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14281 [lbo-talk] great article on mrzine on local organizing -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Doug Henwood writes: > > >> http://tinyurl.com/9jx48 >> >> The takeaway being...shoot them? > >Obviously not. It might not kill you to actually read it, either. I did. And it reads like something written in another place and another time that has very little relevance to the US of 2006. And what about this? >People who are liberals look upon the principles of Marxism as >abstract dogma. They approve of Marxism, but are not prepared to & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 16 07:46:08 PST 2006

14282 [lbo-talk] Bush down to 33%; public loves posturingxenophobic congress -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >So we have "leftists" piling on to join the rightwing in accusing unions of >corruption and joining the same rightwing in accusing latino Senators of >racial profiling. Can you really believe there was no anti-Arab racism involved in the ports mania? I can't believe you really think that, but I bet you like the way the whole thing polled. Bush took a hit and the Congressional Dems gained a few points. Sometimes opportunism works, but it still stinks. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 15 20:38:08 PST 2006

14283 [lbo-talk] Bush down to 33%; public loves posturing xenophobic congress -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Why is this xenophobia? You get the same opposition in most cases if a >hometown owner is replaced by a New York corporate owner. "Foreign" >ownership, whether foreign to a city or state or nation, implies loss of >control and less loyalty to the broader interests of local citizens. > >Dubai is a caricature of capitalism-- an oil company masking as a country >run by a plutocratic clan which engages in rape of employees imported to do >the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 15 18:58:03 PST 2006

14284 [lbo-talk] WSJ on the impeachment agenda -- rank: 1000

John Adams wrote: >On Mar 15, 2006, at 11:29 AM, Andy F wrote: > >>What do you make of the derangement of the WSJ editors vs. its >>reporting? It's like they don't read their own paper. > >No, not at all. They have a fine understanding of both the need for >accurate information and the need for propaganda, and the discipline >to do both at once. It's admirable, in its way. Sometimes I wonder who reads all that great journalism in the WSJ. I doubt too many corporate ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 15 14:26:09 PST 2006

14285 [lbo-talk] Bush down to 33%; public loves posturing xenophobic congress -- rank: 1000

Pew Research Center Report Bush Approval Falls to 33%, Congress Earns Rare Praise Dubai Ports Fallout In the aftermath of the Dubai ports deal, President Bush's approval rating has hit a new low and his image for honesty and effectiveness has been damaged. Yet the public uncharacteristically has good things to say about the role that Congress played in this high-profile Washington controversy. Most Americans (58%) believe Congress acted appropriately in strenuously opposing the deal, while just ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 15 14:16:36 PST 2006

14286 [lbo-talk] Benjamin gets high -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/books/review/12tbr.html?_r=1&oref=slogin> New York Time Book Review - March 12, 2006 Inside the List By DWIGHT GARNER 'PROFANE ILLUMINATION': If one were to draw up a list of the writers, living or dead, who seemed least likely to make the best-seller lists in 2006, the revered philosopher, essayist and critic Walter Benjamin, who committed suicide in 1940 while fleeing the Nazis, would have to be near the top. But don't count him out. In May, Harvard ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 15 13:17:51 PST 2006

14287 [lbo-talk] new holiday: Steak & BJ Day -- rank: 1000

<http://www.steakandbjday.com/> You know the drill. Every 14th of February you get the chance to display your fondness for a significant other by showering her with gifts, flowers, dinner, shows and any other baubles that women find romantic. Every Valentines day you rack your brains for that one special, unique gift that will show your wife or girlfriend that you really do care for them more than any other. Now ladies, I'll let you in on a little secret; guys really don't enjoy this that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 15 13:08:04 PST 2006

14288 [lbo-talk] King Mike -- rank: 1000

Pretty funny campaign-style video about Bloomberg - a ruler, not a politician: <http://www.gawker.com/news/michael-bloomberg/mike-bloomberg-king-of-the-world-160495.php>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 15 13:01:45 PST 2006

14289 [lbo-talk] WSJ on the impeachment agenda -- rank: 1000

Andy F wrote: >What do you make of the derangement of the WSJ editors vs. its >reporting? It's like they don't read their own paper. Sorry to make >the cliched observation, but sometimes they seem out to sabotage >capitalism. Having cracked decision makers sounds like an unstable >situation that would undercut their effectiveness (or at least their >reporting), but they've been at it for a long time. Or is this a >shift from earlier years? The cliched answer to the clich ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 15 12:34:54 PST 2006

14290 [lbo-talk] U.S. may reassess economic ties to China -- rank: 1000

Colin Brace wrote: >U.S. may reassess economic ties to China This is rich: we can't stop importing cheap stuff from you! Do something or we're going to punish you!! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 15 12:22:38 PST 2006

14291 [lbo-talk] Alterblog: When censure is not enough -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: > From Impeachment to ... Censure? For what it's worth, Republicans welcome this, censure or impeachment, since it gives them a chance as softies and/or traitors - and the cynics who write The Note seem to agree. That's why the mainstream Dems are running away from it - presumably the polls tell them that's the right thing to do. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 15 12:11:36 PST 2006

14292 [lbo-talk] great article on mrzine on local organizing -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >The following >article has some ideas on how to deal with people who have politics like >Chuck's: > >http://tinyurl.com/9jx48 The takeaway being...shoot them? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 15 10:16:26 PST 2006

14293 [lbo-talk] Fight the taboo on the use of the word "racist" -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >Why do I capitalize "Whites"? because of the grammatic principle of >parallelism. Why don't other people do so? I've asked several editors that question. The most common answer was "I don't know." My favorite rational for capitalizing Black and not white was, "It would give me the creeps to capitalize white." I prefer what the newspaper biz calls a down style, so I don't capitalize either. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 15 10:06:02 PST 2006

14294 [lbo-talk] great article on mrzine on local organizing -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >I usually think that Chuck's contributions are worthless, but this one is at >least valuable as a case in point. Chuck is an individualist who doesn't >want to be accountable to anyone else; considers democratic decision-making >in a mass movement context "authoritarian"; and favors free-floating >"leaderless" (feel free to laugh) groups of "activists" who will never >organize masses of ordinary people because they are simply not ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 15 08:47:39 PST 2006

14295 [lbo-talk] great article on mrzine on local organizing -- rank: 1000

Chuck wrote: >Doug: When your essay on activistism first came out, I thought it >contained some good criticisms about the climate of >anti-intellectualism found in some activist circles. However, since >that time your article has been adopted by those who wish to >marginalize all forms of militant dissent. I've frequently read crap >from members of the leftover left who cite your article in order to >bash people involved in direct action activism. I happen to know >that m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 15 08:38:42 PST 2006