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30436 placing the palestinian struggle -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Sorry, I didn't intend to point to mere market fluctuations but to >highlight the alpha and omega of all US involvement in the Mideast: >assuring America's access to oil. Obviously, we're subverting that >strategic aim by letting Israel run amok. And the market isn't >fluctuating right now; it's just plain heading higher. Yeah, today. But every politically motivated price spike since 1979 has been quickly undone, no? Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 1 13:39:26 PST 2002

30437 placing the palestinian struggle -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Carl Remick wrote: > >> OTOH, as CBS MarketWatch notes today: "Crude futures soared above $27 a >> barrel Monday on fears of a possible disruption in Middle East oil exports >> following heavy violence between the Israelis and Palestinians over the >> weekend. Crude for May delivery rose as high as $27.07 a barrel before >> closing at $26.88, up 57 cents on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The >> contract had been tradi ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 1 13:33:46 PST 2002

30438 Cuban documents on Angola -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 13:42:42 -0500 From: NSARCHIVE <mevans at GWU.EDU> Subject: Update: Secret Cuban Documents on History of Africa Involvement National Security Archive Update, April 1, 2002 *SECRET CUBAN DOCUMENTS ON HISTORY OF AFRICA INVOLVEMENT POSTED* NEW BOOK based on Unprecedented Access to Cuban Records; True story of U.S.-Cuba Cold War clash in Angola presented in "Conflicting Missions" http://www.nsarchive.org/NSAEBB/NSAEBB67/ Washington D.C.: The National Security A ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 1 11:52:14 PST 2002

30439 placing the palestinian struggle -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >At Open Secrets (www.opensecrets.org), they track contributions from both >PACs and individuals specifically targetted through pro-Israel groups. The >totals for the 2000 election cycle from pro-Israel sources were just over $6 >million (see http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.asp?Ind=Q05) ...with 60% of it going to Dems, which makes it harder to explain Bush policy by the follow-the-money strategy. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 1 11:17:08 PST 2002

30440 Fwd: Fw: Internationals Attacked with Live Gunfire -- rank: 1000

>X-From_: worker-rtsnyc at lists.tao.ca Mon Apr 1 11:08:52 2002 >Delivered-To: rtsnyc-outgoing at lists.tao.ca >From: "oznik-news" <news at oznik.com> >To: "Reclaim the Streets" <rtsnyc at lists.tao.ca> >Subject: Fw: Internationals Attacked with Live Gunfire >Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 11:08:59 -0500 >X-Priority: 3 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 >Sender: worker-rtsnyc at lists.tao.ca ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 1 11:09:27 PST 2002

30441 Palast in NYC -- rank: 1000

At 11:54 AM -0600 4/1/02, iara lee / caipirinha wrote: >THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY >how george bush stole the election and gave the country to enron > >LECTURE * Q&A * BOOK PARTY > >please join author/ bbc reporter GREG PALAST to discuss the truths >about globalization, corporate cons, and high finance. > >award-winning investigative journalist GREG PALAST has exposed some of the >most egregious cases of political corruption, corporate fraud, and >finan ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 1 10:02:19 PST 2002

30442 placing the palestinian struggle -- rank: 1000

Naji Dahi wrote: >Support to Israel has not been driven by the geopolitical interests of the >US. It is driven by the strength of AIPAC. In order to break the power of >AIPAC over US policy to the ME, you need public financing of elections in >the US. Everything I know about how U.S. power works internationally tells me that the U.S. marches to its own drummer, choosing policies that will sustain or enhance this country's wealth and/or power. Why in this case a domestic political lob ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 1 06:43:35 PST 2002

30443 Fwd: 3/31 Report From Bethlehem -- rank: 1000

3/31 Report From Bethlehem mike burke Mar 31, 2002 09:20 PST Below is the latest report from Kristen in Bethlehem... this can also be read on the NYC Indymedia site along with audio interviews and older reports from members of the NYC delegation. Bethlehem, Palestine 31 March 2002 Last night, 30 March 2002, 20 of us stayed in Al Azzeh refugee camp of 5,000 inside of Bethlehem with several families expecting an invasion by the Israeli military. We went two to a house. There is no land to build on ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 1 05:59:20 PST 2002

30444 postliteracy -- rank: 1000

[Right after reading this article, I unmuted CNBC to hear fratboy stock tout Joe Kernen introduce Regis Philbin as a "true Renaissance man," for a long interview about Greenspan, stocks, and Wall Street analysts. Reg was very angry at Greenspan for fiddling while the stock market burned.] New York Times - April 1, 2002 Magazines Push Images Over Words By DAVID CARR At the end of this month, the National Magazine Awards will celebrate great narrative by handing out awards for reporting ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 1 05:50:57 PST 2002

30445 Homi & Stanley on intellectuals & politics -- rank: 1000

Ken Hanly wrote: >Hey what about the CBC, Sunday Report and some guy from the LBO? Golly he is >sure a fast talker....:) Gee, and I thought I was talking slow for a Canadian audience. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 30 17:20:16 PDT 2001

30446 Chug -- rank: 1000

A fellow named Jones and/or Chug is on the warpath with me over Pacifica issues. He's posted some nasty stuff at <http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=137196&article=62907>. He's tried to subscribe here, but he's not welcome. For now, I've made subscriptions to this list require my approval. Sorry. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 30 15:04:53 PDT 2001

30447 Successful Anti-war demonstration -- rank: 1000

In the FT piece I posted yesterday, a woman who was a clerk at an air force base during the Gulf War said that lots of flyers were appalled by what they'd done and some even turned in their wings. Has anyone else heard anything like that? Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 30 12:51:40 PDT 2001

30448 Potemkin prosperity -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Please note that I said "from *at least* Reagan onward" and would >never argue that Carter or anyone earlier represented some >prelapsarian paradise. But I think of the Carter years as being the >last time there was any willingness at all to acknowledge that US >society is Fundamentally Fucked Up. Contrast Carter's "national >malaise" speech (which, admittedly, contributed to his getting the >old heave-ho from office) with Reagan's f ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 30 12:45:42 PDT 2001

30449 Homi & Stanley on intellectuals & politics -- rank: 1000

There's what seems so far like an interesting radio show featuring Stanely Fish and Homi Bhabha on intellectuals and politics, focusing on the present crisis <http://www.wbez.org/services/ram/od/od_010928.ram>. They're interviewed by Gretchen Helfrich for WBEZ's show Odyssey <http://www.wbez.org/schedule/odyssey/odyssey.htm>. FIsh has a very nice rebuttal to the "terrorists as evil" line about 6 minutes into the show.. In the queue: Michael Hardt on Empire <http://www.wb ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 30 10:10:03 PDT 2001

30450 Osama, I thought I knew ye. -- rank: 1000

Zak McGregor wrote: >So, yes, especially if you're using Windows 95, 98 or ME you should be >ultra-paranoid. And how about Mac OS's 9.1 and X? Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 30 09:39:55 PDT 2001