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31366 Afghan boomerang -- rank: 1000
<http://www.odaction.org/challenge/70/afghan.html> Afghan Boomerang America's nurture of militant Islam and the miscalculations of Osama Bin Laden Yacov Ben Efrat Introduction: Made by the USA Until recently, the name "Afghanistan" had an exotic ring to many, but not to US policy-makers. For a decade (1979-1989) they backed the Afghan war against the Soviet Union, contributing to the latter's collapse. The new world order had its start, one might say, in this desolate country, al ...
Document Size: 6413
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Nov 9 09:30:22 PST 2001
31367 Marable weighs in -- rank: 1000
Gordon Fitch wrote: >On the other hand, by the _argumentum_ad_odorem_, Art and I >should be more concerned with the NYPD, because they're much >closer at hand and we're more likely to be killed by them, You & I & Justin are not at all likely to be killed by the NYPD. Cop violence is one area where race almost completely dominates. I bet a black lawyer in an Armani suit is more likely to get hassled or shot than a scruffy white anarchist. Doug
Document Size: 4820
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Nov 9 09:25:33 PST 2001
31368 S11 Imperialism -- rank: 1000
Chris Doss wrote: >Just a small comment on this bit by Hakki: > >Any non-Russian citizen of former Comecon countries or former Soviet >republics will agree that the USSR was imperialist, and will probably spit >or swear when doing so :) > >This is true as far as the Baltics go, but a lot of people in the >non-Russian CIS rue the day the USSR fell. Wasn't the flow of resources in the old USSR just the opposite what you'd expect from an imperialist power? Didn't Russia subs ...
Document Size: 5098
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Nov 9 09:21:07 PST 2001
31369 Hello!: Popular backlash against Berkeley -- rank: 1000
Hakki Alacakaptan wrote: >As an ignorant foreigner, I am puzzled at why the above piece of news has >been ignored by the list. Chauvinist vigilantes, singly or in groups, are >hounding a dissident municipality and have contributed greatly all over the >US to silencing the media. Some of it may be organized by right-wing >organizations but it appears to be largely spontaneous (as much as anything >can be in the media-blitzed land of the free). Doesn't this worry anyone >over ...
Document Size: 5772
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Nov 9 09:10:35 PST 2001
31370 Alabama frat integrated -- rank: 1000
[Christian, how's this playing at Auburn?] Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - November 9, 2001 Black Student Breaks Color Barrier in U. of Alabama's Fraternity System By ERIC HOOVER For the first time, a black student has joined what had been an all-white fraternity system at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. The university did not release the name of the student or the fraternity Thursday. Cathy Andreen, a university spokeswoman, said the student wanted to maintain his privacy. ...
Document Size: 6160
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Nov 9 09:04:13 PST 2001
31371 campus antiwar movement "gaining focus & momentum" -- rank: 1000
Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - November 9, 2001 Student Protests Against War Gain Focus and Momentum By DANA MULHAUSER After six weeks of scattered activity, a nascent campus antiwar movement is building momentum, as protesters coordinated a fast on a dozen campuses on Wednesday and Thursday, and planned to hold several regional conferences this weekend. The University of California at Berkeley becomes Protest Central this weekend, when representatives from 40 West Coast colleges pl ...
Document Size: 7897
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Nov 9 09:01:58 PST 2001
31372 Fwd: Re:lbo-talk-digest V1 #5247 -- rank: 1000
[sent to me rather than list] From: "Daniel Davies" <dsquared at al-islam.com> To: " owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com" <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com> Subject: Re:lbo-talk-digest V1 #5247 Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 01:18:22 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 >Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 23:25:11 -0500 >From: "Joe R. Golowka" >Subject: Re: Marable weighs in >> Sorry to be a vulgar empiricist, but how many people did >>El >>Salvado ...
Document Size: 6063
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Nov 9 08:56:13 PST 2001
31373 WTO: Splinter Groups Breed as Activists Fracture -- rank: 1000
Bob Morris wrote: >WTO: Splinter Groups Breed as Activists Fracture My god. It's funny to read Stratfor on a topic you know something about - it looks like heavy breathing over stuff they basically made up. As my late obscene friend John Liscio used to say when a wildly unbelievable economic stat was released, they've got a Code Brown on that data. Doug
Document Size: 4909
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Nov 9 08:55:21 PST 2001
31374 Nancy Oden: Screwing the Greens? -- rank: 1000
Ian Murray wrote: >The whole reason for forwarding it is so that multiple agents can >engage in verification That's not the way it works. Many people believe things they read, and in this case, lots of people want to believe Oden's story. There's a certain kind of leftist that gets an almost pornographic thrill out of tales of police repression. I was amazed that when Amy Goodman asked Oden if she'd heard any other tales of Greens being harassed, Oden said no, and then Goodman just let it ...
Document Size: 5193
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Nov 9 08:49:31 PST 2001
31375 Bombing of Afghan Hydro Plant Could Cause Disaster, says UN -- rank: 1000
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 20:08:59 -0800 To: 106033.2532 at compuserve.com (P.P. Celerier) From: Patrick McCully <patrick at irn.org> International Rivers Network Berkeley, California www.irn.org PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release: Thursday, 8 November, 2001 Contact: Patrick McCully (510) 847 0562 UN Warns of "Disaster of Tremendous Proportions" after Bombs Hit Afghan Hydro Plant Urgent need for safety assessment and remedial action US bombs have destroyed a hydroelectric plant next ...
Document Size: 9783
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Nov 9 08:42:04 PST 2001
31376 Nancy Oden: Screwing the Greens? -- rank: 1000
Max Sawicky wrote: >several hundred people in custody because of their ethnicity, Isn't it approaching 1200 now? With absolutely nothing known about them? Doug
Document Size: 4685
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Nov 8 20:57:04 PST 2001
31377 Marable weighs in -- rank: 1000
Mina Kumar wrote: >> >> [The city's notorious Street Crimes Unit functioned not >>>> unlike El Salvador's "Death Squads," unleashing >>>> indiscriminate terror and armed intimidation against >>>> "racially profiled" victims. >>> >>> It's one thing for MOP to talk about BrookNam, but for >>> Manning Marable to compare the NYC police to the death >>> squads is just embarassing rhetoric. & ...
Document Size: 5422
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Nov 8 20:51:29 PST 2001
31378 Nancy Oden: Screwing the Greens? -- rank: 1000
Nathan Newman wrote: >Who knows what happened to Oden? Until we do, don't publicly promote the >case. Cockburn writes it up enthusiastically in his NYPress column, mainly by quoting Declan McCullagh <http://www.nypress.com/14/45/news&columns/wildjustice.cfm>. Doug
Document Size: 4853
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Nov 8 19:13:22 PST 2001
31379 Weigh-in on NY mayor elections? -- rank: 1000
Max Sawicky wrote: >They can't take anything from Al because he has nothing. >Not exactly a sign of invulnerability. Really? He boosted Ferrer's candidacy - doing the previously impossible thing of getting a Latino candidate a significant number of black votes - and helped sink Green's. Plus he's very smart and very entertaining. Not exactly nothing. Doug
Document Size: 4847
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Nov 8 19:07:59 PST 2001
31380 Green seals his own fate -- rank: 1000
New York Post - November 8, 2001 THE ANATOMY OF A POLITICAL FIASCO By ROBERT HARDT Jr. November 8, 2001 -- It was a Tom Wolfe novel come to life - and the secret plot was to have former President Bill Clinton save Mark Green's nose-diving mayoral campaign. The featured characters in the Monday-night political drama at the Four Seasons hotel also included the head of the national Democratic Party, a movie mogul, a black activist, a Bronx political boss, a public-relations maven and an angry ex-ma ...
Document Size: 9139
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Nov 8 16:00:16 PST 2001
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