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11686 [lbo-talk] Congress could force withdrawal from Iraq -- rank: 1000

On Jan 16, 2007, at 7:53 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Hmm. Now I'm a little lost. I thought everyone agrees that a > successful joint resolution could withdraw the troops. That's > something signed by a president with the same force of law as a bill. The War Powers Resolution says it's a concurrent, not joint, resolution; sorry. That means it doesn't have to be signed by the pres. Doug

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11687 [lbo-talk] Inorganic Intellectuals and the Mythical Ideal of the Marxist Tradition -- rank: 1000

On Jan 16, 2007, at 5:54 PM, joanna wrote: > I doubt there's any kind of consensus; how about > > "someone who cares about the truth even though it's not their job > and does not involve any kind of reward." Hmm, that would exclude academics, as well as publishers, editors, curators, writers, and artists who get paid for their work. Not to mention architects, engineers, and other sundry professions who qualify under some definitions. So why does getting paid disqualify ...

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11688 [lbo-talk] Congress could force withdrawal from Iraq -- rank: 1000

On Jan 16, 2007, at 4:44 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > I'm sure you're right, but I'm not sure I follow you. If the Iraqi > war authorization was exactly the kind of authorization that the > War Powers Act requires, how does that make it not rescindable if > all War Powers resolutions can be rescinded? On which point is > Weisberg all wet? The troops cannot be recalled by a simple Congressional joint resolution. Doug

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11689 [lbo-talk] Inorganic Intellectuals and the Mythical Ideal of the Marxist Tradition -- rank: 1000

On Jan 16, 2007, at 3:54 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > According to the National Endowment for the Arts, "fewer than 3% of > all books published in the U.S. . . . were translations," writes John > O'Brien ("A Simple Question," Context, No. 14, 2003, at > <http://www.centerforbookculture.org/context/no14/simpleQ.html>). In > contrast, says O'Brien, "In Western European countries, the percentage > of translations is about 40-50% each year. Many of ...

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11690 [lbo-talk] Inorganic Intellectuals and the Mythical Ideal of the Marxist Tradition -- rank: 1000

On Jan 16, 2007, at 2:29 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > If intellectuals in global cafe society think alike, that is > not because American intellectuals have become cosmopolitan but > because intellectuals in the rest of the world have adopted many of > the American ideas. The traffic isn't just one way. American intellectuals have long been Europhiles, and quite a few have dabbled in Eastern religions; more recently, Latin American culture has made its way into parts of American ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 16 12:04:03 PST 2007

11691 [lbo-talk] Trump, scumbag -- rank: 1000

On Jan 16, 2007, at 1:22 PM, ravi wrote: > So, when you write "Trump, scumbag" who is the scumbag part? It is > not > clear from the article. ;-) Yeah, it is a pissing match among scumbags (sorry for the mixed metaphor), but Trump is the Scumbag Grandissimo for going back on a deal. Doug

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11692 [lbo-talk] D'Souza's Islamophlia -- rank: 1000

[some of these arguments sound eerily familiar] <http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/1/15/194522.shtml?s=lh> [...] NewsMax: Doesn't your attempt to find common cause between traditional Christians and traditional Muslims support the left's argument that religious "fundamentalists" on both sides are the real cause of this terror war? D'Souza: Actually, it is the left that is allied with the radical Muslims. The Islamic radicals supply the terror, and the left uses t ...

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11693 [lbo-talk] Trump, scumbag -- rank: 1000

<http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?article_id=27082> Dumped by Trump At The Donald's tower, 'friends and family' buyers see deals nixed By Alby Gallun The Donald wants it all. So say some buyers in Donald Trump's downtown condominium tower who are in a standoff with the celebrity developer over his plan to cancel their purchase contracts and take back their condos, along with millions of dollars in paper profits. The move allows Mr. Trump to recapture profits he gave up ...

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11694 [lbo-talk] Re: Re: Inorganic Intellectuals and the MythicalIdealof the -- rank: 1000

On Jan 16, 2007, at 11:05 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I never read mpug (or most responses to him) Alas, Michael signed off. Doug

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11695 [lbo-talk] distribution -- rank: 1000

[the bonus pool of the top 5 investment banks was 10 times the size of the World Food Program budget - this is from noted doom & gloomster Marc Faber] "Many political analysts are treating the outcome of the election as if it were a referendum on Iraq. But the fact is that the Iraq War was already going badly when President Bush was re-elected and there was at that time at least as much negative press about Iraq as there is now. What has happened in the recent election is that peo ...

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11696 [lbo-talk] Re: Re: Inorganic Intellectuals and the Mythical Idealof the -- rank: 1000

On Jan 16, 2007, at 9:16 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> And why being cosmopolitan >> and cultured makes you a sissy? > > This is more an unverified (and perhaps unverifiable) rumor than a > useful description. It's not mine, though it's been one that's been popular through American history. Doug

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11697 [lbo-talk] Iran President Ahmadinejad in trouble -- rank: 1000

On Jan 16, 2007, at 1:15 AM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > (The ballyhooed or notorious (depending on your point of view) > "Persian > Prince" appears to be in deep trouble, if not on his way out. > Surely that > poses a serious problem for Washington since if he goes, there will > be no > one left for the US Government and its pro war "progressive" camp > followers > to demonize in the run up to the oncoming war against Iran. Damn, > those > pe ...

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11698 [lbo-talk] Re: Re: Inorganic Intellectuals and the Mythical Ideal of the -- rank: 1000

On Jan 15, 2007, at 8:50 PM, Bill Bartlett wrote: > Now the thing about Yanks is that, basically, they are all populist. Interesting. You suppose that's why we have one of the highest poverty rates and most unequal distributions of income in the first world? Why we're such an imperial monster? And why being cosmopolitan and cultured makes you a sissy? Doug

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11699 [lbo-talk] Re: Re: Inorganic Intellectuals and the Mythical Ideal of the -- rank: 1000

On Jan 15, 2007, at 4:25 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > The problem is not that there is a lack of ideas about how to > improve the world; the problem is that the good guys do not have > sufficient power or support to bring these things into being, to > win battles over them. Leftos being a country apart from their > orddinary neighbors is not a problem because it keeps us from the > secret and brilliant ideas of the sentimentalized masses, but > rather is a problem because none o ...

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11700 [lbo-talk] Inorganic Intellectuals and the Mythical Ideal of the Marxist Tradition (Re: Moderation) -- rank: 1000

On Jan 15, 2007, at 12:51 PM, joanna wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > >> There's an idea on the left that the really good stuff should >> percolate up from below, and the duty of intellectuals is to >> listen and learn from such but I really would love some concrete >> examples. > > The writing of Zora Neale Hurston, Tillie Olsen, and RB Traven, any > music worth listening to. So that rules out almost all the classic British novels and poetry of the 19th ce ...

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