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21331 [lbo-talk] Democracy Now 5/26 -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: 9 posts last Wednesday. 6 last Thursday. 5 on Friday. 6 on Sunday. 7 so far today. The limit is 3. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 31 16:36:23 PDT 2004

21332 [lbo-talk] in defense of Wal-Mart -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >(The same applies to an argument that has in the past generated rather >bad feelings on several lists: Are Mexicans from small villages better >off in the village or in a Maquiladora? Who cares? Either side of the >argument resembles an argument over whether trees would be prettier or >uglier if their leaves were blue instead of green.) Not exactly, since the argument is also about "development." For a lot of people, even some self-identified Marxists, ...

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Date:	Mon May 31 15:05:36 PDT 2004

21333 [lbo-talk] in defense of Wal-Mart -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> The point is this: payment for services involves mutually agreeable >> exchanges. They are not manifestations of power, as some would say. >> No one is forced to work at Wal-Mart; people who choose to work there >> do so because they prefer employment there to other circumstances. >> > >Really, there must be a defense of Wal-Mart someplace that doesn't >contain anything this obscene. > >Rhetori ...

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Date:	Mon May 31 12:18:48 PDT 2004

21334 [lbo-talk] today's birthdays -- rank: 1000

Via Tom Heald's Pridelets daily email: > * German enfant terrible director Rainer Werner Fasbinder would be 59. > * Manly man Clint Eastwood, who respects us, (and played a gay >experimenting character interested in S&M in "Tightrope") is 74. > * Poet / icon Walt Whitman would be 185.

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Date:	Mon May 31 11:08:24 PDT 2004

21335 [lbo-talk] in defense of Wal-Mart -- rank: 1000

<http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1521> Does Wal-Mart Destroy Communities? William L. Anderson [Posted May 31, 2004] In a recent poll on the CNN website, viewers were asked the "poll" question of whether or not they believed that Wal-Mart stores were "good" for the "community." Perhaps it is not surprising that a large majority answered "no." Now, this by itself does not mean much, since these online "polls" are not scientific and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 31 10:21:21 PDT 2004

21336 [lbo-talk] its the economy -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >That the USA is entangled in a vicious war in Iraq is not the fault >of President Bush, but of America’s economic system. Without wars, >America’s unbridled brand of capitalism can no longer function >properly. Every tenant of the White House is aware of this and must >act accordingly, and it does not matter at all if his name is Bush >or Clinton, or if his party affiliation is Republican or Democrat. Hmm, so why did Bush have to lie his way into the war, ...

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Date:	Mon May 31 09:57:27 PDT 2004

21337 [lbo-talk] plain text in web-based Outlook -- rank: 1000

Listmember Louis Kontos <Louis.Kontos at liu.edu> is wondering how to specify plain text in a web-based version of outlook (www.weboutlook.liu.edu). Can anyone help? Doug

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Date:	Sun May 30 20:06:22 PDT 2004

21338 [lbo-talk] the boy president's trophy case -- rank: 1000

Bush Keeps Saddam Gun at White House Sun May 30, 2:40 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A handgun that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) was clutching when U.S. forces captured him in a hole in Iraq (news - web sites) last December is now kept by President Bush (news - web sites) at the White House, a spokesman confirmed on Sunday. Time magazine, which first disclosed the gun's location, said military officials had it mounted after it was seized from Saddam near his hometown of Tikrit last year, and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 30 19:03:26 PDT 2004

21339 [lbo-talk] Democracy Now 5/26 -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >What makes me sad is that conspiracy theories such as Joseph Wanzala's >_lead away_ from awareness of the centers of power. They delude people >into thinking that evil exists solely in the machinations of particular >people rather than in the capitalist system. Joseph's arguments, that >is, add up to an apology for capitalism and for u.s. imperialism. His >theories also support racism, for the major form racist ideology takes >today is the view that racist ...

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Date:	Sun May 30 18:15:59 PDT 2004

21340 [lbo-talk] Nader Does the CFR -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >'Troops out now' is a slogan Doug. Slogans are simplistic >expressions of popular will. What Nader said is essentially the same >thing - but in realistic terms. At least two of our distinguished listmembers, Cdes Cox and Furuhashi, repeatedly have said no UN replacements, no international presence - leave it to the Iraqis. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 30 18:06:51 PDT 2004

21341 [lbo-talk] new Iraqi PM and the 45-minute claim -- rank: 1000

<http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=526008> Independent (London) - May 29, 2004 EXILED ALLAWI WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR 45-MINUTE WMD CLAIM By Patrick Cockburn The choice of Iyad Allawi, closely linked to the CIA and formerly to MI6, as the Prime Minister of Iraq from 30 June will make it difficult for the US and Britain to persuade the rest of the world that he is capable of leading an independent government. He is the person through whom the controversial claim was ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 30 09:28:02 PDT 2004

21342 [lbo-talk] CIA torture techniques -- rank: 1000

[better late than never...] Boston Globe - May 15, 2004 Cruel Science--The Long Shadow of CIA Torture Research by Alfred W. McCoy The photos from Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison are snapshots, not of simple brutality or a breakdown in discipline, but of CIA torture techniques that have metastasized, over the past 50 years, like an undetected cancer inside the US intelligence community. From 1950 to 1962, the CIA led massive, secret research into coercion and consciousness that reached a billion dollars ...

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Date:	Sun May 30 09:13:15 PDT 2004

21343 [lbo-talk] Nader Does the CFR -- rank: 1000

Ralph's speech is at <http://www.cfr.org/campaign2004/pub7058/nader/waging_peace_advancing_justice_promoting_security_the_civic_displacement_of_corporate_globalization.php>. His Iraq policy, which may not please the "Troops out now!" contingent: >An alternative future that will separate them, distance them from >insurgencies and the resistance, would be to declare a set date for >a corporate and military withdrawal by the United States from >Iraq--let's say until the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 30 08:35:54 PDT 2004

21344 [lbo-talk] Air America's Arbitrons -- rank: 1000

Chicago Tribune - May 27, 2004 By John Cook Tribune staff reporter Despite ongoing financial woes, Air America Radio appears to have garnered a significant audience during its first month on the air, particularly among the younger listeners sought by advertisers. An analysis of recently released figures from Arbitron, the radio ratings service, showed that in New York Air America beat Rush Limbaugh's station among 25-to-54-year-olds during the period that Limbaugh and Al Franken, the host of the ...

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Date:	Sat May 29 14:18:02 PDT 2004

21345 [lbo-talk] attack in SA -- rank: 1000

Militants kill 11, take hostages in assault on Saudi oil sector AL-KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia (AFP) - Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 11 people, including an American and an Egyptian boy, and then holed up with hostages in a series of spectacular attacks on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia. The Al-Qaeda network of Saudi-born Osama bin Laden has purportedly claimed the asault in Al-Khobar, the latest in a wave of terror to hit the kingdom over the past year, but authenticity of the claim cou ...

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Date:	Sat May 29 10:17:30 PDT 2004