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30421 An Israeli Pundit Scorecard -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Ian Murray wrote: >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan at newman.org> >> most of the left is currently unwilling to do, preferring to >> > bemoan inevitable corruption. > >This is what makes Nathan's view of the world, for all of his >brightness, for all the things he is right on, and for all of his good >intentions, totally useless. He is incapable of criticizing a position > ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 2 15:44:28 PST 2002

30422 Statement from American US Nationals in Azza Refugee Camp -- rank: 1000

[these people are pretty damned admirable - I wish I had a fraction of their nerve] <http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/2700.php> Statement from American U.S. Nationals in Azza Refugee Camp by sf-imc posting for u.s. nationals Tuesday April 02, 2002 at 02:31 AM Statement from American U.S. Nationals in Azza Refugee Camp The U.S. citizens now in Beit Jalla refugee camp (Azza) have been informed of the U.S. consulate's offer to evacuate us during the early hours of the seige on this ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 2 15:43:28 PST 2002

30423 Food Is, Still, Clearly Not a Human Right - answers to you all -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >What is a freedom ? Just another word for nothing left to lose, of course. Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 2 14:16:58 PST 2002

30424 An Israeli Pundit Scorecard -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Unlike Doug, I don't see our fractured system as necessarily >anti-progressive-- it prevents easy national discourse on reform but it also >prevents similar centralization to rollback past reform successes. It's not me - I got it from James Madison <http://memory.loc.gov/const/fed/fed_10.html>. >But the most common and durable source of factions has been the >various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and >those who are without prop ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 2 13:18:41 PST 2002

30425 An Israeli Pundit Scorecard -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >But my main point, as usual, is that I think politics is far less of the >centralized corporate duopoly envisioned by most leftists, and far more a >system of 435 individual Congressional worlds. You may be right, but isn't this part of the idiotic genius of the American system? Complete fractionation, organizationally and ideologically, is a wonderful gift to the status quo. Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 2 12:34:16 PST 2002

30426 Japan & the refusal of work -- rank: 1000

Reading all the press lately about "parasite teens" - the Japanese kids who live with their parents, scorn work, and spend $1,000 on small-run designer t-shirts - I was wondering: is this some version of the refusal of work so celebrated by autonomists? Is the long slump the country has been experiencing more the result of a breakdown of labor discipline than more conventional economic mechanisms? Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 2 12:03:13 PST 2002

30427 An Israeli Pundit Scorecard -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Actually Congressional staffers read their home town newspapers most closely, >which is one of the problems with the whole obsession with DC pundits. >People in DC and NYC think the world revolves around their media, but home >town papers and television stations matter far more. I believe studies >consistently show that average folks watch their local news channels far more >consistently than the national news. You're right about this - I've made that poi ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 2 12:00:12 PST 2002

30428 list housekeeping -- rank: 1000

Slipping into listmom mode... 1) When replying to a post, please don't quote 12k of material with a three-line comment prepended. Just quote the relevant portions. That's a third of a digest - and 12,000 bytes * 333 subscribers = almost 4 megabytes of data, which, at 8 cents a meg, comes to 32 cents. There are better ways to spend my money. So for the sake of subscribers and my monthly panix bill, cut before responding. 2) Free email services - and unsurprisingly, hotmail seems the worst - have ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 2 11:52:24 PST 2002

30429 An Israeli Pundit Scorecard -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Not that the basic argument isn't true for the high-circulation newspapers, >but the scorecard stacks the deck by including pundits from National Review, >Frontpage, The New Republic, and other smaller circulation weeklies, while >ignoring pundits from progressive magazines other than The Nation (and those >got including only because the authors appear in other publications like >Vanity Fair or the New York Press.) Commondreams.org has articles from a & ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 2 11:13:33 PST 2002

30430 Fwd: Bethlehem under attack -- rank: 1000

[source seems to be jerusalem indymedia <http://www.jerusalem.indymedia.org>] as of 4:30 AM: Bethlehem has been declared a closed military zone and no press are allowed Heavy fighting in Manger Square (where Jesus was born) Star Hotel, where some international are staying, is surrounded by tanks The US embassy has made an offer to evacuate the ISM group which has been refused Electricity has been cut off, cell phones will be impossible to charge, so don't call unless necessary 7 of the 19 ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 2 09:08:44 PST 2002

30431 Fwd: An Israeli Pundit Scorecard -- rank: 1000

An Israeli Pundit Scorecard Memo To: Washington Press Secretaries From: Jude Wanniski Re: Eric Alterman subdivides Eric Alterman, a pundit for the Nation, has as many friends in the national press corps as I do (very few). I suppose this is why he had little to lose in drawing up a scorecard of the Washington pundit class on how they divide on matters relating to Israel. There is a long list of knee-jerk supporters, who would not blanch if Ariel Sharon used daisy cutters on Yasir Arafat`s compou ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 2 09:03:59 PST 2002

30432 Sharon proposes exile for Arafat -- rank: 1000

[So does Sharon want more militant leadership to emerge so the Israelis will be "justified" in intensifying the crackdown?] Guardian (London) - April 2, 2002 Arafat and Sharon should resign, says EU official * EU official calls for new leadership * Sharon says Arafat should go into exile * Gun battles rage across West Bank towns * Siege of Palestinian HQ ends Sarah Left and agencies As gun battles raged across the West Bank towns of Bethlehem and Ramallah, the EU foreign policy head, J ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 2 08:26:58 PST 2002

30433 McReynolds on A20 controversies -- rank: 1000

From: DavidMcR at aol.com Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 00:25:43 EST Subject: Memo on the controversy over April 20th Friends, comrades, coworkers, This is some background on conflicts that have emerged over the April 20th rally in Washington. People can send this out to those who may be confused. My interest is NOT in making any points for or against any side, but giving some background. This post is a personal one, the opinions are mine, not necessarily those of the organizations with which I work. So ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 2 07:54:20 PST 2002

30434 the IDF in action -- rank: 1000

<http://www.electronicintifada.net/features/articles/020312beithanina.shtml>

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Date:	Tue Apr 2 07:36:35 PST 2002

30435 placing the Palestinian struggle -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: <ckromm at mindspring.com> >>The Palestinian struggle is perhaps the BEST example against your "Dems and >Repubs are >>different" line. Please, the weight of evidence and history are against you >on this one. > >Since I posted a whole string of info about party differences on Palestine, >dating from early support for the Palestinians from folks like David Bonior >onward, I refer you to t ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 1 14:42:12 PST 2002