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37666 FAIR vs. Stossel -- rank: 1000

The idiot propagandist John Stossel of ABC News, or rather someone writing in his name, responds to FAIR's deadly critique of his nonsensical program about how wonderful the USA is at <http://www.fair.org/activism/abc-response.html>. FAIR's original critique is at <http://www.fair.org/activism/stossel-america.html> and their response to his response is at <http://www.fair.org/activism/fair-stossel.html>. It's too much text to post here. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 11 17:48:31 PST 1999

37667 Driving (was Henwood vs. Cockburn) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Max Sawicky wrote: > > > Actually it doesn't. I've even done radio interviews > > while driving. > >Users of cellular phones have as bad a driving record as drunks. And >it makes no difference if the phone is no-hands. Would a radio >interview take as much atttention as a phone conversation? If so, we >can now label Max the virtual equivalent of DUI. It was a good interview, though. Max didn't even sound distracted. I was a bit worried that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 11 17:40:44 PST 1999

37668 Henwood vs. Cockburn -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >I have to say I strongly support this remark >by AC, though not so much its focus on >Henwood: > >"Apropos my supposed enthusiasm for the right, I think, Doug, your >problem is that you rarely advance into the American hinterland west of the >Hudson, and regard it as a place of terror infested with fundamentalists, >militia men and other demons of the polite liberal metropolitan imagination >inflamed by hysterical fundraising letters from Morri ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 11 12:05:31 PST 1999

37669 Henwood vs. Cockburn -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >I have to say I strongly support this remark >by AC, though not so much its focus on >Henwood: > >"Apropos my supposed enthusiasm for the right, I think, Doug, your >problem is that you rarely advance into the American hinterland west of the >Hudson, and regard it as a place of terror infested with fundamentalists, >militia men and other demons of the polite liberal metropolitan imagination >inflamed by hysterical fundraising letters from Morri ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 11 11:52:53 PST 1999

37670 microradio -- rank: 1000

[bounced for an address oddity] From: sbond at cromor.com Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:17:26 -0500 Hi. I'm normally a lurker on the list, but in my non-virtual life have been very active in trying to get low-power FM legalized. The FCC's extended comment period on the issue ends Monday. I'm hoping some of you may have time to act on this before the deadline. Thus, I'm rebroadcasting to you a FAIR action alert from this past July. Micro-radio would be a huge step in offering a community voice to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 11 11:32:13 PST 1999

37671 Henwood vs. Cockburn -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Charles: I'm with Doug on his main point here, but actually the >Yurok, Hupa and Kerok (spelling ) Indians are in Humboldt County >too. I lived there for a few weeks on a land recovery project in >1978. Here's the demographics of Cockburn's home town, Petrolia, California, according to the marketing firm CACI <http://www.demographics.caci.com/Free/data.html> Petrolia U.S. 1999 Population by Race White: 93.4% 78.0 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 11 11:02:41 PST 1999

37672 Henwood vs. Cockburn -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >As for 'oversights,' has Cockburn ever written about feminism or issues >important to gender equality? I mean in a context _other than_ mocking >some feminists as softies, liberals, Clinton flaks, etc. & implying _all_ >feminists are _like that_? Isn't it time for someone to call Alex C to >task on this score? Well, I've been reading the guy attentively since 1976, and talking to him now & then since 1986, and I don't recall any such interest. Ma ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 11 10:08:34 PST 1999

37673 Henwood vs. Cockburn -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey St. Clair wrote: >I'll vouch for Doug on that. Actually, I was never the least concerned >that Doug was going to tangle with the ONWO (Opponents of the New World >Order). Not in this part of the Nanny State, anyway. I was mainly >concerned that Doug's novice driving skills might inflame the passions >of some of the NASCAR-in-training types (Californians, all) that rip up >and down I-5. But he did fine.--jsc Not novice, but very rusty. I started driving at age 16 but pre ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 11 09:55:27 PST 1999

37674 Deaths on Kosovo -- rank: 1000

Sam Pawlett wrote: >There was a report on the CBC last night, featuring the former UN >commander in Bosnia Lewis Mackenzie, saying that there are probably >less than 500 dead *altogether* in Kosovo. But, alas, John Polanyi >professor at Uof T, Nobel Peace Prize winner and supporter of the Nato >bombing campaign says that does not change any of the motives for the >war. Of course not. The war had little to do with "humanitarianism" except in the sales pitch. So Polany ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 11 09:45:21 PST 1999

37675 The Future of Socialism -- rank: 1000

[bounced for a taboo word] Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 10:27:21 -0500 From: "Charles Brown" <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> October 19, 1999 The Future of Socialism By Jeremy Cronin <sacp at wn.apc.org> Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels realised one and a half centuries ago that the future of socialism was intimately linked to the future of capitalism. Browse the Communist Manifesto (written in 1848) and you may be surprised to find it is, in part, a eulogy to capitalism. It p ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 11 07:43:58 PST 1999

37676 Henwood vs. Cockburn -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Frankly, Cockburn's self-congratulatory postures as a hairy-chested >journalist were bewildering in his reply to you. You'd think he was >Hemingway joining in the liberation of Paris, or something. Maybe >I've been missing his best stuff, but lately Cockburn's reporting >from the field seems to have focused mainly on the perils of >cannabis cultivation. That's surely a risky business with all those >thuggish paramilitary antidrug forces around, but as ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 11 07:48:07 PST 1999

37677 working class civil society -- rank: 1000

Mr P.A. Van Heusden wrote: >Doug, I think you're a little bit wrong here - 'civil society' in >Gramsci's terms is basically a concept established in opposition to 'the >state' - a bit of a difficult thing to get a handle on, but essentially >that layer of people who constitute the body politic who are not part of >the state apparatus. He developed the concept in terms of the idea of how >a particular group of society exercises leadership over the society as a >whole - i.e. h ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 11 07:42:33 PST 1999

37678 Henwood vs. Cockburn -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Ah, so what about A.C.'s most damning accusation (ROTFL) that you >yourself have indulged in a.h. assaults and once actually referred >to the celebrated Alan Greenspan as the "foul-breathed" chairman of >the Fed? I myself would simply question the accuracy of your >characterization. Seems to me it would be Paul Volcker who would >best qualify as "foul-breathed" Fed chairman -- all those cigars, >you know. Yes, I have referred to Gre ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 11 07:13:22 PST 1999

37679 TradVals scandal update -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - November 11, 1999 President of Hillsdale College Resigns Amid Allegations of Affair By MARTIN VAN DER WERF Hillsdale, Mich. The president of conservative Hillsdale College, George C. Roche III, resigned under fire Wednesday, emphasizing "integrity, values and courage," even as rumors continued to swirl that an affair with his daughter-in-law had led to his undoing. Mr. Roche's retirement was announced after the Board of Trustees met to consid ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 11 06:50:02 PST 1999

37680 Chechnya - a far off country -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >You have no idea what global civil society is, without being aware you are >participating in it now. You are like the bourgeois gentilhomme who does >not know he is speaking prose. > >In short terms, I am coming from a Gramscian perspective. You appear to be >coming from some sort of unreconstructed Trotskyist perspective. Chris, perhaps you could explain what "globl civil society" is, and how it differs from the fairly unappealing picture that H ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 11 06:45:36 PST 1999