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14776 [lbo-talk] identity revealed -- rank: 1000

The NYT has revealed the identity of our Beirut correspondent: > http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/28/world/middleeast/28arabs.html? > hp&ex=1154059200&en=d6633724ec1cf9d0&ei=5094&partner=homepage > > 'In Lebanon, Rasha Salti, a freelance writer, summarized the sense > that Sheik Nasrallah differed from other Arab leaders. > > ' Since the war broke out, Hassan Nasrallah has displayed a > persona, and public behavior also, to the exact opposite of Arab > he ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 28 06:20:24 PDT 2006

14777 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Jesse Lemisch on the KC gas station action -- rank: 1000

On Jul 27, 2006, at 7:10 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > Surely, one of the lamentable results of the US' poor > record in teaching basic science (and anything useful > really, about our technological infrastructure) is the > absurd idea that driving cars is the heart of the > petro problem. Transportation accounts for well over a quarter of total energy use, and almost all of transportation's energy comes from oil. So it's not small, though you're right it's not the heart. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 27 16:27:12 PDT 2006

14778 [lbo-talk] NYT: Borrowing Language of Civil Rights Movement, Drive Is On To Unionize Guards -- rank: 1000

On Jul 26, 2006, at 9:56 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > Any professors want to share wisdom on how this fits the evil seiu > scheme to keep people from getting health care by gaming the > welfare system? Hmm, don't recall any professors, aside from maybe Adolph Reed, making that point. I guess it's just a bit of authentic proletarian disdain for intellekshuels then. SEIU's health care strategy sucks. It deliberately avoids - and Stern isn't above a little xenophobia here about "Canadi ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 27 15:39:15 PDT 2006

14779 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Jesse Lemisch on the KC gas station action -- rank: 1000

[Chuck0's response to Jesse Lemisch; I'm not going to spend a lot of time forwarding a back & forth, should one develop.] Begin forwarded message: > From: Chuck <chuck at mutualaid.org> > Date: July 27, 2006 3:57:55 PM EDT > To: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > Cc: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> > Subject: Re: Jesse Lemisch on the KC gas station action > > Jesse Lemisch just doesn't get it. > >> From: "Jesse Lemisch" <u ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 27 13:01:50 PDT 2006

14780 [lbo-talk] Jesse Lemisch on the KC gas station action -- rank: 1000

[forwarded by request] From: "Jesse Lemisch" <utopia1 at attglobal.net> Chuck says: "the goal was not to shut down the gas station." Literature from Code Pink (who my original posting made clear was the primary organizer, endorsed and enthusiastically reported on by KC SDS)* announced in advance: "Stop Fueling the War Machine: Gas Station Takeovers!... disrupt business as usual... attempt to occupy the pumps... If we... block a pump, Cars can't make us move,,, ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 27 11:36:33 PDT 2006

14781 [lbo-talk] Class War on Lebanon -- rank: 1000

[making the rounds] A Class War Federation statement on the War in Lebanon Class War is appalled at the carnage that is occurring in the Middle East. We are also disappointed but not surprised at what is being said about it, especially by some "progressive" organisations. Lebanon is being turned into a grotesque war-games board as the real protagonists - The USA and Iran use their proxies to slug it out. Neither the Israeli army nor Hezbollah give a flying fuck about 'their' civili ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 27 11:29:42 PDT 2006

14782 [lbo-talk] death metal photos! -- rank: 1000

[Hope this is partial recompense to B. for disappointing over the Minutemen. Via Popbitch.] Ridiculous black metal photographs: http://tinyurl.com/h6d3q

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Date:	Thu Jul 27 09:27:57 PDT 2006

14783 [lbo-talk] Ungrateful and indecorous in the new democratic Iraq -- rank: 1000

This is pretty funny. Apparently the Bush admin can't even put together a proper puppet government. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 27 09:13:00 PDT 2006

14784 [lbo-talk] Dean: "Maliki is an anti-semite" -- rank: 1000

On Jul 27, 2006, at 8:29 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > At the very beginning of the war the building of an anti-war movement > was interfered with by all those who said that the u.s. should > "repair" > the damage before it left. Bullshit, Carrol. How was the antiwar movement damaged by this for a second? You're full of functionalist explanations of everything, but can never describe a single mechanisms by which all the things you assert actually happen. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 27 07:47:36 PDT 2006

14785 [lbo-talk] Dean: "Maliki is an anti-semite" -- rank: 1000

On Jul 27, 2006, at 12:17 AM, Kevin Robert Dean wrote: > mike larkin wrote: > >> Do they even think for a second this will work? What >> are they smoking? > > > Well it seems to be something the American people are ready to > bite, if one believes the latest Gallup Poll regarding Lebanon.... > > http://poll.gallup.com/content/?ci=23887 Actually that poll isn't as bad as I'd feared. E.g.: > The negative for Israel is that only one-third of Americans say all ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 27 07:43:46 PDT 2006

14786 [lbo-talk] the head Xtian-Zionist nut -- rank: 1000

On Jul 27, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > A nut? I do not think so. He, and the scores of other, are > cynical and > crafty manipulators doing what it takes to appeal to stupid, lazy, > self-righteous and hateful people which comprise a big chunk of this > country's population. Ok he's not a nut. This belief is entirely sane: <blockquote> When addressing Jewish audiences, Mr. Hagee generally avoids talking about Armageddon. But his books, whose titles inclu ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 27 07:37:04 PDT 2006

14787 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Notes from the Siege 9&10 -- rank: 1000

On Jul 26, 2006, at 7:08 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > So why the policy of "Islamic Fascists = Good" whereas > "European Fascists = Bad?" I don't hold this position, but it's easy to see a riposte: Europe is a subordinate imperialist region, while the ME is entirely subordinate. Also, Eurofascists are pretty marginal, while Hezbollah isn't. (Note to the ideological police: I don't think Hezbollah is fascist.) Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 27 06:47:24 PDT 2006

14788 [lbo-talk] fascism -- rank: 1000

On Jul 27, 2006, at 7:13 AM, Tahir Wood wrote: > Look, I don't spend a lot of time in the useless task of debating > leninists on anything, because as I have made it clear I don't respect > their positions on many things. Why dismiss your interlocutor so completely? He's intelligent, well- informed, and writes well. Should people only engage those they agree with? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 27 06:44:11 PDT 2006

14789 [lbo-talk] the head Xtian-Zionist nut -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - As of Thursday, July 27, 2006 Holy War A Texas Preacher Leads Campaign To Let Israel Fight Mr. Hagee Draws Evangelicals By Arguing Jewish State Fulfills Biblical Prophecy 'End of World as We Know It' By ANDREW HIGGINS WASHINGTON -- After Israel sent warplanes into Iraq in 1981 to bomb a nuclear reactor, Texas televangelist John Hagee sent letters to 150 fellow Christian preachers to rally support for the Jewish state. He got just one positive response. When Mr. Hagee pr ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 27 06:21:03 PDT 2006

14790 [lbo-talk] the head Xtian-Zionist nut -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - July 27, 2006 Holy War A Texas Preacher Leads Campaign To Let Israel Fight Mr. Hagee Draws Evangelicals By Arguing Jewish State Fulfills Biblical Prophecy 'End of World as We Know It' By ANDREW HIGGINS WASHINGTON -- After Israel sent warplanes into Iraq in 1981 to bomb a nuclear reactor, Texas televangelist John Hagee sent letters to 150 fellow Christian preachers to rally support for the Jewish state. He got just one positive response. When Mr. Hagee pressed ahead with ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 27 06:23:47 PDT 2006