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19531 [lbo-talk] Time-Delayed Journalism -- rank: 1000

Steven L. Robinson quoted Cockburn & St Clair: >And when it comes to zeal in protecting the Bill of Rights, between December >22, 1974 and December 16, 2005 it's been a steady run down hill for the New >York Times. True enough, but look on the bright side: 1974 was a year of serious legitimation crisis in the US. That the Times published this now suggests that maybe we're in the early phases of another one. Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 18 15:21:36 PST 2005

19532 [lbo-talk] Hustling the Left -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >Writing for Hustler is to women, what writing for a Ku Klux Klan >magazine is to Black people. > >Reach one potential audience at the expense of an exisitng ally. > >Bad politics bad strategy, bad tactics. Do you have any evidence for this claim, or do you just know it to be true? Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 18 15:21:35 PST 2005

19533 [lbo-talk] Chip on Hustler -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an attachment] Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Re: Hustling the Left (Response to Chip Berlet) Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 23:43:58 -0500 From: "Chip Berlet" <c.berlet at publiceye.org> Setting aside the weird website, this comment by Stan Goff makes sense to me. = = = Sonali Kolhatkar's KPFK interview of Ann Simonton & Stan Goff about Hustler Magazine and some in the Left who support it. [If you have a dialup please double click here, go have a cup of tea and the radio in ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 18 15:21:17 PST 2005

19534 [lbo-talk] Kolko: The Decline of the American Empire -- rank: 1000

Didn't Kolko write something like this in the late 1970s? Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 18 15:21:03 PST 2005

19535 [lbo-talk] resend -- rank: 1000

Some posts I sent yesterday & today didn't seem to make it, so I'm resending. I think there's some sort of backlog an Panix, which now seems cleared, so if these get duped, apologies.

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Date:	Sun Dec 18 15:20:53 PST 2005

19536 [lbo-talk] Hustling the Left -- rank: 1000

The 30 Pound Snail Who Lives on Gar Lipow's Monitor wrote: >A small data point on the Hustler/KKK comparison - I do know that >Hustler is fairly popular among the local Olympia Lesbian community. Hmm, guess they don't know they're misogynists and antifeminists! Could you let them know for us? Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 18 15:12:09 PST 2005

19537 [lbo-talk] Friends of Fish, and other WTO oddities -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Doug Henwood : > >[further proof that the WTO isn't the powerful >rich countries' cabal that lots of left critics >see it as] > >Financial Times - December 15, 2005 > >Making sense of WTO's bewildering variety >By Guy de Jonquieres >Published: December 15 2005 02:00 | Last updated: December 15 2005 02:00 > > > > >^^^^^ >CB; Not to be contrary, but when I read this article , I didn't exactly get >a good impression of the ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 15 12:03:49 PST 2005

19538 [lbo-talk] Orhan Pamuk - Why Butler is stupid -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >I'm overlimit, so here's my last one Uh, that doesn't count. Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 15 12:00:51 PST 2005

19539 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [FAIRTRADE] WTO News 4/5: The WTO's Cancer on Democracy -- rank: 1000

[an example of what I was just talking about] Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:43:29 -0600 (CST) From: Global Trade Watch <publiccitizen at democracyinaction.org> WTO Update - Day 4 of 5 The WTO's Cancer on Democracy Dear Fair Trade Activist, Over the last three days, we've sent you emails about problems with the <http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?keyd236370&url_num=2&url=http://www.citizen.org/trade/wto/>World Trade Organization (WTO) model, how it <http://www.democ ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 15 10:41:54 PST 2005

19540 [lbo-talk] Friends of Fish, and other WTO oddities -- rank: 1000

[further proof that the WTO isn't the powerful rich countries' cabal that lots of left critics see it as] Financial Times - December 15, 2005 Making sense of WTO's bewildering variety By Guy de Jonquieres Published: December 15 2005 02:00 | Last updated: December 15 2005 02:00 After the failure of the World Trade Organisation's meetings in Seattle in 1999 and Cancún four years later, Pascal Lamy, then European Union trade commissioner, branded the body's decision-making procedures mediaeval. Tod ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 15 10:39:46 PST 2005

19541 [lbo-talk] Orhan Pamuk - Why Butler is stupid -- rank: 1000

boddi satva wrote: >The notion that this government makes any net effort in the developing >world to promote democracy is laughable. Turkey is not even terribly >repressive compared to our other "friends". Russia is not just being >allowed, but encouraged to slide into authoritarianism (and Chris, >it's not just the Chechens that Moscow is beating up). The chimerical >construction, accepted among the chattering classes of media and >politics, that Bush is fighting ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 15 09:45:11 PST 2005

19542 [lbo-talk] renewing the Patriot Act -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> The politics of national security: USA Patriot Act: The Senate Majority Leader has filed cloture on the Patriot Act reauthorization conference report. The vote on that motion is expected on Friday, and may well serve as an indicator of the strength of any possible filibuster attempt. Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI), the lone Senator who voted against the Patriot Act when it was originally considered in 2001, appeared on C-SPAN at 8:00 am E ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 15 09:09:52 PST 2005

19543 [lbo-talk] Iraqi Independence In Action: Kurds Drill for Oil without Baghdad -- rank: 1000

boddi satva wrote: >Maybe it's just because I have a soft spot for the Kurdish people, but >I always thought that the US should have (on a pragmatic basis) made >an independent Kurdistan an important component in its Middle East >policy. So you'd like three or four countries to fall apart and/or go to war with each other? Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 15 08:58:52 PST 2005

19544 [lbo-talk] Meditations on UNIX -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >There's much truth to this, in a general sense; that >is, the true pedigree of MS DOS is an OS named CP/M >(Control Program for Microcomputers) > ><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M> > >and CP/M's command interface design concepts were >drawn from the common stream of ideas that fed into >the creation and continued modification of UNIX. Ah, my first computer - a Vector Graphic, which I bought in 1981. The company was run by Lore Harp <htt ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 15 08:55:48 PST 2005

19545 [lbo-talk] Hustling The Left -- rank: 1000

Yeah, Christian Parenti, too. As Christian said just the other night, a bunch of GIs in Iraq read his piece in Hustler, which you couldn't say about The Nation. Doug Michael Pugliese wrote: >http://www.hustlingtheleft.com/ >On Goff's blogroll. > >Amy Goodman's cover interview, Hustler, July, 2005 > >"Who are we to pass judgement on the readers of Hustler as potential >supporters of Democracy Now?" --Denis Moynihan of Democracy Now > >http://www.hustlingthelef ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 15 08:47:03 PST 2005