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30406 US aid to Israel -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] ||| Stephen Zunes, Washington report on middle eastern affairs -- Total U.S. aid to Israel is approximately one-third of the American foreign- aid budget, even though Israel comprises just .001 percent of the world's population and already has one of the world's higher per capita incomes. Indeed, Israel's GNP is higher than the combined GNP of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza. With a per capita income of about $14,000, Israel ranks as the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 4 15:40:25 PST 2002

30407 Tom the Exterminator on the Middle East -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Naji Dahi wrote: > >>It is very simple, just follow the money. From opensecrets.org, it seems >>that pro-israel pacs contribute the largest share from the ideological pacs >>category in Delay's 2000 re-election campaign. >>Pro-Israel $14,200 > >-So you can buy DeLay's opinion for just $14,200? Couldn't the Saudis >outbid? >-Doug > >And if you buy the money argument, the $64,500 Delay received from the >energy industry woul ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 4 15:30:29 PST 2002

30408 how librarians relax -- rank: 1000

Scanned from an issue of Bust: <http://jessamyn.info/pix/unwind.jpg>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 4 12:07:10 PST 2002

30409 Tom the Exterminator on the Middle East -- rank: 1000

Naji Dahi wrote: >Doug, > >It is very simple, just follow the money. From opensecrets.org, it seems >that pro-israel pacs contribute the largest share from the ideological pacs >category in Delay's 2000 re-election campaign. Would you not say that there >is a direct correlation between the money given and speaking out in favor of >Israel. It seems pretty clear to me. > >Ideological/Single Issue PACs > >Republican/Conservative $2,733 >Leadership PACs $5,079 > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 4 11:46:56 PST 2002

30410 Radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

Today on my radio show, WBAI 99.5 FM NYC and <http://www.wbai.org> or <http://www.2600.com>, 5-6 PM NYC time: * Greg Palast, author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, on the Florida 2000 election scandal, the World Bank/IMF, the media... * Norman Finkelstein on the current crisis Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 4 11:19:52 PST 2002

30411 Russia says it will work with WB -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >Actually, the important thing here IMO is Russia continuing its Putin-era >policy of refusing WB/IMF loans. Interesting - why? Don't need the money? Don't want the conditionality? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 4 09:17:22 PST 2002

30412 two from Ha'aretz -- rank: 1000

Ha'aretz - April 04, 2002 Violence erupts as 2,000 peace activists try to bring food, medicine to Ramallah By Anat Cygielman and Yossi Verter Police yesterday used tear gas and batons to prevent a peace march of some 2,000 protesting Israeli Jews and Arabs from delivering truckloads of food and medicine to besieged Ramallah. The clashes erupted at the A Ram checkpoint north of Jerusalem. Demonstrators from Israeli peace groups, including Gush Shalom, Ta'ayush, Physicians for Human Rights, Bat Sh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 4 09:16:40 PST 2002

30413 poll: Americans deeply confused -- rank: 1000

New York Post - April 4, 2002 AMERICANS SUPPORT JEWISH STATE: POLL Americans' sympathies lie more with the Israelis than the Palestinians in the current conflict in the Mideast, according to a CBS News poll released yesterday. But the survey revealed many are concerned the conflict in the Middle East is making a terrorist attack on the United States more likely. Some of the poll's findings: * Americans' sympathies lie with the Israelis over the Palestinians by a 5-1 margin. * Almost two-thirds t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 4 09:07:07 PST 2002

30414 Shapiro's parents -- rank: 1000

Liza Featherstone wrote: >Yes-- it's actually an editorial in today's New york Times. Amazingly > >> From: "pms" <laflame at aaahawk.com> >> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com >> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 11:27:58 -0500 >> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> >> Subject: Shapiro's parents >> >> Yesterday I read a scary story about Adam Shapiro's parents having to leave >> their home because of death threats. Mentioned ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 4 08:52:14 PST 2002

30415 DeLay -- rank: 1000

What a choice little excerpt, courtesy of Friends of the Earth <http://www.foeaction.org/Page6-exterminatorarticle.htm>: >Article written by Tim Fleck with the Houston Press. FoE Action >thanks Tim Fleck and the Houston Press for permission to reprint >this excerpt. > >DeLay has risen in the exterminator ranks. > >Excerpt from Houston Press Article, January 7 - 13, 1999 edition > >"...[DeLay] had graduated from the University of Houston at the >height of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 4 08:37:27 PST 2002

30416 Tom the Exterminator on the Middle East -- rank: 1000

[no date, but it must have been yesterday - so if U.S. support of Israel is all about the strength of the Israeli lobby, how do you explain a right-wing cretin like DeLay's vigorous support? his earlier employment as an exterminator?] WASHINGTON (Associated Press) - Suicide bombings and other "evil tactics" used by Israel's enemies threaten the civilized world itself, the incoming House majority leader said Wednesday. Rep. Tom DeLay praised President Bush (news - web sites) for "s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 4 08:33:50 PST 2002

30417 Web bugs -- rank: 1000

kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >Television and print media people are just lusting for this information. I know all this. I still don't see why I should care. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 3 15:44:50 PST 2002

30418 Israel Is Not America's Greatest Ally -- rank: 1000

Heer, Jeet (National Post) wrote: >If Israel is not America's greatest ally, then the reverse may also be true, >the US is not Israel's best ally, either. The heavy reliance on the US and >the support that some Americans give to the hard-line settlers makes Israel >much more militerisitic and intransgient than it should be, if it were >merely acting in its best interest. Anyone know what portion of those settlers are American-born? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 3 14:41:41 PST 2002

30419 Web bugs -- rank: 1000

Marco Anglesio wrote: >That said. Your personal information, such that it is, is the currency >that is paid to the service provider in order to sell advertising. Is it >ethical to provide no data or obfuscated data, knowing that it will hinder >the ability of the service provider to pay their bills? And what's the big deal if they know? This is what I was thinking of when I brought up the bourgeois fetish of privacy the other week - not, as some seemed to think, that I was being call ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 3 14:30:02 PST 2002

30420 Henry K gossip -- rank: 1000

First Kissinger suffers all these legal troubles, then this (from the NY Post's Page Six): >Henry Kissinger was so upset at being omitted from the list >(published in the Times) of guests invited to the 100th birthday >party for Brooke Astor that host David Rockefeller had to call the >former secretary of state and beg him to attend.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 3 13:56:18 PST 2002