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30601 Diversity -- rank: 1000

Todd Archer wrote: >May I put forward a suggestion for "vote"? I ask the chair that it (the >suggestion, not the furniture) be recognized that LBO-Talk will welcome >back Brad DeLong and Leo Casey if and when they choose to return. Both left of their own accord, and both are free to return (as are Charles Brown and Rakesh Bhandari). Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 14:08:58 PDT 2001

30602 Clear Channel's "Do Not Play" List -- rank: 1000

Jim Westrich wrote: > Alanis Morissette "Ironic" This must be on the list because Mark Crispin Miller declared the end of irony in the Sunday New York Times. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 10:31:24 PDT 2001

30603 NYC peace action -- rank: 1000

Please forward widely! Below is the outcome of the Monday meeting at Charas against War and Racism PDF of flyers below or make your own [not included] Flyers available at Charas and Union Square Mourn the Victims - Stand for Peace Islam is not the Enemy War is not the Answer Gathering for Global Peace and Justice Friday, September 21st 6:00 PM SE Corner UNION SQUARE 7:00 PM Procession to Times Square leaving from NE Corner UNION SQUARE 8:00 PM Arrive US Army Recruiting Office TIMES SQUARE For mo ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 10:25:46 PDT 2001

30604 Interview with Noam Chomsky by Radio B92, Belgrade (fwd) -- rank: 1000

Kirsten Neilsen wrote: >i admire chomsky and have learned much from him. that said, and with >fear of getting stomped on as have others who question chomsky in this >forum, i want to discuss the accuracy of one of his claims. Chomsky is no sacred cow. Feel free to question him however you like. You're not the kind of person who emits a toxic cloud of self-righteousness. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 10:10:09 PDT 2001

30605 Another Voice of the Reactionary Right Heard From -- rank: 1000

Luke Benjamin Weiger wrote: >Many thanks to James, Daniel, and Doug. Collectively, you've served to >make my point better than my over-the-top sarcasm ever could. What point is that? That Dissent has a long and dishonorable history in cheering on imperial war? That its Vietnam "expert" was a CIA guy who wrote the South Vietnamese constitution? That Irving Howe disliked the antiwar movement because it was full of hippies & Commies? That Jo-Ann Mort welcomes the militarization ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 10:01:21 PDT 2001

30606 Gloria Steinem to speak in Toledo -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >Will Ms. Steinem be speaking about her experiences with the CIA? Better not bring that up or she might sue you. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 09:57:15 PDT 2001

30607 Diversity -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow wrote: >The person I will miss on this list is Brad De Long. He maintained >civility , often in the face of intense provocation, and his views were >thought provoking, intelligent, and well presented. I was sorry to see him go too; it wasn't my idea. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 09:58:26 PDT 2001

30608 Jude weighs in -- rank: 1000

September 18, 2001 The Prince of Darkness Memo To: Henry Kissinger From: Jude Wanniski Re: Richard Perle I was surprised to see you on television last night making arguments I associate with the world's No. 1 hawk, Richard Perle, who has been the chief architect of our policy toward the Arab/Islamic world. There is no single American more responsible for inciting outrage among Muslims globally than Richard, whose maniacal prescriptions led inexorably to last week's cataclysm. It wa ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 09:19:24 PDT 2001

30609 Another Voice of the Reactionary Right Heard From -- rank: 1000

Luke Benjamin Weiger wrote: >Have you read the editorial that now greets vistors? Yeah. Pretty weak tea, neither here nor there. At least Jo-Ann Mort wasn't volunteering to push a button to lob some cruises into Kabul. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 09:24:43 PDT 2001

30610 WB & Pakistan -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] WORLD BANK MIGHT LEND BUT PAKISTAN WANTS DEBT RELIEF. The World Bank may be prepared to bump up financial assistance for Pakistan if the country requests it and the lender's shareholders back it, reports Reuters, but Pakistan is pinning its economic hopes on debt relief. Because of a pledge to cooperate with the US in the wake of last Tuesday's terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon, Pakistan is expected to receive favorable treatment on th ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 09:21:32 PDT 2001

30611 Another Voice of the Reactionary Right Heard From -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: > --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > James Heartfield wrote: >> >> >And this is called 'Dissent' because...? >> >> ...they don't really want to change the world, they just want to >> stand on the sidelines and offer critical advice. > >I'd always assumed it was because you only ever hear the word in the >context of >the phrase "there's dissent in the ranks". > >As in: > >"O ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 09:15:01 PDT 2001

30612 Another Voice of the Reactionary Right Heard From -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >And this is called 'Dissent' because...? ...they don't really want to change the world, they just want to stand on the sidelines and offer critical advice. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 08:17:40 PDT 2001

30613 Kagarlitsky on "recent events" -- rank: 1000

[via Johnson's Russia List] Moscow Times September 18, 2001 Bin Laden? Better Be Sure By Boris Kagarlitsky The terrorist attack on New York has already been compared to Pearl Harbor and the loss of the Kursk submarine. Mikhail Gorbachev likened it to Chernobyl, which is probably a very accurate analogy in terms of the shock and ignominy experienced by the U.S. administration. In both cases, we saw incompetence and helplessness initially, followed by desperate attempts at official face-saving. Th ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 07:51:52 PDT 2001

30614 diversity -- rank: 1000

Jacob Segal wrote: >Easy. If Leo goes, there goes the entire right-wing of the LBO. I >personally appreciate the "diversity." I appreciate "diversity" too - I don't want a forum where we all agree with each other. But Leo's style, always a bit annoying, was getting monstrously pompous, devious, and insulting. I didn't boot him; he signed off all on his own. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 07:30:48 PDT 2001

30615 Casey, no longer at bat -- rank: 1000

j.f. noonan wrote: >if he goes He did. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 07:11:29 PDT 2001