Search LBO-Talk Archives

1456 [lbo-talk] Fidel: El asesinato de Bin Laden/The assassination of Bin Laden -- rank: 1000

On May 5, 2011, at 4:32 PM, CallMe Ishmael wrote: >> Did those guys orchestrate an attack on the U.S.? > > Did Osama? KSM is routinely referred to as the "mastermind" of 9/11, > not OBL, who as far as I understand it was more the funder and > figurehead. Look, the guy was of a totally different order from a leader the U.S. had shot for promoting land reform or something. Doug

Document Size:	5352
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 5 13:37:54 PDT 2011

1457 [lbo-talk] write the CUNY board -- rank: 1000

http://www.facebook.com/notes/tony-kushner-good-enough-for-a-pulitzer-but-not-for-city-university-ny/heres-what-you-can-do-write-to-the-cuny-board-of-trustees/202381983134435 or http://liten.be//iNV6s Hi everyone. Please send an email to the Board of Trustees. We'll give you sample language below, but in our experience, your own words are more powerful than a standardized protest note. Remember: be polite, be civil, be firm. We're asking the trustees to rescind their decision to table John Jay' ...

Document Size:	10541
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 5 13:20:42 PDT 2011

1458 [lbo-talk] Fidel: El asesinato de Bin Laden/The assassination of Bin Laden -- rank: 1000

On May 5, 2011, at 1:55 PM, Peter Fay wrote: > Violation of bourgeois legality, though convenient for Obama, ought be > highlighted, rather than dismissed. Particularly in light of the US history > of assassinations from Lumumba, through Guevara, Qassim, Trujillo, Diem, and > the dozens upon dozens of attempts on Castro, and even today, on Gaddafi Did those guys orchestrate an attack on the U.S.? And it's pretty icky to see Diem and Guevara on the same list. Doug

Document Size:	5357
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 5 12:17:49 PDT 2011

1459 [lbo-talk] vaca reading -- rank: 1000

On May 4, 2011, at 8:54 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > Anything you've seen lately on the new fiction or new non-fiction shelves that you've read or would like to? Any good social or political theory/philosophy books that everybody's reading. Jefferson Cowie's book on the 70s is pretty good. And Carrie Lane's book on tech workers might be right up your alley - I think you were doing similar stuff at one point, no? Doug

Document Size:	4824
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 4 18:08:52 PDT 2011

1460 [lbo-talk] Questions about Osama Bin Laden -- rank: 1000

On May 4, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Somebody Somebody wrote: > Doug Henwood: NB: Reuters, not Wikileaks. > > Somebody: So, snapshots of Osama's assassination are more newsworthy than Collateral Murder? Americans are very parochial, but Wikileaks has made major news in India, Greece, Brazil, Australia, Kenya, Russia, and on and on. I know you have an axe to grind here, but really. No serious people claim that Wikileaks didn't break any major stories anymore. Certainly it broke bigger stories tha ...

Document Size:	5878
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 4 15:51:52 PDT 2011

1461 [lbo-talk] Questions about Osama Bin Laden -- rank: 1000

On May 4, 2011, at 6:17 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Some photos are beginning to leak out anyway; we might get a look yet. > > http://www.reuters.com/subjects/bin-laden-compound NB: Reuters, not Wikileaks.

Document Size:	4879
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 4 15:26:42 PDT 2011

1462 [lbo-talk] Questions about Osama Bin Laden -- rank: 1000

On May 4, 2011, at 5:23 PM, dperrin at comcast.net wrote: > So Wikileaks came years after the fact? What does that have to do with my overall point? Because Obama doesn't care about something that's likely to be revealed, if at all, well past his sell-by date. > There was no public internet in 1964. This is all historical speculation, as is much of the analysis, official and amateur, about bin Laden's execution. The point is, with instant global info coming from countless sources, statist ...

Document Size:	5914
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 4 14:39:21 PDT 2011

1463 [lbo-talk] Questions about Osama Bin Laden -- rank: 1000

On May 4, 2011, at 2:35 PM, ken hanly wrote: > What would be the reaction if a foreign country carried out such an operation > in the U.S. without informing or getting the permission of the government? It would almost certainly involve cruise missiles.

Document Size:	4849
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 4 11:45:54 PDT 2011

1464 [lbo-talk] Questions about Osama Bin Laden -- rank: 1000

On May 4, 2011, at 1:36 PM, dperrin at comcast.net wrote: > By allowing non-official stories, reports, critiques, links, etc. to flow with little interruption. What if Wikileaks and the Web had been around during Vietnam? Central America? You honestly believe that this wouldn't worry our owners and their scribes? First, Wikileaks came years after the fact. Second, much of what was leaked were analytical comments by diplomats, not smoking gun secrets like Tonkin could have been. (And a lot of ...

Document Size:	5370
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 4 11:17:05 PDT 2011

1465 [lbo-talk] Questions about Osama Bin Laden -- rank: 1000

On May 4, 2011, at 1:11 PM, dperrin at comcast.net wrote: > The Web forces them to concede and correct more than they'd prefer. How? I don't see this.

Document Size:	4800
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 4 10:16:06 PDT 2011

1466 [lbo-talk] Capital & Its Discontents -- rank: 1000

Excellent collection of interviews (not that I'm praising myself here). Perfect for teaching, or just reading. Doug ---- Sasha Lilley, Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult (PM Press, 2011) Interviewees: Ellen Meiksins Wood, David Harvey, Doug Henwood, Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin, Greg Albo, David McNally, John Bellamy Foster, Jason W Moore, Ursula Huws, Gillian Hart, Vivek Chibber, Mike Davis, Tariq Ali, John Sanbonmatsu, Andrej Grubacic, and Noam Chom ...

Document Size:	9595
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 3 17:08:56 PDT 2011

1467 [lbo-talk] OBL, Coke, & Pepsi -- rank: 1000

http://www.theage.com.au/world/iconic-us-brands-on-bin-laden-shopping-list-20110504-1e77i.html Iconic US brands on bin Laden shopping list May 4, 2011 - 7:39AM The two polite Pakistanis who helped Osama bin Laden hide in the shadow of their country's army bought bulk food orders, chose major brands and equally favoured Pepsi and Coke, neighbours and a local shopkeeper said.

Document Size:	4990
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 3 15:20:05 PDT 2011

1468 [lbo-talk] Questions about Osama Bin Laden -- rank: 1000

On May 2, 2011, at 11:28 PM, Mark Bennett wrote: > Bin Laden would have had little value as a captive, and would have been a > serious liability. I think the question is, why kill him now? Because they only just found him now?

Document Size:	4823
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 3 08:37:30 PDT 2011

1469 [lbo-talk] WBAI -- rank: 1000

On May 3, 2011, at 12:37 AM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > I just got an email from WBAI and I'm sending the first sentence. > > So Doug, hasn't anyone over there ever thought of using some of that donation money to spring for a copy of Strunk and White? Many of the people drawing paychecks from Pacifica are third raters who couldn't find a job anywhere else. Doug

Document Size:	4721
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 3 08:36:29 PDT 2011

1470 [lbo-talk] WBAI -- rank: 1000

On Jan 2, 2006, at 1:20 AM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > I've wondered about this while reading Kapital. Who is this text for? How could you write for the working class and expect them to understand this? Capitalism is really complicated, so a book about it has to be pretty complicated too. As Marx wrote in the preface to the French edition of Capital: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/p2.htm > I applaud your idea of publishing the translation of Das Kapital as a serial. In thi ...

Document Size:	6210
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 3 08:35:31 PDT 2011