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33901 Fisk on Arafat, 2 -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - October 14, 2000 Vain leader playing a dangerous game that he can't afford to lose By Robert Fisk in Beirut Vain, nepotistic, dictatorial, ruthless. Yasser Arafat is all of these; a man who was prepared to watch his people massacred in the Tel el-Zaatar refugee camp in Beirut, under siege by Israel's Lebanese Christian allies in 1976, so that he could show the world the brutality of his enemies. He declared a ceasefire. Then he broke it. Then he placed the survivors of the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 15 11:02:26 PDT 2000

33902 Bush pulls ahead against "big government" -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >What do radical leftists in the USA say about Bush's advantage in >the election polls? Many are critical of the "Third Way" but is it >not needed now? Why shouldn't the Guardian headline read, "Third Way heir Gore falls behind as voters nod off; record low turnout seen"? As Fidel said recently, these are the two most "boring and insipid candidates in history." The polls are volatile because no one really gives a damn about either. Doug ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 15 10:59:32 PDT 2000

33903 Fisk on Arafat -- rank: 1000

New Statesman (London) - October 16, 2000 Yasser Arafat may be an effete, brutal and despotic leader of the Palestinians, but the western media should remember that we created him. By Robert Fisk We always love Arab leaders who know how to keep control. King Abdullah of Jordan - the present King Abdullah's great-grandfather - was described by the first British senior official in Transjordan as "lovable, considerate and generous". His grandson King Hussein, ruthlessly suppressing the PL ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 15 10:51:24 PDT 2000

33904 guns & crime -- rank: 1000

<http://papers.nber.org/papers/W7967> More Guns, More Crime Mark Duggan NBER Working Paper No. W7967 Issued in October 2000 This paper examines the relationship between gun ownership and crime. Previous research has suffered from a lack of reliable data on gun ownership. I exploit a unique data set to reliably estimate annual gun ownership rates at both the state and the county level during the past two decades. My findings demonstrate that changes in gun ownership are significantly positi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 14 16:13:14 PDT 2000

33905 everything's really ok (nation-state) -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >The nation-state is where most Transitional >Demands are made. Isn't capital controls just such a demand? Hmm, well nation-states come in many different sizes and shapes. Some are big and rich, some are big and poor, some are small and rich, some are small and poor. How much could, say, Ecuador do at the nation-state level, compared with, say, Brazil? How about South Africa vs. Chad? I think Sam's right, that there has to be some serious south-south cooperation for any ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 14 13:11:56 PDT 2000

33906 Ralph rocks -- rank: 1000

Saturday October 14 12:04 AM ET Nader Rally in N.Y. Draws Thousands By BETH GARDINER, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) - About 15,000 supporters packed a sold-out Madison Square Garden to voice their noisy enthusiasm for Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader (news - web sites), angrily criticizing his exclusion from the recent presidential debates and hailing him as a reinvigorating force for democracy. The mostly 20- and 30-something crowd paid $20 each for tickets to the Friday n ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 14 13:04:03 PDT 2000

33907 Said on American Zionism -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Worked for them: no. Worked on them: probably. Worked on the U.S. >Congress: certainly... Why in god's name do you think that? Look at the U.S. press coverage of events in and around Israel over the last week - the bogus evenhandedness (a la Jimmy Carter on Vietnam: the destruction was "mutual"), the anguish over 2 dead Israeli soldiers and the near silence over 90 dead Arab civilians, the denunciation of suicide bombers as "cowards" (and the implied ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 14 12:54:07 PDT 2000

33908 Said on American Zionism -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >It's *much* more complicated than that. The U.S. security interest >in the Middle East is to keep the oil flowing, as Secretary Marshall >said to President Truman. And what better way to keep the oil flowing than to have a friendly local subimperialist power to discipline anyone with thoughts of blocking that flow? Doug

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Date:	Sat Oct 14 12:43:11 PDT 2000

33909 VP Gore and Tipper Gore to Moderate Family Policy Conference -- rank: 1000

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Vice President ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release October 13, 2000 VICE PRESIDENT GORE AND TIPPER GORE TO MODERATE FAMILY POLICY CONFERENCE Ninth Annual Family Re-Union Conference to Focus on Families and Seniors Vice President Al Gore and Tipper Gore announced today that the ninth annual "Family Re-Union" will be held in Tennessee on November 20th. The Vice Presi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 13 14:50:40 PDT 2000

33910 Said on American Zionism -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >In large part because the image of Palestinians in the mind of >America's necktie-wearing class is of the people who rolled people >in wheelchairs into the ocean and started hijacking airplanes--thus >leading to our current air travel ritual passages through the metal >detectors and the x-ray machines. Wasn't the decision to take the >Black September road (as opposed to, say, the Gandhi road) a >decisive political error on Arafat's part? Is there any way ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 13 15:50:20 PDT 2000

33911 Fwd: MISREADING THE MIDDLE EAST -- rank: 1000

[from the Jude Wanniski shop, though not by the Master himself] October 13, 2000 MISREADING THE MIDDLE EAST Hercules' labors in the augean stables was a picnic compared to the task today of clearing away the distortions and falsehoods under which the real facts in the Middle East are obscured. It is almost impossible to get an accurate view as to what is taking place in the Holy Land from most of the news sources or U.S. editorial pages, where logic is built on misinformed assumptions. The conse ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 13 14:06:13 PDT 2000

33912 Crudele: Alan, save the market! -- rank: 1000

[what a hoot] New York Post - October 13, 2000 IT'S TIME FOR GREENSPAN TO RESCUE THE MARKET By JOHN CRUDELE IS the stock market getting set to crash? There's no Ouja board on my desk. But I do see a few things that'll have to happen in order to avoid the chance of a full-scale panic on Wall Street. First, Alan Greenspan must step in and save the market if this slide is going to stop. And an active rescue effort is the simplest and most effective way out of the equities market's current predicame ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 13 15:10:49 PDT 2000

33913 resuce the market? -- rank: 1000

Dear John Crudele - I've read you intermittently over the years - particuarly some of your more fevered speculations on how the Fed was manipulating the stock market and how the BLS was cooking the CPI (an assertion based on a serious misunderstanding of the seasonal adjustment process, which you apparently never corrected). None of it seemed very well sourced or thought through, but, hey, you write for Rupert Murdoch, and he deals mainly in entertainment. Now you're urging Greenspan to ride in ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 13 15:10:41 PDT 2000

33914 Said on American Zionism -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Charles Brown for pointing this out] <http://www.ptimes.com/current/articles.html#8> Palestinian Times - October 2000 American Zionism -- the real problem Edward Said In my opinion, the role of organized Zionist groups and activities in the United States has not been sufficiently addressed during the period of the "peace process," a neglect that I find absolutely astonishing, given that Palestinian policy has been essentially to throw our fate as a people in the lap of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 13 12:23:03 PDT 2000

33915 Al Gore's 21 lies -- rank: 1000

Barry Rene DeCicco wrote: >There was a nice column in the WSJ today, roasting Bush >for his economic lies. It was written by Al Hunt, their >token sane person on the editorial page. You referring to this? Doug ---- Wall Street Journal - October 12, 2000 Politics & People The Biggest Whopper: The Bush Tax Cut By ALBERT R. HUNT Writing before last night's debate, the winner for the biggest exaggeration is easy: George W. Bush and his tax cut. The GOP nominee claims his tax measure pr ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 13 10:56:07 PDT 2000