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30376 Tom the Exterminator on the Middle East -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> >To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> >Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 8:33 AM >Subject: Re: Tom the Exterminator on the Middle East > > >> Of course, the empire management may not always do the smart thing. >> But I'm skeptical of such arguments. > >It seems eminently sane to think that even the Gods of empire are fallible. Of course. But they h ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 8 07:13:34 PDT 2002

30377 Russia says it will work with WB -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >Russia's got enormous natural resources and lots of leverage with OPEC. Much >like China and India, it has enough muscle to wiggle out of the IMF >straitjacket, IMO. Russia certainly has potentially enormous leverage, not even counting their nuclear weapons. But natural resources aren't enough. Most resource exporters are politically weak and thinly industrialized. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 8 07:03:08 PDT 2002

30378 Enron meets Perry Mason -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >[Doug, any guesses as to how ugly this could get on Wall Street?] > >Barclays named in Enron shareholder action Moderately ugly, unless you're a lawyer, in which case it could be beautiful. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 8 06:48:54 PDT 2002

30379 Tom the Exterminator on the Middle East -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Carrol Cox wrote: > >> But let's shift the question: Why does the Wall St. Journal Comics Crew > > push for so hard a line in the Mideast? > >The WSJ editorial page position on Israel has long been somewhere to the >right of the Hebron Settlers. It's an invariant that's independent of >current events. Ok, but why? It's one of the major sites for American conservatism to "think" out loud. It's morally conservati ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 7 08:39:53 PDT 2002

30380 Tom the Exterminator on the Middle East -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Because they're nuts. They don't realize how good they have it, and how >much worse they can make it. > >I think we have to be clear that just because an empire has a purpose >doesn't mean its following its interests. Vietnam, for example. Did the U.S. really lose the Vietnam war? The only revolution of consequence after the U.S. withdrawal was in Nicaragua, and that didn't end very well. Vietnam itself was ruined - impoverished and poisoned. From that exp ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 7 08:33:05 PDT 2002

30381 Heidegger (and Woodstock) -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >The "Beats" claimed Heidegger as one of their >inspirations and the effect, or perhaps association", >of Heidegger to the 60s generation seems apparent. Bob Fitch told a story of spying Michael Lerner reading Heidegger in Berkeley around 1968, and asking him "Why are you reading that Nazi gasbag?" Lerner replied that it was very important. The rest is history, or at least the politics of meaning. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 6 13:11:04 PST 2002

30382 Said: Thinking ahead -- rank: 1000

[via Chuck0's Infoshop list] <http://www.mediamonitors.net/edward50.html> Thinking ahead by Edward Said Anyone with any connection at all to Palestine is today in a state of stunned outrage and shock. While almost a repeat of what happened in 1982, Israel's current all-out colonial assault on the Palestinian people (with George Bush's astoundingly ignorant and grotesque support) is indeed worse than Sharon's two previous mass forays in 1971 and 1982 against the Palestinian people. The poli ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 6 13:07:22 PST 2002

30383 Chomsky on Palestine -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Doug, I wonder what mass following means. Wall Street was a successful >book, just like Chomsky's. Would you say that you have a mass following? Heavens no. Noam is a global star. You don't get to be among the 10 most cited authors around (though I do wonder about the details of that claim) and not get noticed. What serious intellectual sells more books than Chomsky? I bet he sells many times more than Samuel Huntington or Joseph Nye. Of course they're ruling cla ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 6 12:39:34 PST 2002

30384 Russia says it will work with WB -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >I think one factor at work here is that the Russian elite currently in power >-- unlike elites throughout the Third World -- is not used to playing the >role of puppets for outside powers. They are used to being puppeteers. They >have no interest in Russia becoming a client state. They have their work cut out for them, don't they? Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 6 11:40:09 PST 2002

30385 if only they could withdraw the prize -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] BBC - Members of the Norwegian committee that awards the annual Nobel Peace Prize have launched an unprecedented verbal assault on Israeli Foreign Minister and Nobel peace laureate Shimon Peres. Mr Peres accepted the peace prize jointly with the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israel's late prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, in 1994. Nobel committee member Hanna Kvanmo In an interview with a Norwegian newspaper, committee members said they regretted that Mr ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 6 10:31:04 PST 2002

30386 Chomsky on Palestine -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >As usual, he's right on the money. As usual, liberals and other shady >characters will dismiss him. Another day in the dreadful "discourse" of the >U.S. left ... Well, I don't know about this. Chomsky has a very strange status in the public discourse. He barely appears in the mainstream press at all, but he's massively popular. I just did a Nexis search on his name in the New York Times, and got 20 hits for the last year (since April 2001, not since the beg ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 6 10:28:05 PST 2002

30387 Oh those Right Wing Weblogs -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >Norah Vincent is not really very bright, and is much given >to slightly out-of-date clichés, like the ones about the >Liberal Media and how the Truth Is Out There On The Internet. >While her work is boring, her success is rather amusing, >considering that not so long ago she was writing dumb articles >about her cat for the _NY_Press_. I think Russ moved her >right along, though. Now she, too, is the Liberal Media. I >guess they deserve one another. ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 6 10:02:14 PST 2002

30388 steeling elections -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Is the Swedish program still in effect?? Yes, as far as I can tell, though I didn't have time to do extensive research at deadline time. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 6 07:52:28 PST 2002

30389 steeling elections -- rank: 1000

[The Nation didn't put this on their website; here it is scanned.] The Nation - April 8, 2002 Steeling Elections In early March, the Bush Administration adopted a policy that the steel industry as well as the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) have long been agitating for-tariffs on steel imports. The official reason is to give the industry some "breathing space," so it can restructure while shielded from foreign com petition. It's more likely that Bush wants to carry some impor tan ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 5 16:16:25 PST 2002

30390 McReynolds on A20 controversies -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >You wouldn't really want a group carrying the Swastika in your parade >would you. No, certainly not. I'm not a complete coalitional slut. > And there is really no need to argue against the likes of >Munson -- they can always be easily isolated if a coalition is growing, >and if they attempt to sabotage it (e.g., by equating red with fascism) >they will simply be laughed at. Hey, I like Chuck. I don't always agree with him, but I think he & I are more or ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 5 13:35:58 PST 2002