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11101 [lbo-talk] counterhegemons not inspiring either -- rank: 1000
[more from the Pew summary...] There is little evidence that discontent with the major nations of the world and their leaders is resulting in greater confidence in those who have challenged the global status quo. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez inspires little public confidence, even in Latin America, and huge majorities in most countries also say they have little or no confidence in Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to do the right thing regarding world affairs. There also is broad o ...
Document Size: 5740
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jun 28 10:16:41 PDT 2007
11102 [lbo-talk] latest Pew Global Attitudes survey: all big powers in disrepute -- rank: 1000
<http://pewresearch.org/pubs/524/global-unease-with-major-world- powers-and-leaders> Global Unease with Major World Powers and Leaders 47-Nation Pew Global Attitudes Survey Finds Rising Environmental Concerns June 27, 2007 A 47-nation survey finds global public opinion increasingly wary of the world's dominant nations and disapproving of their leaders. Anti- Americanism is extensive, as it has been for the past five years. At the same time, the image of China has slipped significantly a ...
Document Size: 6699
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jun 28 10:07:09 PDT 2007
11103 [lbo-talk] BX -- rank: 1000
[Blackstone now trading below its $31 debut price!] The Nation - July 16, 2007 Blackstone's Bell Doug Henwood Friday, June 22, saw the stock market debut of The Blackstone Group, the biggest and splashiest of the private equity funds that have pretty much dominated the financial scene for the past several years. Investors poured $4 billion into the firm, buying stock that would give them no voting rights in the hope of getting a piece of the profit-spinning energy that Blackstone and its co ...
Document Size: 11110
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jun 28 09:58:10 PDT 2007
11104 [lbo-talk] Sicko -- rank: 1000
On Jun 28, 2007, at 12:37 PM, joanna wrote: > Fuck the insurance companies and fuck Denby. Moore is great on the inscos - "take profit out of the health care system." On the Daily Show last night, Stewart's reaction was, "But we're Americans! Cancer has to turn a profit!" Doug
Document Size: 4645
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jun 28 09:53:36 PDT 2007
11105 [lbo-talk] Sicko -- rank: 1000
On Jun 28, 2007, at 12:13 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > David Denby of the New Yorker magazine is not impressed. Well fuck 'im.
Document Size: 4538
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jun 28 09:43:52 PDT 2007
11106 [lbo-talk] John Roberts doesn't like Bong Hits 4 Jesus -- rank: 1000
On Jun 28, 2007, at 11:47 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Leftists and left-liberals grew too complacent from (say) 1955-75) > about > dependence on the court system. Essentially we can't depend on > anything > that we do not continually confirm and reconfirm through various forms > of direct action. More from Beckert's book on the NYC bourgeoisie, which (have I said this before?) is really terrific. One reason the U.S. bourgeoisie, led by the NYC branch, was able to rise to such pow ...
Document Size: 5518
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jun 28 09:34:07 PDT 2007
11107 [lbo-talk] Rupe foretells the future of the WSJ -- rank: 1000
<http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1638182,00.html> "When the Journal gets its Page 3 girls," he jokes late one night, "we'll make sure they have M.B.A.s."
Document Size: 4788
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jun 28 09:20:33 PDT 2007
11108 [lbo-talk] hipsterism nailed -- rank: 1000
<http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/2007/06/ selected_minor_.html> [...] political. On a global scale, hipsters seem to have emerged out of the Reagan-Thatcher years in those countries that earlier witnessed the cultural shift known in Western Europe as 68 and in the US more broadly as the sixties. (To some extent, the origins of the new form of opposition can be found in the sixties themselves, from French situationism to Abbie Hoffman s advocacy of revolution for th ...
Document Size: 6585
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jun 28 09:12:49 PDT 2007
11109 [lbo-talk] Rudy drinks French wine again -- rank: 1000
New York Post [Page Six] - June 28, 2007 Quiche Next Rudy Giuliani was as down on the cheese-eating surrender monkeys of France as any red-blooded American - until Nicolas Sarkozy was described as the Gallic version of "America's mayor" and elected First Frog. At an appearance at a temple in Maryland this week, Giuliani said, "I wasn't drinking French wine for a while. Then, the New York Post had an article that the 'French Rudy' was elected. I'm drinking French wine again.& ...
Document Size: 5071
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jun 28 06:05:23 PDT 2007
11110 [lbo-talk] Paris liberated! -- rank: 1000
On Jun 27, 2007, at 8:42 PM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote: > At 10:47 AM 6/27/2007, Doug Henwood wrote: >> And the NY Post rises to the occasion: <http://www.nypost.com/seven/ >> 06272007/frontback.htm> > > are you using eudora? because it's been breaking the links like > crazy for > months now. Nothing I do will bring that sucker up. > Apple Mail. <http://www.nypost.com/seven/06272007/frontback.htm>
Document Size: 5158
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jun 27 17:41:11 PDT 2007
11111 [lbo-talk] a critique of commodification -- rank: 1000
<http://gothamist.com/2007/06/26/the_splasher_sp.php> [...] "The Point is to Produce Ourselves, Rather Than Things That Enslave Us": "In New York City, during the summer of 2006, a group of co- conspirators and provocateurs began a program that confronted a cultural realm which revealed a content of commodity recuperation behind the facade of pseudo opposition. By challenging what the experts term 'street art', our actions have, in turn, uncovered an alliance between th ...
Document Size: 6369
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jun 27 12:56:50 PDT 2007
11112 [lbo-talk] Jeffrey Sachs sounds more reasonable all the time -- rank: 1000
[ok, he was already getting there, but this is rather amazing] Jordan Times - June 22-23, 2007 <http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/opinion/opinion5.htm> The Palestine follies By Jeffrey D. Sachs American foreign policy in the Middle East experienced yet another major setback this month, when Hamas, whose Palestinian government the United States had tried to isolate, routed the rival Fateh movement in Gaza. In response, Israel sealed Gaza s borders, making life even more unbearable in a pla ...
Document Size: 11048
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jun 27 12:41:50 PDT 2007
11113 [lbo-talk] Sanctions on Iran: What UN Envoys Say + a British Proposal Targeting Iran's Shipping Lines -- rank: 1000
On Jun 27, 2007, at 12:36 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Why accept the terms of debate set by the bellicose That's hegemony for you, eh? But in some sense you're doing that too. You want to prove that the Iranian state is wise and virtuous in order to argue against sanctions. I say the Iranian regime can suck out loud and sanctions are still an outrage. I say Iran is entitled to develop nuclear weapons, too, as much as I dislike theocracies that jail and shoot the likes of most members o ...
Document Size: 5632
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jun 27 12:36:35 PDT 2007
11114 [lbo-talk] Iran's Youth Movements -- rank: 1000
On Jun 27, 2007, at 12:44 PM, ravi wrote: > India gets a free pass because there is a wishy-washy sentimentality > about India among Western leftists. I'm not sure what you're talking about; most of the stories I've seen in the left press on India have been about hunger and rural suicide. But in any case, I'd love to hear more about what's going on in India. Please post your own thoughts and forward anything you find interesting. It's a rather important country. Doug
Document Size: 5030
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jun 27 11:37:07 PDT 2007
11115 [lbo-talk] Iran's Youth Movements -- rank: 1000
On Jun 27, 2007, at 12:44 PM, ravi wrote: > Heh! I suggest you search the archives ;-). Yes, please do. I think you will find that almost no one besides Yoshie has started a thread on Iran over the last month, from any point of view. Ulhas posts things about the Iranian nuclear program, and others have posted about the Bush admin's aggressive intentions. I've posted announcements about my radio shows (which include interviews with Saadia Toor and Kourosh Shemirani, Hamid Dabashi, and Va ...
Document Size: 5452
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jun 27 11:34:36 PDT 2007
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