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31471 Air Support to Ground Troops Re: Arguments for ground war -- rank: 1000

Hakki Alacakaptan wrote: >There's only one thing you can say that makes sense: Stop this shit now! I had Sarah Zaidi of the Center for Economic & Social Rights <http://www.cesr.org> on the radio last night. She says that unless the bombing stops and food is delivered in massive quantities by November 15, millions of Afghans will die. Shouldn't the antiwar movement make this its central concern? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 2 08:13:11 PST 2001

31472 WSJ: Actively Alienating Pashtuns -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >It's really not a matter of intelligence. It's a matter of fundamental >intention -- in this case to maintain u.s. imperial power. I think it in >error to speculate about the specific motives in the particular case -- >oil, prestige, alliances, ideology, etc. -- but one simply has to assume >that u.S. intentions are antithetical to human welfare and plan >accordingly. I don't understand at all what Washington thinks it is >doing, but I assume that their ac ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 2 07:51:44 PST 2001

31473 Eeek A Mouse -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >So a non left-left winger shows up here and there is a >group shit-fit. Get a grip, comrades. Don't forget, >since you don't have armed forces at your disposal, >you must rely on persuasion. You referring to Lance at Uranus or Aaron at TNR? I thought Lance got what he deserved (though having dished it out myself, I may be biased). I thought Aaron didn't deserve all that abuse just for his domain and his humorlessness. It might have been nice to engage with him, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 2 07:20:38 PST 2001

31474 boiling Lance -- rank: 1000

Aaron Page wrote: >Ah... Well, my bad. Just joined the list recently--I guess I >underestimated the level of snarkiness in force here. Even coming >from the list administrator. Hey, remember I greeted you with some snarky questions when you first subscribed. Didn't that prepare you? >I suppose I read the original post as more frustrated than hostile >(though certainly a little hostile). Certainly I thought it was >seriously asking for a response, for a debate. The fact that no ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 2 06:54:39 PST 2001

31475 Top down or bottom up? -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >Maybe it was all of the heated discussion concerning Andrew "barebackin" >Sullivan >that gave him the idea that LBO-list is a hotbed of pansexual debauchery and >licentiousness? Hey, there's nothing wrong with pansexual debauchery or licentiousness - I'm all for 'em in fact. But I'm all for the working class, too, as is everyone who posts here. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 1 15:37:25 PST 2001

31476 Guardian take on Le Fig -- rank: 1000

Are any U.S. newspapers or broadcast outlets covering the Le Figaro story? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 1 11:59:28 PST 2001

31477 CDC on anthrax -- rank: 1000

At 11:10 AM -0500 11/1/01, MMWR Questions wrote: >November 2, 2001/Vol. 50/No. 43 (file size 225,609 bytes) > >* Update: Investigation of Bioterrorism-Related Anthrax > and Interim Guidelines for Clinical Evaluation of Persons > with Possible Anthrax > http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5043a1.htm

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 1 11:50:12 PST 2001

31478 WTO: new round without Doha? -- rank: 1000

[from the WB's daily clipping service] TRADE ROUND LAUNCH 'NOT AT RISK IF DOHA CANCELLED': LAMY Hopes of launching a world trade round would survive even if security concerns forced the WTO to cancel this month's ministerial meeting in Doha, Qatar, the Financial Times (US-edition, p. 4) reports Pascal Lamy, the European Union trade commissioner, has said. He also indicated a slight softening of the EU's tactics in its campaign to have environment placed on the agenda of a trade round. While cont ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 1 11:47:37 PST 2001

31479 Top down or bottom up? -- rank: 1000

Lance Murdoch wrote: >Looking over the archives for this list, Not very carefully, apparently. > I became disappointed when I saw the lack of interest in following >up of discussions that contained words like "labor" or "union" in >the subject. I decided to start getting more historic, shifting >back before 9/11/01 as that might give me a more accurate vantage, >since almost every mailing list, forum and so forth is abuzz with >9/11 and it's aftermath. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 1 10:59:37 PST 2001

31480 What kind of 'anti-war movement'? -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Doug was there! At least one person on the Left knew what was up. ;-) As did Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel, who, much to her credit, sent a big delegation (by Nation standards) to report, and to do a daily edition of Radio Nation. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 1 10:44:43 PST 2001

31481 Guardian take on Le Fig -- rank: 1000

[since when do CIA agents boast about their exploits?] Guardian (London) - November 1, 2001 CIA agent alleged to have met Bin Laden in July French report claims terrorist leader stayed in Dubai hospital Anthony Sampson Two months before September 11 Osama bin Laden flew to Dubai for 10 days for treatment at the American hospital, where he was visited by the local CIA agent, according to the French newspaper Le Figaro. The disclosures are known to come from French intelligence which is keen to re ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 1 10:43:20 PST 2001

31482 latest LBO ish -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >Got the hard copy today. And great ish it is Doug. Thanks. >A coupla questions about the graphs on pg. 6. I'm surprised to see that m1 >was negative at the end of 2000, I thought Lil Allie G. had started pumping >the market with cash earlier than that for some reason. Also on that same >graph shows, m1 rises to around 9% and levels off, it looks like the end of >Aug. Where is that figure now? And is that historically really high? M1 is a mystery. All the M's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 1 10:34:49 PST 2001

31483 Green politix -- rank: 1000

What list alum John Halle's been up to in his new career as New Haven alderman: <http://www.newmassmedia.com/nac.phtml?code=new&db=nac_fea&ref=18241>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 1 10:19:31 PST 2001

31484 Sullivan, Moralism and Morality -- rank: 1000

W. Kiernan wrote: > > ...His big crime is that he thinks that monogamy is an individual and >> social good, for homosexual as well as heterosexual. > >Caveat emptor, turns out he doesn't actually _think_ that, he just says >it. Or, it's good for the masses, but not for him. Typical elitist social management through morality crap. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 31 16:36:32 PDT 2001

31485 Marxism and Native Americans: Request for Bibliography -- rank: 1000

Stannard67 at aol.com wrote: >I am interested in acquiring any and all material dealing with the >long-standing tensions (and possible permutations) between Native American >activism and Marxism. I know Ward Churchill has written critically of >Marxism, and that some old texts (like George Novack's GENOCIDE AGAINST THE >INDIANS) deny the uniqueness of the Native American experience in world >capitalist development. I am looking for more. Any ideas? Get in touch with Jim Crav ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 31 14:48:00 PDT 2001