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31336 "Palestine" enters U.S. diplo lexicon -- rank: 1000

Sunday November 11 12:25 PM ET Powell: Use of `Palestine' Deliberate Slideshows AP Photo Mideast Conflict By RON KAMPEAS, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - ``Palestine'' entered the government's lexicon with President Bush (news - web sites)'s speech to the United Nations (news - web sites), Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) said Sunday, another sign of the U.S. commitment to an eventual Palestinian state. Until now, U.S. officials have referred to the possibility of a ` ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 11 10:14:54 PST 2001

31337 LBO web updates -- rank: 1000

After a very long dormancy, I've updated the LBO website. And, sometime very soon, a total redesign (done by listmember Mina Kumar) will be unleashed on the world; watch this space for future announcements. New features: * "War" - an editorial from LBO #98, published in late October. I usually wait a month or two before posting articles, but I put this one up for several reasons - one, because the the issue is so important, and two, because I've heard people characterizing me as pro-wa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 11 09:34:55 PST 2001

31338 peace event in NYC -- rank: 1000

A reminder....just 4 1/2 hours from now.... >caipirinha productions, in association with ocularis, presents > >CHASING WINDMILLS OF PEACE forum discussion #2 >an evening with: > >*HAMID DABASHI, Ph.D.- columbia university professor >*DOUG HENWOOD - journalist, editor of 'the left business observer' newsletter >*MICHAEL GRIFFIN- author of 'reaping the whirlwind: the taliban >movement in afghanistan' > >we invite you to a discussion on middle eastern culture and &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 11 09:25:06 PST 2001

31339 US Sedition Act -- rank: 1000

[Speaking of Marx's letter to Lincoln, here it is, along with the US response. Mac Stainsby, was that an ancestor of yours who signed the letter?] <http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1864/11/29.htm> Sir: We congratulate the American people upon your re-election by a large majority. If resistance to the Slave Power was the reserved watchword of your first election, the triumphant war cry of your re-election is Death to Slavery. From the commencement of the titanic American strife th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 11 09:03:12 PST 2001

31340 Marable weighs in -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >But not to and in its internal and external colonies. Curious, >ain't it? Maybe there's less to this Rights of Man thing than >meets the eye. It doesn't seem to prohibit the continual >wars, invasions, occupations, raids, arrests, sweeps, roundups, >bombings, blockades and so forth of which probably no decade of >capitalism has been missing a significant example. But many people who resist war and repression do so by citing the Rights of Man thing. Is th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 11 08:57:23 PST 2001

31341 150,000 at antiwar demo in Rome -- rank: 1000

[via the Debate list] From: "Franco Barchiesi" <f_barchiesi at hotmail.com> To: debate at sunsite.wits.ac.za Subject: DEBATE: ROME - 150,000 MARCH AGAINST THE WAR!!! Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 00:43:20 +0200 The following article is from "La Repubblica" (Rome, mainstream centre-left newspaper, circulation: 1,2 million). Other reports say that 150,000 (one hundred and fifty thousand) people took part in the immense anti-war demonstration today (Saturday) in Rome. It was an e ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 11 08:43:11 PST 2001

31342 Chelsea heckles anti-war rally -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Doug's admission kind of disappoints me. I was sure he had his >heart set on the Bush girls. Menage a trois and all that. It's true, I had it for Chelsea from the first. I'd wished Tom Gogola's Chelsea Clinton Riot Grrrl hoax were true. Now this. The Bush girls don't do it for me. But I hear the Yalie's quite, um, sex-positive. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 10 14:02:56 PST 2001

31343 US Sedition Act -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Still, it's nice sentiment. Agreed. Abe said lots of nice things. And Marx wrote him a nice letter. > Would any of the current leaders in >Abe's party have the balls to use this kind of Jeffersonian rhetoric? The Contract With America crowd appropriated a lot of it. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 10 13:42:42 PST 2001

31344 Chelsea heckles anti-war rally -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Carrol: >> It's tough to have a mass murderer as a father. >> >> Carrol > >Must be tough going through life unable to differentiate one set of killings >from another... but then, you really are just a moralist (and a blinded one >at that) after all. So you're saying the Iraq embargo is a good set of killings? Remind me why you're here. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 10 13:38:37 PST 2001

31345 US Sedition Act -- rank: 1000

michael pugliese wrote: >Apropos the article in Lincoln that Hakki brings to out attn. >here is a review of Jaffa on Lincoln.This weekend, I might see >if I can round up some M.E. Bradford on Abe. Bradford was a paleo-con >that was torpedoed by neo-cons and liberals when Reagan tried >to appoint him head of the NEH. After he was voted down in the >Senate committee, William Bennett was nominated... Wrote alot >on Lincoln and the Civil War. And when Bradford died, former Marxi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 10 11:23:33 PST 2001

31346 Alterman & Lilla lovefest -- rank: 1000

[It's hard to decide who's more shallow and puerile in this, the interviewer or the interviewee. Curious alliance between a Nation honcho and the neocons here.] New York Times - November 10, 2001 Q & A Why Are Deep Thinkers Shallow About Tyranny? Mark Lilla, a professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, recently published "The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics," about how writers and intellectuals have ended up justifying communism, fascism and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 10 11:09:25 PST 2001

31347 Chelsea heckles anti-war rally -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >Chelsea joins the hecklers at rally Damn. That's it for my crush on her. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 10 10:50:35 PST 2001

31348 US Sedition Act -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: > "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who >inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, >they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their >revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." > --A. Lincoln, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861 Then he led a war against the South for trying to dismember it, suspended habeas corpus, etc. etc. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 10 10:42:20 PST 2001

31349 Weigh-in on NY mayor elections? -- rank: 1000

Mina Kumar wrote: > >>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com >>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com >>Subject: Re: Weigh-in on NY mayor elections? >>Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 15:55:54 -0500 >> >>I almost voted for Bloomberg for just that reason - that an essential >>prerequisite to even mildly progressive politics in NYC is the >>destruction of the Democratic Party, at least in its present form. I & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 10 10:25:35 PST 2001

31350 lbo-talk-digest V1 #5253 -- rank: 1000

Paul wrote: >Why is it the only people putting down Nancy Oden are also putting down >GPUSA? >And what is the logical connection between Nancy's credibility and their >views on GPUSA? >Not one of the GPUS faction has come up with any other reason for doubting >Oden. Why not? > >It's hate talk and it's disinformation. >People, your dirty partisan politics is backfiring on GPUS big time. All >over the Internet. I think we've had enough of Nancy Oden, pro and con. Ther ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 10 10:19:19 PST 2001