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30871 M4P -- rank: 1000

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 22 08:42:38 PDT 2001

30872 Sexual Harassment -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >You've seen >the bizarre definitions of "Leninist" which have currency on this list. So what *is* a Leninist then? I mean in 2001, not Russia of 1917. I asked that question of a lot of Leninists at Zizek's Essen conference, and the best answer I heard was from Callinicos, who said Leninism demanded "concrete analysis of the concrete situation" - which hardly sounds very specific to me (who could be against that?). Many chafed when I brought up the ide ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 22 08:15:10 PDT 2001

30873 Note to the "ladder of force left" -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > >>>Lou Paulsen wrote: >>> >>>>On this list there seems to be a relatively high proportion of people whom, >>>>in relation to this war, I would classify as belonging to the "ladder of >>>>force left". >>> >>> >>>A bunch of people that have demonstrated themselves capable of >>>stunning acts of violence have resolved to kill lots of Americans. >>> ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 22 07:16:58 PDT 2001

30874 attack on NC in American Prospect -- rank: 1000

Fell behind on email over the weekend, when C. G. Estabrook wrote: >This nasty performance does indeed raise the question of the reason for >the widespread attacks on Chomsky (including SNL) in the last month. --CGE I think it's pretty simple: the U.S. elite can't stand any kind of significant critique of the imperatives of empire. Chomsky is a man of excellent reputation (with prestige carried over from the field of linguistics, his MIT chair, etc., making him more than just another oddly ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 22 07:11:54 PDT 2001

30875 attack on NC in American Prospect -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >I guess I'm in the 'ladder of force' >group but call me crazy I don't see >myself or DH in too much disagreement w/NC. I don't either, but you know how sectarian these Parties of One can be! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 22 07:06:08 PDT 2001

30876 Le Carre: we've lost (with an aside on ObL's "homoerotic narcissism") -- rank: 1000

Globe and Mail (Toronto) - October 13, 2001 We have already lost War on Terrorism: What victory can we possibly achieve that matches the defeats we have already suffered, let alone the defeats that lie ahead? asks author John Le Carre By John Le Carre The Bombing Begins! screams today's headline of the normally restrained Guardian. Battle joined, echoes the equally cautious International Herald Tribune, quoting George W. Bush. But with whom is it joined? And how will it end? How about with Osama ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 22 07:00:01 PDT 2001

30877 Taliban apologetics -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >More recent agit-prop from the CPGB. So what's the CPGB all about these days? Didn't they dissolve at one point? Have they re-formed? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 22 06:35:09 PDT 2001

30878 Qatar gets boost from W -- rank: 1000

Saturday October 20 8:33 AM ET Bush Boosts Qatar Plan to Host Key Trade Talks By Alan Wheatley, Asian Economics Correspondent SHANGHAI (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) gave a boost on Saturday to Qatar's plans to press ahead with a crucial trade meeting next month despite concerns about security in the Middle East as Washington's war against terrorism unfolds. Speculation hardened that the venue would be shifted from the Gulf State when Pacific Rim ministers omitted to mention Doha, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 20 12:31:47 PDT 2001

30879 Canadian gov't retreats -- rank: 1000

National Post - October 20, 2001 Anthrax drug deal lands Rock in hot water Officials blame junior employees for no-name order Robert Fife in Ottawa and Michael Friscolanti in Toronto National Post, with files from Southam News OTTAWA and TORONTO - Junior employees at Health Canada are to blame for a decision to order a no-name version of Cipro, a leading anthrax antibiotic, from a company that is not licensed to produce the pill, senior government officials say. In an effort to defuse the contro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 20 12:10:51 PDT 2001

30880 Saddam Sends Condolences to US Citizen -- rank: 1000

Reuters. 20 October 2001. Saddam Sends Condolences to U.S. Citizen on Attacks. BAGHDAD -- Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has sent a letter to a U.S. citizen personally offering condolences for the first time over the September 11 attacks on the United States. Saddam said however he would not offer condolences to President Bush until he did the same over the deaths of 1.5 million Iraqis that Baghdad blames on 11-year-old U.N. sanctions against Iraq. Baghdad says Washington is behind the continuat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 20 12:03:16 PDT 2001

30881 Response to Doug (was: Re: Note to the "ladder of force left") -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >I hope proper _bona_fides_ have been established. I don't >think any of it matters in discussing the situation, but a >fashion for adhominization seems to be full swing and I >thought I'd better check in. How about this: you were deeply affected, and you feel guilty about that because it interferes with what your mind says about politics, so you bring it up in this frame to try to dismiss it. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 20 10:53:16 PDT 2001

30882 Note to the "ladder of force left" -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug, you are getting a bit desperate. One element of the thesis we have >been pushing is that all possible U.S. responses to 9/11 will _increase_ >the danger of further terrorist attacks on the U.S. Does this extend even to detective work, arresting suspects, interrogating possible witnesses? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 20 10:44:02 PDT 2001

30883 Operation Enduring Protest -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >For someone who has been inveighing against the do-nothing position >as unrealistic, Doug, your proposal seems way too abstract and in >fact has been rendered moot by the unilateral military action the US >has already taken. Right. Nothing can be done now. It's hopeless. No point in calling for an end to the bombing, or for supplying food to Afghans. It's all moot. There's nothing we can do now except organize for the socialist revolution or emit depressive sighs. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 20 10:09:00 PDT 2001

30884 Note to the "ladder of force left" -- rank: 1000

ppillai at sprint.ca wrote: >The rougue terrorists that staff the bodies of the US state >have demonstrated themselves capable of >stunning (and unprecedented) acts of violence, have resolved to kill >unimimaginable numbers of people. >That would include people like you, Nathan, Luke, even Leo >throughout the world. >There's no exemptions for even moderate Keynsian liberals >(so long as they hail from the third world). >Does this bother you at all? >Or are you willi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 20 10:06:45 PDT 2001

30885 Haunani-Kay Trask on 9-11 -- rank: 1000

Honolulu Star Bulletin - October 18, 2001 U.S. bears sole blame for Sept. 11, Trask says Haunani-Kay Trask says America should focus on the needs of its own people By Pat Omandam The United States has only itself to blame for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, said outspoken Hawaiian studies professor Haunani-Kay Trask. Moreover, Trask said, the United States should stop using its military might to police the world so it can open up foreign trade markets. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 20 09:59:42 PDT 2001