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32941 aid angle -- rank: 1000

[from the WB's daily clipping service] AID CARROT DANGLED OVER AFGHAN LEADERS. Rival Afghan leaders, striving to reach a peace accord that ends years of fighting, have been made well aware that their country's economic future depends largely on their success in forging a sustainable settlement, reports the Financial Times (p.2). As negotiations continue in Bonn, western donors are expected once again to press that point at a conference due to begin in Berlin on Wednesday. Over the past week, UN ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 3 08:40:10 PST 2001

32942 bombing -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of attached html - folks, please forward only plain text material!!!!] Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 22:02:28 -0500 From: Mark Pavlick <mvp1 at igc.org> Aerial Bombardment in the Racist Contemporary Vijay Prashad Everything is predictable. The aerial sorties, the helicopter operations, the Special Forces raids, the encouragement of a local ally (here the Northern Alliance). What was also predictable was the inevitable "errant cluster bomb" and the "collateral damage.&qu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 3 06:01:03 PST 2001

32943 time capsule -- rank: 1000

[it's 1999 all over again!] "Web Site Aids with New Year's Resolutions" myGoals.com Makes Resolutions More Effective Scottsdale, AZ -- December 1, 2001 -- As the end of the year approaches, myGoals.com reminds people that there is a right way and a wrong way to set New Year's resolutions. "Unfortunately, most New Year's resolutions are utterly forgotten by February," said Greg Helmstetter, CEO of myGoals.com, "but technology has provided a way to make your resolutions hi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 3 06:05:38 PST 2001

32944 Israel Cabinet 7 for and 7 against toppling Arafat....plus Israel Turns Palestinian Towns into Prisons -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >The dynamic here seems pretty clear. Israel or Hamas kills >somebody, Arafat is blamed for being too close to the other >side, and then Hamas or Israel kills somebody. By all >appearances the Israeli Gov will kill Arafat and destroy >the Palestinian Authority before twelve months have passed. >This would put a much more dangerous face on any expansion >of the 'war on terror' beyond Afghanistan. > >We could hypothesize that the Israeli model -- end ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 3 08:37:45 PST 2001

32945 Jude to Powell: Hands off Iraq! -- rank: 1000

December 3, 2001 Six Questions for Colin Powell Memo To: Colin Powell, Secretary of State From: Jude Wanniski Re: Questions About Iraq You know I've been counting on you to use your diplomatic skills to avoid broadening the war against the Taliban into Iraq, Mr. Secretary. Although I assume not all of my e-mails to your office get to you, I have been assured by your office from time to time that they are brought to your attention. But watching your interviews on CBS' Face the Nation and CNN's La ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 3 08:53:21 PST 2001

32946 Jan Myrdal responds -- rank: 1000

[could someone explain what the hell this is all about?] From: "Jan Myrdal" <myrdal at myrdal.pp.se> Subject: RE: Slander of Jan Myrdal Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 18:40:49 +0100 You might dislike "Albania defiant" but that is no excuse for writing bullshit. Check your sources. Even Trotsky did you know. Jan Myrdal -----Original Message----- From: Magnus Bernhardsen [mailto:magnus.bernhardsen at nynorsk.no] Sent: den 2 december 2001 15:52 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Cc: m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 3 09:56:28 PST 2001

32947 Israel Cabinet 7 for and 7 against toppling Arafat....plusIsrael Turns Palestinian Towns into Prisons -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >I don't see any, except for the slim possibility of a >far-sighted, rational State Department. > >Two more depressing data-points in this vein: >Joe Lieberman's advocacy of an Iraq invasion, >and Chuck Schumer's likening of Arafat >with the Taliban. Put this together with the >likelihood that somebody like Al Gore would >feel obliged to over-compensate in military >response to terrorism and we are almost at >the point where the Dems, at least ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 3 09:57:28 PST 2001

32948 Israel Cabinet 7 for and 7 against toppling Arafat....plusIsrael Turns Palestinian Towns into Prisons -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >She told a story of how folks negotiated >how much a window would be open on a bus in Israel-- one person would slam >it open, one would slam it shut, and somehow they'd eventually settle on it >partly being open. But it was never pretty. Financial Times - December 3, 2001 NEIGHBOURS: Last two Jews in Kabul By REUTERS: AGENCY MATERIAL Yitzhak Levy and Zebolan Simanto say they are the last two Jews in Afghanistan and they hate each other with a vengeance. " ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 3 11:28:57 PST 2001

32949 Israel Cabinet 7 for and 7 against toppling Arafat....plusIsrael Turns Palestinian Towns into Prisons -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >True that Gore-Lieberman might have been a scarily pro-Israel combination, >but they are actually both outliers within the Dem party Outliers? They were the presidential and vice presidential candidates in 2000, Gore was VP for eight years, and Lieberman is a favorite of the Great Mentioner as a presidential candidate in 2004. If that's outlying, what's insiderhood? Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 3 13:03:00 PST 2001

32950 Israel Cabinet 7 for and 7 against toppling Arafat....plusIsrael Turns Palestinian Towns into Prisons -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >There is this bizarre executive branch worship that always declares the >President emblematic of party policy, when in many cases they are least >beholden or involved in it, and often have run against "the party" to gain >the Presidency in the primaries. Carter ran that way as did Clinton. Nathan, even when you're wrong, you usually make sense. This dispatch comes from way around the bend. Let's see who else is an outlier? Sen Charles Schumer? "T ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 3 13:43:27 PST 2001

32951 Blum on rebuilding Afghanistan -- rank: 1000

Mina Kumar wrote: >There is remarkable tolerance, in the sense that white people often >forbear to say what they would have said twenty years ago, but >they'll say it given a chance, which I've had a chance to observe >post-S11, and this knowledge makes the notion of multicultural >solidarity laughable. You've said this several times. Just how many people have said what exactly? One asshole on the subway, or the Multitude? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 3 16:48:32 PST 2001

32952 legal advice? -- rank: 1000

An acquaintance writes... I've stripped away identifiers, so if you want to respond, write me directly and I'll forward it. Doug ---- >Subject: Former student in need of legal advice >Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 19:19:42 -0800 (PST) > >Mr. X- > >This is N____ H_____ class of 2001. I am hoping that this e-mail >finds you. I stalked you down through the internet. I am e-mailing >due to legal troubles that I fear in the near future. I have been >volunteering with a vegetarian f ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 3 16:46:18 PST 2001

32953 Fwd: address + email -- rank: 1000

>X-From_: ibm at riseup.net Sun Dec 2 15:56:55 2001 >Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 12:56:54 -0800 (PST) >From: ibm <ibm at riseup.net> >To: <dhenwood at panix.com> >Subject: address + email >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >hi, > >i'm glad to see the website has been updated and new essays put up. i >enjoy and learn much from your perspective on modern politics and >life. if only there were more straight-forward resources for learning >about economics... > > ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 2 14:13:08 PST 2001

32954 MJ -- rank: 1000

Michael Jackson over the years: <http://www.doneanddusted.co.uk/nick/Movie2.html>. Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 2 15:39:31 PST 2001

32955 the armpt of America -- rank: 1000

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31628-2001Nov28.html> Washington Post - December 2, 2001 Why Not the Worst? We promised to find the armpit of America. Turns out it's only about five inches from the heart By Gene Weingarten My little puddle jumper begins its descent into Elko, a charmless city of 20,000 in the northern Nevada desert. Eighteen seats, all filled. This is not because Elko is a hot tourist attraction; it is because almost everyone else onboard belongs to a maria ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 2 14:11:53 PST 2001