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16411 [lbo-talk] Fact-checking Anonymous Sources? -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >forget who said that d.c. is only known vessel to leak from the top, >stuff that >gets uncovered is almost always because someone *high* in government - >be s/he dissident, malcontent, servant, president - wants stuff uncovered... True of a lot of the stuff you read in the NYT or WP. But that's not the way Hersh works - he gets his stuff from people further down the ladder who don't like the way things are being done. I feel offended on Hersh's behalf that he's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 13 11:39:16 PDT 2006

16412 [lbo-talk] black-immigrant solidarity -- rank: 1000

San Francisco Chronicle - April 13, 2006 Polls, leaders say many blacks support illegal immigrants Leslie Fulbright, Chronicle Staff Writer Influential African Americans across the country back up recent polls showing strong black support for illegal immigrants and for Senate proposals to offer them work permits and a path to citizenship. Although polls show frustration in black communities over a perceived loss of low-wage jobs to illegal immigrants, they also indicate the issue is not dampenin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 13 10:01:23 PDT 2006

16413 [lbo-talk] brass vs Rummy -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - April 13, 2006 Anti-Rumsfeld Chorus Grows Some military leaders question the public criticism as another retired general urges Defense chief to resign. By Peter Spiegel and Paul Richter, Times Staff Writers A WASHINGTON - A recent surge in public criticism of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld by retired military leaders is the culmination of months of intense but largely private debate among active duty officers about how best to voice dissent over Bush administration poli ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 13 09:58:02 PDT 2006

16414 [lbo-talk] if today were election day... -- rank: 1000

<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-na-poll13apr13,0,7378403,full.story?coll=la-home-headlines> [...] One final question offered perhaps the most dramatic expression of the nation's discontent with Bush's second term. Asked whom they would support today in a rerun of the 2004 presidential election, 39% of registered voters picked Bush, whereas 49% said they preferred the man the president defeated only 17 months ago, Democratic Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 13 09:48:46 PDT 2006

16415 [lbo-talk] Parenthetical remark -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >The author of the review, Sandra Tsing Loh, was kicked off a local >public radio station (KCRW) for using the f-word on the air >(repeatedly). She used it as a joke and the engineer was supposed to >bleep it out. But _she_ got fired. (The station manager, who once was >part of the Pacifica family, is a bit anal.) The station manager may be anal, but the FCC is coming down like a ton of bricks on "profanity." Six-figure fines are possible, and they're e ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 12 13:49:03 PDT 2006

16416 [lbo-talk] Fact-checking Anonymous Sources? -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >If I wanted to impart motives on Hersh, I could argue that he wrote >an alarmist article to generate outrage, and therefore try to >influence public opinion against such an action. Yes. Hersh is a cranky difficult guy - so I hear, I've never met him - but his politics are definitely on the left, and he's very good at what he does. While I understand the temptations of using someone's leak who may not share your politics, I don't think there's any doubt that he'd lik ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 12 12:49:39 PDT 2006

16417 [lbo-talk] ABC immigration poll -- rank: 1000

ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL: IMMIGRATION AND MORE - 4/9/06 EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 5 p.m. Monday, April 10, 2006 Six in 10 Favor Legal Status for Illegals; Bush Hits a New Low in Job Approval In the midst of immigration rallies around the country, Americans express broad demand for tighter borders to keep illegal immigrants out - but also substantial majority support for a guest worker program leading to legal status for those already here. George W. Bush, for his part, gets poor marks on ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 12 11:42:59 PDT 2006

16418 [lbo-talk] ABC poll: broad support for Mass-style health law -- rank: 1000

ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL: HEALTH INSURANCE - 4/9/06 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, April 12, 2006 Majority Nationally Shows Support For Massachusetts-Style Health Law With Gov. Mitt Romney set to sign Massachusetts' new universal health-coverage law today, a new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds the idea a popular one: Fifty-five percent of Americans say they'd support similar legislation in their own state. The law, described by its supporters as a national model, requires all resident ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 12 11:30:19 PDT 2006

16419 [lbo-talk] Fact-checking Anonymous Sources? -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Doug wrote: "A New Yorker fact-checker told me that they put Hersh >through the wringer on his pieces. The magazine, already notorious for >the rigor of its routine checking, goes into high gear for his stuff." > >Almost all claims made in the Seymour Hersh article about nuking Iran ><http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/060417fa_fact> are based on >anonymous sources. How can New Yorker fact-check stuff coming from >anonymous ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 12 08:00:43 PDT 2006

16420 [lbo-talk] combined e-mail ;) -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >At 10:15 PM -0400 11/4/06, Josh Narins wrote: > >>There is no definition of democratic on Earth that says "When I mark >>someone #2 on my ballot, I do it because I want them to win, and I >>really want the #1 guy to lose." > >But if there are, for instance, 5 candidates, then when I mark >someone #2 on my ballot, it means I want them to win in preference >to the candidate I mark #3. And I want the person I mark as #3 to >win ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 12 07:36:01 PDT 2006

16421 [lbo-talk] Hersh on Bush & Iran -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: > > >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> Carrol Cox wrote: >> >> >U.S. imperialism _must_ establish and maintain military bases in the >> >mideast. >> >> Who makes decisions for this thing, U.S. imperialism? A robot? > >Consult any of the analysts of imperialism. Luxemburg. Lenin. Trotsky. >Wood. Others. I'm not going to try to rewrite any of them. At an >empirical level 60 years plus british/french predecessors, pl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 12 07:30:09 PDT 2006

16422 [lbo-talk] Hersh on Bush & Iran -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >U.S. imperialism _must_ establish and maintain military bases in the >mideast. Who makes decisions for this thing, U.S. imperialism? A robot? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 11 18:51:32 PDT 2006

16423 [lbo-talk] Hersh on Bush & Iran -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >Doug wrote: > >>Marvin Gandall wrote: >>>I also think it's mistaken to consider the invasion of Iraq an act of >>>"stupidity" so much as of miscalculation >> >>Almost everyone who knew anything about Iraq predicted what would happen >>if the US invaded, and the Bush admin ignored or fired them. >>Miscalculation seems too kind a word for that. >=========================== >I didn't mean to be kind, and it ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 11 16:49:02 PDT 2006

16424 [lbo-talk] Hersh on Bush & Iran -- rank: 1000

Josh Narins wrote: His fifth post of the day. He's now on moderation. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 11 13:49:16 PDT 2006

16425 [lbo-talk] Newt: time to get out of Iraq -- rank: 1000

[In the American model, power comes from God....] Argus Leader (Sioux Falls, SD) - April 11, 2006 Ex-House speaker says U.S. made "enormous mistake" in occupation MONICA LABELLE VERMILLION - Newt Gingrich, the former Republican Speaker of the House, told students and faculty at the University of South Dakota Monday that the United States should pull out of Iraq and leave a small force there, just as it did post-war in Korea and Germany. "It was an enormous mistake for us to try to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 11 13:09:12 PDT 2006