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19756 [lbo-talk] Free Doug Henwood -- rank: 1000
John Lacny wrote: >There's a balance to be struck, but ultimately I don't think that >it's such a big deal to strike that balance. I agree - I'm just afraid that a professional publicist would push things too far in the wrong direction.
Document Size: 4694
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Aug 27 09:03:41 PDT 2005
19757 [lbo-talk] Free Doug Henwood -- rank: 1000
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >As you mentioned in another message, Tom, I also believe that "Cindy >Sheehan is a catalyst, not The Cause." In this case, though, I >think that what's interesting about Doug's gossip is not so much >Sheehan per se as the nature of modern political communication >(especially political communication in the United States), which >political consultants and public relations experts dominate, unless >activists resist it. How we can resist it, ...
Document Size: 6133
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Aug 26 15:46:50 PDT 2005
19758 [lbo-talk] Cuba's painful transition from sugar economy -- rank: 1000
Michael Pugliese wrote: On 8/26/05, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote: The point is: telemarketing not only contributes > nothing to that total but is really an annoying *disservice* and > would be counted as negative in any objective system of > economic measurement were such a system to exist. > > Shane Mage "Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross n ...
Document Size: 9096
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Aug 26 15:35:51 PDT 2005
19759 [lbo-talk] Chomsky and History -- rank: 1000
Marvin Gandall wrote: >For there to have been a happier ending, these societies would have had to >attain a higher level of productivity than the advanced capitalist >countries. The Soviet and Chinese revolutions elevated the living standards >of the masses, but younger post-revolutionary generations took these for >granted and measured the success of their own system, not in relation to the >absolute deprivation of the past, but against the more productive, >wealthier, and ...
Document Size: 6031
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Aug 26 15:10:01 PDT 2005
19760 [lbo-talk] free Cindy Sheehan! -- rank: 1000
Tom Walker wrote: >spare us the innuendo I prefer idle gossip, thanks. Doug
Document Size: 4567
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Aug 26 14:38:49 PDT 2005
19761 [lbo-talk] Gallup: Bush Approval at 40% -- rank: 1000
[here's Gallup's own report <http://gallup.com/poll/content/?ci=18148> - Gallup's approval numbers have generally been a few points higher than other houses'] August 26, 2005 Bush Approval Rating Continues to Drop Current 40% approval is lowest of administration to date by Frank Newport and Jeff Jones GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- A new Gallup Poll reflects further erosion in President George W. Bush's job approval rating, continuing the slow but steady decline evident throughout th ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Aug 26 12:21:37 PDT 2005
19762 [lbo-talk] lbo, a den of right-wingers? -- rank: 1000
Carl Remick wrote: >OK, that leaves me with Plan B: Trying to convince the Business >Roundtable* that socialism is a good idea. You think I'm misreading the working class, and there's a great longing for a transition to socialism? Am I massively misunderstanding Long Island? Doug
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Aug 26 10:11:32 PDT 2005
19763 [lbo-talk] AQKhan gave North Korea centrifuges, confirms Musharraf -- rank: 1000
Carrol Cox wrote: >Mr. Khan deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, considering how conducive to >peace is the possession of nuclear weapons by potential targets of u.s. >aggression. Best would be that no one had nuclear weapons. But that's impossible, so we've got to go with the second best, which is that everyone should have them. Now we learn that Kennedy thought of nuking China - but he quickly changed his mind when China developed its own bomb. It should be some kind of right of Westphalian ...
Document Size: 5442
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Aug 26 09:59:06 PDT 2005
19764 [lbo-talk] lbo, a den of right-wingers? -- rank: 1000
ravi wrote: >recent material on this list has been interesting: the wonders of >*western* liberal democracy. the shooting of an innocent person by >the british police is an "accident". male feelings of impotence as a >primary cause of the london bombing. alex cockburn's highlighting of >the other side of the "indian [capitalist] miracle" is wrong. a >while ago we had someone express his opinion [of distaste] on a man >having sex with another man. someone ...
Document Size: 6205
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Aug 26 09:55:06 PDT 2005
19765 [lbo-talk] lbo, a den of right-wingers? -- rank: 1000
Carl Remick wrote: >I must say that the other day, here on the putatively Left BO list, >I experienced a degree of cognitive dissonance nigh on to >electroshock treatment when I was advised to recognize that >advocating socialism is an insult to the intelligence of the working >class. It's not, though the working class might not be a receptive audience. Doug
Document Size: 4979
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Aug 26 09:37:48 PDT 2005
19766 [lbo-talk] Cuba's painful transition from sugar economy -- rank: 1000
Cseniornyc at aol.com wrote: >M Pugliese says: "hat Hugo Chavez is offering Cuba abundant oil >supplies it is possible that >> they switch strategies again. > > Much of which is then sold by Cuba for foreign exchange." >Comment: >Nope, you got it wrong, most is exchanged for Colombian dope. Moron. Can the insults. I don't agree with Pug on Cuba, but he's not a moron. Doug
Document Size: 5228
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Aug 26 08:24:59 PDT 2005
19767 [lbo-talk] free Cindy Sheehan! -- rank: 1000
Michael Pugliese wrote: > Why progressive in scare quotes? > Fenton started in the Liberation News Service in the 60's (read the >Ray Mungo autobios. on LNS, howlingly funny), did PR for the Angolans >of the MPLA vs. Savimbi, worked for Maurice Bishop (I assume w/ Don >Rojas), the FSLN and the FMLN. And Christopher Hitchens was once a flamboyant gay Trot, too. Fenton's come a long way from that. And I wish I could tell you an anecdote illustrating how, but I can't. Doug
Document Size: 5014
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Aug 26 08:22:53 PDT 2005
19768 [lbo-talk] Greenspan changes his tune -- rank: 1000
[This is a remarkable change of tone for the Old Geezer, who's just five months away from leaving office.] ( DJ ) 08/26 10:00AM DJ Greenspan: Ample Market Liquidity `Can Readily Disappear' By Joseph Rebello Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. (Dow Jones)--Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, saying the recent rise of stock and house prices reflects an increased willingness by investors to accept risk, warned Friday that this inclination could end badly for financial markets. "What ...
Document Size: 9584
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Aug 26 07:50:29 PDT 2005
19769 [lbo-talk] Von Mises Institute complains about handicapped parking spots! -- rank: 1000
[truly the libertarian mind is a strange thing] The State Conquers the Parking Lot by Laurence M. Vance [Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005] <http://www.mises.org/story/1898> The fifteenth anniversary of theAmericans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (PL 101-336) <http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/pubs/ada.txt>, signed into law by President Bush I on July 26, 1990, has come and gone. This law, in the words ofLew Rockwell <http://www.mises.org/story/1772>, "has somehow managed to bra ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Aug 26 07:41:42 PDT 2005
19770 [lbo-talk] Rap on the Knuckles -- rank: 1000
Michael Hoover quoted: >Ms Dynamite's new album underlines a truth about pop music - it is >usually women, not men, who inject the politics of protest and >anger, says Lynsey Hanley I've been dipping into some British rap/hip-hop lately and it sounds great - and now Ms Dynamite's on my list. Any advice from connoisseurs on what else is worth investigating? Doug
Document Size: 4947
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Aug 26 07:37:33 PDT 2005
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