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10696 [lbo-talk] Iraq: pressure for withdrawal grows -- rank: 1000

On May 11, 2007, at 1:39 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Does any of the discussion constituting this pressure focus _at > all_ on > the many permanent bases, costing billions of dollars, that are being > built. Withdrawal from from all the cities of Iraq would NOT be > withdrawal at all if troops remained at those bases. No it wouldn't but they'd be under constant threat of attack, and maybe even under constant attack, so they would not be immune to the pressure for withdrawal. More im ...

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Date:	Fri May 11 10:59:06 PDT 2007

10697 [lbo-talk] Iraq: pressure for withdrawal grows -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] On the other big political issue of the week Iraq Karl Rove and company are steamed that Tuesday's meeting between President Bush and House Republican moderates became public knowledge, the Hill's Jonathan Kaplan reports. LINK But no reading of the riot act will change underlying concerns about the war, and the list of fed-up Republicans is only growing. LINK Perhaps it's a coincidence that the president is now talking for the first time about accepting "benchmarks& ...

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Date:	Fri May 11 10:19:04 PDT 2007

10698 [lbo-talk] Iran's Economic Change (was Russia's economy) -- rank: 1000

On May 11, 2007, at 7:50 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > In other words, after the reduction of inequality in the early phase > of the revolution, neoliberal reforms began, with the Rafsanjani > administration, which made the inequality of individual earnings rise > sharply, and if the overall inequality has been stable despite that > rise, it is only because of the redistributional impact of the > government's expenditures on entitlements, social programs, and the > like. Th ...

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Date:	Fri May 11 10:14:49 PDT 2007

10699 [lbo-talk] Iran's Economic Change (was Russia's economy) -- rank: 1000

On May 11, 2007, at 7:50 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > There are many books and articles by Iran Studies scholars that are > worth reading. See, for instance, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani (a professor > of economics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University), > "Revolution and Redistribution in Iran: Poverty and Inequality 25 > Years Later," August 2006, > <http://www.filebox.vt.edu/users/salehi/Iran_poverty_trend.pdf>. See, > especially, "Tab ...

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Date:	Fri May 11 09:50:31 PDT 2007

10700 [lbo-talk] Russia's economy -- rank: 1000

On May 11, 2007, at 3:22 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > Doug: > > "but who said that Russia is just a third world > country being sucked dry of its oil?" > > Maybe I misread, but that did seem to be the tenor of Andie's > contribution. > > "The argument is that Russia is not creating any new industries or > investing > in the capital infrastructure necessary for future prosperity. It's > growing, > but not developing." > > It is not ...

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Date:	Fri May 11 09:45:49 PDT 2007

10701 [lbo-talk] Russia's economy -- rank: 1000

On May 11, 2007, at 9:15 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > Politically, it seems to me the Putin regime has played the same > historical > role in relation to emergent Russian capitalism as the TR > administration in > relation to the bucaneering US robber barons. It's easy to forget the intense working class militancy that led the U.S. bourgeoisie into the progressive era. There were populists, socialists, and labor radicals who severely disturbed the peace, and TR & Co. were in ...

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Date:	Fri May 11 09:42:22 PDT 2007

10702 [lbo-talk] free Paris? -- rank: 1000

On May 11, 2007, at 11:56 AM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: His 8th post of the day. Yesterday it was 7. The limit is 3. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 11 09:33:51 PDT 2007

10703 [lbo-talk] Minority Report (was Southern vs. Northern violence) -- rank: 1000

On May 11, 2007, at 10:48 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > Lynching is an amateur sport in the South; in the North it has been > professionalized and is taken care of by the police. Uh, no region beats the South at jailing and executing people. If you rank states by their death row populations, 5 of the top 10 are alumni of the Confederate States of America (marked in the tables below with an asterisk); if you rank them by incarceration rates, 6 of the top 10 are ex-CSA. Not a bad showing fo ...

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Date:	Fri May 11 09:31:23 PDT 2007

10704 [lbo-talk] political constraints on oil production -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - May 10, 2007 Politics and easy profits signal global oil crunch By Sheila McNulty in Houston In the oil business, the constant development of new technology has created the adage "good fields just keep getting better and better". Companies are able to get more out of oil fields than they expected even a decade ago. Yet if they cannot access those fields, the oil within is not going to come to market. A study by PFC Energy, the respected consultancy, shows world oil ...

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Date:	Thu May 10 16:29:31 PDT 2007

10705 [lbo-talk] Zizek! (the movie) in NYC -- rank: 1000

Hello, Please join us for a screening of Zizek!, a feature documentary in which wild man of theory Slavoj Zizek obsessively reveals the invisible workings of ideology through his unique blend of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Marxism, and critique of pop culture. Never ceasing to observe the paradoxes that underpin our perception of reality, little goes untheorized over the course of the film, particularly Zizek's recurring themes -- ideology, belief, revolution, and love. Q & A with filmm ...

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Date:	Thu May 10 11:11:26 PDT 2007

10706 [lbo-talk] Repub divisions on Iraq -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] This wasn't what Karl Rove's permanent majority was supposed to look like. Even as Vice President Cheney was being dispatched to Baghdad to prod the Iraqi government and shore up public support for the war, President Bush was being bluntly told by Republican moderates that Iraq is a looming political disaster for the GOP. Meanwhile, in the 2008 presidential race, the abortion issue is splintering the party, leaving two of the top three Republican candidates scrambling to e ...

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Date:	Thu May 10 09:12:10 PDT 2007

10707 [lbo-talk] Minority Report (was Southern vs. Northern violence) -- rank: 1000

On May 10, 2007, at 11:33 AM, ravi wrote: > New England is truly frigid when it comes to interaction with > "aliens" Even to white Yalies from New York. NE is the chilliest damned place I've ever been. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 10 09:00:17 PDT 2007

10708 [lbo-talk] Russia's economy -- rank: 1000

On May 9, 2007, at 9:14 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > It was bourgeois democracies that reduced Africa to its present > status. It was a bourgeois democracy that superintended the > genocide of > Indians in the u.s. It was a bourgeois democracy that that created the > situation summarzied in the phrase, "the open veins of Latin America." How democratic were the countries that colonized Africa and Latin America, actually? They were capitalist, but how widespread was the fran ...

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Date:	Wed May 9 18:39:46 PDT 2007

10709 [lbo-talk] Iraqi parliamentarians reject U.S. occupation -- rank: 1000

<http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/51624/> Majority of Iraqi Lawmakers Now Reject Occupation By Raed Jarrar and Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted May 9, 2007. On Tuesday, without note in the U.S. media, more than half of the members of Iraq's parliament rejected the continuing occupation of their country. 144 lawmakers signed onto a legislative petition calling on the United States to set a timetable for withdrawal, according to Nassar Al-Rubaie, a spokesman for the Al Sadr movement, t ...

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Date:	Wed May 9 17:43:14 PDT 2007

10710 [lbo-talk] Guma responds -- rank: 1000

[My post that cited WBAI's R Paul Martin's observations on the possibility of Pacifica exec director Greg Guma's imminent departure made its way to Guma, whose response is below. As for the conspiracy issue, it's all over the Pacifica airwaves, though he's not the responsible party. Many Pacifica producers and audiences love conspiracy theories.] While there may be some kernels of reality embedded in this post, they are overwhelmed by the inacaccuracies and assumptions. Drawing conclusions ...

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Date:	Wed May 9 17:09:17 PDT 2007