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14266 [lbo-talk] Misusing "Racism", was Re: Bush down to 33%; public loves posturingxenophobiccongress -- rank: 1000
Jordan Hayes wrote: >>Pakistan is, of course, our great ally in the war on terror. > >Kind of how the SU was our great ally in the war on Fascism? > >I mean, where's the contradiction? The USSR wasn't supporting the Nazis at the same time it was our ally. Doug
Document Size: 5510
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 16 18:24:05 PST 2006
14267 [lbo-talk] TNR: universal health care now! -- rank: 1000
[Back in the 80s, apologists for the contra war on Nicarauga used to say "even the liberal New Republic supports the contras." Now, even the New Republic supports some kind of universal health insurance scheme. So now TNR joins a third of American CFOs in taking a position to the left of Nathan Newman!] The New Republic - March 20, 2006 Moral Imperative by the Editors Over the last 25 years, liberalism has lost both its good name and its sway over politics. But it is liberalism's loss ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 16 17:08:28 PST 2006
14268 [lbo-talk] Misusing "Racism", was Re: Bush down to 33%; public loves posturingxenophobic congress -- rank: 1000
Miles Jackson wrote: >Look at it this way: trying to understand racism by analyzing the >individual psychological processes of the privileged group is >tantamount to trying to understand capitalism by analyzing the >individual psychological processes of capitalists. Which is itself not an uninteresting pursuit. I really don't get how you can understand a social pheneomenon without understanding how it's manifested in the thoughts and behaviors of actual human beings. Otherwise you're ...
Document Size: 6233
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 16 16:52:41 PST 2006
14269 [lbo-talk] Misusing "Racism", was Re: Bush down to 33%; public loves posturingxenophobiccongress -- rank: 1000
jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote: >The fact that the UAE >recognizes the Taliban regime tells us next to nothing about the >company Dubai Ports World. On my radio show less than two hours ago, Christian Parenti made the point that most Americans don't appreciate how the Taliban are essentially run by the government of Pakistan, almost certainly from the highest levels (i.e., Musharraf). Pakiston is, of course, our great ally in the war on terror. And, further back in of courseness, the U ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 16 16:46:50 PST 2006
14270 [lbo-talk] Misusing "Racism", was Re: Bush down to 33%; public loves posturingxenophobiccongress -- rank: 1000
Nathan Newman wrote: >As for the politics, it has clearly gotten Democrats big political points. >Now, is all distrust of foreign government control of US institutions >automatically racist? Is may be nationalistic and a bit hawkish, but >reducing it to racism debases the word, since foreign ownership by British >or German companies have been attacked during times of conflict with those >nations in the past. Yeah, and a British company, P&O, had been running the ports, and ...
Document Size: 6532
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 16 16:34:15 PST 2006
14271 [lbo-talk] Misusing "Racism", was Re: Bush down to 33%; public loves posturingxenophobiccongress -- rank: 1000
jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote: > > Nathan Newman wrote: >> > >> > >> > Doug-- there's been plenty of opportunities for Menendez to promote racial >> > profiling and attacks on Arabs over the last few years. Somehow >>Menendez has >> > skipped many other opportunities to do so, but chose to focus on the UAE's >> > purchase of the ports. If he he such a racist, why did he pass >>on all those >> > other oppo ...
Document Size: 7057
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 16 12:23:56 PST 2006
14272 [lbo-talk] Fwd: You did it! FCC fines CBS $3.6 million for 'Without A Trace' -- rank: 1000
From: "American Family Association" <afapetition at afa.net> Subject: You did it! FCC fines CBS $3.6 million for 'Without A Trace' Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:12:08 -0600 March 16, 2006 You did it! FCC fines CBS $3.6 million for 'Without A Trace' In January, 2005, we asked you to join us in filing formal complaints against CBS and their affiliate stations for broadcasting Without A Trace, complete with an extended teen-age orgy scene. Within days, 165,997 AFA on-line supporters had ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 16 11:43:32 PST 2006
14273 [lbo-talk] women opting out! -- rank: 1000
Carrol Cox wrote: >I suggest you reread KM, Thesis III, with particular emphasis on the >phrase, "the educator himself needs educating." > >Mass movements do not consist of people dedicated to Socrates' vicious >claim that "The unexamined life is not worth living." Translated into >19th century terms, Socrates was proclaiming that the only good inidan >was a dead indian. Translated into 20th century terms, Socrates was >providing the basis for the Fina ...
Document Size: 5568
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 16 09:44:50 PST 2006
14274 [lbo-talk] oh no, the c-word! -- rank: 1000
[More, including photo, at <http://cponline.blogspot.com/2006/03/see-word.html>.] A cute thing happened on the way to court-martial Monday. Baltimore Sun photographer Amy Davis shot Sgt. Jennifer Scala, a witness in a military prosecution of alleged Abu Ghraib guard misconduct. The uniformed Scala was photographed leaving the military tribunal carrying a book by Inga Muscio, Cunt: A Declaration of Independence, whose title epithet was clearly visible in the photo, which ran on page A3 of t ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 16 09:20:01 PST 2006
14275 [lbo-talk] economics of polygyny -- rank: 1000
Chris Doss wrote: >What's the child mortality rate in Saudi Arabia? >Anybody know? 22 per thousand. Here it is, along with several other interesting countries (from the World Bank's World Development Indicators database): Haiti 76 India 63 Brazil 33 China 30 Mexico 23 Saudi Arabia 22 United States 7 Sweden 3
Document Size: 4855
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 16 09:16:43 PST 2006
14276 [lbo-talk] Reuters: Jessica Simpson snubs Bush -- rank: 1000
B. wrote, well before I did: >Jessica Simpson Snubs Bush Yikes. I reprimand others for duplicate posts, and then I do it myself. How embarrassing. Sorry. Doug
Document Size: 4821
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 16 08:39:15 PST 2006
14277 [lbo-talk] great article on mrzine on local organizing -- rank: 1000
John Lacny wrote: >Doug Henwood: > >> I did. And it reads like something written in another >> place and another time that has very little relevance >> to the US of 2006. > >I don't think that's true at all. I don't care what you think of his actual >accomplishments and/or crimes; he has a practical revolutionary's keen >insight into real intra-group dynamics in organizations fighting for social >change. A few turns of phrase here and there are specific ...
Document Size: 5728
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 16 08:32:36 PST 2006
14278 [lbo-talk] Green Day snubs Ted Nugent -- rank: 1000
New York Post [Page Six] - March 16, 2006 ROCKERS RAGE OVER DUBYA TED Nugent is fuming that pop-punk superstars Green Day laughed off his offer to collaborate with them. The right-wing rocker says he approached Green Day frontman Billy Joe Armstrong about working together, but he simply "laughed" at the idea. The idea does seem odd, given that Nugent is a Republican gun nut and Green Day's smash album, "American Idiot," was widely viewed as an indictment of the George W. Bush ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 16 08:14:20 PST 2006
14279 [lbo-talk] Jessica Simpson disses W -- rank: 1000
New York Post - March 16, 2006 JESSICA SIMPSON NIXES W. March 16, 2006 -- LOS ANGELES - Concerned about politicizing her favorite charity, actress Jessica Simpson yesterday turned down an invitation to meet with President Bush - a snub that left Republicans dismayed. The blond "Dukes of Hazzard" star still plans to visit Washington today to lobby Congress on behalf of Operation Smile, a nonprofit venture offering free plastic surgery for disadvantaged children with facial deformities. ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 16 08:10:45 PST 2006
14280 [lbo-talk] Bush approval at 37% - Dems at 32% -- rank: 1000
[graphics at <http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB114246476954299393-alYHYm4HP_erGRYKkvEI5GKvydk_20070315.html>] Wall Street Journal - March 16, 2006 Growing Anxiety About Iraq Threatens Republicans Bush Approval Rating Hits A Low as War Pessimism Offers Edge for Democrats By JOHN HARWOOD WASHINGTON -- President Bush and fellow Republicans approach the fall midterm elections facing one political problem above all others: responding to rising public anxiety about Iraq. The new Wall Stree ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Mar 16 08:09:45 PST 2006
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