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31261 Hitchens as the love child of Safire -- rank: 1000

Dennis Breslin wrote: >To invoke the spectre of Hitchens, it is all to do with the way the left >has marginalized itself, less capable of trading on libertarian, consumed >by absolutist, totalizing, and purist theorizing, petty factionalizing, and >acting as if critique is more productive than embracing something >positive. So, if I were to channel Hitchens (he was on the radio this >afternoon), perhaps he might observe how the movement formerly >known as the left heaps abu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 16 13:29:49 PST 2001

31262 Activists curtailed in USA (MER and Women in Black) -- rank: 1000

Bryan Atinsky wrote: >You know something, there are some really aggressive assholes in the bunch >here, no? As someone pointed out to me offlist yesterday, there's nothing like a war to jack up quotidian aggression. Let's not imitate our ruling classes and shoot first and ask questions later. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 16 05:12:47 PST 2001

31263 Ha Ha-- I told you so! -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> >> >> Wasn't it Krushchev who said that in a nuclear war the living would >> envy the dead? >> > >Yes -- and he was right. But he didn't say (because history had already >proven otherwise -- Hiroshima & Nagasaki) that one or two nuclear >explosions would have that result. Were full scale nuclear war to break >out I too would rather die sooner than later. But I don't imagine the >citizens o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 15 20:22:18 PST 2001

31264 Ha Ha-- I told you so! -- rank: 1000

matt hogan wrote: >Doug should get out of New York; the city is a too attractive target >for a strike with a weapon of mass destruction. All cities >everywhere are an attractive target. This will become apparent as >nukes--and other kinds of weapons--become cheaper and more >widespread. I think in that kind of world I'd rather die sooner than later. Wasn't it Krushchev who said that in a nuclear war the living would envy the dead? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 15 18:49:19 PST 2001

31265 Hitch gloats (like a fool) -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >What is going on here? It almosts sounds like a dialogue. Shouldn't we >revert to name-calling? No, please, not that! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 15 12:25:47 PST 2001

31266 Autonogram One-Shot: Davos -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:21:25 -0500 From: Ben Meyers <ben at autonomedia.org> Greetings -- Over the next eleven weeks, in serial installments posted every other day, Autonomedia will publish on-line a translation of a new novel in 34 episodes written by the Swiss author Daniel de Roulet. The novel "Davos: Everyone is Coming Down" is set around the resort town in the Swiss Alps that hosts the annual World Economic Forum, and involves a tactical plan to strike against the mobile ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 15 12:19:09 PST 2001

31267 WB: developing countries "won" in Doha; UAE to host Afghan talks -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Translated, this means that the U.S. doesn't like it that each >> country has one vote, meaning that Africa together has greater weight >> than the G-7 countries. No doubt they'd prefer something more like >> the WB/IMF, where votes are weighted by income, and only the U.S. has >> veto power. >. >I thought this mostly applies to the actual WTO as a staff-run institution. >When the trade negotiations ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 15 12:06:20 PST 2001

31268 Fwd: The Meaning of Doha -- rank: 1000

The Meaning of Doha By Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South, and Anuradha Mittal, Food First The results of the WTO Ministerial in Doha, Qatar, have elicited some confusion among many of those following the events. A New Round? Something was launched at Doha, but to call it a "round" of trade negotiations might be stretching the concept of a round. A round means negotiations on a broad range of issues directed at trade liberalization. What was agreed at Doha were: a) negotiations ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 15 12:07:13 PST 2001

31269 NYC NO! demo -- rank: 1000

Workers, Immigrants, People of Conscience: NO War NO Globalization NO Sweatshops NO Attacks on Immigrants NO Attacks on Civil Liberties Saturday, November 24, 2:00 PM Rally at Union Square South, 14th Street Speakers & Street Theatre March to INS Detention Center at Varick & Houston Streets Protest against sweatshops along the way! Organized by: The Global Sweatshop Coalition, the Nicaragua Solidarity Network, CISPES (Committee in Support of the People of El Salvador), the Batay Ouvriye ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 15 11:25:13 PST 2001

31270 Response to Brad re Saudi Arabia -- rank: 1000

Ken Hanly wrote: >ken >it would be appreciated if you forwarded this reply to brad to lbo-talk; i >sent >it to him as an offlist criticism but he did not reply. thanks, rakesh No! Stop this. Rakesh can post all by himself if he subscribes to the list. Otherwise, stop being his corresponding secretary. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 15 11:22:57 PST 2001

31271 Pure Stupidity? Something Else? -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >I brought up the threats against Hezbollah as an example, and the relative >lack of pressure on Saudi Arabia as a counterexample. I just recorded an interview with Tariq Ali which I'll run on the radio this afternoon at about 5:00 or 5:20. (On the web: <http://www.wbai.org> or <http://www.2600.com>.) In it, Tariq cites an interview that Paul O'Neill - the ex-FBI agent who investigated al Qaeda and who became chief of WTC security only to die on 9/11 - gave ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 15 11:21:59 PST 2001

31272 Bloomberg on NYC Rebuilding- union wrokers to get screwed -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I read the comment differently-- it's not that unions didn't take the brunt >in the 70s; it's just that this time around, they don't have any silly >ideas that they can resist it. Yeah, they're open sellouts now. In '75, Gotbaum made a big racket in public while he was selling the members out in secret. Now they don't even offer a pretence of resistance. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 15 11:19:04 PST 2001

31273 WB: developing countries "won" in Doha; UAE to host Afghan talks -- rank: 1000

Chuck Munson wrote: >As opposition to the WTO continues to grow around the world, the >Geneva-based organization can expect to see its effectiveness further >damaged. And it won't surprise me if Washington is one of the forces aiming to do damage. Joseph Kahn writes in the NYT: >Even after the success here, doubts remained about the effectiveness >of the World Trade Organization. It operates by consensus, meaning >individual members can hold the group hostage. The negotiating & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 15 10:44:24 PST 2001

31274 Bloomberg on NYC Rebuilding- union wrokers to get screwed -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Well, for those who like their enemies speaking in clear prose, >Bloomberg may be a refreshing change. In Newsweek this week: > >"It's a different kind of problem [from 1975]...Back then the unions >didn't understand that they would have to bear the brunt of any >downturn. Today all the unions understand that." Interesting version of history. I wonder who Mike things bore the brunt of the '75 downturn. Bondholders? And not city workers, users of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 15 10:33:23 PST 2001

31275 HRW on Afg -- rank: 1000

From: Human Rights Watch <hrwatchnyc at igc.org> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 17:53:00 +0000 Unfolding Events in Afghanistan (New York, November 15, 2001) - There is a lack of clarity in many of the reports now coming out of Afghanistan as to when, by whom, and even whether human rights violations took place. The anti-Taliban forces have been responsible for some executions and looting, but more information is needed to determine if some of the reports of mass reprisal killings are accurate. For ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 15 10:00:33 PST 2001