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19771 [lbo-talk] free Cindy Sheehan! -- rank: 1000

I've heard from a couple of sources now that Fenton Communications, the "progressive" PR outfit that's handling Cindy Sheehan's publicity, is keeping the press away from her, apparently because she's given to making intemperately strong statements of the sort that embarrasses publicists. They're only allowing organized press conferences, and not individual interviews. Free Cindy Sheehan! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 26 07:34:27 PDT 2005

19772 [lbo-talk] bulletin: Wall Street concerned that firms are underinvesting -- rank: 1000

[wow, investment must be really low if global money mangers think this! from Merrill Lynch's report on its August survey of the field] One of the most striking conclusions from this month's Fund Managers Survey was that half our panel of global money managers thought that companies were under-investing in their businesses, while 36% of respondents thought that companies were investing appropriately.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 26 07:24:51 PDT 2005

19773 [lbo-talk] As Cuba loans doctors abroad, some patients object at home -- rank: 1000

Cseniornyc at aol.com wrote: > I don't mind dialoguing with the right wingers, but boy, they seem >to be the overwhelming majority here. If you think this list is dominated by "right-wingers," your offlist life must be a lot different from mine. Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 26 07:22:36 PDT 2005

19774 [lbo-talk] Chomsky and History -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> >> Could it be that the goal of "national unity and political >> sovereignty" turned out to be mostly an unattainable fantasy? > >This is equivalent to saying that the goal of human survival in the 21st >century has turned out to be an unattainable fantasy. I have seen on >LBO-talk so deeply hopeless a post as this one. Carrol, there's a long and honorable tradition in left thought that's skeptical of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 26 07:15:04 PDT 2005

19775 [lbo-talk] Cuba's painful transition from sugar economy -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Actually, I agree with you completely, but I'm afraid there is no >way this can happen. The LBO List General Counsel has pointed out >that no one knows how to run a socialist society anymore and that >it's insulting to the intelligence of the the working class even to >propose a socialist society. So that's that! You write as if you know how to run a socialist society, but no one will listen to you or the revelation has been forbidden. Au contraire, we're all ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 26 06:31:40 PDT 2005

19776 Fwd: Re: [lbo-talk] Israeli Punk -- rank: 1000

[My friend Joel Schalit, whose day job is now as managing editor of Tikkun (!), writes...] Hey Doug - This guy from Gosplan is an absolute nutjob. They're an absolutely terrible band, and while some of the observations he makes about the high incidence of Russian ex-pat punk bands in the Israeli scene - Smash Four, for example, are correct - his negative characterization of the Israeli scene is completely off base. His opinions clearly reflect his own political positions, which while very inter ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 25 16:23:07 PDT 2005

19777 [lbo-talk] Israeli Punk -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >irokez eh?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 25 15:48:16 PDT 2005

19778 [lbo-talk] Chomsky and History -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Many of the peoples who didn't win the minimum goal of national >unity and political sovereignty like the Vietnamese -- Afghans, >Congolese, Palestinians, Somalis, etc. -- aren't getting much >investment of any sort, foreign or domestic, capitalist or socialist >or natioanlist. Could it be that the goal of "national unity and political sovereignty" turned out to be mostly an unattainable fantasy? Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 25 15:45:44 PDT 2005

19779 [lbo-talk] Re: techno terror vs humans -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >>"Never forget that the Vietnamese spent years beating us back with punji >>sticks, tiger traps, WWII vintage weapons(The AA gun that Jane Fonda >>was pictured on), and sandals made from the tires of stolen US jeeps." >>Leigh >> > >malcolm x once said ( paraphrasing) that we had the world's greatest >mechanized armed force, but when the sun went down, one little asian >brother went out there with a blade, and it was even ste ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 25 12:52:42 PDT 2005

19780 [lbo-talk] As Cuba loans doctors abroad, some patients object at home -- rank: 1000

Sujeet Bhatt wrote: >Here's another 'neo-lib' post on Cuba - with profuse apologies to >Cristobal Senior. Taunts like this aren't helpful. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 25 11:54:50 PDT 2005

19781 [lbo-talk] Dem-leaning hedge fund managers -- rank: 1000

Mark S wrote: >Someone opined that dead artforms like ballet and opera appeal to >elite taste because they are controllable artforms... Maybe, but take a look at the contributors to high-culture hipster Brooklyn Academy of Music and (post)modern dance companies like Merce Cunningham or Mark Morris: extremely elite. The avant garde, such as it is today, has been pretty well domesticated in political terms. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 25 11:48:56 PDT 2005

19782 [lbo-talk] Cuba's painful transition from sugar economy -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: > working in the fields to raise organic produce is probably healthier Organic ag requires lots more stoop labor than the nonorg kind. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 25 10:51:17 PDT 2005

19783 [lbo-talk] Dem-leaning hedge fund managers -- rank: 1000

Willy Greenfields wrote: >Caxton's Bruce Kovner is a >Kool Aid-guzzling wacko (charter schools, The New York >Sun, etc). Chair of AEI, too.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 25 10:47:47 PDT 2005

19784 [lbo-talk] Dem-leaning hedge fund managers -- rank: 1000

tfast at yorku.ca wrote: >The question though is can one draw a line between the type of >activity they are >engaged in and a percieved direct/indirect benefit from a Dem president. That >is I assume the pharma sector donates money to republs not simply >because there >are a lot of chemists who are republicans:) Right - during the 2004 campaign, drug stocks rallied when good news for Bush came out, and sank when Kerry-friendly news hit the wire. Rationally or not, the market t ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 25 10:46:06 PDT 2005

19785 [lbo-talk] Dem-leaning hedge fund managers -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >> >>tfast at yorku.ca wrote: >> >>>Anyone want to venture a theory as to why the hedge fund industry >>>prefers dems >>>over republicans. Has to have something to do with a preference >>>for neoliberal >>>internationalism over naked imperialism no? >> >>... It's a combination of things [including] ... >>a more urbanized, "cultured&quo ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 25 10:22:31 PDT 2005