Since my reputation is at stake, I'll have to risk being unsubbed:
> > God, what a sad load of shit. It's not a load of shit that you kicked me off your list for having criticized hitchens' defense of kerrey. I most certainly never "knew" that > Hitchens and Kilander were the same person, and I would be stunned if > anyone offered proof (beyond demented speculations) that this was the > case. i made an honest mistake, as i tried to explain. hitchens referred to "my website, httpL/peterk" and one of the first things to appear on that website was what seemed to be hitchens' *personal* correspondence in the making of his kissinger book. I thus jumped to the conclusion that hitchens used the name "peter k" for web purposes. > I did not throw Rakesh off lbo-talk for criticizing Hitchens; now this is demented. in fact peter k wrote me to tell me that he disagreed with your throwing me off the list--ask him. i have saved the post. in fact anyone who goes back and reads your archives from may will see a post in which you said that you were not going to pay for someone like me to impugn hitchens' motives and criticize someone you love (featherstone). i maintain that my disagreements with you over trade and social protection are purely political. for example, the criticisms that i put to you on pen-l are not idiosyncratic. they were based on having read through exchanges on the linkage in EPW, Antipode and other journals. I > booted an alias he was using to send hostile and insulting posts from > (some of which could have been a sound basis for a libel suit, in > fact), gimme a break. that's truly demented. when i accused you of being in the pay of unite, it was off list, and aside from hardly being a basis for a lawsuit, it was my way of trying to understand how someone so cosmopolitan could forget that the majority of third world trade unionists--unlike the few ones aligned with UNITE--was clearly opposed to the linkage between trade and labor rights. and i well tell you again that jan carowan was not me. he began as the voice of my H1-B visa fiber optic engineer cousin who wanted to school you about the new economy (in fact jan carowan did predict an upcoming high tech depression, but the high tech posts probably explains why he came off as a larouchian to carrol). then jan carowan was the voice of an elderly black woman who wanted a gore victory very badly. as for my own politics, they are clear: i was opposed to nader for having cozied up with the trade nationalists, and i gravitate towards the anti parliamentary left. so jan carowan was both arguing for a gore vote and abstention. it was just an email address that was used to get some perspectives out there. jan carowan--which was play on the words jain and caravan--was not only me, though yes the stuff about trade and labor rights was from my perspective. >but as Rakesh, I never threw him off and have on several > occasions said he's welcome back. I won't be saying that again, > though. doug, you did throw me off. i just don't see why you deny this. what's your problem? do you really want me to track down the posts? > Rakesh, see a shrink. You're too smart, and were once too likeable a > guy, to be circulating such nonsense. what nonsense exactly? Rakesh
