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13171 [lbo-talk] Countering the Politics of Fear (was Tariq Ali at UCLA today) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 28, 2006, at 10:54 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Western leftists Are these Western leftists? <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/letter070706.html> [...] It is regrettable that your web site has recently become so apologetic about Iran's Islamic regime. Many of us consider this to be in total contrast to the radical traditions of Harry Magdoff, Paul Sweezy, Ellen Woods . . . who considered anti-imperialist struggle as inseparable from anti-capitalist struggles and the battle f ...

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13172 [lbo-talk] Countering the Politics of Fear (was Tariq Ali at UCLA today) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 28, 2006, at 9:20 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > But you fit into the category well and express its tendency toward the > politics of fear, depending on topics. Does the Iranian-American socialist-feminist Val Moghadam count as a western leftist? This all seems very persuasive to me. <http://iranreview.com/Iran%20Analysis/ on_the_recent_elections_in_iran_.htm> On the Recent Elections in Iran Val Moghadam Iranian elections can be full of surprises - or can they? Was the electi ...

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13173 [lbo-talk] Countering the Politics of Fear (was Tariq Ali at UCLA today) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 28, 2006, at 9:20 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > But you fit into the category well and express its tendency toward the > politics of fear, depending on topics. Just last month, you were > suggesting that liberals were about to be cleansed from higher > education in Iran, with a Cultural Revolution-scale upheaval soon to > sweep the Iranian education system: Doug Henwood, "Cleansing Iran," > <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of- > Mon-2 ...

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13174 [lbo-talk] Brad Will, US Journalist and cameraman, killed in Oaxaca - killer ID'd - actions planned in US -- rank: 1000

On Oct 28, 2006, at 6:48 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > Michael Pugliese wrote: > >> Yup, >> http://pajamasmedia.com/2006/10/oaxaca_mexico_fox_finally_move.php > > I see where you're going with this, Michael. You are implying that > that Brad Will and the APPO are to blame. That's sick. Yes, really. Michael that's revolting. Are you now celebrating state- sponsored murder? Doug

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13175 [lbo-talk] Fwd: AAUP statement on Ward Churchill -- rank: 1000

[via Lou Proyect] STATEMENT OF THE AAUP CHAPTER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER REGARDING THE INVESTIGATION AND RECOMMENDED TERMINATION OF PROFESSOR WARD CHURCHILL The American Association of University Professors has been fighting to protect academic freedom, faculty governance, and due process in higher education since 1915. The newly constituted University of Colorado-Boulder chapter of the AAUP is deeply concerned over the University of Colorado administration's handling of th ...

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13176 [lbo-talk] Countering the Politics of Fear (was Tariq Ali at UCLA today) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 28, 2006, at 10:33 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Western leftists <yawn> Doug

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13177 [lbo-talk] Tariq Ali at UCLA today -- rank: 1000

On Oct 27, 2006, at 8:56 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > I actually think Iran needs a > major overhaul of its ruling structures Then why all the megabytes of apologetics for the regime, and attacks on "Western leftists" for saying this? It's not like any of us want the US to invade, or the UN to impose sanctions. Doug

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13178 [lbo-talk] Misogyny and fascism -- rank: 1000

On Oct 27, 2006, at 11:54 AM, Miles Jackson wrote: > This is a claim completely inconsistent with the available data. > What we know from human remains of hunting and gathering societies > is that there were not massive differences in the bone structure of > adults in these societies; there were not some malnourished people > and others who were well fed. Ok but does this have any implications for life today? It's not likely we'll got back to a h&g society, so is this of any ...

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13179 [lbo-talk] The God Solution -- rank: 1000

On Oct 26, 2006, at 12:39 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > I haven't conceptualized it much. Off the cuff I would > say subjective religious experience, the experience of > feeling the presence of God, the kind of thing > catalogued by William James. Or it could just be the "oceanic" feeling described by Freud, or Ferenczi's thrill at ur-memories of the womb. The feeling is no doubt real, but attributing religious content to it is just sad men making angels of the sun, to paraphr ...

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13180 [lbo-talk] Tariq Ali at UCLA today -- rank: 1000

On Oct 26, 2006, at 12:16 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > It's a small room, come early if you want to sit down. > > > Center for Social Theory and Comparative History > Co-sponsored with the Latin America Center > > Special Lecture > > The Latin American Challenge: Chavez, Morales, Castro > > Tariq Ali I've got an interview with Tariq in the can that I'll probably run on my radio show on Nov 9. Yoshie won't like what he says about Iran - that it needs a major over ...

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13181 [lbo-talk] dishonest material on Portside -- rank: 1000

On Oct 25, 2006, at 5:21 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > Jesse Lemisch > What an ignorant and twisted comment! > > ^^^^^ > CB: That's a bit strong. What I said ain't hardly ignorant,nor > twisted. I'm > starting to wonder about you. It's certainly not the way we should address each other around here! Listmom

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13182 [lbo-talk] EU Draws Line in the Lebanese Sand -- rank: 1000

On Oct 25, 2006, at 2:14 PM, Dennis Redmond wrote: > Here's the catch: if Israel decides to bomb an alleged bunker or arms > depot somewhere, it might accidentally hit UNIFIL lines, and UNIFIL > does > have the mandate to protect itself (the French fought very hard for > this, > apparently). If the French even fire on, much less shoot down, an Israeli plane, I'll eat my hat. Doug

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13183 [lbo-talk] Russian Far-Right Plans Anti-Immigrant Marches -- rank: 1000

On Oct 25, 2006, at 1:45 PM, Michael Givel wrote: > You don't take a hint very well do you? So, let me be more blunt. > > Most of us here are not fooled by your continued rank pro-Putin > propaganda about the supposed utopia you paint about Russia. If > that is your purpose here on this list--it is not working!!!!! > Your continued stream of sludge like below is also quite easy to > see through too. Cease. Desist. You've both made your points, and there's no need to hamme ...

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13184 [lbo-talk] Chomsky vs Marx/Lukacs -- rank: 1000

On Oct 25, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > We all have our superstitions and for some reason one of yours is that > Marx's Capital provides knowledge of something in the real world. > Capital is worth reading for its way of thinking, but the model > matches nothing that we can point to today and didn't match much of > 19th century English Capitalism, either. There were a few insights, > but nothing that is worth calling a "theory", except in a very loose > ...

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13185 [lbo-talk] Russian Far-Right Plans Anti-Immigrant Marches -- rank: 1000

On Oct 25, 2006, at 1:31 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Uh, no. The "rest of us" are not imbeciles. _Just > you_. And only you. Actually you're probably not an > imbecile. Just an uneducated fool Such insults are streng verboten. Doug

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