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16441 [lbo-talk] Hersh on Bush & Iran -- rank: 1000

The New Yorker - April 17, 2006 THE IRAN PLANS by SEYMOUR M. HERSH Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb? The Bush Administration, while publicly advocating diplomacy in order to stop Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon, has increased clandestine activities inside Iran and intensified planning for a possible major air attack. Current and former American military and intelligence officials said that Air Force planning groups are drawing up lists of targets, and teams ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 9 10:23:06 PDT 2006

16442 [lbo-talk] complaints about WBAI (and one bit of praise) -- rank: 1000

[reformatted; some typos corrected - the WBAI chat board to which this was posted is a fever swamp - check it out for some serious horrors - makes APST read like NLR] <http://www.listenerforums.net/cgi-bin/issues_config.pl?noframes;read=50965> audio file: <http://kpftx.org/archives/pnb/pnb060324/saturday/pnb060325d.mp3> ------- PUBLIC COMMENT 18:36 PAUL ASHBY Good afternoon, my name is Paul Ashby, I'm the premiums director at WBAI, New York. There's a lot I want to say, but I just wa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 8 22:27:01 PDT 2006

16443 [lbo-talk] combined e-mail ;) -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: > > It depends. I might expel a red-baiter. Not an anarchist >> anti-Stalinist, of coures, but some David Corn or Eric Alterman >> anti-communist liberal would probably get the steel-toed boot. > >Michael P? I like Michael (Pugliese, I presume you mean), though he can be exasperating. I wouldn't kick him, which is why I wussed out with a "probably." Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 8 18:16:28 PDT 2006

16444 [lbo-talk] combined e-mail ;) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Too quick and too sloppy finger on the send button before I amended it >to something intelligible. Perhaps "and you're out of my basket." I've >never proposed either that red-baiting should be an expellable offense >or that I have any power of expulstion, but I don't bother to read >red-baiters. It depends. I might expel a red-baiter. Not an anarchist anti-Stalinist, of coures, but some David Corn or Eric Alterman anti-communist liberal would probably ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 8 17:44:42 PDT 2006

16445 [lbo-talk] Mass health care -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: >I have not exactly pored over the details, but it looks to me like >the Massachussetts plan is a give away to medical insurance >companies. > >-- It forces small companies to buy coverage for their employees -- >that might be the only plus. >-- It offers the rich a pre-tax deduction for health care expenses >-- It criminalizes those poor people who cannot choose insurance >premiums over food > >In short, if I'm reading it right, it's a near complet ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 8 17:09:06 PDT 2006

16446 [lbo-talk] combined e-mail ;) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Josh Narins wrote: > > > > > Are you a Communist who votes Republican because you think it means the > > revolution will come sooner? >One stupid bit of red-baiting and you're out. Was that redbaiting? And who gave you power of ejection? Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 8 17:04:57 PDT 2006

16447 [lbo-talk] Organized Labor Split Over Immigration Bill -- rank: 1000

Steven L. Robinson wrote: >AFL-CIO's executive vice president, Linda Chavez-Thompson says that workers >in these guest programs "are always dependent on their host employers for >both their livelihoods and legal status to work in the United States. Guest >workers are never truly free, rendering them ripe for exploitation." > >Eliseo Medina, vice president of the Service Employees Union, says that >supporting the McCain-Kennedy bill, including its guest worker provi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 8 10:23:09 PDT 2006

16448 [lbo-talk] Campaign against Muzak -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >--- John Adams <jadams01 at sprynet.com> wrote: > >FUCK YOU TOO, ASSHOLE. > >Wojtek Now, now. We aspire to the highest standards of discourse here! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 8 09:25:07 PDT 2006

16449 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 ************************************************************************ * N O W P O D C A S T I N G (new links for a new year) * * * * subscribe to hi-fi version (64kbps): * * <http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php> * ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 7 16:47:50 PDT 2006

16450 [lbo-talk] the president's week -- rank: 1000

I just started getting the White House's weekly letter. Evidently the president had an excellent week! You'd never know that Bush's approval hit an all-time low of 36% in the latest AP-Ipsos Poll, with the strongly disapprove share of 42% outnumbering the strongly approve share of 18% by more than 2-to-1! >Monday, April 3, 2006 >President Bush marked the beginning of the Major League Baseball >season by throwing out the first pitch at the Cincinnati Reds >opening home game. > > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 7 15:08:37 PDT 2006

16451 [lbo-talk] Page Six scandal! -- rank: 1000

[Burkle is a big Dem funder.] New York Daily News - April 7, 2006 The billionaire, the Post and the $220G shakedown Page Six writer wanted $$$ to stop inaccurate coverage BY WILLIAM SHERMAN DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Jared Paul Stern is one of the Page Six's column's longest-serving writers and the editor of Page Six The Magazine. A New York Post Page Six staffer solicited $220,000 from a high-profile billionaire in return for a year's "protection" against inaccurate and unflattering item ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 7 10:15:09 PDT 2006

16452 [lbo-talk] Professor Lisa at Tortilla Flats -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >However I think it is important to note that the >Akhmatovs and the Mayakovskys and the Malevichs >represented a small percentage of the population >located in the bouregousies of St. Petersburg and >Moscow. The majority of the population had very >different tastes -- it was made up of people like >Khrushchev, with his fourth-grade education and >peasant/working class roots. If anything Social >Realism represented a move in the direction of the >t ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 7 09:43:27 PDT 2006

16453 [lbo-talk] happy birthday -- rank: 1000

Today would be 94th birthday of Harry Hay, the Communist founder of the Mattachine Society. Long live the red-pink alliance! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 7 07:15:21 PDT 2006

16454 [lbo-talk] partisanship in the USA -- rank: 1000

The best defense of the two-party system is the argument that while it permits the majority party to govern, as it should, it also centralizes the opposition in a single minority group, thus preventing the dissipation of minority energy in sectarian disputes and checking any tyrannical tendencies on the part of the "ins." This argument has seldom fitted the facts of American life, where party differences have rarely been profound and party structure so rigid that minorities, instead of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 6 17:42:00 PDT 2006

16455 [lbo-talk] WBAI web stream upgrade -- rank: 1000

<http://stream.wbai.org/> is LIVE Thanks to the Icecast (streaming server software) installation I completed two weeks ago, the WBAI archive web server is now also streaming to the public. Also, big thanks goes out to the WBAI archive server, now the WBAI archive "and streaming" server for all of its hard work - I could not have done all this without your cooperation and service (or without your RAM and processor). Ultimately, here is the breakdown of the various individual and t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 6 17:30:02 PDT 2006