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30556 diversity -- rank: 1000

lweiger at umich.edu wrote: >Sober analysis pertaining to the likelihood of future military >disasters in light of previous ones should be quite enough >indepedent of any allusions to "imperialism." No, not enough. Many Americans have been living in a bubble for decades, either because they haven't heard what the U.S. does abroad, or if they have heard, don't listen and don't want to believe. Most Americans just don't understand why so many people hate us. They should. And to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 20 08:51:55 PDT 2001

30557 prisoners left behind in lockdown -- rank: 1000

A reliable source reports... >I learned yesterday from a Federal law clerk in the Southern District Court >that when Battery Park was evacuated on September 11, they cleared everyone >out except the inmates at the Manhattan Correctional Center which is only >several blocks from the WTC. Some of the inmates there are those who have >not even had a trial--those who can't afford bail or are held there without >bail for pre-trial hearings. The prisoners were placed in "locke ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 20 08:47:04 PDT 2001

30558 the financial front -- rank: 1000

[from the WB's daily clipping service] U.S. COURTS PAKISTAN WITH PROPOSAL TO EASE SANCTIONS. The US is preparing to ease economic sanctions on Pakistan, a key potential ally in its war against terrorism in the wake of last week's attacks in New York and Washington, the Financial Times (p.1) reports. The proposals to ease nuclear-related sanctions on Pakistan-as well as on India-are expected to be presented to members of the foreign relations committee of Congress today. The proposals represent ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 20 08:40:58 PDT 2001

30559 Pride Goeth Before a Fall (was Civil Liberties) -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >now i have to kill myself. Please don't. It would deplete the list's right-wing contingent in a most unwelcome way. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 20 08:35:52 PDT 2001

30560 Fwd: Shortselling prior to attacks? -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than the list] >X-From_: chavdarn at yahoo.com Thu Sep 20 08:55:14 2001 >Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 05:55:11 -0700 (PDT) >From: Mr Chavdar Naidenov <chavdarn at yahoo.com> >Subject: Shortselling prior to attacks? >To: dhenwood at panix.com >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >The Russian NTV informed on the 19th that prior to the >attack last Tuesday, the stocks of airlines had >plunged and that unknown players had been shortselling >- betting on a price d ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 20 08:34:27 PDT 2001

30561 Fisk interview -- rank: 1000

Transcript of Radio New Zealand Programme Wednesday September 19th 2001 Interview with Robert Fisk at Beirut Airport in Lebanon Hill: Can I talk to you about Osama Bin Laden? I don't know whether you are in favour of him becoming public enemy number one at the moment but I do know that you have met him and I wonder if you could give me some kind of insight into, first of all, is he capable of this. Fisk: Well, I've been trying to explain this in my own paper, the London Independent over the last ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 20 08:32:09 PDT 2001

30562 My Rightwing take on Sept 11 -- rank: 1000

Todd Archer wrote: >Nathan said: > >>Since folks have been bemoaning the winnowing of the "rightwing" on LBO, I >>thought I'd make my contribute to diversity with this column on Sept 11. > >Your article was indeed a great and much cooled-off repetition of Leo's >last posts, Nathan. Congratulations. Had Leo written like that, instead of in great torrents of insulting bombast, we'd have been better off. >What I'm (ghoulishly?) curious about, though, is how ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 20 08:23:09 PDT 2001

30563 Capitalism Exploits Stupid Capitalists ... and just about everybody else -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >Anyway - by way of fleeting distraction from the charged hiatus - a quick >update on the world's most dynamic capitalist economy (as our treasurer and >primeminister-in-waiting Peter Costello likes to characterise it). >Australia's telecommunications (OneTel, the third largest telco in the >country, collapsed three months ago), insurance (HIH, the country's biggest >insurer, collapsed two months ago), and airline (Ansett, with 43% of the >market, collapse ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 20 08:09:34 PDT 2001

30564 Sontag's view -- rank: 1000

[hmm, she's not joining this war party - what does that mean?] Le Monde - September 17, 2001 Let's Look Reality in the Face. By Susan Sontag For a terrified and sad New Yorker, America never seemed to be further away from recognizing reality than facing the monstrous dose of reality of Tuesday, September 11. The gulf which separates what occurred and what one should understand, on one hand, and the sheer deception and self-satisfied nonsense peddled by practically all the leading public figures ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 20 07:04:11 PDT 2001

30565 SZ on "Seattle" -- rank: 1000

I'm just now transcribing my interview with Slavoj Zizek, which will appear soon in Punk Planet. A lot of it is about the movement often identified in the U.S. with the word "Seattle," and a lot of what he had to say sounded a bit antique after September 11. I asked him to comment on that, and here's his answer: >I think it is PRECISELY NOW - after the WTC collapse - that the >"Seattle" task will regain its full urgency! After a period of >retaliation-enthuisiasm, th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 20 06:57:47 PDT 2001

30566 diversity -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >May be, and if folks like Leo and Brad who oppose the war are driven off >such lists, that tells you how unsuccessful such efforts will be. > >On the other hand, the real movements for peace, such as the gatherings in >Union Square of families and friends of the victims, which welcome a mix of >solidarity, patriotism and those asking for peace as the memorial to their >dead, rather than hate and murder, are far more likely to bridge the gaps of >ange ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 20 06:50:11 PDT 2001

30567 foreign students leave US -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - September 20, 2001 After at Least 4 Assaults, Some Foreign Students Plan to Leave U.S.; More Protection Urged By RON SOUTHWICK At least four racially motivated assaults of Middle Eastern and Asian college students have been reported by law-enforcement officials following last week's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. One of the victims was so shaken that he is returning to his home country, and other foreign students are leav ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 20 06:40:44 PDT 2001

30568 Chinese working overtime to sew American flags -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - September 20, 2001 Chinese Working Overtime to Sew U.S. Flags By John Pomfret Washington Post Foreign Service SHANGHAI -- As America wraps its wounds in red, white and blue, flag factories in China are running nonstop to feed the overwhelming demand in the United States for the Stars and Stripes. At the Shanghai Mei Li Hua Flags Co., office director Wu Guomin has received orders for more than 500,000 flags from customers in the United States in the week since the terrorist atta ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 20 06:36:25 PDT 2001

30569 Zizek on WTC, expanded -- rank: 1000

[Slavoj Zizek has expanded his short piece; here it is.] WELCOME TO THE DESERT OF THE REAL! Slavoj Zizek The ultimate American paranoiac fantasy is that of an individual living in a small idyllic Californian city, a consumerist paradise, who suddenly starts to suspect that the world he lives in is a fake, a spectacle staged to convince him that he lives in a real world, while all people around him are effectively actors and extras in a gigantic show. The most recent example of this is Peter Weir ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 20 06:34:55 PDT 2001

30570 Cooper weighs in -- rank: 1000

lweiger at umich.edu wrote: >Right, Carrol. It was just a crime against a mere 5,000 persons. >Using the prevailing LBO-talk logic at the moment, the final number >will probably be much greater due to the horrific response that's >likely to be provoked. What's that supposed to mean? You think the U.S. isn't likely to kill thousands in retaliation? Is that ok, beneath consideration, the costs of justice? Is it something that disturbs you at all? Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 19 19:33:33 PDT 2001