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1531 [lbo-talk] jam on Wisconsin: A whiff of the '60s -- rank: 1000

On Mar 28, 2011, at 11:56 AM, Joshua Morey wrote: > Anyway, you can tell from my ruminations that I am, like many others, still > working on making sense of things - again, I'd appreciate any questions, > comments, scathing rebuttals... thank for you time- Reports deeply appreciated. I was just reading an account that made it sound like the initial movement has become an exercise in electioneering, which would mean pushing Democrats. Is that true? Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 28 09:06:10 PDT 2011

1532 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on cost of TARP -- rank: 1000

Dean's response to my comments: > I was making a point, I didn't say it was the rate of return on TARP Doug ---- On Mar 28, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > > On Mar 28, 2011, at 10:56 AM, MICHAEL YATES wrote: > >> Interesting piece by Dean Baker criticizing Robert Samuelson'a argument about the low cost of the TARP: >> >> http://www.cepr.net/index.php/beat-the-press/ > > Dean links to an earlier piece of his, which links to a CNN piece > > http: ...

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1533 [lbo-talk] American Thought Police -- rank: 1000

On Mar 28, 2011, at 10:16 AM, ken hanly wrote: > Krugman claims that the attack on academics through the Republican > conservative thought police is Un-American. Surely it is as American as apple > pie. Communist witch hunts have just been replaced by liberal lefty witch hunts. > The dawn of neo-McCarthyism. And Dems were hardly innocent during the McCarthy era. A lot of that anti-Communist crap started under Truman. Also: my friend Corey Robin says that Cronon was deeply opposed ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 28 08:36:45 PDT 2011

1534 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on cost of TARP -- rank: 1000

On Mar 28, 2011, at 10:56 AM, MICHAEL YATES wrote: > Interesting piece by Dean Baker criticizing Robert Samuelson'a argument about the low cost of the TARP: > > http://www.cepr.net/index.php/beat-the-press/ Dean links to an earlier piece of his, which links to a CNN piece http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/22/news/economy/tarp.warrants.fortune/ with this quote: > "That sounds pretty good," said Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Kansas, said of the 23% annualized return taxpayers got on their ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 28 08:32:16 PDT 2011

1535 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on cost of TARP -- rank: 1000

On Mar 28, 2011, at 10:56 AM, MICHAEL YATES wrote: > > Interesting piece by Dean Baker criticizing Robert Samuelson'a argument about the low cost of the TARP: > > http://www.cepr.net/index.php/beat-the-press/ I agree that nationalizing the banks would have been wonderful, but we would have to be living in a very different country for that to have happened. Dean criticizes Samuelson for not doing an opportunity cost analysis, which is correct, but he offers only a hypothetical in resp ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 28 08:25:49 PDT 2011

1536 [lbo-talk] "Internet Use, Interpersonal Relations, and Sociability: A Time Diary Study" -- rank: 1000

On Mar 27, 2011, at 2:19 PM, // ravi wrote: > Of course nobody on LBO wants to meet for dinner with me (thus far!) :-). Might work better if I announce a date/time/place? Hey, I'd meet with you. Got some more time on my hands now that I'm no longer tending to a 93-year-old father. Doug

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1537 [lbo-talk] ok to bring it back to Wisconsin -- rank: 1000

On Mar 26, 2011, at 9:37 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I didn't. Thanks for noting it. But of course the big question from the > beginning was whether leftists throughout the u.s. would (a) focus on > building support for _Wisconsin_ and would the attempts meet with success. > That, incidentally, was the _subject_ of West's speech. Funny that you're normally so dismissive of rhetorical efforts to persuade people to join a movement, but somehow issue West an exemption. Do you think there w ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 26 12:53:12 PDT 2011

1538 [lbo-talk] Ground operation in Libya could start in April - Russianintelligence -- rank: 1000

On Mar 25, 2011, at 2:47 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The U.S. could accept as migrants with instant citizenship all Libyans in > danger. That is, if saving lives is the purpose, which I doubt. Another reminder: Qadafi told Berlusconi he'd help keep Europe from turning black from all those African refugees. Doug

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1539 [lbo-talk] Achcar's latest -- rank: 1000

On Mar 25, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Gar Lipow wrote: > I'd really be curious why Juan > Cole thinks this kind of scenario is unlikely. Do you think you might > want to invite him on your program and ask him? I've never invited Cole on the show because he gets plenty of exposure, and I try to get people who don't have so much. Maybe that's wrong. Doug

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1540 [lbo-talk] Ground operation in Libya could start in April - Russian intelligence -- rank: 1000

On Mar 25, 2011, at 2:35 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > http://en.rian.ru/world/20110325/163206848.html > > Ground operation in Libya could start in April - Russian intelligence I'll believe that when I see it.

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Date:	Fri Mar 25 11:45:49 PDT 2011

1541 [lbo-talk] Achcar's latest -- rank: 1000

On Mar 25, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Somebody Somebody wrote: > It's pretty obvious that the U.S. and European powers have selected three, and only three, Middle Eastern nations for regime change. Why else would the Defense Secretary on a visit to Israel only mention this select few of the Arab and Islamic nations recently in revolt? It just so happens that these are nations with histories of antagonism with the U.S.. It's unfortunate some on the left are joining the crusade against this new Axis of ...

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1542 [lbo-talk] Achcar's latest -- rank: 1000

On Mar 25, 2011, at 12:16 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: > Of course I agree with the thrust of your analysis, but am less certain that the aim is partition. Do the intervening parties have any idea what they're doing? There's always this tendency that the bourgeoisie has a huge file drawer full of plans, but the Western powers are divided against each other - and the USG is divided against itself.

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1543 [lbo-talk] Egyptian socialists reject Western intervention in Libya | Counterfire -- rank: 1000

On Mar 25, 2011, at 11:52 AM, lbo83235 wrote: > On Mar 25, 2011, at 5:46 PM, Rob Hoveman wrote: > >> This Socialist Renewal is probably the primarily Australian current that used to >> be the Democratic Socialist Party. > > Or not. > > <http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/288739> Yeah, I found that through Google earlier: "a small leftist group which was established last year." Very helpful. Doug

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1544 [lbo-talk] Egyptian socialists reject Western intervention in Libya | Counterfire -- rank: 1000

On Mar 25, 2011, at 11:44 AM, lbo83235 wrote: > I get that these are important questions in certain contexts and at certain junctures, but this seems unnecessarily (and, I feel like I should say, fairly characteristically) testy. Possibly also a bit parochial, in that typically American way that some of Carrol's recent posts have also unfortunately displayed. (And I hasten to add that Carrol is without question the person on this list from whom I have learned the most, despite fairly regular ...

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1545 [lbo-talk] Egyptian socialists reject Western intervention in Libya | Counterfire -- rank: 1000

On Mar 25, 2011, at 10:44 AM, lbo83235 wrote: > Statement by the Socialist Renewal Current Who is that exactly? For whom do they speak? And who's Counterfire? Doug

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