved was >supposed to be Clinton social democracy job 3--after health care and >real welfare recipient training. > ><sarcasm>Yet another example of not a dime's worth of difference >betwee ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 8 15:19:06 PDT 2002

30367 Bush seduces NYT reporter -- rank: 1000

[An interesting study in the influence of the NYT, and how the media work in general.] Business Week - April 15, 2002 BOOKS By Alexandra Starr The Seduction of a Campaign Reporter AMBLING INTO HISTORY The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush By Frank Bruni HarperCollins -- 278pp -- $23.95 White House Communications Director Dan Bartlett once told me that, every evening at 11:05 p.m. during the Presidential campaign, he was reminded of the influence of The New York Times. That was when TV producers ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 8 14:50:41 PDT 2002

30368 Friedman's 4/3 NYT column -- rank: 1000

/ dave / wrote: >Apropos of all this, Friedman won a Pulitzer today for his >commentary on the "worldwide impact of the terrorist threat": And the NYT won a Pulitzer - or, as a naive member of the New York City Ballet once called it, a "Putzler" - for "A Nation Challenged," a concept with perhaps the highest ratio of bloat to content in the history of journalism. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 8 14:29:19 PDT 2002

30369 Moore's representation of the working class -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Of course, of course. But the working class is represented in the >media in exactly the way that Moore presents himself. While Moore himself lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in a duplex he bought years ago for $1.7m. Guess the hat helps keep him in touch with his roots. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 8 14:34:08 PDT 2002

30370 US aid to Israel -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >I have to wonder why people waste their time with this stuff >while the IDF is shooting Palestinians down like dogs in the street. Unfortunately, if they were shooting dogs in the street, there'd probably be more organized opposition, at least in the U.S. The Hollywood liberals would be up in arms. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 8 14:31:18 PDT 2002

30371 Tom the exterminator -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Oh boy, did it ever lose Vietnam. Not only that, it also lost Korea: >when you're that powerful, a draw is a loss. So in both cases, the "victors" were rendered poor & isolated for decades, and the loser went on to run the world. I'm going to have to rethink the definitions of these words now. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 8 14:14:46 PDT 2002

30372 archive of DH's radio programs? -- rank: 1000

Chris Beggy wrote: >Are any of Doug Henwood's radio programs archived and available? I >checked http://www.wbai.org/ and http://www.2600.com/ and >couldn't find them, although I could find others at 2600.com. No, they're not, sorry. I'm going to look into changing that. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 8 08:43:53 PDT 2002

30373 Tom the Exterminator on the Middle East -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >As to why conservatives are more hawkish on Israel than liberals are, >isn't that generally true everywhere in foreign policy? Yes but... American conservatives are hawkish whenever they think the violence they're supporting will increase U.S. power. Since most American conservatives are rabidly pro-Israel, I'm concluding that they think that Israeli policy serves U.S. power interests. Whether they're right or wrong about this is immaterial - I'm only emphasizing thi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 8 07:29:28 PDT 2002

30374 Tom the Exterminator on the Middle East -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Did the U.S. really lose the Vietnam war? > >Yes. How can you doubt it? Everything we feared happened. To put it >differently: things could not possibly have worked out worse, and could >well have worked out better, if we'd let them hold an election in 1954. >Everything it cost us was in vain. How is that not losing? > >> The only revolution of consequence after the U.S. withdrawal was i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 8 07:25:18 PDT 2002

30375 the new liberal imperialism -- rank: 1000

<http://www.observer.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,680095,00.html> Observer (London) - April 7, 2002 The new liberal imperialism Senior British diplomat Robert Cooper has helped to shape British Prime Minister Tony Blair's calls for a new internationalism and a new doctrine of humanitarian intervention which would place limits on state sovereignty. This article contains the full text of Cooper's essay on "the postmodern state", written in a personal capacity, an extract from whic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 8 07:17:44 PDT 2002