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12841 [lbo-talk] the UK-Iran relation: a history -- rank: 1000
Wall Street Journal - April 2, 2007 History Frames Iran Standoff Resentment Runs Deep Over Past British Hand In Oil Trade, Governing By MARC CHAMPION The standoff over captured British sailors in Iran, which is entering a second week with little sign of resolution, is being fueled in part by more than a century of troubled history between the two countries. As rhetoric escalated and small blasts shook the British embassy in Tehran yesterday, analysts said Iran's decision to hold 15 British m ...
Document Size: 10501
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Apr 2 07:00:03 PDT 2007
12842 [lbo-talk] The Book of the Bourgeoisie (was Dennis Kucinich) -- rank: 1000
On Apr 2, 2007, at 9:42 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Socialized medicine in the USA and action on climate change that will > make things better for the poor majority of the world, if anything, > are as unlikely as a leftist president in the USA. Why not emigrate to Tehran, then? Doug
Document Size: 5081
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Apr 2 06:53:16 PDT 2007
12843 [lbo-talk] The Book of the Bourgeoisie (was Dennis Kucinich) -- rank: 1000
On Apr 2, 2007, at 8:58 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > On 4/1/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> it would seem like a waste of time > > You know, most causes that US leftists ought to campaign for (before > you can expect the rest of the US working class, who do not have the > same understanding of the capitalist system as leftists, to get > involved) -- from establishing socialized medicine to slowing down > climate change to ending the US wars in ...
Document Size: 6162
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Apr 2 06:15:48 PDT 2007
12844 [lbo-talk] Front-loaded campaign ( was Dennis Kucinich) -- rank: 1000
On Apr 2, 2007, at 8:57 AM, Charles Brown wrote: > CB: I've been trying to think through whether this perhaps qualitative > change in the form of the campaign might impact any federal government > actions. The candidates may become sort of shadow presidents. I > know the > Dems ain't s. , but won't the candidates have to try to think of some > criticisms of Bush's policies and raise them publically for a > longer period > of time ? Good question, and I haven't seen any of ...
Document Size: 5552
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Apr 2 06:12:26 PDT 2007
12845 [lbo-talk] NYC mayor richest guy in town -- rank: 1000
[what an era, eh? when the mayor is the richest guy in town?] New York Post - March 31, 2007 $13 BIL BLOOMY CITY'S RICHEST MAN 'DOUBLES' IN VALUE By RICHARD WILNER Mo' money for the mayor. April 1, 2007 -- The richest man in New York is none other than public servant Mike Bloomberg. The mayor is worth a staggering $13.6 billion - more than double the previously estimated $5.5 billion - according to Fortune magazine, and more than enough to make a run for the White House a veritable cakewalk ...
Document Size: 7631
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Apr 2 06:10:03 PDT 2007
12846 [lbo-talk] Narmada, damn! -- rank: 1000
On Apr 2, 2007, at 4:17 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > As I said, I live in one of the biggest cities (pop. > 13 million and climbing) in the world, and I love it. > However I do not want the entire world to be a big > city. BUt that's just not going to happen. So nothing to worry about! Doug
Document Size: 4829
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Apr 2 05:08:57 PDT 2007
12847 [lbo-talk] Merely cultural and post-Situ: Soft Focus w/ Ian Svenonius -- rank: 1000
On Apr 2, 2007, at 3:52 AM, B. wrote: > this post deals with the "merely > cultural" (a phrase stolen from Doug's official > LBO-Talk list description) A phrase I in turn stole from Judith Butler, who used it in her post- Sokal essay responding to all those old dinosaur leftists who thought "class" is what matters, and the "merely cultural" was fluff (for the girls, you might say). Doug
Document Size: 5308
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Apr 2 04:59:59 PDT 2007
12848 [lbo-talk] Marx's critique of neo classical economics -- rank: 1000
On Apr 1, 2007, at 11:05 PM, bhandari at berkeley.edu wrote: > The production of commodities is not governed by demand; rather demand > is a function of accumulation undertaken in the pursuit of ever > greater > quantities of surplus value. That's consistent with Keynes's idea of effective demand, no? I.e., capitalists make demand effective through their spending on investment and wages. Doug
Document Size: 5204
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Apr 1 20:39:39 PDT 2007
12849 [lbo-talk] EMI drops DRM -- rank: 1000
WSJ.com - April 1, 2007 8:27 p.m. EMI to Sell Much of its Music Without Antipiracy Software By ETHAN SMITH and NICK WINGFIELD In a major reversal of the music industry's longstanding antipiracy strategy, EMI Group PLC is set to announce Monday that it plans to sell significant amounts of its catalog without anticopying software, according to people familiar with the matter. The London-based music company is to make its announcement in a press conference that will feature Apple Inc. Chief Exe ...
Document Size: 8468
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Apr 1 19:49:11 PDT 2007
12850 [lbo-talk] Dennis Kucinich -- rank: 1000
On Apr 1, 2007, at 10:14 PM, tfast wrote: > Sure BUT. His program as articulated would be supported by most > lefties so > why not support anyone who is pushing that agenda. I agree that the > putative left needs to go local as its only hope of rebuilding > itself and > having any popular purchase. But there also needs to be some > coherency. > Otherwise so many points of light and all that. One of the reasons I voted for Nader twice is that I thought it might help bu ...
Document Size: 5990
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Apr 1 19:26:22 PDT 2007
12851 [lbo-talk] Dennis Kucinich -- rank: 1000
On Apr 1, 2007, at 10:02 PM, Chuck wrote: > Kucinich strikes me as being like those creepy liberal guys I run into > at parties who want to talk about 9/11 and the JFK assassination. I interviewed him (by phone) in 1999, and he struck me as monumentally weird. His kind of politics appeals to a small enough portion of the U.S. pop, but his absolute lack of charm renders him an unusually lost cause. Politicians have to have some charisma, fer chrissake. Doug
Document Size: 4912
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Apr 1 19:12:01 PDT 2007
12852 [lbo-talk] Dennis Kucinich -- rank: 1000
On Apr 1, 2007, at 8:57 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > "electability" (the seal of Master Class approval What's the point of mounting a campaign that's sure to lose - and not merely lose, but lose enormously? Purity of gesture? I'm still waiting for a list of those "leftists" that slavishly follow the "Master Class" (which weirdly seems to include no Republicans). The leftists I know best, myself and Liza, voted for Kerry in 2004, for a set of special reasons ...
Document Size: 5591
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Apr 1 19:07:50 PDT 2007
12853 [lbo-talk] Dennis Kucinich -- rank: 1000
On Apr 1, 2007, at 8:57 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > I'd be surprised if any US leftist other than Chuck0-like anarchists > (abstention), Solidarity and the ISO (a third party), and incorrigible > pacifists (Dennis Kucinich), who together constitute a small minority > of US leftists, would campaign for anyone other than a > Master-Class-approved Democratic Party candidate and try to change the > parameters of "electability" (the seal of Master Class approval, > si ...
Document Size: 5560
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Apr 1 18:44:05 PDT 2007
12854 [lbo-talk] Narmada Dam (was Arundhati Roy etc.) -- rank: 1000
On Apr 1, 2007, at 2:52 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > First, there is far more extreme and brutal inequality in our > industrialized society than in a hunting and gathering society. That's very nice, but what's the point of bringing it up? As you've conceded, there's no going back, so aside from showing us that things were once very different, I don't really know what conclusion we're meant to draw from this. Doug
Document Size: 5077
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Apr 1 17:43:31 PDT 2007
12855 [lbo-talk] Narmada, damn! -- rank: 1000
On Apr 1, 2007, at 3:09 PM, joanna wrote: > Here's the thing though. You live in one of the nicest sections of the > greatest cities in the world. > > "Billions" wouldn't feel so hot in a slum in Rio. Yeah, I know that. I'm objecting to the generalized revulsion from large numbers of people. Doug
Document Size: 4780
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Apr 1 17:41:17 PDT 2007
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