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2371 katie roiphe -- rank: 1000

In message <v04011701b3881d2aca20@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes > But the woman is an idiot. She knows nothing about feminism and, >at least in conversation, she doesn't seem all that bright. >From which we can surmise that you haven't read The Morning After, or Last Night in Paradise. I have. And I can confirm that both are streets ahead of anything else I've read on sexual politics in ten years. She certainly does know about feminism, which ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Jun 12 09:36:49 PDT 1999

2372 Will NATO bomb in future? -- rank: 1000

Clearly the Western powers will, in whatever political guise they don at that moment, bomb again. The reasons that they bombed in the first place are only tangentially related to the particular region this war was conducted in. The pressure towards so-called 'humanitarian intervention' comes from within the West - it does not arise in the places that get volunteered for a show of force. This war has been going on for nearly a decade now. It has relocated from Iraq to Bosnia, to Somalia, to Haiti ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Jun 12 09:09:16 PDT 1999

2373 US SECRET POLICE EPISODES -- rank: 1000

Doug is right on the Kennedy myth. Noam Chomsky blew this one out of the water in his book 'Rethinking Camelot' (?) which was published around the time of the Oliver Stone film on the assassination. Chomsky does his usual diligent job of mobilising every scrap of evidence to show, beyond doubt, that Kennedy was a hawk on Vietnam. As I remember it, Chomsky credits Arthur Schlesinger as the originator of the myth of Kennedy's reluctance over Vietnam. Much avoidance of the obvious conclusion on Ken ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Jun 12 06:17:10 PDT 1999

2374 katie roiphe -- rank: 1000

In message <01beb42d$725a4880$4896e5cf at peterk.enteract.com>, Peter Kilander <peterk at enteract.com> writes >kelley: >>Perhaps some of the boys on the list can speak to her allure; it's always >>eluded me and I don't think I need to get catty. > > >James Hearfield, inquiring minds want to know! I can't speak to her allure, personally. But I happily insist that both of Roiphe's books, The Morning After and Last Night in Paradise are amongst the best written ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Jun 12 06:08:17 PDT 1999

2375 Three pre-occupation theses on Kosovo- evaulating the results -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.2.32.19990731200522.013e74b0 at pop.gn.apc.org>, Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> writes >One of my differences with the left opportunist line is over the role of >the state. For some it is enough to be a marxist to oppose everything that >your imperialist government may do. That is not the marxist theory of the >state. A ruling class cannot hold state power without at times having to >promote an agenda that appears to stand above classes, is ethi ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Jul 31 14:16:13 PDT 1999

2376 Labour Party and the Unions -- rank: 1000

In message <002001bedb8d$635d8ea0$d818c897 at sawicky.bellatlantic.net>, Max B. Sawicky <sawicky at epinet.org> writes >. . . After the Labour Party's defeat in 1979, union leaders' disappointed >by >the leadership declined to restrain the left of the party, who briefly >imposed their own bizarre vision of a return to the 1945 government on >the manifesto. After the electorate rubbished this exercise in left >nostalgia, the project of modernising labour was quietly ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Jul 31 13:58:49 PDT 1999

2377 Ireland no Celtic Tiger -- rank: 1000

Inside the Celtic Tiger: The Irish Economy and the Asian Model, Denis O'Hearn, Pluto Press, 1998 American Investment Bank Morgan Stanley first suggested that Ireland had become a Celtic Tiger, citing impressive growth figures in the first half of the 1990s (Kevin Gardiner, 'The Irish Economy: a Celtic tiger', MS Euroletter, 31 August 1994). In 1996 the Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond embarrassed the British government with by eliciting figures from the House of Commons Library to the ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Jul 31 10:03:12 PDT 1999

2378 Labour Party and the Unions -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.NEB.4.10.9907310213060.25510-100000 at panix6.panix.com>, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> writes > > >Wasn't there a time within his very long living memory when the British >Labor Party was actually controlled by the unions? The Labour party was never controlled by union members. It was controlled by the officers of the union is the period from around the turn of the century when the union bureaucracy first established the Labour Representation Com ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Jul 31 03:36:54 PDT 1999

2379 Three pre-occupation theses on Kosovo- evaulating the results -- rank: 1000

Taking up Nathan's challenge: Prediction one: I certainly never supported the proposition that 'an air war can't be won', which smacked to me of a confused criticism because it only suggested that a worse conclusion, a land war, ought to be engaged. I'm not sure that the vindication of the might of the USAF is something that progressives should be supporting. Hey, if aerial bombardment works, why not bomb Cuba, whose anti-Gay laws are indeed repressive? Prediction two: If the bombing did lead to ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Jul 30 09:07:20 PDT 1999

2380 ***** war in the English countryside -- rank: 1000

Chris' embrace of the cause of Lord Melchett (and Prince Charles) is really sad. These upper crust activists are just small-minded farmers who don't like the opposition from more efficient US firms. The rates of pay on the organic farms of Melchett and Windsor are positively feudal. Melchett used to be a Labour minister in that deeply conservative Labour cabinet of Jim Callaghan ('vote for the party of the family'). Nowadays Melchett says that he has lost faith in parliament and prefers direct a ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Jul 30 06:42:56 PDT 1999

2381 Hebron-Kosovo comparison -- rank: 1000

In message <083701beda1a$41575580$bcf48482 at nsn2>, Nathan Newman <nathan.newman at yale.edu> writes > >Well, in Hebron and a number of other towns in the Palestinian Mandate in >the 20s and 30s, Palestinians murdered Jews. We can also point to other >"tit-for-tat" between the communities over the years throughout the >centuries in the Islamic world (with more tats against the Jews in fact.) > Yet I find no justification for the Israeli expulsion and ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Jul 30 06:13:12 PDT 1999

2382 Labor Theory of Value: Social Labor -- rank: 1000

In message <v02130500630bd4c3890b@[128.112.71.68]>, Rakesh Bhandari <bhandari at phoenix.Princeton.EDU> writes >My objection to Jim H and Joe was their starting point: labor privately >undertaken socialized ex post facto in and through the market. But that was never anyone's starting point. -- Jim heartfield

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Jul 28 06:34:00 PDT 1999

2383 Teachers and productive labor -- rank: 1000

In message <2.2.16.19990127163955.46675ede at pop.igc.org>, Roger Odisio <rodisio at igc.org> writes >You can find Marx's discussion in Volume I of Theories of Surplus Value, >starting about p. 390 (Progress Publishers, 1962-4. Sorry I don't have that >with me to be more precise), and in Vol.I of Capital, Part V, Chapter XVI, >where, for example, you will find this passage: Marx may have been influenced by these passages from the Rev. Richard Jones: 'Division of Labourer ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Jan 27 18:10:18 PST 1999

2384 Patriotic Nylon and Epistemological Rockets -- rank: 1000

In message <XFMail.990125192726.cgrimes at tsoft.com>, Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at tsoft.com> writes > What is selected >to study, what is selected to develop, what direction those choices >take, and finally how we decide among equal scientific truths, which >is more important to know, are all determined through the history and >socio-political context. And of course all that is driven by cash >flow. Right? Well, I didn't expect them to be decided by the toss of a coi ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Jan 25 23:44:05 PST 1999

2385 Britain's low rates of investment -- rank: 1000

Looking at the news that the British Economy has not gone into recession, I found these figures illustrating the historically low levels of British investment. Presumably this absence of industrial development is the reason that the Government is currently promoting British pop music and arts. Private Gross Fixed Capital Formation (Less Dwellings) as a percentage of GDP. In Millions, Current Prices PGCF GDP % 1989 74,306 511,889 15% 1990 77,385 554,486 14% 1991 70 ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Jan 26 00:10:49 PST 1999