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13156 [lbo-talk] Rangel-Cheney pissing match -- rank: 1000

New York Post - October 31, 2006 RANGEL & VEEP IN ALL-OUT WAR REP. RIPS 'S.O.B.' AFTER TAX ASSAULT By GEOFF EARLE WASHINGTON - Rep. Charles Rangel yesterday blasted Dick Cheney as a "son of a bitch" after the vice president said the Harlem lawmaker would raise taxes and destroy the economy if Democrats take control of the House. The bitter war of words escalated to the point where the bombastic Rangel even questioned whether the tightly wound Cheney needed professional treatme ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 31 10:55:33 PST 2006

13157 [lbo-talk] Circulation Plunges at Major US Newspapers -- rank: 1000

On Oct 31, 2006, at 9:30 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > a "politically correct" tabloid. I'd love one of those. Not in the constrained, proper, euphemizing PC sense, but a good left-wing tabloid, that was full of news, gossip, and went after the ruling class in an energized, polemical, witty way. The NY Post is brilliant at what it does; I wish we had one. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 31 10:15:42 PST 2006

13158 [lbo-talk] Re: Red State Babylon -- rank: 1000

On Oct 30, 2006, at 5:57 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > Dumbest thing I've read all month. Christ, I'm a socialist and > even I viscerally recoil with a snarl at a sermon from the upper > west side about how much morally superior they are to those awful > hicks in the flyover states. 'Tude like this is why the liberals > lost the culture wars. Thank malatesta I live in northern Nevada. > I'd take an afternoon with a mormon roads department truck driver > over this jerkoff snob a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 30 15:22:36 PST 2006

13159 [lbo-talk] Rockwell: Daylight Savings Time is Totalitarianism! -- rank: 1000

On Oct 30, 2006, at 5:05 PM, mike larkin wrote: > http://blog.lewrockwell.com/lewrw/archives/011627.html > > Posted by Lew Rockwell at October 30, 2006 02:01 PM > How wonderful for an early riser to have the former War Savings > Time ended, at least for a while, and the clock returned to normal. > This totalitarian intervention began in 1917 for Wilson's war. > Thanks to popular opposition, Congress repealed it in 1919 over > Woodrow's veto, but as you might guess, FDR br ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 30 14:24:39 PST 2006

13160 [lbo-talk] The Iran thing -- rank: 1000

On Oct 30, 2006, at 1:05 PM, ravi wrote: > So, this Moghadam... is she or he an Iranian? She's Iranian-American, spent part of her youth in Iran, part in the U.S. She now lives in the U.S. I interviewed her at <http:// www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#060817>. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 30 11:43:05 PST 2006

13161 [lbo-talk] Countering the Politics of Fear (was Tariq Ali at UCLAtoday) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 30, 2006, at 11:38 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Because the economic side of "liberalism" and "secularism" tends to > fall out of the picture many here have in mind. You're arguing with phantoms. That doesn't describe me, or Val Moghadam, or any of the signers of the open letter denouncing your Iran coverage on MRZine. Many many Iranians, perhaps most, are sick of rule by theocrats. Your definition of "Western leftists" seems to cover everyone from ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 30 09:10:15 PST 2006

13162 [lbo-talk] Merrill on the election -- rank: 1000

[from Merrill Lynch's The Market Economist] Hot topic Mid-Term Elections and Market Implications With 11 days to go ahead of the mid-term elections, in which 1/3rd of the Senate seats and the full House are up for election, the polls are suggesting it could be a very interesting election night. In this week's Hot Topic we discuss the possible impact of the different election scenarios on the overall financial markets, and specifically on key US industries. Below is a listing in order of lik ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 30 07:35:17 PST 2006

13163 [lbo-talk] Countering the Politics of Fear (was Tariq Ali at UCLAtoday) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 29, 2006, at 11:32 PM, Jesse Lemisch wrote: > But I wonder about your earlier condemnation of my use of the term > "gibberish" in regard to somebody else's post on another topic. Hmm, I thought it was Foucault that you called gibberish, and I didn't like that, because I like Foucault, and I really like that passage on the "model of war." Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 29 20:44:13 PST 2006

13164 [lbo-talk] Countering the Politics of Fear (was Tariq Ali at UCLA today) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 29, 2006, at 10:15 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Cultural Revolution-scale upheaval is about to happen in Iran based on > just one speech. If George Bush gave a speech saying "get the liberals out of the universities!," a lot of people would be rightly scared. Because when a president says something, lots of people are encouraged to do things they might not otherwise do. There's no shortage of people in the US who'd love a purge of leftists from our universities, and f ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 29 20:05:35 PST 2006

13165 [lbo-talk] Countering the Politics of Fear (was Tariq Ali at UCLA today) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 29, 2006, at 10:15 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > "[L]ittle different"? I can't imagine Valentine M. Moghadam putting a > sensational title like "Cleansing Iran" to her article or suggesting a > Cultural Revolution-scale upheaval is about to happen in Iran based on > just one speech. She's a scholar,* after all -- she'd first do > research and then make sober evaluation, without sensationalist > rhetoric. You remind me of the time that Saskia Sassen ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 29 19:37:26 PST 2006

13166 [lbo-talk] The God Solution -- rank: 1000

On Oct 26, 2006, at 9:51 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Speaking of the 9th, what about that weird Turkish march that >> interrupts the Ode to Joy? Zizek claims it's an ironic self- >> deconstruction of the text's hymn to universal brotherhood. > > God, that's so wrong it makes me wonder if he's even listening. > The whole plot of the Ode to Joy is looking for and then finally a > melody that is adequate to express th ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 29 18:14:39 PST 2006

13167 [lbo-talk] Countering the Politics of Fear (was Tariq Ali at UCLA today) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 29, 2006, at 11:53 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > When rhetoric is not over the top, one can better evaluate the > substance of what's being said, whether to agree or disagree or agree > in part and disagree in part. Over-the-top rhetoric, imho, gets in > the way of sensible discussion. I don't know where this "over the top" rhetoric has been except maybe in your imagination. What Moghadam said in the quoted bits is little different from what I've said. I'm beginni ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 29 17:36:03 PST 2006

13168 [lbo-talk] Countering the Politics of Fear (was Tariq Ali at UCLA today) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 28, 2006, at 11:32 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Nothing in the article below is over the top, > though, nor anything else by her I have read. If her work seems very > persuasive to you, perhaps you might tone down your rhetoric to her > level. So you don't object when Moghadam describes "'Islamic democracy' [as a] pipe-dream or a highly managed form"; says that the choice between Rafsanjani and Ahmadinejad was "rather like the choice between a Republican an ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 29 08:19:31 PST 2006

13169 [lbo-talk] Countering the Politics of Fear (was Tariq Ali at UCLA today) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 28, 2006, at 11:32 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> Are these Western leftists? > > Yes. They live in the West and are unlikely to go back to Iran and > live there permanently. Because they can't think, write, or live freely. They'd be at risk of being arrested or killed. Doesn't it give you pause that the kinds of Iranians - people who no doubt have family and friends in Iran - who identify with MR find your position offensive? > She's lived in the West for a long tim ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 29 07:12:40 PST 2006

13170 [lbo-talk] Countering the Politics of Fear (was Tariq Ali at UCLA today) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 28, 2006, at 10:01 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Is there really an actual program in Iran to get rid of liberal > teachers? A new academic year clocked in Iran, without any Cultural > Revolution. <http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=7601> 27 October, 2006 IRAN Islamization of Iranian schools grows Teachers, curricula and text books are subject to Muslim principles. Political activities at universities are strictly controlled. Tehran (AsiaNews) The new school y ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 28 20:34:31 PDT 2006