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31006 underestimates? -- rank: 1000
Max Sawicky wrote: >But in the main I think Mark underestimates >the power of the Admin and its allies to >cope with OBL et al. I'm coming around to thinking you may be right. Fisk et al are confident that the war will backfire on the U.S. - that the Arab/Muslim masses, unable to take it anymore, will explode and take down the Pakistani and Saudi regimes. Maybe. But haven't we heard similar things in the past? There were a lot of arguments like that in the Gulf War too. Very often, viol ...
Document Size: 5165
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Oct 12 08:06:36 PDT 2001
31007 talking within & without -- rank: 1000
Carrol Cox wrote: >No war! That is the fundamental principle in discussion within actual >groups. But it is far from an adequate nature on this list. All I can >figure out is that very few people on this list are actually engaged in >organizing; hence they pacify themselves by the fantasy that lbo-talk is >a realm for organizing and action. Uh, not necessarily. It could also be a place where you think about how you talk to people outside the charmed circle. But I recall you saying ...
Document Size: 5235
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Oct 12 08:00:37 PDT 2001
31008 Slavoj weighs in, third iteration -- rank: 1000
<http://www.lacan.com/reflections.htm> Welcome To The Desert Of The Real - 10/7/01 - Reflections on WTC - third version - by Slavoj Zizek Alain Badiou identified as the key feature of the XXth century the "passion of the Real /la passion du reel/"1: in contrast to the XIXth century of the utopian or "scientific" projects and ideals, plans about the future, the XXth century aimed at delivering the thing itself, at directly realizing the longer-for New Order. The ultimate ...
Document Size: 9116
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Oct 12 07:43:02 PDT 2001
31009 shrinks weigh in -- rank: 1000
[from lacan.com] Lacanian Press Agency Paris, Monday, September 24 2001, 15:00 ******************************************* ******************************************* THE TWIN TOWERS: THE OPINION OF THREE PSYCHOANALYSTS ÉRIC LAURENT (École de la Cause Freudienne, Paris) ABEL FAINSTEIN (Asociacion Psicoanalitica Argentina, Buenos Aires) JACQUES-ALAIN MILLER (World Association of Psychoanalysis, Paris) ******************************** THE TOWERS WERE NOT HIT AS SYMBOLS Paris, Sept. 21 (LPA) -Eric ...
Document Size: 18603
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Oct 12 07:39:34 PDT 2001
31010 economics Nobel -- rank: 1000
Peter K. wrote: >I thought this was good news. Doug, didn't you interview Stiglitz >recently and run it in LBO? I see him from time to time because he's the, oh, what's the right word, companion? partner? boyfriend? squeeze?, of my friend Anya Schiffrin. I only interviewed him formally once, on the radio, but the interview was severely truncated because he'd taken a cab from Columbia down to Wall Street at 5 PM, and was surprised that it took over an hour (the subway would have taken less ...
Document Size: 4877
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Oct 12 07:20:05 PDT 2001
31011 anthrax -- rank: 1000
/ dave / wrote: >Gary Ashwill wrote: > >> If it is a non-domestic terrorist act, they've got quite a sense of humor, >> or something--what better way to spread fear than to attack tabloids, whose >> business it is (in part) to capitalize on fear? > >Since I'm not a subscriber to any of the aforementioned tabloids, I >can't say for sure if the following would hold up under scrutiny. But it >would seem to be the case that over the years, esp. during the Gulf ...
Document Size: 5292
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Oct 11 13:25:29 PDT 2001
31012 [CHOMSKY] Zizek on Chomsky -- rank: 1000
Michael Pugliese wrote: > Heh, the Chomskyite comrade here just said all this about moi! Who are these ravers, and why did we need to hear from them? Is anything less than total adoration unacceptable? Doug
Document Size: 4626
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Oct 11 12:20:14 PDT 2001
31013 Steve Perry weighs in -- rank: 1000
Todd Archer wrote: >Doug said: > >>I think it's kind of reckless to call people fascists who don't have >>a modern state and a giant industrial machine behind them. The word >>should mean something more than icky and repressive. > >Chip pointed out, quite correctly I think, that fascism doesn't need all >that modern state and giant industrial machinery behind them; that's not >what makes fascism. We're playing word games to some extent, but what does it mean t ...
Document Size: 5287
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Oct 11 12:09:50 PDT 2001
31014 lit Nobel to Naipul -- rank: 1000
* THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE was awarded this morning to V.S. Naipaul, a British author of Indian descent, born in Trinidad. In its announcement, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences praised Mr. Naipaul's work for having "united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories." --> SEE http://chronicle.com/free/2001/10/2001101103n.htm
Document Size: 4917
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Oct 11 07:54:59 PDT 2001
31015 WB news -- rank: 1000
[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] WORLD LEADERS SET OUT HOPES FOR GOVERNMENT TO REPLACE TALIBAN. The US yesterday signaled that it expected a long-term involvement in Afghanistan, as the big powers began turning their attention to how the country should be run after the expected collapse of the Taliban rule, reports the Financial Times (p.1). As air strikes continued for a fourth day, the debate over what should follow the fall of the Taliban intensified. China joined Russia in cal ...
Document Size: 13852
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Oct 11 07:24:33 PDT 2001
31016 Bert, imam -- rank: 1000
[from nettime] Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:47:47 +0100 From: Hari Kunzru <hari at dircon.co.uk> Some context for Bert. I don't know if he's known as Bert in Bangladesh, but for a long time muppet-like characters have been used there to teach children the basics of Islam. On Brick Lane in London, home to an established Bangla community, posters of 'Bert' in prayer cap, pointing to a koran have been around for a while. I think there are VHS distributed religious kids programs Hari Hari Kunzru ...
Document Size: 4943
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Oct 11 07:21:53 PDT 2001
31017 Job loss in NYC -- rank: 1000
/ dave / wrote: >I heard a news report that 100,000 jobs were lost in New York City as a >result of 9/11. <http://www.fiscalpolicy.org/report.pdf> >What sort of discussions are occurring around this issue? That's a lot >of unemployment... Very little, as far as I know. Doug
Document Size: 4708
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Oct 11 07:06:00 PDT 2001
31018 Cooper: bring back the draft! -- rank: 1000
L.A. Weekly - October 12 - 18, 2001 Dissonance: Feel the Draft We need a universal military call-up to start the real debate on this war by Marc Cooper The war against Osama bin Laden has finally begun, and homebound Americans have been issued their marching orders: Patriotically swarm the malls and charge, charge, charge, sparing no expense in the twilight struggle for positive corporate-earnings reports. I have a different suggestion. Instead of piling into Neiman's to pick up an extra Prada, ...
Document Size: 10057
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Oct 11 07:04:03 PDT 2001
31019 [Fwd: Black America and the Struggle for Peace] -- rank: 1000
Mina Kumar wrote: >I have to say this is not my observation, though the fact I live in >NYC probably skews my sample. I went to a Brand Nubian concert last >night, and the audience reactions to their remarks about the WTC >attack (before and after doing Probable Cause!) showed a definate >difference by race. My highly unscientific observation of peace meetings and demos is that they're dominated by white middle-class peaceniks. Is that true everywhere? Doug
Document Size: 5161
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Oct 11 06:37:30 PDT 2001
31020 Jack Welch, visionary -- rank: 1000
Carl Remick wrote: >Jack Welch >former chairman and chief executive of General Electric > >In times of upheaval and market changes such as now there are >opportunities: acquisitions are cheaper. This is not callous, no-one >cried like I did. I don't mean to be cruel or insensitive but each >one of us has got to find what the opportunities and changes brought >about by this transition are. This is about going forward, this is >about suffering the pain, we all cried, we ...
Document Size: 5658
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Oct 10 21:29:18 PDT 2001
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