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31546 Ashcroft's prayer circle -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >I abhor Ashcroft and his prayer circle, but some of the >comments about Christianity on this thread have been >ludicrous. Remember the abolition movement? Largely a >Christian social/political movement. Remember the civil >rights movement? Largely a Christian social/political >movement. Blacks in the civil rights movement were >overwhelmingly active Christians. Where would the >anti-interventionist movement speaking up for justice in >Central Ameri ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 17 13:19:53 PDT 2001

31547 Ashcroft's prayer circle -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug claims that Lacan can explain in detail why 6 billion people move >fiddle their hands in some way or other. Did I say that? I must pay closer attention to what I write! > I simply deny that the behavior >_of individuals_ can be explained in so simple minded a fsshion. The >finger twiddling of X must not contradict whatever is known about the >human organism in general, but no amount of knowledge about the human >organism (physiological, neurological ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 17 12:59:57 PDT 2001

31548 Ashcroft's prayer circle -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Okay, here's another tack. Look at all the weird trajectories a >single leaf takes when it falls to the earth! Clearly a >through understanding of gravity must be able to provide a >precise mathematical representation of this single object's >movement. In fact, we're doing a pretty good job if we can >identify typical patterns of falling objects in general. If >we focus solely on the "weird" individual, we run the risk >of missing the g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 17 11:55:38 PDT 2001

31549 US vs USSR -- rank: 1000

j.f. noonan wrote: >On Thu, 17 May 2001, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> But the McCarthy era was the time of the CIA's heavy subsidy of >> culture - Encounter, the Boston Symphony, etc. > >Was the CIA was responsible for the *Boston Pops* ?!? Then they >are far more evil than I had previously thought. Ha, don't think so. They subsidized the BSO's European tours to prove that we weren't a bunch of yahoos. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 17 09:53:16 PDT 2001

31550 US vs USSR -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >At 05:07 PM 5/16/01 -0700, Joanna wrote: >>As one who got off the boat from Romania in 1963, I'd like to add one more >>major item of difference: propaganda. The propaganda in the US is a million >>times as effective as what they term "communist propaganda." More toxic, >>more ubiquitous, more invisible. When I was teaching at UC Berkeley in the >>early eighties I had many students write essays about how advertising was a >& ...

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Date:	Thu May 17 09:06:48 PDT 2001

31551 judicial tyranny -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >My interpretation--and the SCt's--is to be preferred because we have >the better argument. You don't actually dispute this. I reject the >proposition that disagreement means that there is automatically an >open question. I am not a relativist. No kidding. You seem to have a touching faith in the clarity and stability of meaning - not to mention its independence from power. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 17 08:54:31 PDT 2001

31552 judicial tyranny -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Not voting for Nader as a start or claiming that there is no difference >between politicians on the issue. Like rightwing pro-choice women, leftwing >Greens went around promoting voting for Greens because they argued the >courts would prevent choice from being lost. Yet at the same time, voting for Dems because of abortion-protecting court appointments is one of the staples of leftish apologias for the party - the very judicial substitute for organizing you've ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 17 07:09:43 PDT 2001

31553 Ashcroft's prayer circle -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >If you go back through the LBO archives you should be able to find a >number of replies from Yoshie and me to Zizek's silly question about how >to explain all the weird things people do. Right. Humans are so transparent. You can tell exactly how they'll think from how they act, and how they act from...what was it Carrol? I forget now. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 17 06:52:07 PDT 2001

31554 Fwd: The Pacifica Crisis and the Listener Boycott -- rank: 1000

May 16, 2001 Dear WBAI Producer, I am making this special appeal to you because the Pacifica Network today faces the worst crisis in its history. For much of the past five years those of us who worked at one of the Pacifica stations or for the network's national programming division were largely unaware of how profound the problem had become. If you are like me, you probably figured this was just another of those periodic internal squabbles for which Pacifica is famous, and you were convinced th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 17 06:50:21 PDT 2001

31555 Spitting into the Pacific, was Re: judicial tyranny -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >This is funny. Were all of us who disagree with Nathan to switch over >tonight to vigorous compromising with the DP, the political waters of >this nation would be about as ruffled as would the Pacific if someone >spit into to it. That is, if Nathan's proposed strategy were workable, >it would have already worked. So why does he bother to preach to this >list? Even if he persuades anyone, he won't have made any difference. Like I've said many times, Nathan mak ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 17 06:46:18 PDT 2001

31556 Geopolitics -- rank: 1000

Dennis Robert Redmond wrote: >True, but isn't it interesting how both former superpowers (1) had >military-industrial accumulation models, (2) explicit semi-peripheries in >Europe and elsewhere, which gradually outgrew them, and (3) relied heavily >on energy rents and raw materials, extracted from a huge natural landmass? >By contrast, East Asia and the EU are notoriously short of raw materials, >oil and huge military machines (thank the Goddess for this much), and >converge ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 17 06:41:11 PDT 2001

31557 judicial tyranny -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec appended extraneous material put it over the length limit] Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 20:49:03 -0400 From: John Mage <jmage at panix.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7C-CCK-MCD {C-UDP; EBM-APPLE} (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Re: judicial tyranny References: <200105170014.UAA06904 at dont.panix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Why in the world should anyone prefer yo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 17 06:36:44 PDT 2001

31558 judicial tyranny -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >As I've repeated, progressives should suck up the judicial deference to >Congress and organize to change the fucking law. I know one reason a lot of >lefties like the courts is that the deux ex machina of court decisions means >they don't have to get their hands dirty with lesser evil decisions in the >political realm in order to form the majorities necessary for passage of >legislation. I'm pleasantly surprised by your position on this. But what do you t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 16 17:07:51 PDT 2001

31559 judicial tyranny -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >This isn't politics. It's law. Fascinating distinction. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 16 14:26:45 PDT 2001

31560 Scaping By: Ehrenreich Interview -- rank: 1000

Roger Odisio wrote: >The problem was not only that they used her numbers to create a >"poverty" line, but which ones they chose and what they did with them. >But what's the basis for saying she was disturbed about it? Did you >hear the interview? Did she say so there? That's been my recollection >too, but I don't know where I got it; I can't remember seeing anything >she wrote that says that. I've seen her quoted in several articles saying that she'd never intended ...

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Date:	Wed May 16 14:09:37 PDT 2001