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30886 Operation Enduring Protest -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >Is that imperialist too? Sent that off before I was finished. I absolutely agree that the only long-term approach to "eliminating terrorism" (and that was a weird analogy with Alzheimer's, Carrol - since when is a social phenomenon analogous to a natural one?) would be for the U.S. to pull back from its empire. The polite way I put that in my letter to the NY Observer is changing U.S. policy, but I know exactly what I mean by that, and it means some pretty radic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 20 09:45:26 PDT 2001

30887 Operation Enduring Protest -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Can't you for get the public just for (say) five minutes to do a >_little_ bit of thinking about the world without first consulting >opinion polls. Since when do opinion polls consitute The Truth About the >World. No, can't - I'm utterly whorish and vulgar. Now the truth can be told. >You are not replying to Lou Proyect here. You have some obligation >simply to look at reality, not at reality as reflected through headlines >and opinion polls. So far you ha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 20 09:36:31 PDT 2001

30888 Smells (was Re: substance) -- rank: 1000

H. Curtiss Leung wrote: >Rob, is a smell a surface too? I only ask because depending on what's being >excavated >at what little is left of the WTC, a pretty foul smell will circle around >lower Manhattan. >On the day of the attack, it reached as far as the neighborhood in Brooklyn >where >I live. You can still smell it in lower Manhattan. I smell it in my office, which is about a mile north of the former WTC, and further downtown, it's even more pungent. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 20 08:55:11 PDT 2001

30889 Newsweek poll -- rank: 1000

Saturday October 20, 11:24 am Eastern Time Press Release Newsweek Poll: Majority Believes 'Large Numbers' of Americans Will Die In New Terrorist Attacks; Business or Gov't Building, Stadium, Tunnel, Water Supply Seen As Likeliest Targets 63 Percent Believe Anthrax Cases Tied to Bin Laden Network; 75 Percent Think At Least 100 or More Associates Still At Large In U.S. 62 Percent of Americans Say Reducing Ties With Israel Will Not Reduce Terrorist Attacks Against U.S. NEW YORK, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 20 08:52:06 PDT 2001

30890 Verso news -- rank: 1000

[More distressing news from the world of publishing.] ========================================= PW NewsLine http://publishersweekly.reviewsnews.com October 19, 2001 ========================================= Vice Verso: A Contrarian Press Will Get a (Slight) Makeover Anyone familiar with serious New York book publishing probably knows Verso and its indefatigable leader, Colin Robinson, who gives the house an influence disproportionate to its count-em-on-one-hand staff. But come next month the hou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 20 08:35:01 PDT 2001

30891 Note to the "ladder of force left" -- rank: 1000

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. That would include you, Yoshie, Carrol, even Lou Proyect. There's no class warrior exemption (actually they don't like Communists very much, so American Communists are ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 19 16:06:22 PDT 2001

30892 attack on NC in American Prospect -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Mark Pavlick wrote: > >> http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2001/10/isaac-j-10-16.html > >This is a remarkably crude and ignorant piece of misrepresentation. Not >only does the author, apparently purposely, misconstrue the (one) passage >from Chomsky that he quotes, he also shows himself simply unfamiliar with >what Chomsky has written elsewhere. (Cf. the remark on "speaking truth to >power.") A serious atte ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 19 16:00:32 PDT 2001

30893 substance -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >On this list, though, or in any other forum which pretends to be a >leftist forum, I think discussion should focus first on truth, and only >secondarily, in terms of shared agreement on that, should tactics or >style be discussed. Some on the list seem deliberately to speak only of >style while pretending to be speaking of substance. But we trust you to be our ideological auditor, making sure that style never gets in the way of substance (though didn't Adorno ha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 19 15:58:23 PDT 2001

30894 Sontag v Chomsky -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >God I'm so glad to hear people give Sontag her due. She's the worst of the >"public intellectuals," hands down. Should just write a damn book called >"It's All About Me" and be done with it. She is, as Cockburn said of another >person of her ilk, "a veritable popcorn machine of self-regarding blather." There's a priceless bit in an Edmund White novel - I think it's The Beautiful Room Is Empty - about a very thinly siguised Sontag & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 19 14:37:01 PDT 2001

30895 McCoy weighs in -- rank: 1000

From Southeast to Central Asia: Air power and Covert Operations in US Foreign Policy Public Forum on the War in Afghanistan Ingraham Hall, University of Wisconsin: 15 October 2001 Alfred W. McCoy I. INTRODUCTION: 1.) In his recent state-of the-nation address, President Bush told us that our current war against terrorism would be like no other that our nation has ever fought. a.) On this point, Mr. Bush seems ill-advised. There are several precedents for this war in the history of US foreign poli ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 19 11:46:30 PDT 2001

30896 Pollitt column -- rank: 1000

The Nation - November 5, 2001 War and Peace by Katha Pollitt How depressing was the October 13 peace rally in Washington Square? Well, the Bread and Puppet Theater performed--that should give you an idea. "It's the sixties all over again," murmured the portly graybeard standing next to me as the funereal drum thudded and the players, holding their papier mâché body masks, paraded glumly through the crowd of perhaps 500 people--most, by the look of them, veterans of either the peace and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 19 10:00:32 PDT 2001

30897 Six-figure existentialism -- rank: 1000

Stephen E Philion wrote: >I didn't see that. I went through a 32 step to wean myself off of >O'Reilly...Can Fish provide us with a transcript of that show? If he did >that well, he might wanna publicize the exchange. (beyond the already how >many millions of viewers who haven't completed their 32 step...) [The whole thing costs money; here's a taste from the O'Reilly website.] Is "Evil" Too Simple to Describe Terrorists? Thursday, October 18, 2001 This is a partial transc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 19 09:51:27 PDT 2001

30898 Desire for Justice in the Unjust World -- rank: 1000

Dennis Breslin wrote: >Lets dispense with moral arguments and concerns over justice >and injustice as Yoshie wants. And lets follow a pragmatic >path. If the tactic of suicide attacks on the WTC and the >Pentagon makes a dent in the Empire's armor so that its pride >is hurt, it arrogance is now an embarrassment, its actions >provoke increased global resistance or instability among the >regimes the Empire supports, and a reluctance by the Empire >to shed its own blood an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 19 08:39:55 PDT 2001

30899 Newspaper Guild monitors dissenters -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher online - October 17 06:50 PM EDT Newspaper Guild Monitors 'Dissenters' With the nation in a state of war that has no precedent, what happens to journalists whose work doesn't go along with the program? The Newspaper Guild wants to find out. The union, now a part of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), has created an electronic clearinghouse on its Web site that tracks how news operations treat journalists who "express unconventional viewpoints" during thi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 19 08:35:37 PDT 2001

30900 Anthrax in Durban -- rank: 1000

Eleven treated for anthrax in Durban October 19 2001 at 02:05PM Eleven people were admitted to Durban's Addington hospital for preventative treatment against anthrax infections, the KwaZulu-Natal health department said on Friday. Nine of them were admitted at 7am on Friday morning and the other two were admitted on Thursday evening. Two of the patients were South African Police Services members who handled an envelope containing white powder that was found at a mail sorting company, two were emp ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 19 08:33:15 PDT 2001