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31291 terror: a history -- rank: 1000

An excerpt from a speech by Bill Clinton, quoted in Mugger's column in this week's NY Press: >Those of us who come from various European lineages are not >blameless... Here in the United States, we were founded as a nation >that practiced slavery and slaves were quite frequently killed even >though they were innocent. This country once looked the other way >when significant numbers of Native Americans were dispossessed and >killed to get their land or their mineral rights or be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 14 12:57:08 PST 2001

31292 more Baudrillard -- rank: 1000

At 1:59 PM -0500 11/14/01, Jim Fleming wrote: >A full translation of this essay is now available at >http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/14/1753229

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 14 11:20:40 PST 2001

31293 Pure Stupidity? Something Else? -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: > On Max's criteria, the Saudi government has not funded Al-Qaeda, is >not harboring Al-Qaeda, and has not refused demands to turn over >Al-Qaeda leaders. The Saudi gov't has looked the other way while many members of its elite have financed and supported. And there's a great ideological affinity between their brands of Islam, sez Tariq Ali. So it's not quite an arm's-length relationship either. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 14 11:19:14 PST 2001

31294 SF peace forum -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >Doug, may those of us in the san francisco contingent >of LBO buy you a drink (or two or ten) when you visit >our fair city? <hic> sure. Thanks. Visit the event and kidnap me afterwards. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 14 11:17:44 PST 2001

31295 Fwd: US: no longer the land of the free -- rank: 1000

Le Monde diplomatique - November 2001 THE FRAGILE SUPERPOWER US: no longer the land of the free _______________________________________________________ In the near-panic in the US after the terrorist attacks, there were arbitrary arrests, detentions, and new legislation introduced which will easily be misused against radicals and dissidents. by MICHAEL RATNER * _______________________________________________________ I live a few blocks from the World Trade Centre. I saw the explosion in the Nort ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 14 11:09:20 PST 2001

31296 cultural imperialism -- rank: 1000

ppillai at sprint.ca wrote: >And why oh why would you take seriously that outburst of sectarian >bad temper that was >passing itself off as an arguement in the WSWS article Actual quotes from the piece <http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/sep2001/rads-s22.shtml> as opposed to this strange caricature of it: >This origin of the nation in the struggle for abstract >ideals-democracy, republicanism-reverberated across the globe. The >American Revolution played no small rolein in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 14 11:00:00 PST 2001

31297 cultural imperialism -- rank: 1000

ppillai at sprint.ca wrote: >Doug please! where oh where is this great tide of anti-americanism >you keep fretting about? If you're referring to the American left, it would be incapable of mounting a great tide of anything. At most a gentle lapping or soft drizzle. You just endorsed Carrol Cox's comparison of the U.S. to Nazi Germany. Like I said before, the U.S. role in the world is full of contradictions, both murderously repressive and sometimes liberating, as is U.S. society itself. Th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 14 09:38:58 PST 2001

31298 How to super-charge the economy -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >This was written pre-Sept. 11, but I believe the proposal still has merit. >CK > >ED TELLS BUSH HOW TO SUPERCHARGE THE U.S.ECONOMY! > >Ed Anger >"My America" >Weekly World News >August 14, 2001 > >I'm madder than a banker with both Rolls-Royces in the shop over how the >so-called experts are saying our new President George W. Bush doesn't have >the "full support of the American people" or a "mandate to lead." ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 14 09:26:35 PST 2001

31299 back to old times? -- rank: 1000

Not that he said it, but that they reported it. From today's NYT: >For Mr. Bush, a personal relationship is in full bloom and what he >called a "partnership" has already been forged. Today, at a news >conference on the first day of their summit meeting, he said >relations between the United States and Russia had been >"transformationed."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 14 06:32:59 PST 2001

31300 cultural imperialism -- rank: 1000

Mina Kumar wrote: >Yeah. The anti-imperialist movements in the third world were almost >all led by perfectly bourgeois people, sometimes from displaced >elites, sometimes from elites precisely created by the imperialist >powers. Does this delegitimize their anti-imperialism? No. But 1) the EU is not a colony, and 2) the social origins of the anti-colonial leaders help explain the disappointing course of post-independence life, which often involves betrayal, exploitation, and repres ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 14 06:28:54 PST 2001

31301 cultural imperialism -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> >> >> Zizek makes the point that some of the loudest protests against the >> U.S. come from the displaced bourgeoisies (and their intellectuals) >> of second-tier powers - the prime example being France. >> > >So? This sounds utterly banal. I know you're hard to please Carrol. In the last couple of days we've heard you complain: At 1:01 AM -0600 11/13/01, Carrol Cox wrote: >I tried to read this, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 14 06:25:57 PST 2001

31302 SF peace forum -- rank: 1000

[preliminary lineup - details to follow - the Brooklyn event last Sunday drew a standing-room only crowd, and they had to turn away 150-200 people] caipirinha productions, in association with mother jones and ploughshares fund, presents: CHASING WINDMILLS OF PEACE forum discussion #3 what should be done an evening with: *MICHAEL NACHT - dean and professor of public policy, university of california, berkeley *SCOTT SAGAN - co-director of center for international security and cooperation (cisac), ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 14 06:19:50 PST 2001

31303 cultural imperialism -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >are you saying that there is a tendency to oppose american action >purely because its american action and to ignore any positive >effects it might bring? No, I think what Dabashi was going after, as was the WSWS piece, and what I'd agree with, is the view of the U.S. as uniformly evil (which seems to be the Carrol Coxian position) rather than a profoundly contradictory force. There's much that's bad, and there's much that's good, in U.S. society, but most people, patriot an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 14 06:14:15 PST 2001

31304 one in five NY'ers visit soup kitchens -- rank: 1000

New York Times - November 14, 2001 Shift From Food Stamps to Private Aid Widens By ELIZABETH BECKER ASHINGTON, Nov. 13 - Five years after the government scaled back its responsibility for the poor, more people get food from private charities over the course of the year than participate in the federal government's food stamp program, according to a yearlong survey to be released on Wednesday. Emergency feeding sites around the country serve more than 7 million people in a given week, the survey f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 14 06:02:03 PST 2001

31305 Fwd: for you and LOB talk re. oil -- rank: 1000

[Christian Parenti <christianparenti at aol.com> writes...] I've been looking at the LOBtalk list today: this oil thread, I haven't read it all, but it seems that yer man Cyrus Bina while right-on about avoiding oil fetishism is down playing OPEC's real political impact. Clearly OPEC has been stronger and weaker at times and the "nationalist" forces (for lack of a better term) within opec have seen their fortunes wax and wane. For example when your friend and mine, Muamer kick o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 13 18:17:52 PST 2001