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16231 [lbo-talk] The Sopranos vs. Spiderman another brick in that neolib wall -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >the age of "Save Darfur" rallies Interesting article in the NYT today. This line - "Rabbi Dubinsky and other Jews deny that their interest in Darfur is motivated by anti-Arab sentiment" - reminds me of Claud Cockburn's commandment: Never believe anything until it's officially denied. Doug ---- New York Times - April 30, 2006 Muslims' Plight in Sudan Resonates With Jews in U.S. By NEELA BANERJEE PORTLAND, Me., April 27 - When immigrants from the Dar ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 30 08:14:05 PDT 2006

16232 [lbo-talk] Norwegian black metal update -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >ISKRA (from Canada, no less) are one of the few >politically right-on metal bands I can think of. >(Chck'em out-- very anto-capitalist and anti-racst: >http://www.myspace.com/hellonfire ) Answered my own question <http://www.iskra.ws/interviews.html>: >What does ISKRA mean? > >Wolf: Iskra is a Russian word meaning 'spark' or >'light.' For me, its a nice sounding word with >wonderful connotations. Of course it also conjures up >associations with cert ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 30 08:01:41 PDT 2006

16233 [lbo-talk] Norwegian black metal update -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >ISKRA (from Canada, no less) are one of the few >politically right-on metal bands I can think of. Iskra, as in Lenin's newspaper? Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 30 07:55:30 PDT 2006

16234 [lbo-talk] Galbraith -- rank: 1000

Great line from the NYT obit <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/obituaries/30galbraith.html?ei=5094&en=5a89320c6fecfb1c&hp=&ex=1146456000&partner=homepage&pagewanted=all>, which is too long to post here: "Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days last a lifetime." Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 30 07:49:48 PDT 2006

16235 [lbo-talk] Re: "Save Darfur" etc (and other responses) -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >I would also note how the crisis in the Sudan is being framed as a >crisis in 'Darfur' (read Kosovo) as if to delink Darfur from the >rest of war ravaged Sudan. It is not a matter of stopping 'genocide' >or not because if that was the case we would be talking about other >regions of Africa as well. Why the focus on Darfur - why not say, >okay some people are working on Darfur, how about the Save Northern >Uganda or Eastern Gongo movement? Why not start ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 29 15:22:15 PDT 2006

16236 [lbo-talk] another brick in that neolib wall -- rank: 1000

jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote: >Why would you feel funny rooting for the rapist to be either >assaulted or possibly killed? Because vigilantism, esp of the third-party sort, is ethically suspect - and because any fatal transaction involving Tony Soprano would be an orgy of violence, and I'd feel more than a little guilty about taking pleasure in spectacular violence. But I'd also take pleasure in it. Which is complicated. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 29 15:04:22 PDT 2006

16237 [lbo-talk] Re: "Save Darfur" etc (and other responses) -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >That sounds fine in principal but if Washington >becomes militarily involved it will insist on doing >things its way without "interference" from lesser >powers (the US' de facto stance towards the UN since >the beginning). This is an important point - there's no way the US would ever participated modestly in an international mission of mercy. Washington would have to run the show, which means subordinating everything to its imperial aims. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 29 15:02:37 PDT 2006

16238 [lbo-talk] Villaraigosa: football trumps human rights -- rank: 1000

A. mayor picks NFL talks over immigrant boycott By Aarthi Sivaraman 1 hour, 45 minutes ago LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles' first Latino mayor in the modern era, will skip huge pro-immigration rallies planned for Monday to meet with pro football officials in Dallas, leaving organizers feeling like "a ship without a captain." Oscar Sanchez, an organizer of the Great American Boycott in Los Angeles, said the mayor's office previously told the group he would spea ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 29 06:51:13 PDT 2006

16239 [lbo-talk] another brick in that neolib wall -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: >In one of the best episodes of the 1st season(?), Tony's shrink, a >woman, is raped. She is able to identify the rapist, but the police >mishandle the evidence and the man walks free. > >At the next session with Tony, she bursts into tears, and we are >made to understand that she wishes, more than anything else in the >world, to tell Tony what happened so that he could "squish him like >a bug." Which, in fact, we all know he would gladly do. > ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 29 06:46:36 PDT 2006

16240 [lbo-talk] The People vs the Racists -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >It's relative. > >So to speak...genetically. > >Michael Givel wrote: > >>http://www.blink.org.uk/docs/clubflyer06.htm > >Are the Tories really not racists? > >Doug I meant this semi-seriously - does the Tory party depend on coded racist appeals the way the GOP does in the US? Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 29 06:41:49 PDT 2006

16241 [lbo-talk] The People vs the Racists -- rank: 1000

Michael Givel wrote: >http://www.blink.org.uk/docs/clubflyer06.htm Are the Tories really not racists? Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 28 15:03:29 PDT 2006

16242 [lbo-talk] Air America to lose NYC outlet -- rank: 1000

<http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002424337> Air America to Lose NY Flagship Katy Bachman APRIL 27, 2006 Air America Radio will lose its New York flagship station, WLIB-AM, on Aug. 31. While the left-leaning radio network's original lease for the Inner City station ran out March 31, AAR managed to get an extension which only lasts until Aug. 31, according to an informed source. Through an agreement with ICBC, WLIB will be operated as a joint venture and p ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 28 14:54:58 PDT 2006

16243 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Fri Apr 28 14:48:12 PDT 2006

16244 [lbo-talk] "Save Darfur": Evangelicals and Official "Jewish Leaders" -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Doug: > >-----Original Message----- > >Pentagon should be recruited to "save Darfur." For Americans, our >prime responsibility is to stop the abuse of Iraq, and everything >else should take a back seat to that for now. > > >[WS:] This statement troubles me a lot, to the point that I am willing to >risk censure for overposting to answer it. As I read it, it advocates >abstaining from any action in Darfur before cleaning up t ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 28 14:42:06 PDT 2006

16245 [lbo-talk] Norwegian black metal update -- rank: 1000

[from Popbitch] >> Grim up North << This week's Norwegian black metal update CN writes: "Following on from last week's Gorgoroth story, I used to live in Bergen, Norway, the dark metal capital of the world, with the brother of the now late drummer of Gorgoroth, who sadly committed suicide. I would come home from University and there would be a collection of medieval weapons by the door, where most people would leave their umbrellas. And in the living room a bunch of guys made up ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 28 13:34:45 PDT 2006