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14761 [lbo-talk] Middle East: Cradle Or Graveyard Of The Empire? -- rank: 1000

Sorry, at 80k that piece is way too big for the list - I pressed the wrong button. Please, with very long pieces, a URL and a teaser intro only, please. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 30 07:14:45 PDT 2006

14762 [lbo-talk] Eric Lee vs. Sean Matgamna of the AWL debating Israel -- rank: 1000

On Jul 29, 2006, at 11:45 PM, Chip Berlet wrote: > I understand that many people use the term Islamo-fascism as a > catch-all epithet, but there are serious scholars, including some > on the left, who think that some Islamic militant movements should > be seriously considered to be clerical fascist or theocratic > fascist movements. I understand your anger and frustration, but I > dislike having some of my claims, that are published in scholarly > publications, dismissed as ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 30 07:13:36 PDT 2006

14763 [lbo-talk] latest installment from Beiruit -- rank: 1000

On Jul 29, 2006, at 8:55 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > On the list, we make occasional noises about the US Israeli Lobby, but > it seems to me the Israelis have been playing monkey-see, monkey-do > lately. Their outlandish military reaction, especially in Lebanon > seems to follow Rumsfeld and Cheney's One Percent Solution. I'll post last Thursday's radio show to the web on Monday (it's up there for podcast subscribers, but it's not on the web page yet). In it, Joel Schalit argues that ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 29 19:27:35 PDT 2006

14764 [lbo-talk] Eric Lee vs. Sean Matgamna of the AWL debating Israel -- rank: 1000

On Jul 29, 2006, at 9:37 PM, Dennis Redmond wrote: > Michael Pugliese forwarded: > >> http://www.ericlee.info/2006/07/in_support_of_israel_notes_for.html >> In support of Israel: Notes for a debate >> >> The Jewish state faces the threat of annihilation by >> Islamo-fascist organizations that have sworn to do exactly that. > > Pure lunacy. Islamo-fascism is a bullshit concept. It's hard to take anyone seriously who uses it - it's just a substitute for t ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 29 19:17:20 PDT 2006

14765 [lbo-talk] Americans suprisingly neutral on Israel-Hezbollah conflict -- rank: 1000

July 26, 2006 Americans Favor Neutral U.S. Stance on Israel-Hezbollah Conflict Half say peace in Middle East should be very important U.S. foreign policy goal by Jeffrey M. Jones Page: 1, 2 Next GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- Most Americans say the United States should not take either side in the current conflict between Israel and the Hezbollah group in Lebanon. Still, a new USA Today/Gallup poll finds that half of Americans say the development of peace in the Middle East should ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 29 11:40:24 PDT 2006

14766 [lbo-talk] Heinrich on Marx -- rank: 1000

["Angelus Novus" asked me to post this link] <http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl? sid=06/07/28/1916205&mode=nested&tid=9> "Invaders from Marx: On the Uses of Marxian Theory, and the Difficulties of a Contemporary Reading A Critical Engagement with Karl Heinz Roth and others" Michael Heinrich [The following text is the slightly reworked version of an article which appeared on 21 September 2005 in Jungle World, a leftist German weekly newspaper. In a pr ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 29 11:28:47 PDT 2006

14767 [lbo-talk] latest installment from Beiruit -- rank: 1000

[Since the NYT has outed the author, I'll repeat that she's Rasha Salti.] Every day, I have to ask at least twice or three times what day it is, where we are now in July (Please tell me this war will be a July affair only). The calendar of the Siege barely sticks in my head. It's Day 16 or 17 when I am writing now. I don't know. I have also tried to the best of my abilities to keep up to date with professional commitments from my former life. It's almost impossible, but if I stop I know I ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 29 10:53:15 PDT 2006

14768 [lbo-talk] To Doug re: Invaders from Marx -- rank: 1000

On Jul 28, 2006, at 1:30 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > My attempt to post a translation of an article by > Michael Heinrich about the contemporary relevance of > Marx bounced because it was too large. > > Michael was going to put the translation on his > website, but I was going to post it here sooner since > some people expressed interest to me offlist about it. > > Can I re-send it? Is it elsewhere on the web, or something original? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 29 10:47:18 PDT 2006

14769 [lbo-talk] Hezbollah Attacks on UN -- rank: 1000

On Jul 27, 2006, at 4:24 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: 15 posts. The limit is 3. I haven't been able to check in since yesterday morning, or I'd have pointed this out earlier. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 29 10:36:43 PDT 2006

14770 [lbo-talk] Merrill Lynch: globalization peaking? -- rank: 1000

U.S. Strategy: Thought for the Day: Globalization Peaking Analyst: Richard Bernstein Another Sad Sign Globalization May Be Peaking Several weeks ago we suggested that globalization was in the process of peaking, and that investors should be careful not to extrapolate the past 10-20 years' globalization trends into the distant future. Unfortunately, there was another sad sign this week that suggests we might be correct. We have no particular view on the details of the recent global trade tal ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 28 09:34:26 PDT 2006

14771 [lbo-talk] Hezbollah Attacks on UN -- rank: 1000

On Jul 28, 2006, at 11:00 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > Do you really see anti-Semitism as a real potential > force in American or European society except at the > fringes? It's really not anywhere the top of the list of urgent problems in the U.S., for sure, but you never know what could happen. There were anti-Semitic books published in Japan, which must have 17 resident Jews, in the 1980s and 1990s. It's an old phantasmic reliable that pops up all over time & place. > Anyway I d ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 28 09:31:12 PDT 2006

14772 [lbo-talk] Tony & Jethro -- rank: 1000

[from Page Six] JETHRO'S PUPIL TONY Snow is still a rock 'n' roll animal. The White House press secretary, a classic-rock freak, got a visit there on Wednesday from his old pal Ian Anderson, the zany, flute-playing frontman of Jethro Tull. "I've played with Ian on stage before," Snow told us. "I actually taught myself to play the flute by listening to Jethro Tull albums." Anderson will briefly turn classical when he plays with a chamber orchestra at Jazz at Lincoln Cent ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 28 07:45:32 PDT 2006

14773 [lbo-talk] Damn Arabs.... -- rank: 1000

On Jul 28, 2006, at 10:25 AM, Michael J. Smith wrote: > They don't face it because they don't want to face it. > To paraphrase Candide, if anti-Semitism did not exist, > Zionists would have to invent it. Wait a minute - just because Zionists abuse the term doesn't mean anti-Semitism doesn't exist. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 28 07:34:27 PDT 2006

14774 [lbo-talk] adventures in "outrage" -- rank: 1000

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5223940.stm> US 'outrage' over Israeli claims The US state department has dismissed as "outrageous" a suggestion by Israel that it has been authorised by the world to continue bombing Lebanon. "The US is sparing no efforts to bring a durable and lasting end to this conflict," said spokesman Adam Ereli. Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon made the suggestion after powers meeting in Rome refrained from demanding an immediate cea ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 28 07:07:41 PDT 2006

14775 [lbo-talk] Hezbollah Attacks on UN -- rank: 1000

On Jul 28, 2006, at 6:45 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > Angelus (was ist ihre wirkliche Name?)*, you're a > smart guy, but this is just silly. Why should a > society of generalized commodity production > necessarily entail a demonization of one specific > ethno/religious group? Jews do have a long history of being the repository of anti- capitalist feeelings. It's uncanny how often producerist/nationalist ideologies try to split the "good," "productive" aspects of c ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 28 06:24:31 PDT 2006