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14476 [lbo-talk] Dubya does Delhi: will the chimps make rude noises? -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Andy F: > >Could somebody fill me in on why she [Arundhati Roy] >attracts so much contempt? I'm not a fan (except of >God of Small Things), I just don't understand why she >gets singled out. >===================== > > >Around here, there are reliable complaints which >reappear whenever Roy's name is brought up. My complaint is even more about the Western appetite for what she's serving than her cuisine itself. She plays "native informa ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 2 09:16:17 PST 2006

14477 [lbo-talk] Hitchens: The End of Fukuyama -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >http://www.slate.com/id/2137134/ > Recent events in Iraq *strengthen* the neo-cons case? What's Hitch mixing with his scotch? Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 2 09:02:25 PST 2006

14478 [lbo-talk] politics of hip-hop -- rank: 1000

[This one's going out to hip-hopper Woj from Balto] The Nation - February 27, 2006 The Color of Money by GREG TATE All of these books are as much about politics as popular culture and the art of the MC--not to mention his cousins the break dancer, the turntablist and the spray-can artist. This will surprise no one who knows that black art, black pop and black politics have long been intertwined modes of resistance in the African diaspora, from the coded liberation theology of plantation spiritua ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 2 09:01:34 PST 2006

14479 [lbo-talk] Dubya does Delhi: will the chimps make rude noises? -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >That said, I find it disconcerting that she is singled out for contempt when >there are plenty of other talented writers with shallow left politics (Gore >Vidal and Norman Mailer come to mind) who aren't held to such a high >standard. As if by fate, this profound exercise in comparative listmaking just in from Mailer, in the current issue of The Nation. No-Cal? Doug ---- The Nation - March 13, 2006 The March of Progress NORMAN MAILER This list is, of course, open t ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 2 08:11:37 PST 2006

14480 [lbo-talk] Dubya does Delhi: will the chimps make rude noises? -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >That said, I find it disconcerting that she is singled out for contempt when >there are plenty of other talented writers with shallow left politics (Gore >Vidal and Norman Mailer come to mind) who aren't held to such a high >standard. In fact, their crankiness is often taken as a charming >curmudgeonly virtue. Not by me. I don't know enough about Mailer to comment, but Vidal seems to me to be an upper-class nativist and xenophobe of the sort that leftists are to ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 2 07:03:48 PST 2006

14481 [lbo-talk] DIY abortions -- rank: 1000

Chuck wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >>Hey, MoveOn.org is supporting Nathan's new employer! > >Who is that? The Democratic Party? <http://www.progressivestates.org/>

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Date:	Wed Mar 1 12:47:55 PST 2006

14482 [lbo-talk] DIY abortions -- rank: 1000

Chuck wrote: >Just think about what a difference in women's live could have been >made if thousands of people had donated money to create more clinics >in South Dakota, along with more activism, instead of wasting money >on liberal groups such as Moveon.org. Hey, MoveOn.org is supporting Nathan's new employer! Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 1 12:10:33 PST 2006

14483 [lbo-talk] the conservative mind -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >so, the common sense conclusion here is that there is a causal >relationship between the low wage growth and the high profit growth, >ie, that profit growth is so robust precisely because wage growth >has been suppressed. right? > >can one actually make that case? or do we think there's something >else going on? One can absolutely make that case. In fact, it's the only reasonable explanation for where the productivity gains of the last 4 years have gon ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 1 10:06:06 PST 2006

14484 [lbo-talk] housing deflation -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >[alas, this useful article elides the macroeconomic impact of >housing-price deflation, which might be the straw that breaks the back >of the consumer borrowing-and-spending boom, encouraging recession.] True, but it was nice to see someone in a mainstream pub question the virtues of housing inflation - which as the late Ed Hart of the late FNN used to say, is the American national religion. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 1 09:56:54 PST 2006

14485 [lbo-talk] The 12 Hour Job - Iraq Construction Minister: Shrinebombing was specialist job -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I haven't been following this thread at all, but Doug is exactly right >-- in general over the last couple of centuries there has tended to be >strong racist elements lurking in almost all conspiracism. Before he became a reality TV star, George Galloway told me that these sorts of conspiracy theories are popular in the Middle East because many Arabs have internalized the western view of them as incapable of mastering a technologically or organizationally complex assi ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 1 08:18:50 PST 2006

14486 [lbo-talk] The 12 Hour Job - Iraq Construction Minister: Shrine bombing was specialist job -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >What EXACTY do you think the U.S.HAS BEEN DOING in Iraq? >Having a sunny day picnic? Liberating them from that evil dictator... >...You know.... whathisname. Trying to take the country over and run it as a neocolony. That would create a home to military bases, a new swing producer in the oil market, and a model for the neoliberalization of the Middle East. Problem is, invading the country fucked things up hopelessly. But it all makes imperial sense, even if the idio ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 1 08:04:33 PST 2006

14487 [lbo-talk] isn't xenophobia wonderful? -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - March 1, 2006 Every Inlet an Outlet for Anger Over Ports By Dana Milbank Is there no safe harbor from the Dubai port imbroglio? Wherever they went yesterday, and whatever they spoke about, Bush administration officials could find no shelter. The controversy intruded on President Bush when he tried talk about NATO and Afghanistan with the Italian prime minister. It stalked Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte at the Senate Armed Services Committee, followed Homel ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 1 07:35:55 PST 2006

14488 [lbo-talk] even his staff is abandoning him! -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> Peter Baker's A1 analysis in the Washington Post of the latest Bush woes focuses on the GOP's waning support of the President on national security issues - as evidenced through the torture ban, the Patriot Act renewal, the NSA spying uproar, and the ports controversy. LINK Say Baker: "The breakdown of the Republican consensus on national security both reflects and exacerbates Bush's political weakness heading toward the midterm ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 1 07:31:49 PST 2006

14489 [lbo-talk] life in the rubber room -- rank: 1000

[Sometimes the WSJ's 19C headline style reads like poetry; no doubt it'll disappear in the impending redesign.] Wall Street Journal - March 1, 2006 Idle Hands Detroit's Symbol of Dysfunction: Paying Employees Not to Work Cost Tops $1.4 Billion a Year As Layoffs Fill 'Jobs Bank'; A Dismal Facility in Flint Mr. Mellon Takes a Long Nap By JEFFREY MCCRACKEN FLINT, Mich. -- In his 34 years working for General Motors Corp., one of Jerry Mellon's toughest assignments came this January. He spent a week ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 1 07:01:19 PST 2006

14490 [lbo-talk] The 12 Hour Job - Iraq Construction Minister: Shrine bombing was specialist job -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >Ahem... I don't know the background on this gent, or what his >vested interests might be in making this claim, but it's amazing >how LITTLE play this received in the western media. >(...and I think we know where THEIR vested interests lie...) Specialists...hmmm must be Americans or Israelis, because Iraqis couldn't figure it out themselves, right? Doug

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