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30766 Hydrocarbons and a New Strategic Region: The Caspian Sea and Central Asia (and Al Saud) -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >The most annoying thing about most post-9/11 "Great Oil Game" >commentary is not that they have been "conspiratorial" or >"structural determinist" (such things do exist on occasion), but >that, at best, they merely argue, by coincidental inference, a >causal relation between the Great Oil Game - which really does exist >and is in play - and Uncle Sams' pathological post-9/11 behavior. Ahmed Rashid argues in his book on the Taliba ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 30 06:29:45 PST 2001

30767 Antiwar movement losing steam????? -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >these guys will always have their issues. They need >a hammering. Whether it's possible I cannot be sure. The problem is that they're not getting the hammering - some of their supplies are, but the main body of They isn't, and the leaders certainly aren't. Red Cross warehouses are getting a hammering, though. If the point of the military operation is to catch the planners and prevent future disasters, it's a failure on both counts. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 29 15:37:06 PST 2001

30768 1980 Said reprint -- rank: 1000

At 4:39 PM -0600 10/29/01, The Nation Magazine wrote: >We've also re-posted a classic essay by Edward Said, originally published >in the March 26, 1980 issue of The Nation, and newly available currently >at: > >http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=archive&s=19800426said

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 29 14:46:24 PST 2001

30769 Antiwar movement losing steam????? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>- cooperative police work between nations to catch the perpetrators >>- international tribunals to try them for war crimes to assure global >>acceptance of their trials >>- addressing real grievances of the muslim world (such as the Palestinian >>cause) to isolate the murderers from the general population >>- global economic justice to eliminate the misery which feeds resentment >>against the US and sympathy for such terrorism >&g ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 29 14:30:17 PST 2001

30770 peace mvt -- rank: 1000

[also, please don't post from non-sub'd addresses] Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:46:30 -0500 From: Matthew Snyder <matthew at pobox.com> Kevin Robert Dean asks about local coalitions: > What are other > peoples experiences? Here in Philly, there's been little in the way of anti-bombing protests except for those organized by IAC / A.N.S.W.E.R. I did attend one last week at the University of Pennsylvania campus -- I work there -- that was entirely disappointing. The protest was organiz ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 29 12:52:43 PST 2001

30771 Fwd: Re: Milo -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than list - folks, please address things accurately] From: comvox at flash.net To: owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com (lbo-talk-digest) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:39:10 -0500 With respect to the recent HRW report "Under Orders: War Crimes in Kosovo", it seems to be being misrepresented: --It specifically says that it is restricting its investigation of Serbian and Yugoslav government crimes to the period of NATO's air compaign, not that it is investigating earli ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 29 12:46:49 PST 2001

30772 Antiwar movement losing steam????? -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >Sparts and other >pan-stalinist zombies The Sparts aren't Stalinists. They're Trots, and despise Stalin. And they may be zombies in person, but damn, they make a fine newspaper. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 29 12:38:58 PST 2001

30773 NYC demo @ INS -- rank: 1000

[this is right across from LBO world hq - where they've just reopened the street on the south side of the federal building] HEIDI DOROW at 917-513-3588 posts: New Yorkers Say No To War Call for a DEMONSTRATION to protest denial of rights for those being detained as part of 9-11 federal investigations. As part of our continuing effort to raise awareness about the consequences and aftermath of the events of 9-11, New Yorkers Say No To War, has organized a demonstration at: INS offices, 201 Varick ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 29 12:06:36 PST 2001

30774 Antiwar movement losing steam????? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The only positive outlook is that the antiwar movement is basically >irrelevant-- they are unlikely to effect anything in the short term, but >the policy in Afganistan is already collapsing of its own wrongheaded >weight. I just heard that Christopher Hitchens, freshly back from "the Afghan frontier," reports that the mercenaries the U.S. is hiring to fight for us are taking our money and fighting for the Taliban. A new layer of disaster on top of seve ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 29 11:51:37 PST 2001

30775 Antiwar movement losing steam????? -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >I missed the original post on this but I think that >the Buffalo activists are losing steam myself, >especially on the split between the war question. >There is talk of others forming "new" splinter >coalitions here as well. Enough splinters and you've got sawdust, which can be easily swept up with cigarette butts and all the other detritus. How sad. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 29 11:44:23 PST 2001

30776 HRW: Afghanistan - New War Puts Women's Rights In Peril -- rank: 1000

Afghanistan: New War Puts Women's Rights In Peril (New York, October 29, 2001) Afghan women are likely to face further suffering at the hands of warring factions in Afghanistan and to endure some of the most serious humanitarian consequences of the U.S.-led military action, Human Rights Watch said today. In a new report released today, Human Rights Watch documents the catastrophic assault on women's human rights during a decade of conflict in Afghanistan, and under the repressive rule of the Tal ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 29 08:03:43 PST 2001

30777 Jude on Iraq -- rank: 1000

From: "Rita Brosnan" <rbrosnan at polyconomics.com> To: <memo at polyconomics.com> Subject: Memo on the Margin: Be Careful, Washington Times October 29, 2001 Be Careful, Washington Times Memo To: Bill Giles, Times Managing Editor From: Jude Wanniski Re: Marching to Baghdad Now I know some of the editors of the Washington Times want to go to war with Iraq in the worst way. And maybe it will someday prove to be a good idea. But I think we should be careful about whipping up ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 29 08:01:59 PST 2001

30778 Fwd: America the Sinful -- rank: 1000

[Thanks to Christopher Rhoades Dykema...] <http://www.aryan-nations.org/indexpagenews/america_the_sinful.htm> "...I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord." Adolf Hitler. Mein Kampf WELCOME! America the Sinful (Sung to America the Beautiful) O' wicked land of sodomites Your World Trade Center's gone With crashing planes and burning flames To hell your souls have ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 29 06:33:40 PST 2001

30779 British forces -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than list] From: "Daniel Davies" <dsquared at al-islam.com> To: " owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com" <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com> Subject: Re:lbo-talk-digest V1 #5152 Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 04:14:26 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:05:27 +0900 From: "Charles Jannuzi" Subject: Re: Washington wobbles >>The brits seem ready to send in a highly >specialised unit >>of 600 men >>trai ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 29 06:29:38 PST 2001

30780 Milo -- rank: 1000

[A lurking listmember sent me this after reading the HRW report rather than posting it because of fear of being labeled a "genocide denier."] It appears to me that this report shows: -- Milo's crimes, at least the ones reported here, occurred after the start of the bombing -- the KLA's crime reported here occurred both before the after the bombing -- 1k Serbs and Roma have been killed in Kosovo since the bombing, and 200k Serbs have fled -- and (we already know) that the Kosovar refuge ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 29 06:10:02 PST 2001