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14221 [lbo-talk] HNN review of Fitch -- rank: 1000

[too bad we don't have John Lacny around to fulminate about this rather positive review] <http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/22473.html> Robert D. Parmet: Review of Robert Fitch's Solidarity for Sale: How Corruption Destroyed the Labor Movement and Undermined America's Promise (Public Affairs 2006) Robert D. Parmet is Professor of History at York College of the City University of New York. He wrote Labor and Immigration in Industrial America and The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 23 12:40:57 PST 2006

14222 [lbo-talk] gay marriage support rises -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review <http://prorev.com>] SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE SHOWS BIG GROWTH USA TODAY - The public backlash over gay marriage has receded since a controversial decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Court in 2003 to legalize those marriages stirred strong opposition, says a poll released Wednesday. Gay marriage remains a divisive issue, with 51% opposing it, the poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found. But almost two-thirds, 63%, opposed gay ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 23 12:01:06 PST 2006

14223 [lbo-talk] detailed Iraq poll -- rank: 1000

[about a quarter still believe that Iraq had WMDs and a connection with 9/11] <http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/pdf/mar06/USIraq_Mar06_rpt.pdf> Key findings of the study were: 1. The Decision to Go to War By a two-to-one margin, Americans now say that the Iraq war was a war of choice, not a war of necessity-i.e., it was not necessary for the defense of the US-and that the war was not the best use of US resources. For the first time, a majority now believes that Iraq did not have a we ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 23 11:56:29 PST 2006

14224 [lbo-talk] Anybody interested in Roy Medvedev? -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Medvedev seems to write like a book a month. I just >picked up his latest, "Sotsializm v Rossii?" >(Socialism in Russia), which is about, well, socialism >in Russia. He's a joy to translate, so I decided to >translate some parts of it into English -- if I don't, >know one else will! Would anybody like me to send them >the translations? Post the good stuff here! Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 23 11:15:01 PST 2006

14225 [lbo-talk] Right wing Israeli political party goes to Arab part of Jaffa and hands out leaflets calling Arabs to emigrate for money...fighting commences -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >Growing up, I remember it being used in an anti-semitic context, maybe still >is, as in: "Those Jews watch their shekels." Or, as the old Mad magazine sticker put it, Jesus Saves, Moses Invests.

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Date:	Thu Mar 23 09:36:18 PST 2006

14226 [lbo-talk] more evidence the Dems are hopeless -- rank: 1000

<http://www.observer.com/printpage.asp?iid=12576&ic=News+Story+2> New York Observer - March 27, 2006 Russ Never Sleeps 'Politicians and Pundits Are Afraid,' Says Wisconsin's Feingold, As Democrats Abandon Him on Bush Wiretap Censure Motion; Will Senator Become the Eugene McCarthy of '08 Primaries? Chris Lehmann None of this fits any of the tried-and-true formulations in the red-and-blue American playbook. A mild- mannered Midwestern Senator-Russ Feingold-announces on a Sunday-morning c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 22 12:50:43 PST 2006

14227 [lbo-talk] gay kings & socialist fish -- rank: 1000

[from the right-wing flackhouse] CONTACT: To schedule an interview, call: Special Guests/ Jerry McGlothlin or Christine Dahlson, 630-848-0750, jerry at specialguests.com or visit: www.specialguests.com BERKELEY PROF: WHINY, INSECURE KIDS GROW UP TO BE CONSERVATIVES Left-wing academic is continuing liberals' propaganda war on our children, says best-selling kid's author Katharine DeBrecht. Flaws and contrary data suggest problems with Berkeley professor's study, claims DeBrecht, who sees it as ye ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 22 12:17:00 PST 2006

14228 [lbo-talk] the art of asslicking -- rank: 1000

SURPRISE PERFORMANCE: LICKING CURATORS ASS by Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau within the experimental exhibition format "ExtraFeatures Series (1)", curated by Jan Van Woensel who invited us to do a surprise intervention in this exhibition / decor / documentary project at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium. A web documentation to view & read: http://www.paetau.com/downloads/LickingCuratorsAss/LickingCuratorsAss.html A PDF documentation (0,3 MB) to download at ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 22 11:46:10 PST 2006

14229 [lbo-talk] Re: it lives -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >You should probably subscribe to femecon-l >and see how the beleagured ranks of women in economics are reacting to >present conditions. (I believe Doug occasionally quotes from Barbara >Bergman. Yes - "the dean of feminist economists." She's an anti-Marxist, anti-Third World social democrat who thinks we have to protect our civilization from the hordes outside our borders. But she's pretty entertaining sometimes. The feminist economists mostly have a very ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 22 11:28:45 PST 2006

14230 [lbo-talk] Bill O'Reilly, psycho killer -- rank: 1000

<http://www.tnr.com/blog/theplank?pid=11465> BILL O'REILLY, PSYCHO KILLER: At first I thought there wasn't much new to say about Bill O'Reilly. But I was wrong to underestimate Nick Lemann. No, his overall assessment of Mr. Factor <http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060327fa_fact> in this week's New Yorker isn't bracingly novel; but the piece delights anyway, especially thanks to its choice excerpts from Those Who Trespass, an extremely creepy thriller O'Reilly published ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 22 10:48:41 PST 2006

14231 [lbo-talk] doom -- rank: 1000

JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: >Yeah, for example unions should give 10% of what they spend on D (&R) >candidates to the Labor Party. Any idea how much the Alachua County ballot campaign cost? I'm amazed that Nathan thinks that the defeat in California is enough reason to give up on the big stuff and do the "fair share" campaigns instead. What happened to learning from your defeat and trying again? If the right had given up after Goldwater's defeat in 1964, we'd never have had ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 22 07:40:33 PST 2006

14232 [lbo-talk] Recuperated Enterprises in Argentina: Reversing the Logic of Capitalis m -- rank: 1000

gboozell at juno.com wrote: >Recuperated Enterprises in Argentina: >Reversing the Logic of Capitalism > >By Marie Trigona - March 17, 2006 Thanks for posting this - I'm going to have the author on the radio on Thursday. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 21 12:07:18 PST 2006

14233 [lbo-talk] Calif to desegregate its prisons -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - March 21, 2006 California Prisons Uneasily Prepare To Desegregate Cells By MIRIAM JORDAN CHINO, Calif. -- It's exercise time at the California Institution for Men, and dozens of inmates walk around the track in pairs or small groups -- blacks with blacks, whites with whites, Hispanics with Hispanics. Prison culture dictates that inmates stick with their own kind, associating almost exclusively with other inmates from their race or ethnic group, defending them to the death i ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 21 12:02:01 PST 2006

14234 [lbo-talk] Hill to Bill: I'm the Boss -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - March 21, 2006 I'm boss, Hil tells Bill Senator's word is now 'final,' says the ex-Prez BY KENNETH R. BAZINET DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON - After being surprised by her husband's role in the Dubai ports deal, Sen. Hillary Clinton has insisted that Bill Clinton give her "final say" over what he says and does, well-placed sources said. The former President agreed to give his wife a veto to avoid his habit of making controversial headlines that could hurt ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 21 11:59:54 PST 2006

14235 [lbo-talk] it really exists -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Tue Mar 21 11:56:30 PST 2006