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12526 [lbo-talk] Children losing sleep over global warming -- rank: 1000

On Apr 28, 2007, at 4:56 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > I really don't understand what people see in Cockburn. He used to be really really great. From around 1975 or so when he first started writing for the Village Voice, and into his Nation columns in the early 1990s, he was a brilliant stylist and a really original thinker. The pieces collected in Corruptions of Empire are dazzling. As Lou Proyect said recently, though, he's devolved into a country gentleman with cranky opinions. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 28 19:48:54 PDT 2007

12527 [lbo-talk] capital punishment in Iran -- rank: 1000

On Apr 28, 2007, at 12:56 AM, ravi wrote: > This obsession with Iran is a curious thing. I don't mean Yoshie's, > but that of everyone else! I think you've got the order of cause and effect wrong. If we didn't have Yoshie doing PR for Iran, there wouldn't be so much attention to it - aside from the fact that some people would like to bomb the place, of course. Doug

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12528 [lbo-talk] more Taibbi on Yeltsin -- rank: 1000

Well, not exactly. What Americans missed during Yeltsin's presidency -- and they missed it because American reporters defiantly refused to report the truth of the matter -- was that under Boris Yeltsin the Russian state itself became little more than a cash factory for gangland interests. This was corruption on the larger scale, a corruption of the essence of the state, corruption at the core. Some of the schemes hatched by Yeltsin's government were so astonishing and audacious in scope t ...

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12529 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [UTExpertsDiscGrp] Taibbi on Yeltsin -- rank: 1000

Yeltsin: An Obit of a Drunken, Bloblike Train Wreck of a Revolutionary Leader By Matt Taibbi Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was always good for a laugh, which is probably why on the occasion of his death people outside of Russia are not calling him words like scum and monster, but instead recalling him fondly, with a smile, as one would a retarded nephew who could always be counted on to pull his pants down at Thanksgiving dinner. Like most people who lived in Russia during the 1990s -- and Ru ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 27 21:32:30 PDT 2007

12530 [lbo-talk] Rethinking Liberalism -- rank: 1000

On Apr 27, 2007, at 5:08 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > If Chuck, Carrol and others who are presumed to be farthest to the > left on > this list are so despairing about the present political situation > under the > Bush administration and don't believe it would improve Carrol has never really explained his theory of politics; it seems to amount to "shit happens, sometimes, but most of the time it doesn't." The bourgeoisie always seems to know what it wants and manages to ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 27 14:23:12 PDT 2007

12531 [lbo-talk] capital punishment in Iran -- rank: 1000

On Apr 27, 2007, at 2:18 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > But you have no problem with people who admire America, such as Noam > Chomsky, despite what its government does in the world as well as at > home, nor do I hear you going on about how guilty, ashamed, > embarrassed, etc. you feel living here. You seem to take America in > stride, while you can't say the same about Iran. You have a problem > of blindness that comes from nationalism, it seems to me. The more you write abou ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 27 13:20:01 PDT 2007

12532 [lbo-talk] Children losing sleep over global warming -- rank: 1000

On Apr 27, 2007, at 3:45 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Children losing sleep over global warming > ALAN JONES > HALF of children between the ages of seven and 11 are anxious about > the > effects of global warming and often lose sleep over it, according > to a new > report. > http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=289422007 The implication being we should make policy on what makes children sleep better?

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Date:	Fri Apr 27 13:01:28 PDT 2007

12533 [lbo-talk] dissent in the ranks -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - April 27, 2007 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/26/ AR2007042602230.html> Army Officer Accuses Generals of 'Intellectual and Moral Failures' By Thomas E. Ricks Washington Post Staff Writer An active-duty Army officer is publishing a blistering attack on U.S. generals, saying they have botched the war in Iraq and misled Congress about the situation there. "America's generals have repeated the mistakes of Vietnam in Iraq," charges L ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 27 12:37:35 PDT 2007

12534 [lbo-talk] Rethinking Liberalism -- rank: 1000

On Apr 27, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Chuck wrote: > As soon as a > Demcocrat is elected president in 2008, these folks will shut up > and go > home. Some will, but after a time, some will get disillusioned with all the continuities. Dem administrations are better for radical politics than Republican. 1930s, 1960s, late 1990s. Cf. the correlation with periods of retreat and Rep admins: 1970s-1980s, 2000s....

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Date:	Fri Apr 27 12:26:15 PDT 2007

12535 [lbo-talk] Sandbox Politics & Feeling Good was capital punishment in Iran -- rank: 1000

On Apr 27, 2007, at 2:45 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > A win-win situation for the Self-Congratulatory Sandbox Leftist Just what are you? Really. You're always pontificating about something or other, evidently to your own great satisfaction. But what do you do that's not its own sort of sandbox? You're almost always prescribing some sort of fatalist resignation. That's more like a coffin than a sandbox; at least sandboxes can be fun. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 27 12:04:52 PDT 2007

12536 [lbo-talk] capital punishment in Iran -- rank: 1000

On Apr 27, 2007, at 1:38 PM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > On 4/27/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> [hanging people from a crane so they take 10 minutes to choke to >> death...lovely] > > It's atrocious. But, if I may add to that obvious assertion one > further: death from electrocution can take as long (say if the heart > is still beating five minutes after the first shock has been > administered, they'll go ahead and have another go), and being fr ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 27 10:52:20 PDT 2007

12537 [lbo-talk] capital punishment in Iran -- rank: 1000

On Apr 27, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I haven't read this, but I'm curious as to what political theory > and/or > practice within the u.s. is to follow from such material. Yes, that's always the first question I ask when reading something.

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12538 [lbo-talk] Gallup: 10 points about US public opinion on Iraq -- rank: 1000

April 27, 2007 Gallup Poll Review: 10 Key Points About Public Opinion on Iraq Most Americans support timetable for removing troops, oppose cutting funding altogether by Frank Newport, Jeffrey M. Jones, Lydia Saad, and Joseph Carroll GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- With the war in Iraq dominating U.S. news and with a major fight looming between the White House and Congress on new legislation that would fund the Iraq war but simultaneously call for a timetable for troop withdrawal, the op ...

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12539 [lbo-talk] capital punishment in Iran -- rank: 1000

[hanging people from a crane so they take 10 minutes to choke to death...lovely] Financial Times - April 27, 2007 Lone challenger to Iran's orthodoxy on the death penalty By Gareth Smyth in Tehran It is hard to imagine a tougher cause in Iran than campaigning against the death penalty, which has strong popular support and which most religious authorities and politicians say is required by Islam. Yet that is the task Emadeddine Baghi, a former journalist, has set himself in establishing a non ...

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12540 [lbo-talk] Hijacking (was: Patrick Bond on climate change) -- rank: 1000

On Apr 26, 2007, at 3:55 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Doug, citing Treasury Secretary Sir Nicholas Stern, tells me: "You are > keeping very strange company", because the grass roots of the > Republican > Party are on his side, not mine! Get with the programme Doug, the > whole of > the European ruling class has been committed to your position for > some time. > You are part of a consensus that embraces everyone from the far- > right, like > the late Edwar ...

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