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1696 Taliban, Saudi -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 25 November 2001 WHO'S AFRAID OF THE TALIBAN? The sweeping victories of the Northern Alliance over the Taliban took many people by surprise, but as the WEEK argued throughout the conflict, the danger of Islamic resistance to the allied campaign was always greatly overstated. Bigging up the opposition as the 'noble Afghan warrior' is one way to cover up the embarrassing truth of 'asymmetric warfare', that the Afghans never had a chance. But the willingness to believe that Afghanis ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Nov 25 03:13:25 PST 2001

1697 Osama, September 11, London, Illuminati -- rank: 1000

In message <005d01c1711f$b061aa40$6401a8c0 at mw.mediaone.net>, Luke Weiger <lweiger at umich.edu> writes of the Civil War in the former Yugoslavia >it's clear that >only one side possessed the requisite material means to manifest their >hatred in the form of mass murders/expulsions with regularity. Not so. Both the Bosnian Muslims (themselves supported 'Arab Afghans') and Croats had armies that fought (and eventually won) the civil war. These too were involved in atrocities ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Nov 20 03:22:24 PST 2001

1698 cultural imperialism -- rank: 1000

In message <p05001903b81e68e0bc94@[140.254.112.171]>, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> writes >I majored in English at Tokyo Gaigo Daigaku (= Tokyo University of >Foreign Studies); I'm still (!) in the Department of English at OSU. > >Tokyo Gaigo Daigaku traces its history back to Bansho Shirabesho (= >Institute for the Study of Barbarian Documents) established in 1856 (I >think), a Tokugawa governmental institution for translation of European >documents ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Nov 19 09:44:18 PST 2001

1699 Paranoid Hakki -- rank: 1000

In message <NEBBLFAOEKFDFJCKOHILMEEPCLAA.nucleus at superonline.com>, Hakki Alacakaptan <nucleus at superonline.com> writes >I may look >paranoid, but if you look at it dispassionately, there really is someone >following me, or you, in this case. Yep, paranoid delusional, in fact. And like all paranoia, it's root cause is narcissistic and egotistic: why would anyone bother following Hakki Alacakaptan, who is no threat to any authorities anywhere. -- James Heartfield

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Nov 19 00:25:18 PST 2001

1700 Osama, September 11, London, Illuminati -- rank: 1000

Like I said, Hakki's oh-so-critical attitude to imperialism turns out to be just a contemporary version of pro-imperialism. When it comes to Yugoslavia, the West knows best, and no matter how hystrionic, war propaganda takes precedence over real analysis. Hakki parrots the US propaganda to the effect that only one side in the Yugoslav civil war ever committed any atrocities, and that Bosnia was a multicultural paradise before those evil Serbs wreaked havoc on it. First off, the referendum on ind ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Nov 19 00:13:08 PST 2001

1701 "Whiteness and the Historical Imagination" - 30 November - NY -- rank: 1000

In message <p0510030eb81e0b70e414@[192.168.1.100]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >James Heartfield wrote: > >> >>I have this uncomfortable feeling that the natural trajectory of the >>academic discourse on 'whiteness' is that someone will start to argue >>that the white identity was not all bad, and that it ought to be >>recuperated. White guilt, white persecution complex, white megalomania >>... it's just one long slippery slo ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Nov 19 00:20:30 PST 2001

1702 Osama, September 11, London, Illuminati -- rank: 1000

In message <NEBBLFAOEKFDFJCKOHILAEDDCLAA.nucleus at superonline.com>, Hakki Alacakaptan <nucleus at superonline.com> writes >Would I be correct in saying that J.I. and Chossy _only_ go loony when the >subject is the brave Serbs who defeated Hitler? When no Serbs or >Serb-coveted territory is involved they seem to be pretty rational. Or would it be more correct to say that Hakki's anti-imperialism suddenly disappears when it's a case of opposing Western intervention in the fo ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Nov 18 10:13:36 PST 2001

1703 rights of man -- rank: 1000

In message <20011112140116.A21596 at panix.com>, Gordon Fitch <gcf at panix.com> writes >The problem is that the Rights of Man thing is rhetoric. That suggests that you think it would be a good idea if put into practice (i.e. that you think the rhetoric about RoM is hypocrisy, and hypocrisy is ever that vice that pays homage to virtue). Myself, I think the rights of man enunciated and (albeit partially) realised was a massive step forward for humankind. But even if every expressio ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 18 08:47:05 PST 2001

1704 cultural imperialism -- rank: 1000

In message <F187ZfeKWEprzIwFAkK0000b4f4 at hotmail.com>, Mina Kumar <wejazzjune at hotmail.com> writes >remarks like this: (quoting me) >>The perpetrators of the World Trade Center and Pentagon were not >>oppressed victims of Western domination, but mostly wealthy or middle >>class Arabs from the Gulf States. Not the grinding poverty of the Gaza >>Strip, but the conspicuous consumption of Saudi Arabia proved the >>seedbed for Al-Qaeda. September 11 wa ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Nov 18 08:55:42 PST 2001

1705 Chossudovsky -- rank: 1000

>From: "Hakki Alacakaptan" <nucleus at superonline.com> >> Michael, seriously, do you know why Chossudovsky loses it when he writes >> about ex-yugo? I thought Chossudovsky's writings on the former Yugoslavia were exemplary, and ought to be put on the history syllabuses of every child in Western Europe and the USA. -- James Heartfield

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Nov 18 09:04:23 PST 2001

1706 "Whiteness and the Historical Imagination" - 30 November - NY -- rank: 1000

I have this uncomfortable feeling that the natural trajectory of the academic discourse on 'whiteness' is that someone will start to argue that the white identity was not all bad, and that it ought to be recuperated. White guilt, white persecution complex, white megalomania ... it's just one long slippery slope. Better to insist upon the universalist goal of an all-embracing humanism, I say. In message <p05001906b81d0170ce17@[140.254.112.117]>, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu&g ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Nov 18 09:14:04 PST 2001

1707 Civil liberties after 11 September -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 18 November 2001 Right across the Western world governments are hurriedly introducing repressive legislation undermining free speech, freedom of association, liberty of the person, privacy of information and due process of law. GLOBAL REPRESSION This is just some of the 'highlights' from selected countries: USA - Military courts for terrorist suspects The USA Patriot Act - Administrative detention of non-citizens committing offences (including violation of visa conditions if they ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Nov 18 07:07:59 PST 2001

1708 cultural imperialism -- rank: 1000

In message <p05100300b816dde6017c@[192.168.1.100]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Two items from today's NYT: > >>But the ideology, it seems, never sank in. When Taliban soldiers >>arrived they smashed every television set they could find. As they >>approached his home, Muhammad Asif, a young shopkeeper, rushed his >>Sharp 17-inch television and VCR to the backyard, where he buried them. >> >>Since then, Mr. Asif has dreamed of ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Nov 13 08:17:34 PST 2001

1709 10 myths about the war on terror -- rank: 1000

Ten myths of the War Against Terror 1 Western domination of the Middle East provoked the attack on September 11 The perpetrators of the World Trade Center and Pentagon were not oppressed victims of Western domination, but mostly wealthy or middle class Arabs from the Gulf States. Not the grinding poverty of the Gaza Strip, but the conspicuous consumption of Saudi Arabia proved the seedbed for Al-Qaeda. September 11 was roundly denounced throughout the Middle East. 2 The United States has rallied ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Nov 11 11:31:53 PST 2001

1710 S11 Imperialism -- rank: 1000

In message <p05100308b811c0953dcf@[192.168.1.100]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes in reply to Hakki's >>Any non-Russian citizen of former Comecon countries or former Soviet >>republics will agree that the USSR was imperialist, and will probably spit >>or swear when doing so :) Doug asks (rhetorically): >Wasn't the flow of resources in the old USSR just the opposite what >you'd expect from an imperialist power? Didn't Russia subsidize the >Cent ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Nov 9 10:24:17 PST 2001