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16066 [lbo-talk] Soros on the terror war -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - August 15, 2006 COMMENTARY A Self-Defeating War By GEORGE SOROS The war on terror is a false metaphor that has led to counterproductive and self-defeating policies. Five years after 9/11, a misleading figure of speech applied literally has unleashed a real war fought on several fronts -- Iraq, Gaza, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Somalia -- a war that has killed thousands of innocent civilians and enraged millions around the world. Yet al Qaeda has not been subdued; a plot tha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 15 06:06:19 PDT 2006

16067 [lbo-talk] Class Power vs. Profit Maximization (wasTacticaldifferences at the top) -- rank: 1000

On Aug 14, 2006, at 7:22 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Capitalism doesn't have any purpose, except M-C-M'. Its political > expression may be P-W-P', P being political power and W being war > (which is politics by other means) How does the first circuit intersect with the second? Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 14 16:31:43 PDT 2006

16068 [lbo-talk] Class Power vs. Profit Maximization (wasTacticaldifferences at the top) -- rank: 1000

On Aug 14, 2006, at 7:22 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > If you poll those who own or work Wall Street, it may be possible that > a majority express a preference for a multilateralist, pro-European, > "moderate" position. But if they do, they don't appear to have > organized themselves into a formidable bloc to prompt the government > to adopt it. This depends on who you mean by Wall Street. I suspect the consensus on WS in the run-up to the war was, Bush probably knows ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 14 16:30:43 PDT 2006

16069 [lbo-talk] Not making war on Israel -- rank: 1000

On Aug 14, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > Probably not a big likelihood in the case of Israel at > this point, but then, I don't think opposition to > Israel should be the highest priority for communists. What about American commies? Israel gets a lot of money and weapons from us, and starts lots of wars our government likes. Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 14 14:49:11 PDT 2006

16070 [lbo-talk] Bush admin pressed Brits to arrest suspects -- rank: 1000

On Aug 14, 2006, at 5:12 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > Israel is, however, a state that defines itself as > Jewish. When somebody suggests that the U.S. should > wage war on Israel, than they've transcended the level > of crude anti-imperialism and entered the realm of > pathological anti-semitism. By doing so, one is > openly stating that American militarism is not the > problem. Well not exactly. I think Carl was making a joke. You may not have found it funny or tasteful, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 14 14:30:40 PDT 2006

16071 [lbo-talk] Bush admin pressed Brits to arrest suspects -- rank: 1000

On Aug 14, 2006, at 4:30 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: >>> Ideally, the US should declare war on Israel. >> >> So for you, the problem is not that the U.S. wages >> wars, but rather that it isn't waging war on Jews. > > I thought we've already had too many people conflating "Israel" and > "jews" on this list? Yup.

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Date:	Mon Aug 14 13:42:12 PDT 2006

16072 [lbo-talk] Bush, existentialist -- rank: 1000

[from a story in today's Financial Times by Caroline Daniel - no mention of the pres putting any Cure songs on his iPod] On the way down to Crawford on Air Force One, Mr Bush's legacy was clearly on his mind. He was reading Richard Carwardine's biography of Abraham Lincoln, another president whose tenure was dominated by a morally difficult war, and who was willing to test the boundaries of presidential power at a time of war. However, it was another book that offered a more revealing glimp ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 14 12:21:54 PDT 2006

16073 [lbo-talk] Lure of the US home market -- rank: 1000

On Aug 13, 2006, at 11:13 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > Doug writes: >> >> On Aug 12, 2006, at 6:15 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote: >> >>> Further to the recent discussion about US market access as a >>> foreign policy >>> instrument, this from an article by Floyd Norris in today's NYT >>> on the >>> soaring volume of Chinese exports: >>> >>> "And while the United States is still the world s No. 1 >>> expor ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 14 09:25:42 PDT 2006

16074 [lbo-talk] Bush admin pressed Brits to arrest suspects -- rank: 1000

On Aug 14, 2006, at 10:51 AM, www.leninology. blogspot.com wrote: > What exactly is "psycho-emotional" apart from a rebarbative > hyphenation? > A psychological disorder that manifests itself in the affective rather than the cognitive realm. And what is "rebarbative" apart from one of those words beloved of pretentious English columnists? Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 14 08:04:24 PDT 2006

16075 [lbo-talk] Boy George sweeping the streets -- rank: 1000

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 14 07:47:44 PDT 2006

16076 [lbo-talk] the news biz -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - August 14, 2006 ANISTON TALE IMPERILS 'TODAY' THERE'S going to be a shortage of A-list celebrities on the "Today" show if Jennifer Aniston's high-powered flack gets his way. Word is that Stephen Huvane is furious because the NBC morning chatfest trumpeted Us Weekly's "scoop" about Aniston and Vince Vaughn's supposed engagement, and then had Ann Curry breathlessly pump editrix Janice Min for details. So Huvane is said to be yanking his roster of ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 14 07:38:30 PDT 2006

16077 [lbo-talk] Bush admin pressed Brits to arrest suspects -- rank: 1000

On Aug 14, 2006, at 9:45 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Actually, most on the list operate from a much more naive premise than > this; they assume that Bush & Co. are a serious problem and therby > ignore how serious a "problem" the united states is. You seem to have a psycho-emotional need to believe this, but the evidence is lacking. I think most listmembers view the Bush admin as a nasty intensification of long-standing U.S. imperial practice. A difference of degree that do ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 14 07:34:56 PDT 2006

16078 [lbo-talk] bees do it, birds do it too... -- rank: 1000

On Aug 14, 2006, at 8:51 AM, ravi wrote: > If you have nothing better to do: http://platosbeard.org/ Speaking of errors: > Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second > argument in /home/ahrenorg/public_html/platosbeard/wp-content/ > plugins/BAStats/BAStats_logger.php on line 114 >

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Date:	Mon Aug 14 06:19:40 PDT 2006

16079 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Alcoholism, Ahmadinejad and Mike Wallace/ Interview Op' -- rank: 1000

[from the wacko right-wing PR house, this one's going out to Yoshie] From: "Special Guests" <office at specialguests.com> Date: August 14, 2006 9:04:01 AM EDT To: dhenwood at panix.com Subject: Alcoholism, Ahmadinejad and Mike Wallace/ Interview Op' CONTACT: To schedule an interview, call: Special Guests, Lynne Campbell or Shauna Whitlock at: 630-848-0750. ALCOHOLISM, AHMADINEJAD AND MIKE WALLACE The following is a statement by Jack Thomas, who is available for talk show interv ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 14 06:16:28 PDT 2006

16080 [lbo-talk] Bush admin pressed Brits to arrest suspects -- rank: 1000

On Aug 14, 2006, at 2:27 AM, Michael Pugliese quoted Jacques Derrida: > The brevity of the > appellation (September 11, 9/11) stems not only from an economic or > rhetorical necessity. The telegram of this metonymy a name, a > number points out the unqualifiable by recognizing that we do not > recognize or even cognize that we do not yet know how to qualify, that > we do not know what we are talking about. Not expressed with the utmost economy or clarity, but he's got a point. ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 14 05:03:37 PDT 2006