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15331 [lbo-talk] Civil war in Iraq: the pause that refreshes -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >The neocons are far from fucked <http://againstwot.com/right/right.html> WHAT NEOCONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION? Prior to the Roberts hearings, many liberals stole a page from their own foreign policy analysis and worried about a 'neoconservative revolution [that] would transform the nation's constitutional morality'. But in the post-Roberts, post-Miers landscape, and with the Alito nomination finally making its way to the Senate today, we are left wondering: what neoconse ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 25 12:17:40 PST 2006

15332 [lbo-talk] eminent domain in NYC: Moses' "meat ax" -- rank: 1000

<http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/trends/columns/cityside/n_10215/> "New York State has the most developer-friendly eminent-domain laws in the country." Yes, old-time urban renewal is back in style-and eminent domain, urban renewal's best friend, is back, too. The Durst Organization, long in pursuit of the small buildings on the northwest corner of 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue, recently got the Empire State Development Corporation to condemn them. Soon Durst will begin constr ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 25 11:45:36 PST 2006

15333 [lbo-talk] eminent domain: helping Columbia take over Harlem -- rank: 1000

[ah yes, Norman Siegel, that noted right-winger] <http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/02/23/421c49110be76> The courts decision could have major implications for the use of eminent domain in Columbia's expansion. Attorney Norman Siegel, representative of West Harlem Business Group, a group of Manhattanville property owners unwilling to sell to Columbia and who fear eminent domain will be invoked on their property, filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the homeowner ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 25 11:37:26 PST 2006

15334 [lbo-talk] eminent domain -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >In particular, is there disagreement with respect to the Supreme Court >ruling in Kelo which upheld the right of expropriation and which sparked >this discussion? I have to confess that whenever I hear the words "Supreme Court" I want to take a nap. But my position on the politics of this is that the right is polemicizing and organizing over a real problem. And that by siding unequivocally with the SC <yawn>, the liberal left is (once again) ceding ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 25 11:33:11 PST 2006

15335 [lbo-talk] eminent domain -- rank: 1000

<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/09/26/60minutes/main575343.shtml> Jim and Joanne Saleet are refusing to sell the home they've lived in for 38 years. They live in a quiet neighborhood of single-family houses in Lakewood, Ohio, just outside Cleveland. The City of Lakewood is trying to use eminent domain to force the Saleets out to make way for more expensive condominiums. But the Saleets are telling the town, "Hell no! They won't go." "The bottom line is this is morally w ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 25 11:25:01 PST 2006

15336 [lbo-talk] Civil war in Iraq: the pause that refreshes -- rank: 1000

Colin Brace wrote: >For the most radical-right neoconservative Jacobins amongst the >Bush-Cheney team, the possibility that Iraq might fall apart wasn't >even alarming: they just didn't care, and in their obsessive zeal to >overthrow Saddam Hussein they were more than willing to take the risk. Obviously, but these guys aren't in charge anymore, are they? People actually running the Iraq operation now have to be scared shitless - it's all over today's NYT coverage. Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 25 11:11:32 PST 2006

15337 [lbo-talk] Chomsky's fan in Iraq -- rank: 1000

Seth Kulick wrote: >Too bad the full New Republic article with the Chomsky bit isn't on their >website. The New Republic - March 6, 2006 THE CASE FOR STAYING IN IRAQ. Centripetal Force by Lawrence F. Kaplan BAGHDAD, IRAQ For a return visitor, Baghdad International Airport offers a fitting portal into the new Iraq. Unlike the military side of the airport, where U.S. transport planes and helicopters operate in an industrious roar, the civilian side, which USAID renovated in 2003, now languis ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 25 11:02:28 PST 2006

15338 [lbo-talk] 'Iraqi Civil War' is Monumental Fraud... -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Oh! So you believe that Britain should have intervened in the u.s. in >1861 to prevent all that bloodletting! Britain and/or the U.S. did >successfully prevent such bloodletting in Latin America. I take it you >approve. And the U.S. was serving humanity when it tried (unfortunately >without success) to intervene in Archangel and Vladivostok in 1918, in >China in 1947. And Cuba would be a happy paradise today (like Haiti and >the Domincan Republic) had the ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 25 11:05:22 PST 2006

15339 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Hitchens on Anderson -- rank: 1000

The Atlantic - March 2006 What's Left? Christopher Hitchens A new book by the West's most influential Marxist shows him to be both "the most profound essayist wielding a pen" and on the wrong side of history SPECTRUM: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas by Perry Anderson Verso In 1986 the New School in New York managed to assemble a quartet of scholars to discuss the state of "radical history." This must have been the only occasion upon which Americans could have witness ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 25 10:53:05 PST 2006

15340 [lbo-talk] 'Iraqi Civil War' is Monumental Fraud... -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >a healthy civil >war Yes, nothing like an extended round of bloodletting to bring about a cure! Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 25 09:47:35 PST 2006

15341 [lbo-talk] Hitch rallies for freedom! -- rank: 1000

Hilarious illustrated report on Hitch's rally at the Danish embassy on Wonkette: <http://wonkette.com/politics/top/instant-team-party-crash-legoland-uber-alles-156915.php>. There's some farcical repetition of his old Trot politics here: proclaim a great principle to a crowd of 75 oddballs addressed as "comrades, brothers and sisters." Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 25 09:45:37 PST 2006

15342 [lbo-talk] eminent domain -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The reality is that those passing STATE restrictions on LOCAL powers, >usually white legislatures in places like Texas taking away powers from >black and latino-dominated cities, are based on a corporate-funded agenda. Why do you think I support that? Did I ever suggest that for a second? In NewmanWorld, one is either a hardcore union loyalist or a rightwing enemy of the working class; one is either a supporter of the right of noble hardworking communities to do ur ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 25 09:37:47 PST 2006

15343 [lbo-talk] 'Iraqi Civil War' is Monumental Fraud... -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >The west believes that Iraq is falling apart. >It's not. >"Iraq" is a creation of the... British, I believe. >There has NEVER been an "Iraq", except on maps. Christian Parenti, who spent a lot more time in Iraq than you have, says this isn't true. A lot of Iraqis identified as Iraqis when they talked to him. Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 25 09:17:06 PST 2006

15344 [lbo-talk] Gangbangers vs. Lynching Mobs -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Adjusted for changes in US population but unadjusted for changes in >proportion of Blacks, 40 lynchings in 1882 would be roughly >equivalent to 240 lynchings in 2003. Woj seems not to notice that lynching occurred in a context of systematic racial oppression. Gangbanging is awful, but gangs are what happen when people are marginalized and pissed on for a few centuries. Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 25 09:10:18 PST 2006

15345 [lbo-talk] Chomsky's fan in Iraq -- rank: 1000

At 7:08 PM -0600 2/24/06, Jonathan Schwarz wrote: >Did you know Iraqi prime minster Ibrahim Jafari is a Chomsky admirer? > >Man, things are REALLY not going according to plan. > >http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/000812.html

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