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30901 Operation Enduring Protest -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> >> >A good number of leftist intellectuals, however, want a non-existent >> >instant solution to terrors. >> >> Who? I don't know anyone who thinks that, though maybe you do. >> > >Who? You. Featherstone. Max. Who the fuck said anything was easy? There's some weird psychopolitcal thing going on here. Lots of lefties can't look at this thing straight - they're ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 19 08:27:03 PDT 2001

30902 Operation Enduring Protest -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Carrol Cox wrote: >> >> >Sigh! >> > >> >And Featherstone avoids the thorny question of _Is it possible to fight >> >terrorism?_ >> > >> >The question is wrong and an evasion of reality. >> >> And which reality is that? Since about 95% of the U.S. public would >> ask the same question (how to fight terrorism?), aren't you the one &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 19 08:23:58 PDT 2001

30903 Operation Enduring Protest -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >A good number of leftist intellectuals, however, want a non-existent >instant solution to terrors. Who? I don't know anyone who thinks that, though maybe you do. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 19 07:43:42 PDT 2001

30904 Churchill -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >This exchange illustrates my reasons for thinking Doug a troll for fwd >Churchill's stupid post in the first place. His one introductory comment >could have had no rational reason except a deliberate effort to cause >confusion and flaming on the list. "Willing to wound and yet afraid to >strike." It was really slimy and he owes all of us an apology. Nope, no apology forthcoming. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 19 07:40:34 PDT 2001

30905 RAWA statement -- rank: 1000

<http://rawasongs.fancymarketing.net/us-strikes.htm> RAWA statement on the US strikes on Afghanistan Taliban should be overthrown by the uprising of Afghan nation Again, due to the treason of fundamentalist hangmen, our people have been caught in the claws of the monster of a vast war and destruction. America, by forming an international coalition against Osama and his Taliban-collaborators and in retaliation for the 11th September terrorist attacks, has launched a vast aggression on our c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 19 07:28:28 PDT 2001

30906 Six-figure existentialism -- rank: 1000

Dennis Robert Redmond wrote: >Stanley Fish on the impact of the recession on higher ed, after his >department had to slash 49 planned hires to 18: > >"And what about me? How do I feel about operating in a regime of scarcity >(temporary, I hope) after almost three years of entrepreneurial frenzy? >Well it has its pleasures, rather like the pleasure (on the >obsessive-compulsive side to be sure) of cleaning up your desk after a >bout of intense and almost narcotic writ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 19 07:25:21 PDT 2001

30907 Operation Enduring Protest -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Sigh! > >And Featherstone avoids the thorny question of _Is it possible to fight >terrorism?_ > >The question is wrong and an evasion of reality. And which reality is that? Since about 95% of the U.S. public would ask the same question (how to fight terrorism?), aren't you the one who's evading reality? Or would you, in your face-to-face recruiting strategy, just tell people they were "wrong" and sign them up for your movement? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 19 07:13:44 PDT 2001

30908 Operation Enduring Protest -- rank: 1000

"Operation Enduring Protest" by Liza Featherstone <http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=special&s=featherstone20011018> On Saturday, October 13, a cry to stop the bombing in Afghanistan was heard all over the world. More than 20,000 demonstrators in London, 15,000 in Berlin, 10,000 in San Francisco and thousands more in Sweden, Nepal, South Korea, Nigeria and elsewhere called for peace. A rally in New York City's Washington Square was comparatively small, attracting some 700 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 18 15:27:08 PDT 2001

30909 Nader/Love letter to Tommy Tompson on Cipro patent -- rank: 1000

http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/cl/cipro/nadethom10182001.html October 18, 2001 Tommy G. Thompson Secretary of Health and Human Services The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 200 Independence Avenue, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20201 Dear Secretary Thompson: We were shocked by your comments in the October 17, 2001 Washington Post, indicating that you do not have the legal authority to authorize generic production of ciprofloxacin, a drug used to treat victims of an anthrax attack. This, of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 18 12:01:24 PDT 2001

30910 Churchill -- rank: 1000

Stephen E Philion wrote: >The only idiocy I've read lately has been comparisons of Doug to Kate >Rophie on other lists. Really? I missed that one. I wish those had been made a couple of years ago, back when I happened to sit next to her at a dinner. We could have talked about things other than her ignorance of feminism and of Gloria Steinem's CIA past. Katie just got married, though - announcement in this past Sunday's NYT. We should be nice to her, wish her the best in her wedded life, et ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 18 11:36:17 PDT 2001

30911 Churchill -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug, don't you _ever_ give a passing thought to what the truth may be >as opposed to what people may think. > >Consider the need to inform a French speaking person that the capsule >she is holding is poison. True, you have to think of how you can express >your point in French -- BUT FIRST, DAMMIT, YOU HAVE TO DECIDE WHAT THE >TRUTH IS. > >You are doing your damndest lately to justify the lies being passed on >concerning you on some other lists. E ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 18 10:58:41 PDT 2001

30912 Churchill -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >It is beginning to appear that Doug doesn't have a single fucking >thought in his head except, "what will people think?" The thought I have right now is "Fuck you, Carrol." Which is less a thought, I'll concede, than a violent impulse. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 18 10:53:31 PDT 2001

30913 Chip? Re: Potential Cipro shortage sees U.S. on other side of fence -- rank: 1000

Stephen E Philion wrote: >Tetrahedron? Isn't that Larouche front? A choice bit from the site <http://www.tetrahedron.org/news/NR010912.html>: >If you didn't know the above facts, you might be additionally >dismayed to learn that the British Secret Service's top-secret >alphanumeric (letter/number) code translates the name "New York" >into the number "666!" Here's a reality check for you.... The MI6 >uses the Pythagorean-based code transcribing the mu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 18 10:49:43 PDT 2001

30914 lbo-talk-digest V1 #5084 -- rank: 1000

Macdonald Stainsby wrote: > > Well who attacked the WTC then? >> >> Doug >> >That's like saying "who snorted the blow, then?" of course the terror is >real.... what isn't is the motivation for attacking Iraq and taking away what >few civil rights bourgeois democracy usually gives that other areas >do not. Take >them away through practicality and leave them, in fact, on the books. Who said anything about attacking Iraq or restricting civil libert ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 18 09:43:52 PDT 2001

30915 lbo-talk-digest V1 #5090 -- rank: 1000

Macdonald Stainsby wrote: >Actually, he was considered to be a likeness of Gandhi when he was a younger >man. This is how it was reported by some outlets. >Good riddance to filth, imo. Not a very Leninist position, is it? Didn't VI say that with assassinations, there's always some other pig to take the dead guy's place, and that it provides the bourgies with an excuse to crack down? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 18 09:44:48 PDT 2001