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14791 [lbo-talk] Dean: "Maliki is an anti-semite" -- rank: 1000

On Jul 26, 2006, at 9:08 PM, Stephen Philion wrote: > *WASHINGTON Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean on > Wednesday called Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki an "anti- > Semite" and criticized President Bush for inviting the newly- > elected leader of Iraq to the United States.* As Liza pointed out last night, the Dems have been aching to criticze Bush from the right. Disgraceful. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 26 20:19:23 PDT 2006

14792 [lbo-talk] radio show -- rank: 1000

On tomorrow's radio show - Joel Schalit, on The Crisis, and Adolph Reed, on race and class 5-6 NYC time 99.5 fm, wbai.org.

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14793 [lbo-talk] Wal-Mart boycotted in Mexico -- rank: 1000

On Jul 26, 2006, at 5:59 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > Today, a group of López Obrador's supporters demonstrated in Plaza > Universidad and held an impromptu meeting in the Wal-Mart store > denouncing the fraud. This is impressive. Is the energy level staying up, or is the struggle losing steam? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 26 15:06:14 PDT 2006

14794 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Notes from the Siege 9&10 -- rank: 1000

On Jul 26, 2006, at 4:12 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > U.S. Out Now. That is the whole of our politics. Wow. that was easy. I wish my life were as simple as yours. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 26 13:26:02 PDT 2006

14795 [lbo-talk] social democracy vs Marxism -- rank: 1000

On Jul 26, 2006, at 4:08 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > Monopoly, the essential of > imperialism, has made a qualitative leap to transnationalism as > compared > with 100 years ago. How's that monopoly? Some markets are more competitive than ever, because of transnationalization. E.g., autos in the U.S.. > Surely they are earning super-profits somewhere, even if > not from paleo-colonies. Surely? What is this, a declaration of religious faith? Doug

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14796 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Morality is not our side--Please read -- rank: 1000

Ha'aretz - July 25, 2006 <http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=742257> Morality is not on our side By Ze'ev Maoz There's practically a holy consensus right now that the war in the North is a just war and that morality is on our side. The bitter truth must be said: this holy consensus is based on short-range selective memory, an introverted worldview, and double standards. This war is not a just war. Israel is using excessive force without distinguishing between civilia ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 26 13:14:35 PDT 2006

14797 [lbo-talk] politics makes strange matfellows -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - July 26, 2006 Lloyd Grove Edwards' drive heads into the stretch run Just how much does former Sen. John Edwards want to be President? So much, apparently, that to get a meeting Monday night with hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, a go-to guy for Democratic presidential candidates courting the African-American vote, Edwards let Simmons drag him to his regular 6:15 p.m. class at the Jivamukti Yoga School. "He had never seen or done it before. He was a yoga virgin," y ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 26 13:01:14 PDT 2006

14798 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Notes from the Siege 9&10 -- rank: 1000

On Jul 26, 2006, at 3:31 PM, John Adams wrote: > Gotcha! Let me rephrase: Is this appearing somewhere on a regular > basis? She just sends them out. I'm sure they're getting recirculated, but a quick google reveals that only one site has reposted the stuff with her email address.

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Date:	Wed Jul 26 12:42:42 PDT 2006

14799 [lbo-talk] Madonna demands! -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - July 26, 2006 Rush & Molloy Madonna demands a brand-new toilet seat at every venue she plays. "It must be wrapped in plastic so her people can open it, and then she demands it be disposed of immediately after she leaves the venue so no one can sell it on eBay," a source tells us. Her Madgesty's spokeswoman Liz Rosenberg confirms the throne request. "I don't know if anyone helps her wipe," says Rosenberg, "but there are probably people who ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 26 12:40:38 PDT 2006

14800 [lbo-talk] Minutemen's Gilchrist meets Satan in NYC -- rank: 1000

[video at URL] <http://www.gawker.com/news/video/satan-punks-out-under-rule-of- law-190035.php> Satan Punks Out "Under Rule of Law" Jim Gilchrist is the founder of the border vigilante group known as the Minuteman Project, and he hopes to surf a bitchin' wave of xenophobia right into the U.S. Congress. Celebrating that cause plus his new book about the Minutemen, Gilchrist showed up at Ground Zero today to confront Satan, and/or people who don't share his views on immigratio ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 26 12:33:31 PDT 2006

14801 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Notes from the Siege 9&10 -- rank: 1000

On Jul 26, 2006, at 12:18 PM, John Adams wrote: > Powerful stuff! Who is it and where's it from? I'd rather not give her name, so that people don't bug her, but she's a Lebanese of Palestinian origin in her late 30s. I met her when she was in grad school in NYC. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 26 12:15:33 PDT 2006

14802 [lbo-talk] Yale Alumni mag survey: mostly Dems, worry about education, global warming -- rank: 1000

Yale Alumni Magazine panelists rated the following issues as most important to the current well being of the U.S. (rated extremely or very important): American educational system 84% Healthcare system 82% Energy independence 79% Global warming 72% Budget deficit 71% And here is how you responded to the following questions: Which of the following best describes your expectations for the U.S. economy ov ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 26 12:05:06 PDT 2006

14803 [lbo-talk] Israel: forced to fight as a brake against evil -- rank: 1000

[man, this is some wacky shit] <http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=w060724&amp;s=halevi072606> WHY ISRAEL FIGHTS. Drawing the Line by Yossi Klein Halevi Three times in the last century, the Jewish people has found itself on the front line against totalitarian ideologies with aspirations to rule the world, and which defined the Jewish people as its primary obstacle in fulfilling that goal. For Nazism, the Jew was not only the source of racial impurity but inventor of conscience, crippli ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 26 09:58:54 PDT 2006

14804 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Notes from the Siege 9&10 -- rank: 1000

[more reports from Beirut] [choice excerpt, from about 2/3 down:] > The political culture that prevails in the Arab world has a very > select cast of roles for officials (whether elected or not), at > heart they are variations on three main roles: taxidermists, court- > jesters and kitchen undercooks (the more accurate word is in > French, "marmitons"). They resurrect dead effigies, brandish > defunct ideologies, they gesticulate and throw fits to soothe, > distrac ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 26 08:03:45 PDT 2006

14805 [lbo-talk] social democracy vs Marxism -- rank: 1000

On Jul 26, 2006, at 10:54 AM, parthasarathy kalalesrinivasaranga wrote: > His Imperialism Highest stage of Capitalism is applicable today > better and was premature for his time. How's that? Are the capitalist powers fighting with each other over dividing up the colonies? Are cartels dividing up the economic realm? Are imperialists earning superprofits in the colonized world? Doug

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