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13861 [lbo-talk] Terror Bill Would Limit Florida Scholars' Travel -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >Florida could become one of the most restrictive states in the nation >for international scholars under a proposal that would forbid professors >and students from visiting Cuba and other nations accused of supporting >terrorism. What a bunch of crap. The US has unleashed more terrorism on Cuba than Cuba on the US. Just what are the Cubans alleged to have done to us? Doug

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Date:	Tue May 23 13:31:46 PDT 2006

13862 [lbo-talk] 3 videos I uploaded to YouTube, enjoy -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >3) US anarchist MURRAY BOOKCHIN. 1979 interview about >anarchism and Marxism. About 5 mins. It's been >geneically proven that Bookchin was separated at birth >from Michael Parenti. > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVVxfCUEu1I Oooh, "the workers' movement never really had the revolutionary potentialities that Marx attributed to it." The factory programmed workers' minds to be regimented & obedient. So MB turns to anarchism as a critique of all hierarchi ...

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Date:	Tue May 23 12:18:49 PDT 2006

13863 [lbo-talk] Street-fighting Days -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: His 2nd post of the day, following: 7 on Friday 5 on Saturday 5 on Sunday 6 on Monday So I think 2 is enough for today. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 23 10:02:04 PDT 2006

13864 [lbo-talk] nice work... -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - May 22, 2006 A-LIST, OR $-LIST EVEN Paris Hilton was amazed after she collected $200,000 just for showing up at a charity event in Cannes on Saturday. And FoxNews.com's Roger Friedman reports she was paid $1 million for a similar event in Vienna a few weeks ago. What does she have to do for the money? "All I had to do was wave, like this," she said, imitating Queen Elizabeth II's stately palm swivel. Still, some party snobs try to keep Paris out. She was not ...

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Date:	Tue May 23 10:00:19 PDT 2006

13865 [lbo-talk] Street-fighting Days -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> I think I'll stick with Chavez. > >Rest of the world must follow Cuba and Venezuela? I really don't get where you're coming from politically, but here's what I think: for a lot of the world, capitalist development isn't working out so well. Much of Latin America and South Asia and almost all of Africa are doing quite poorly. Alternatives to orthodoxy are desperately needed by the billion or two of the world's poor. Cuba has mana ...

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Date:	Tue May 23 07:33:50 PDT 2006

13866 [lbo-talk] Volume Control -- rank: 1000

Dennis Redmond wrote: >Overposters: you know who you are. Please chill. Some of us have to get by >with 56K connections. Yeah, please. And those who introduce a post by noting they're already over-limit - that note doesn't count. Yesterday: Yoshie Furuhashi - 13 posts Chris Doss - 6 posts Doug

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Date:	Tue May 23 06:01:13 PDT 2006

13867 [lbo-talk] Street-fighting Days -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >My bottom line on Iran: criticize what you need to criticize on civil >liberties, anti-Semitic rhetoric, etc., but recognize its populist >aspects. Anti-semitism is a classic strategy for right populists! You get to blame all the evils of capitalism on an outsider "race," and thereby externalize the problem. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 22 16:02:54 PDT 2006

13868 [lbo-talk] Street-fighting Days -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I've presented such facts as available to me in the English language >about the social and economic policy of the Ahmadinejad >administration: ><http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20051205/026706.html> ><http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20060508/037925.html>. And on reading some of the sources you cite in the second, I learn: <http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1013/p25s01-wome.html> >Such u ...

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Date:	Mon May 22 15:26:42 PDT 2006

13869 [lbo-talk] Street-fighting Days -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Doug, WSWS is also convinced of "the absolute political necessity of >building a revolutionary party of the working class independent of and >in opposition to the Chavez government" (at ><http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/mar2006/van2-m20.shtml>). > >As I said to Jerry, some political currents -- like the Socialist >Equality Party, the Spartacists, etc. -- are too marginal for me to >bother arguing against. It's a waste of time. ...

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Date:	Mon May 22 14:26:54 PDT 2006

13870 [lbo-talk] repulsive press release of the day -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >Are you going to interview Bennett? Hell no. That'd be a complete waste of time. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 22 12:53:35 PDT 2006

13871 [lbo-talk] Street-fighting Days -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I'm afraid that most US leftists won't even study what's happening in >and to Iran in time, though they ought to be studying it and >clarifying it to the general public. They must do so objectively, >without defending the indefensible (e.g., flirtations with Holocaust >revisionism). <http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/dec2005/iran-d30.shtml> Historical and political issues behind Iranian president's anti-Semitic campaign By Justus Leicht and Stephan ...

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Date:	Mon May 22 12:18:17 PDT 2006

13872 [lbo-talk] Street-fighting Days -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I'm afraid that most US leftists won't even study what's happening in >and to Iran in time, though they ought to be studying it and >clarifying it to the general public. They must do so objectively, >without defending the indefensible (e.g., flirtations with Holocaust >revisionism). <http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/jan2006/iran-j21.shtml> [...] In opposing the predatory activities of US imperialism in the Middle East, however, the World Socialist ...

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Date:	Mon May 22 12:14:43 PDT 2006

13873 [lbo-talk] Re: Orthodox and Muslims Slam 'Da Vinci' -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Taking a sober look at the "state of the left," one would be tempted >to say: "I'm just gonna cultivate my garden, like Candide." Why >bother talking to any leftist about the need to understand and clarify >the Ahmadinejad administration's social and economic program, the >imperative of fighting against state measures that are motivated by >and promote xenophobia though couched in defense of women, etc.? Why >not read that Juan ...

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Date:	Mon May 22 12:08:46 PDT 2006

13874 [lbo-talk] Hillary iPodham Clinton -- rank: 1000

[Hill v. W comparison at <http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/zgraphic05222006003.jpg>; W has The Knack's "My Sharona" on his (so do I] New York Post - May 22, 2006 HILLARY IPODHAM CLINTON POLITICAL PLAYER OFFERS PEEK AT HER SONG LIST By IAN BISHOP Post Correspondent WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton doesn't need "Respect" - she's already got it at the top of her iPod playlist. The surprisingly tech-savvy Clinton mixes Aretha Franklin's 1967 landmark smash hi ...

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Date:	Mon May 22 12:06:17 PDT 2006

13875 [lbo-talk] repulsive press release of the day -- rank: 1000

Hello All, I'm contacting you about Dr. William J. Bennett, author of The Book of Virtues and former Secretary of Education under President Ronald Reagan. Dr. Bennett has a new book, AMERICA: THE LAST BEST HOPE, in which he presents a balanced history of the United States. Bennett argues that most books on American history promote cynicism and mull over the low points, and don't allow Americans to take pride in their history. AMERICA: THE LAST BEST HOPE is the unadulterated story of America, wh ...

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Date:	Mon May 22 11:46:22 PDT 2006