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15931 [lbo-talk] Fwd: 12/02/06: Foreign Affairs: Fidel's Final Victory -- rank: 1000

[Further proof that the CFR is part of the international Communist conspiracy...] <http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070101faessay86104/julia-e-sweig/ fidel-s-final-victory.html?mode=print> Foreign Affairs - January/February 2007 Fidel's Final Victory By Julia E. Sweig Julia E. Sweig is Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow and Director of Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is the author of Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Undergrou ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 3 09:28:14 PST 2006

15932 [lbo-talk] Loren Goldner query on imperialism -- rank: 1000

From: Loren Goldner <lrgoldner at yahoo.com> Date: December 3, 2006 10:16:10 AM EST To: dhenwood at panix.com Dear Doug, A couple of days ago on another list an Italian comrade suggested that not merely Lenin's theory of imperialism (which I reject) but the very concept of imperialism was superannuated today, if it ever had any meaning. I wrote the following reply, and decided I'd be interested in broader feedback. Would you mind posting this on your list serve? Imperialism a Myth? Qu ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 3 08:29:59 PST 2006

15933 [lbo-talk] Not in Search of the "Salt of the Earth" (Re: Time to Get Religion) -- rank: 1000

On Dec 2, 2006, at 2:30 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> But really, this is extraordinarily abstract - as abstract as any M-L >> sect gassing on about the proletariat. Which religious people? > > Before getting to the nuts and bolts questions of practical > organizing, But you'd been coming on as the professor of praxis, so it's funny to evade it now. > which can in any case be only discussed productively in > the context of actual organizing, the prevailing attitude o ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 2 19:33:00 PST 2006

15934 [lbo-talk] corruption -- rank: 1000

On Dec 2, 2006, at 4:56 PM, tfast wrote: > If you all would just read the methodology used you would see that the > rankings were created using how nationals rank their own government > in terms > of corruption. So all it really tells us is how each country's own > perception of corruption about its state. Comparison therefore > must be in > the form that x nationals perceive corruption in their country as > +/- a > problem than do y nationals in their country. It i ...

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15935 [lbo-talk] Re: Time to Get Religion -- rank: 1000

On Dec 2, 2006, at 3:52 PM, www.leninology. blogspot.com wrote: > There is nothing more modern than the Islamic Revolution. You're the one who pointed out the Chris Harman book, large chunks of which I've read and think quite good. Your analysis doesn't seem to have much in common with his. What happened? Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 2 19:10:57 PST 2006

15936 [lbo-talk] Irreligious But Not Secularist (was Not in Search of the "Salt of the Earth") -- rank: 1000

On Dec 2, 2006, at 9:30 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: Her 11th post of the day. Yoshie's on moderation. I'll approve the first three unread, and delete anything after that unread. Doug

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15937 [lbo-talk] Not in Search of the "Salt of the Earth" (Re: Time to Get Religion) -- rank: 1000

On Dec 2, 2006, at 11:52 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > I'm saying that we must engage the religious, not because they are > more ordinary than the irreligious (though the former are certainly > far more numerous than the latter in the USA and West Asia), but > because they are, in many respects that matter politically, superior > to the irreligious in practice at least in the USA and West Asia I await Carrol Cox's rebuke of this sort of generalization. But really, this is extraord ...

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15938 [lbo-talk] Gallup polls Ecuador: yeah, something's happening -- rank: 1000

November 28, 2006 Ecuadorians Elect Correa Amid Extreme Frustration U.S.-trained technocrat raises anti-corruption, anti-U.S. banners and connects with a disillusioned populace by Jesus Rios GALLUP NEWS SERVICE After a decade of political instability in which seven presidents have come and gone amid coups, violent street protests, and congressional impeachments, Ecuadorians went to the polls Sunday and elected leftist technocrat Rafael Correa. Before the election, Ecuadorians had grown apath ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 1 15:15:33 PST 2006

15939 [lbo-talk] corruption -- rank: 1000

Gallup has launched a new corrup ion index <http://www.galluppoll.com/ content/?ci=25612>. Finland comes out as least corrupt. Canada comes out at #15, and the US comes in at #19, just below Uzbekistan. Venezuela, which has gotten dis'd on this score, does ok at #31 - just below Japan, ahead of Brazil ( #42) and Mexico and Germany (tied at #48) and way better than Italy (#82). Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 1 15:04:30 PST 2006

15940 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Fri Dec 1 14:53:40 PST 2006

15941 [lbo-talk] Re: Islamophobia -- rank: 1000

On Dec 1, 2006, at 2:43 PM, boddi satva wrote: > So Yoshie you deny that men in Iran have been executed for > homosexuality? This long ago ceased to be a productive topic. I'm sure that Yoshie can find plenty of other forums to provoke people with her provocative provocations. Doug

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15942 [lbo-talk] like a hole in the head? -- rank: 1000

On Dec 1, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Daniel Davies wrote: > http://www.noah.org/trepan/people_with_holes_in_their_heads.html > > Dr Bart Huges of the International Trepanation Advocacy Society is > the one Doug > is thinking of. He didn't die The guy in the Esquire piece certainly did, so it wasn't Dr Bart. Doug

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15943 [lbo-talk] LBO 2008 Dem POTUS poll -- rank: 1000

On Dec 1, 2006, at 1:05 PM, ravi wrote: > Indeed it did. Unlike Carrol I actually think the "drill" serves a > different purpose. It's a method of venting for the frustrated, a > release valve, that makes it possible for them to then return to terra > firma and choose a candidate. Note that the choice made by the > real-world majority, "none of the above", was available from the start > on the LBO poll. And this is a fairly radical "far left" group ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 1 11:16:02 PST 2006

15944 [lbo-talk] Iraq: the Beltway view -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238&page=3> The bipartisan Iraq Study Group plans to recommend withdrawing nearly all U.S. combat units from Iraq by early 2008 while leaving behind troops to train, advise and support the Iraqis, the Washington Post's Peter Baker and Thomas Ricks report. LINK In a story that reports that the Bush Administration is deliberating whether to abandon reconciliation efforts with Sunni insurgents, the Washington Post's Robin Wright rep ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 1 09:35:29 PST 2006

15945 [lbo-talk] LBO 2008 Dem POTUS poll -- rank: 1000

On Dec 1, 2006, at 11:22 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The meaning of "drill holes," regarded as a process not a static > empirical category, is a matter of some debate. I've been using the drill holes thing ever since I read in an Esquire Dubious Achievements award feature in the late 1960s or early 1970s that some British guy had killed himself by drilling 8 holes in his head. Their headline was "This guy drilled seven holes in his head and lived!" Doug

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