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14341 [lbo-talk] Henwood spread Sharon hoax (was Sharon, man of peace) -- rank: 1000

Stuart Elliott wrote: >This quote which is attributed to Sharon has long been known to be a >hoax. Including on LBO. > >http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2002/2002-May/013151.html > >The dissemination of face quotes, often echoing classic anti-Semitic >them, is quite common on Arab and pseudo-leftist websites. Sorry, I can't remember everything, even if 4 years wasn't that long ago. I got it from a source I thought was reliable. I should have stuck with "force, might, beating ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 13 13:46:36 PST 2006

14342 [lbo-talk] Re: Sharon, man of peace -- rank: 1000

Seth Kulick wrote: >This is from the Amos Oz interview. But Oz never identified the person as >Sharon (only as "C." or "Z."), and I think has actually denied it. Back in >2002, I noticed that this was being sent around with the claim that the >interviewee is Sharon, and I asked Yigal Arens about this. I don't want to >quote from personal email, but he indicated that there is not really any >evidence to believe that it is Sharon, and that the personal deta ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 13 13:41:38 PST 2006

14343 [lbo-talk] Fight the taboo on the use of the word "racist" -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Yes, because the "Republican base" is racist. Matt Taibbi has some great stuff in the chapter in Spanking the Donkey on his career as a Rep volunteer in Florida. They had one poor guy they'd always wheel out when they needed evidence of black support. He kept telling the Florida Republicans that they could make some hay by selling the moral message to black churches, but they'd never listen. In other words, they're so racist they'd sacrifice black votes to main ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 13 13:36:17 PST 2006

14344 [lbo-talk] Robert Fitch and Derek C. Bok -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >And what makes a Wal-Mart a less promising site for union >organizing, in principle, than a factory? Intense turnover, residential dispersion, sophisticated management, and pre-employment psychological testing. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 13 10:30:54 PST 2006

14345 [lbo-talk] Sharon, man of peace -- rank: 1000

"Even today I am willing to volunteer to do the dirty work for Israel, to kill as many Arabs as necessary, to deport them, to expel and burn them, to have everyone hate us, to pull the rug from underneath the feet of the Diaspora Jews, so that they will be forced to run to us crying. Even if it means blowing up one or two synagogues here and there, I don't care. And I don't mind if after the job is done you put me in front of a Nuremberg Trial and then jail me for life. Hang me if you want, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 13 10:27:55 PST 2006

14346 [lbo-talk] Americans worried about bird flu... -- rank: 1000

...but inexplicably confident in the gov's ability to handle it: ABC NEWS POLL: BIRD FLU - 3/5/06 EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 6 a.m. Monday, March 13, 2006 Most Worried about Bird Flu, But Confident in Gov't Response Nearly eight in 10 Americans think the bird flu virus will reach the United States and two-thirds are concerned about it. But fears of infection are not strongly felt, and most express at least some confidence in the government's ability to respond effectively. While expectations an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 13 08:50:11 PST 2006

14347 [lbo-talk] Robert Fitch and Derek C. Bok -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >These are hard questions that we all have to ask. But it has to be >pointed out that in the absence of "working class movements," it's >not only the forms of organization that would change but the goals. >It may be possible to have progressive social movements without the >working class, but they won't be social movements with the goal of >radically reducing inequality, for example. If you give up on the >working class, you're giving up on cer ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 12 16:53:01 PST 2006

14348 [lbo-talk] Athens in the Carribbean, featuring Moby -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >>New York Post [Page Six] - March 12, 2006 >> >>ISLAND PARADISE FOR EGGHEADS >> >>MANHATTAN money manager Boykin Curry and a posse of high-profile >>pals - including musician and eco-activist Moby, PBS talker Charlie >>Rose and foreign-policy "it boy" Fareed Zakaria - have bought a >>huge chunk of land in the Dominican Republic they hope to transform >>into a "Creative Person's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 12 16:50:45 PST 2006

14349 [lbo-talk] manliness means lifting furniture -- rank: 1000

New York Times Magazine - March 12, 2006 Questions for Harvey C. Mansfield Of Manliness and Men Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON Q: As a staunch neoconservative and the author of a new feminism-bashing book called "Manliness," how are you treated by your fellow government professors at Harvard? Look, if I only consorted with conservatives, I would be by myself all the time. Q: So your generally left-leaning colleagues are willing to talk to you? People listen to me, but they don't pay atte ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 12 16:28:36 PST 2006

14350 [lbo-talk] Robert Fitch and Derek C. Bok -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >But having been involved in both campus-based movements and >working-class organizations, I can assure you there is a difference, and it >does affect your perspective. I'm not sure about this, but I'll put it up anyway: Maybe we're all hoping/expecting that old modes of organization will revive themselves, like some re-run of the Flint sitdown strike 70 years later. But maybe that won't happen. Maybe the social base and organizational form of progressive politics ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 12 16:11:21 PST 2006

14351 [lbo-talk] Hofstadter -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >_really_ empty > pretty banal. >A trivial banality. >Big deal. >a commonplace > merely banal. Whew. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 12 16:00:35 PST 2006

14352 [lbo-talk] Athens in the Carribbean, featuring Moby -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - March 12, 2006 ISLAND PARADISE FOR EGGHEADS MANHATTAN money manager Boykin Curry and a posse of high-profile pals - including musician and eco-activist Moby, PBS talker Charlie Rose and foreign-policy "it boy" Fareed Zakaria - have bought a huge chunk of land in the Dominican Republic they hope to transform into a "Creative Person's Utopia." The New Yorker's Ben McGrath reports that Curry and Co. have plunked down $50 million for Playa Grande, a 2,2 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 12 08:36:59 PST 2006

14353 [lbo-talk] Edward W. Said Legacy Lecture -- rank: 1000

[This is from the excellent Andrew Rubin, who teaches at Georgetown, and who was a student of Said's.] I hear yet another book-length attack on Edward is soon to be published. It is written by a columnist for the Wall Street Journal. The man writes under a pseudonym "ibn Warraq." Rather than responding to it directly, I thought it would be more effective to make this talk available publicly on the internet. Please feel free to distribute the link below. Best, Andrew -------------- to l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 12 08:23:33 PST 2006

14354 [lbo-talk] bong hits for Jesus! -- rank: 1000

<http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060310/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_rights_banner_1> Court upholds "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" student banner SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An Alaska high school violated a student's free speech rights by suspending him after he unfurled a banner reading "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" across the street from the school, a federal court ruled on Friday. Joseph Frederick, a student at Juneau-Douglas High School in Alaska, displayed the banner -- which refers to smoking marijua ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 12 09:17:04 PST 2006

14355 [lbo-talk] Abortion -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Hillary Clinton can't win the South, and she doesn't excite >working-class folks in states like Ohio and Florida. Not exactly. There's a sub-demographic of working class women who like government social programs and go to church. They like Hillary, and there are a of them in Ohio. Doug

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Date:	Sun Mar 12 10:25:49 PST 2006