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14206 [lbo-talk] Slaves of Academe: We Don't Need Another -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > You Lazare >http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18633 >types supporting the Fallujah Talibanesque Resistance and the Afghan >PDPA Revolution that had no social base is better? Are you turning into David Horowitz? Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 24 14:32:32 PST 2006

14207 [lbo-talk] DemocraticLeft] Slaves of Academe: We Don't Need Another Hero -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >The problem of Che-chic is a problem for those of us on the left to deal >with in our own way. It is true that Che is the James Dean of the left. >This is something to worry about, but it is also something to worry about >that we live in a society that needs to have a "James Dean." > >^^^^^^^ >CB: I kinda like Ho Chi Minh as a role model, myself. Chi-chic. No one can match Che for sex appeal!

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14208 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

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14209 [lbo-talk] Slaves of Academe: We Don't Need Another -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Doug wrote: > >> ISO maven Anthony Arnove complains that Chavez is following the >> Castro model. Social democrats and liberals make the same complaint. >> I guess the message is that the only good revolution to purists of >> either persuasion is a failed revolution. > >The only good revolution is a revolution that produces something worthwhile >(or more modestly, something clearly superior to the likely alternatives). >I think Ch ...

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14210 [lbo-talk] U.S. Ambassador Stranded by Chavez Rally -- rank: 1000

Steven L. Robinson wrote: >No doubt he is doing what he can. But the U.S. has already tried >once and failed - doesn't mean they won't again, but the options are >probably limited. Maybe. But they've overthrown a lot of governments and killed a lot of troublesome politicians over the years. They could fail this time - the empire could be in decline, and the occupation of Iraq is a drain. (Maybe it's Iraq that's occupying Bush.) Maybe big things are happening in Latin America and there ...

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14211 [lbo-talk] doom -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >i've long maintained - and have probably expressed such on this list - >there has been general failure/unwillingness to address 'the other' >60s... Exactly Rick Perlstein's point in his Goldwater bio. I keep trying to tell people how weird it was to be as right-wing as I was in 1971. There are more people on the left today than there were on the right in those days. Doug

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14212 [lbo-talk] U.S. Ambassador Stranded by Chavez Rally -- rank: 1000

Steven L. Robinson wrote: >U.S. Ambassador Stranded by Chavez Rally > >The Associated Press >Wednesday, March 22, 2006; 9:45 PM > >CARACAS, Venezuela -- A raucus rally supporting leftist President Hugo >Chavez stranded the U.S. ambassador and his delegation inside a social club >for more than two hours Wednesday, officials said. Oh the brutality of Chavez! The ambassador served in the US embassy in El Salvador during the days of the death squads. Bet you he's planning the ...

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14213 [lbo-talk] Slaves of Academe: We Don't Need Another Hero -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >http://slavesofacademe.blogspot.com/2006/03/we-dont-need-another-hero.html > Revolutionary tourism, Chavismo, the Che complex and the privileged >academic left. Yawn. Privilege schmivelege. ISO maven Anthony Arnove complains that Chavez is following the Castro model. Social democrats and liberals make the same complaint. I guess the message is that the only good revolution to purists of either persuasion is a failed revolution. My reponse to this is the same ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 24 10:17:24 PST 2006

14214 [lbo-talk] Hillary on Iraq -- rank: 1000

[first she doesn't answer the question, then she implies that Iraqis are a bunch of welfare dependents] <http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/402553p-340839c.html> After her speech, the audience peppered the former First Lady with questions. One man asked if she would support bringing home U.S. troops in the next six months, as U.S. Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) has suggested. "I was stunned when the President gave his answer about when the war in Iraq would be over - that it wou ...

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14215 [lbo-talk] Bush on the Patriot Act: I don't gotta tell you nuthin' -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> The Boston Globe's Charlie Savage picks up on a "signing statement" that accompanied President Bush's approval of the Patriot Act renewal. LINK "In the statement, Bush said that he did not consider himself bound to tell Congress how the Patriot Act powers were being used and that, despite the law's requirements, he could withhold the information if he decided that disclosure would, 'impair foreign relations, national s ...

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14216 [lbo-talk] Britannica responds to Nature -- rank: 1000

Encyclopedia Britannica responds to the Nature article on Wikipedia: <http://corporate.britannica.com/britannica_nature_response.pdf>. In its December 15, 2005, issue, the science journal Nature published an article that claimed to compare the accuracy of the online Encyclopędia Britannicawith Wikipedia, the Internet database that allows anyone, regardless of knowledge or qualifications, to write and edit articles on any sub- ject.1Wikipediahad recently received attention for its alleged i ...

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14217 [lbo-talk] HNN review of Fitch -- rank: 1000

Mark Rickling wrote: >On 3/23/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> [too bad we don't have John Lacny around to fulminate about this >> rather positive review] > >[ . . . ] > >> By design Fitch did not write a "balanced" labor history, but in >> concentrating on pervasive corruption, "labor's forgotten past," he >> uses a single factor in the sorry state of today's unionism to >> explain what has happene ...

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14218 [lbo-talk] cult update -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - March 23, 2006 CHEF NEEDS JOB ISAAC Hayes may not have quit "South Park" at all - or at least not willingly. Turns out Hayes has been away from Comedy Central's hit show for the past three months because he had a stroke. According to foxnews.com, he's at home recuperating and did not issue the press release which said he was quitting because the show made fun of his faith. That release was put out by fellow Scientologist Christina "Kumi" Kimball, a ...

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14219 [lbo-talk] China getting more expensive -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - March 23, 2006 China's competitiveness hit by energy and labour costs By Tom Mitchell in Hong Kong The competitiveness of China's manufacturing industries has suffered serious erosion over the past year, according to one of the world's largest trade sourcing companies. Hong Kong-based Li & Fung group, which manages a $7.1bn a year trading business, said price rises crept back into the Sino-US and EU supply chains last year, after at least six years of often "severe def ...

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14220 [lbo-talk] Atheists identified as America's mo st distrusted minority -- rank: 1000

Sean Johnson Andrews wrote: >One question though: The study cites 3% as the number of people who >could be defined as atheists. I seem to remember much larger >numbers reported by people on this list (maybe as much as 30%). Are >they off in their measurements, defining it differently, or just >less prone to exaggeration? Or maybe I'm misremembering. You're probably thinking of CUNY's 2001 American Religious Identification Survey, which was a successor to their 1990 National Sur ...

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