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16081 [lbo-talk] putting quackery to the test -- rank: 1000

On Aug 13, 2006, at 10:51 PM, ravi wrote: > At around 12/8/06 1:42 pm, Miles Jackson wrote: >> On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, ravi wrote: >> >>> I don't think that's the meaning the author intended with "No >>> Alternative". It seems from your note that you have made peace with >>> yourself on this thread, and that is a good thing! >> >> At this point, it's pretty clear that ravi only read the title of the >> article. >> > > ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 13 21:13:51 PDT 2006

16082 [lbo-talk] Bush admin pressed Brits to arrest suspects -- rank: 1000

On Aug 13, 2006, at 10:31 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > As for Doug on the timing -- don't you think bin Laden > et al. _want_ Bush, Blair, and their militaristic > friends to win? The timing means Bush pressed Blair to move, quite possibly for electoral purposes. It's not bin Laden setting the watches - and he probably had nothing to with all this anyway. Doug

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Date:	Sun Aug 13 21:13:18 PDT 2006

16083 [lbo-talk] putting quackery to the test -- rank: 1000

On Aug 13, 2006, at 10:53 PM, ravi wrote: >> This thread seems pretty bare by now, so unless you've got something >> original to add, let's move on. >> > > Or, dare I say alternatively, let's stay within and deal with the > content of posts and the arguments offered? No, that would be unnecessarily prolonging life. Doug

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Date:	Sun Aug 13 21:12:43 PDT 2006

16084 [lbo-talk] Author David Grossman's son killed -- rank: 1000

On Aug 13, 2006, at 9:17 PM, Michael J. Smith wrote: > On Sunday 13 August 2006 20:16, Doug Henwood wrote: >> So is the fact that the invasion of Lebanon hasn't been a cakewalk >> going to benefit the Israeli right? > > ... as opposed to...? Sounds like Bibi thinks that the military wasn't brutal enough. So, as opposed to even more brutality. Doug

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Date:	Sun Aug 13 21:07:37 PDT 2006

16085 [lbo-talk] Author David Grossman's son killed -- rank: 1000

So is the fact that the invasion of Lebanon hasn't been a cakewalk going to benefit the Israeli right? Doug

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Date:	Sun Aug 13 17:16:32 PDT 2006

16086 [lbo-talk] Bush admin pressed Brits to arrest suspects -- rank: 1000

On Aug 13, 2006, at 4:11 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > If it's true they were going to blow up planes, is it > a bad thing they were arrested? Of course not. The timing is suspicious though. Doug

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Date:	Sun Aug 13 17:13:37 PDT 2006

16087 [lbo-talk] anniversary -- rank: 1000

On Aug 13, 2006, at 4:10 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Which is too celebrate, though, depending on what? The bull market was a great celebration of the defeat of labor, the recovery of profitability, the reassertion of US imperial rule, and the neoliberalization of the earth. If that's your thing, there's plenty to celebrate. Doug

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Date:	Sun Aug 13 17:10:26 PDT 2006

16088 [lbo-talk] Bush admin pressed Brits to arrest suspects -- rank: 1000

[gotta wonder if the Connecticut primary had anything to do with this] <http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14320452/> Source: U.S., U.K. at odds over timing of arrests British wanted to continue surveillance on terror suspects, official says By Aram Roston, Lisa Myers, and the NBC News Investigative Unit NBC News Updated: 8:13 p.m. ET Aug 12, 2006 LONDON - NBC News has learned that U.S. and British authorities had a significant disagreement over when to move in on the suspects in the alleged plot ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 13 09:38:03 PDT 2006

16089 [lbo-talk] Liberate Doug from Old Fogeyism! - was/ videogames -- rank: 1000

Leaving aside the content of video games, don't they promote a stupefied solipsism among heavy players? Doug

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Date:	Sat Aug 12 19:20:35 PDT 2006

16090 [lbo-talk] Lure of the US home market -- rank: 1000

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 exporter, > that is > nothing compared with its dominance of the other end of the trade > equation. > In the first half of this year, it imported more than China an ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 12 19:18:34 PDT 2006

16091 [lbo-talk] Iranian feminists -- rank: 1000

On Aug 12, 2006, at 7:31 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > I did. BTW, I had favorably mentioned Moghadam's work long before you > got interested in it on this very listserrv (as well as elsewhere): Well, gee, I guess we're all just scrambling to catch up with you. Doug

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Date:	Sat Aug 12 19:17:24 PDT 2006

16092 [lbo-talk] Iranian feminists -- rank: 1000

On Aug 12, 2006, at 4:29 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Moghadam, "Islamic Feminism and Its Discontents: Toward a Resolution > of the Debate," Signs 27.4, Summer 2002: 1135-1171. > > If you check out the last one, "Islamic Feminism and Its Discontents: > Toward a Resolution of the Debate," you'll get a sense of > intra-feminist debate inside Iran as well as outside it, too. If you > don't have access to it but want to read it, I can send it to you > of ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 12 13:38:18 PDT 2006

16093 [lbo-talk] putting quackery to the test -- rank: 1000

On Aug 12, 2006, at 1:42 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, ravi wrote: > >> I don't think that's the meaning the author intended with "No >> Alternative". It seems from your note that you have made peace with >> yourself on this thread, and that is a good thing! >> >> --ravi > > At this point, it's pretty clear that ravi only read the title of the > article. This thread seems pretty bare by now, so unless you've got something ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 12 10:59:46 PDT 2006

16094 [lbo-talk] Iranian feminists -- rank: 1000

Yoshie, I'm reading an interview with Hamid Dabashi <http:// www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=10707>, in which he says: > But if you ask me about the specific memory that is to be forgotten > on the colonial site, then it is most obviously the story of women > themselves, those who have been fighting foreign domination and > domestic abuse alike. There are numerous memoirs written over the > last decade alone by Iranian women political activists who have > suf ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 12 10:44:27 PDT 2006

16095 [lbo-talk] Dems: Let the purge begin! -- rank: 1000

On Aug 12, 2006, at 10:53 AM, Carl Remick wrote: > Leaders of the Netroots, as the Internet activists have been named, > will tell you that big ideas are way overrated in American politics > - that you first have to master the business of getting elected > before you can worry about how to govern. If this is true, they're dreaming. The right-wing of the early 1970s was all about big ideas, like repealing the New Deal, bringing back 19th century capitalism, bringing down the USSR, a ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 12 10:34:47 PDT 2006