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17326 [lbo-talk] letter to the NYT's public editor -- rank: 1000

To the Public Editor <public at nytimes.com> - I think the Times owes a response to James Bamford's reporting on Judith Miller in Rolling Stone <http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/8798997?pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single7&rnd=1132253345109&has-player=false>. Miller, encouraged by the Rendon PR firm (which had largely created Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress) boosted the claims of Adnan Ihsan Saeed al-Haideri" about Iraq's WMDs, even though the CIA had d ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 19 13:43:41 PST 2005

17327 [lbo-talk] Miller! -- rank: 1000

[more from the Bamford article <http://tinyurl.com/dtdmc>] The INC's choice for the worldwide print exclusive was equally easy: Chalabi contacted Judith Miller of The New York Times. Miller, who was close to I. Lewis Libby and other neoconservatives in the Bush administration, had been a trusted outlet for the INC's anti-Saddam propaganda for years. Not long after the CIA polygraph expert slipped the straps and electrodes off al-Haideri and declared him a liar, Miller flew to Bangkok to in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 19 13:24:27 PST 2005

17328 [lbo-talk] Rendon: flacking for the war -- rank: 1000

<http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/8798997?pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single7&rnd=1132253345109&has-player=false> The Man Who Sold the War Meet John Rendon, Bush's general in the propaganda war By JAMES BAMFORD The road to war in Iraq led through many unlikely places. One of them was a chic hotel nestled among the strip bars and brothels that cater to foreigners in the town of Pattaya, on the Gulf of Thailand. On December 17th, 2001, in a small room within the soun ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 19 13:21:58 PST 2005

17329 [lbo-talk] Instinct -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Grundrisse > >Hunger is hunger, but the hunger gratified by cooked meat eaten with >a knife and fork >is a different hunger from that which bolts down raw meat with the >aid of hand, nail >and tooth. Production thus produces not only the object but also the manner of >consumption, not only objectively but also subjectively. Production >thus creates the >consumer. Damn, there are times I read something from Marx and I'm just dazzled. Has anyo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 19 13:15:38 PST 2005

17330 [lbo-talk] A Pathetic Congress (and Opposition) -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >And Doug wrote: >-Ok, but what are your apologetics for FIghting Nancy Pelosi's >-attempts to distance herself from Murtha? > >You mean this distancing by Peolsi: >http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=57000 >"House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi today spoke late this evening in >strong opposition to a sham Republican proposal to smear Congressman John >Murtha of Pennsylvania, who has proposed immediate redeployment of troops >f ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 19 13:03:39 PST 2005

17331 [lbo-talk] A Pathetic Congress (and Opposition) -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >And you wonder why the antiwar left has been so pathetically ineffective. >Yes, let's shit on allies calling for withdrawal just because they didn't >vote for the GOP mock bill. Ok, but what are your apologetics for FIghting Nancy Pelosi's attempts to distance herself from Murtha? Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 19 11:09:33 PST 2005

17332 [lbo-talk] Chomsky on Kosovo in 1999 -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Actually, there is no necessary logical connection >between being an anti-Semite and Holocaust >denial/minimization. But you're not big on logic. No there's not. Necessarily. But in practice there usually is, no? I'm almost reminded of Keynes's famous comment on Hayek's Prices & Production - a perfect illutration of "how, starting with a mistake, a remorseless logician can end up in Bedlam." Not quite, in this case, but logic and politics don't always tr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 19 11:06:51 PST 2005

17333 [lbo-talk] up-er-down? -- rank: 1000

John Adams wrote: >From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > >>Problem is that it's hard to get the Dems to say what they actually >stand for and the Reps know that. > >What I don't get is why not a "present" vote in this case. >Abstention is an option, true? I can only guess that they were afraid of being accused of "cutting & running." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 19 11:04:03 PST 2005

17334 [lbo-talk] up-er-down? -- rank: 1000

Tom Walker wrote: >One can hope that it was too clever by half. The only people paying >close attention to the spectacle will be the political classes whose >minds are pretty much made up. The effect of "making the Democrats >squirm" may not be so advantageous to the Bush policy. Problem is that it's hard to get the Dems to say what they actually stand for and the Reps know that. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 19 09:52:44 PST 2005

17335 [lbo-talk] Chomsky on Kosovo in 1999 -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > And what about >this statement from Noam? >http://arutzsheva.org/article.php3?id=4680 That's embedded in a rant by a Zionist, which contains this abominable line: "Chomsky, then, sees nothing wrong with denying that the worst crime in human history ever occurred." Noam isn't above criticism. If I were asked, my problems with him would include: excessive hostility to Marx, his line that the Cold War was mostly about imperialist rivalry rather than bei ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 19 09:42:50 PST 2005

17336 [lbo-talk] Reading Capital -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >According to the most recent American time use survey results >("American Time Use Survey -- 2004 Results Announced by BLS," >September 20, 2005, <http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/atus.pdf>), >men spend 0.30 hour, and women 0.42 hour, per weekday (and men spend >0.37 hour and women 0.49 hour per weekend) on reading in the United >States. That's about 2.24 hours per week for men and 3.06 hours per >week for women. > >If an av ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 19 09:25:57 PST 2005

17337 [lbo-talk] Re: No cock left behind -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >That's the point. Its incomprehensible. To you. On what grounds do you declare it fundamentally incomprehsnbile, though? Are you the standard of judgment? Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 19 09:14:28 PST 2005

17338 [lbo-talk] Chomsky on Srebrenica & "genocide" -- rank: 1000

[I forwarded an excerpt from James Heartfield's post - the quoted bit below - to Chomsky, who answers.] Heartfield: ---------- >It was wrong to characterise the civil war as a genocide, since all >sides were involved in atrocities, in my opinion, though I don't >know whether Chomsky would agree. Chomsky: ------- On the query, there are really two questions: (1) were all sides engaged in atrocities, (2) is it right to call it "genocide." The two questions are unrelated. There ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 19 09:12:40 PST 2005

17339 [lbo-talk] up-er-down? -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >H.Res. __ > >Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the >deployment of United States forces in Iraq be terminated immediately. > >Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that >the deployment of United States forces in Iraq be terminated >immediately. For, of course, but I'm not in the House, which voted 403-3 against. (The 3: McKinney, Serrano, Wexler.) It was a clever move by the Republicans to make the ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 19 09:05:30 PST 2005

17340 [lbo-talk] Shuttle. Click -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >As far as I can see, there is an element of bad faith in this >juggling of vocabulary ("performance" rather than "practice" or "social >relations" or "history"). Probably not bad faith but self-deception. Hmm, I thought you were opposed to reading the motives of others. >It's a way of maintaining what is in practice a radical individualist >theory while sneaking social relations in the back door under the >weasel-term ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 19 08:55:50 PST 2005