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19201 [lbo-talk] conference on women & the media -- rank: 1000

Willy Greenfields wrote: > >FOOD SPONSOR: >>Whole Foods Markets -- 3 Cambridge Stores at Fresh >>Pond, River Street, & Prospect Street. >>On the web at http://www.wholefoods.com > >I hope you devote a few moments of your talk to >haranguing this loathsome outfit. > >Didn't you have a piece on these 'ethical'-type >companies a few years back? Dissent - Fall 1999 'It's business, man!' Liza Featherstone "HOW DO YOU FEEL" roared Jerry Greenfie ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 23 15:48:00 PST 2005

19202 [lbo-talk] Poor, white and pissed II -- rank: 1000

T Fast wrote: >Chuck wrote > >>The reasons for this are very simple. The American Left, broadly >>speaking (including liberals), is not going to regain a widespread >>constituency until it adopts a populist, i.e. *libertarian*, >>program and rhetoric. This means that in order to beat the right >>wing, the Left has to look more anarchist or libertarian leftist. >---- >tfast replies: > >Well one can be anarchist without being libertarian which is sim ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 23 15:28:28 PST 2005

19203 [lbo-talk] Re: poor, white and pissed -- rank: 1000

Turbulo at aol.com wrote: >Turbulo at aol.com wrote: > >>In my long-distant political heyday, a liberal in the American sense >>(not as in neoliberal) meant someone who favored a more humane class >>system, but was basically committed to the existing order, and >>therefore limited in the extent to which s/he would go in mobilizing >>the workers and the poor to fight in their own name. But it just >>doesn't seem to occur to the author, as it doesn't to, s ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 23 13:55:16 PST 2005

19204 [lbo-talk] Here's a real example of Bush authoritarianism -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >But the Stewart case has gotten a lot of press coverage because the left >has rallied around the issue and deployed its resources to make it a media >issue. Nathan, that's delusional. The left, whatever that is, has almost no effect on the media agenda. The Stewart case got a lot of coverage because she was prosecuted by the federal fucking government as an example. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 23 13:49:41 PST 2005

19205 [lbo-talk] Pope: Gay Marriage is Evil -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >This used to be true, but I think the tide has pretty much turned, >judging by what is going on in New York. We have some of the >toughest divorce laws in the country -- much tougher than many red >states -- and for decades it's been a baroque coalition of feminists >and Catholics who have combined to oppose liberalizing them. But >now the women have changed their mind. One of the central proposals >in Judge Judith Kaye's State of the Court speech l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 23 12:16:12 PST 2005

19206 [lbo-talk] Terrain of Struggle was O'Reilly vs Churchill -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 uvj at vsnl.com asked Doug: > >>How do you identify unconscious motive/motives, since you believe >>in their existence? >> >>Ulhas > >People have mercilessly beat up Freudians for this: "How can you study >something that is not even accessible to the conscious mind? How can >you know your assessment of unconscious content is valid?" >I guess Doug will be surprised, but I think this argument is prett ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 23 12:12:45 PST 2005

19207 [lbo-talk] Re: poor, white and pisssed -- rank: 1000

Turbulo at aol.com wrote: >In my long-distant political heyday, a liberal in the American sense >(not as in neoliberal) meant someone who favored a more humane class >system, but was basically committed to the existing order, and >therefore limited in the extent to which s/he would go in mobilizing >the workers and the poor to fight in their own name. But it just >doesn't seem to occur to the author, as it doesn't to, say, Tom >Frank, either, that it may not not be just a qu ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 23 11:10:39 PST 2005

19208 [lbo-talk] Chavez, crazy, eh? -- rank: 1000

U.S. Calls Chavez Charges 'Wild,' Stokes Verbal Spat By Saul Hudson WASHINGTON (Reuter s) - The United States stoked a noisy spat on Tuesday with key oil supplier Venezuela by dismissing as "wild" President Hugo Chavez's accusation Washington wants to kill him and complaining of his democratic credentials. The United States said its criticism of Chavez, who routinely insults top U.S. officials, was due to what the Bush administration perceives as Venezuela's deteriorating democracy and ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 22 16:16:56 PST 2005

19209 [lbo-talk] Use of condoms un-Islamic: Pak leader -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >It's funny how Engish speakers never use the phrase "hardline >clerics" to describe Christians. Let's start! Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 22 15:59:02 PST 2005

19210 [lbo-talk] Re: Greg Palast on Hunter Thompson=Deep Throat?? -- rank: 1000

HST = Deep Throat? That's kinda nutty. How could he possibly have known what was going on inside Nixon's WH?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 22 15:51:04 PST 2005

19211 [lbo-talk] Terrain of Struggle was O'Reilly vs Churchill -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Sure, people can do both; it's just depends on which question you >want to answer. "Why does that doofus make that bogus claim >time and again?" --Analysis of motives is helpful. "Is that >claim bogus?" --Analysis of motives is irrelevant. And I might suspect that you're really into hard data because you want to separate the kind of psychology you do from all that squishy unscientific stuff the Freudians do. That wouldn't invalidate your po ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 22 13:32:29 PST 2005

19212 [lbo-talk] Khalidi unwelcome -- rank: 1000

The Chronicle of Higher Education - February 22, 2005 Columbia U. Professor, Criticized for Views on Israel, Is Banned From Teacher-Training Program By BROCK READ The New York City Department of Education will prohibit a professor of Arab studies at Columbia University from appearing in an occasional training program for secondary-school teachers, citing the professor's criticism of Israel. Rashid Khalidi, director of Columbia's Middle East Institute, had spoken this month at one of a series of ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 22 12:38:06 PST 2005

19213 [lbo-talk] Terrain of Struggle was O'Reilly vs Churchill -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >And a reply to any of my own posts focuses on (or even mentions >parenthetically) my supposed motives, I simply stop reading and do not >reply. If a given poster _always_ focuses, I filter his/her posts to the >trash folder. <yawn>

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Date:	Tue Feb 22 11:59:43 PST 2005

19214 [lbo-talk] Susie Bright on Hunter Thompson -- rank: 1000

Dear Friends, I had a dozen things I wanted to write you about-- but then Hunter checked out, and I feel like giving it all up to him. I wrote this in my blog this morning: HUNTER THOMPSON TAKES OUT THE BEAR Hunter Thompson died last night, and I would say he planned it to a T. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, but as friends will tell you, he did not seem despondent to us. He had not lost his passion for life; he didn't fit any description of a broken shell. This wasn't a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 22 07:23:42 PST 2005

19215 [lbo-talk] Terrain of Struggle was O'Reilly vs Churchill -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Here's the problem: people impute a motive, and then they turn off >any other critical thinking or assessment of the assertion They don't have to. Why is it so hard to do two things at once - in this case, evaluate both motive & argument? Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 22 07:13:51 PST 2005