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14566 [lbo-talk] The very worst custodians of empire -- rank: 1000
On Jun 25, 2006, at 1:06 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Yeah, Carrol, just like Vietnam. Ever read the > Pentagon Papers? Even they couldn't figure out why we > were in Vietnam. Can't remember whether I've mentioned this, but a friend of mine is writing a history diss on the City of London's role in WW I. They were against it. The City originally came into being to finance the monarchy's wars, but they'd moved on, and had much more of a stake in peaceful commerce with Germany. A g ...
Document Size: 5401
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Jun 25 10:27:30 PDT 2006
14567 [lbo-talk] request for WSJ article -- rank: 1000
On Jun 25, 2006, at 12:41 PM, Marta Russell wrote: > 6/23/06 WSJ > Hidden Burden: As Workers' Pensions Wither, Those for Executives > Flourish > > If someone has a subscription to the WSJ would they please send me > this entire article from today's WSJ. It is on the front page. > Thanks Wall Street Journal - June 23, 2006 Hidden Burden As Workers' Pensions Wither, Those for Executives Flourish Companies Run Up Big IOUs, Mostly Obscured, to Grant Bosses a Lucrativ ...
Document Size: 27161
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Jun 25 10:08:20 PDT 2006
14568 [lbo-talk] The new chicago seven -- rank: 1000
On Jun 25, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Jim Farmelant wrote: > This whole episode reminds me not only of the > tactics that the Feds used against the left back > in the 1960s and 1970s but also of the tactics > used by the Czarist secret police in Russia. > They used to send out agents to student hangouts > and such in order to recruit disaffected young > people into joining, what they were being > led to believe, were revolutionary conspiracies > against the regime. But those w ...
Document Size: 5532
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Jun 25 10:17:59 PDT 2006
14569 [lbo-talk] admin ignored CIA guy -- rank: 1000
CIA officer claims US ignored warnings about WMD errors 1 hour, 23 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AFP) - US administration officials chose to ignore a CIA officer's warnings that an Iraqi defector's claims of purported biological labs made by Iraq for germ warfare were unproven. Sunday's edition of The Washington Post quoted veteran CIA officer Tyler Drumheller who, it said, "recognized the source, an Iraqi defector suspected of being mentally unstable and a liar. "The CIA officer took hi ...
Document Size: 8511
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Jun 25 09:35:08 PDT 2006
14570 [lbo-talk] The very worst custodians of empire -- rank: 1000
On Jun 25, 2006, at 11:57 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Looking back on the Iraq war from 10 or more years in the future it > will > be obvious that it was the U.S. not the Bush Administration which > launched the war, and that it represented the best judgment of all > concerned in 'ruling-class' politics of what was _needed_ to preserve > u.s. hegemony. How do you know this? Many, maybe even most, foreign policy pundits would disagree. > Blaming Bush is a version of the cult of ...
Document Size: 6044
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Jun 25 09:09:41 PDT 2006
14571 [lbo-talk] an alternative to Pride Weekend -- rank: 1000
[street closure announcement for NYC] Seventh Avenue between 47th Street and 57th Streets: These streets will be closed Saturday from 10am to 7pm for the New York Young Republican Club Festival.
Document Size: 4812
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Jun 24 07:54:18 PDT 2006
14572 [lbo-talk] Vidal on Kissinger -- rank: 1000
On Jun 23, 2006, at 4:59 PM, ravi wrote: > The two > met outside a Galloway-Hitchens debate, there was a brief exchange of > animosities and according to one bystander, some blows as well, > leading > to some pretty serious Brokeback action. Actually Lou & I shook hands and had a friendly conversation while Hitchens worked the line, distributing a leaflet that enumerated Galloway's crimes with a mad sectarian look in his eyes. Doug
Document Size: 4970
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jun 23 14:09:11 PDT 2006
14573 [lbo-talk] Vidal on Kissinger -- rank: 1000
On Jun 23, 2006, at 4:39 PM, Auguste Blanqui wrote: > Since when were you two talking to each other again? (With apparent > civility, I mean.) > > On 6/23/06, Doug Henwood < dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:[Lou Proyect - > from whom I first got this quote years ago - just sent > me the original. Here it is.] For several months, though we'd been moving in that direction for some time. I have very little taste anymore for fighting sectarian battles with other people on the l ...
Document Size: 5410
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jun 23 13:59:18 PDT 2006
14574 [lbo-talk] Wall Street Rules -- rank: 1000
On Jun 23, 2006, at 3:43 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > What would more of the specifics of expropriating the financial > markets > be ? Got me. Suggestions welcome. Doug
Document Size: 4696
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jun 23 13:01:03 PDT 2006
14575 [lbo-talk] Vidal on Kissinger -- rank: 1000
[Lou Proyect - from whom I first got this quote years ago - just sent me the original. Here it is.] "Among the crude Titans was Henry Kissinger. In the next few days he and I attended a half-dozen functions together. I have no idea what he was doing memorializing the American Academy; but the people who give money for such causes have made something of a pet of him, rather as they had made of Truman Capote in an earlier time. Although Kissinger and I were careful to keep some distance ...
Document Size: 5510
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jun 23 13:00:35 PDT 2006
14576 Fwd: [lbo-talk] Wall Street Rules -- rank: 1000
[Dean Baker responds...] Begin forwarded message: > From: Dean Baker <dean.baker1 at verizon.net> > Date: June 23, 2006 12:57:54 PM EDT > To: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Wall Street Rules > > > > > well, I guess if you define a down market as quasi appropriation. I > won't argue that point. > > > Doug Henwood wrote: > >> >> On Jun 23, 2006, at 12:02 PM, Ira Glazer wrote: >> >>> For ...
Document Size: 7137
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jun 23 10:06:00 PDT 2006
14577 [lbo-talk] Wall Street Rules -- rank: 1000
On Jun 23, 2006, at 12:02 PM, Ira Glazer wrote: > For this reason, it was striking to see a piece ("Confusion From > the Fed Head") in the Washington Post's Outlook section in which > Richard Yamarone, an investment analyst, matter of factly asserted > that Wall Street controls the Federal Reserve Board of Fed. As Mr. > Yamarone put it, "The Fed chairman may be appointed by the > president and confirmed by the Senate, but his real bosses are on > Wall Street.& ...
Document Size: 5519
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jun 23 09:30:53 PDT 2006
14578 [lbo-talk] Gore Vidal's Believe It or Not -- rank: 1000
On Jun 23, 2006, at 12:00 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > "I end up with big houses because I have so many books," [Gore] > Vidal says. "If I didn't have the 8,000 volumes, I'd be in a one- > room flat somewhere." > > <http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1095838.ece> Speaking of Gore Vidal on abodes, he unleashed one of the great witticisms of all time, when observing Henry Kissinger in a museum, studying a Bosch painting of hell, he said: sssh ...
Document Size: 5223
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jun 23 09:28:03 PDT 2006
14579 [lbo-talk] war polls -- rank: 1000
The Reps have been saying that if you polled the US public during WW2 you might have discovered a popular desire to give up on the war. Turns out they're wrong: <http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/wwii- polls/>. Doug
Document Size: 4682
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jun 23 08:12:47 PDT 2006
14580 [lbo-talk] Edwards, friend of the worker -- rank: 1000
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news? pid=washingtonstory&sid=astiRiJBcr3Y> Edwards, Sounding Like a Candidate, Calls for Fighting Poverty By Roger Simon June 23 (Bloomberg) -- Former Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards says he will do ``anything'' to get ordinary Americans to pay attention to poverty -- even at the risk of sounding like a 2008 presidential candidate. Edwards, who ran for the Democratic nomination in 2004 before joining Massachusetts Senator John Kerry ...
Document Size: 12098
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jun 23 07:49:23 PDT 2006
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