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15046 [lbo-talk] so now we have to defend a 9/11 crank! -- rank: 1000

<http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/07/03/madison> Investigation Over 9/11 Teachings Two months before the start of the fall semester, one syllabus at the University of Wisconsin at Madison is getting a very thorough review. Patrick Farrell, Wisconsin s provost, announced last week that he would review everything about the course Islam: Religion and Culture, in light of comments made on a radio show by the instructor, Kevin Barrett. In his remarks, Barrett said that the United Stat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 3 06:22:30 PDT 2006

15047 [lbo-talk] belated Canada Day wishes -- rank: 1000

Forgot to wish our Canadian comrades a happy Canada Day yesterday...

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Date:	Sun Jul 2 07:23:40 PDT 2006

15048 [lbo-talk] David Graeber (was Re: Ward Churchill responds) -- rank: 1000

On Jul 2, 2006, at 1:17 AM, B. wrote: > I have my suspicions as to why Graeber's dismissal is not as big a > deal here as Churchill's. But why should I voice my unfounded > assumptions? :) Because this is the internets, man! Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 2 06:45:13 PDT 2006

15049 [lbo-talk] WTO Talks Collapse -- rank: 1000

On Jul 2, 2006, at 12:53 AM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > Geneva WTO talks collapse I always wonder how much of this is show, or propaganda, or the melodramatics of the various parties. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 2 06:44:29 PDT 2006

15050 [lbo-talk] Ward Churchill responds to U. of Colorado investigation] -- rank: 1000

On Jul 1, 2006, at 11:02 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Something I am reading just reminded me of the fact that Coleridge in > Bigraphia Literaria was as bad a plagiarist as Churchill. > Plagiarism is > an ancient scholarly & intellectual habit which probably ought to be > encouraged rather than discouraged. Such encouragement would > undoubtedly > raise considerably the tone of academic discourse. The people who were plagiarized might not agree. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 1 21:30:54 PDT 2006

15051 [lbo-talk] TNR: Bloomberg for President -- rank: 1000

On Jul 1, 2006, at 1:46 PM, ravi wrote: > Why would you hate to say this? Afraid the anti-ABB crowd will tar and > feather you? ;-). Yup. He's a billionaire, you know. > I would gladly take him against Hillary or McCain. I > hope on a Dem ticket. Would he turn down such an option if Dem > activists > where to aproach him? AFAIK the man was in principle a Democrat before > he chose the GOP just so he could run for Mayor? He was a Dem in name as well. > Even with 1/2 a > ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 1 11:01:52 PDT 2006

15052 [lbo-talk] TNR: Bloomberg for President -- rank: 1000

On Jul 1, 2006, at 12:47 PM, ravi wrote: > This was way too long for my short attention span, so can someone tell > me if I got it right: he will, according to this piece, potentially > run > as an independent? Would the Democrats consider recruiting him to > run on > a Dem ticket? If he runs, it'd probably be as an independent. He's hinted he'd put up to $500m into a campaign. I hate to say this, but I'd rather see him than Hillary or McCain. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 1 10:26:59 PDT 2006

15053 [lbo-talk] No Iranian Che -- rank: 1000

On Jun 30, 2006, at 10:34 PM, uvj at vsnl.com wrote: > No Iranian Che Alas, Yoshie signed off, so she won't be telling us how this is all wrong. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 1 09:25:57 PDT 2006

15054 [lbo-talk] Dog sucks the big Chuck -- rank: 1000

On Jul 1, 2006, at 9:45 AM, Chip Berlet wrote: > And, in case it is not obvious, the original subject line manages > to be both homophobic, and insulting to organizers like me who are > people of faith trying to organize within that community. Please, oh please, can't someone stand up for secularism? Aside from its intellectual appeal to me (and apparently about 14% of the American public, up from 7% a decade ago), there's a political point to having a good word for secularism. The in ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 1 09:24:11 PDT 2006

15055 [lbo-talk] Fwd: excellent editorial from ha'aretz -- rank: 1000

[an editorial that would never appear in the NYT] <http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/733036.html> The government is losing its reason Bombing bridges that can be circumvented both by car and on foot; seizing an airport that has been in ruins for years; destroying a power station, plunging large parts of the Gaza Strip into darkness; distributing flyers suggesting that people be concerned about their fate; a menacing flight over Bashar Assad's palace; and arresting elected Hamas offi ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 1 09:15:00 PDT 2006

15056 [lbo-talk] Re: Brian On "Brokeback Mountain" & "The Reception" -- rank: 1000

info at pulpculture.org wrote: >Moira's character on The L Word is experiencing exactly why it would >suck to go live with a bunch of people you don't know who live lives >that are so very different than yours -- and that's today. But there's a suggestion she's about to blossom in the tranny culture of LA - she picked up on "top surgery" and started wearing a suit. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 31 21:25:42 PST 2006

15057 [lbo-talk] Re: Brian On "Brokeback Mountain" & "The Reception" -- rank: 1000

info at pulpculture.org wrote: >Someone recommended this item from Chron Higher Ed. Don't have >online access but I wish I did! Chronicle of Higher Education - January 13, 2006 FILM Rural Space: Queer America's Final Frontier By COLIN R. JOHNSON Almost 10 years ago, during my second year in graduate school, someone passed along a copy of a curious short story, entitled "Brokeback Mountain," that had recently appeared in The New Yorker. Because this person knew that I planned to w ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 31 21:22:58 PST 2006

15058 [lbo-talk] Mattson vs. Kazin on William Jennings Bryan -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >>Which I guess rules out seeing the piety as part of the goddam problem. > >It's hard to imagine a less promising starting point. If you said >the problem was whiteness you'd alienate fewer people. But when BAI >takes that tack you're against, no? I know I can't go out and say "your religion sucks." But, really, there's nothing like American piety anywhere in the First World, and it's a very serious problem. It's a nation of phucking pharisees ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 31 16:01:54 PST 2006

15059 [lbo-talk] OK, Nathan -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> > > >Nathan Newman wrote: >>A failure to equate enthusiasm for "government-run" with social democratic >>aspirations makes little sense. > >-Well who else is going to do it? The Ford Foundation? > >Worker-controlled benefit funds is one approach. As it happens, I was just reading the bits in Bob Fitch's excellent new book, Solidarity fo ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 31 14:40:49 PST 2006

15060 [lbo-talk] Mattson vs. Kazin on William Jennings Bryan -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=10875 >As in 1906, such an alternative will draw, in part, on the language >of the Bible and the supernatural beliefs of most Americans, who >live in a nation marked by a vigorous diversity of faiths that would >have astonished James, the great philosopher of religious >experience. The marriage between politics and piety in America has >always been full of conflicts and m ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 31 13:48:34 PST 2006