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14866 [lbo-talk] NYT: U.S. Speeds Up Bomb Delivery for the Israelis -- rank: 1000

On Jul 22, 2006, at 3:27 AM, Alex wrote: > Is anyone else surprised that this is the headline on the lead > article on the > Times website? This is going to piss off the Zionists & the right. Also surprising in today's NYT: a full page devoted to Arab victims of Israel's adventure, and a rather critical Maureen Dowd column. But Gerald Seib writes in today's WSJ that the 1982 invasion of Lebanon was met with much more criticism in the US - so much so that Reagan pressed Begin & ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 22 09:31:42 PDT 2006

14867 [lbo-talk] Is this the new left? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 21, 2006, at 9:17 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > K, you mentioned at some point that by the time you > read Chomsky's books, your response was a big ho hum > because you already knew pretty much all of what he > had to say and you didn't like his dull way with > words.. I get that but I assure you (and I'm speaking > directly from personal experience here) for an > American who feels something's out of joint a > person, for example, who senses that Washington's > ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 21 22:11:19 PDT 2006

14868 [lbo-talk] Is this the new left? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 21, 2006, at 7:31 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > info at pulpculture.org wrote: >> >> >> (And please, don't give me the crap about how someone else said it >> first: >> not an argument.) > > Perhaps. But just why is it not an argument? Because it's just the crankiness of old farts. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 21 22:07:23 PDT 2006

14869 [lbo-talk] end of days -- rank: 1000

On Jul 21, 2006, at 7:27 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > And after that all hell breaks loose: > > > >> The Rapture is headed for New York City Damn, isn't it LA's turn? Or Dallas'? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 21 22:04:57 PDT 2006

14870 [lbo-talk] Gallup on US sympathies in ME -- rank: 1000

Sympathies in the Middle East Situation Historically, Americans have been very sympathetic to Israel in the Middle East, and have given Israel high favorable ratings. Gallup's basic "sympathies" question is worded as follows: "In the Middle East situation, are your sympathies more with the Israelis or more with the Palestinians?" The most recent measure on this question, from the Feb. 6-9 poll, finds that 59% of Americans sympathize more with Israel, while 15% side more ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 21 15:33:40 PDT 2006

14871 [lbo-talk] Is this the new left? -- rank: 1000

There is no "it" that is postmodernism. THere's a lot of variety under that single name. - Doug On Jul 21, 2006, at 6:03 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > True, because it's so over. But Berube was once a devotee. (Some > years ago I listened to his ardent defense of Pomo in a debate with > Alan Sokal.) Its political stance was a cloudy mix of Democratic > party left-liberalism and I.P., the source of the most choleric > attacks on Chomsky's anarchism since Vietnam days. ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 21 15:13:47 PDT 2006

14872 [lbo-talk] Is this the new left? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 21, 2006, at 5:06 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > Part of this comes from an etiolated survivor of the fake > radicalism of "Postmodernism." Pissing on "postmodernism" is pretty lazy stuff. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 21 14:22:03 PDT 2006

14873 [lbo-talk] Is this the new left? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 21, 2006, at 4:44 PM, info at pulpculture.org wrote: > At 03:32 PM 7/21/2006, Doug Henwood wrote: > > >>> This if bloody fucking depressing. Half-wit punks with a web site >>> can >>> actually suggest Chomsky, of all people, is an "idiot"?!! Hey, I didn't say that - Ravi did. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 21 14:00:46 PDT 2006

14874 [lbo-talk] Is this the new left? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 21, 2006, at 2:48 PM, ravi wrote: > Today I came across two old bits on the net. One by some guy named > Michael Berube at Penn State suggesting that Chomsky's words (on the > invasion of Yugoslavia) a pack of lies (Berube doesn't offer much > support for this claim) and then another by blogger Atrios (Duncan > Black) who writes this: > >> In any case, Chomsky's problem is not that he's anti-War -- this >> "war" is getting sillier by the minute - th ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 21 12:32:30 PDT 2006

14875 [lbo-talk] America Held Hostage -- rank: 1000

On Jul 21, 2006, at 11:11 AM, Carl Remick wrote: > If there is a scintilla of good news from the Lebanon horror, it is > that no rational being can continue to deny the Israel lobby's > awesome sway -- aided, of course, by the supreme tractability of > the American people. I just read a post here by Jerry Monaco > taking Wojtek to task for comparing people in general to sheep. I > agree that this is an unfair comparison, since in the case of > Americans it is quite insulti ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 21 10:11:41 PDT 2006

14876 [lbo-talk] Ann Coulter, cut-up -- rank: 1000

<http://www.wwd.com/issue/article/107729> If you falsely yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater and everyone tramples each other to death, you get sent to jail. So what should be done with Ann Coulter, who has argued that The New York Times should have been blown up by Timothy McVeigh and that Times executive editor Bill Keller should be executed by firing squad? This was the question one Times source asked on Friday after an employee at the paper of record received an envelope w ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 21 08:54:24 PDT 2006

14877 [lbo-talk] unions spending $ on Dems -- rank: 1000

USA Today - July 21, 2006 After 'rocky' start, revamped unions rev up political activity By Jill Lawrence, USA TODAY WASHINGTON In 2004, Ray Waldron and Jon Youngdahl worked hand in glove to run union political activities throughout Minnesota. Now they are on opposite sides of a stressful split-up that created legal obstacles to cooperation. "There was a rocky beginning," Youngdahl, executive director of the Minnesota Service Employees International Union, says of the exodus tha ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 21 07:11:37 PDT 2006

14878 [lbo-talk] Call up of thousands of reservists for a ground invasion -- rank: 1000

On Jul 21, 2006, at 8:30 AM, Bryan Atinsky wrote: > soldiers doing their compulsory service How motivated are these people? How does Israel avoid the Vietnam problem? Are these wars popular enough that conscripts don't get high and frag their bosses? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 21 06:19:01 PDT 2006

14879 [lbo-talk] manna for anglophiles -- rank: 1000

[from Popbitch] >> British TV: load of old wank << >> TV station thinks its viewers are morons Channel 4 was set up in 1982 as a public serviced broadcaster "to offer a benchmark of quality and innovation". The channel says its "public service remit extends beyond the value we offer to the viewing public to our contribution to the strength and diversity of the British creative economy." This week, C4 proudly announced that it would be screening a Wankathon, ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 20 17:41:45 PDT 2006

14880 [lbo-talk] Daily Star editor in Foreign Policy -- rank: 1000

Seven Questions: The Fight for Lebanon http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3531 Posted July 19, 2006 As the conflict between Israel, Lebanon, and the Palestinians escalates, FP spoke with Rami Khouri, editor at large of the Daily Star, Beirut's largest English-language newspaper, for some perspective on Hezbollah's tactics, Iran's role in the crisis, and whether there's any end to the fighting in sight. FOREIGN POLICY: You're stuck in Amman trying to get back into Lebanon. W ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 20 17:35:40 PDT 2006