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32851 Great News -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >does this mean amy goodman and "democracy now!" will be back on >the air on wbai, in the mornings? It's too early to tell. Much is uncertain. Negotiations and maneuverings will continue. Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 13 16:31:46 PST 2001

32852 American Prospect follies -- rank: 1000

[Ana Marie Cox went from Suck to Mother Jones to the Chronicle of Higher Ed to The American Prospect to...?] Washington Post - December 13, 2001 Trouble on the Left By Lloyd Grove Washington Post Staff Writer The American Prospect was launched in 1990 as a staid liberal quarterly, and two years ago tried to remake itself as a buzzy biweekly, celebrating the change with a flashy cocktail party at the Kalorama manse of Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.). But now it's in turmoil. On Tuesday, senior editor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 13 11:03:25 PST 2001

32853 strange bedfellows: Jude & Ramsey -- rank: 1000

December 12, 2001 Ramsey Clark, Peacenik Memo To: Rep. Henry Hyde [R-IL] From: Jude Wanniski Re: Ramsey Clark's U.N. Letter on Iraq You remember Ramsey Clark, Henry. He was President Lyndon Johnson's Attorney General during the build-up stages of the Vietnam War, then became an opponent of the war, and has been a peacenik ever since. Any time we see a mass anti-war demonstration in the vicinity, Ramsey is there. In recent years, I've become kind of a peacenik, arguing for more diplomacy, less fo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 13 12:29:45 PST 2001

32854 106m missing women -- rank: 1000

"A Turning Point in Gender Bias in Mortality? An Update on the Number of 'Missing Women'" BY: STEPHAN KLASEN University of Munich (LMU) Department of Economics CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research) CLAUDIA WINK DEG-German Investment and Development Company Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=287035 Paper ID: Munich Discussion Paper Series No. 01-13 Date: October 1, 2001 Co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 13 15:54:42 PST 2001

32855 references -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >doug, thanks for bringing up the situation of immigrants and >temporary residents in your WBAI program today. considering i am >on a list that spells osama bin laden backwards, they might haul >me off soon too! ;-) Ravi's talking about my interview with Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights. The civil liberties situation is dire, especially for noncitizens. Everyone here knows that, but it's still worth saying often. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 13 16:31:03 PST 2001

32856 Pakistan debt deal -- rank: 1000

[from the WB's daily clipping service] PAKISTAN WINS OFFICIAL DEBT DEAL. Pakistan yesterday secured an unprecedented debt restructuring deal from the Paris Club of official creditors in recognition of its economic reforms and its role in the war in Afghanistan, reports the Financial Times (p.4). The creditors agreed to restructure the entire stock of the country's $2.5 billion sovereign debt, extending its maturity and granting a generous grace period during which no principal has to be repaid. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 14 09:37:21 PST 2001

32857 Sara Pursley on "Unveiling the Bushes" -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> But the Taliban - many of whom were not Afghans, and of those who >> were, were from an ethnic group representing well under half the >> population - forced women to wear the damn things. It's not like they >> were spontaneous expressions of home-grown patriarchy. So who the >> colonizers are, under those circs, gets very murky. > >This is an argument my hero Christopher Caldwell has made - that the &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 14 12:19:37 PST 2001

32858 anthrax -- rank: 1000

A Compilation of Evidence and Comments on the Source of the Mailed Anthrax Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Federation of American Scientists revised December 10, 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the available evidence indicates that the source of the mailed anthrax, or the information and materials to make it, is a US government program. [...] <http://www.fas.org/bwc/news/anthraxreport.htm>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 14 15:23:47 PST 2001

32859 more on the Israeli connection -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] *** Carl Cameron, fox news - Some 60 Israelis, who federal investigators have said are part of a long-running effort to spy on American government officials, are among the hundreds of foreigners detained since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Fox News has learned. The Israelis, a handful of whom are described as active Israeli military or intelligence operatives, have been detained on immigration charges or under the new Patriot Anti-Terrorism Law. Federal invest ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 14 15:20:16 PST 2001

32860 more on the Israeli connection -- rank: 1000

Joe R. Golowka wrote: > > MORE <http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,40679,00.html> > >Is there any source for this other then Fox? I don't consider them a >credible source of information. Murdoch properties aren't known for their hostility to Israel, are they? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 15 09:13:33 PST 2001

32861 global warming & financial umbrellas -- rank: 1000

"Global Warming and Financial Umbrellas" BY: MICHELE MORETTO University of Padova Department of Economics Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) CESARE DOSI University of Padova Department of Economics Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=291946 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://www.feem.it/web/activ/wp/abs01/87-01.html SSRN only offers technical support for papers downloaded from the SSRN Electronic Paper C ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 15 12:55:03 PST 2001

32862 Heartfield's Week -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address] Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 23:06:53 +0000 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com, revo-readers at egroups.com From: James Heartfield <James at heartfield.demon.co.uk> The WEEK ending 16 December 2001 THE RACE DEBATE THAT WASN'T A report into rioting in British northern towns and cities over the summer threw Home Secretary David Blunkett into confusion, bordering on incoherence. The Community Cohesion Review Team under Ted Cantle was investigating fighting that took pla ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 16 08:37:46 PST 2001

32863 Sara Pursley on "Unveiling the Bushes" -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> But the Taliban - many of whom were not Afghans, and of those who >> were, were from an ethnic group representing well under half the >> population - forced women to wear the damn things. It's not like they >> were spontaneous expressions of home-grown patriarchy. > >Are you sure about that? My impression was that women wore, and still >wear, the burkha in rural areas controlled by th ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 16 08:55:58 PST 2001

32864 Sara Pursley on "Unveiling the Bushes" -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Why silence then? Why preoccupation now? Not sure whether you're asking me or the ideological-state apparatus. You know quite well why the ISA was silent then - the acid-throwers were the heroic enemies of communism, the gravediggers of Bolshevism. They were wretched then, and they're wretched now. It's not news to me or anyone else on this list that Bush & Co don't really care about the status of women, either in Afg or the US or anywhere else, and that their ta ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 17 07:05:07 PST 2001

32865 Kaus: welfare causes terrorism -- rank: 1000

<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2059799> Does Welfare Cause Terrorism? You knew Mickey's Assignment Desk would come to this. By Mickey Kaus Posted Monday, December 17, 2001, at 5:49 AM PT Here are some suspected terrorists in the news: * Zacarias Moussaoui, the French North African charged with conspiracy in connection with the 9/11 attack, became an Islamic radical living in London "while drawing welfare benefits and studying economics," Newsday reports. * Ahmed Ressam, the member of ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 17 07:37:34 PST 2001