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20836 [lbo-talk] Nader and His Detractors -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Instead of insulting other peoples activism Nathan, though I happen to agree with your posish in this case, your habit of treating criticsm as a form of insult reminds me of Bush's characterization of Kerry as denigrating U.S. troops and our glorious Polish allies. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 11 06:33:12 PDT 2004

20837 [lbo-talk] McLemee's Derrida obit -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - October 11, 2004 Jacques Derrida, Thinker Who Influenced and Infuriated a Range of Humanistic Fields, Dies at 74 By SCOTT MCLEMEE Jacques Derrida, the thinker whose concept of "deconstruction" influenced at least two generations of scholarship in the humanities, died in Paris on Friday at the age of 74. The director of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, Derrida also held a professorship at the University of California at Irv ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 11 06:27:57 PDT 2004

20838 [lbo-talk] McReynolds for Senate -- rank: 1000

[better late than never I guess - McReynolds is a wonderful guy and Schumer is a creep] Brief, urgent post from David McReynolds, Green Party candidate for US Senate This is primarily for everyone in New York State but those of you not in New York can be of great help if you forward this post to any contacts you have in New York. Most of you have gotten earlier posts announcing that the Green Party in New York had nominated me for the US Senate, running against Chuck Schumer. I am not sure, how ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 10 21:56:04 PDT 2004

20839 [lbo-talk] comments on Australia -- rank: 1000

[more on the Australian election from aut-op-sy] Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 10:37:50 +0930 From: David McInerney <borderlands at optusnet.com.au> To: aut-op-sy at lists.village.Virginia.EDU Hi Thiago Living through much the same thing here in South Australia. It seems that the Family First Party (Australia's answer to the Taliban) did well here in the northern suburbs seats of Wakefield and Makin, enough to give the Libs victory in those seats, and also did well in Kingston, although a shift ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 10 09:22:22 PDT 2004

20840 [lbo-talk] Nader and his detractors -- rank: 1000

<hari.kumar at sympatico.ca> wrote: >Surely, it is a matter of building a Front that can begin to >challenge the apparent 2-party lock-hold? Let me try this one more time. Yes this is very important. The experience of the last 8 years has shown that Nader's presidential candidacies have little to do with the task. Doug

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Date:	Sat Oct 9 17:11:20 PDT 2004

20841 [lbo-talk] Nader and His Detractors -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Anyhow, can you cite any case in a capitalist democracy where a >party kept running candidates only for local elections for decades >and then eventually became a dominant political party? Who said anything running only in local elections forever? Not me. What kind of straw man is this? You start locally - and I'm including congressional races in local elections too. The hope is to build name recognition and some kind of insitutional presence over time. It worked ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 9 15:16:02 PDT 2004

20842 [lbo-talk] Nader and his detractors -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >"Whether you're inspired by a real enthusiasm for Nader, >or merely want to lodge a defensible, effective protest vote, >pulling the lever for Ralph where you can, >or writing in his name where you can't, >is probably the best you can do in 1996." > >Whereas in 2004, the retrospective judgement on Nader is >"It was individualist >adventurism and little else." Yeah, I feel like I learned something in the last 8 years: that Na ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 9 14:55:58 PDT 2004

20843 [lbo-talk] Age -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Isn't there >something beautiful about the repetitive simplicity of a one-chord James >Brown song that goes on for 8 minutes? When Phillip Glass does it, it's art!

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Date:	Sat Oct 9 13:45:24 PDT 2004

20844 [lbo-talk] McReynolds for Senate 2004 -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I'm glad to hear that you are voting for David McReynolds. Go one >step further and campaign for him. I'm giving him economic advice. I don't have the time to campaign for him. Doug

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Date:	Sat Oct 9 13:03:26 PDT 2004

20845 [lbo-talk] Nader and his detractors -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >My difficulty with the anti-Nader criticisms is that they are all >couched in technical rather than political terms. > >If the Greens are amateurish, does that arise from a political bias, >or just not getting their act together? By the way, you seem to be conflating Nader and the Greens. Nader's never been a member of the party, and when he had its nomination in 2000, he spurned the platform. In 2004, he got interested in their nomination mainly for ballo ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 9 11:45:21 PDT 2004

20846 [lbo-talk] Nader and his detractors -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >Doug: > >"What do you mean by "national politics"? The presidency? That seems >hyperambitious for a party that can barely tie its shoes, and has >shown no sign of having grown from a series of presidential runs." > >My difficulty with the anti-Nader criticisms is that they are all >couched in technical rather than political terms. > >If the Greens are amateurish, does that arise from a political bias, >or just not gett ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 9 11:35:56 PDT 2004

20847 [lbo-talk] Gallup: it was a draw (but it was a Republican audience) -- rank: 1000

[tables etc at <http://www.gallup.com/poll/content/?ci=13549>] October 09, 2004 Standoff in Second Debate Debate viewers: 47% say Kerry did better, 45% say Bush by David W. Moore GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- Sen. John Kerry and President George W. Bush battled each other to a virtual tie in Friday night's presidential debate, according to a random sample of 515 registered voters who watched the event. Forty-seven percent of viewers said Kerry did the better job; 45% picked Bush. Th ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 9 09:49:47 PDT 2004

20848 [lbo-talk] Al-Qaeda agents in Russia's Caucasus: FSB chief -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >I think Westerners tend to romanticize secessionists. >In my experience, in the modern world, they are >usually pretty unsavory ultranationalists. I thought >"the Left" was supposed to be cosmopolitan and >believed in peaceful resolution to conflict issues. >Why do they seem to support crude tribalism in so many >instances? Because a lot of them have despaired of any serious political transformation at home, and so live out their revolutionary fa ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 9 09:44:15 PDT 2004

20849 [lbo-talk] Doomed -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >Haven't seen ecoequity site yet, but there is a brand new 'Campaign Against >Climate Aggression' - based on campaigning by dozens of excellent Third >World and northern ecojustice activist groups - which in Durban, South >Africa we began to establish this week. One of the main concerns is the >false market 'solution' to the market problem of C02 emissions: carbon >trading. 'Phanzi carbon trading, phanzi,' (away!), was the snappy slogan of >a leading Sowe ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 9 09:29:34 PDT 2004

20850 [lbo-talk] nader and his detractors... -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I agree with Brad and Deborah that combining local and national >campaigns makes eminent sense. I'm only opposed to the idea that >the Green Party (or any other third party on the left that may come >into being in the future) should concentrate only on local >elections, abstaining from national politics. What do you mean by "national politics"? The presidency? That seems hyperambitious for a party that can barely tie its shoes, and has shown no ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 9 09:22:54 PDT 2004