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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 ...

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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

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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

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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

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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

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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

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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

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Date:	Sun Apr 1 17:41:17 PDT 2007