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1441 [lbo-talk] Kushner's Zionism -- rank: 1000

On May 11, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Mark Bennett wrote: > It seems a bit odd that CUNY's trustees would be up in arms over Kushner's > statements about Israel, but apparently they have no problem with the > celebrated speech that he put in Belize's mouth You think they've read or seen his work? Wiesenfeld or whatever the fuck his name is just read some things that Kushner had said on Norman Finkelstein's website. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 11 13:11:12 PDT 2011

1442 [lbo-talk] vaca reading -- rank: 1000

On May 10, 2011, at 10:12 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > So, I don't know, but whatever he was doing when Joe asked for some evidence and a summary or something.... in my experience, Joe has been sincerely interested and perfectly willing to say, "Oh hey, gee. I mighta been... wrong. Sorry!" I really doubt he was asking the question as some sort of trap or gotcha for anyone. Yes. Thank you. It's time for a cease fire on all this. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 10 21:09:42 PDT 2011

1443 [lbo-talk] reform efforts at UAW 2865 possibly successful -- rank: 1000

On May 10, 2011, at 8:16 PM, wrobert at uci.edu wrote: > Hopefully, it doesn't come off too much like self-advertising. So what if it does? Congrats!

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Date:	Tue May 10 17:25:35 PDT 2011

1444 [lbo-talk] vaca reading -- rank: 1000

On May 10, 2011, at 6:19 PM, Dissenting Wren wrote: > Until I'm willing to do that work, anyone here who > hears me spout off about Lenin as if I have an opinion worth taking seriously > has permission to smack me down hard. "We need Lenin for when we start shooting people." - Slavoj Zizek

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1445 [lbo-talk] vaca reading -- rank: 1000

On May 10, 2011, at 1:34 PM, SA wrote: > On 5/10/2011 12:05 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> It's the Internet. No one wants to read a book anymore. Everyone wants a one- to three-sentence talking point. > > There's nothing new about that. The age-old definition of a grad student is someone who can argue about a book he or she hasn't read. And it's not just grad students. If academic scholars only knew what they read in actual books (as opposed to reviews, summaries, historiographi ...

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Date:	Tue May 10 10:58:13 PDT 2011

1446 [lbo-talk] vaca reading -- rank: 1000

On May 10, 2011, at 12:36 PM, c b wrote: > Guns don't conquer people; > people conquer people. Guns sure help.

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1447 [lbo-talk] vaca reading -- rank: 1000

On May 10, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Alan Rudy wrote: > the foundational patriarchal assumptions embedded in most psychoanalysis Not entirely inappropriate in a patriarchal society. Clearly things are at least a little different now. > Last, when someone asks for a list of alternative readings and then, when a > list is provided, asks for what feels like a great deal more (because what > was available on wikipedia didn't answer all questions), I think it not > unreasonable feel trolled.. ...

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Date:	Tue May 10 09:05:56 PDT 2011

1448 [lbo-talk] chipotle restaurants and immigrantworkers-a chipotle fan speaks up -- rank: 1000

On May 9, 2011, at 6:28 PM, // ravi wrote: > Why simply ? And isn t politics a larger beast than consumer politics/activism? Do you think that there is no intersection between politics and ethics? http://jdeanicite.typepad.com/i_cite/2010/11/inept-or-unwilling.html November 19, 2010 Inept or unwilling? I've been wondering about the problem of the left. Is it inept or unwilling? I think the latter (although I can be persuaded by those who wish to argue, "why choose?"). Much left d ...

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Date:	Mon May 9 15:39:38 PDT 2011

1449 [lbo-talk] Fidel: El asesinato de Bin Laden/The assassination of Bin Laden -- rank: 1000

On May 9, 2011, at 8:44 AM, Wojtek S wrote: > Joanna: "You accept his translation of the political into the > aesthetic. I do not." > > [WS:] I would hesitate to say that OBL transformed, translated or > whatever the political into a spectacle. http://www.osborne-conant.org/documentation_stockhausen.htm Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Sep. 25, 2001 Monstrous Art Julia Spinola Four concerts featuring music by the German avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen have been ...

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Date:	Mon May 9 08:20:22 PDT 2011

1450 [lbo-talk] chipotle restaurants and immigrant workers-achipotle fan speaks up -- rank: 1000

On May 9, 2011, at 12:17 AM, // ravi wrote: > A boycott is a collection of individual choices of one product (where indispensable) over another... It's also a response to a call by workers or other exploited humans. It's not merely "a collection of individual choices." You sound like those bourgeois theorists who define a corporation as a "nexus of contracts" and not an institution larger than any set of individuals. Over the last few years, I've pretty much converted to ...

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Date:	Mon May 9 08:27:29 PDT 2011

1451 [lbo-talk] Yanis Varoufakis on the story that Greece might leave eurozone -- rank: 1000

On the true agenda behind Der Spiegel's story that Greece is thinking of exiting the euro [by Yanis Varoufakis] The Spiegel story that "Athens is considering withdrawing from the euro zone" is not exactly false - just economical with the truth. Yes, a few weeks or months ago, the Greek government commissioned (as it ought to) several secret studies of the repercussions of various scenaria involving different forms of debt restructure, including one desperate scenario hypothesising an i ...

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Date:	Sat May 7 17:41:37 PDT 2011

1452 [lbo-talk] vaca reading -- rank: 1000

On May 6, 2011, at 10:33 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > Carrie Lane's book is exactly what I was writing about when I did the research on PMC unemployment. I did a good interview with her: http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S110409 and Jefferson Cowie too: http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S110115 Doug

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Date:	Sat May 7 10:07:39 PDT 2011

1453 [lbo-talk] write the CUNY board -- rank: 1000

On May 6, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Dissenting Wren wrote: > Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, the trustee behind the Kushner affair, is the gift that just > keeps on giving. From today's New York Times > (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/nyregion/opponent-of-honor-for-tony-kushner-criticizes-palestinians.html) Maybe I'm being goofily optimistic, but when someone is too hyper-Zionist for a NYT columnist, you have to wonder if the Zionists are trying so hard because they're feeling defensive and scared. Do ...

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Date:	Fri May 6 07:38:55 PDT 2011

1454 [lbo-talk] Fidel: El asesinato de Bin Laden/The assassination of Bin Laden -- rank: 1000

On May 5, 2011, at 9:51 PM, Dissenting Wren wrote: > Here's the real problem, though. Do you really think that Osama bin Laden was > "one somewhat twisted individual, driven to a frenzy by the unending war on his > people"? It seems that for Carrol, the USA has a monopoly on the bad shit in the world, and everyone else is just fighting back. Doug

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1455 [lbo-talk] write the CUNY board -- rank: 1000

On May 5, 2011, at 5:07 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > Could you or somebody else flesh this out a little. What is the story behind refusing to award this guy an award he wants to refuse anyway? He's rather critical of Israel, and the CUNY trustees don't like this. Some background: http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new_york/cuny_board_nixes_honorary_degree_playwright_tony_kushner http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/05/tony-kushner-university-snub-israel http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_ ...

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