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30616 Another Voice of the Reactionary Right Heard From -- rank: 1000

Luke Benjamin Weiger wrote: >With the abscence of Brad DeLong and the anticipated exit of Leo Casey, I >feel it is my duty to expose fellow lbo'ers to the hyseterical rantings >from the farthest corners of the right: http://dissentmagazine.org <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Dissent.html>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 17 19:24:58 PDT 2001

30617 (no subject) -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >I suppose the dynamics of this exchange on LBO-Talk has been such that I >have not fully laid out all of my thinking on the subject. That reminds me of the time that Seymour Melman, late in one of the dullest presentations in the history of academia at a Columbia University Seminar, said he regretted there was much material he couldn't include in this "all too brief talk." People actually laughed out loud at that, but Melman droned on. You've probably ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 17 15:42:33 PDT 2001

30618 greens go quiet -- rank: 1000

Activists Stop Bush Criticism Monday September 17, 2001 6:40 PM WASHINGTON (AP) - Environmental groups that have been the biggest critics of President Bush his first seven months in office said Monday that in light of the terrorist attacks they are pulling advertisements and withholding statements that criticize his policies. ``In deference to the fact that we need to pull together as a nation, we're not going to be making any kind of statements on the issues at this point,'' said Elliott Negin, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 17 15:35:13 PDT 2001

30619 What is the moral course -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I happen, along with Justin, to oppose _any_ action by the U.S. beyond >its own borders on this. But let it be remembered that it was Doug, not >some dogmatic leninist, who introduced the phrase in this context. > >During the Vietnam war... What makes this different from Vietnam and everything else we know is that this was an attack on the U.S., not a U.S. imperial action abroad. Certainly it happened because of imperial behavior, but the fact that it happened h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 17 15:32:41 PDT 2001

30620 Israel question -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an attached winmail.dat file] Subject: RE: Israel question Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:57:55 -0500 From: "Forstater, Mathew" <ForstaterM at umkc.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Haven't read all the replies top this yet, so I apologize if I am repeating anything already said. There is a very good piece by G. W. Bowersock, 1984, Journal of Palestine Studies, "Palestine: Ancient History and Modern Politics." The relative paucity of available ar ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 17 15:25:29 PDT 2001

30621 (no subject) -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >Perhaps, you can do me the favor of explaining why you dumped >Charles Brown from the list a couple of weeks back for what was >essentially a minor faux pas while you tolerate Leo's bombast >on this list? Perhaps, you can clarify what your moderation >policy is? I wanted to stop a particular thread, and Charles kept going on. I told him he was free to re-sub in a week, but he hasn't. I try not to throw people off for content, unless things get extreme. I mus ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 17 15:19:31 PDT 2001

30622 Fwd: 911 Investing -- rank: 1000

[the market astrologer's view] From: "Henry Weingarten" <afund at earthlink.net> To: <hw at afund.com> Subject: 911 Investing Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 11:58:21 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 1 (Highest) X-MSMail-Priority: High Importance: High X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 So many stocks to BUY today. Boeing (BA) and Citicorp [C] and earlier this morning almost any Nasdaq stock. Markets will not stay way up, but today they should close up and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 17 15:15:06 PDT 2001

30623 [FWD: Re: Leo Casey on moral calculus] -- rank: 1000

leocasey at aol.com wrote: >The bombing in the Sudan was not designed to kill 10,000 civilians. It >was held at night precisely in order to try to kill no one. In fact it >killed one. Forget the pharma bombing, Leo, it's a distraction. Do you deny that the U.S. has been responsible for millions of death in the maintenance of empire? You can answer yes and still find the WTC bombings horrific; I do. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 17 15:06:14 PDT 2001

30624 [FWD: (no subject)] -- rank: 1000

leocasey at aol.com wrote: >If there is some balance that needs to be restored in the account my >letter provides of such matters, perhaps it is that I did not condemn >them in strong enough terms. I was afraid of that. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 17 15:03:34 PDT 2001

30625 simultaneity -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >The factual veracity of Chomsky's remarks is >beside the point. Offering facts implies a >political context. The argument is really >about the implied political context. We >could acknowledge that the U.S. created >OBL, or that "worse" things (whatever that >means) have happened to others with the >complicity of the U.S., but in the immediate >wake of *this* atrocity such observations are >offensive. So we shouldn't speak the truth b ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 17 14:53:44 PDT 2001

30626 Said on bombing -- rank: 1000

Observer (London) - September 16, 2001 Islam and the West are inadequate banners The United States may too often have failed to look outside but it is depressing how little time is spent trying to understand America Edward Said Spectacular horror of the sort that struck New York (and to a lesser degree Washington) has ushered in a new world of unseen, unknown assailants, terror missions without political message, senseless destruction. For the residents of this wounded city, the consternation, f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 17 14:39:35 PDT 2001

30627 (no subject) -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >Try a deliberate rejection of your tendentious, mendacious spin, >calculated to try to make an action taken in a way to minimize the >loss of human life [a bombing at night which took one life, and >which had the goal of abating the loss of life] the equivalent of an >action designed to maximize the loss of human life [a bombing when >upwards of 50,000 innocent people were present]. Try a deliberate >rejection of an argument that is being present ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 17 14:15:12 PDT 2001

30628 Tilly on "recent events" -- rank: 1000

[from another list] Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 08:03:16 -0400 From: Charles Tilly <ct135 at columbia.edu> To: amsoc <amsoc at columbia.edu> Subject: Predictions Let me take advantage of this bullhorn to broadcast some predictions concerning what we will eventually learn about and from the suicide crashes a little less than four days ago. Students of human affairs can hope to make two different kinds of predictions: unconditional predictions based on statistical regularities, and if-then ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 17 14:13:19 PDT 2001

30629 Fantasy -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >I don't know ... if the US is serious about combatting "Islamic terrorism," >it needs on board, at a bare minimum, the intelligence communities of broad >swaths of the Arab world, Russia and China. I think you could be seeing a >hell of a lot of diplomatic concessions in the near future > >Chris Doss >The Russia Journal You may have answered this already, but there's still a few hundred emails in my inbox. How's this playing in Russia, at both th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 17 13:14:39 PDT 2001

30630 (no subject) -- rank: 1000

Lawrence wrote: >Even if Brad DeLong is further to the right then the majority of this list, >the list can still listen to his viewpoints respectfully. BdL signed off, so we won't have him to kick around anymore. I always thought it was a bit surreal when people claimed he was a right-winger. He's an elite social democrat. If that's right wing, then what's Gary Becker or Jerry Falwell? Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 17 12:43:05 PDT 2001