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30451 Sociology and Explanations (Re: Hitchens responds to critics -- rank: 1000

Ted Winslow wrote: >If this is a realistic psychology, a full explanation of the Taliban would >require examination of the social relations including the economic and >family relations within which its members developed and live. This is what >I understand Marx to have meant by a "materialist" analysis. I think many self-professed materialists would regard this as too personal, individualistic, smelling too much of subjectivity, preferring that "materialist" anal ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 30 09:36:09 PDT 2001

30452 My master speaks -- rank: 1000

[Apparently many Heartland Americans aren't so timorous about asking interesting questions as are Walzer & Co. Full article at <http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=010929001499&query=madison+georgia>] Financial Times - September 29, 2001 ASSAULT ON AMERICA PUBLIC MOOD: Fortitude in a fearful new world: The terror attacks on New York and Washington changed everything for Americans. Richard Tomkins takes to the streets of Middle America to gauge attitudes among ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 29 19:37:57 PDT 2001

30453 Rigoberta to W -- rank: 1000

Rigoberta Menchu's Open Letter to G. W. Bush by Rigoberta Menchu Tum Nobel Peace Prize, Goodwill Ambassador for the Culture of Peace Posted at globalresearch.ca 26 September 2001 To Mr. George W. Bush President of the United States of America Washington DC, USA. Your Excellency, Mr. President: In the first place, I want to reiterate to you the solidarity and condolences I expressed to all your people on Tues. Sept. 11 when I became aware of the painful occurrences that had taken place in your co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 29 08:11:15 PDT 2001

30454 Choices (was Re: Sociology and Explanations (Re: Hitchens responds to critics -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >At 11:06 AM 9/28/01 -0400, Doug wrote: >>Yeah, but it's not like you can just choose "finanzkapital." It >>depends on an entire imperial hierarchy, which produces inequalities >>and exclusions. > > >Doug, better red than dead - an old saying went. Translation: certian >political arrangements may be far from ideal, but at least they offer >something, like minimum security and living standards. I think the same >applies t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 28 10:03:10 PDT 2001

30455 Sociology and Explanations (Re: Hitchens responds to critics -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Ian, if I were to choose between finanzkapital and islamic fundamentalism, >I would not think twice before choosing the former. I think that most >people would make a similar choice. Only those who are completely blinded >by religious zeal or ideology would do otherwise. Yeah, but it's not like you can just choose "finanzkapital." It depends on an entire imperial hierarchy, which produces inequalities and exclusions. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 28 08:06:11 PDT 2001

30456 Hitchens falls off bar stool -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >More squeezings from a wet brain. From The Spectator: > >"The fascist sympathies of the soft left > >"Christopher Hitchens says that intellectuals who seek to understand >the new enemy are no friends of peace, democracy or human life" > >[Text: >http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old&section=current&issue=2001-09-29&id=1131] The concluding graf: >I have no hesitation in describing this mentality, carefully a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 28 07:06:49 PDT 2001

30457 Bomb blitz coming? -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >Is it me or does the above possibility fly in the face of : Didn't Congress give W enormous latitude, a virtual declaration of war? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 27 20:26:31 PDT 2001

30458 Is the Taliban America's Frankenstein? -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - September 27, 2001 The folly of quick action in Afghanistan It would be a mistake for the US to undertake a military strike before establishing plans for a transitional Afganistan By ASHRAF GHANI The battle of Afghanistan is the Bush administration's to lose. The Afghan population is ready for change. The networks of support from Pakistan that have been the mainstay of the Taliban regime are disrupted. Afghanistan's neighbouring countries and the Arab and Islamic regimes would ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 27 18:26:28 PDT 2001

30459 memory -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] I think no power to your refrigerator, no gas to your stove, you can't get to work because the bridge is down - the bridge on which you held your rock concerts and you all stood with targets on your heads. That needs to disappear at three o'clock in the morning." - U.S. Air Force General Michael Short in Yugoslavia, May, 1999

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 27 15:39:38 PDT 2001

30460 Will the Drive to War Kill International Labor Solidarity? A Labor Notes Editorial -- rank: 1000

From: Marsha Niemeijer <marsha at LABORNOTES.ORG> Will the Drive to War Kill International Labor Solidarity? A Labor Notes Editorial by Teófilo Reyes We are all horrified by the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington. Thousands of working men and women were senselessly murdered, and unions across the world have joined to condemn the act. We are proud of how working people, and unions in particular, have responded to support the victims of terror. The firefighters who died in the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 27 15:26:36 PDT 2001

30461 Thinking like Nathan -- rank: 1000

I think Nathan & his interlocutors have all made their points many times; unless there's something new to say, can we move on? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 27 13:20:47 PDT 2001

30462 Tariq clarifies -- rank: 1000

Ted Winslow wrote: >I take it then that he isn't suggesting it's obvious that only their means >were wrong when he claims that the "obvious" answer to the question, "What >made them decide to sacrifice their own lives and thousands of others?", is >belief that "the Gulf War was a crime against the people of Iraq", >opposition to "the continued occupation of Palestine and Western complicity >with the suffering of the Palestinians", and opp ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 27 10:40:44 PDT 2001

30463 Sociology and Explanations (Re: Hitchens responds to critics -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >What if I spent my time analyzing Palestinian failures of diplomacy that >have "resulted" in their inability to get a state? Wouldn't I be seen as an >apologist for Israel? Not necessarily. Unless, of course, that was your intention. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 27 09:52:27 PDT 2001

30464 Tariq clarifies -- rank: 1000

Clarification arrived quickly: At 4:43 PM +0100 9/27/01, Tariq Ali wrote: >Of course you're right. The word 'liberal' is now good, but Lenin (whose quote >that is) regarded liberals with contempt since they backed the Tsar..... Love the cagey use of "someone once referred." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 27 09:29:07 PDT 2001

30465 Hitchens At War -- rank: 1000

Ted Winslow wrote: >Is it the word "liberal" that means "elitist/individualist" or the words >"with a bomb"? The liberal part, I think. Liberals without bombs love litigation and lobbying rather than political mobilization. > I take the word "liberal" to be elaborated by the things >pointed to in the second paragraph. I just wrote to Tariq to ask clarification. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 27 09:27:29 PDT 2001