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13051 [lbo-talk] Russia and Iran -- rank: 1000
On Sep 11, 2006, at 1:50 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > CB: > In this case, Russian , Venezuela and Iran are not > imperialist countries, > are they ? They have no colonies, for one thing. > > --- > > But you don't understand. They are all bourgeois > states, and, therefore, are essentially equivalent to > all other bourgeois states. Russia has quite an imperial history, and I'd be surprised if it were adverse to reliving the old glories of empire. Doug
Document Size: 5020
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 11 11:46:15 PDT 2006
13052 [lbo-talk] Christian Parenti reports from Afghanistan -- rank: 1000
<http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060925/afghanistan> Chaos and Fear Stalk Afghanistan on 9/11 Anniversary by CHRISTIAN PARENTI [posted online on September 11, 2006] Kabul The fifth anniversary of September 11 finds Afghanistan in a deepening crisis. Security is deteriorating in most parts of the country, due to Taliban insurgency and general lawlessness. Economic development is largely stalled in the south and moving very slowly in the north. Kabul is mired in corruption and layer upon ...
Document Size: 11412
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 11 11:44:25 PDT 2006
13053 [lbo-talk] hierarchy of prejudice -- rank: 1000
On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:19 PM, Andy F wrote: > Did they ask about nonreligious or athiest? I think that runs more > than 80%. Gallup, 1999 <http://www.galluppoll.com:/content/Default.aspx? ci=3979&pg=1&t=PO8.%2fdCJcs8zl5yO%2fNNwqlIQtDzqqp7sq7-Y2-A0xj.EfG- tqpnCF3EMpYmot.rmItng%2f%2fWipSWz4bcWLKl2gysBnB5TcD96CcdWJliT. 0GsQETz06bBFAn.%2fqlCOw1IFHgFG1CYsGFLeIfbOxdSirCGhMX5ouGl>: Would not vote for an atheist: 48%. ...a homosexual: 37%. ...a Mormon: 17%. ...a woman: 7%. ...a Jew: ...
Document Size: 5245
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 11 09:33:35 PDT 2006
13054 [lbo-talk] hierarchy of prejudice -- rank: 1000
On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:19 PM, Andy F wrote: > Did they ask about nonreligious or athiest? I think that runs more > than 80%. <http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14638243/site/newsweek/> In a recent NEWSWEEK Poll, Americans said they believed in God by a margin of 92 to 6 only 2 percent answered "don't know" and only 37 percent said they'd be willing to vote for an atheist for president. (That's down from 49 percent in a 1999 Gallup poll which also found that more Americans would ...
Document Size: 5139
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 11 09:28:30 PDT 2006
13055 [lbo-talk] hierarchy of prejudice -- rank: 1000
On Sep 11, 2006, at 11:11 AM, www.leninology. blogspot.com wrote: > Doug wrote: > >> A Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times poll conducted in June showed that 37 >> percent would never vote for a Mormon for president, compared with 14 >> percent who wouldn't vote for a Jew and 9 percent who wouldn't vote >> for a Roman Catholic. > > Oh, you missed out one that was covered in the original poll: 53% > wouldn't vote for a Muslim. I did miss that - thanks, and the LAT s ...
Document Size: 5208
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 11 09:18:34 PDT 2006
13056 [lbo-talk] burying the lede -- rank: 1000
On Sep 11, 2006, at 11:09 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > If this explanation of the Post action is correct (with its > implication > that the running of the news stories today was a conscious political > decision), then we have one more illustration of the unity at the very > top levels of ruling class circles on the necessity of maintaining > u.s. > military presence in Iraq. A question: in the apparently contradiction-free Coxworld, why'd they run the story at all? Doug
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 11 09:17:38 PDT 2006
13057 [lbo-talk] hierarchy of prejudice -- rank: 1000
<http://washtimes.com/national/20060910-115756-6222r.htm> A Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times poll conducted in June showed that 37 percent would never vote for a Mormon for president, compared with 14 percent who wouldn't vote for a Jew and 9 percent who wouldn't vote for a Roman Catholic.
Document Size: 4843
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 11 07:46:27 PDT 2006
13058 [lbo-talk] burying the lede -- rank: 1000
<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238&page=2> On any other day, the Thomas Ricks story that the chief of intelligence for the Marine Corps in Iraq "recently filed an unusual secret report concluding that the prospects for securing that country's western Anbar province are dim and that there is almost nothing the U.S. military can do to improve the political and social situation there" would be of seismic importance. But the Washington Post does the Whit ...
Document Size: 5195
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 11 07:38:47 PDT 2006
13059 [lbo-talk] Hitch: we must learn to become more ruthless -- rank: 1000
[I'm awaiting Hitch's offer to volunteer in Iraq, in accordance with his lovely coda about on-the-job training in ruthlessness.] Wall Street Journal - September 11, 2006 Solidarity By CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS September 11, 2006; Page A14 Never mind where I was standing or what I was doing this time five years ago. (Because really, what could be less pertinent?) Except that I do remember wondering, with apparent irrelevance, how soon I would be hearing one familiar cliché. And that I do remember ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 11 05:14:02 PDT 2006
13060 [lbo-talk] the view from capital -- rank: 1000
On Sep 10, 2006, at 11:49 PM, tfast wrote: > I am with Joanna the educated are owed no more of a living then > anyone else. Who said they were? Doug
Document Size: 4664
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Sep 10 21:08:04 PDT 2006
13061 [lbo-talk] Re: where have all the protesters gone? -- rank: 1000
[sorry this got accidentally trashed] From: Aaron Shuman <maruta_us at yahoo.com> Date: September 10, 2006 11:45:41 AM EDT To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: where have all the protesters gone? AS: Here are some speculations to provoke discussion... 1. Katrina solidarity work brigades in New Orleans (and the failure of the anti-war movement to link with this movement in a substantive way that changes policy is one of the biggest failures of the past year); 2. Decentralization is ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Sep 10 20:07:13 PDT 2006
13062 [lbo-talk] bagels/ethnicity -- rank: 1000
On Sep 10, 2006, at 4:53 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > I was going to bring that up. That's what's so funny about this > original discussion being posed as if bagels and pizza were > traditional things that were handed down pristine and perfect and > shouldn't be messed with. According to an article in an inflight airline mag I read once, something similar is true of sushi - that originally in Japan it was special-occasion food, but in recent decades, they've imported American-styl ...
Document Size: 5093
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Sep 10 19:44:38 PDT 2006
13063 [lbo-talk] bagels/ethnicity -- rank: 1000
On Sep 10, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Jesse Lemisch wrote: > I dunno, Doug, about your unqualifiedly optimistic view of US food. What I said: > Yeah, sure there are lots of fatties, and lots > of crappy food, but nothing in capitalist life is ever without > contradiction. But the average is so much better than before that > it's barely in the same universe. That looks like a qualified view to me. Doug >
Document Size: 4926
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Sep 10 19:38:50 PDT 2006
13064 [lbo-talk] the view from capital -- rank: 1000
On Sep 10, 2006, at 9:19 PM, joanna wrote: >> The more people who fail to complete college, the more people who >> will blame themselves for their failure to find decent paying jobs. > > Maybe. Or maybe, it will occur to some that there should be no > required link between a living wage and a college degree. Maybe it > will occur to them that college is just a huge justification for > inequality. Joanna, you have a PhD, right? Do you regret having one? Do you think al ...
Document Size: 5708
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Sep 10 19:37:01 PDT 2006
13065 [lbo-talk] bagels/ethnicity -- rank: 1000
On Sep 9, 2006, at 11:24 PM, utopia1 at attglobal.net wrote: > As to your remark that food in the US is "a million times better > than it was > 30-35 years ago": unqualified and uncomplex, this remark falls apart > immediately. (It didn't make it here through cyberspace, so I had > to use a > secret technique to resonstruct it.) We all know the ample evidence > of the > improvement in American tastes, "slow food," New Paltz, Union Square, > etc. But ...
Document Size: 6327
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Sep 10 08:31:57 PDT 2006
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