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31171 sub policy -- rank: 1000

I've just switched the subscription policy for the list to closed - it'll require my approval. Since I'm away for the weekend and only checking email sporadically, there may be a half-day's delay in processing subs until Monday morning. Sorry about this, but the last thing I want right now is for Mark Jones to start lacing into me here, accusing me of celebrating the deaths of Afghan babies. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 24 11:01:26 PST 2001

31172 legal angle -- rank: 1000

I asked Ian Williams to comment on Francis Boyle's talk, forwarded to this list, and to address the legality of the war in general. Here's his response. Doug ---- At 10:50 AM -0500 11/22/01, Ian Williams wrote: >The US did not seek the Sept 12 resolution. The French introduced it. That >resolution invoked the article of the Charter determining that the US would >be acting in self defence. Under the UN charter military action is illegal >unless authorized by the Security Council under ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 22 18:26:17 PST 2001

31173 Nude Finaces -- rank: 1000

rws at comedu.canberra.edu.au wrote: >I still don't hear the economic cavalry, though. Do you? Not in the real sector, but if the stock market stays up, it could be the first hint of distant hoofbeats. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 22 05:37:59 PST 2001

31174 wow -- rank: 1000

News snippet of the week: At 2:10 AM -0500 11/22/01, Yahoo! Alerts - Breaking News wrote: >GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip _ Two Palestinian children are killed by >Israeli tank fire on elementary school, Palestinian security >commander says.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 22 05:34:03 PST 2001

31175 Nicknames for Right-Wing Media (was: Re: Pre-historic human societies) -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >They would tell you they have nothing to do with and >never have reason to talk to the edit page loonies. > >mbs > > >I really have a problem with them - I'd love to talk with >a real reporter from that paper, and ask them what it's like >to work there. > > >Barry A WSJ reporter told me once that she used the edit page connection to her advantage - with sources who liked it, she played on that, and with sources who didn't, she made fun of i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 22 05:31:34 PST 2001

31176 Fwd: House of Saud looks close to collapse - The Guardian -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - November 21, 2001 House of Saud looks close to collapse Modern Saudi Arabia is supported by the US and Britain in order to guarantee a steady flow of oil. Their war on terrorism could destroy it David Leigh & Richard Norton-Taylor While tabloid cheerleaders and spin doctors have been celebrating the fall of Kabul and the retreat of Taliban and al-Qaida fighters, the mood in other parts of Whitehall is much more sombre. For senior ministerial advisers know that the real ca ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 21 18:06:48 PST 2001

31177 economists go to the movies -- rank: 1000

"Uniform Prices for Differentiated Goods: the Case of the Movie-Theater Industry" BY: LIRAN EINAV Harvard University Department of Economics BARAK Y. ORBACH Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=290813 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/olin_center/ SSRN only offers technical support for papers downloaded from the SSRN Electronic Paper Coll ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 21 17:58:07 PST 2001

31178 the long war -- rank: 1000

November 21 8:32 PM ET U.S. Hunts Bin Laden; Taliban to Surrender City By Roger Atwood and Rosalind Russell WASHINGTON/KABUL (Reuters) - The U.S. war in Afghanistan (news - web sites) looked more and more like a manhunt for Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) on Wednesday as the Pentagon (news - web sites)'s chief said he would rather take the Islamic militant dead than alive, while the Taliban agreed to surrender its northern stronghold. As the Taliban's power crumbled further, President Bush (n ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 21 17:54:55 PST 2001

31179 Arguments for ground war - forget it -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Let's take the best case of U.S. power-elite largess toward foreign >nations: the Marshall Plan & development of Japan. They didn't >change policy and decide to rebuild Germany, Japan, & Europe in >general because of pressures from Americans. They did so because >(1) the USSR existed as an alternative to capitalism; (2) the CPs >came out of WW2 in Europe with bases of popular support and an aura >of having been the best resistance fighters ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 21 17:49:45 PST 2001

31180 Rothschild on Smith -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of attached gibberish] From: "Forstater, Mathew" <ForstaterM at umkc.edu> I haven't read the book, but sometime in the early 90s Sylvia Nasar wrote an article or two for the New York Times, one entitled "Adam Amith ain't no Gordon Gekko" and another on Rothschild with the same message, by now familiar, that the Wealth of Nations (and specifically Smith's notion of self-interest) cannot be understood without The Theory of Moral Sentiments, and the idea of Sm ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 21 17:43:19 PST 2001

31181 Arguments for ground war - forget it -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >actually, if you take a test on this issue in the military you'd >find that the pentagon is a legitimate military target. I think people realize this, but don't want to talk about it. Almost no one talks about the Pentagon, even in the most mainstream media. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 21 17:41:51 PST 2001

31182 an old letter -- rank: 1000

[This has been around a while, but a quick survey shows far from everyone's seen it.] Dr. Laura Schlessinger is a US radio personality who dispenses advice to people who call in to her radio show. Recently, she said that, as an observant Orthodox Jew, - 'Homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22, and cannot be condoned in any circumstance'. The following is an open letter to Dr. Laura penned by a US resident, which was posted on the Internet. It's a scream! ___________________ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 21 17:24:15 PST 2001

31183 (self-)regard -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >i guess i dont' really give a fuck anymore. i offered to host the >list for you for free and you preferred not too. so, the quota >thingy is just your arbitrary decision! Well isn't that sweet? The quota is meant to keep down the overall volume and assure a balance of voices, two considerations you're obviously indifferent to. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 21 17:17:39 PST 2001

31184 Arguments for ground war - forget it -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >A socialist revolution is a political project of self-emancipation >of the proletariat -- whether you succeed or fail, it's undeniably >your own project. In contrast, to argue for "a massive >reconstruction and development program," as things stand now, is to >pray for the ruling class's sense of mercy, generosity, noblesse >oblige, civilizing mission, or something like that. They've got the money and the organizational resources to do it. If ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 21 17:00:37 PST 2001

31185 lbo-talk-digest V1 #5319 -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > > Economic Left/Right: -2.50 >> Authoritarian/Libertarian: -2.05 >> >> which makes me officially the most rightwing person on the list. > >... as far as you know. Well Jordan, where'd you come in? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 21 16:53:33 PST 2001