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16036 [lbo-talk] Noam takes on the 9/11 conspiracists -- rank: 1000

Hmm, he's refused to do this on my show, out of fear of all the flak he'd take from the conspiracoids, but here's what he said elsewhere: <http://youtube.com/watch?v=LoDqDvbgeXM>. Doug

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16037 [lbo-talk] On Islamic radicalism and the left by Don Hamerquist -- rank: 1000

On Aug 17, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > But no one really knows what their aims are, right? The danger here > for the left it seems to me--besides the always-present dangers of > practicing statecraft--is precisely in repeating the runup to the > Iranian revolution, where the theocrats are seen as "one of us"* or > a neutral actor in the revolutionary consortium but things turn out > much differently when the revolution obtains power. Except that unlike Iran i ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 17 10:57:42 PDT 2006

16038 [lbo-talk] Just FP news -- rank: 1000

From: "Robert Naiman " <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org> Date: August 17, 2006 1:47:56 PM EDT Just Foreign Policy News August 17, 2006 In this issue: 1) Already Falling Behind 2) Bombs Aimed at G.I.'s in Iraq Are Increasing 3) Hizbullah Rejects Syrian Position 4) Lebanon Sends National Army to Patrol South 5) Cabinet members spar over proposed weapons compromise 6) Stocks Scandal Spells Doom of Embattled Israeli Army Chief 7) Deputy PM Prescott denies calling Bush "crap" ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 17 10:54:39 PDT 2006

16039 [lbo-talk] the Iranian revo -- rank: 1000

[someone just sent me this offlist] <http://www.zmag.org/zmag/articles/ShalomIranIraq.html> [...] From: lnp3 at panix.com Subject: FYI Date: August 17, 2006 1:44:59 PM EDT To: dhenwood at PANIX.COM TWO TRACKS TO TEHERAN U.S. policy with respect to Iran was more complicated, because it followed two tracks at once. On the one hand, U.S. officials saw "a great potential" for a covert program to undermine the government in Teheran;<58> on the other hand, Washington tried ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 17 10:51:33 PDT 2006

16040 [lbo-talk] On Islamic radicalism and the left by Don Hamerquist -- rank: 1000

On Aug 17, 2006, at 1:36 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > There may be parallels but also distinctions. Do you acknowledge a > difference in the situation of a post- revolutionary government/ > society and making common cause in the face of an onslaught by a > brutal ruler/invader Sorry to be so coy - I was talking about Yoshie's billets doux to Ahmadinejad. I'm sure the resistance in Iraq is full of dreadful ideological influences, but they're absolutely right to resist occupat ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 17 10:44:41 PDT 2006

16041 [lbo-talk] On Islamic radicalism and the left by Don Hamerquist -- rank: 1000

On Aug 17, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Michael Hoover wrote: >> That's true of a lot of the left's reaction to the Iranian revolution >> in 1979 (both the Iranian and Western left) - Val Moghadam's 1987 >> article in New Left Review goes into this in detail. >> Doug > <<<<<>>>>> > > widespread iranian opposition to the shah produced a broad-based > coalition of social forces whose political and religious differences > were blurred in th ...

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16042 [lbo-talk] On Islamic radicalism and the left by Don Hamerquist -- rank: 1000

On Aug 17, 2006, at 1:12 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > I'm always fascinated by the artful ways in which certain western > leftists are able to excise the religious content of the resistance > groups they favor, as if the latter's reactionary-theocratic > politics is just an undesirable superstructure easily erased from > an exemplary anti-imperialist base. Which is to say, such leftists > never fail to encourage subaltern populations to live under > theocratic regimes they would n ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 17 08:24:23 PDT 2006

16043 [lbo-talk] former young fogey specifies The Problem with Islam -- rank: 1000

On Aug 17, 2006, at 10:16 AM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > How tiresome it is to read, again and again and yet > again, these high falutin dissections of Islam built > upon the notion that the West has moved on from > fundamentalist concerns. Hey, can't you see the irony in Fred Phelps and Donald Wildmon? Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 17 08:14:39 PDT 2006

16044 [lbo-talk] looking back on that scumbag George Packer -- rank: 1000

[George Packer on the naivete of the antiwar movement, from the NYT Mag, 3/9/03] The notion that there is little safety in Iraq - that the Iraqi people, while not welcoming the threat of bombs, might be realistic enough to accept a war as their only hope of liberation from tyranny - was unthinkable. The protesters saw themselves as defending Iraqis from the terrible fate that the U.S. was preparing to inflict on them. This assumption is based on moral innocence - on an inability to imagin ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 17 06:57:05 PDT 2006

16045 [lbo-talk] TNR defends Coulter -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/news/top/ann-coulter-the-lenny-bruce-of-our- age-194672.php> Ann Coulter, The Lenny Bruce of Our Age Apart from supporting Joe Lieberman and keeping blacks off the staff, the modern New Republic is about nothing so much as opposing the conventional wisdom. No matter the subject, TNR will find a way to tell you that what everyone thinks is wrong. (This construction is so embedded in the magazine's DNA that when Franklin Foer wrote the ultimate meta-TNR piece in 2001, ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 17 06:53:34 PDT 2006

16046 [lbo-talk] former young fogey specifies The Problem with Islam -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - August 17, 2006 'Islamofascism' By ROGER SCRUTON The term "Islamofascism" was introduced by the French writer Maxine Rodinson (1915-2004) to describe the Iranian Revolution of 1978. Rodinson was a Marxist, who described as "fascist" any movement of which he disapproved. But we should be grateful to him for coining a word that enables people on the left to denounce our common enemy. After all, other French leftists -- Michel Foucault, for example -- ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 17 06:51:51 PDT 2006

16047 [lbo-talk] By George, he's got it! -- rank: 1000

On Aug 17, 2006, at 12:46 AM, Carl Remick wrote: > Bush is crap, says Prescott; > Deputy PM criticises US handling of Middle East, condemning > 'cowboy' President at private meeting > > By Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor > Published: 17 August 2006 > > John Prescott has given vent to his private feelings about the Bush > presidency, summing up George Bush's administration in a single > word: crap. ... <http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/politics/480 ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 17 05:04:20 PDT 2006

16048 [lbo-talk] On Islamic radicalism and the left by Don Hamerquist -- rank: 1000

On Aug 16, 2006, at 11:13 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > Wednesday, August 09, 2006 > On Islamic radicalism and the left > Don Hamerquist sends the following comments on "Defending my enemy's > enemy": (Lyons on Hezbollah and the Western Left, > http://threewayfight.blogspot.com/2006/08/defending-my-enemys- > enemy.html ) Where we read: > So let's be clear: We have a pressing responsibility to defend the > Lebanese people, demand an immediate end to Israeli attac ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 17 04:56:17 PDT 2006

16049 [lbo-talk] strange bedfellows -- rank: 1000

[Spencer is running as the "populist right" candidate against the upper-class right-winger KT McFarland - one of whose workers said of Yonkers, the city Spencer's mayor of, "that's where our maids live"] From: <Spencer at MaxGop.com> Date: August 16, 2006 10:34:35 PM EDT Subject: Senator Clinton's Lieberman Primary Problem! As you well know, John Spencer is the Republican Conservative candidate for United States Senate running against Senator Hillary Clinton in Ne ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 16 20:07:35 PDT 2006

16050 [lbo-talk] fair trade coffee tasting panel! -- rank: 1000

Find out which are the best fair trade coffees, and which suck: <http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?bid=15&pid=112782>

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