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31351 Beck weighs in -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - November 6, 2001 Globalisation's Chernobyl September 11 exposed neoliberalism's shortcomings as a solution to the world's conflicts By ULRICH BECK The terrorist attacks on America were the Chernobyl of globalisation. Just as the Russian disaster undermined our faith in nuclear energy, so September 11 exposed the false promise of neoliberalism. The suicide bombers not only exposed the vulnerability of western civilisation but also gave a taste of the conflicts that globalisation ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 10 10:09:38 PST 2001

31352 far right-Islamist connection -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - November 9, 2001 AL-QAEDA LINKS: Far-right has ties with Islamic extreme By PHILIPP JAKLIN and HUGH WILLIAMSON One of the people identified by the US government as providing financial support to the al-Qaeda terrorist network is also a well-known figure in the European far-right political movement. The link is likely to raise new concerns over ties between Islamic and rightwing extremists. Ahmed Huber, a 74-year-old Swiss businessman and former journalist who converted to Islam ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 10 10:06:10 PST 2001

31353 The Movement -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - November 9, 2001 INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY: Anti-globalisation warriors shift their ground: The appetite for mass confrontations at international conferences has diminished. Alan Beattie reports Financial Times; Nov 9, 2001 By ALAN BEATTIE Since September 11 the appetite for anti-capitalist demonstrations seems to have shrunk: neither the World Trade Organisation meeting in Doha, Qatar, starting today nor the G20 meeting in Ottawa next week are expected to produce protests on the s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 9 13:51:31 PST 2001

31354 Florida recount story finally being published -- rank: 1000

[Thanks to Chris Kromm & Co's Facing South for pointing this story out.] CBS Marketwatch - November 8, 2001 Media recount story set to break First stories on Florida ballot review will run Monday By William Spain, CBS.MarketWatch.com Last Update: 4:45 PM ET Nov. 8, 2001 CHICAGO (CBS.MW) -- Temporarily lost in the aftermath of Sept. 11, what could be one of the biggest news stories of the year is about to break. Beginning in February, the National Opinion Research Center, working at the behes ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 9 13:41:41 PST 2001

31355 Nancy Oden: Screwing the Greens? -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >Louis Proyect Who? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 9 13:37:30 PST 2001

31356 Fwd: Berkeley is alive and well -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than list] From: "Stroshane, Timothy" <TStroshane at ci.berkeley.ca.us> Subject: Berkeley is alive and well Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 12:28:54 -0800 ======================= Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 14:43:06 +0200 From: "Hakki Alacakaptan" <nucleus at superonline.com> Subject: Hello!: Popular backlash against Berkeley BBC News Online: World: Americas Friday, 2 November, 2001, 14:25 GMT Berkeley boycotted for anti-war stance http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/eng ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 9 12:56:36 PST 2001

31357 Weigh-in on NY mayor elections? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >What's to regret? Anything that hurts the DP simply reduces the barrier >to the growth of a mass movement in the U.S. After all, that is the DP's >reason for existing: Keep women, blacks, latinos, liberal intellectuals >etc. safely corralled. 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 ended up not voting for ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 9 12:55:54 PST 2001

31358 Baudrillard "weighs" in -- rank: 1000

Ken Hanly wrote: > I really can't fathom why anyone would read stuff like this... Baudrillard's Verso books sell no more than 5,000 copies apiece. So not that many people read stuff like this. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 9 12:50:16 PST 2001

31359 Nancy Oden: Screwing the Greens? -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > >...Here's a little footnote on sectarianism. Oden's a member of the Green >Party USA, as distinct from the Association of Green Parties with which >Ralph Nader is associated. There's ill-feeling between the two groups. When >Oden's experience at Bangor went the rounds, Naderite Greens were quick to >belittle the affair. "Leader of Green splinter group fibs about airport >hassle" was the title on one sneering email forwarded by Naderite B ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 9 12:45:09 PST 2001

31360 WSJ: Bloomberg = liberal -- rank: 1000

{Fred Siegel is a former leftist whose rightward path, according to a friend who knows him and has followed his transformation closely, has been lubricated mostly by racism.] Wall Street Journal - November 8, 2001 Commentary Bloomberg's Next Challenge By Fred Siegel. Mr. Siegel is a professor at The Cooper Union in New York and a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington. "It's a darn shame only one of these guys will lose." -- David Letterman I should be smiling. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 9 12:38:03 PST 2001

31361 Vigilante justice -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Doug, I am puzzled why you posted this. Because it was a serious proposal appearing in a major metropolitan daily. Isn't that just a little scary? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 9 12:01:18 PST 2001

31362 forget trials - just shoot 'em! -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - November 9, 2001 COMMENTARY How a Powerful Image Can Shape a War By JAMES ZUMWALT, James Zumwalt is a retired Marine lieutenant colonel who served in the Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars The re is tremendous potential in a photograph to inflame emotions. The images of Sept. 11 of planes crashing into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania were of sufficient emotion to cause few of us to object to the ensuing executive order that Osama bin Laden be taken ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 9 10:44:37 PST 2001

31363 Marable weighs in -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Has it come to this then, clapping the NYPD on the back because it >has a better human rights record than some Latin American death >squad? No. Where in god's name did you get that idea? You spent too much time in PR. You can't read anything without spinning it. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 9 10:40:24 PST 2001

31364 Amtrak told to draw up liquidation plan -- rank: 1000

November 9 1:24 PM ET Amtrak Told to Plan Liquidation By LAURENCE ARNOLD, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal oversight panel declared Friday that Amtrak will not meet a congressional deadline for achieving financial self-sufficiency, a finding that forces Amtrak to draw up a plan for its own liquidation. The 6-5 vote by the Amtrak Reform Council does not mean Amtrak trains will stop running. Congress will review Amtrak's liquidation plan and a proposal to be drawn up by the coun ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 9 10:39:28 PST 2001

31365 Baudrillard "weighs" in -- rank: 1000

<http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/09/167258> Jean Baudrillard," The Spirit of Terror" (excerpts, translated courtesy of Brian Holmes) "...All the discourses and commentaries betray a gigantic suturing of the event itself, and of the fascination it commands. The moral condemnation, the holy alliance against terrorism are on the scale of the prodigious jubilation at seeing this world superpower destroyed, or better, seeing it somehow destroy itself, in a beau ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 9 09:44:44 PST 2001