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1726 [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 After a long interval, new material on my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: June 11, 2011 Vincent Reinhart at the Council on Foreign Relations on Greece and the political trick of austerity (thanks to the CFR for allowing broadcast; full event here) Greg Grandin, author of Fordlandia, on all the great political developments in Sou ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 10 19:01:19 PDT 2011

1727 [lbo-talk] In the are you fucking kidding me? department -- rank: 1000

On Jun 10, 2011, at 6:13 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Just got an email from the Nation asking how I'd re-invent capitalism. Four hundred words or less. Well fuck me. I've been a contributing editor for 20 years, and did they ask me? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 10 17:03:11 PDT 2011

1728 [lbo-talk] question for doug -- rank: 1000

On Jun 10, 2011, at 12:27 PM, Ira Glazer wrote: > were you invited by the nation to opine on reimagining capitalism ? Nope. As I said of my first marriage, we've grown apart over the years. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 10 09:33:14 PDT 2011

1729 [lbo-talk] EI: Jello Biafra bucks international BDS call, will play show in Tel Aviv -- rank: 1000

On Jun 10, 2011, at 12:18 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > At 08:47 AM 6/10/2011, Joseph Catron wrote: > >> Still, it's a lot funnier when a guy who's gotten rich off a radical schtick, however transparent, does something like this > > What makes you think he's rich? Well, we've heard of him, haven't we? QED.

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Date:	Fri Jun 10 09:25:16 PDT 2011

1730 [lbo-talk] EI: Jello Biafra bucks international BDS call, will play show in Tel Aviv -- rank: 1000

On Jun 10, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Joseph Catron wrote: > I'm genuinely curious: is anyone surprised? A reliable source suggests to me not to make too much of this. He's not making an informed political statement.

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Date:	Fri Jun 10 08:40:24 PDT 2011

1731 [lbo-talk] compare & contrast: KIPP vs. Sidwell Friends -- rank: 1000

On Jun 10, 2011, at 10:45 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:36:34 -0400 > Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> We did well: he'll be going to another hotbed >> of "progressive" education, this one free and public, >> The Brooklyn New School, aka PS 146: > > I hope it's a great experience for him. Seriously. Well so do I. But you make it sound like there's some alternative. Home schooling?

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1732 [lbo-talk] compare & contrast: KIPP vs. Sidwell Friends -- rank: 1000

On Jun 10, 2011, at 10:24 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > I truly wish I had a helpful suggestion, but I don't. > The picture is pretty bleak, and as far as I can tell, > it's gotten worse since I put my own kids through > the mill. When it was bad enough. We did well: he'll be going to another hotbed of "progressive" education, this one free and public, The Brooklyn New School, aka PS 146: http://www.bns146.org/ Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 10 07:36:34 PDT 2011

1733 [lbo-talk] compare & contrast: KIPP vs. Sidwell Friends -- rank: 1000

On Jun 10, 2011, at 10:13 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > No one on this list seems to have even faint notion of what is going on in the U.S. now, the spark being Wisconsin but local organizing has been gaining force for some time and needed only such a spark to rise to new levels. (To see one straw in the widn, google Illinois People's Action.") It is only popular action ata athe base that can set goals of struggle; as those goals get defiend, it is the responsibility of intellectuals not to l ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 10 07:19:52 PDT 2011

1734 [lbo-talk] compare & contrast: KIPP vs. Sidwell Friends -- rank: 1000

On Jun 10, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > I wish you did too. And if you did, you probably would > send your kid there, if they would take him -- an outcome by > no means foreordained, by the way, since they're very > picky. I'll spare you and everyone else the details, but I think that part was more or less covered. The money, though, wasn't. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 10 07:14:08 PDT 2011

1735 [lbo-talk] compare & contrast: KIPP vs. Sidwell Friends -- rank: 1000

On Jun 10, 2011, at 9:44 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:32:42 -0400 > Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> On Jun 10, 2011, at 9:19 AM, Michael Smith wrote: >> >>> Progressive education is to bad old Rugby as lethal >>> injection is to Tyburn tree. >> >> Where do you get this stuff from? > > Not sure I see your point. Do you think the analogy is > mistaken? Yes, I do. I wish I had the money to send m ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 10 06:54:54 PDT 2011

1736 [lbo-talk] compare & contrast: KIPP vs. Sidwell Friends -- rank: 1000

On Jun 10, 2011, at 9:19 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > Progressive education is to bad old Rugby as lethal > injection is to Tyburn tree. Where do you get this stuff from? You're obviously quite well educated. Where did that happen? How did you emerge so good, when everyone else emerges so bad? Do you have kids? Where did you send them to school? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 10 06:32:42 PDT 2011

1737 [lbo-talk] compare & contrast: KIPP vs. Sidwell Friends -- rank: 1000

On Jun 10, 2011, at 8:34 AM, Wojtek S wrote: > It is quite obvious that the push for school reform comes, in a large > part, from the parents who treat education as a credentialing service > selling passes to successful yuppie careers. No it doesn't. Where did you get this from? School "reform" is intended mainly for the children of the poor. The point of the comparison is that children of the elite are subject to none of that crap - and even in better suburban districts, like ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 10 05:57:12 PDT 2011

1738 [lbo-talk] compare & contrast: KIPP vs. Sidwell Friends -- rank: 1000

On Jun 9, 2011, at 7:59 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > The elites send their kids to institutions > which are just as totalizing and dehumanizing > as the KIPP schools; but the grounds look > nicer, and so do the teachers and the kids > themselves That's preposterous. I know you love to be contrarian, but that's just around the bend. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 9 17:50:32 PDT 2011

1739 [lbo-talk] compare & contrast: KIPP vs. Sidwell Friends -- rank: 1000

http://lbo-news.com/2011/06/09/compare-contrast-kipp-vs-sidwell-friends/ Compare & contrast: KIPP vs. Sidwell Friends Education reformers who love testing, discipline, and charter schools wouldn t send their own kids to the institutions they prescribe for other people. Cases in point....

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1740 [lbo-talk] Todd Gitlin: the most pompous ass ever? -- rank: 1000

On Jun 9, 2011, at 10:44 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > When the IDF killed 23 Syrian demonstrators in one day, the US media went to great lengths not to mention that the demonstrators were unarmed. Worse, they described it as a "clash," as if it were something like a fight between equals. Doug

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