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11311 [lbo-talk] Announcing Muhammad Yunus' Candidacy to Head the World Bank -- rank: 1000

On Jun 1, 2007, at 1:56 PM, Robert Naiman wrote: > Announcing Muhammad Yunus' Candidacy to Head the World Bank Hotlist > by Robert Naiman Fri Jun 01, 2007 at 09:43:04 AM PDT Do you have any evidence that microlending actually works? I haven't looked at the issue in a while, but last time I did, it was useless. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 1 11:35:31 PDT 2007

11312 [lbo-talk] Noam & Dersh -- rank: 1000

<http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=w070528&s=chomskydershowitz060107> Correspondence Match Point by Alan Dershowitz & Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky: It is always intriguing to see just how far Alan Dershowitz will go in his efforts to conceal the fact that Norman Finkelstein exposed him as a vulgar and fraudulent apologist for Israeli human rights violations--carefully, judiciously, with extensive documentation ("Taking the Bait,", May 21). Knowing that he cannot respond, D ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 1 09:04:14 PDT 2007

11313 [lbo-talk] FT on Israel boycott -- rank: 1000

Boycotts and resolutions - which Yoshie has elsewere denounced as "resolutionary socialism" - are meaningless as long as the U.S. subsidizes, arms, and protects Israel. As with petition-signing, it's more about making the supporter feel good about himself than actually accomplishing anything. No Brit academics would ever endorse a boycott of the U.S., would they? And while they're at it, why not boycott themselves, for joining the invasion of Iraq? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 1 08:41:06 PDT 2007

11314 [lbo-talk] the beauties of capitalism -- rank: 1000

Despite years of reading monthly employment reports, this industrial category really jumped out at me for the first time this morning: "Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets."

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Date:	Fri Jun 1 06:54:30 PDT 2007

11315 [lbo-talk] Further Attacks on Iranian Queers -- rank: 1000

On Jun 1, 2007, at 9:32 AM, BklynMagus wrote: > More from Doug Ireland on assaults against queers: > > http://direland.typepad.com/ I had two people on my radio show yesterday - Saadia Toor & Kourosh Shemirani - who are extremely critical of Doug Ireland's writing on Iran. I'll post the show to the web later today. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 1 06:41:57 PDT 2007

11316 [lbo-talk] Strip and flip at Chrysler? -- rank: 1000

On Jun 1, 2007, at 1:23 AM, Steven L. Robinson quoted Labor Notes: > Wohlfarth said he hopes the UAW will use this opportunity to start > organizing in other parts of manufacturing to stave off or slow down > concessions. This is what Labor Notes always says, but the U.S. auto industry is broke and dying. Where's the money supposed to come from to "stave off or slow down concessions"? In the 20 years or so I've been reading the publication, I've never seen them address this ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 1 05:12:32 PDT 2007

11317 [lbo-talk] cruise report -- rank: 1000

On Jul 30, 2007, at 5:53 PM, Gar Lipow wrote: > Conterfactuctual (though sadly it may not be). November 2008. Giuliani > Vs. Hillary -- neck and neck in NY state. Polling 40% even. Bloomberg > at 18% , with Nader and various small parties dividing the remaining > 2%. So what do you do? > > 1)Stay home and bitch? > 2)Vote for Hillary on the Working Families ballot line? > 3) Vote for Hillary on the Demo ticket? > 4) Vote for one of the small parties ? Nader, a socialist ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 31 17:13:36 PDT 2007

11318 [lbo-talk] Looking For Laughs -- rank: 1000

There's the recent Gawker thread in which Alex Balk made some pretty harsh Jewish jokes and excited the anger of a Chicago Tribune columnist and a Forward editorialist.

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Date:	Tue Jul 31 09:49:05 PDT 2007

11319 [lbo-talk] worker discontent in Iran -- rank: 1000

<http://www.merip.org/mer/mer241/maljoo.html> Worker Protest in the Age of Ahmadinejad Mohammad Maljoo Mohammad Maljoo is a lecturer in the Faculty of Economics at Allameh Tabatabae University in Tehran. In June 2005, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad unexpectedly won the presidency of the Islamic Republic of Iran, after an intense campaign in which he exerted great effort to present himself as the defender of the poor and the working class. These classes, badly hurt by neo-liberal economic policie ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 30 16:31:32 PDT 2007

11320 [lbo-talk] Looking For Laughs -- rank: 1000

On Jul 30, 2007, at 6:59 AM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > Of a certain Middle East variety. Any help is appreciated: > > <http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2007/07/where-laughter- > explodes.html> Is that a joke? There are no send-ups of Israel or Zionism, are there? Nothing as innocuous even as a guy in a yarmulke sneaking a bacon cheeseburger. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 30 16:17:29 PDT 2007

11321 [lbo-talk] Do LBOers face book? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 30, 2007, at 12:10 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Do LBOers face book? Hey, James, we just became Facebook friends! I must be more than twice the median age of the Facebook crowd, but what the hell.

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Date:	Mon Jul 30 16:05:51 PDT 2007

11322 [lbo-talk] Raśl on the 26th + Fidel on Cuba's Self Criticism -- rank: 1000

On Jul 30, 2007, at 1:28 PM, Chuck wrote: > Why is it that American leftists excuse Castro's abuse of power with > this pathetic argument about the United States. Why can't the so- > called > "successful" revolution change its leaders on a regular basis? Chuck, if by some extremely unlikely constellation of events a small country had an anarchist revolution, the CIA would destroy it in an instant. I can't believe you don't take this seriously. Doug

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11323 [lbo-talk] cruise report -- rank: 1000

On Jul 30, 2007, at 11:38 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Bullshit. Hillary & Obama and > EDwards and t he rest of the war criminals are every bit as > imaginative, > sensitive, and intelligent as FDR. Only the condtions of the empire > have > changed. Well, the threatened collapse of capitalism led FDR to agree to some social democratic reforms. It was a rare moment in American politics when the "left" was collective rather than individualist/populist. Didn't last, bu ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 30 15:57:58 PDT 2007

11324 [lbo-talk] cruise report -- rank: 1000

On Jul 29, 2007, at 8:08 PM, Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > Oh sh..t, the problem is worse than I imagined. I am really worried > for Doug and family. Please check in often. Thanks for your concern. As we were boarding in Seattle, we had to run a gauntlet of guys pressing hand sanitizer on us. When we got to the cabin, I read a letter from the cruise line saying there'd been several recent outbreaks of the shits - on other lines, not Holland- America! There are hand sanitizer dispensers all ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 30 15:55:44 PDT 2007

11325 [lbo-talk] cruise report -- rank: 1000

On Jul 29, 2007, at 11:47 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > Andrew Jackson Eh? That racist genocidal turd?

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Date:	Sun Jul 29 11:59:36 PDT 2007