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31396 Leftists (white) and Black Liberation -- rank: 1000

Art McGee wrote: >People such as >Gilroy and Adolph Reed merely pontificate from the sidelines >or the bell tower, but are alienated from and hostile to >regular working-class people, especially Black people. I don't know Gilroy, but I do know Adolph Reed, and that's almost libelously false. If Adolph is alienated from anything, it's academia. He spends much of his life running around organizing on behalf of the Labor Party. You can say that's a waste of time, but it's most certainly ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 7 14:36:44 PST 2001

31397 MIME 1.0 -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >So Doug you have just sounded a deep solidarity with the working >masses. Nevermind the shop crew are listening to Bach's concert no. 7 >in G minor for violin, transposed for piano and they are all Mac >nuts. Ah, how I love the working masses! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 7 14:17:20 PST 2001

31398 women as policymakers -- rank: 1000

"Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from an India-Wide Randomized Policy Experiment" BY: RAGHABENDRA CHATTOPADHYAY Indian Institute of Management Calcutta ESTHER DUFLO Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Economics National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=288974 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://econ-www.mit.edu/ SSRN only offers technical support ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 7 14:14:30 PST 2001

31399 French conspiracists? -- rank: 1000

Can someone with French better than mine (which isn't hard) makes sense of this? <http://www.reseauvoltaire.net/actu/conflit3.htm>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 7 13:57:38 PST 2001

31400 yet more Bina -- rank: 1000

From: "Cyrus Bina" <binac at mrs.umn.edu> To: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: Re: Re: yet more Bina Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 15:47:14 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Doug, thanks for letting me know. Let me clarify the idea from the ground up once again. First of all, the notion of 'competition' that is carbon copied from one economics textbook to another is wrong ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 7 13:44:01 PST 2001

31401 more on Nancy Oden -- rank: 1000

From: Gus diZerega <dizerea at whitman.edu> Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 15:54:08 -0800 To: "M. Macha NightMare" <herself at machanightmare.com> Subject: Re: Green Party Coordinator Detained At Airport Dear Macha -and others- A Green member sent me this when I forwarded your email to her blessings, Gus ****************************************************** The following message was posted to wagreens-active: ****************************************************** Hi all, I hate ta ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 7 13:27:13 PST 2001

31402 ObL (not) the target? -- rank: 1000

Hakki Alacakaptan wrote: >Am preparing dissertation on the subject. Eagerly awaited, but please remember you're up to 5 posts today, which is quite a reduction from your recent pace, but still 67% above quota. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 7 12:19:35 PST 2001

31403 racist follies at Auburn -- rank: 1000

Christian A. Gregory wrote: >The "League of the South," a southern "heritage" group with ties to other >known militias and the KKK, is a chartered organization here at Auburn. They have any ties with the von Mises Institute? Is the vMI an official institution of Auburn University, or does it just orbit around the periphery? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 7 11:42:05 PST 2001

31404 Bush told FBI to back off bin Ladens -- rank: 1000

<http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/071101/dlame43.asp> Hindustran Times - November 7, 2001 Bush thwarted FBI probe against bin Ladens AFP (London, November 7) FBI agents in the United States probing relatives of Saudi-born terror suspect Osama Bin Laden before September 11 were told to back off soon after George W Bush became president, the BBC has reported. The BBC's Newsnight current affairs programme on Tuesday said that Bush at one point had a number of connections with Saudi Arabi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 7 11:38:27 PST 2001

31405 ObL (not) the target? -- rank: 1000

How is this conclusive? The U.S. has turned on plenty of former clients - Noriega and Saddam pop right into mind. Yesterday's friend can be today's enemy. Ask Joe Stalin. Doug Hakki Alacakaptan wrote: >Voodoo changed the thread. See: > >Subject: RE: Conspiracy R Us >Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 15:15:31 +0200 > >The list of missed opportunities to grab/kill ObL is not exhaustive (it >doesn't include the CIA get-well visit or AWACS radar picking up ObL's plane >and no intercept b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 7 11:33:21 PST 2001

31406 ObL (not) the target? -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >How is this conclusive? The U.S. has turned on plenty of former >clients - Noriega and Saddam pop right into mind. Yesterday's friend >can be today's enemy. Ask Joe Stalin. Speaking of which, as Slavoj Zizek said in a talk in NYC last week, he never understood why the argument that the U.S. helped create Osama and the Taliban had any particular relevance to the war. Quite the contrary, he continued - if you create something bad, you have a special responsibility to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 7 11:36:34 PST 2001

31407 Conservative women -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >and, at that point, the gender gap wasn't about women becoming more >conservative, but about men becoming more conservative. Hard to say - Reagan polarized the issues of war and welfare pretty severely. Judging just on presidential votes, it looks like things went both ways: 1972 1976 1980 ----------------- ----------------- ---------------- Nixon McG Carter Ford Reagan Carter men 62 36 50 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 7 11:24:08 PST 2001

31408 Taliban - their social background -- rank: 1000

The Taliban have to be one of the stranger social formations anyone has seen in a long time. Here's a passage from Ahmed Rashid's book (pp. 32-33). Am I missing something, or is the complete absence of women from their lives getting no attention in the big media? Doug ---- >These boys were a world apart from the Mujaheddin whom I had got to >know during the 1980s - men who could recount their tribal and clan >lineages, remembered their abandoned farms and valleys with >nostalgia and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 7 11:08:30 PST 2001

31409 why does the Taliban hate women? -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - November 4, 2001 Veiled Threat To Fully Grasp the Dangers of the Post-Sept. 11 World, We Have to Examine the Taliban's Hatred of Women by Barbara Ehrenreich KEY WEST, Fla. -- Feminists can take some dim comfort from the fact that the Taliban's egregious misogyny has finally been noticed. For years, the oppression of Afghan women was a topic for exotic list serves and the occasional forlorn Internet petition. As recently as May, for example, President Bush congratulated the ru ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 7 10:53:11 PST 2001

31410 Jude on Iraq -- rank: 1000

November 7, 2001 Israel's Bombing of Osiraq Memo To: George Will From: Jude Wanniski Re: The Pre-emptive Strike of 1981 Your syndicated column last week celebrates Israel's bombing and total destruction of Iraq's nuclear power plant on June 7, 1981. I'm afraid, George, that this is just another part of the scheme by your Pentagon pals, Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz, to start dropping really big bombs on Baghdad as soon as we polish off Afghanistan....and maybe sooner. Those of us who are old ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 7 09:59:58 PST 2001