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13906 [lbo-talk] more Churchill -- rank: 1000

Colin Brace wrote: >Just out of curiousity: how much did Verso "edit" your Wall Sreet >book? I mean, did some fact-checker go through all your citations or >did they basically just print your ms as is? Virtually no editing at all. A right-wing student who used Wall Street in a class, and was very displeased, factchecked it and came up empty-handed. This isn't unusual for trade book publishing. Unless a work is likely to provoke litigation, it's barely checked at all. Some copy ...

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Date:	Thu May 18 08:52:22 PDT 2006

13907 [lbo-talk] more Churchill -- rank: 1000

Dennis Redmond wrote: >What's amazing is how the Rightwing stalwarts of academic integrity and >honesty can pass over the fact that almost every single assertion or piece >of evidence presented by the US oiligarchy to justify the murder of >50,000+ Iraqis and 2,400+ US soldiers has been a shameless, contemptible >lie. All true. But some of us writers who are radical critics of the established order feel an obligation to be especially accurate, making it a little harder for apologi ...

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Date:	Thu May 18 06:01:24 PDT 2006

13908 [lbo-talk] Ward Churchill and Left-wing Publishers -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >That raises questions: Is it fair to look into what gets published by >Z Magazine, AK Press, etc. and hold it up to exactly the same standard >as what gets published in scholarly journals and university presses? >Is it common for professors to get investigated for "academic >misconduct" on account of what they published for non-scholarly >audiences? Shouldn't you be careful about saying things like this now that you have a position with Monthl ...

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Date:	Thu May 18 05:56:48 PDT 2006

13909 [lbo-talk] more Churchill -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >If researchers of Norman Finkelstein's forensic ability looked into >books and articles by right-wing academics, they would surely find >more problems than what's found in Ward Churchill's writings and even >more than what Finkelstein found in Alan Dershowitz's _The Case for >Israel_. No doubt. All these things are true. But the story of white treatment of the Indians is horrible enough - why did Churchill have to invent, exaggerate, and plagiarize? It's a ...

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Date:	Thu May 18 04:48:22 PDT 2006

13910 [lbo-talk] more Churchill -- rank: 1000

<http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/05/17/churchill> WEDNESDAY May 17, 2006 Truth and Consequences In the end, the faculty panel assigned to look into the Ward Churchill mess at the University of Colorado found plenty of guilt to go around. It found repeated, intentional academic misconduct - plagiarism, fabrication, falsification and more - by Churchill, an ethnic studies professor at Colorado's Boulder campus, and documented those instances in a 124-page report released Tuesday. But the ...

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Date:	Wed May 17 15:08:32 PDT 2006

13911 [lbo-talk] kicked out of Netherlands, finding refuge at AEI -- rank: 1000

Colin Brace wrote: >It's no big deal, just that I question whether it is helpful to think >of her as a victim. Like the murdered Van Gogh, she is also partly >responsible for the circumstances in which she finds herself. Just like a woman who gets raped while wearing a short skirt was asking for it? I don't like the Muslim-bashing, but really - people shouldn't be killed for their speech. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 17 14:14:50 PDT 2006

13912 [lbo-talk] a memoir of jury duty -- rank: 1000

Speaking of jury duty, Choire Sicha has a funny memoir of his own: <http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/new_york_new_york/it_mustve_been_something_i_hate.php>. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 17 13:21:06 PDT 2006

13913 [lbo-talk] U.S. backing warlords in Somalia -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - May 17, 2006 U.S. Secretly Backing Warlords in Somalia By Emily Wax and Karen DeYoung Washington Post Foreign Service More than a decade after U.S. troops withdrew from Somalia following a disastrous military intervention, officials of Somalia's interim government and some U.S. analysts of Africa policy say the United States has returned to the African country, secretly supporting secular warlords who have been waging fierce battles against Islamic groups for control of the cap ...

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Date:	Wed May 17 10:38:58 PDT 2006

13914 [lbo-talk] most amazing press release of the week -- rank: 1000

From: "TrafonPR at Yahoo.com" <trafonpr at yahoo.com> To: "dhenwood at panix.com" <dhenwood at panix.com> Reply-To: trafonpr at yahoo.com Subject: Heíll Light Up Your Board, Just As He Did On WGN Yesterday Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 13:06:41 -0400 He'll Light Up Your Board, Just As He Did On WGN Yesterday "Bill was such a hit with listeners, we kept him on for an extra segment. We received tons of calls. Bill Downs was a great guest who we'd have on again at any ...

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Date:	Wed May 17 10:16:18 PDT 2006

13915 [lbo-talk] "The Authentic"? was ....Grappling.... -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Last post for day. Doug's watchin' me! Hmmm, maybe >he's at jury duty... ;) Nope - I'm back to my joint role of judge, jury, & executioner! That was #4. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 17 10:08:28 PDT 2006

13916 [lbo-talk] power! -- rank: 1000

My Congressperson is the 273rd most powerful - where's yours (if you're an American, that is)? <http://www.congress.org/congressorg/power_rankings/overall.tt>

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Date:	Wed May 17 10:07:06 PDT 2006

13917 [lbo-talk] jury duty -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Also there's the tort reform >movement, which can be seen as anti-jury, even if it >is a fraud And my old Party of the Right comrade Walter "Wally" Olsen is one of its ringleaders. The Manhattan Institute pays Wally to come up with all those fabulous stories you hear about out-of-control damage awards. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 17 09:42:39 PDT 2006

13918 [lbo-talk] coalition of the willing: there's Australia, and... -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - May 17, 2006 Bush Reinforces Friendship With Australia Pomp Surrounds Visit by Prime Minister, Who Has Backed White House in Iraq By Peter Baker Washington Post Staff Writer President Bush laid out all the trappings yesterday for visiting Australian Prime Minister John Howard: the marching bands and troop review on the South Lawn, Australian flags along Pennsylvania Avenue, meetings in the West Wing, a black-tie dinner in the State Dining Room. When he escorted Howard into the ...

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Date:	Wed May 17 09:40:43 PDT 2006

13919 [lbo-talk] Hillary on Iraq: just what *is* her position? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.observer.com/printpage.asp?iid=12831&ic=News+Story+1> New York Observer - May 22, 2006 Does Sen. Clinton Have Secret Plan For War in Iraq? Agitated Supporters Wait for Senator to Take Stand: Clinton Aide: 'Not Trying to Satisfy Constituencies'; Abramowitz: 'Not So Distinguishable From Bush' Jason Horowitz Contrary to appearances, Hillary Clinton may well have a detailed, thoroughly thought-out plan for dealing with Iraq. But she's trying hard to keep it quiet. With Iraq's f ...

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Date:	Wed May 17 09:36:58 PDT 2006

13920 [lbo-talk] Gonzales: "not clear" if his grandparents were legal -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - May 17, 2006 Gonzales 'not clear' if kin legal By JAMES GORDON MEEK DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales admitted yesterday it's "just not clear" if his Mexican-immigrant grandparents settled in the U.S. legally. The nation's top cop - who is the first Hispanic attorney general - has become a pointman for the White House on divisive immigration reforms President Bush is pushing. "Three of my grandparents were born in Mex ...

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Date:	Wed May 17 09:28:46 PDT 2006