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15946 [lbo-talk] LBO 2008 Dem POTUS poll -- rank: 1000

On Dec 1, 2006, at 10:49 AM, ravi wrote: >>> On Nov 30, 2006, at 12:41 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: >>> >>>> I think the real revelation here is that Al Gore turns out to be >>>> lbo-talk's IRV choice. >>> >>> If you overlook the fact that head-drilling has twice as many votes. >> >> (a) That's not at all a surprise, but pretty much exactly what I >> expected; and (b) you're not overlooking it -- you're taking number 2 &g ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 1 09:07:52 PST 2006

15947 [lbo-talk] Now, this is getting absurd -- rank: 1000

On Dec 1, 2006, at 9:46 AM, Chris Doss wrote: His sixth post of the day, after five yesterday. The limit is three. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 1 06:52:06 PST 2006

15948 [lbo-talk] Iraq: the magnitude of defeat -- rank: 1000

This is the opening of a column in yesterday's FT by Jacob Weisberg, who is about as ordinary as they come: "As the US begins to acknowledge the magnitude of its defeat in Iraq...." What follows is highly unremarkable, but those are some big words for someone as orthodox as Weisberg. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 1 06:30:18 PST 2006

15949 [lbo-talk] Goldman on global warming -- rank: 1000

[this is a rather unusual topic for a Goldman Sachs daily economic commentary] Goldman Sachs US Economic Research US Daily Financial Market Comment (Phillips): A Glacial Response to Global Warming November 30, 2006 * Climate change has become an increasing focus in the states, the courts, and other countries, but has not gained as much momentum at the national level in the US. Public opinion is mixed and has not changed noticeably since the 1990's. Economic concerns also come into play, and ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 1 04:51:41 PST 2006

15950 [lbo-talk] Iraq experts mock stupidity of Hadley memo -- rank: 1000

On Dec 1, 2006, at 4:30 AM, Michael Pollak quoted: > Hadley's memo was leaked to The New York Times By whom, I keep wondering. Surely a memo like that doesn't have a wide distribution list. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 1 04:42:24 PST 2006

15951 [lbo-talk] more Foucault -- rank: 1000

On Aug 31, 2006, at 5:11 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > Foucault's last half decade was not a glorious period. If I'm remembering right James Miller says that in his final days MF flirted with Austrian economics, and gave a sympathetic lecture on Hayek. Does anyone know more about this? Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 31 12:17:25 PDT 2006

15952 [lbo-talk] Sadrism, in qualified defence of -- rank: 1000

On Aug 31, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I assume Doug is referring to "thinking" among western leftists. If so > he is being ridiculous, for no thinking of any kind among western > leftists could have made the slightest difference in Iranian politics. I was wondering how long it was going to take you to invoke this macro. Soooo...by the same token it doesn't matter what Yoshie thinks. So why don't you tell her to throttle back a bit on the volume of posts? Or is it ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 31 12:08:24 PDT 2006

15953 [lbo-talk] Sadrism, in qualified defence of -- rank: 1000

On Aug 31, 2006, at 2:11 PM, Michael J. Smith wrote: > On Thursday 31 August 2006 12:44, Doug Henwood wrote: >> How can someone whose base is poor Shiites >> unify such a diverse country? > > This observation got me scratching my head a bit. Is it conceivable > that _anybody_ could re-"unify" Iraq? Is that a possible scenario > at all? If so, how would it work? And moreover, is it imperative > that "unification" should happen? Personally, I prefe ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 31 11:29:00 PDT 2006

15954 [lbo-talk] more Foucault -- rank: 1000

On Aug 31, 2006, at 2:38 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > I've a big fan of F., but this just seems astonishingly naive to me. I'm a big fan too. I posted that in part for that very reason - how someone as smart as him could make such a big mistake. But the second time around there's no excuse. Yeah, of course Iran in the 70s is different from Iraq in the 00s, and the global political environment is pretty different as well. But there the same spirit of cheering on some scary forces for the tr ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 31 11:27:50 PDT 2006

15955 [lbo-talk] Vote on MoveOn's endorsement: U.S. Senate -- rank: 1000

[Jesse Lemisch had probs posting this, so I'm forwarding.] From: "Jesse Lemisch" <utopia1 at attglobal.net> Date: August 31, 2006 12:51:57 PM EDT To: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: Fw: Vote on MoveOn's endorsement: U.S. Senate Here it is, Doug. Thanks, Jesse ----- Original Message ----- From: Jesse Lemisch To: Tom Matzzie, MoveOn.org Political Action Cc: lbo-talk-request at lbo-talk.org Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:34 PM Subject: Re: Vote on ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 31 11:22:31 PDT 2006

15956 [lbo-talk] Sadrism, in qualified defence of -- rank: 1000

On Aug 31, 2006, at 12:22 PM, Michael Perelman wrote: > A colleague of mine in the accounting department is a Christian > Iraqi with lots of > family there. He has no love for Iraqi fundamentalism but > considers Sadr to be > honest and the only politician possibly capable of keeping the > country from > fragmenting into separate pieces. But now we read that his own movement is fragmenting. Yoshie hopes he could overcome his anti-Baathist "sectarianism" - but how ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 31 09:44:04 PDT 2006

15957 [lbo-talk] more Foucault -- rank: 1000

<http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/007863.html> What Are The Iranians Dreaming About Michel Foucault [...] Is a long-foreseen split taking place within the opposition to the shah? The "politicians" of the opposition try to be reassuring: "It is good," they say. "Khomeini, by raising the stakes, reinforces us in the face of the shah and the Americans. Anyway, his name is only a rallying cry, for he has no program. Do not forget that, since 1963, politi ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 31 08:37:11 PDT 2006

15958 [lbo-talk] "Shiite Maoism" -- rank: 1000

<http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0831/p01s02-woiq.html> Christian Science Monitor - August 31, 2006 Firefights mark further splintering in Iraq This week's fighting in Diwaniyah between rebels and Iraqi forces highlights the growing power of militias in the country. By Dan Murphy | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor CAIRO Two days this week of fierce firefights between a Shiite militia and government forces in a usually calm town south of Baghdad left at least 80 dead and an ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 31 08:29:32 PDT 2006

15959 [lbo-talk] Foucault on Iran -- rank: 1000

<http://www.wpunj.edu/newpol/issue37/Afary37.htm> The Seductions of Islamism Revisiting Foucault and the Iranian Revolution Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson [...] FOUCAULT FIRST VISITED IRAN in September 1978 and then met with Khomeini at his exile residence outside Paris in October. He traveled to Iran for a second visit in November, when the revolutionary movement against the shah was reaching its zenith. During these two trips, Foucault was commissioned as a special correspondent o ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 31 07:58:15 PDT 2006

15960 [lbo-talk] Sadrism, in qualified defence of -- rank: 1000

I hear echoes of the same kind of thinking that helped lubricate the installation of Khomeini...

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Date:	Thu Aug 31 07:41:00 PDT 2006