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31096 Sociology and Explanations (Re: Hitchens responds to critics -- rank: 1000

Noam A wrote: >Well, to take another example, assume we had perfect psychological profiles >of all of Hitler's inner circle. Could we have increased our understanding >of WWII? I think so. U.S. intelligence prepared psychological profiles of Hitler. As far as I know, the CIA does psychological profiles of current enemies. Of course, they're wasting their time - just ask Carrol. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 1 16:27:56 PDT 2001

31097 Fwd: answer back to the post on pacifica wbai massege board. -- rank: 1000

Todd Archer wrote: >Doug's nemesis said: > >>if you take your head out of your ass you would know whats happening >>around you. your nothing but a human wast. > >Hmmm, at least Pearlstine could spell. Presumably, though I transcribed what he told me on the phone. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 1 16:24:47 PDT 2001

31098 Unwritten rules of the list? -- rank: 1000

John K. Taber wrote: >ouch, ouch, ouch. The reason is I subscribe to the digest so I cut >and paste the particular post I want. It's tedious inserting the >">s" you want. So it looks like you use Microsoft Outlook. Can't you paste quoted text? Eudora lets you do that, like this: At 2:18 PM -0500 10/1/01, John K. Taber wrote: >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 1 12:29:13 PDT 2001

31099 Unwritten rules of the list? -- rank: 1000

Ok, enough tit for tat. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 1 06:59:43 PDT 2001

31100 Fwd: Bush cracks down on antiwar movement -- rank: 1000

< Office of Homeland Security forces three websites offline Date: 9/30/2001 3:33:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time <http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/30/1859212> Three Political Websites Downed After Government "Homeland Security" Threat iraradio.com, the web site which archives all Radio Free Eireann broadcasts, has been taken down because the web service provider was threatened with seizure of their assets if they continued to host "terrorist" radio progr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 1 10:04:43 PDT 2001

31101 Sociology and Explanations (Re: Hitchens responds to critics -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> kelley wrote: >> >> >does anyone psychoanalyze the masterminds of our war machine? >> >> I don't know, but someone should. Why not? >> >> Doug >> > >Any psychoanalysis here is neither necessary nor sufficient as an >analysis of the U. S. war machine. Any psychological processes >(e.g., sublimination) that a Freudian might posit here can only >have real s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 1 10:09:48 PDT 2001

31102 Fwd: answer back to the post on pacifica wbai massege board. -- rank: 1000

This is an example of the quality of thought and style characterizing some Free Pacifica militants: >X-From_: farshad at hotmail.com Mon Oct 1 12:39:21 2001 >X-Originating-IP: [24.46.50.177] >From: "zod33" <zod33 at hotmail.com> >To: <dhenwood at panix.com> >Subject: answer back to the post on pacifica wbai massege board. >Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 00:37:34 -0400 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >X-Priority: 3 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-MimeOLE: Produced By ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 1 10:12:08 PDT 2001

31103 Said weighs in -- rank: 1000

CounterPunch online (<http://www.counterpunch.org>) September 28, 2001 The Necessity of Skepticism: Backlash and Backtrack By Edward Said For the seven million Americans who are Muslims (only two million of them Arab) and have lived through the catastrophe and backlash of 11 September, it's been a harrowing, especially unpleasant time. In addition to the fact that there have been several Arab and Muslim innocent casualties of the atrocities, there is an almost palpable air of hatred direct ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 1 09:42:50 PDT 2001

31104 Sociology and Explanations (Re: Hitchens responds to critics -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >does anyone psychoanalyze the masterminds of our war machine? I don't know, but someone should. Why not? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 1 06:18:50 PDT 2001

31105 Sociology and Explanations (Re: Hitchens responds to critics -- rank: 1000

Ted Winslow wrote: >Yoshie wrote: > >> It is possible that the terrorists who committed the 9/11 bombings >> had "relations in infancy and childhood" that played "a crucial role >> in the development of this [terrorist?] mentality [sic]." However, >> even if such were really the case (which would be impossible to prove >> or disprove, in my view), it would still make sense politically for >> anti-war activists to focus only on ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 1 05:15:46 PDT 2001

31106 US snubbed Sudan -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - November 29, 2001 US rejected Sudanese offer to share intelligence By Mark Huband in London The US rejected an offer by Sudan to hand over two men suspected of links to the 1998 bombings of US embassies in East Africa and refused offers to share intelligence on Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, letters between the two governments reveal. Suspicion of Sudan's government within the Clinton administration lay behind the decision to reject the offer to share intelligence, two mon ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 30 15:31:50 PST 2001

31107 happy b'day Abbie -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Sam Smith's Progressive Review - this was clearly before people started viewing burgers as toxic] Sacred cows make the best hamburger - Abbie Hoffman, whose birthday it is.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 30 15:29:43 PST 2001

31108 the euro -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >How does Greenspan welcome austerity except insofar as to keep wages down? I'd love to be a fly on the wall at one of the monthly central banker chatfests at the BIS. I can imagine a bunch of dour Euros telling Alan that he's got to do something about the c/a deficit. And now they're going to have a currency that may force him to do it. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 30 15:28:56 PST 2001

31109 the euro -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Hey, if you want to be conspiratorial about it, AG welcomes some >> competition so that it will force an austerity program on the U.S., >> and thereby balance the current account. And, conveniently, external >> forces could be blamed. > >You really buy into this Kautskyite idea of inter-imperialist collusion, >don't you? Yup. So far. It could all change, but right now it's a lovefest. Or maybe a family, whi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 30 15:15:24 PST 2001

31110 help Bitch -- rank: 1000

The excellent Bitch magazine - "feminist responses to pop culture" <http://www.bitchmagazine.com> - needs money. If you've got some to spare, please send them some at: Bitch 2765 16th St San Francisco CA 94103-9788 Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 30 15:05:14 PST 2001