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17611 [lbo-talk] How to end the war - Naomi Klein -- rank: 1000

In These Times - May 5, 2005 How to End the War Naomi Klein The central question we need to answer is this: What were the real reasons for the Bush administration's invasion and occupation of Iraq? When we identify why we really went to war - not the cover reasons or the rebranded reasons, freedom and democracy, but the real reasons - then we can become more effective anti-war activists. The most effective and strategic way to stop this occupation and prevent future wars is to deny the people wh ...

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Date:	Sat May 28 13:51:28 PDT 2005

17612 [lbo-talk] Re: Iraqi resistance (was: something else) -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >I wish the US had >perpetrated fewer acts of pointless brutality But brutality of the American sort isn't pointless - there's nothing like an excess of violence to show the world you mean business. Don't fuck with Uncle Sam, or we'll kill you in industrial quantities! Doug

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Date:	Sat May 28 13:47:12 PDT 2005

17613 [lbo-talk] Reluctance, Rebellion and Death -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Love me, I'm a Liberal. And what you're saying when you quote this is "Love me more, I'm a real radical!" Right? Doug

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Date:	Sat May 28 13:06:41 PDT 2005

17614 [lbo-talk] Reluctance, Rebellion and Death -- rank: 1000

John Bizwas wrote: >Why all that RELUCTANCE, Christian? Because you are so wise and >well-informed and rational? Because many Iraqis told him they were afraid of the consequences of immediate withdrawal. I know that doesn't count for much, since it's based on experience and not conclusions drawn from afar, but that's why. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 27 18:54:41 PDT 2005

17615 [lbo-talk] Reluctance, Rebellion and Death -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >That was lovely of him. It was less lovely to support the permanent >occupation of Iraq under the pretence of supporting the "ideal case." > >Pah! Love me, I'm a Liberal. So what of Christian's work have you read, Carrol? Doug

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Date:	Fri May 27 18:21:37 PDT 2005

17616 [lbo-talk] Reluctance, Rebellion and Death -- rank: 1000

Dennis Redmond wrote: >Parenti traveled up and down Iraq, dodging US centurions and car bombs, in >order to talk with ordinary Iraqis. Have you done the same? Impertinent question! You should just *know* the correct position. No reporting, research, or thought required. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 27 18:21:07 PDT 2005

17617 [lbo-talk] Coming Around to His Father's Thinking (A new turn in US military strategy in Iraq?) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >A small part of Christian Parenti's "reluctance" is probably rooted >in his apparent belief that Washington could and should have >reconstructed Iraq: "the U.S. Army faces a problem in Iraq that it >cannot solve because reconstruction has broken down, and >reconstruction has broken down because Bush-connected firms, >Halliburton and Bechtel, have taken huge sums of money and done >essentially nothing with it. And Iraqis are not getting ...

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Date:	Fri May 27 18:19:52 PDT 2005

17618 [lbo-talk] Hillary -- rank: 1000

[This probably isn't true, but it should be!] Senator Hilary Clinton was invited to address a major gathering of the American Indian Nation two weeks ago in upper New York State. She spoke for almost an hour on her future plans for increasing every Native American's present standard of living, should she one day become the first female President. She referred to her career as a New York Senator, how she had signed "YES" for every Indian issue that came to her desk for approval. Althoug ...

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Date:	Fri May 27 18:12:13 PDT 2005

17619 [lbo-talk] queerness kills, sez fundie -- rank: 1000

[This is from a right-wing PR shop that's always trying to get me to book their creepy guests on my radio show.] Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 06:33:04 UT From: "Special Guests" <gerald at riverview.net> To: dhenwood at panix.com Subject: NEW STUDY SHOWS GAYS DIE 20 YEARS EARLY/Interview Opportunity CONTACT: To schedule an interview, call: Special Guests/Karisa Brunken, (817) 658-8297 or Jerry McGlothlin, 630-848-0750. NEW STUDY SHOWS GAYS DIE 20 YEARS EARLY COLORADO SPRINGS - Family Re ...

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Date:	Fri May 27 04:50:09 PDT 2005

17620 [lbo-talk] happy slaps -- rank: 1000

Subject: Happy slaps Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 19:09:56 +0100 X-MS-Has-Attach: From: "Graham Barnfield" <G.Barnfield at uel.ac.uk> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Dear LBOers, A while ago (15 May) I appeared on the list blaming Jackass and Dirty Sanchez for the so-called happy slapping craze. I don't - it's a quote used out of context after I said the footage looked similar, but with the consent of participants all making the difference. Full story here: http://www.spiked-onlin ...

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Date:	Thu May 26 11:21:26 PDT 2005

17621 [lbo-talk] right creates "virtual oligarchy" -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - May 26, 2005 GOP Tilting Balance Of Power to the Right By Jim VandeHei Washington Post Staff Writer As Democrats tell it, this week's compromise on judges was about much more than the federal courts. If President Bush and congressional allies had prevailed, they say, the balance of power would have been forever altered. Yet, amid the partisan rhetoric, a little-noticed fact about modern politics has been lost: Republicans have already changed how the business of government gets ...

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Date:	Thu May 26 09:55:39 PDT 2005

17622 [lbo-talk] Nit-picking over Jews in Russia (was: Anti-Communism: enumerate SU's virtues when discussing its vices -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >On 5/26/05, amadeus amadeus <amadeus482000 at yahoo.com> wrote: >> And what about the J.A.R., Jewish Autonomous Region? > > Talk about punishment. Wasn't that in a really remote area? > >Stalin's Forgotten Zion : / Birobidzhan And The Making Of A Soviet >Jewish Homeland : An Illustrated History, 1928-1996 / Robert >Weinberg, Robert. >Berkeley : University of California Press, c1998 No more autopsies of the USSR. Next guilty party g ...

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Date:	Thu May 26 09:50:52 PDT 2005

17623 [lbo-talk] Good piece on another list about military situation in Iraq -- rank: 1000

John Bizwas wrote: >And it's real analysis of the info. available, anecdotalists and C >'I was there and had an interpreter ' Parenti fans take note. What makes you think anything in this piece is incompatible with Christian's analysis? Have you read his book or any of his articles? Have you listened to my interviews with him? Or do you *just know*? Doug

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Date:	Thu May 26 07:06:38 PDT 2005

17624 [lbo-talk] RE: A new turn in US military strategy in Iraq? -- rank: 1000

John Bizwas wrote: >Who destroyed Fallujah, Ramadi, Najaf, Sadr City/Baghdad Slums? Who >is bombing Haditha right now? Who bombed Al Qa'im this month? Who >bombed the Turkmen city of Tal Afar last September? These aren't >country hamlets. These are cities of hundreds of thousands of >people. What does Parenti or anyone who would cite such statements >as above know about who is destroying Iraq? Your head must be stuck >somewhere, if not a cavity then perhaps 'sand'? You ought ...

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Date:	Thu May 26 06:33:12 PDT 2005

17625 [lbo-talk] Anti-Communism: enumerate SU's virtues when discussing its vices -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >By knocking out the Nazis, the Soviets saved unspeakable further >annihilation of Jews. This is beyond enough!

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Date:	Thu May 26 06:31:22 PDT 2005