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13876 [lbo-talk] sources -- rank: 1000

[via The Note] <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/21/AR2006052101374.html> The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz reports that the recent untrue claim that Rove had been indicted was written by "a journalist who has battled drug addiction and mental illness and been convicted of grand larceny." And yet, that didn't stop "more than 35 reporters - from all the major newspapers, networks and newsmagazines - from calling Luskin or Rove's spokesman, Mark Co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 22 07:29:40 PDT 2006

13877 [lbo-talk] Orthodox and Muslims Slam 'Da Vinci' -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Orthodox and Muslims Slam 'Da Vinci' So, Yoshie - we obligated to support the Muslims on this? Doug

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Date:	Mon May 22 07:02:36 PDT 2006

13878 [lbo-talk] Street-fighting Days -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >On 5/21/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > some people who are >really no friends of the >>values that have characterized the Western left. > >Give yourself several years, and see where you stand on Ahmadinejad >(supposing that he will survive the present and future conflicts in >those intervening years). You, like many other US leftists, didn't >immediately think highly of Chavez, argue for the US withdrawal from >Iraq, et ...

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Date:	Mon May 22 05:33:54 PDT 2006

13879 [lbo-talk] Street-fighting Days -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Well, that's just the point. To *you* it doesn't seem enlightened. I >don't think I'm presuming too much when I say that you probably take >that view in part because you're promoting a political strategy for >the left to ally with religious Muslims, to view Mahmoud Ahmedinijad >as "our man in Iran," etc. Leftists with other strategies and other >priorities (and coming from other historical traditions) will see >things differently. Yoshie's att ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 21 19:38:35 PDT 2006

13880 [lbo-talk] How Jewish is Israel? -- rank: 1000

Joel Schalit wrote: >Like a lot of mainstream periodicals, even Time harbors some fairly >diverse opinions amongst its editors. But they'd never run a piece like this in Time, would they? Doug

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Date:	Sun May 21 17:36:02 PDT 2006

13881 [lbo-talk] How Jewish is Israel? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/717653.html> Haaretz - May 21, 2006 Iyyar 23, 5766 How Jewish is Israel? By Tony Karon If we concede A.B. Yehoshua's claim that Israel is the source of Jewish identity in today's world, we reduce Jewish identity to a conversation between anti-Semitism and a blood-and-soil nationalism that is Jewish only in the sense that anti-Semites use the term i.e., racial. But if, instead, we define "Jewish" on the basis of the universal ethical challenges ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 21 07:51:17 PDT 2006

13882 [lbo-talk] Ahmadinejad, the Mardomyar -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Mahmud has not changed in the 30 years I've known him Exactly what R. Emmett "Bob" Tyrell said of himself when I was introduced to him about 10 years ago. I said I was in the Party of the Right in college, but I'd changed. He hadn't. Is not changing in 30 years a great virtue? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 20 21:55:43 PDT 2006

13883 [lbo-talk] churchill: wow -- rank: 1000

Jerry Monaco wrote: >Saying "Fuck you" and calling what people write bullshit is not >exactly civil. That was the only "discussion" I received from you. Ok, enough meta-discourse, both of you. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 20 16:21:46 PDT 2006

13884 [lbo-talk] churchill: wow -- rank: 1000

info at pulpculture.org wrote: >I've been taking time out from work to read snippets of the report >on Churchill. > >Wow. Just wow. He ghostwrote articles which constituted half of an >anthology he wrote? Wow. Just wow. Why do such a thing? Yeah, why? That's what I don't get. The unvarnished truth is terrible enough - why did he have to make shit up? It makes no sense. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 20 13:54:38 PDT 2006

13885 [lbo-talk] NYT to Chávez : Drop Dea d -- rank: 1000

Chuck wrote: >It's really stupid that there is this either-or dichotomy in leftist >thinking about Chavez. It's either you support and celebrate Chavez >or you are an opponent who is in league with the American >imperialists. That's not my position. Chavez is far from perfect, but he's a really good try, and I hope it works out. But he's not a saint. >How about other positions, including my anarchist position and >positions held by Venezuelans, many of whom hate American >in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 20 13:28:36 PDT 2006

13886 [lbo-talk] Re: [OFFLIST] NYT to Chávez : Drop Dead -- rank: 1000

Jerry Monaco wrote: >Colin, Hey, folks - when you want to write "OFFLIST," be sure to double-check the address field. Fortunately, there was nothing embarrassing or personal in this exchange, but sometimes there is. Deleting something from the archives is a big pain (for Jordan), so we are very reluctant to do it unless it's really really serious. So be careful. Doug

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Date:	Sat May 20 13:26:35 PDT 2006

13887 [lbo-talk] NYT to Chávez : Drop Dead -- rank: 1000

Chuck wrote: >Carl Remick wrote: > >> I understand that's Chavez's policy also, so there is little chance he >> will take note of your ravings. > >All hail Chavez! Supreme savior of the Left! That's not my attitude. I admire him because he's trying to do something really hard - keep a country together and promoting development while resisting US power. You make it sound like it would be easy to accomplish. In fact, you sound a lot like the ISO guy I was arguing Chavez w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 20 11:20:11 PDT 2006

13888 [lbo-talk] NYT to Chávez : Drop Dead -- rank: 1000

Chuck wrote: >I support the people of Latin America and their efforts to resist >American imperialism. But as an anarchist I'm going to speak up in >opposition to Chavez and all other leaders like him. What's the anarchist approach to resisting American imperialism? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 20 10:42:11 PDT 2006

13889 [lbo-talk] NYT to Chávez : Drop Dead -- rank: 1000

Chuck wrote: >Fuck Chavez. Just another fucking dictator for life. Well, no. He's been elected several times and survived a recall vote - and the Venezuelan media are free to criticize him, which they do. That's not the way "dictators" work. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 20 10:22:59 PDT 2006

13890 [lbo-talk] Re: Let Us Be Glad It Is Hard to Amend the Constitution -- rank: 1000

Brian Charles Dauth wrote: >No, it is a direct benefit of having a cumbersome amending process. >The cumbersomeness allows the idiot passions time to cool and >rationality to regain its rightful control. That is exactly the rationale that Madison & Co. used, except their idea of "idiot passions" included any "wicked" attempt by the masses to expropriate the rich. The classic passage from Federalist 10 <http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/federal/fed10.htm>: ...

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Date:	Sat May 20 10:03:39 PDT 2006