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1681 To Russell Grinker -- rank: 1000

Russell, I've tried replying to your mails but they all bounce back, unrecognised address. -- James Heartfield

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Sep 12 07:33:17 PDT 2001

1682 What to say -- rank: 1000

A few people have asked me what is the proper response to the attack. This is me thinking out loud. I welcome any comments. 1. The people of the Middle East - if they are the perpetrators - have a right to fight back, and this was certainly an audacious blow against the imperialist heartland; on the other hand, 2. Terrorism is an anti-democratic by-passing of the masses (though I guess the masses of the Middle East didn't seem to disapprove); but, 3. It would be infantile to take vicarious pleas ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Sep 12 01:49:40 PDT 2001

1683 Hi-jack fall-out -- rank: 1000

The likely fall-out from the attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon would be attacks on US Arabs. I hope that we can use the list to co-ordinate information on repressive counter-measures. -- James Heartfield

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Sep 11 07:53:45 PDT 2001

1684 Bond against _Empire_ -- rank: 1000

In message <p05100304b7c271248a9b@[192.168.1.100]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >What small to medium sized poor country could really make a go of it >on its own for any length of time? Maybe a big one with some >technological resources, like Brazil or India, could for a while, but >Zambia or Argentina? Cuba got by only because it was subsidized and >defended for 30 years by the USSR. But now? At minimum, you'd need a >bunch of countries to ally, tak ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Sep 10 09:53:27 PDT 2001

1685 Rimington, Zimbabwe -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 9 September 2001 RIMINGTON'S FAKE REVELATIONS Stella Rimington was the first Director General of the British Secret Services M.I.5 to be publicly named on appointment in 1985 - part of a strategy of carefully coordinated 'openness' that followed a number of public relations disasters, from the jailing of clerk Sarah Tisdall to the publication of Peter Wright's memoirs 'Spycatcher'. With the perceived danger of Soviet infiltration receding, the raison d'etre of the intelligence se ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Sep 9 03:49:47 PDT 2001

1686 Processed Peace: Israel and Ireland -- rank: 1000

Leo's confusion arises because he assumes that ethnic antagonisms come first and the political process responds to them afterwards. That's why he can assume that the political process is simply trying to solve the already extant ethnic conflict. But as a rule ethnic conflicts only persist where there is something to fight for. In both Israel and Ulster, sponsor nations (the US and the UK respectively) fostered the supremacist groups, through financial, military, political and diplomatic support. ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Sep 8 01:11:41 PDT 2001

1687 Conference on Racism: Jewish Caucus Statement -- rank: 1000

In message <a05101004b7bf228b6c54@[169.229.128.29]>, Brad DeLong <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu> writes In reply to Carrol's > Its only >>reason for existing is to deny Iraq access to the sea. > > >But Basra is a seaport. And as far as I know, the only people who >have ever tried to deny Iraqi ships access to the Persian Gulf are >the Iranians... > >Am I completely confused, or what? Whether it's about sea-ports I don't know, but the history is that th ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Sep 8 00:29:03 PDT 2001

1688 nference on Racism:Jewish Caucus Statement -- rank: 1000

In message <p05100310b7bda96b5856@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Macdonald Stainsby wrote: > >>Until *Israel* is gone, dead and buried > >Eh? Are you referring to a generalized bonfire of the nation-states, >or are you singling out Israel? > >Doug There is a difference. The state of Israel has never been able to support itself, but depends wholly upon subsidy, from the US. It is artificial, in a way that the US is not. US im ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Sep 7 12:33:32 PDT 2001

1689 UN anti-racism conference -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 1 September 2001 'SUCH LANGUAGE IS UNACCEPTABLE AT A GLOBAL CONFERENCE AGAINST RACISM' Hedy Fry, the Canadian secretary of state for multiculturalism and the status of women was responding to the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation's refusal to refrain from criticising Israel, currently waging a war against the Palestinian people. The United States' policy of ambushing conference delegates with the charge of anti-Semitism succeeded. Disguising themselves as the Jewi ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Sep 1 13:53:25 PDT 2001

1690 Terror, Israel, IRA -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 28 October 2001 OPERATION LOWERING EXPECTATIONS After the initial promises of 'home before Ramadan', American military spokesmen have set about lowering public expectations of early success in Afghanistan. Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld wondered out loud whether Osama bin Laden could ever be caught, saying that it was like finding a needle in a haystack, while military men wondered whether the war on terrorism would take years, or lifetimes, if indeed it ever could be won. Ha ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Oct 28 04:38:21 PST 2001

1691 Sexual Harassment? -- rank: 1000

In message <01f401c15a2e$fe464ca0$b094e5cf at wwchi>, Lou Paulsen <wwchi at enteract.com> writes >(A long exchange between Kelley and Rob snipped, in which Rob completely >fails to recognize the instances of sexual harassment, which Kelley reports, >as problems, Rob's attempts to get beyond the seventies' stereotypes of sexual harassment at the workplace are to the point, and Kelley and Lou's refusal to acknowledge that things have changed merely conservative. In Britain now ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Oct 21 13:30:46 PDT 2001

1692 Fear itself -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 21 October 2001 FEAR ITSELF 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' Franklin Delano Roosevelt, inaugural address. More than a month after the attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Congress was closed down by an invisible enemy: fear. So far only one person has been killed by anthrax itself, but fear of anthrax has done untold damage to American society. Speaker J. Dennis Hastert said that the House would adjourn 'We felt that was the most prudent thing to do'. Ca ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Oct 21 06:09:09 PDT 2001

1693 Afghanistan, Terror and the myth of the backlash -- rank: 1000

THE WEEK ending 14 October 2001 HUMAN SACRIFICE IN AFGHANISTAN Unable to give a clear defence of the advantages of Western civilisation, George Bush and his European allies chose instead to fake resolve by bombing Afghanistan. Any hope that the war would serve an ennobling purpose dissipated in the tawdry reality of 'asymmetric warfare'. The Pentagon trumpeted their air superiority over Afghanistan on the second day of bombing, but the truth is that they did not even need to go there to assert ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Oct 13 11:38:42 PDT 2001

1694 Blair, WTC, economy, Israel -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 7 October, 2001 AN EMPTY VESSEL British Prime Minister Tony Blair set out to underpin the Coalition Against Terror in a speech to his own Labour Party conference on Wednesday. Blair's speech was notable for its ambitious sweep. The Coalition was not only going to beat the terrorists, but it would also go on to rebuild Afghanistan, before solving the conflict in the Middle East, ending the war in the Congo, the problem of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland and reversing global ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Oct 7 03:47:55 PDT 2001

1695 the euro -- rank: 1000

In message <01d901c179dd$842f24e0$b9a26c42 at nyc.rr.com>, Seth Ackerman <sia at nyc.rr.com> writes > >You really buy into this Kautskyite idea of inter-imperialist collusion, >don't you? I don't think you need to be a Kautskyite to understand that capitalists (and even capitalist states) collude in the common struggle against the working class. It's built into the tendency to an average rate of profit. Capital necessarily 'assumes the form' of many capitals, but before that ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Nov 30 15:39:49 PST 2001