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36076 Reed on Mumia -- rank: 1000

[The Mumia stuff starts about 2/3 of the way down.] The Progressive - October 1995 Martyrs and false populists. (Class Notes)(Column) Adolph Reed Jr. In desperate times we strain to find something to celebrate. There is an understandable tendency to romanticize the oppressed, and to grasp at anything that looks like alternative politics. Hence the recent, disturbingly knee-jerk reactions within the left to such disparate phenomena as the militia movement and the Mumia Abu-Jamal case. I was surpr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 8 13:16:36 PST 2000

36077 the cancers -- rank: 1000

[majordomo is failing to mungedomain properly, even though it's been repeatedly told to] Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 12:30:36 -0600 (CST) From: jf noonan <jfn1 at pcjfn.msc.com> > > > Carrol Cox wrote: > > > >>Doug can't see the difference between using the word > >>cancer (actually, the correct term I believe would be malignant > >>carcinoma) No you're quite wrong. In your passion for pedantic nit-picking, you show yourself to be full of shit. Dou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 8 12:31:23 PST 2000

36078 The Psychoses -- rank: 1000

alessandro coricelli wrote: >no, carcinoma *is* cancer (from latin carcinoma and greek karkinoma, which >comes from karkinos, crab). Both, carcinoma and cancer,mean "malignant >tumor". There is no "non"malignant cancer (or carcinoma). From Dorland's Medical Dictionary: "carcinoma...a malignant new growth made up of epithelial cells tending to infiltrate the surrounding tissues and give rise to metastases." The other major type of solid tumor is sarcoma. Als ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 8 12:25:06 PST 2000

36079 The Psychoses -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >If someone wrote a post based on belief in phlogiston we would all >ridicule her. But the concept of phlogiston at least does not , every >day someplace, do actual harm, sometimes physical harm, to >people the way in which the throwing around of such equally >exploded medical conceps as psychosis and neurosis does. > >Ken and his defenders have not shown the remotest acquaintance >with contemporary medical practices and neuroscience, nor any >recogni ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 8 09:31:59 PST 2000

36080 Breaking Butterflies & Poisoning Wells -- rank: 1000

Michael Yates wrote: >But, Doug, you sent out the comment on Kissinger (without his name being >mentioned) which, correct me if I am wrong, was sent to you, and you did >not tell us who sent it. So why did you send it out in the first place? >If you think Marc Cooper is correct why not just say so. You comment on >everything under the sun and ask a million questions, god things in my >view, so why not comment on Cooper and ask some questions. Oh yes, meant to add that Scott ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 8 07:47:48 PST 2000

36081 WTO talks happening -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - February 8, 2000 WTO chief upbeat as dates are set for talks By Frances Williams in Geneva Mike Moore, director-general of the World Trade Organisation, declared on Monday that the WTO was "very much in business" as trade envoys agreed to press ahead with liberalisation talks on agriculture and services despite the failure of December's ministerial meeting in Seattle to launch a new trade round. Mr Moore was speaking after a meeting of the WTO's ruling general council ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 8 07:40:11 PST 2000

36082 Breaking Butterflies & Poisoning Wells -- rank: 1000

Michael Yates wrote: >But, Doug, you sent out the comment on Kissinger (without his name being >mentioned) That was an accident; didn't mean to. We can psychoanalyze my intent, but I wasn't trying to suppress the origin. > which, correct me if I am wrong, was sent to you, and you did >not tell us who sent it. Why does it matter who sent it? > So why did you send it out in the first place? >If you think Marc Cooper is correct why not just say so. You comment on >everythin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 8 07:45:42 PST 2000

36083 [Fwd: Union Organizers Wanted (UE)] -- rank: 1000

**Please forward this notice to unionists and other progressives** ORGANIZE FOR THE NATION'S MOST PROGRESSIVE UNION! *Immediate Opening in Erie, Pennsylvania *Openings in Other Locations in Spring 2000 The United Electrical Workers (UE) is expanding its national organizing staff in response to a surge of successful new organizing work. The first union chartered by the CIO, the UE is an independent union with members in 26 states and a proud, militant history of democratic rank-and-file unionism, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 8 08:18:49 PST 2000

36084 excludability -- rank: 1000

[another bounce - can't figure this out] Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 08:58:19 -0500 (EST) From: bhandari at mmp.Princeton.EDU (Rakesh Bhandari) Subject: Re: The Psychoses On excludability, one of the most substantial Marxist discussions is Maurice Godelier's chapter "Terroritory and Property in Some Precapitalist Societies" in The Mental and the Material. Verso 1986--I imagine that Ted knows this work. Here we find that right to use property has not always entailed right to alienate it. The ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 8 07:29:25 PST 2000

36085 The Psychoses -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug can't see the difference between using the word >cancer (actually, the correct term I believe would be malignant >carcinoma) Carincoma is a type of cancer. > for many different kinds of cancer (*all* >fundamentally characterized by "run-away proliferation of >cells -- hence all having the same same etiology Uh, no. Leukemia has a different etiology from melanoma, but we call them both cancers. > It is as outmoded a concept as phlogiston. Unless ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 8 07:14:57 PST 2000

36086 NATO's moral war (Fisk) -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - February 7, 2000 The bloody truth of how Nato changed the rules to win a 'moral war' in Yugoslavia By Robert Fisk For me, the proof came near the end of the Yugoslav war, when Nato bombed a hospital at Surdulice on 31 May last year. Serb soldiers were hiding in the basement, civilian refugees sleeping above them. The soldiers survived, the civilians were slaughtered in the raid and James Shea, Nato's king of excuses, announced that it was "a military target". Did ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 8 07:00:40 PST 2000

36087 Breaking Butterflies & Poisoning Wells -- rank: 1000

Comrade Cox wrote: >Someone really went off the radar screen -- he suggested >that Clark K was putting himself on good behavior in the Mumia >campaign just to make himself look respectable. This is the furthest >stretch of red-baiting: whenever communists say or do something >right, they are just being sly. A year or so on femecon-l Doug >objected vociferously to this kind of argumentation from Barbara >Bergmann After over a quarter of a century of disliking the RCP >and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 7 21:05:40 PST 2000

36088 What Nader fails to understand. -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >The producerist narrative sees a >hard-working productive middle class and working class being squeezed from >above and below by social parasites. Didn't Kevin Phillips once say is that his enraged "middle class" hates both rich and poor people? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 7 20:44:45 PST 2000

36089 Bad, Wrong, & Psychotic (was Re: On the Use of Clinical Terms in Social Theory) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The reason why Ken & other followers of Lacan & Zizek don't want to >renounce the recourse to the use of the word "psychotic" must be that while >they want a word that damns their objects of criticism, they can't bring >themselves to using such words like "bad," "wrong," "untrue," "incorrect," >"ideological," etc. It would be very un-postmodern to suggest that there >are such things as ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 7 15:20:32 PST 2000

36090 alumni wisdom -- rank: 1000

The things you learn from reading your alumni magazine. Fred Krupp '75, the big cheese at the thoroughly compromised Environmental Defense Fund (he's <fred_krupp at edf.org> if you want to give him a hard time) spoke at a recent alumni gathring "with eloquence and self-deprecating humor" about EDF's work with McDonald's. "Fred recalled a Yale seminar in which engineering professor Charles Walker observed, 'If we just lower our voices, these environmental problems are solvabl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 7 14:22:00 PST 2000