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30496 UK official dubs Sharon 'cancer of Mideast' -- rank: 1000

[via Sid Shniad] The Jerusalem Post - September 23, 2001 UK official dubs Sharon 'cancer of Mideast' By Douglas Davis London - A diplomatic storm has erupted here over the depiction of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon by an unnamed Foreign Office official as "the cancer at the center of the Middle East crisis." The comment, by a "senior British Foreign Office source," was quoted in a front-page article by the Guardian, which has consistently put Israel in the frame when discussing ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 25 05:17:25 PDT 2001

30497 Capitalism Exploits Stupid Capitalists ... and just about everybody else -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >well, >you always get cross at me when I come over Cassandraesque ... Only when it's not in the data. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 25 05:09:11 PDT 2001

30498 defining terrorism -- rank: 1000

[from the FBI website <http://www.fbi.gov/congress/congress01/freeh051001.htm>] Left-wing and Puerto Rican extremist groups. The second category of domestic terrorists, left-wing groups, generally profess a revolutionary socialist doctrine and view themselves as protectors of the people against the "dehumanizing effects" of capitalism and imperialism. They aim to bring about change in the United States through revolution rather than through the established political process. From ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 15:33:30 PDT 2001

30499 oil angle? -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] NOTE: A revealing graphic that goes with our piece on the secret war can be found at <http://prorev.com/indexa.htm> WORD The opposite of faith is not doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty. A person who claims to know the mind or will of God is pathological. - The Rev. Alan Jones, Dean of Grace Cathedral RECOVERED HISTORY The Secret War *** Richard Norton-Taylor, Guardian, LONDON., March 5, 2001: A new and potentially explosive Great Game is being s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 14:59:03 PDT 2001

30500 back street boy backs off -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I actually think this is healthy, since there is very little that "caused" >or could have prevented folks willing to prepare for years to use boxcutters >to take over airplanes, then kill themselves in using them as airborne >weapons. Oh sure, folks will find some way to close this particular barn >now that the horse has gotten out, but there is no way to create a security >system with no holes that can never be exploited by those willing to kil ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 14:45:56 PDT 2001

30501 Fwd: The New York Times Blacklist -- rank: 1000

From: "National Writers Union" <nwu at nwu.org> Subject: The New York Times Blacklist Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 15:52:21 GMT I thought The New York Times could not stoop lower. First, they stole your work. Then, they tried to scare and intimidate writers by demanding that they sign away rights they we all won in the U.S. Supreme Court. But, the Times has now gone even further: it has created a blacklist. Several days ago, I was provided an internal New York Times memo by a confident ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 11:30:36 PDT 2001

30502 A Positive Program -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >In other words, having a conviction and trying to persuade others of >that conviction is impolite. I have long suspected that Kelley belonged >to that category of freshmen comp students who believed that criticizing >a belief was a suppression of free speech. This seems to confirm that >suspicion. There's a difference between having a conviction and trying to persuade others of that conviction, on one hand, and being patronizing and insulting to people who don't ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 10:51:41 PDT 2001

30503 SUVs -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Incidentally, I >would also resist attacks on the _people_ who are rallying behind Bush >and genocide. You're right, but I just saw a Con Ed truck with a pic of W in the window, alongisde the inevitable American flag. It was revolting. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 10:47:12 PDT 2001

30504 Gore Vidal -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >attacks on nipple rings Buchanan? I didn't know he knew, much less cared. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 08:58:32 PDT 2001

30505 Bush approval highest in Gallup history -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >i do not find this very surprising considering that many members >on this list have commended giuliani for his actions post WTC >attack. this is not to draw extensive comparison between list >members and the general populace, but does not the sudden love >of the masses for bush, and the list admiration of giuliani, >share the belief in the need for a leader who will be credited >with positive (or negative) outcomes? many members responded to >my question on w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 08:25:00 PDT 2001

30506 Many apologies and goodbye -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >yes! i am very new to the list and i was surprised to see the abusive >comments about your post. one person (named budge or noonan) responded >that all your posts were bad (i think he used the word "crap" or some >such). so i went and looked at the archives and compiled an extensive >list of your posts and links to them (it grew too long for me to post >but i can if such analysis is useful), and found nothing particularly >crappy about them (they were ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 08:12:56 PDT 2001

30507 attack on student at UIUC -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - September 24, 2001 Attack on Indian Student at U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Leads to Brawl, 2 Arrests By THOMAS BARTLETT A 19-year-old Indian student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was physically attacked early Friday by a fellow student who called him a "terrorist." The incident -- which escalated into a fight involving between 30 and 40 people -- is another in a series of racially motivated assaults on Middle Easter ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 07:37:06 PDT 2001

30508 Bush approval highest in Gallup history -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr010924.asp> POLL ANALYSES September 24, 2001 Bush Job Approval Highest in Gallup History Widespread public support for war on terrorism by David W. Moore GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- President George W. Bush's call to arms in a nationwide address last Thursday evening has elicited widespread public support for a war against terrorism, as well as the highest presidential job approval rating ever measured by Gallup since it began asking the publ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 07:30:04 PDT 2001

30509 Fidel on crisis -- rank: 1000

<http://www.radiohc.org/Distributions/Radio_Havana_English/Fidel_Castro_on__Infinite_Justice__22_Sept_2001> Speech by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba. Havana,September 22, 2001 Fellow countrymen: No one can deny that terrorism is today a dangerous and ethically indefensible phenomenon, which should be eradicated regardless of its deep origins, the economic and political factors that brought it to life and those responsible for it. The unanimous irrita ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 07:32:10 PDT 2001

30510 SUVs -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >American cars signified right leaning, foreign cars, more left leaning. Fred Jameson has a beat-up old Buick (or maybe it's an Olds). Stanley Fish has two Jaguars. Or as Eugene Fama once said, "it was a model, and all models are wrong." Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 24 07:28:16 PDT 2001