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30781 "anti-trade" movement regroups -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >sorry everyone, I accidently sent the NYTimes story before >I was finished with it. The print edition contains a table that's >titled "Financing the Fight" and says "Many groups in the >United States oppose the trend toward unfettered global >capitalism, including these." The table contains 5 groups: >Jubilee USA Network (Washington), Jobs with >Justice (Washington), The Ruckus Society (Berkeley, Calif.), >Global Exchange (San Francisc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 29 06:06:27 PST 2001

30782 Lieberman: Saddam's next -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - October 29, 2001 After bin Laden, We Must Target Saddam By Joe Lieberman, a Democratic senator from Connecticut. In his historic address to Congress on Sept. 20, President Bush declared war on terrorism and clearly defined the purpose of that war. "Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists, and every government that supports them," he said. "Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of gl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 29 05:44:24 PST 2001

30783 Pakistan: textile angle -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - October 29, 2001 Pakistan's Textile Bind Presents U.S., Bush With a Difficult Choice By HELENE COOPER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL A battle over Perry Ellis slacks and Gap crew-neck shirts has become the first major clash between economic and security interests in President George Bush's post-Sept. 11 world order. The government of Pakistan, a critical U.S. ally in the Afghan war, is asking the Bush administration to reduce tariffs on textiles from Pakistan. Un ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 29 05:42:44 PST 2001

30784 Where The Torture Never Stops -- rank: 1000

Ok, folks, let's not get personal. We don't have to reproduce the subject heading in our own discourse. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 28 16:48:27 PST 2001

30785 Alterman's latest -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: > http://thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011112&s=alterman > >Excerpt: > >"The news of the covert program has provoked considerable confusion among >those who seek to blame the United States for the September 11 massacre. >Proponents of an overly schematic "blowback" scenario, including at least >one vocal supporter of the Soviet "rape" of Afghanistan, have seized >Brzezinski's comments to claim that Osama bin Laden is merel ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 28 14:13:43 PST 2001

30786 The case for unrestricted immigration -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >[Does anyone know any background about this fellow Brittan? I've read a >few of his columns, but I still don't know exactly where to place him] Classical Liberal, as far as I can tell - free markets, free trade, no free lunch. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 28 10:31:59 PST 2001

30787 Sen on gender inequality -- rank: 1000

Carl "Half Empty" Remick wrote: >Ok, so far as it goes. But I suggest substituting "human" for >"gender" in his following statement: > >"... the effects of gender inequality, which can impoverish the >lives of men as well as women, can be more fully understood by >taking detailed empirical note of specific forms of inequality that >can be found in particular regions. Gender inequality hurts the >interests not only of girls and grown-up ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 28 09:24:49 PST 2001

30788 Sen on gender inequality -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >< http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1822/18220040.htm > Excellent stuff. What an admirable guy. Hard to believe he & a useless bunch of options-pricers shared the same Nobel prize. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 28 08:58:26 PST 2001

30789 FBI thinks rightwingers are germ warriors -- rank: 1000

Saturday October 27 7:22 AM ET Report: FBI Suspects U.S. Extremists of Anthrax Attacks WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI (news - web sites) and CIA (news - web sites) believe extremists in the United States, not followers of Saudi-born Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), are probably behind this month's anthrax attacks, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. Senior officials also are increasingly concerned the germ warfare agent attacks have diverted public attention from the larger threat posed ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 27 07:25:41 PDT 2001

30790 anthrax & Planned Parenthood -- rank: 1000

[from Frank Rich's column in today's NYT <http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/opinion/27RICH.html>] It should also be on Mr. Thompson's conscience that for the first two weeks of the anthrax crisis he kept the federal government's house physician - David Satcher, the surgeon general and a much-needed honest broker of public health - locked away, presumably because Dr. Satcher, a Clinton appointee, became persona non grata in the Bush administration for issuing a June report on teenage sexual ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 27 06:49:05 PDT 2001

30791 Tanya Reinhart - Stop Israel! -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of excessive length and spurious HTML code - who is Tanya Reinhart, anyway?] From: "Bryan Atinsky" <bryan at indymedia.org.il> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Indymedia, Israel October 25, 2001 STOP ISRAEL! Tanya Reinhart For a whole week now, The Israeli army has been terrorizing cities and villages in the West Bank. As in the darkest days at the beginning of the present Intifada, desperate voices and reports pour through the internet, telling of massive she ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 26 15:32:14 PDT 2001

30792 Interesting site -- rank: 1000

Jacob Segal wrote: >But seriously, his show does have the greatest ideological diversity of any >cable/network talk show that I can think of. Each guest only get ten >minutes, but still he does find a surprising broad range of views. I think >Fox News in general guest more "left" views on becuase it is so ideological >itself. Yup, very true. Only discovered him a few weeks ago, but he's had an impressive number of pretty left folks on - mostly so he could kick them aro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 26 13:09:36 PDT 2001

30793 Pacifica broke -- rank: 1000

Anonymous why Farrell fired/resigned Bessie: Thu Oct 25 21:34:09 2001 October 22, 2001 To the Pacifica National Board: Pacifica Radio is effectively insolvent. Whether or not reserves exist on paper, the simple fact is that our broadcast operations are collapsing because of a financial crisis at the Pacifica National Office. Despite endless promises, no accounting of the financial state of this network has been made available to station managers. It is impossible to assess our true financial sta ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 26 13:02:56 PDT 2001

30794 As world slumps, Russia booms -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Irony of ironies. > >Chris Doss >The Russia Journal > > >Financial Times (UK) >26 October 2001 >Russia booms as west heads into downturn: Attacks on US have had little >impact >on a healthy and well-managed economy First thing I thought when I saw this this morning was to ask you if this is true. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 26 12:43:07 PDT 2001

30795 Interesting site -- rank: 1000

Joel Lyons wrote: >Kevin, I notice that site "links" to Bill >O'Reilly - tantamount to an O'Reilly >endorsement. That torques my Crap >Alarm immediately. O'Reilly's funny. Appalling if you take him seriously, but if you don't, he's the funniest thing on TV after Jon Stewart. Hell, I'd pay good money to be on his show. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 26 12:01:02 PDT 2001