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19321 [lbo-talk] Nip it in the bud -- rank: 1000

No it doesn't but there's hardly an issue where Cde Mayer doesn't foreground Israel or Zionism, like some Strangelovian reflex. The U.S. doesn't need any lessons from anyone in conducting domestic repression or foreign imperial wars. Doug joanna bujes wrote: >But Zionism doesn't equal judaism. > >Joanna > >Doug Henwood wrote: > >>Brad Mayer wrote: >> >>>American Zionism pioneers the way foward to our fascist future. >> >> >>You're toxic. W ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 6 10:46:59 PST 2005

19322 [lbo-talk] Mr. Dawson -- rank: 1000

T Fast wrote: >Hey Doug could you post a list of all of us who are on moderation? >Is there a way we can check ourselves? All new subscribers are automatically on moderation. I almost always clear the moderate flag after the first post, though in a couple of cases I've waited with some people I'm not sure about. Otherwise, no one else is on moderation. And I don't remember ever putting anyone on moderation before. I'm guessing everyone can check his/her settings with the web interface, but ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 6 10:42:22 PST 2005

19323 [lbo-talk] Statement by Ward Churchill and article from the Nation -- rank: 1000

mitchelcohen at mindspring.com quoted Ward Churchill: >I am not a "defender" of the September 11 attacks Really? Here's part of what he said: >The Makings of a Humanitarian Strategy > >In sum one can discern a certain optimism - it might even be call >humanitarianism - imbedded in the thinking of those who presided >over the very limited actions conducted on September 11. > >Their logic seems to have devolved upon the notion that the American >people have con ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 6 10:37:41 PST 2005

19324 [lbo-talk] Mr. Churchill -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >Once and for all, it is time to put an end to this knee-jerk, >counterproductive screaming about Nazis and Hitler and Eichmann by >lefties, or would-be lefties. It cheapens the memory of the >Holocaust and demeans anyone who uses it, besides automatically >condemning them to being ignored by most of the people they are >talking to. And another thing it does is that it makes it easy to whitewash the crimes of American imperialism. You don't have to be very ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 6 10:34:32 PST 2005

19325 [lbo-talk] 9/11 censorship -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Finally, censorship, while having its origins in the exercise of >state power, is not exclusively defined as such. Ok, so I'm a censor, and I say no more 9/11 conspiracy talk. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 6 10:27:27 PST 2005

19326 [lbo-talk] Right on Mr. Churchill part 1 -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >On the other hand, let's not kid ourselves that most of our `jobs' are >in fact devoted to supporting and promulgating the evil Empire and its >neoliberal capitalist pig hegemony---mine included (when I was still >working). That's what `jobs' tend to be in the Empire. Ok, so what are we supposed to do about this? Stop working? Find some niche to hide in and feel superior to everyone else? Maybe hound the others, make them feel guilty for being unreflective cogs, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 6 10:24:26 PST 2005

19327 [lbo-talk] academic freedom -- rank: 1000

[a friend who wishes to remain anonymous asked me to forward this post] In my experience there is a noxious trickle-down effect too, even for those of us radical academics who don't overtly teach or write about "war on terror" (trademark) issues. I recently lost my job at a major state university. More than one of my colleagues (sic) who voted against retaining me explicitly commented that my publishing "activist" articles in "unorthodox" outlets "uneccessarily ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 6 10:14:05 PST 2005

19328 [lbo-talk] ss surplus by year -- rank: 1000

W. Kiernan wrote: >I was looking for a chart showing how much the difference between >FICA receipts and SSA payouts has been on a year-by-year basis. >This is the figure that was supposed to go negative in 1984 right >before the working-class-only tax increase, and which is scheduled >to go negative in 2018 or so when SSA starts redeeming the bonds in >the SS Trust fund. (Or when the Treasury defaults on these bonds!) >For some reason I can't find what I'm looking for by Go ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 5 14:38:24 PST 2005

19329 [lbo-talk] Mr. Churchill -- rank: 1000

knowknot at mindspring.com wrote: >On 2/5/05, Doug Henwood said in part: > >> . . . O'Reilly got that prof in Florida fired, no? >> And he may knock off Churchill too. They're not >> a sideshow, they're really dangerous. > >At the risk of putting to fine a point on the matter (and also not >to deny that the execrable O'Reilly is not unaware how many of his >listeners/viewers might act despite what he says), O'Reilly himself >has several times said that h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 5 12:06:02 PST 2005

19330 [lbo-talk] Mr. Churchill -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >From what I can figure, Horowitz's achilles heel is his big ego. He >has a big chip on his shoulder about his legacy, which accounts for >all of his attacks on Noam Chomsky. Horowitz understands that >Chomksy will be remembered centuries from now, whereas he won't even >merit a footnote. Yeah, as Michael Thomas once put it, if you're going to go after someone, you go after what they feel proudest about, not the weak spots. Horowitz probably thinks he's important, so ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 5 11:40:29 PST 2005

19331 [lbo-talk] Asia rising -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >Eubulides wrote: > >>Yeah, good old fashioned Keynesian uncertainty precludes and or humbles any >>conjectures we can make regarding the growth dynamics and 'deep integration' >>processes of China and India re 2050. Seems to me the thorniest problems >>will be, alas, in the realm of finance. Forex is only part of this larger >>story of capacity/competence building within those institutions in >>China/India. > >I think China ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 5 11:28:32 PST 2005

19332 [lbo-talk] Mr. Churchill -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >Horowitz is a yipping show dog, as are O'Reilly, etc. The David Project is making the life miserable of Hamid Dabashi and his colleagues in the Columbia Middle Eastern studies department, and O'Reilly got that prof in Florida fired, no? And he may knock off Churchill too. They're not a sideshow, they're really dangerous. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 5 11:01:28 PST 2005

19333 [lbo-talk] "Go Where the Money Is: Reduce Workforce Costs" (Re: Mr. Churchill) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Groups promoting David Horowitz' "Academic Bill of Rights [sic]" >have a clear anti-working-class agenda. These creeps are on the march. You've got that, the David Project harassing profs at Columbia & elsewhere, and now the attack on Churchill. They must be stopped! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 5 10:41:37 PST 2005

19334 [lbo-talk] 9/11 conspiracies -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >is this censorship? or just 'list moderation'? It is true that the >discussion tends to get stuck in the miserable ditch of 'conspiracy >theory or not' but that has more to do with the narrow mindedness of >most of the people who engage rather than the potential fruitfulness >of the discussion. It can't be censorship because I don't have state power. The discussion has not advanced a centimeter since it started - it's always the same stuff back and forth, so ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 5 10:33:47 PST 2005

19335 [lbo-talk] Nip it in the bud -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >American Zionism pioneers the way foward to our fascist future. You're toxic. What the fuck is your obsession with Zionism & Israel all about? It's like you can't admit we've got a native strain of racist authoritarianism - you've always got to blame the Jews. It's sickening. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 5 10:31:38 PST 2005