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40096 The People's Right to Bear Arms -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >The phrase of the declaration says it all, 'We, the people...' Preamble to the Constitution. And, as Dan Lazare says, keep that phrase and junk the rest of it. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 23 08:45:29 PDT 1999

40097 race & murder -- rank: 1000

kirsten neilsen quoted: >Eric Harris, by contrast, was described as >bubbly and effervescent. He was a fierce >proponent of Nazi principles, though curiously, >Harrison insisted, not its racist elements. He >reportedly interacted well with the handful of >minority students at Columbine High School, >and no one could recall him making any of the >racist outbursts attributed to Klebold. I don't think you can refute attributions of racism by showing good interpersonal relati ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 23 08:40:33 PDT 1999

40098 empire envy -- rank: 1000

[from Philip Stephens' column in the Financial Times] It is not enough to say never again. Kosovo exposes with cruel clarity the huge gulf in western Europe between puffed-up pretension and grim reality. It was only a few months ago that the European Union proclaimed it would create a partnership of equals with the US in Nato. The alliance's new strategic concept, to be unveiled at today's Washington summit, was supposed to declare Europe a fully-paid up member of the international defence commu ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 23 08:23:56 PDT 1999

40099 Castells -- rank: 1000

Tavia wrote: >Having said that, I have gone on to read geographers like David Harvey >which make me realize the things I thought were so novel about Castells >were not really. And I don't understand what he means when he says Marxism >is just a sort of science with no political valence attached to it. I find >this a weird position to take and made me automatically distrust him. Statements like that are how you go from being a radical academic to an advisor to governments and a phi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 23 08:20:10 PDT 1999

40100 give war a chance (cont.) -- rank: 1000

[This raving by Thomas Friedman appears right next to a think piece on the Littleton massacre that argues: "As always, it is the kids who have that instinctive grasp of what the grown-ups are really saying, what the words truly mean, where the lies are. It might be the sickest kids, the neediest among them, who have taken our biggest lies and thrust them back at us, bloody and terrible." You've got to wonder whether this was a conscious or unconcious bit of commentary-through-layout.] ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 23 07:28:03 PDT 1999

40101 Lenin's numbers: 33 v 29 -- rank: 1000

30 PERCENT OF RUSSIANS GIVE CREDIT TO LENIN -- POLL MOSCOW, April 22 (Itar-Tass) - Opinion pollsters said 32.9 percent of Russians believe that the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin brought more good than harm to the country, versus 28.7 percent who think otherwise. The poll conducted by the Mneniye public opinion study center, involved 1,020 respondents and was timed with Lenin's 129th birth date, the center's press service reported on Thursday. Fifty percent of those polled backed the proposal t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 22 22:22:47 PDT 1999

40102 Military Spending and Growth -- rank: 1000

JayHecht at aol.com wrote: >Tanks, arms and the such do not re-circulate in the economy (they become a >stock of goods, much like unsold inventory) and thus pose a real problem for >capitalist accumulation. Unproductive expenditures (though necessary) must >be understood in the broader context of production (e.g. for profit, >circulation, social control). Shaikh and Tonak do a pretty good job >addressing this issue. So what are the symptoms of this pathology in accumulation? ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 22 18:21:44 PDT 1999

40103 The Blair Doctrine -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >I have not quite got the allusion to George going wobbly, Margaret Thatcher said that to George Bush to encourage him to make war on Iraq. How quickly they forget! >but it does seem >to me that Doug and I share some pretty deep differences of approach. You think? >I guess Doug is still stuck in seeing the Third Way as some comptemptible >form of social democracy delivered in sound bites. Not even social democracy. It's rule by financiers and CEOs with the ass ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 22 18:15:44 PDT 1999

40104 race & murder -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >It is despicable how the media is downplaying the racism. One local >headline is >"Group hated athletes the most ". How much play is the Hitler's birthday connection getting? I was just at a meeting full of urban sophisticates and only one or two out of a group of ten were aware of it. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 22 12:28:45 PDT 1999

40105 Fwd: From Terrorism to Liberation: The staight Foggy BOTTOM line -- rank: 1000

[from Andre Gunder Frank] US State Dep Documents on KLA Kosovo Liberation Army - Author: George Orwell, alias Big Brother 1. 11/10/98: Situation in Kosovo Source <http://secretary.state.gov/www/briefings/statements/1998/ps981110.html> Key Passage "Provocations from one side do not justify violence in return. It is the responsibility of both the Serbian security forces remaining in Kosovo and the Kosovo Liberation Army to exercise restraint and prevent a resurgence of violence. [end ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 22 12:17:57 PDT 1999

40106 Castells -- rank: 1000

frances bolton wrote: >why do you think his work is empty? It seems like a lot of the stuff you could read in BizWeak or Wired translated into pompous academic prose. Formulations like "the space of flows" and "information is a directly productive force" sound impressive and say nothing. Perhpas I'm missing something; I'm always willing to be corrected. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 22 12:03:47 PDT 1999

40107 military contracting -- rank: 1000

There was some talk the other day about greater geographical concentration of U.S. military procurement. I asked Bill Hartung - who works for the World Policy Institute, but who's a real good guy despite that - for a comment. Doug ---- Bill Hartung: >On military Keynesianism, I have done a paper on the >changes in military contracting from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s >which shows that the funds are more concentrated now. Roughly 270 of >the 435 Congressional Districts are now vir ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 22 08:00:41 PDT 1999

40108 Turkey abuses Kurds -- rank: 1000

The following articles appeared in the latest issue of Green Left Weekly (http://www.peg.apc.org/~greenleft), Australia's radical newspaper. ***************************************************** US/NATO hypocrisy exposed as Turkey attacks Kurds By Norm Dixon Turkey, a member of the US-led NATO alliance that is bombing Serbia with the claimed aim of ending the oppression of the Kosovar people, is viciously escalating its attacks on the Kurdish people within and without its borders. While Turkey's ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 22 07:34:31 PDT 1999

40109 Defense of National Sovereignty -- rank: 1000

Margaret wrote: >Why the hell does the LEFT have to have so many >unthinking nutcases? I'm the last guy to shy away from a criticism of the madness & stupidity of all too many leftists, but right-wing talk radio and the House of Representatives are also full of unthinking nutcases. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 22 07:30:00 PDT 1999

40110 Castells -- rank: 1000

[Am I the only guy who finds Castells stuff to be virtually empty? - Doug] San Jose Mercury News [no date given] Brave New World Jack Fischer It was a moment for a university professor to savor. When Manuel Castells rose to address a packed room in Davos, Switzerland, earlier this year, his audience wasn't struggling graduate students, but the global elite. Professor Manuel Castells uses exhaustive field research and the sophisticated tools of a social scientist. The gathering was the annual mee ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 22 07:26:20 PDT 1999