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14056 [lbo-talk] English language reports on today's Latin American leaders summit -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >Despite scare headlines about crises and divisions preceding >the summit, the Guardian reports Lula's strong statement of support for >Bolivia's action, which he described as "a necessary adjustment for a >suffering people who have the right to demand great power over their >riches". His comments were made despite "repeated fire this week" from the >Brazilian bourgeoisie, fretting about the prospect of higher gas prices. What's up with ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 5 12:10:53 PDT 2006

14057 [lbo-talk] Chechnya, Darfur, and Jewish Activism -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >"Chechnya, Darfur, and Jewish Activism" ><http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/furuhashi050506.html>. > >Hey, MP, you have my permission to send this to Marc Cooper or anyone >else for that matter. Spread the word! Where you say: >Meanwhile, Vice President Dick Cheney "delivered the Bush >administration's strongest rebuke of Russia to date. He said the >Russian government 'unfairly and improperly restricted' people's >rights an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 5 11:59:39 PDT 2006

14058 [lbo-talk] a Bob Herbert bot -- rank: 1000

John Adams wrote: >On May 5, 2006, at 12:13 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>The most amazing thing about this is that someone took the trouble >>to read all those Bob Herbert columns. God, is he dull. > >The black citizenry of Tulia, Texas, begs to disagree. A very honorable and important exception. But those columns were what, like 3 years ago? Almost everything else he's written has been dull and forgettable. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 5 11:31:43 PDT 2006

14059 [lbo-talk] Goss out -- rank: 1000

[is the empire in disarray?] Porter Goss Announces Plans To Step Down as CIA Director Associated Press May 5, 2006 2:26 p.m. Central Intelligence Agency Director Porter Goss resigned unexpectedly Friday, leaving behind a spy agency still battling to recover from the scars of intelligence failures before America's worst terrorist attack and faulty information that formed the U.S. rationale for invading Iraq. It was the latest move in a second-term shake-up of President Bush's team. Making the ann ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 5 11:29:06 PDT 2006

14060 [lbo-talk] Israel: unilateral partition of Jerusalem? -- rank: 1000

<http://alternet.org/blogs/themix/35865/> JOEL SCHALIT: Israel to divide Jerusalem A leaked report suggests that Israel's new government may be ready to define its borders. Within hours of the swearing in of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's new government, the word started to trickle out: Israel intends to unilaterally divide Jerusalem. First disclosed in an AP wire report filed late Thursday afternoon, the announcement took everyone by surprise, including Israeli government staff in the US co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 5 11:25:49 PDT 2006

14061 [lbo-talk] Zizek, "Against the Populist Temptation" -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>From: Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> >> >>... To be fair, he makes a valid observation here and there, for >>example when he >>says that a Left ideology must offer a positive alternative (like the Third >>Way, for example)... > >The "Third Way," that's a positive example? I thought that tired >trope had been stuffed, mounted and put on display at the William J. >Clinton Presidential Library and Museum. T ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 5 11:23:10 PDT 2006

14062 [lbo-talk] a Bob Herbert bot -- rank: 1000

Colin Brace wrote: >According to Nancy Kruh of The Dallas Morning News, veteran New York >Times columnist Bob Herbert has been stuck in a rut for years. "For >several months now," Kruh writes, "as I've read one Iraq war column >after another, one thought always comes to mind: Um, haven't I read >this before? So, yesterday, I finally immersed myself in Lexis-Nexis >to try to quantify and qualify this phenomenon." The most amazing thing about this is that some ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 5 10:13:09 PDT 2006

14063 [lbo-talk] British election -- rank: 1000

So does Blair's reshuffle mean anything, or is it just rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg? Doug

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Date:	Fri May 5 09:24:32 PDT 2006

14064 [lbo-talk] Reps fear massacre -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1925871> Poll: Conservatives Driving Approval Ratings of President Bush, the GOP-Led Congress to New Lows By RON FOURNIER WASHINGTON - Angry conservatives are driving the approval ratings of President Bush and the GOP-led Congress to dismal new lows, according to an AP-Ipsos poll that underscores why Republicans fear an Election Day massacre. Six months out, the intensity of opposition to Bush and Congress has risen sharply, along with the perce ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 5 09:13:11 PDT 2006

14065 [lbo-talk] Bush goes Latino -- rank: 1000

great pic of Bush as crooner <http://washtimes.com/national/20060505-122343-2183r.htm> - reminds me of Richard Nixon's uncomfortable reception of Sammy Davis Jr's embrace <http://www.africanamericans.com/SammyDavisJr.htm>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 5 09:10:35 PDT 2006

14066 [lbo-talk] happy birthday! -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >On 5/5/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> >to Karlos Marx! >> >>Yay! And my other intellectual hero, Sigmund Freud, would be 150 tomorrow. > >hmmm... what do you mean by that, Doug? That I'm still stuck in the modernist paradigm? Doug

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Date:	Fri May 5 08:47:45 PDT 2006

14067 [lbo-talk] happy birthday! -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >to Karlos Marx! Yay! And my other intellectual hero, Sigmund Freud, would be 150 tomorrow. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 5 06:58:18 PDT 2006

14068 [lbo-talk] it's inevitable -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >There's also AggravatedRibbery Aggressive teasing is against the law in Illinois? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 4 15:38:03 PDT 2006

14069 [lbo-talk] worse than death? -- rank: 1000

[what hell] Moussaoui will spend rest of life in solitary By Alan Elsner 37 minutes ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Zacarias Moussaoui, sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for his part in the September 11 plot, will almost certainly live out his days in a soundproofed cell, seldom having direct contact with other human beings. Moussaoui was expected to be sent as early as Thursday to the super maximum security federal prison in Florence, Colorado known as the "Alcatraz of the Rockies." ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 4 11:53:31 PDT 2006

14070 [lbo-talk] it's inevitable -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Next someone is going to say that Proyect is no longer the enemy? Proyect was never the enemy. What ever are you talking about? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 4 11:46:09 PDT 2006