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30511 poll on civil liberties -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: > > It hurts me to say this, but when Buchanan says things like we can >> choose between a republic and our empire, I think that's something >> with a lot of potential resonance. >> > >Of course. And there will be worse things than that said? Do you want >everyone on your side? Why does it hurt you to acknowledge that there >are some very nasty people living in the U.S.? Uh, no, it wasn't that there are "nasty people" here. It wa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 07:24:42 PDT 2001

30512 Populism? (was Re: poll on civil liberties) -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: >Gore Vidal is also a populist although his impulse is >obviously 'left', not 'right'. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Years ago, the white supremacist Tom Metzger was offering a Gore Vidal video for sale via his Aryan Update phone hotline. Metzger's endorsement doesn't make Vidal a Nazi, of course, but clearly Mr White Ayran Resistance (WAR) found some affinity there. A few weeks ago I retrieved Vidal's article from the Marc 22, 1986, issue of The Nation, "The Empre Lovers ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 07:23:14 PDT 2001

30513 SUVs -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >At the kick-off meeting Friday night of the Bloomington-Normal Citizens >for Peace and Justice there were a number of SUVs in the parking lot of >the church where we met. > >Do any of the SUV-hating LBO subscribers have any comment? Hate the vehicle not the driver, I say. The major problem with SUVs is that they burn huge amounts of gas and release huge amounts of pollutants. A secondary problem is that, according to the auto industry's own market research, they ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 07:15:32 PDT 2001

30514 Krugman moves to England -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >Murky outlook for a leader who hates muddle > >Paul Krugman >Monday September 24, 2001 >The Guardian This looks identical to his NYT column Sunday. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 23 20:17:14 PDT 2001

30515 poll on civil liberties -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >In other words, about 30% of the population, an incredibly large number, >are potential recruits to an active left. > >Do you see why I feel so optimistic? It hurts me to say this, but when Buchanan says things like we can choose between a republic and our empire, I think that's something with a lot of potential resonance. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 23 17:43:14 PDT 2001

30516 Fwd: Protesters threaten chaos at Commonwealth summit -- rank: 1000

<http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/230901/dLFOR19.asp> Protesters threaten chaos at Commonwealth summit Sophie Hares (Reuters) Sydney, September 23 Thousands of anti-globalisation protesters are threatening to wreak havoc at next month's Commonwealth leaders summit as security is beefed up in the aftermath of the devastating attacks in the United States. Activists linked to violent protests in Genoa and Seattle hope to shut down the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) of 5 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 23 17:25:41 PDT 2001

30517 today's Fisk -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - September 23, 2001 How Can the US Bomb This Tragic People? by Robert Fisk We are witnessing this weekend one of the most epic events since the Second World War, certainly since Vietnam. I am not talking about the ruins of the World Trade Center in New York and the grotesque physical scenes which we watched on 11 September, an atrocity which I described last week as a crime against humanity (of which more later). No, I am referring to the extraordinary, almost unbelievable ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 23 15:24:16 PDT 2001

30518 poll on civil liberties -- rank: 1000

[via Ken Sherrill] The Pew Research Center today released a national poll showing respondents divided about the civil liberties implications of stronger anti-terrorism laws. 39% are more concerned that the government will fair to enact new laws, 34% are more concerned that the new laws will restrict civil liberties; 10% said neither (volunteered), and 17% don't know. Regarding specific new measures, here are the percentages willing to accept each: require everyone to carry national ID card and s ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 23 14:53:19 PDT 2001

30519 Hey, watch out for the 10 million mines -- rank: 1000

Chris Brooke wrote: >C1s Let me see if I have my British psephology straight: the C1s swung to Thatcher in a way analogous to the Reagan Democrats in the U.S., right? And who came up with this ABCD system anyway? Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 23 12:54:32 PDT 2001

30520 Hey, watch out for the 10 million mines -- rank: 1000

Chris Brooke wrote: >>W. Kiernan quoted the News of the World: >> >>> MI6 SPIES FIND EVIL BIN LADEN >> >>Right. And they'd be sure to announce this in the biggest >>circulation paper in Britain (isn't that what it it is?). > >Yup. It's the Sunday version of "The Sun", but it sells even more >copies (between four and five million every week, usually over twice >the circulation of its nearest rivals, the "Mail on Sunday" and ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 23 12:12:55 PDT 2001

30521 response to Hitchens -- rank: 1000

[This was posted to the Marxist Literary Group list by a young Indian literary scholar who kicked up quite a fuss at the 1996 Rethinking Marxism conference.] Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 10:07:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Priyamvada Gopal <bibaji at yahoo.com> Subject: more Others I have had no desire to react to recent posts about the "real enemy," "other systems worse than late capitalism" etc, in part because I share with them a weariness about canned analyses, theirs included and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 23 11:56:38 PDT 2001

30522 Hey, watch out for the 10 million mines -- rank: 1000

W. Kiernan quoted the News of the World: > MI6 SPIES FIND EVIL BIN LADEN Right. And they'd be sure to announce this in the biggest circulation paper in Britain (isn't that what it it is?). Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 23 11:48:49 PDT 2001

30523 Fwd: Marc Cooper Interview With Barbara Lee -- rank: 1000

LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW Rep. Barbara Lee: Rowing Against the Tide By MARC COOPER Marc Cooper is a contributing editor to The Nation magazine and a columnist for L.A. Weekly Of 535 members of the U.S. Congress, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) cast the only vote last week against granting President Bush broad authority to use military force in retaliation for the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. For her stand, critics dubbed Lee a starry-eyed liberal, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 23 10:20:13 PDT 2001

30524 A Positive Program -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> >> >>Nothing I read on the WTO protests gave me any feel whatsoever of what >>was going on in the communities that the protesters came from -- and >>without that feel I didn't really auite beieve in the big >>demonstrations. But it was already becoming clear by early this week >>that there was immense local activity going on. > >-Ye ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 23 10:07:39 PDT 2001

30525 'Infinite Justice' -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >Alongside the discredited 'Westphalian System' of diplomacy between >independent states, a new international politics emerged whose actors >were not nations, but non-governmental organisation, NGOs. Like which ones, and how, and where? Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 23 10:02:18 PDT 2001