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18076 [lbo-talk] M19 in New York City -- rank: 1000

By the way, Liza & I have a piece in the new LBO ("Reflections on impotence") on the unwisdom of calling for actions that are doomed from the start - like the Million Worker March - that only underscore our weakness & marginality. I'm afraid this round of antiwar demos has done just that - it may have hurt the cause more than it helped it. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 20 10:37:19 PST 2005

18077 [lbo-talk] M19 in New York City -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Who cares about coordinating with ANSWER? Why wasn't UFPJ coordinating >with antiwar Democratic grassroots groups like the Deaniacs or the Kossacks >or the other networks of antiwar folks? The mobilization for M19 was >nearly invisible as far as I could see and I saw little evidence of >outreach. No kidding. I was talking with some New Press interns earlier in the week and they said they knew something was happening this weekend but had little idea what. If ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 20 10:31:33 PST 2005

18078 [lbo-talk] Luntz, wordsmith -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Except that that one hasn't worked at all, has it? At least not >yet. Afaics, the only word you see in the media is privatizing. And >just like Luntz said (and every other pollster said), people hate it. Not yet. But these guys aren't going to give up - they'll keep hammering, and they can wait until the opposition starts kicking it and the youngsters who find some appeal in the privatizers' line enter middle age. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 20 10:07:38 PST 2005

18079 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

I just posted a bunch of shows to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>. March 17, 2005 Anatol Lieven, author of America Right or Wrong, on Wolfowitz, "democracy," and Bush II * Jennifer Gordon, author of Suburban Sweatshops, on organizing immigrant workers on Long Island March 10, 2005 Artist and writer Sunny Taylor on art, disability, and being censored by NPR * Naila Kabeer, author of The Power to Choose, on women, development, and the unwisdom of l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 19 16:03:14 PST 2005

18080 [lbo-talk] new LBO web material -- rank: 1000

I just posted two LBO pieces to the website: " Driving madness," the sad story of American vehicular excess <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/DrivingMadness.html>. " An interview with Cynthia Enloe on masculinity, oil, war, and torture <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Enloe.html>. -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 38 Greene St - 4th fl. New York NY 10013-2505 USA voice +1-212-219-0010 fax +1-212-219-0098 cell +1-917-865-2813 email <mailto:dhenwood ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 19 15:52:05 PST 2005

18081 [lbo-talk] Luntz, wordsmith -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Privatization is theft at worse, gambling at best. We do have the >wordsmiths, we just don't command the airwaves. If our >representation of "personalizing social security" were "gambling >with social security" or "stealing social security," it would get >heard; but we don't get the air time. Those aren't really the same. It's hard to sell "stealing," since it's too easy to make the government the thief of "our" ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 19 10:29:08 PST 2005

18082 [lbo-talk] Luntz, wordsmith -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Wishing for the left to have a sleazemeister like Lutz is like >pining, in an earlier thread, for the left to have "hate machines" >like the right does. Lutz's slippery language reflects a visceral >contempt for the public's intelligence that the left simply can't >equal -- just as the left can't beat the right at cultivating hatred >for its own sake. For good and ill, the left is trapped into using >honest language and trying to appeal to peo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 19 10:17:57 PST 2005

18083 [lbo-talk] Luntz, wordsmith -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Pathetically piss-poor polemics. On the strength of this piece, one >would have to conclude that wordsmith Luntz is quite the dunce. >Guess he saves his good stuff for the high-price clientele. Luntz is a fucking genius. The rationale is bullshit, but what'd you expect - it's his phrasemaking that's so stunning. "Personalizing" Social Security, not privatizing it. The "death tax." I'm in awe - I wish we had one of him. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 19 09:00:34 PST 2005

18084 [lbo-talk] Oil touches $57 per barrel, many OPEC membersatorabove capacity -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Doug has said that he >loves to drive, and when he gets to, he goes at it with gusto. I have? I don't remember saying that. Sometimes I get a kick out of driving, but most of the time it's a bit of a chore - a boring task that nonetheless demands full attention. The iTrip makes it a bit more fun, but you still can't read. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 19 08:31:51 PST 2005

18085 [lbo-talk] Oil touches $57 per barrel, many OPECmembersatorabove capacity -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Dough writes: > >> I don't normally say stuff like this unless I >> really mean it - we're killing the planet. > >Oh, I think the planet will survive. Humans might not, though. Right. That's what I meant. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 19 08:30:31 PST 2005

18086 [lbo-talk] Luntz, wordsmith -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - March 18, 2005 COMMENTARY The Lexicon of Political Clout By Frank I. Luntz I've been a pollster and wordsmith for senators and CEOs for more than a decade, and I have a particular interest in language. What words do people understand? What's the clear, common-sense way to say what you mean? And how can politicians best educate and express their ideas? That's why I wrote a "A New American Lexicon" for my business and political clients. But it soon made its way to the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 19 08:21:37 PST 2005

18087 [lbo-talk] Stephen Roach worries, again -- rank: 1000

Eugene Vilensky wrote: >I wonder, why isn't Business Week a complete >right-wing tool? It's long been the corporate liberal mag - their ex-economics editor Bill Wolman gave Monthly Review a nice blurb in a 1970s profile (right, John?). Wolman's low point, however, was the infamous "Death of Equities" cover in 1979. Otherwise, he was a smart, skeptical soc dem-ish presence at BW. Their recent editor, Steven Shepherd, was a pretty sophisticated & humane guy. They got carried aw ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 18 21:23:30 PST 2005

18088 [lbo-talk] Oil touches $57 per barrel, many OPEC members at or above capacity -- rank: 1000

I just posted an LBO piece, "Driving madness," on the sad story of American vehicular excess, to the grossly underdesigned and undernourished LBO website: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/DrivingMadness.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 18 21:17:31 PST 2005

18089 [lbo-talk] Oil touches $57 per barrel, many OPEC membersatorabove capacity -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > > You can say the costs are not internalized. > >Well, whatever: it's a little late to be anti-car in the US. Well yeah, but - and I don't normally say stuff like this unless I really mean it - we're killing the planet. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 18 15:13:40 PST 2005

18090 [lbo-talk] Oil touches $57 per barrel, many OPEC membersator above capacity -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Can you really call it a subsidy if everyone wants it and everyone uses >it? You can say the costs are not internalized.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 18 14:43:13 PST 2005