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39091 cross national homicide rate query -- rank: 1000

seanno at ksu.edu wrote: >A local newspaper columnist is claiming that the U.S. is the homicide >"capital of the world" thus the U.S. needs to use the death sentence more >often. Beside the leap in logic I'm pretty sure the empirical claim is >false but I'm having trouble hunting down the data. Can anyone help me >locate cross national data on homicide rates? The UN Development Program(me)'s Human Development Report 1998 has a table, no. 36, called "Social stress ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 13 08:38:40 PST 1999

39092 Malcolm X and building a Black Tammany Hall -- rank: 1000

Rkmickey at aol.com wrote: >How does this distinguish Alinsky-style organizing efforts from any other >progressive or leftist organizing efforts? Do the Alinskyists fail in >distinctive ways? Is the record really any worse for those groups than for all >the vanguardists, Marxists, Marxist-Leninists, social democrats, etc., etc.? >Or any of the various nationalist efforts, whether Chicano, African-American, >or others? Well none of it's really all that successful, is it? The M ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 13 08:10:31 PST 1999

39093 identity, again -- rank: 1000

[Angela wrote this on PEN-L.] Doug Henwood wrote: > Louis Proyect wrote: > > >If anything, there is a strange disjunction in your thinking on > >so-called identity politics, where you are an enthusiastic supporter of > >Judith Butler but turn around and get apoplectic on similar trends in the > >black movement. > > Actually, Butler's writing destabilizes identity, which is what queer > theory is about - blurring boundaries. Some people don't like her for th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 13 07:24:08 PST 1999

39094 Butler's intro -- rank: 1000

One of the reasions the Psychic Life of Power interests me is that it tries to link psychoanalysis and politics, which is something I've been playing with on and off for about 20 years. Lately I've been thinking a lot about why people believe and think the things they do, in ways that in political terms often seem at odds with their self-interest. In the old days, we might have attributed this to false consciousness, but we're a lot less sure of what's true and what's false in these newer days, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 12 16:22:23 PST 1999

39095 Murdoch on creative destruction -- rank: 1000

"The Internet will destroy more businesses than it creates." - Rupert Murdoch

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 12 14:21:48 PST 1999

39096 Incivility -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >In its own way, this council communist affectation >is simply elitism by another name. Really-existing >insurgents do not measure up to the implied ideal, >and never will. Doubly annoying is the 'shopkeeper' >line. For reasons we should understand, blacks in >urban areas, among others, don't have access to >well-paying industrial or union jobs, so self- >employment or small proprietorship are important >resorts. Minority urban populations are no ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 12 12:16:13 PST 1999

39097 Malcolm X and building a Black Tammany Hall -- rank: 1000

Margaret wrote: >I'd like to quote Alinsky here: > >'The area of experience and communication is >fundamental to the organiser. An organiser can only >communicate within the areas of experience of his >audience; otherwise there is no communication. ... [The >successful organiser] refrains from rhetoric foreign to >the local culture: he knows that worn-out >[ideological] words [serve] only to identify the >speaker as "one of those nuts" and to turn off an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 12 10:25:51 PST 1999

39098 Incivility -- rank: 1000

Damn, I was hoping this was going to die down now. > The kernel of my viewpoint is this: If white supremacy in the >United States >does not offend you sufficiently to bring forth intemperate words (at >minimum), who could ever rely on you as a comrade in struggle? I don't think anyone here thinks that white supremacy is anything but odious. I resent the implication, though, that anyone who is critical of Malcolm X or black nationalism is soft on racism. The virtues of civility are ex ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 12 09:40:02 PST 1999

39099 Malcolm X and building a Black Tammany Hall -- rank: 1000

Art McGee wrote: >I'm trying to approach organizing from the bottom, not from the top. Can you really do that, and if so, is it the right thing to do? Is it desirable to organize people without challenging some of their basic beliefs? Isn't the common sense of ordinary people in part a way to cope with their oppression and/or marginalization, a way that may be adaptive in the short term but a way of thinking that preserves oppression/marginalization over the long term? Doesn't the organizer p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 12 09:18:54 PST 1999

39100 Mike Davis -- rank: 1000

There's a good page of links about the Mike Davis controversy at <http://www.thelocus.com/LA/davis.html>, including Marc Cooper's fine article in Davis' defense. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 12 08:59:43 PST 1999

39101 it's Barr -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >>Bob Barr had an affair with his present wife while married to his previous >>wife > >My God, the bounder. He had an affair with his wife! > >Are there no limits to the dastardly behaviour of these congressmen? > >Hold the front page! Immediate recall now! We demand an investigation >zzzzz Barr was the first to file a resolution for Clinton's impeachment. He's a repellent piece of work. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 11 20:23:19 PST 1999

39102 it's Barr -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: >On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Larry Flynt is supposed to name a Republican name tonight on Rivera Live, 9 >> PM eastern time, CNBC. >> >I have neither television or internet access. Will some kind soul please >send along the name of the repub.? Bob Barr had an affair with his present wife while married to his previous wife and refused to answer a question about this in a deposition taken during "a bitter divorce pro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 11 18:12:20 PST 1999

39103 Judy fest? -- rank: 1000

Alex LoCascio wrote: >Is the reading for Psychic Life of Power still on? Has it started? Been >canceled? What's the status? It was supposed to start yesterday. I was going to take the book to Virginia with me and write my post on the introduction while I was there. But I forgot to pack the book, which may be testimony to the psychic life of something, if not power. I'm about to pound out something, which may not appear until tomorrow morning. And this after I lectured Kelley about the n ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 11 15:15:42 PST 1999

39104 News from the trenches -- rank: 1000

James Baird wrote: >As some of you know, I am currently doing some contract work for Schwab >in San Francisco. I have been interested, in the past few days, to read >the companywide emails the CEO has been putting out. It seems that the >trading volume for the first few weeks of 1999 have been completly >unprecendented. Schwab has been completly swamped - they are now being >forced to accelerate an upgrade to their mainframe trading systems, and >its redeploying people to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 11 15:12:43 PST 1999

39105 Suck piece -- rank: 1000

Today's Suck <http://www.suck.com/> is a pretty sharp piece on the Iraq bombing & the Vietnam precedent. A bit soft on U.S. imperialism, but what do you expect from Suck? Still, sharply written. It's by Ambrose Beers (nom de Suck, that is), who's also written on U.S. support of Pol Pot <http://www.suck.com/daily/98/08/10/>, Edward O. Wilson's "consilience theory" attack on postmodernism <http://www.suck.com/daily/98/03/24/>, and Bill Clinton's now-forgotten family ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 11 14:58:44 PST 1999