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2431 GM Food/Monsanto/Rachel's Environmental Weekly -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.NEB.4.05.9902270343030.18447-100000 at panix7.panix.com>, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> writes Quoting Rachel's Weekly: >It won't be easy. In Ireland, Great Britain, France and India, >farmer-led uprisings have burned and destroyed Monsanto's test >plots. There have been no farmer-led uprising in Britain against Monsanto. There have been farmer-led uprisings. Last year farmers protested in their tens of thousands against a ban on fox-hunting proposed ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 27 05:01:25 PST 1999

2432 Genetically Modified (GM) Food -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.ULT.3.91.990221224617.27513A-100000 at cumsl.ctr.columbia. edu>, Joseph E. Moryl <joe at cumsl.ctr.columbia.edu> writes quoting Nick Cohen in the Guardian newspaper on GM Food > The dopey British had >finally woken up to the implications of genetically modified food, >the alarming nature of which had already caused riots from India to >France. .......... > Yesterday Tony Blair, shaken by the >spectacle of the many sticking their noses into the busin ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 26 19:26:21 PST 1999

2433 Anti Isreal = Anti-Semetism? -- rank: 1000

In message <02d501be590d$7690ca80$9dbb8482 at nsn2>, Nathan Newman <nathan.newman at yale.edu> writes >Israel has more failings in some areas, but also has some better attributes >such as voting rights and basic civil liberties for minorities within its >regular borders. It is a democracy - however flawed - which is more than >one can say about any of the surrounding states, save ironically the >Palestianian Authority. The trouble with the check-list approach to Isra ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 19 15:45:31 PST 1999

2434 Ideological Funhouse: Rightwingers defending Hitchens from Antisemite Charge -- rank: 1000

In message <001c01be57df$e0438f00$9eba8482 at nsn2>, Nathan Newman <nathan.newman at yale.edu> writes >BTW aside from Hitchen's usual iconoclasm in praising a devil (Irving) to >bash a media icon (Goldhagen), Hitchens Holocaust comments seemed quite >reasonable. Hitchens point that Hitler and the Nazis never received an >electoral majority and their vote was falling when Hitler seized power >serves Hitchens broader point of arguing that evil is not some sort of >s ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 14 02:59:55 PST 1999

2435 Serbia -- rank: 1000

In message <36C0EF65.5A9199C2 at lor.net>, Tom Lehman <TLEHMAN at lor.net> writes >It's interesting that Christopher Hitchens beat the Nation's drum for >sending American troops into Bosnia. I'm still convinced that he and >Mr.Blumenthal will have enough money after their little spat to open a >nation wide chain of Tuxedo stores---Chris and Sid's Formal Wear. That's my point of departure from the Hitchens camp - not the other thing. In 1993 I was at a conference in New Y ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 10 15:58:43 PST 1999

2436 activist Hitchens -- rank: 1000

In message <19990209.133638.-106913.1.alexlocascio at juno.com>, Alex LoCascio <alexlocascio at juno.com> writes >I'm not an expert on the arcana of British Trotskyism, but weren't >Hitchy-poo and brother members of an ISO forerunner, rather than the ISO >proper? This IS arcana, but in England the ISO is the forerunner organisation to the SWP (which is a different organisation in the US). Or perhaps it would be mroe accurate to say 'the international socialists' since they w ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 10 00:46:06 PST 1999

2437 activist Hitchens -- rank: 1000

Christopher Hitchens, along with his brother Peter was a member of the hyper activist International Socialist Organisation for some years. From what we know of that organisation he would have been on every picket line in a hundred mile radius. In message <19990209.113208.-70193.0.alexlocascio at juno.com>, Alex LoCascio <alexlocascio at juno.com> writes > > >On Tue, 9 Feb 1999 13:33:12 EST Apsken at aol.com writes: >>but what has he evercontributed to any mass struggle ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 9 11:57:49 PST 1999

2438 Times article -- rank: 1000

In the London Times today February 9 1999 OPINION James Heartfield 'Flirtation is often a component part of teaching methods - it's certainly one way to capture the attention of bored students' THERE is no pleasure so great, according to Confucius, as watching a man fall off a roof. Schadenfreude is as natural a human emotion as love. So one can forgive the teaching unions their moment of pleasure at the discomfiture of Chris Woodhead. The Chief Inspector of Schools' comments, which appeared to ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 8 18:56:36 PST 1999

2439 Rule of Law -- rank: 1000

In message <000c01be5326$f31bca60$4e889ad1 at default>, Daniel <drdq at m5.sprynet.com> writes > Monica >was not the victim Well, I don't approve of victim politics, but in strictly human terms I would say that yes, she did get a rough ride. Of course she is an adult and had her own choices to make which is why this is not a harrassment case (though by the same light nor was Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas). But if you are asking who was treated badly, Bill's behaviour to Monica was ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 8 16:03:15 PST 1999

2440 Hitchens Turns GOP stool pigeon -- rank: 1000

I don't support the Clinton trial, but I just don't share Nathan's sense of loyalty to Clinton and the Whitehouse. This administration seems to be as reactionary as any that recent American history has seen. Successive military operations against defenceless civilians in Iraq, the bombing of the camps in the Sudan, the summary execution of the followers of David Koresh... What's to defend? The right of the president's spin doctors to blacken the reputation of an employee as a 'stalker'. And shou ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 7 09:56:16 PST 1999

2441 From a Tory, yet! -- rank: 1000

In message <v04011718b2dfaa922bf2@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Carl Remick wrote: > >>News item in today's UK Telegraph: >> >>Hague calls for halt on 'Frankenstein foods' >>The [UK] Government was last night under growing pressure to halt, or >>slow down, the development of genetically modified food after William >>Hague, the Tory leader, backed demands for a moratorium. Campaigners >>against the so-ca ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 7 07:53:11 PST 1999

2442 Mindspring censorship (Over-limit, but it's really important) -- rank: 1000

In message <36BCEB37.4830EEDE at mail.ilstu.edu>, Carrol Cox <cbcox at mail.ilstu.edu> writes >Let's put it this way. A working class (or fraction of a class) that does not >defend the unhassled right of women to abortion (with no moral nagging) is a >pretty damn worthless working class and will never be able to confront >capital. Carrol puts this very well. However, the question of censorship is also one that is important to the consolidation of a popular movement. A wor ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 7 05:51:10 PST 1999

2443 Hussein of Jordan -- rank: 1000

Obituary King Hussein's Black September No Middle Eastern ruler more obviously personified the defeat of Arab nationalism than King Hussein Ibn Talal of Jordan did. Trained at Sandhurst's military academy, Hussein was thrust onto the throne by his British sponsors. His father Talal had been crowned in 1951 following the assassination of Hussein's grandfather, but Talal's anti-British policy meant that he was forced to abdicate on grounds of insanity. The little English soldier was made King on c ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 7 05:41:49 PST 1999

2444 Himmelfarb erupts -- rank: 1000

In message <v04011716b2e0e05151b7@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Himmelfarb's own academic >expertise is social policy; her schtick seems to be recommending a return >to good old Victorian values. Amazon lists 23 titles under her name. Loathsome though she is, her book on the motivations of the early British welfare pioneers is very good. She digs up loads of great stuff about how the Fabians were galvanised by fantastic visions of an undercl ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 5 11:33:30 PST 1999

2445 butlering along -- rank: 1000

In message <XFMail.990203215045.cgrimes at tsoft.com>, Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at tsoft.com> writes > Unfortunately, my interest is not >for what she has to say, but why she chose Hegel as a foil. I am still trying to work out what Butler's critique of Hegel's Master- slave dialectic is. Can anyone help? I can see that she does not like the psychological portrait of the unhappy consciousness, but what is it she does not like about it? -- Jim heartfield

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