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14746 [lbo-talk] The Bird-Watching Businessman -- rank: 1000

On Jun 1, 2006, at 1:46 AM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > Yes, Treasury Secretary designee Henry Paulson, Jr. is a > supporter of the > Nature Conservancy. That, predictably, draws the ire of the > Republican right > wing and produces human interest headlines such as this piece by > the Los > Angeles Times. Less noticed is the fact that he comes from Goldman- > Sachs > and even less noticed is the fact that he comes from the same firm > that > produced Clinton T ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 1 07:21:19 PDT 2006

14747 [lbo-talk] Re: Aundhati Roy on the brewing instability in India -- rank: 1000

On May 31, 2006, at 10:52 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> On May 31, 2006, at 7:25 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: >> >>> In the particular category you describe (that >>> of black males who do well), the ones who do well are not doing well >>> BECAUSE other black males are doing poorly! >> >> How's that? Is there some racial zero-sum balancing mechanism? >> > > Do you shut off your brain when you read my posts, or a ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 1 06:55:06 PDT 2006

14748 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Press Overlooks U.S. Role as Arms Merchant in Mideast Conflict -- rank: 1000

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/ pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002914055 Press Overlooks U.S. Role as Arms Merchant in Mideast Conflict For better or worse, the U.S. has a special role in the current conflict as supplier of the best weapons money can buy to one side. Yet the media nearly always underplays this angle, even though it has enormous consequences, not just for those under fire inLebanon but for Americans at home. By Greg Mitchell (July 27, 2006) -- The ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 31 11:16:53 PDT 2006

14749 [lbo-talk] Hizballah: A Primer -- rank: 1000

Hizballah, the Shi'i Islamist movement whose militia is fighting the Israeli army in south Lebanon, has been cast misleadingly in much media coverage of the ongoing war. Much more than a militia, the movement is also a political party and a provider of social services. Not a creature of Iran and Syria, Hizballah arose to battle Israel's occupation of south Lebanon from 1982-2000 and, more broadly, to advocate for Lebanon's historically disenfranchised Shi'i Muslim community. While it has ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 31 11:14:46 PDT 2006

14750 [lbo-talk] MP fails to condemn Killing of Children -- rank: 1000

On Jul 31, 2006, at 9:23 AM, Michael J. Smith wrote: > On Sunday 30 July 2006 15:38, Michael Pugliese wrote: > >> What were children doing in a war zone? > > This is definitely the best yet. One for the books. I heard a BBC reporter in Southern Lebanon a little while ago, saying that about 80% of the region had been evacuated, but those left behind were mainly the sick, the handicapped, those with large families, and the poor. Oh, and there was no gas available, because ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 31 08:21:13 PDT 2006

14751 [lbo-talk] Why bomb UN observers? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 31, 2006, at 10:36 AM, Michael Pugliese quoted the AP, in his latest effort to make Israel look good: > "Ultimately, Israel does not see the Lebanese people as the enemy, and > we want to make sure that aid gets in to the people who need it," said > Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev. I love the use of "ultimately" in that quote. In the short-to-medium- term, well...

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Date:	Mon Jul 31 08:11:37 PDT 2006

14752 [lbo-talk] Murray Bookchin RIP -- rank: 1000

On Jul 31, 2006, at 5:56 AM, B. wrote: > I was out of town and away from email for awhile, so > when I got back and saw the notice about Bookchin's > death it hit me me pretty hard. I've always been an > admirer of Bookchin. Even when I disagreed with him on > finer points I've felt a broad sympathy for his ideas, > which evolved over time. Yeah, I didn't agree with him on a lot of things, but I always admired his principles & spirit. I was surprised, bordering on skeptica ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 31 05:54:06 PDT 2006

14753 [lbo-talk] Why bomb UN observers? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 31, 2006, at 7:40 AM, Colin Brace wrote: > It also seems to me to be a massive "fuck you" to the international > community. Speaking of such fuck you's, this from today's NYT, not known for its hostility to Israel (though the syntax - "missiles hit" - does try to soften the blow) <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/31/world/middleeast/ 31scene.html?_r=1&oref=slogin>: "Dozens, including 21 refugees in the back of a pickup truck on July 15, have been ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 31 05:51:20 PDT 2006

14754 [lbo-talk] Murray Bookchin RIP -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Michael Pug] Murray Bookchin RIP BURLINGTON, Vt. -- Murray Bookchin, an early proponent of what he described as social ecology, died at home early Sunday at the age of 85. He was surrounded by family when he died of heart failure at home, said his daughter, Debbie Bookchin. Murray Bookchin long was a proponent of left-leaning libertarian ideas and was among the first people in the early 1960s to promote the then-emerging field of ecology into political debate. He published "O ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 30 19:33:16 PDT 2006

14755 [lbo-talk] MP fails to condemn Killing of Children -- rank: 1000

On Jul 30, 2006, at 8:43 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > I was drawing attn. to the overheated rhetoric of some sectors of > the US Left that allege a ZioNazi genocide against Arabs and Muslims. You spend so much time consuming the spew of loons that you miss the main point: Israel is killing lots more people than its enemies are, and they're doing it with US money and weapons, and in accordance with US imperial strategy. Yeah, so someone has a stupid sign at a demo - fuck it. That's not ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 30 19:30:56 PDT 2006

14756 [lbo-talk] SEIU -- rank: 1000

On Jul 30, 2006, at 4:01 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > No offense intended, Doug! Perhaps I'm indulging in some strategic > snideness. But the specific professors I jab at are Fitch--- who > believes > home health aides are not 'really' workers (in a way that, presumably, > college profs are); and Yoshie, who's made many offensive claims > that are > baldly false about a great seiu local I used to work for which she > has lived > down the street from for a decade and never m ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 30 15:28:03 PDT 2006

14757 [lbo-talk] Eric Lee vs. Sean Matgamna of the AWL debating Israel -- rank: 1000

On Jul 30, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Max B. Sawicky wrote: > You've got pro-capitalist fundamentalist clerics relying on > extra-parliamentary violence perpetrated by armed gangs, including > against > actual leftists, for all practical purposes protecting deeply > reactionary > absolutist and/or monarchical regimes. Which regime and/or organization are you talking about? Saudi Arabia? The southern portion of Lebanon under Hezbollah control? Iran? Saddam's Iraq? The former Taliban r ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 30 15:16:20 PDT 2006

14758 [lbo-talk] Eric Lee vs. Sean Matgamna of the AWL debating Israel -- rank: 1000

On Jul 30, 2006, at 11:31 AM, Carl Remick wrote: > Zippy rejoinder, Chip. Thanks for confirming my point. No need to get personal. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 30 15:09:50 PDT 2006

14759 [lbo-talk] Qana building fell hours after strike - News from Israel, Ynetnews -- rank: 1000

On Jul 30, 2006, at 4:53 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > Some 150 rockets were fired from the Lebanese village of Qana over the > past 20 days, Air Force Chief of Staff Brig.-Gen. Amir Eshel said on > Sunday evening. So now you're just recycling Israeli propaganda? Do you realize what kind of company this puts you in? Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 30 15:07:00 PDT 2006

14760 [lbo-talk] MP fails to condemn Killing of Children -- rank: 1000

On Jul 30, 2006, at 3:38 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > Given that Hizbollah has their rockets placed in dense, urban > areas, this is inevitable, > http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,19955774-5007220,00.html > What were children doing in a war zone? Like any guerilla force, Hezbollah blends with the population. If you want to embrace the same strategy the US followed in Vietnam, be my guest. But don't present it as anything but imperial brutality. Doug

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