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12676 [lbo-talk] Moqtada al-Sadr pulls out of Iraqi gov; ; still suporting "surge"? -- rank: 1000

Cleric Sadr's bloc to quit Iraq government By Mussab Al-Khairalla and Paul Tait Sun Apr 15, 2:59 PM ET BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The political movement of fiery Iraqi Shi'ite cleric and militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr said on Sunday it would withdraw from the government on Monday to press its demand for a timetable for a U.S. troop withdrawal. Officials from the movement, which holds six ministries and a quarter of the parliamentary seats in Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Shi'ite Alliance, said t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 15 20:28:55 PDT 2007

12677 [lbo-talk] Wolfowitz 'to stay' at World Bank -- rank: 1000

On Apr 15, 2007, at 10:15 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > Maybe I am missing something, but it seems strange > that the US elites seem willing to compromise their > instituional interests for what seems to be mere > cronyism. What leverage do these elites have? The Bush admin controls the mechanism. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 15 20:03:43 PDT 2007

12678 [lbo-talk] Wolfowitz 'to stay' at World Bank -- rank: 1000

On Apr 15, 2007, at 8:26 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > What surprises me is that the powers that be are > willing to sacrifice the international reputation of > the Bank to save the position of a Bush cronie. Why? The FT reports: > A senior European official told the Financial Times that unless the > White House withdrew its support, European countries were not > sufficiently united to succeed in an immediate attempt to force Mr > Wolfowitz s removal. > > But a serie ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 15 20:02:53 PDT 2007

12679 [lbo-talk] 300,000 rally against Turkish government -- rank: 1000

Mike, Yoshie didn't say you didn't support military dictatorships - in fact she implied the opposite. She's the one who said that secular western leftists would prefer a military dictatorship, and assumed you probably fell into that category because we're all so simple and provincial. I said you almost certainly didn't support military dictatorships, and no leftist that I know did. Doug On Apr 15, 2007, at 7:56 PM, Mike Ballard wrote: > On 4/15/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com& ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 15 17:10:21 PDT 2007

12680 [lbo-talk] Jerry Brown on Andy Stern's book -- rank: 1000

[Someone sent me a copy of this commentary on Andy Stern and his book. It's by Jerry Brown - not the former governor of California, but the former head of 1199NE, an SEIU local in Connecticut that represents primarily nursing home workers - and was circulated among the union leadership earlier this year.] Andy Stern's new book deserves serious discussion and analysis by union members and leaders. I am not thinking about the parts of the book which discuss his personal journey through life ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 15 16:27:17 PDT 2007

12681 [lbo-talk] a day late! -- rank: 1000

Damn, missed this! But it's never too late to celebrate!! <http://www.cakeandcunnilingus.com/> April 14 is Cake and Cunnilingus Day! Why? Well, as some enterprising men have declared March 14 to be "Steak and Blowjob Day", we women thought we'd get in on the act as well, a month later. Cake and Cunnilingus Day is about celebrating female pleasure. It's about putting our orgasms on the agenda and demanding pleasure equality! It's about lying back and gorging on chocolate mud c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 15 14:49:17 PDT 2007

12682 [lbo-talk] a cabdriver reads Thomas L. Friedman -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/news/tom-friedman/how-to-read-the-tom-friedman- article-in-todays-times-mag-a-post-by-john-252362.php> 'How to Read the Tom Friedman Article in Today's Times Mag': A Post by John Hello. I am here to tell you about the article entitled "The Power of Green" (AKA "The Greening of Geopolitics") in this week's New York Times magazine by my American friend Mr. Thomas L. Friedman. Allow me to introduce myself. I am called Pookunhi Takahiro Pierre Velazqu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 15 14:34:56 PDT 2007

12683 [lbo-talk] Snoop Dogg preserves the essential distinctions -- rank: 1000

[quoted by Alexander Cockburn in his Counterpunch column on the Imus affair] "It's a completely different scenario. [Rappers] are not talking about no collegiate basketball girls who have made it to the next level in education and sports. We're talking about ho's that's in the 'hood that ain't doing shit, that's trying to get a nigga for his money. These are two separate things. First of all, we ain't no old- ass white men that sit up on MSNBC going hard on black girls. We are rappers ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 15 14:09:44 PDT 2007

12684 [lbo-talk] more on SEIU's "pushing the comfort zone" with their partners -- rank: 1000

On Apr 15, 2007, at 4:06 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > and if its all just idle speculation from some labor > geek labor notes intern two years out of amherst or whatever who's > never > worked in a nursing home, spent time in one, or organized with teh > workers > of one, but is just offering a theoretical opinion derived from their > arduous study of la botz and trotsky, well I would argue that that > person > speaks without credibility. The sources of the Seattle Times an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 15 13:49:33 PDT 2007

12685 [lbo-talk] more on Turkey -- rank: 1000

Lou Proyect, reading the lbo-talk archives, writes to point out that "Istanbul and Izmir are filled with people who hate military dictatorship as well as Islamic infringements on personal freedom." He also notes that "the Islamists in Turkey are not radical by any stretch of the imagination." He recommends a look at a piece he wrote about this: <http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/turkeys-calvinist- muslims/> and also recommends a PBS documentary: <http ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 15 11:20:38 PDT 2007

12686 [lbo-talk] 300,000 rally against Turkish government -- rank: 1000

On Apr 15, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > On 4/15/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> >> On Apr 15, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> >>> I'm afraid that many secular Western leftists would prefer a >>> military >>> dictatorship that bans hijab to a democracy that allows but does not >>> impose hijab. >> >> Since Carrol won't play his usual role in demanding names rather than >& ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 15 10:14:54 PDT 2007

12687 [lbo-talk] more on SEIU's "pushing the comfort zone" with their partners -- rank: 1000

[a little late on this, and not much to add to the SF Weekly piece, except that it's happened in Washington too - the muzzling of the workers is pretty far down in this story, as is the disparaging characterization of traditional unions as protecting narcoleptic forklift operators] Seattle Times - March 20, 2007 Union, nursing home alliance team up By Ralph Thomas Seattle Times Olympia bureau OLYMPIA State lawmakers are used to seeing big budget requests from the Service Employees Interna ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 15 10:01:03 PDT 2007

12688 [lbo-talk] 300,000 rally against Turkish government -- rank: 1000

On Apr 15, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > I'm afraid that many secular Western leftists would prefer a military > dictatorship that bans hijab to a democracy that allows but does not > impose hijab. Since Carrol won't play his usual role in demanding names rather than generalizations, I'll do it - who are these western leftists? Not me or anyone I know. So name one - no, more than one, since you said "many." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 15 09:12:07 PDT 2007

12689 [lbo-talk] contingent valuation and undercounting the cost of the surge -- rank: 1000

On Apr 14, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Robert Naiman wrote: > I'm all for using that number against them, but I want to use other > numbers against them as well...that would surely be an undercount of > the true cost, unless we believe that soldiers would voluntarily > redeploy for an additional 3 months, and no coercive extension would > be necessary, were they paid the difference between their military pay > and their outside opportunity. Which seems rather unlikely. It's a starting p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 14 10:13:08 PDT 2007

12690 [lbo-talk] Hillary searches for a more penetrating mode of living -- rank: 1000

<http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Commencement/ 1969/053169hillary.html> Wellesley College 1969 Student Commencement Speech Hillary D. Rodham May 31, 1969 Ruth M. Adams, ninth president of Wellesley College, introduced Hillary D. Rodham, '69, at the 91st commencement exercises, as follows: In addition to inviting Senator Brooke to speak to them this morning, the Class of '69 has expressed a desire to speak to them and for them at this morning's commencement. There was no debate so ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 14 09:11:09 PDT 2007