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10921 [lbo-talk] Nawal El Saadawi: Women, Islam, and Democratization -- rank: 1000

On Mar 19, 2007, at 3:32 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > Yoshie: > > > In case you have a false impression, Nawal El Saadawi is neither > anti-religion nor anti-Islam. She in fact goes so far as to say that > "A fair comparison [with other holy books] will help us to discover > that the Quran or fundamental teachings of Islam are relatively > progressive in relation to women and democracy." -- Yoshie > > [WS:] Yoshie, East Germany had the "Demokratisc ...

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10922 [lbo-talk] Harassment of Nawaal El Saadawi -- rank: 1000

On Mar 19, 2007, at 2:47 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > How about some strategic thinking? If you frame it as "Nawal El > Saadawi vs religion," you'll be pitting her against all religious > people, but if you frame it as "Nawal El Saadawi vs. 'the authorities > of Al-Azhar'," As Dennis Brutus put it, it's a political and religious campaign, and it's being conducted *in the name of religion*. Kind of a crucial point, no?

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10923 [lbo-talk] conservative episcopalian p*rn -- rank: 1000

<http://fleshbot.com/sex/paysites/meet-tatum-reed-popwhore-245123.php> Meet Tatum Reed: Popwhore It's hard not to be sucked in by (or at least curious about) Tatum Reed's self-promotional schtick: "Conservative political columnist, fashion maven, and narcissistic sexual connoisseur, (Tatum Reed) presents the next level of Pax American pornography ... In the age of post-modern apocalyptic bliss, the theory of the leisure class has never been so attainable. At your fingertips await ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 19 10:56:49 PDT 2007

10924 [lbo-talk] Harassment of Nawaal El Saadawi -- rank: 1000

[From the SA Debate list, and example of religious activism at work. No link given for the petition, though.] (From Dennis Brutus, in a letter to the great Egyptian feminist writer) Will also send this message and text to patrick bond/CCS/UKZN in south africa for information. Will be sending text to PEN in U.S. for action - hopefully international action - but I cannot speak on their behalf. We are having a major conference in Durban in June and it may be possible to raise the issue there. ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 19 10:43:35 PDT 2007

10925 [lbo-talk] freedom of the press -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - March 19, 2007 <http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na- prezmedia19mar19,0,5330698,full.story> News media and politics: an uneasy union Some prominent journalists have mates who work for a presidential candidate. They approach this potential conflict in different ways. By James Rainey, Times Staff Writer Some of America's most prominent political journalists are, quite literally, wedded to the 2008 presidential race: Their spouses work for one of the ca ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 19 10:22:21 PDT 2007

10926 [lbo-talk] Sipping Wine (was Zizek: "Where to look for revolutionary potential?" ) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 19, 2007, at 11:21 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > In his memoirs he comes across to me as boorish and > swaggeringly macho. But maybe that is a result of the > circumstances (he wrote them in Salo). As in the Pasolini movie? Doug

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10927 [lbo-talk] press release of the day -- rank: 1000

> I m writing to make you aware of a site that may be worth > mentioning to your listeners, www.presidentsrace08.com. It was > recently set up by Brainband (the creators of Blogfusion, a blog > community software) as a public service so that any American can > start a FREE blog and discuss the political race no matter their > political persuasion. For your listeners interested in becoming > political pundits or for bloggers simply looking for an easy way to > gain more re ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 19 08:32:33 PDT 2007

10928 [lbo-talk] take that, Iran! -- rank: 1000

Hillary turns off the lights, saying "Take that, Iran! Take that, Venezuela!" <http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0307/Take_That_Iran.html>

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Date:	Mon Mar 19 06:05:59 PDT 2007

10929 [lbo-talk] Iraqis on their friends & enemies -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2954716&page=4> IRAN, et. al. For all their internal problems, Iraqis seem to feel, as well, largely friendless among their immediate neighbors. Seventy- one percent think neighboring Shiite Iran is actively engaged in encouraging sectarian violence in Iraq. Sixty-six percent suspect the same of Syria; 56 percent, of Saudi Arabia. There are big doctrinal differences. Iraqi Sunnis (Arabs and Kurds alike) are more apt to suspect Iran, which is mai ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 19 05:48:28 PDT 2007

10930 [lbo-talk] Iraqis on US witdrawal -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2954716&page=2> [...] Worsening views of U.S. and other forces in Iraq tracks the deterioration of conditions in the country. In the first ABC News poll in Iraq, in February 2004, 51 percent of Iraqis opposed the presence of U.S. forces on their soil. By November 2005 that jumped to 65 percent. Today, it's 78 percent. But how to proceed is complicated. Even as they express discontent with U.S. forces, Iraqis are equivocal about their departure ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 19 05:44:43 PDT 2007

10931 [lbo-talk] ABC News/USA Today/BBC/ARD poll: Iraq: Where Things Stand -- rank: 1000

From: "Langer, Gary" <Gary.Langer at abc.com> Date: March 19, 2007 6:59:56 AM EDT Subject: ABC News/USA Today/BBC/ARD poll: Iraq: Where Things Stand ABC News, in conjunction with USA Today, the BBC and ARD German TV, has produced an extraordinary national public opinion poll in Iraq. Four years after the war began, the survey paints a devastating portrait of life in that country - widespread violence, torn lives, displaced families, emotional damage, collapsing services, an e ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 19 05:39:59 PDT 2007

10932 [lbo-talk] Zizek: "Where to look for revolutionary potential?" -- rank: 1000

On Mar 18, 2007, at 7:45 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > [Having said that, Doug oversteps the mark- it is Monthly Review's > choice > who edits their website, not his.] Of course it is. But I was asking Yoshie why she's there, at one of the leading Marxist brand names in the English-speaking world, given her intensifying hostility to Marxism. Doug

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10933 [lbo-talk] Sipping Wine (was Zizek: "Where to look for revolutionary potential?" ) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 18, 2007, at 10:13 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > the revolt under Stepan Razin I've always loved Shostakovich's piece about his execution - when his head rolls off, laughing at the Tsar! Doug

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10934 [lbo-talk] India 104th in world's Free Economy list -- rank: 1000

On Mar 18, 2007, at 9:28 AM, uvj at vsnl.com wrote: > India on Tuesday improved its ranking in the latest index of > world's Free > Economy published by the Heritage Foundation, coming up from rank > 121 last > year to 104 this year. Pakistan was ranked 89. I should revisit this. When I looked at this exercise in 2005 <http:// www.leftbusinessobserver.com/FreedomIndex.html>, it proved absolutely worthless, correlating with no real world outcomes at all. So China comes in so ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 18 07:15:32 PDT 2007

10935 [lbo-talk] Zizek: "Where to look for revolutionary potential?" -- rank: 1000

On Mar 18, 2007, at 12:10 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > You mean wage workers in the formal sector, especially in the North, > since they probably produce the most capital by conventional > accounting or Marxist accounting (for instance, by those Marxists who > still try to get to value from price)? The world working class is a lot larger than that - the working classes of Asia, Latin American, peripheral Europe, and parts of Africa number in the hundreds of millions. You seem to b ...

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