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30856 Pentagon hires flacks -- rank: 1000

San Jose Mercury News - October 19, 2001 Published Friday, Oct. 19, 2001, in the San Jose Mercury News Pentagon hires image firm to explain airstrikes to world U.S. TRYING TO REVERSE RISE IN MUSLIMS' OUTRAGE BY WARREN P. STROBEL AND JONATHAN S. LANDAY Mercury News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon has hired a well-known Washington public-relations firm to help it explain U.S. military strikes in Afghanistan to global audiences, U.S. officials confirmed Thursday. It's part of a broader ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 23 06:44:53 PDT 2001

30857 more anthrax investigation -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - October 23, 2001 Special Report: Aftermath of Terror FBI Questions Former Employer Of Men Arrested After Hijackings By JERRY MARKON and TOM HAMBURGER Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL As federal investigators continue their hunt for those responsible for sending anthrax through the mail, they are following the trail of the 19 hijackers and those who may have ties to them. In New Jersey, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has begun testing the belongings of three m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 23 06:22:47 PDT 2001

30858 Saudi intrigue -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - October 22, 2001 Commentary The Saudis: Friend or Foe? By Simon Henderson. Mr. Henderson runs Saudistrategies.com, a consultancy in London. He is author of "After King Fahd: Succession in Saudi Arabia" (Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1995). What kind of ally is Saudi Arabia? To Americans who watch with frustration as the Saudis prevaricate on the use of military bases there, the answer is clear: They aren't acting like allies at all. This frustration i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 22 21:11:32 PDT 2001

30859 why is there no social democracy in America? -- rank: 1000

Mina Kumar wrote: >Didn't everyone already know this! It was never proved by economists before. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 22 21:09:55 PDT 2001

30860 WSJ on anthrax -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - October 22, 2001 Special Report: Aftermath of Terror FBI Questions Pharmacies, Seeking Links Between Hijackers and Anthrax Mailings By TOM HAMBURGER and CHAD TERHUNE Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Searching for links between the Sept. 11 terror attacks and the anthrax mailings, federal investigators are asking pharmacies in states visited by the 19 hijackers for information about prescriptions for the antibiotic drug ciprofloxacin. The Federal Bureau of Investig ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 22 20:24:03 PDT 2001

30861 discourse -- rank: 1000

Zak McGregor wrote: >Doug, I'm sure you are a great thinker and I have no doubt about your >commitment generally, but if we can't challenge you on this without the >risk of being booted, I am summarily planting my 10.5 Doc Martens into >the nether regions of my rectum and saying "good-bye, toodle-loo". ;-) > >Aluta continua! > >Zak Anyone can challenge, and many points of view are welcome. It's assholery that's not going to be tolerated anymore. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 22 19:27:06 PDT 2001

30862 different wars -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >I concur with the spirit your response, but Carl's question deserves more >than a rhetorical question in reply. If you're going to advocate any course >of action (including non-action), you shed the protective shell from >skepticism agnosticism provides. It's a "when did you stop beating your wife?" kind of question. As Miles pointed out, there's no course of action in which 0 civilian deaths are likely. Clearly I'd like it to be close to 0 as humanly p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 22 16:39:31 PDT 2001

30863 different wars -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Careful, guys; this is the point on the merry-go-round where Brad D. >decided to get off. (Funny how we were grappling with the same >moral dilemma a month and thousands of posts ago, in the same terms.) >It seems pretty clear there is no high moral ground here, is there? >Every solution I can conceive of leads to more innocent people >dying somewhere. You've got a point. Unless we can think of something fresh to say - a we that includes me - it's best no ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 22 16:32:28 PDT 2001

30864 discourse -- rank: 1000

Got an email over the weekend from a veteran listowner expressing condolences for the abuse I've taken here, and saying that had it been the list s/he manages, the guilty parties would have been booted by now. On reflection, I think my correspondent has a point. The list is open to a wide variety of views, which annoys a lot of people; I've had social democrats urge me to boot the Leninists, and Leninists urge me to boot the social dems. I don't want to do that. Call me oversensitive, but I don' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 22 16:30:27 PDT 2001

30865 different wars -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >I find your position fully compatible with the fog of war, Doug, >since to me it seems completely ambiguous. You continue to rely on >coy language. Re your acknowledgement of a "very messy operation," >as I asked before, just how many civilian casualties are you willing >to countenance in the OBL manhunt? How many are you willing to countenance in a non-manhunt? 5,000 not enough? 10,000? 1,000,000? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 22 15:27:22 PDT 2001

30866 different wars -- rank: 1000

A.J. Peticolas wrote: > Although I read LBO, I'm just a lurker on the list but I must say I >don't totally understand where Doug & some of you are coming from. For >myself I supported Kosovo but not this war. To me they are very >different. Many leftists (Doug, Galbraith) seem to feel just the >reverse of me about which war might be considered just. > In Kosovo, we were enabling Albanians to stay in their homes rather >than being murdered and forced to flee, th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 22 14:56:24 PDT 2001

30867 Taliban apologetics -- rank: 1000

SergioL652 at aol.com wrote: >A similar debate has been taking place in Argentina. The head of >the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo expressed tha she felt joy when she >heard of the attack. Other Latin American leftists called bin Laden >a revolutionary and the attack an example of class struggle. Wow. ObL's pals in the Taliban hanged Communists for sport. Where's the class struggle in that? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 22 13:46:00 PDT 2001

30868 why is there no social democracy in America? -- rank: 1000

<http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8524> Why Doesn't the US Have a European-Style Welfare System? Alberto Alesina, Edward Glaeser, Bruce Sacerdote NBER Working Paper No. W8524 Issued in October 2001 European countries are much more generous to the poor relative to the US level of generosity. Economic models suggest that redistribution is a function of the variance and skewness of the pre-tax income distribution, the volatility of income (perhaps because of trade shocks), the social costs of t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 22 13:00:47 PDT 2001

30869 torture? -- rank: 1000

Times (London) - October 22, 2001 FBI Considers Torture as Suspects Stay Silent by Damian Whitworth AMERICAN investigators are considering resorting to harsher interrogation techniques, including torture, after facing a wall of silence from jailed suspected members of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, according to a report yesterday. More than 150 people who were picked up after September 11 remain in custody, with four men the focus of particularly intense scrutiny. But investigators have fou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 22 09:50:51 PDT 2001

30870 WTO confirms Qatar meet -- rank: 1000

October 22 8:21 AM ET WTO Reaffirms It Will Meet in Qatar By JABER AL-HARMI, Associated Press Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) - A key meeting of trade ministers will go ahead in the Gulf state of Qatar next month despite security fears following the Sept. 11 terror attacks and U.S.-led strikes in Afghanistan (news - web sites), the World Trade Organization (news - web sites) said Monday. The Nov. 9-13 gathering is supposed to be the launch pad for a new round of global trade liberalization talks. The st ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 22 08:44:57 PDT 2001