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1936 Reply to Nathan -- rank: 1000

In message <009f01c036c8$b553c8e0$ce99fea9 at 7zig1>, Nathan Newman <nathan at newman.org> writes >To argue that the Peace Process was nothing but violence for the >Palestinians is reductionist in the extreme. It did not match all the >aspirations or just settlement of issues either, but the Oslo process had >brought not just transfers of control of large swathes of territory to >democratic control by the Palestinian Authority - frankly setting the stage >for the p ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Oct 18 03:48:55 PDT 2000

1937 Robert Southey, Peasants, & Radical Protests against the Anti-Jacobin War -- rank: 1000

In message <v04210101b6118e107bac@[140.254.114.37]>, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> writes >"Robert Southey and the Politics of Heroism" Goods essay from Mr Evans. Raymond Williams (less read than he used to be) is quite good on this period. I think it was Williams who told the story of Coleridge's comment on Southey 'Southey will be read when Shakespeare is forgotten' - which has to be read twice to get its real meaning. -- James Heartfield

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Oct 17 06:09:35 PDT 2000

1938 Obviously (what's the Left problem with GM food?) -- rank: 1000

The way I see it the left's problem with GM food is not really about GM food, but about the left. Genetic modification could be a good or a bad thing, depending on the use to which it was put. Doubtless if it was done recklessly, with real risk then that would be a bad thing, but what risks there are seem so wildly overstated that it is hard to find a convincing example of that. The left's accommodation to its own lowered horizons has led us to substitute the socialist critique of capitalism wit ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Oct 17 04:20:13 PDT 2000

1939 RES: Said on American Zionism -- rank: 1000

In message <39EBE11E.DBC25600 at winternet.com>, / dave / <arouet at winternet.com> writes >brettk at unicacorp.com wrote: > >> Why should people in the US feel responsible for the holocaust? The >> Nazi's, not the Americans, were exterminating Jews. I've never understood >> this position. I agree. I think that all that phoney guilt about the holocaust is, as Freud would say, just self-indulgence. In message <a0431010bb6113a2510b3@[128.32.105.161]>, Br ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Oct 17 06:19:23 PDT 2000

1940 guns & purses (was Re: guns & crime) -- rank: 1000

> >``Why, it's time for gun-loving men to start carrying a purse.'' >Yoshie Now this is a case for Freudian analysis. Stand and deliver! In his book Militarism and Anti-Militarism, Karl Liebknicht made the case for the legalisation of firearms as a democratic demand. If the people are armed then the state has lost its monopoly on the means of force. I guess the American example shows that the ideological grip of the powers-that-be over the masses means that the literal monopoly of force ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Oct 17 06:26:26 PDT 2000

1941 New Economy, Mid East -- rank: 1000

The Week ending 15 October 2000 Living on Hot Air New technology market Nasdaq nose-dived 27 per cent over the month, before making a mild recovery on Friday, raising fears that the new economy bubble had finally burst. There are two very different internets. The first is the technological internet - actually a metaphor for a great number of telephone calls, re-routed through visual displays. The economic potential of this internet is considerable but largely under-utilised. New technologies cou ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Oct 15 03:51:27 PDT 2000

1942 Memory and History: Power and Identity -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.PMDF.3.96.1001011180828.538993558A- 100000 at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>, Dennis R Redmond <dredmond at oregon.uoregon.edu> writes > >My only qualification on the Evil Empire thesis is that it's outdated; >Japan and the EU are the paymasters and industrial metropoles of the >world right now. Somewhat overstated. The US remains the largest economy in the World, the most significant military power, and, as they never stop telling us, the paymaster of the significa ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Oct 12 13:41:55 PDT 2000

1943 Grrrl Power and Diminished Expectations -- rank: 1000

In message <5.0.0.25.2.20001011143810.0246ac90 at mail.gte.net>, kelley <kwalker2 at gte.net> writes >anyone have access to pay inequality among women in the UK? I have a heap of newspaper cuttings. You might be able to trace them back to their internet versions: Guardian (www.newsunlimited.co.uk) 'Pay gap between sexes narrows' 'Minimum wage gives women's earnings biggest boost for a decade as average earnings top 20 000 [sterling]' Charlotte Denny and Lucy Ward, 15 October 1999 ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Oct 12 08:08:56 PDT 2000

1944 Modern John Brown: Herbert Aptheker -- rank: 1000

In message <a9.c220f3a.27153411 at aol.com>, JKSCHW at aol.com writes >In his misspent radical youth, he wrote a good book on US Labor and American >Foreign Policy that is still worth reading. --jks Justin, does this go into the collaboration between the CIA and the AFL in rebuilding Europe's postwar labour movement? In message <s9e448a6.062 at mail.ci.detroit.mi.us>, Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> writes >I don't know anybody radical who thinks Gunn ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Oct 11 10:14:51 PDT 2000

1945 Latest views on Baran? -- rank: 1000

I took a lazy sideswipe at Baran and Sweezy's Monopoly Capitalism in my pamphlet Need and Desire (1998), cribbed mostly from Paul Mattick, Istvan Meszaros (Power of Ideology) and the late Geoff Pilling (Philosophy of Marx's Capital). As I remember it the Baran-Sweezy theory of growth was abstracted from its character as capital accumulation, they arguing that the surplus could be considered apart from its character as surplus value. The Meszaros/Pilling critique was that Baran-Sweezy's was simpl ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Oct 11 10:10:53 PDT 2000

1946 Modern John Brown: Herbert Aptheker -- rank: 1000

I remember reading around the research project that became Gunnar Myrdal's big book on race. I think Aptheker was initially involved in some of the research but then witch-hunted out. He wrote an (intemperate, IMHO) critique of Myrdal. In message <s9e37565.056 at mail.ci.detroit.mi.us>, Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> writes > > > >From: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net> >-clip- > > To say a word in Aptheker's defense, at least ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Oct 10 15:50:22 PDT 2000

1947 Nut Casey -- rank: 1000

I see now the law of diminishing returns in this exchange. The subject was never Rwanda, Milosevic or 'the left', but Ego O'Casey's own overwhelming interest, himself. Those piles of corpses were never of any real interest to Nut Casey except as backdrop to his own mediocre attempt at self-dramatising pomposity. May he and his ego be very happy together. The relevant parts of Ego's mail being the following succession of smug self-indulgence: In message <33.b2512c9.2711c288 at aol.com>, Leo ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Oct 8 14:52:43 PDT 2000

1948 Leo's fantasy debate -- rank: 1000

In message <3d.1e2cb19.27113aa5 at aol.com>, LeoCasey at aol.com writes >The Heartfield-Yoshie tag team: > > >When you are alibi-ing, you have to get your stories together. In Leo's paranoid delusional state, the fact that Yoshie did not agree with him meant that she was in collusion with me. Well, I have nothing but respect for the Yoshie I know through her eloquent postings on this list, but we have never met, nor collaborated, nor colluded in any way. If Yoshie and I disagre ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Oct 8 02:27:59 PDT 2000

1949 Leo flips his lid -- rank: 1000

I think that Leo must have flipped his lid. What his bizarre rant has to do with anything I said is a mystery to me. Leo says >as if there was a serious, >thoughtful position (in defense of Slobbo, in excuse of Rwandan genocide, and >so on) we are debating, we give them a credence we should not. Well, I can only agree. There is no rational defence to be made of the tinpot nationalist Slobodan Milosovic, nor for ethnic slaughter in Rwanda. In fact, nobody that I am aware of has made any ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Oct 7 15:58:57 PDT 2000

1950 indulging a fetish -- rank: 1000

In message <p04330112b603a6122bfa@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes > >Ok, here's why I like polls. Several reasons. One, I like watching >how ideology is constructed, and polls are a fascinating way of >defining the parameters of thought in the act of measuring them. Two, >they do offer insights, on occasion, into how the masses think. >Three, there's enough Mencken in me to view U.S. politics as >entertainment, and polls are part of ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Oct 6 09:22:43 PDT 2000