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13141 Re: [lbo-talk] Israeli Übermenschen -- rank: 1000

On Sep 1, 2006, at 4:47 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > If that's fascism, then the term is so broadly > applicable, it is analytically useless. But there's a thrill in applying it to Israel. Plus you can make nice clever graphics involving the Star of David and the Swastika. Doug

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13142 [lbo-talk] MoveOn: buncha wankers -- rank: 1000

From: "Eli Pariser, MoveOn.org Political Action" <moveon- help at list.moveon.org> Date: September 1, 2006 4:53:44 PM EDT To: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: No U.S. Senate endorsement Dear MoveOn member in New York, We wanted to let you know, MoveOn won't be making an endorsement in the U.S. Senate Democratic primary. In voting over the last day, neither Hillary Rodham Clinton nor Jonathan Tasini garnered the two- thirds support from MoveOn memb ...

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13143 [lbo-talk] Why Thomas Frank is Wrong -- rank: 1000

On Sep 1, 2006, at 4:17 PM, mike larkin wrote: > http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/ > 2006_09/009435.php > > > "....Part of the problem is that Democrats have been > misled about the state of the middle class. > Progressive economists typically peg median household > income at about $45,000. But that includes households > headed by 22-year olds (who are on their way up) and > 76-year olds (who live on fixed incomes that may be > small but ...

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13144 [lbo-talk] Why does the US support the change in IMF share quotes? -- rank: 1000

On Sep 1, 2006, at 2:54 PM, Patrick Bond wrote: > (Has this guy lost the battle to control the IMF, and is now saving > face?) How has he lost? The US would still have veto power. They just want to screw the Europeans, no? Doug

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13145 Re: [lbo-talk] Israeli Übermenschen -- rank: 1000

On Sep 1, 2006, at 2:20 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > I will defer to your more comprehensive criteria for handing out > the hakenkreuz and allow that Israelis could be considered as > perhaps "adjunct," "probationary" or "provisional" Nazis until they > satisfy all necessary requirements. Our government funds and arms Israel - does that make us Nazis too? Doug

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13146 [lbo-talk] Thomas Frank's state of the union -- rank: 1000

On Sep 1, 2006, at 9:32 AM, Carl Remick wrote: > Peter Beinart is (unintentionally) entertaining all right, but I > don't get the bit about "his reasoning must be heard." Last time I > checked Beinart was a Cold War nostalgist and eminently ignorable. > Must have been an off day for T. Frank. Maybe not. Tom recently refused to blurb a book by an old friend of his who wrote several pieces for The Baffler over the years. He claimed to be too busy, but that's hard to believ ...

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13147 [lbo-talk] In the Know -- rank: 1000

On Aug 31, 2006, at 5:07 PM, Dennis Redmond wrote: > Yoshie wrote: > >> Doug, you know nothing about Iran, and you know nothing about Iraq >> either. > > You mean, Doug isn't Juan Cole and hasn't spent decades studying > Persian, > Arabic, and the intricacies of Middle Eastern nation-state formation? > Shocked, I am shocked! All the more remarkable is how much Yoshie knows, despite not having done all that studying. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 1 09:47:00 PDT 2006

13148 [lbo-talk] union approval -- rank: 1000

[I don't think it requires a subscription to get the full report, where there are tables, graphs, and a full history going back to 1936: <http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=24343>.] September 01, 2006 Most Americans Approve of Labor Unions Say unions benefit the economy, union workers by Lydia Saad GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- AFL-CIO President John Sweeney is making the case this Labor Day for a change of power in Congress and for expanding the labor movement. Sweeney heral ...

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13149 [lbo-talk] Circulation Plunges at Major US Newspapers -- rank: 1000

On Nov 1, 2006, at 12:15 AM, ravi wrote: > At around 31/10/06 11:39 pm, Carrol Cox wrote: >> One side, essentially, holds that no progressive ends can be >> achieved except through the DP. The other side, essentially, holds >> that >> the DP is the prime barrier to progressive ends. >> > > I think you are misreading the ABB (for want of a better term) > position, > which many have expressed here and I have some sympathy with. It is > not > true ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 31 21:24:13 PST 2006

13150 [lbo-talk] 'cast your ballots with care' -- rank: 1000

On Oct 31, 2006, at 9:52 PM, JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: > We're still using paper ballots with optical scanners in my Florida > county. > What's NYC using these days? Schoup mechanical voting machines from the 1960s. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 31 20:54:53 PST 2006

13151 [lbo-talk] Circulation Plunges at Major US Newspapers -- rank: 1000

On Oct 31, 2006, at 5:13 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > What would it take for LBO to start a financially feasible one? How > high is the cost of entry? Enormous. Crushingly enormous.

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Date:	Tue Oct 31 14:38:20 PST 2006

13152 [lbo-talk] commie gossip -- rank: 1000

On Oct 31, 2006, at 3:00 PM, Eric wrote: > So, RM attenders, one of my sources tells me there was a bit of a > kerfuffle, or at least a vibe of contention and irritation, at the > "Rethinking Communism" plenary, something about the word > "communism" and a certain expansive speaker and maybe some other > stuff. My source refuses to divulge any other details. Anyone care > to indulge me? We'd already left. Wish I'd seen that plenary. I missed Liza's plenary ...

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13153 [lbo-talk] commie gossip -- rank: 1000

On Oct 31, 2006, at 3:26 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > In 40+ years of attending conferences, I've heard _one_ plenary paper > that was worth hearing -- Angela Davis in the Marxism 2000 conference. Hmm, I was the other plenary speaker with Davis. I guess I'm chopped liver. She's not only an admirable figure, she's also a warm and generous person. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 31 13:15:09 PST 2006

13154 [lbo-talk] Circulation Plunges at Major US Newspapers -- rank: 1000

On Oct 31, 2006, at 3:11 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > Do not they all rely on wire services, like Reuters or AFP? If the > Reuters service is available on Yahoo for free, that would cut out > other > intermediaries (like NYT) out of the loop without reducing the > availability > of information. The wire services are good, but they tend to be more functional - X said Y at a press conference. They don't do as much poking around. A lot of wire stories simply rewrite stories b ...

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13155 [lbo-talk] Circulation Plunges at Major US Newspapers -- rank: 1000

On Oct 31, 2006, at 1:19 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > I am no fan of big newspapers given their sordid history in this > country (e.g., the Hearst and Pullitzer press getting the US into > the Spanish American war) That was long ago, and those were some shitty papers. We could all make a long list of what's wrong with the big newspapers, but I really don't understand how anyone could know what's going on in the U.S. or the larger world without the likes of the NYT, WP, LAT, WSJ. ...

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