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1906 Palestinian non-violence -- rank: 1000

In message <p04330111b61b64bbefc0@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Does nonviolence depend in part on the exhaustion of your opponents? >Wasn't the British empire near the end of its life in India? In the >U.S. south, wasn't the local elite under attack from the federal >government and national opinionmakers? Certainly the British Empire was at its end, but the role of non-violent resistance in dismantling it is generally exaggerated. On the ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Oct 24 10:00:28 PDT 2000

1907 Genocide In Rwanda, and US action -- rank: 1000

In message <d9.b3b640a.27260103 at aol.com>, LeoCasey at aol.com writes >The fact of the matter is that this >entire thread began when you objected to my position that the US had been >guilty of gross inaction in the face of genocide, and that Americans should >hold the US government responsible for that inaction. And, as is well-known, the RPF, who, according to the source you cite, started the cycle of violence that led to the slaughter, were trained and armed by the US, havi ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Oct 23 22:49:07 PDT 2000

1908 Obviously (what's the Left problem with GM food?) -- rank: 1000

Well, yes, I take it as read that men's productive powers rebound back on them as an alien force under capitalism. Even the most viruous qualities are turned inside out by capitalism. My point is that the capitalistic misuse of technology does not mean that the technology or science is in itself bad. That is where I differ from the environmentalist critique of GM food. So, for example, Cuba is amongst the most advanced developers of GM technology, without any capitalistic motivation. However, th ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Oct 23 09:58:10 PDT 2000

1909 Genocide In Rwanda, and US INaction -- rank: 1000

Let's hope that Leo's Herculean efforts to absolve the US of involvement in the destabilisation and invasion of Rwanda are well-rewarded. In message <16.3db441d.2725b5aa at aol.com>, LeoCasey at aol.com writes >James Heartfield writes: ><< The rest - that there was no US Rwandan policy - is curiously obtuse. >> > >The article speaks for itself. Unlike the piece James posted yesterday, it >has a clear source -- the _Covert Action Quarterly_. [I ran the title of th ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Oct 23 10:01:49 PDT 2000

1910 Genocide In Rwanda, and US action -- rank: 1000

In message <65.b509228.2724dcb9 at aol.com>, LeoCasey at aol.com writes, quoting Rakiya Omaar and Alex de Waal >In 1990, Rwandan exiles in neighboring Uganda formed the Rwandese Patriotic >Front (RPF) and invaded, plunging the country into civil war and a vicious >cycle of human rights abuse. On which score, of course the authors are correct. The rest - that there was no US Rwandan policy - is curiously obtuse. The point is that there was an American Africa policy - to de-legitimi ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Oct 23 02:46:53 PDT 2000

1911 "Heterosexual Marriage"! -- rank: 1000

In message <s9f2fe2d.063 at mail.ci.detroit.mi.us>, Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> writes > >CB: Given that feudalism and slavery were class exploitative societies too, do >these authors posit oppressive conceptions of sexuality unique to those >societies ? How do they analyze the unique articulation of these categories >with capitalism ? > D'Emilio is pretty clear that the Gay Identity is essentially a product of capitalism, which creates the co ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Oct 22 15:58:09 PDT 2000

1912 Obviously (what's the Left problem with GM food?) -- rank: 1000

In message <s9f2e09e.062 at mail.ci.detroit.mi.us>, Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> writes > >CB: I'd urge a little more questioning of how the discoveries of science today >are likely to be used under our capitalist regime, based on the objective >evidence of the history of capitalist use of science. Yes, I agree, that the pressures that capitalism puts upon scientists to manipulate their data are profound - almost as bad as the kind of pressures that s ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Oct 22 11:02:25 PDT 2000

1913 Obviously (what's the Left problem with GM food?) -- rank: 1000

In message <F252CkWHZqYW8BYXifW00000baf at hotmail.com>, Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> writes >Very droll, Father Heartfield. What *is* religious is your bottomless faith >in the infallibility of science. Sorry, I know I swore off this thread but this is irritatingly silly. Carl's concatenation of science and religion works only on the level of rhetorical phrasing, but rapidly descends into meaninglessness once the terms are taken seriously. Because 'science' and 're ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Oct 22 06:52:40 PDT 2000

1914 Democratising Africa -- rank: 1000

The Week Ending 22 October 2000 Democratising Africa: 10 years on In October 1990 the expeditionary force of the Rwandan Patriotic Front into Rwanda was shattered by the superior forces of President Juvenal Habyarimana. The RPF's popular Commanding Officer Fred Rwigyema was killed early in the fighting, by a stray bullet, or executed by jealous rivals. RPF leader Paul Kagame cut short a visit to Fort Leavenworth in the USA to take command of the forces in the field. But in the next 10 years Kaga ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Oct 22 04:56:03 PDT 2000

1915 Class Struggles First! (was Re: Obviously...) -- rank: 1000

In message <39F1C8EE.C500081C at ilstu.edu>, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> writes >Come on James. Stop shooting fish in a barrel. Respond to Yoshie's development >of my initial point instead of focusing on what is (obviously) bizarre. Sorry, Carrol, missed that. Do you mean this one (my thoughts appended)? In message <v04210101b616929f5af5@[140.254.114.111]>, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> writes >Class struggles first, before the majority of people ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Oct 21 14:58:50 PDT 2000

1916 Obviously -- rank: 1000

In message <200010201904984.SM00134@[192.168.1.8]>, martin schiller <mschiller at mac.com> writes >Printing gave us racial hate literature, religious tracts furthering >intolerance, etc., from which spring wars and genocides. Which is bizarre. Nazis *burned* books and banned literature. The battle against intolerance starts with ideas. The prevention of literature invariably leads to burning people. > >The problems with plumbing and drains have caused far worse problems t ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Oct 21 02:18:09 PDT 2000

1917 Obviously (what's the Left problem with GM food?) -- rank: 1000

In message <5.0.0.25.0.20001021044141.01cb7800 at mail.apex.net.au>, Joanna Sheldon <cjs10 at cornell.edu> writes > Probably the major reason I don't > trust GM foods is because the science that's been done on genetic > modification is so obviously performed in the interests of capital > and capital alone.  Which is irrational, because all food is produced under capitalist conditions and there is no special reason to distrust GM food as any more or less capitalis ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Oct 21 01:58:43 PDT 2000

1918 Obviously -- rank: 1000

In message <20001020114344.SM00136@[192.168.1.8]>, martin schiller <mschiller at mac.com> writes > >Well, since you pose opposition, what is "better" because of human >"progress"? Or more succinctly, can you point out a global problem that >is not a direct result of human "progress"? Human existence is better because of progress. Printing presses, drains, indoor toilets, vaccinations, literacy and all those other things that make life worth l ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Oct 20 14:44:19 PDT 2000

1919 Progress, variations on. Re: Obviously (what's the Left problem with GM food?) -- rank: 1000

In message <39F0741F.21CDF458 at ilstu.edu>, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> writes >> >Most changes are >> >destructive. >> and >Things were certainly not better in Manchester in 1840 than they are in >(most of) NYC today. In fact it's hard to think any condition that is >not better than Manchester in 1840. Which, to my mind are contradictory statements. If most changes are destructive, one would expect change on the whole to make things worse. In wh ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Oct 20 14:50:02 PDT 2000

1920 Sardar Dam goes ahead (and the demise of the environment) -- rank: 1000

In message <01251FF6E3BCD21185740008C75DFC94048EC6C1 at NSSCZEUSEX6>, Mikalac Norman S NSSC <MikalacNS at NAVSEA.NAVY.MIL> writes >more people require more land use. more land use despoils the environment. This isn't empirically so. Global and use has been declining for more than twenty five years, while population has been increasing. Increasing yields mean that less land produces more. Another reason to endorse the application of biotechnology to food production. -- James Heart ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Oct 20 09:07:52 PDT 2000