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32911 MTV: videos too long to keep viewers' attention -- rank: 1000

[better late than never] Boston Globe - December 2, 2001 MTV's blasts from the past By Hayley Kaufman, Globe Staff A funny thing happened the other night when I turned on MTV. I saw a video. Seriously, it was an entire video. Start to finish. I even saw the little blurb that runs in white, sans-serif type in the bottom left-hand corner and bookends the song - you remember - with the name of the artist, the album, the label, everything. Videos have become something of an endangered species on MTV ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 5 14:00:18 PST 2001

32912 TransAfrica -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - December 4, 2001 Here's to You, Mr. Robinson Departing TransAfrica Leader Gets a Fond Farewell By Roxanne Roberts Washington Post Staff Writer The good thing about Randall Robinson is that he's uncompromising. The bad thing about Randall Robinson is that he's uncompromising. Last night the founder of TransAfrica, one of Washington's most influential lobbying groups for Africa and the Caribbean, took his final bow as president of his beloved institution. Board member Johnnetta C ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 5 13:26:44 PST 2001

32913 Israel's image problem -- rank: 1000

Bryan Atinsky wrote: > > >I think that Sharon targetted Arafat because zionism can't tolerate even >> >the shadow of a Palestinian authority. >> >What's next, "ethnic cleansing"? > >What does he mean by: "what's next, "ethnic cleansing?" > > ....um...excuse me....what the hell does he think has been going on this >whole time? Please, he's an American liberal. They can be a bit slow sometimes. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 5 13:10:52 PST 2001

32914 Israel's image problem -- rank: 1000

My Yale class of '75 has a listserv that I read as a good index of liberal bourgeois opinion. The political consensus is generally Clintonite. Of course there are a couple of enthusiastic Sharon supporters on the list, but I've been surprised over the last couple of days by the level of criticism of Israel. I most certainly did not expect to read this response to a post from a Sharon supporter (the quoted bit about "extermination"). I've stripped out names in the interests of discretio ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 5 11:45:27 PST 2001

32915 The Left's "Silver Lining" -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Apparently, Doug wants to have it both ways: criticizing anti-war >leftists for "preaching to the choir" first; and criticizing civil >liberties activists for making temporary coalitions with rightists It's fine to make coalitions with rightwingers over civil liberties. It's fine to make coalitions with anti-imperialist libertarians, too. My objection was entirely to the CP whitewashing of just how awful the folks they're proposing to make coalitions a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 5 10:39:56 PST 2001

32916 Night of the living "dead generations" -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >I too much prefer the pre-9/11 situation, but the new >landscape is not completely negative either. What's positive? Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 5 10:34:36 PST 2001

32917 The Left's "Silver Lining" -- rank: 1000

And weirdly enough, though the piece takes liberals to task for not being ardent enough in their support of civil liberties - in contrast with such friends of freedom as Phyllis Schaffly - the cover package in this week's Nation is about Ashcroft & the crackdown. Doug Max Sawicky wrote: >This is demented bullshit. It contradicts most progressive activism today, >albeit in contentless way. -mbs > > > >. . . The liberals' vision of big government is coercive to its >core ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 5 10:32:59 PST 2001

32918 Herman responds -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec Ed Herman isn't a subscriber - given his snippy tone, he'd fit right in!] From: "Ed Herman" <hermane at wharton.upenn.edu> Subject: Re: Herman on Hitchens Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 20:07:43 -0500 Dear Chip Berlet: Chip, your remarks on my critique show that you are a true master of the non-sequitur. I notice also that you sneer at Louis Proyect's views even before you have seen them, which does not speak for a very open mind. Let me comment on each of your snippets-snee ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 5 09:54:42 PST 2001

32919 Fw: Why I'm leaving the NY Coalition for Peace and Justice -- rank: 1000

Charles Jannuzi wrote: >The future, however, belongs to minority opinions. That is the left's >destiny: to create the future but never get any acknowledgement for it, even >from self-denying, free lance leftists like yourself. And who are you? Some unfunny freelance Don Rickles? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 5 06:37:08 PST 2001

32920 Herman on Hitchens -- rank: 1000

Charles Jannuzi wrote: >?The greatest nazi and fascist fighter since Indiana Jones cracked a whip >writes: > >>seemed to suggest they are >>merely second-rate authoritarians with a >local focus, which is odd given >>what they have been doing with jet >airplanes and buildings of late. > >You know if someone told me Chip Berlet piloted the planes into the >buildings I'd believe it more than your opinions on the Taliban in >Afghanistan. Just because Capt ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 5 06:27:36 PST 2001

32921 The Left's "Silver Lining" -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >Excellent piece under this tile by A. Cockburn & J. St. Clair at ><www.counterpunch.org> By the strangest of coincidences, it's also Cockburn's column in NY Press this week. Now you'd think the great contrarian, who loves to bash liberals in The Nation, might enjoy bashing right-wingers in NY Press, where the list is palpably (though not uniformly) to the right. But it looks like there's an asymmetry to the bashing. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 4 16:31:56 PST 2001

32922 The Left's "Silver Lining" -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >Look, the context is opposition to the invasion of civil liberties. While >anti-Nader liberals temporize and Democrats from Lieberman to Barney Frank >support the war, some Rightists have spoken up about the administration's >corporate statism. Good on them. > >Here's the context: "Ralph Nader delivered a powerful speech against the >war and the various green parties have all issued decent statements. The >ACLU has shown understanding of the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 4 15:02:31 PST 2001

32923 The Left's "Silver Lining" -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote (citing Counterpunch): >They go on to suggest an interesting list of allies in opposition to the >war on terrorism These include: "Paul Weyrich, Grover Norquist, Phyllis Schlafly, Bob Barr and the Competitive Enterprise Institute." Interesting indeed. So Roosevelt's New Deal was cribbed from Mussolini, presumably making it bad, but all the evil that Weyrich & Co. embody can be overlooked? Crackpot unrealism or crackpot realism - an inspiring choice! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 4 14:42:08 PST 2001

32924 Herman on Hitchens -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >How about NO to both imperialism and fascism...is that too much to ask? Evidently. These days you can't hold a complex position or you'll get denounced as an apologist for fascism or an apologist for imperialism. The official line - you're either for us or against us - seems to prevail, though the "us" can be treated as a variable rather than a constant. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 4 14:35:26 PST 2001

32925 Hockenberry's burro, was Ginger -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >It is petty and stupid of me to be annoyed by Kamen. But there is >something about him that pisses me off. He reminds me of >Gates---billionair slime, pseudo-mysterious, tech-savy wonder-boy-cool >manufactured as personae: jeans, worn boots fetish, youngish, makes it >all sound like altruism. Gotta be scum. Probably has a little dick. Speaking of which, is it widely noted in the anti-MSFT community that Gates must have named his company after his penis? I hear ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 4 12:00:19 PST 2001