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31246 cultural imperialism -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Can't say I didn't ask for this. There is no way to cock your snoot >at contemporary US popular culture without coming across like >William Bennett, Hilton Kramer or just some tiresome boomer old >fart. But again, I think schlock has gotten much schlockier in the >last few decades, and I think US-led turbocharged global capitalism >is the reason for this degeneration. Particularly irritating are >recent apologias -- with at least pretensions to high-do ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 18 12:27:31 PST 2001

31247 Postmodern Jihad -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >At 01:45 PM 11/18/01 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote: >>Right-wing troglodytes are using 9/11 as an excuse to promote all >>their favorite obsessions > > >everyone is. True, but I find the obsessions of right-wing troglodytes more repulsive than those of most other people. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 18 11:28:31 PST 2001

31248 Osama, September 11, London, Illuminati -- rank: 1000

Hakki Alacakaptan wrote: >While we're in X-Files mode here's a chain of improbability nobody seems to >have noticed. Looks like Allah was at the controls of 77, and God was >protecting the Pentagon. What kind of point are you trying to make here? That someone else was at the controls? A CIA pilot maybe? Someone financed by Unocal? You read like your filing dispatches from Eliot & Angleton's wilderness of mirrors. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 18 10:48:53 PST 2001

31249 Postmodern Jihad -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >am i right in being suspicious that the use of 9/11 to attack >postmodernism is promiscuous? I was tempted to say yes, but then I realized it would give promiscuity a bad name. Right-wing troglodytes are using 9/11 as an excuse to promote all their favorite obsessions - drilling in the ANWR, increasing repressive power, bombing Iraq, denouncing Derrida as an enemy of Western civ. Have they ever looked at a page of Derrida's? Did they overlook all the references to Rousseau and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 18 10:45:19 PST 2001

31250 CIA-military tension? -- rank: 1000

Reuters - November 18 1:02 PM ET CIA Denies Keeping Military in Dark in Afghanistan By Jim Wolf WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The CIA (news - web sites) on Sunday dismissed as groundless claims that it had kept the U.S. military in the dark while carrying out an expanded paramilitary operation in Afghanistan (news - web sites), which has included air strikes by the spy agency's own surveillance drones. ``There has never been a better relationship between the CIA and the military,'' said a Central Intel ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 18 10:29:06 PST 2001

31251 Apology -- rank: 1000

Dennis Breslin wrote: >long walks on the beach You sound like you've been reading AOL profiles. Don't forget candlelit dinners and starry skies! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 17 08:29:48 PST 2001

31252 Hitchens as the love child of Safire -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >subtextually speaking, Carrol scatologizes: > >>farts ...fart ... >>pisses...and preens ... > >yeah, well, you and most U.S. men.... You mean Celia doesn't shite after all? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 17 07:48:16 PST 2001

31253 cultural imperialism -- rank: 1000

Dennis wrote: >Schlock is popular the world over, >regardless of social system. Almost by definition. If it's popular, it's a near-certainty that high-domes will call it schlock. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 17 07:25:22 PST 2001

31254 "Shit just keeps getting shittier, without relief" -- rank: 1000

H. Curtiss Leung wrote: >Brad asked: > >> > And does she really know nothing about how her great-great >> >grandmothers lived? >> > >And Doug replied: > >> Evidently not. Here she is, a radical intellectual woman, holding >> forth at a conference, to an audience that was about half women. That >> wouldn't have happened even a generation ago. But hey, you know, shit >> just keeps getting shittier, without relief. >> > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 17 06:51:49 PST 2001

31255 Apology -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I needn't have gotten personal with Dennis Breslin. I apologize. > >But aside from the uncalled for personal slurs of the post, I think what >I was saying is damned important, and that this consistent refusal or >inability to recognize the non-existence of "The Left" is one of the >main errors made by too many leftists. It represents a significant >barrier to our somehow coming together to form, at least embryonically, >_A Left_. > >Anyo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 17 05:55:49 PST 2001

31256 Hitchens as the love child of Safire -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Where does she come from? Italy. Where sex slavery is now rampant, further proof that it's just been an express train to perdition. > And does she really know nothing about how her great-great >grandmothers lived? Evidently not. Here she is, a radical intellectual woman, holding forth at a conference, to an audience that was about half women. That wouldn't have happened even a generation ago. But hey, you know, shit just keeps getting shittier, without relief. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 16 16:33:38 PST 2001

31257 ignore that bit of racial genetics! -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - November 16, 2001 Science Journal Retracts Paper That Veered Into Geopolitical Speculation By LILA GUTERMAN Science and politics just don't mix. That's the message sent loud and clear by a scientific society and commercial publisher in retracting a paper about the genetic backgrounds of Jews and Palestinians. Elsevier Science, which publishes Human Immunology, sent a letter to subscribers last month withdrawing an article published in the September iss ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 16 16:21:56 PST 2001

31258 Anthrax at Sverdlovsk, 1979 -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 18:06:52 -0500 From: NSARCHIVE <mevans at GWU.EDU> National Security Archive Update, November 15, 2001 *The September 11th Source Books, Volume V, Anthrax at Sverdlovsk, 1979: U.S. Intelligence on the Deadliest Modern Outbreak* http://www.nsarchive.org/NSAEBB/NSAEBB61/ Today the National Security Archive publishes on the web declassified documents from the Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency and State Department on the deadliest modern outbreak o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 16 16:12:06 PST 2001

31259 different time, different president -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] *** CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, VANITY FAIR, March 1999 - Not once but three times last year, Bill Clinton ordered the use of cruise missiles against remote and unpopular countries. On each occasion, the dispatch of the missiles coincided with bad moments in the calendar of his long and unsuccessful struggle to avoid impeachment . . . Did, then, a dirtied blue dress from the Gap cause widows and orphans to set up grieving howls in the passes of Afghanistan, the ou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 16 15:46:20 PST 2001

31260 EPI job -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address] From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 15:00:00 -0500 Message-ID: <NFBBICFMIKGPJNEEGOLOOENKCPAA.sawicky at epinet.org> Washington, DC think-tank seeks Masters level policy analyst. Position will focus on the analysis of federal and state policies intended to improve the economic conditions facing low-income working families. Candidate will work closely with economists and policy analysts to analyze existing policy ideas and program ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 16 13:30:43 PST 2001