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17461 [lbo-talk] Teixeira: It's clearly a pro-life country -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: > >[This is an interesting tack. Normally if you ask people their >position on abortion, the answers are ambiguous and overlapping and >discouraging. Here, when they ask about what side they identify with >-- pro-life or pro-choice -- and whether Roe v. Wade should be >overturned -- the real point at issue -- the results seem >surprisingly stark and encouraging] > >http://www.tcf.org/list.asp?type=NC&pubid=1134#prochoice > > Public O ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 9 13:45:02 PST 2005

17462 [lbo-talk] McClellan dodges -- rank: 1000

E&P Online - November 8, 2005 White House Briefing: McClellan Deflects Questions on Torture Exemption A Couple Dozen Times By E&P Staff NEW YORK At today's White House press briefing, Scott McClellan was hit with a number of questions about the "ethics classes" the president's staffers are now attending. But much of the briefing featured efforts by Helen Thomas, at the start, and then other reporters to get McClellan to explain the apparent contradiction between his claims that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 9 13:15:04 PST 2005

17463 [lbo-talk] Mapes is really pissed -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - November 9, 2005 Ousted CBS Producer Comes Out Swinging By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer After a year of silence about the biggest scandal in CBS News history, Mary Mapes has plenty to say -- about George W. Bush, Karl Rove, Les Moonves, her father, bloggers, the mainstream press and others who she believes contributed to her downfall. What took her so long? "I was extremely battered," she said in an interview yesterday. "I'd had months and months of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 9 13:11:30 PST 2005

17464 [lbo-talk] Astra Taylor on mrzine -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: ><http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/ht081105.html> >and another beautiful editing job by Yoshie. In which we read: >As we begin to seriously consider our next >cinematic undertaking, we often find ourselves >grappling with the two poles of documentary >filmmaking: the poetical and the political. We >want to make films that matter, which address >social problems, educate the audience, and >inspire action. But we also care about >technique and v ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 9 13:02:44 PST 2005

17465 [lbo-talk] Christian Parenti from Kurdistan -- rank: 1000

The Nation - November 14, 2005 <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051114/parenti> The Question of Kurdistan by CHRISTIAN PARENTI Outside the violent city of Mosul lies the last checkpoint of the Kurdish militia, or peshmerga. The gunmen control a bridge where the dusty rolling land of the northern Mesopotamian plain tucks itself into a seam along the Al Kazir River. In a few months these fields will be green with winter wheat, but now they are wind-swept, pale and desiccated. The yellow late- ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 9 12:27:56 PST 2005

17466 [lbo-talk] Cindy Sheehan in Berkeley -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> I just heard that Cindy Sheehan moved to Berkeley. This sounds >> alarming on the face of it. Am I overreacting? >> > >Tsk tsk. How puritanical. Maybe when you complain about left puritanism >you are looking in the mirror. The lady has a right to live in any damn >place she feels like living, & it is really shitty for people to >complain about her in this way. You're funny. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 9 12:30:06 PST 2005

17467 [lbo-talk] Microfinance Query -- rank: 1000

By the way, Gina Neff wrote a couple of pieces on microfinance for LBO: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Micro.html> and <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Micro_summit.html>. While they're almost a decade old, the political critique remains on point. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 9 10:36:18 PST 2005

17468 [lbo-talk] Microfinance Query -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: 6 posts so far today. 14 on Friday. The daily limit remains 3. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 9 10:27:43 PST 2005

17469 [lbo-talk] Microfinance Query -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >I was flipping thru a recent issue of The Economist which focused on >how the world's poor can be pulled out of their miserable state via >"free enterprise," and the term thrown around most was >"microfinance." Could any of you economic comrades please lay out >for me what exactly microfinance really means? And is there a >pseudo-evangelical tone to all this global captial raving? Yeah, you're right about the tone, and it's in no small ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 9 10:20:29 PST 2005

17470 [lbo-talk] Gropenator brought to his knees -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >So I see little reason for optimism - conservative outlook still prevails, >people got merely pissed off with Bush's monumental blunders. No outlook prevails in mainstream America, the home of split-the-difference politics (among those who care about politics at all). In Alan Wolfe's words, "ambivalence is the default position of the American middle class." Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 9 10:12:11 PST 2005

17471 [lbo-talk] Blair loses on "terror" -- rank: 1000

[the Global War on Terror is looking more & more ragged] FT.com - November 9, 2005 16:58 [London time] Blair defeated in Commons on terror measures By FT reporters he government was dramatically defeated in a knife-edge Commons vote on anti-terrorism legislation on Wednesday when 322 MPs voted against proposals to allow suspects to be held without charge for up to 90 days. The size of the defeat, by a majority of 31, forced the government to accept a compromise and MPs later voted in favour ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 9 10:10:24 PST 2005

17472 [lbo-talk] White House plans "hit back" campaign on WMDs -- rank: 1000

[this should be fun] <http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/08/Bush.retaliates/index.html> White House to 'hit back' at Democrats Aides plan aggressive response to claims intelligence misused From Dana Bash CNN Washington Bureau WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Top White House officials say they're developing a "campaign-style" strategy in response to increasing Democratic allegations that the Bush administration twisted intelligence to make its case for war. White House aides, who agreed to sp ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 9 08:53:20 PST 2005

17473 [lbo-talk] today in Judy: hovering at the exit -- rank: 1000

New York Observer - November 14, 2005 Miller At Gates, Negotiating Exit With Sulzberger Gabriel Sherman The end of The New York Times' five-week standoff with reporter Judith Miller appears to be near. As of Nov. 8, the two sides were closing in on a severance agreement, according to sources familiar with the negotiation. Last week, with Ms. Miller and The Times stalemated over the terms of her separation from the paper, publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. floated a suggestion: What if Ms. Miller ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 9 08:23:30 PST 2005

17474 [lbo-talk] gender gap in Joisey -- rank: 1000

[from an AP story] Women favored Corzine by more than 20 points while men narrowly preferred Forrester.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 9 08:15:14 PST 2005

17475 [lbo-talk] Russian revo poll -- rank: 1000

Just 8 more hours to vote in the lbo-talk Russian revolution poll - was it a good thing or not? <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/lbo-talk-RussRevoPoll.html>. Just 40 votes so far, an 8% turnout. So far the yes's have it by a long shot. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 9 07:49:29 PST 2005