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10561 [lbo-talk] missing hegemon at the CFR -- rank: 1000

On May 23, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> Eh? How do you figure that? The subtext was that the invasion of Iraq >> was in no small part responsible for the U.S.'s weakened political >> position and the widespread antagonism towards us. Fixing that >> situation, insofar as it can be fixed at all, requires making nice >> with the rest of the world. > > It does not follow from this ("the invasion of Iraq was in no sm ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 23 12:16:58 PDT 2007

10562 [lbo-talk] some economists explain 10,000 years of human history -- rank: 1000

"A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History" NBER Working Paper No. W12795 Contact: DOUGLASS C. NORTH Washington University, St. Louis - Department of Economics Email: DNorth at WUSTL.EDU Auth-Page: http://ssrn.com/author=1495 Co-Author: JOHN JOSEPH WALLIS University of Maryland - Department of Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Email: wallis at econ.umd.edu Auth-Page: http://ssrn.com/author=230873 Co-Author: BARRY R. WEINGAST Stanford Uni ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 23 11:31:47 PDT 2007

10563 [lbo-talk] You just can't make this shit up... -- rank: 1000

On May 23, 2007, at 1:39 PM, ravi quoted: > Al Hurra television, the U.S. government's $63 million-a-year effort > at public diplomacy broadcasting in the Middle East, is run by > executives and officials who cannot speak Arabic, according to a > senior official who oversees the program. We've come a long way from Frank Wisner's "Mighty Wurlitzer"! <http:// www.namebase.org/news17.html>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 23 10:53:58 PDT 2007

10564 [lbo-talk] Greenberg & Co.: how to sell hot climate action -- rank: 1000

<http://gqrr.com/articles/1971/3378_energymessage.pdf> GREENBERG QUINLAN ROSNER May 9, 2007 Dramatic Transformation in Energy, Global Warming Debate America Must Take the Lead in New Energy Future To: Interested Parties From: Al Quinlan, Stan Greenberg, John Podesta The public debate about energy and global warming has undergone a dramatic transformation over the past few years. The results of recent polling and focus groups for the Center for American Progress argue that public officia ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 23 10:48:28 PDT 2007

10565 [lbo-talk] the lifestylist -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/news/first-up-against-the-wall/hamptons-concierges- catering-to-better-class-of-douchebags-262894.php> First up against the wall Hamptons Concierges Catering To Better Class Of Douchebags It's not online, but it's worth your dropping your two bits for the Hamptons Survival Guide in today's Post, particularly if you enjoy reading about douchebags. In an article called "Pay for the Privilege," the paper introduces you to Tony Abrams, "lifestylist." ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 23 10:37:19 PDT 2007

10566 [lbo-talk] O.C. freeway fatality an international case -- rank: 1000

On May 23, 2007, at 1:05 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Lee, a 40-year-old personnel administrator at Hyundai Motor America, > joined six colleagues for dinner at Seoul Oak Korean restaurant in > Garden Grove about 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 18, 2005, to welcome one of the > businessmen to the U.S. The group ate barbecued ribs and soup and > consumed 14 bottles of Saan Soju, a Korean rice wine with a 21% > alcohol content. Lee drank about eight shots, one of his colleagues > later told ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 23 10:32:35 PDT 2007

10567 [lbo-talk] missing hegemon at the CFR -- rank: 1000

Eh? How do you figure that? The subtext was that the invasion of Iraq was in no small part responsible for the U.S.'s weakened political position and the widespread antagonism towards us. Fixing that situation, insofar as it can be fixed at all, requires making nice with the rest of the world. Doug On May 23, 2007, at 1:10 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > All of which suggests no speedy withdrawal from Iran or Afghanistan > and no reduction of the US military budget in the event the De ...

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Date:	Wed May 23 10:24:53 PDT 2007

10568 [lbo-talk] missing hegemon at the CFR -- rank: 1000

I was at one of those Council on Foreign Relations public events this morning - Larry Summers and Paul Volcker on a successor to the Bretton Woods system, moderated by James Grant. Coupla things: 1) Summers pronounced himself a "chastened prophet" for saying that the U.S. current account deficit was unsustainable since it has gone on for so long. Volcker agreed. Summers added that it's interesting that there were more people worried about the U.S. stock market when the Nasdaq was ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 23 09:48:47 PDT 2007

10569 [lbo-talk] Page Six, Rupert, and the Clintons -- rank: 1000

New York Observer - May 22, 2007 <http://www.observer.com/2007/did-page-six-kill-numerous-items-clintons> Did Page Six Kill 'Numerous' Items on the Clintons? by Michael Calderone, David Foxley and Felix Gillette Photo: Patrick McMullan Hillary Clinton and Rupert Murdoch. In the summer of 2005, Richard Johnson, the editor of the New York Post's feared Page Six column, was having trouble getting a new passport to fly out to a party being hosted by Sean (P. Diddy) Combs in Saint-Tropez. So ...

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Date:	Wed May 23 08:20:31 PDT 2007

10570 [lbo-talk] new covert action against Iran -- rank: 1000

[Nice sidebar to this - where are the principals of the Iran-Contra affair now? Answer, mostly either dead or in the Bush administration. Not a clickable link, since it's a Java popup.] <http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/05/bush_authorizes.html> Bush Authorizes New Covert Action Against Iran May 22, 2007 6:29 PM Brian Ross and Richard Esposito Report: The CIA has received secret presidential approval to mount a covert "black" operation to destabilize the Iranian governm ...

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Date:	Wed May 23 07:54:53 PDT 2007

10571 [lbo-talk] Wolfie dumped -- rank: 1000

[not sure if Wayne Madsen is the most reliable source...] New York Post [Page Six] - May 23, 2007 Wolfowitz And Gal Pal Split Up PAUL Wolfowitz has really had a bad couple of weeks. He not only lost his job, he lost his girlfriend, too. Wolfowitz, one of the architects of the Iraq war, was pushed out as president of the World Bank over a controversial pay and promotion package he arranged for his brunette girlfriend, Shaha Ali Riza. Sources say Riza, a brilliant feminist with a promising dipl ...

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Date:	Wed May 23 07:48:44 PDT 2007

10572 [lbo-talk] Hersh: U.S. supports militants under attack in Lebanon -- rank: 1000

<http://rawstory.com/news/2007/ Hersh_Bush_arranged_support_for_militants_0522.html> Hersh: Bush administration arranged support for militants attacking Lebanon David Edwards and Muriel Kane In an interview on CNN International's Your World Today, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh explains that the current violence in Lebanon is the result of an attempt by the Lebanese government to crack down on a militant Sunni group, Fatah al-Islam, that it formerly supported. Last March, Hersh repo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 23 07:43:33 PDT 2007

10573 [lbo-talk] A public square -- rank: 1000

On May 22, 2007, at 7:26 PM, Chuck wrote: > This is just more confirmation of my take on American workers, that > they > are trained to be conservative at work and not take risks. It might have something to do with their likelihood of ending up on the sidewalk if they do. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 22 17:53:13 PDT 2007

10574 [lbo-talk] Pew polls American Muslims -- rank: 1000

On May 22, 2007, at 3:47 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Of course no one has dropped bombs on them, overthrown their elected > governments, financed death-squads to terrorize them (the Israeli > Defense Force is clearly just an overgrown death squad), rampaged > through their streets, kicked in their doors, beat them up, raped > them, > etc. All these things probably have a lot more to do with Muslim > attitudes worldwide than any religious doctrine. Well yeah. And the ones that co ...

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Date:	Tue May 22 13:19:41 PDT 2007

10575 [lbo-talk] Pew polls American Muslims -- rank: 1000

<http://pewresearch.org/pubs/483/muslim-americans> Muslim Americans: Middle Class and Mostly Mainstream May 22, 2007 The first-ever, nationwide, random sample survey of Muslim Americans finds them to be largely assimilated, happy with their lives, and moderate with respect to many of the issues that have divided Muslims and Westerners around the world. The Pew Research Center conducted more than 55,000 interviews to obtain a national sample of 1,050 Muslims living in the United States ...

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Date:	Tue May 22 12:31:22 PDT 2007