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20506 [lbo-talk] Bush losing it? -- rank: 1000

[a letter in the current ish of The Atlantic Monthly] When George Meets John James Fallows's description of John Kerry's debating skills ("When George Meets John," July/August Atlantic) was interesting, but what was most remarkable was Fallows's documentation of President Bush's mostly overlooked changes over the past decade--specifically, "the striking decline in his sentence-by-sentence speaking skills." Fallows points to "speculations that there must be some organic b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 8 11:38:14 PDT 2004

20507 [lbo-talk] Israeli worries about spying scandal -- rank: 1000

Ha'aretz - September 8, 2004 Focus / 10 ways the Pentagon spy case may damage Israel By Bradley Burston, Haaretz Correspondent The dread felt by Israeli and American Jewish officials was as rooted as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, as fresh as the headline that they feared could break any minute. Could Israel have used its client American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbying group as a conduit to receive classified information from a Pentagon analyst or the National Security Agency? Suc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 8 11:32:38 PDT 2004

20508 [lbo-talk] Log Cabin Repubs refuse to endorse Bush -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >Gay Republican Group Won't Endorse Bush Hmm, will that hurt or help him? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 8 11:22:08 PDT 2004

20509 [lbo-talk] aphorism -- rank: 1000

Apropos the hedge fund thread: "Everybody can't make money at the same time." - CNBC bond pundit Rick Santelli, about 5 mintues ago

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 8 10:16:23 PDT 2004

20510 [lbo-talk] WH's preemptive retaliation against Kitty Kelley -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - September 8, 2004 Media View Kitty Kelley's Bush Book With Caution By Howard Kurtz It is the book that some Republicans have been worrying about for weeks, filled with lurid allegations by a celebrity biographer whose controversial reputation has only boosted her sales. Kitty Kelley's volume on the Bush family won't be published until next week, but the White House communications director yesterday dismissed the book as "garbage" and a Republican National Committee sp ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 8 09:32:13 PDT 2004

20511 [lbo-talk] Zombie anti-imperialists vs the Empire -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >Most damningly, Patrick fails to understand that there can be no >epoch of transition without a subject of transition. Without a >revolutionary challenge to capitalism, all of its difficulties are >only relative, and can be overcome. Isn't that the whole point of crisis theory? As Antonio Callari said years ago at a meeting of the International Working Group on Value Theory, they use it as a substitute for politics. No one on the room ever responded to Callar ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 8 09:22:20 PDT 2004

20512 [lbo-talk] going global -- rank: 1000

[Another interesting piece from Sp!ked, which is too long to post. Here's the beginning.] Going global: the politics of another planet by David Chandler According to the radical guidebooks advertised in the Guardian and the New Statesman every week, a new worldwide revolution is in progress - a global movement against globalisation and capitalism and for justice, autonomy and civil society; a movement so large and diverse that it is often simply termed a new 'movement of movements'. The world is ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 8 09:15:38 PDT 2004

20513 [lbo-talk] addresses -- rank: 1000

A number of members of the listserv I run, lbo-talk, have complained that you sent them an unsolicited announcement for The Loneliness of Noam Chomsky. Apparently you mined the list for addresses. If true, that's seriously unethical behavior, and what you did amounts to distributing spam, regardless of how worthy the material is. Is that what you did? -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 38 Greene St - 4th fl. New York NY 10013-2505 USA voice +1-212-219-0010 fax +1-212-219-0098 cell +1-9 ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 8 09:06:30 PDT 2004

20514 [lbo-talk] Hamas vs. Al-Qaida... Hamas against Al-Qaida involvement in local Palestinian struggle -- rank: 1000

kjkhoo at softhome.net wrote: >Hitchens and Geras are perhaps the two most well-known? Don't think >their lefty credentials were much in doubt previously. Early on, >Richard Falk (I think he's left, but perhaps some here might >question that) had some just war take, but he's turned around. Hitch is no leftist anymore. Geras seems to be following suit. Falk is getting odder - he's got a preface to a Wanzala-like 9/11 conspiratorial screed that's left a lot of people scratching their h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 8 09:00:28 PDT 2004

20515 [lbo-talk] Sen O'Reilly? -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - September 7, 2004 Lowdown Lloyd Grove Will Bill O'Reilly be a factor in the 2006 Senate race in New York State? The Fox News Channel personality, host of the top-rated "O'Reilly Factor," occasionally gets mentioned as a possible Republican opponent to Sen. Hillary Clinton - and the speculation usually goes no further. But I'm told that in recent days, O'Reilly, a registered independent, has confided to friends that he's seriously considering a run. In one conversa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 8 08:52:04 PDT 2004

20516 [lbo-talk] "honor roll" -- rank: 1000

Weirdly, the Village Voice has published the names of everyone arrested during the RNC protests <http://villagevoice.com/issues/0436/arrests.php>. Does everyone on the list want this information circulated, you gotta wonder? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 8 08:33:26 PDT 2004

20517 [lbo-talk] Zogby: it's not an 11-point race -- rank: 1000

<http://zogby.com/news/ReadNews859.html> 9/7/2004 2004: It Is Not An 11 Point Race - by John Zogby The Republican National Convention is over and score it a huge success for President George W. Bush. For one solid week he was on message and got Americans who watched to listen to the message he intends to carry in the fall campaign: leadership, decisiveness and success battling the war on terrorism. The convention actually followed another big week for Mr. Bush and equally dismal one for hi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 8 08:19:42 PDT 2004

20518 [lbo-talk] Matt Taibbi on RNC protests -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Let me start with some actual pictures from the protests: >http://www.infoshop.org/rnc2004_ap_photos.php Ditto those at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/A29.html>. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 8 08:15:59 PDT 2004

20519 [lbo-talk] Kevin Phillips on Kerry: it's all over -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six[ - September 8, 2004 GIVING UP THERE'S no love lost between Kevin Phillips, author of "American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush," and the administration of George W. Bush. But the former White House staffer and economist was overheard at Litchfield's West Street Grill saying with a sense of resignation about John Kerry's chances of beating the president, "It's a lost cause. It's all over."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 8 07:05:58 PDT 2004

20520 [lbo-talk] Martha to surrender soon -- rank: 1000

NY Post [Page Six] - September 8, 2004 MARTHA WAITS OUT CELL CRUNCH MARTHA Stewart will surrender to start serving her five-month sentence for obstruction of justice as soon as there is a vacant cell at the Danbury federal prison for women, sources say, leaving her daughter Alexis, 38, to oversee her company. "There is no available bed at Danbury, and hasn't been for a couple weeks," said one insider. "She's just waiting." Anna Cordasco, a spokeswoman for Stewart's legal defe ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 8 07:04:24 PDT 2004