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10456 [lbo-talk] Speaking of Democrats standing up for principle -- rank: 1000

On Nov 4, 2007, at 11:27 AM, JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: > I'm curious whether anyone, including Moberg, believes that there is > somewhere in the range of the possible such a thing as a pro-labor > Democratic > president and Congress that would 'likely enact' anything like the > Employee Free > Choice Act. Yet another reason to mourn the absence of NEWMAN!

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Date:	Sun Nov 4 18:46:21 PST 2007

10457 [lbo-talk] Surmounting Sectarianism in the Middle East and the West -- rank: 1000

On Nov 4, 2007, at 1:05 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Of course, there are also opportunist leftists (NGO beneficiaries and > Marxists-turned-liberals) We are very familiar with your positions on this issue. I approved this one, but that's the last time. I've given it a rest; you should too. Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 4 18:26:42 PST 2007

10458 [lbo-talk] Tactless question -- rank: 1000

On Nov 4, 2007, at 6:39 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > Okay, who's Katha Pollitt's philandering ex-boyfriend, the > guy she calls the "last Marxist"? Paul Mattick Jr.

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Date:	Sun Nov 4 18:21:27 PST 2007

10459 [lbo-talk] 'American kids, dumber than dirt' -- rank: 1000

On Nov 4, 2007, at 7:05 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Yes. But it's based on education not on riches. No, it's based on family and cultural affinities. In the right- populist handbook, it's ok to be rich as long as you're not a snob. Snob = effete = intellectual. ("An effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals," as Safire had Agnew say.) > And in this case, once you see it's based on education level (or on > the > habitus that goes with it), ...

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10460 [lbo-talk] fine interview, Mr. Henwood! -- rank: 1000

On Nov 4, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Sunday 04 November 2007 09:27:35 Doug Henwood wrote: >> Of course, WS does usually have more Dems than most other >> business sectors. > > Why is that, do you think? Not a rhetorical question. Is it just that > they have a good eye for a bargain? High number of Jews, and they're often social liberals (even the goyim, not just the Jews). If you go back to the 30s, the Dems were the party of internationalism and the Re ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 4 17:38:48 PST 2007

10461 [lbo-talk] 'American kids, dumber than dirt' -- rank: 1000

On Nov 3, 2007, at 6:33 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>> I think this is why this British term doesn't fly in an American >>> context. It's the flipside of our having no class consciousness. >> >> The feminization of Kerry in the '04 campaign was a class insult, >> even >> though Bush was less of an athlete and just as upper crust. > > But that's just the point -- it's not a class insult because it > ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 4 06:38:27 PST 2007

10462 [lbo-talk] fine interview, Mr. Henwood! -- rank: 1000

On Nov 4, 2007, at 8:27 AM, ulisse mangialaio wrote: > I have a question. there was much talk of wall street being against > the Iraq invasion, then we read that Alan Greenspan kind of > encouraged it (not so much to get oil, but to get a firmer grip of > its market, as David Harvey first, to my knowledge, suggested). > ok, wall street is kind of pragmatically nihilist, that is pro- > winners and against loosers. and still, if the Fed Chairman, > especially such a partisan c ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 4 06:27:35 PST 2007

10463 [lbo-talk] fine interview, Mr. Henwood! -- rank: 1000

On Nov 4, 2007, at 7:48 AM, Andy F wrote: > On 11/4/07, ulisse mangialaio <ulisse_mangialaio at yahoo.it> wrote: >> it was a pleasant surprise to open "il manifesto" and read your >> full page, excellent interview to marco d'eramo about the >> political economy of the next us presidential election. > > Is there an English language version? On Marco's tape. There's a teaser for the Italian version at: <http://www.ilmanifesto.it/ricerca/ric_view.php3?p ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 4 05:30:38 PST 2007

10464 [lbo-talk] fine interview, Mr. Henwood! -- rank: 1000

On Nov 4, 2007, at 6:44 AM, ulisse mangialaio wrote: > it was a pleasant surprise to open "il manifesto" and read your > full page, excellent interview to marco d'eramo about the political > economy of the next us presidential election. Ah, it appeared! I didn't know what he was going to do with it. Is it a transcript, or did he write it up as an article? Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 4 04:51:47 PST 2007

10465 [lbo-talk] 'American kids, dumber than dirt' -- rank: 1000

On Nov 3, 2007, at 1:09 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > I think this is why this British term doesn't fly in an American > context. > It's the flipside of our having no class consciousness. The feminization of Kerry in the '04 campaign was a class insult, even though Bush was less of an athlete and just as upper crust. I don't really get what Brits mean by "cunt." There's a line in the Sex Pistols documentary, one of them saying, "We were the first to call each other cunts ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 3 11:12:31 PDT 2007

10466 [lbo-talk] don't silence Bob Avakian! huh? -- rank: 1000

There's a full-page ad in the NY Review of Books, signed by the likes of Drucilla Cornell and Michael Eric Dyson, demanding that Bob Avakian not be silenced. They don't specify the nature of the threat against Cde Avakian's bold voice. Anyone have any insight? Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 2 19:41:35 PDT 2007

10467 [lbo-talk] Dems stand up for principle -- rank: 1000

On Nov 2, 2007, at 7:04 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Friday 02 November 2007 18:08:17 Miles Jackson wrote: >> Doug Henwood wrote: >>> NEWS ALERT >>> from The Wall Street Journal >>> >>> Oct. 2, 2007 >>> >>> Two senior Senate Democrats threw their support behind Michael B. >>> Mukasey's nomination to head the Justice Department, turning the >>> tide >>> and likely assuring his confirmation. Sens. Schumer an ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 2 17:34:56 PDT 2007

10468 [lbo-talk] Dems stand up for principle -- rank: 1000

On Nov 2, 2007, at 6:08 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > You know, it would almost be entertaining to have Nathan Newman (or as > Max calls him, "NEWMAN!") on the list again, just to see what > justification he could cook up for this weak-ass Dem capitulation. > But > then, I'm easily entertained. As I recall, Nathan denounced the mandated purchase of health insurance as a nefarious scheme. Now, all the mainstream Dems are embracing it. Wonder how he'd spin that! Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 2 17:34:01 PDT 2007

10469 [lbo-talk] Dems stand up for principle -- rank: 1000

NEWS ALERT from The Wall Street Journal Oct. 2, 2007 Two senior Senate Democrats threw their support behind Michael B. Mukasey's nomination to head the Justice Department, turning the tide and likely assuring his confirmation. Sens. Schumer and Feinstein said fixing problems and repairing morale at the Justice Department are more important than settling larger political disputes. Concerns over Mukasey's views on torture, surveillance and presidential power had begun weighing down a nominat ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 2 14:37:43 PDT 2007

10470 [lbo-talk] Jann Wenner thinks big... -- rank: 1000

...on the occasion of Rolling Stone's 40th anniversary (!): <http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/FineOnMedia/archives/2007/11/ an_in-depth_int.html> The Internet . . . I don t know that it s primarily a medium, in the sense that it s primarily a transactional service and media delivery system. My formulation is this: Rolling Stone represents a really good idea of a brand, concept, whatever you want to call it. Community, any one of those buzzwords. You can integrate the Internet into ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 2 11:19:45 PDT 2007