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16426 [lbo-talk] Hillarynomics -- rank: 1000
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=aj8epOTRKP_k> Hillary Clinton, in Policy Address, Will Slam Bush on Economy By Laura Litvan and Matthew Benjamin April 11 (Bloomberg) -- Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, regarded as the front-runner for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, plans a series of policy addresses starting with a speech tonight in Chicago, where she will criticize the Bush administration's stewardship of the economy. ``People feel the deck is ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Apr 11 13:05:56 PDT 2006
16427 [lbo-talk] Hersh on Bush & Iran -- rank: 1000
Josh Narins wrote: 4 posts so far today. The limit remains 3. Doug
Document Size: 4629
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Apr 11 12:26:19 PDT 2006
16428 [lbo-talk] Hersh on Bush & Iran -- rank: 1000
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Doug wrote to Marvin: ><blockquote> >>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. > >Doug ><blockquote> > >That sounds like revisionism, Doug! Even on L ...
Document Size: 5688
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Apr 11 11:31:08 PDT 2006
16429 [lbo-talk] Hersh on Bush & Iran -- rank: 1000
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. Doug
Document Size: 4841
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Apr 11 09:38:37 PDT 2006
16430 [lbo-talk] Hersh on Bush & Iran -- rank: 1000
Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Well, to be fair, Dr. Lewis isn't just a blogger in >the way we usually mean when that label is employed - >a person with little knowledge bloviating about any >and everything as if they have a lot of knowledge. > >His bio is here: > ><http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/?s=about> Yup, I'd read that. But I don't see any evidence that he regularly talks to dissident spooks and misfit colonels, like Hersh does. Doug
Document Size: 5098
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Apr 11 07:04:35 PDT 2006
16431 [lbo-talk] Hersh on Bush & Iran -- rank: 1000
Josh Narins wrote: >Hersh makes mistakes of fact and logic in his article 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. How are a couple of bloggers in a position to make claims like this? Doug
Document Size: 4850
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Apr 11 05:44:59 PDT 2006
16432 [lbo-talk] Re: what the world needs now -- rank: 1000
Josh Narins wrote: 4 posts Sunday. 7 posts Monday. The limit is 3. Doug
Document Size: 4598
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Apr 10 21:35:54 PDT 2006
16433 [lbo-talk] Professor Lisa at Tortilla Flats -- rank: 1000
Carrol Cox wrote: >On the contrary. I have been thinking about this for about 30 years, and >of all the statements I've made on LBO this is almost the only one of >which I am absolutely certain of its validity. The belief in the rarity >of great art is one of the greatest handicaps a cultural theorist can >carry. You've got a point. There's lots of great stuff around - more than I could ever get to. One of the reasons to have generic preferences is that there's just not enough tim ...
Document Size: 5380
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Apr 10 20:56:08 PDT 2006
16434 [lbo-talk] Re: Professor Lisa at Tortilla Flats -- rank: 1000
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I recall, for >example, a HS textbook on the history of music that went into great depth >discussing classical composers and music traditions all over the world, and >had one (sic!) brief section on rock'n'roll which described it as a rather >amateurish form of music whose main value was "self satisfaction of those >who play it." Woj, now I understand where your cultural attitudes come from! One of the great things about Shostakovich is how ...
Document Size: 5281
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Apr 10 20:50:45 PDT 2006
16435 [lbo-talk] Re: Professor Lisa at Tortilla Flats -- rank: 1000
Simon Huxtable wrote: >Pushkin - so much Pushkin! Why? Doug
Document Size: 4684
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Apr 10 20:48:40 PDT 2006
16436 [lbo-talk] Henwood on immigration -- rank: 1000
Julio Huato wrote: >Wojtek wrote: > >> So given these two problems, what is it exactly that >> would make ordinary people opt for cross-border >> solidarity with their fellow grunts rather than for >> mindless consumerism cum religious escapism or >> nativist fascism? > >Forgive my being so formulaic, but there are two sets of factors: >objective and subjective. The objective factors are increasing >interdependence in their workplaces and liv ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Apr 10 05:49:23 PDT 2006
16437 [lbo-talk] Henwood on immigration -- rank: 1000
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Good show. Thanks. > However, one question that I have for Jeff >Faux is what is it exactly that will motivate >"ordinary people" for cross boarder solidarity? Jeff >seems to stipulate that it is the worsening of living >standards, but that argument has two major problems. Gallup polls repeatedly show lots of economic anxiety in the bottom half of the income distribution. It's vague and apolitical, but it's there. And that's just the US. (A ...
Document Size: 5421
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Apr 9 17:15:52 PDT 2006
16438 [lbo-talk] Professor Lisa at Tortilla Flats -- rank: 1000
joanna wrote: >I have already described the devolution of folk art into commodified >mass market art: gospel/jazz/blues into rock for example. Hmm, well, that can work backwards too, with the jaded looking to gospel/jazz/blues for the dreaded "authenticity." Me, I spent the afternoon alternating between Glenn Gould playing Bach and Lungfish. Doug
Document Size: 4956
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Apr 9 16:46:28 PDT 2006
16439 [lbo-talk] Henwood on immigration -- rank: 1000
Michael Perelman wrote: >On Mr. Henwood's latest radio show, he has a brief commentary on >immigration, which >is superb. I recommend listening to it. Why thank you! It's at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#060406>. If you stick around to the end of the show, you can hear Jeff Faux agree with me that his argument for cross-border solidarity among the working class amounts to a restatement of "Workers of the world unite!" He laugh sounded a little nervous, ...
Document Size: 5091
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Apr 9 15:32:08 PDT 2006
16440 [lbo-talk] Jesus a suicide? -- rank: 1000
Jim Devine wrote: >BTW, seeing a cross hanging around one of my students' necks, and then >seeing a star of David hanging around another's, I began to wonder >what atheists wear? There's always the Darwin fish <http://www.evolvefish.com/fish/pins.html>. Doug
Document Size: 4822
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Apr 9 10:48:44 PDT 2006
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