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32896 postwar Afg -- rank: 1000

[from the WB's daily clipping service - the use of "donors" to describe rich countries that mostly lend to poor ones is always amusing] INTERNATIONAL DONORS PLEDGE LONG-TERM COMMITMENT TO AFGHANISTAN. International donors and aid organizations Thursday pledged to make a lasting commitment to the reconstruction of Afghanistan, one day after a landmark agreement on an interim Afghan government, AFP reports. Delegates at the Afghanistan Support Group (ASG) wrapped up a two-day conference ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 7 09:37:09 PST 2001

32897 Hampshire College condemns war -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - December 7, 2001 Hampshire College Referendum Condemns the War in Afghanistan By DANA MULHAUSER Hampshire College became the first college to formally condemn the war in Afghanistan when its students, faculty members, and staff members voted, 693 to 121, this week for a resolution urging the resumption of humanitarian aid and a halt to "the U.S. military action that prevents it." The fairness and accuracy of the voting process, however, is be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 7 07:21:56 PST 2001

32898 Fwd: Re:lbo-talk-digest V1 #5391 -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than list] From: "Daniel Davies" <dsquared at al-islam.com> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 01:03:31 -0600 >Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 10:11:04 -0800 >From: Bradford DeLong >Subject: Re: Hitchens on genocide >>They can think of the Western expansion of the >>United States only in terms of plague blankets, bootleg booze and >>dead buffalo, never in terms of the medicine chest, the wheel and >>the railway... >A far cry indeed from the "g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 7 07:17:23 PST 2001

32899 SF event -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >So Doug, we (joanna, I and the others) were quite >serious when we invited you out for a drink after the >Peace Forum. Yup, I took it that way. See you there. > Of course how are we to meet you...will >you be whisked away after your speech to a safe haven >where you will be protected from your many groupies? Groupies? They'll all be flocking around Laura Flanders. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 7 07:09:46 PST 2001

32900 Left in the Midwest Re: Night of the living Yoshie -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >Mostly the latter. But some of them are rather nice. I am proud of >this one. Who cares about you, anyway, Carrol, you're just another >Midwesternert. I mean, Bloomington, IL, who's heard of that? No one >in Tribeca, I am sure. Is that anywhere near the wholesome town of Goshen, Ind.? Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 6 15:54:46 PST 2001

32901 Left in the Midwest Re: Night of the living Yoshie -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >cosmopolitician 10 ways to bag a man, win election to public office, and all without mussing your hair?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 6 12:48:42 PST 2001

32902 Herman on Hitchens -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >It does make one curious: if Ed Herman had spent more time >denouncing (and learning about) the CPVN, the NLF, and the Khmer >Rouge, would he have perhaps been less "enthusiastic" about their >victory in 1975? > >If you are trying to do *real* politics--that is, make the world a >better place--"balance" would seem to be an important requirement, >not something to be scorned... But whatever the virtues, or lack thereof, of the CP ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 6 10:49:38 PST 2001

32903 deal -- rank: 1000

At 1:35 PM -0500 12/6/01, Yahoo! Alerts - Breaking News wrote: >UNITED NATIONS _ U.N. Security Council unanimously endorses >agreement for temporary post-Taliban government.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 6 10:43:31 PST 2001

32904 Hitchens on genocide -- rank: 1000

Christopher Hitchens wrote: > The new mantra in rightwing circles in Washington has it that >Hamas and Hizbullah are the exact equivalents of al-Qaida. A >brief thought-experiment shows how and why this is not so. If it >were so, then we would expect to see British and American ground >forces going right into Gaza behind General Sharon, and right >into southern Lebanon to help restore Israel's once-proud >"security zone". But this is not occurring. Ask yourself ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 6 09:10:55 PST 2001

32905 oh no, there *is* an antiwar movement! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.frontpagemag.com/columnists/radosh/2001/rr12-06-01.htm> Do We Have to Worry About the Anti-War Movement? FrontPageMagazine.com | December 6, 2001 WRITING in the online magazine Slate on December 4, Jacob Weisberg - who supports the war against terrorism - chides those of us who have been aghast at the attempt of unreconstructed leftists to create and build a new anti-war movement. He takes to task both The New Republic and The Weekly Standard; the first for regularly running an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 6 08:57:30 PST 2001

32906 Hitchens on genocide -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >So what was the actual text of the original column? I don't >particularly like Hitchens, but given his nasty sense of humor, he >is also easy to quote out of context. Here it is. It's scanned from a .pdf in The Nation's web archive, so apologies for any uncorrected glitches. Doug ---- The Nation - October 19, 1992 My old comrade David Dellinger, hero of the antiimperialist movement, telephoned the other day to tell me of the fast he was undertaking to protest the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 6 08:39:59 PST 2001

32907 women register at Kabul U -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - December 6, 2001 After 5-Year Ban, Female Students Again Allowed to Register at Kabul U. By MARTHA ANN OVERLAND Islamabad, Pakistan After a five-year-long wait, the doors of Kabul University have once again opened to women. Last Saturday, dozens of anxious but eager female students, who had been barred from going to college by the Taliban regime, lined up to register for the next academic session. "I don't know about the future. We are not certain ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 6 08:16:01 PST 2001

32908 Islamism is a fascism? (was "Herman responds") -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >All true, but clerical fascism was neither Italian fascism nor German >fascism. It appeared in Lithuania (Grey Wolves), Croatia (Ustashi), Hungary >(Arrow Cross--at the very end after toppling the Horthy regime) and in a >weird way in Romania (Iron Guard). What is clarified by calling AQ "fascist"? What is gained, analytically, by lumping it with Adolf & Benito? Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 6 08:06:53 PST 2001

32909 Herman responds -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >Over on the Marxism list, or favorite son in exile Louis Proyect sez: Can we keep him out of these proceedings? For the sake of my mental health, I've sworn off responding to him, and it would help me avoid the near occasion of sin not to have to see his name or his prose. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 5 15:52:55 PST 2001

32910 Americans in AQ camps? -- rank: 1000

Seattle Times - December 5, 2001 Americans were spotted in terror training camps By Hal Bernton Seattle Times staff reporter PARIS - John Walker Lindh may not be the only American from California who trained in Osama bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan. At least two other Californians, neither of Middle Eastern descent, traveled to Afghanistan in the late 1990s to train in the camps, according to French intelligence reports. Both intended to return to their home state once their terrorist training ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 5 14:58:19 PST 2001