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16936 [lbo-talk] even more Chomsky -- rank: 1000

<http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,6000,1605276,00.html> ... As some see it, one ill-judged choice of cause was the accusation made by Living Marxism magazine that during the Bosnian war, shots used by ITN of a Serb-run detention camp were faked. The magazine folded after ITN sued, but the controversy flared up again in 2003 when a journalist called Diane Johnstone made similar allegations in a Swedish magazine, Ordfront, taking issue with the off ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 31 07:24:42 PST 2005

16937 [lbo-talk] more Chomsky -- rank: 1000

[more from the Guardian profile] Chomsky had a choice of role models. There was his father's family in Baltimore, who were "super-orthodox". "They regressed back to the stage they were at even before they were in the shtetl, which is not uncommon among immigrant communities; a tendency to close in and go back to an exaggerated form of what you came from." He smiles. "It's a hostile world." Or there was his mother's family in New York, who crowded into a big governme ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 31 07:20:50 PST 2005

16938 [lbo-talk] Chomsky on conspiracies -- rank: 1000

[from a snotty profile of Chomsky in today's Guardian <http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,6000,1605276,00.html>] "One of the good things about the internet is you can put up anything you like, but that also means you can put up any kind of nonsense. If the intelligence agencies knew what they were doing, they would stimulate conspiracy theories just to drive people out of political life, to keep them from asking more serious questions."

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Date:	Mon Oct 31 07:17:18 PST 2005

16939 [lbo-talk] The Note: Alito's in -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> Planned Parenthood opposes the nomination and Family Research Council is supportive, only helping the news media narrative of a battle royale, which we still believe will be relentlessly overstated by the media. Our guess: the country ain't in the mood for a big fight, and the left is too disorganized and divided to mount one effectively. Sam Brownback is already heaping praise, as is Bill Kristol, so this nomination is already off t ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 31 07:01:35 PST 2005

16940 [lbo-talk] Re:john cage -- rank: 1000

John Adams wrote: > > Is it wrong to listen to a recording of an opera? > >No, just boring. If the music is underpowered, like most Italian opera; without the scenery, there's little to occupy the mind beyond pretty tunes. If the music is complex and fully developed, as with Wagner, it sounds great on recording. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 31 06:43:39 PST 2005

16941 [lbo-talk] Literature on Pensions? -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Doesn't Robin Blackburn have a big Verso book on >pensions? Of course he's not very Marxist these days >either. I like Teresa G, she's very smart. No question about that. Robin's book is called Banking on Death (he's finishing up a much smaller vol for Verso which should be out next year). I've got a critique of Blackburn at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/NSPensions.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 30 20:33:47 PST 2005

16942 [lbo-talk] The "Raunch Feminism" floating debate party -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >With that background in mind, I was fascinated to follow the >discussion of "Female Chauvinist Pigs" that unfolded yesterday on >Click Opera, the Live Journal blog of an artist who calls himself >Momus -- > ><http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/148296.html> Hmm, I like some of Momus' music (e.g., "His Majesty the Baby"), but he sounds a little rigid here. And, tragically, he doesn't like Peaches (who, admittedly, doesn't wear ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 30 09:28:33 PST 2005

16943 [lbo-talk] The "Raunch Feminism" floating debate party -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >I now imagine similar discussions, splitting along similar lines, >occurring wherever Levy's work is on the table even when all the >participants are women as happened here -- > ><http://slate.msn.com/id/2126570/entry/2126575/?nav=ais> One of whom is Laura Kipnis. About eight years ago, I endured one of the more unpleasant evenings of my life - drinks & dinner with her. She was relentlessly arrogant and mean. During the course of our conversation, w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 30 09:10:59 PST 2005

16944 [lbo-talk] Literature on Pensions? -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >What are the best things to read on pensions? It's been a long time, but I remember Teresa Ghilarducci's book Labor's Capital as being very informative, though not as "Marxist" as I would have liked. She's got some more recent papers on her website <http://www.nd.edu/~tghilard/>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 30 08:40:07 PST 2005

16945 [lbo-talk] Libby poll -- rank: 1000

ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL: THE LIBBY INDICTMENT - 10/29/05 EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 6 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005 Most Call Libby Indictment a Sign of Broader Ethical Wrongdoing Most Americans see the indictment of Dick Cheney's chief of staff as a sign of broader ethical wrongdoing within the Bush administration. And the president's own job approval rating has slipped under 40 percent for the first time in his career. Few think Cheney, Karl Rove or George W. Bush himself did anything ille ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 30 08:16:25 PST 2005

16946 [lbo-talk] Gindin on the UAW etc -- rank: 1000

[Patrick Bond forwarded my comments on the UAW and the wreckage of the US motor vehicle industry to Sam Gindin, longtime advisor to the Canadian Autoworkers. Here's his response.] From: "sam gindin" <sgindin at yorku.ca> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 11:25:55 -0400 Hi Patrick, I share Doug's perspective. The latest round of concessions didn't start with the UAW, but given the paradigmatic role auto generally plays, this signals round two of the aggressive attack on the working class tha ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 29 20:49:05 PDT 2005

16947 [lbo-talk] too many bars -- rank: 1000

[Fuck, it's come to this.] www.toomanybars.org or write <info AT toomanybars.org>. Tired of being kept up until 5 a.m. listening to noisy bar-goers and honking cars? +Feeling surrounded by more and more bars and increasingly unsafe? +Tired of watching local businesses and essential services disappear? A COALITION OF COMMUNITY GROUPS, BLOCK ASSOCIATIONS AND NEIGHBORS INVITES YOU TO ATTEND AN EAST VILLAGE / LOWER EAST SIDE TOWN HALL MEETING ON BAR PROLIFERATION DATE: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 200 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 29 19:10:42 PDT 2005

16948 [lbo-talk] labor & queers -- rank: 1000

I've just gotten a conference announcement flyer in the form of a PDF, with no website given. I've posted it to <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/LaborLGBT.pdf>. It's an announcement for a conference on the role of labor unions in the struggle for LGBT equality, Oakland Marriott City Center, November 10-12. Co-sponsored by Pride at Work/AFL-CIO and the western region lavender caucus of SEIU. Doug

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Date:	Sat Oct 29 19:09:58 PDT 2005

16949 [lbo-talk] For some people . . . -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Stalin may not have said it, but I just bought a >collection of Stalin-era jokes and anecdotes. I can >translate some of them and send them to you if you >wish. Some are quite funny. Oh yes, please! Another witticism from Uncle Joe: "Does the severed head mourn the hair?" I'm not sure what that means, but it sounds terribly ominous, in a lighthearted sort of way. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 29 18:53:54 PDT 2005

16950 [lbo-talk] horse's mouth -- rank: 1000

Yeah, and you'd think a retired English professor with Marxist politics might be interested in the relations of discourse and power - how the powerful present themselves, directly or through their spokespersons, and how the media interpret what they hear. But when your eyes are on bigger forces, I guess press conferences are just distracting trivia. Doug Chris Doss wrote: >Press conferences are invaluable. I would much rather >read the transcript of a press conference than the >articles ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 29 07:51:02 PDT 2005