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10066 [lbo-talk] new spirit of capitalism -- rank: 1000

On Oct 8, 2007, at 5:08 PM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > On 10/8/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:That's a strange > characterization, which would have looked even > >> stranger had you preserved the bit immediately following where I >> praised the CPUSA. Or do you think the CP was a CIA front because >> Langley bought so many subscriptions to the Daily Worker? > > > The tactic of reducing your opponent to a cartoonish amalgam of Bad > Things & ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 8 15:00:48 PDT 2007

10067 [lbo-talk] blacks shun military -- rank: 1000

On Oct 8, 2007, at 5:50 PM, John Thornton wrote: > I don't know why the Navy is so much lower than the other branches. Isn't the Navy the snootiest of the branches?

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Date:	Mon Oct 8 14:04:37 PDT 2007

10068 [lbo-talk] Dependency Theory vs. Liberalism (was Japan as Heuristic) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 8, 2007, at 4:18 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi quoted: Some excerpts from Val Moghadam's "Socialism or Anti-Imperialism? The Left and Revolution in Iran," New Left Review I/166, November- December 19 <http://newleftreview.org/?view=1013>, including this: > And for the Tudeh Party, the fundamental objective was a national > democratic revolution based on anti-imperialism and the breaking of > bonds of dependency. Curiously, the very next sentence, which you do not quote, r ...

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10069 [lbo-talk] Volunteering -- rank: 1000

On Oct 8, 2007, at 3:25 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > While we are at that, I recall results form another survey some > time ago > (GSS?) showing that unions are among the least trusted institutions > in this > country, far below churches, the military or even the police. Gallup, probably. They ask the question yearly. Here's the latest, ranked by the sum of "great deal/quite a lot" of confidence. At least unions beat HMOs. The police are more trusted than churches! D ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 8 12:58:42 PDT 2007

10070 [lbo-talk] new spirit of capitalism -- rank: 1000

On Oct 7, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: Some stuff that made me wonder: Why "Lenin's Tomb"? A crypt doesn't seem a very alluring place, for either writer or reader.

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Date:	Mon Oct 8 11:44:13 PDT 2007

10071 [lbo-talk] blacks shun military -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] BLACK RECRUITMENT TO ARMY PLUMMETS BOSTON GLOBE - African-Americans, whose longstanding relationship with the US military helped them prove their abilities and offered a way to get ahead, have turned away from the armed forces in record numbers since 2000, a period covering the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the start of the Iraq war. Defense Department statistics show the number of young black enlistees has fallen by more than 58 percent since f ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 8 11:24:51 PDT 2007

10072 [lbo-talk] new spirit of capitalism -- rank: 1000

On Oct 7, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > On 10/7/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> >> You're turning into some weird hybrid of Louis Farrakhan, Thomas >> Byrne Edsall, Christopher Lasch, and Todd Gitlin, all wrapped up in a >> hijab. What is the point of this? We should try to recover some race- >> segregated patriarchal nuclear family world because it's more >> organic? Because it provides a better basis of resistance to > ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 8 11:24:05 PDT 2007

10073 [lbo-talk] stupid press release of the day: terrorists agree: Hillary in '08! -- rank: 1000

It's official: Terrorists endorse Hillary in '08 On the record, Mideast jihadi leaders say she's the best hope for victory in Iraq For interviews contact: Maria Sliwa, M. Sliwa Public Relations, 973-272-2861 / 212-202-4453 or msliwa at msliwa.com WASHINGTON -- With presidential primaries approaching and the race for the White House heating up, Muslim terrorist leaders in the Middle East have offered their endorsement for America's highest office, stating in a new book they hope Sen. Hillary ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 8 07:21:55 PDT 2007

10074 [lbo-talk] Reps the seculars, Dems the pious -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=3695418&page=1> GOP Candidates Given a Run for Religious Voters Democratic '08ers Are Opening Up About Religion and Faith By RICK KLEIN and JENNIFER PARKER Oct. 8, 2007 If religion is a top-tier issue for Republican voters, somebody forgot to tell the party's top contenders. Among the White House hopefuls, the Democratic candidates are talking more about their faith -- and engaging in more early outreach to religious voters -- than R ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 8 07:10:34 PDT 2007

10075 [lbo-talk] antiwar candidate -- rank: 1000

<http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/10/gov-bill-richar.html> "What they are talking about -- what Senator Clinton is talking about is she's cautious. It's a calculating message. I am decisive. I say that I will get all of our troops out, no residual forces within a year of my presidency," he said. "The time has come not to change the mission, as Senator Obama and Clinton want to do, but to end the war." Richardson expressed his support for a resolution ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 8 06:57:22 PDT 2007

10076 [lbo-talk] Hitchens gets waxed (and not for the first time) -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - October 8, 2007 Just Say Ouch PITY Christopher Hitchens. Not because he is going to hell for his attacks on Mother Teresa. Not because his liberal friends despise his support for the war against terrorism. Pity him because he just had all his pubic hair pulled off. Hitchens, who's writing a three-part series in Vanity Fair on self-improvement, visited the J Sisters on Friday for a full male Brazilian bikini wax, which his editor-in- chief Graydon Carter gleefully ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 8 06:23:46 PDT 2007

10077 [lbo-talk] Pelosi prays for Bush and the children -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1007/6227.html> Pelosi prays for Bush to change policies By: Josh Kraushaar Oct 7, 2007 04:04 PM EST Pelosi disagrees with party's major Democratic hopefuls on continued U.S. troop presence in Iraq in 2013. Photo: AP SAVE Digg del.icio.us Technorati reddit SHARE COMMENT PRINT EMAIL RECOMMEND House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Sunday that she prays for President Bush to change his policies "all the time," and has specifically prayed ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 8 06:00:54 PDT 2007

10078 [lbo-talk] Sam Gindin on GM-UAW deal -- rank: 1000

[Sam Gindin, who collaborates frequently with Leo Panitch, now teaches at York; for many years, he was economic advisor to the Canadian Autoworkers Union. Circulated with his permission.] One Sided Class War: The UAW-GM 2007 Negotiations Sam Gindin In 1978, then United Auto Worker (UAW) President Douglas Fraser, frustrated with corporate America s new aggressiveness, accused US business of waging a one-sided class war against working people, the unemployed, the poor, the minorities, the ve ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 7 18:02:05 PDT 2007

10079 [lbo-talk] new spirit of capitalism -- rank: 1000

On Oct 7, 2007, at 3:12 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > This is the sort of thing I mean when I say that Doug is unable to > respond to an argument but almost always prefers rather to attack the > other person. And of course it also exhibits his frequent inability to > be honest in his presentation of a position he attacks. Carrol, you always object when someone, especially me, makes generalizations about "the left." When Yoshie does it, it's ok. So obviously you're not immune to ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 7 17:54:40 PDT 2007

10080 [lbo-talk] new spirit of capitalism -- rank: 1000

On Oct 7, 2007, at 6:53 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > 2. Elimination of de jure discrimination does away with the material > basis that united upper and lower classes and strata of each oppressed > community. > Therefore, leftists do ourselves no favor, for instance, by forgetting > the fact that families, for the working class, have been units of > survival in the face of, and sometimes resistance to, capital as well > as sites of gender, sexual, and other oppressions. Atom ...

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