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16156 [lbo-talk] Bush frames Israel/Lebanon conflict as struggle against "Islamo-fascism" -- rank: 1000

On Aug 8, 2006, at 3:59 AM, Angelus Novus wrote: > What is the right checklist to use when determing the > fascist nature of a movement? Again, I am not saying > "fascism" is the right word for Political Islam, just > wondering why it is a self-evident thing to think the > word "islamo-fascism" is absurd, whereas calling > Israel fascist is ok. Hey, I'm consistent - I wouldn't call Israel fascist either. A country, no matter how aggressive and nationalist, ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 8 07:48:20 PDT 2006

16157 [lbo-talk] Identity Politics, Single Issues and Solidarity -- rank: 1000

On Aug 7, 2006, at 7:47 PM, joanna wrote: > I'm not very good at theory. All I know, from my own life and that > of my mother and of my grandmother, is that what gives women > "rights" is their ability to work outside of the family for a > living wage. Exactly my point - for women, being in the working class is experienced through a gendered disadvantage. Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 8 07:46:01 PDT 2006

16158 [lbo-talk] Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: A New Strategic Vision for All Our Families & Relationships -- rank: 1000

On Aug 8, 2006, at 1:24 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > This is a vision I endorse. -- Yoshie > > Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: > A New Strategic Vision for All Our Families & Relationships Me too. > FULL TEXT: > <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/beyondmarriage080806.html> Cut out the middleman: <http://www.beyondmarriage.org/ full_statement.html>. There's a signing link in the upper right corner. Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 8 07:45:07 PDT 2006

16159 [lbo-talk] Fantasy That Drives US Politics -- rank: 1000

On Aug 8, 2006, at 8:38 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > Yoshie wrote: > >> It would be interesting to look at where individual members of the >> ruling class in a given country invest their money -- what proportion >> goes to investment in the government of, and corporations that make >> money in, the country whose citizenship s/he holds, and what >> proportion goes elsewhere. By now it is possible that a majority of >> the ruling class do not feel that the ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 8 07:38:51 PDT 2006

16160 [lbo-talk] putting quackery to the test -- rank: 1000

On Aug 8, 2006, at 7:50 AM, ravi wrote: >> Both studies failed to show clinical efficacy. All this >> should mark a sea change in how the public views such treatments. >> > > Why? The real comparison should be to the efficacy of "mainstream" > medicine (henceforth referred to as professional-racket-medicine), > especially as a ratio of public and individual dollars spent. But that's what the article reported - a comparison of hippie arthritis treatments t ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 8 05:24:13 PDT 2006

16161 [lbo-talk] Identity Politics, Single Issues and Solidarity -- rank: 1000

On Aug 7, 2006, at 7:24 PM, joanna wrote: > Well, buzzwords aside, the reason why "working class" grants a > privileged view is because that class is > responsible for creating lived reality -- the food, clothes, cars, > buildings, etc. But there's almost no aspect of work that's not segmented by gender and/or ethnicity. And what about the lived reality of families (which are vehicles for the transmission of inheritance, of wealth and/or poverty) and intimate relations, ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 7 16:27:38 PDT 2006

16162 [lbo-talk] Israel-Hezbollah poll -- rank: 1000

[This shows less perfervid - to use one of Marty Peretz' favorite words - support for Israel than I'd have guessed.] ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL: ISRAEL and HEZBOLLAH 8/6/06 EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 5 p.m. Monday, Aug. 7, 2006 Public See Blame to Share in Israel-Hezbollah Conflict Americans find room to criticize both sides in the Israel-Hezbollah war: A majority says Hezbollah is mainly to blame for civilian casualties in Lebanon, given its location in civilian areas. But most also s ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 7 14:38:45 PDT 2006

16163 [lbo-talk] Re: Gays Flee Iraq as Shia Death Squads Find a New Target -- rank: 1000

On Aug 7, 2006, at 3:13 PM, B. wrote: > Yoshie, expert on all that makes life difficult for > gays in the Mid-East, replied: "There are various > causes that make the lives of men and women who are > conscious of their being gay and lesbian difficult." > [list of difficulty-for-gays-producing things > followed] I gather that having declared the left dead, or at least sleeping very deeply, Yoshie now sees Islam as the only progressive internationalist force around, a ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 7 12:36:29 PDT 2006

16164 [lbo-talk] outsourcing strikes -- rank: 1000

[The full text of a research note from Merrill Lynch chief investment strategist Richard Bernstein] Outsourcing Labor. Outsourcing Strikes? It is widely known that US labor has been outsourced or threatened with outsourcing. Some believe that this real or perceived threat is limiting wage hikes in the US, limiting the power of US labor unions, and contributing to disinflation/deflation. We have agreed in the past, but perhaps now this is the wrong story. Maybe investors should be discussin ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 7 10:16:31 PDT 2006

16165 [lbo-talk] Fantasy That Drives US Politics -- rank: 1000

On Aug 7, 2006, at 12:20 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > http://montages.blogspot.com/2006/07/socialist-men-muslims-and- > woman.html >> ...Where did Proyect's misinterpretation come from? We don't need to import other lists' disputes. Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 7 09:39:59 PDT 2006

16166 [lbo-talk] Fantasy That Drives US Politics -- rank: 1000

On Aug 7, 2006, at 9:46 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Their thinking is divorced from reality. > > So is the pie-in-the-sky fantasy of most US leftists E.g., those who embrace Ahmadinejad. As I've been saying for months, you've been Americanized after a decade in the proverbial cross- section of the USA, Columbus, Ohio. Welcome. Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 7 09:21:24 PDT 2006

16167 [lbo-talk] Poll: Lieberman Surging -- rank: 1000

On Aug 7, 2006, at 11:53 AM, www.leninology. blogspot.com wrote: > This is a strange way for the story to render a 6 per cent lead. > That isn't slight, and Lieberman's 'surge' barely breaks out of the > margin of error. Are they scared of this Lamont guy or something? Maybe, but journalists also love the pseudo-drama of last-minute polls. Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 7 09:07:33 PDT 2006

16168 [lbo-talk] putting quackery to the test -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - August 7, 2006 No 'Alternative' By JEROME GROOPMAN Some 60 million Americans use supplements, megavitamins, herbs and other so-called "alternative" treatments. Their out-of-pocket costs approach $40 billion a year. Their therapies are promoted by a vast number of self-help books, Web sites and talk shows that feature thrilling testimonials of benefits for maladies that mainstream medicine cannot remedy. But we are now learning what happens when the testimoni ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 7 05:59:28 PDT 2006

16169 [lbo-talk] Peretz froths about Lamont -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - August 7, 2006 ELECTION 2006 Lieberman The "peace" Democrats are back. It's a dream come true for Karl Rove. BY MARTIN PERETZ We have been here before. Left-wing Democrats are once again fielding single-issue "peace candidates," and the one in Connecticut, like several in the 1970s, is a middle-aged patrician, seeking office de haut en bas, and almost entirely because he can. It's really quite remarkable how someone like Ned Lamont, from the stock of ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 7 05:47:49 PDT 2006

16170 [lbo-talk] Gays Flee Iraq as Shia Death Squads Find a New Target -- rank: 1000

On Aug 6, 2006, at 11:40 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Did the Observer defend the Baathist government of Saddam Hussein, > before the invasion of Iraq, on the grounds that secular nationalist > dictatorship would be better for gay men in Iraq than any of the three > likely alternatives to it that could result from the invasion: a > puppet government beholden to Washington or a radical anti-Washington > Islamist government or, worst of all, decades of chaos and anarchy? When di ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 6 17:28:40 PDT 2006