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21346 [lbo-talk] Rummy: war on terror just beginning -- rank: 1000

[and it's been so wonderful so far, eh? - I've been keeping a little Excel "War on terror" counter - based on Cheney's estimate it could last 50 years, and with a starting date of Oct 7, 2001, we're just 5.29% of the way into the thing - nice how the "path to self-governance" passes through a CIA asset] Rumsfeld Says 'War on Terror' Just Beginning By Larry Fine WEST POINT, New York (Reuters) - The United States' declared war on terror is closer to the beginning than the end, ...

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Date:	Sat May 29 10:00:29 PDT 2004

21347 [lbo-talk] potential for change -- rank: 1000

[This had a lot of gibberish attached that increased its size from 3k to 18k, putting it over the 15k limit. PLAIN TEXT PLEASE!!!!!!] Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Political leaning of the US population Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 12:17:28 -0400 From: "Louis Kontos" <Louis.Kontos at liu.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> I agree that there is now greater potential for 'change' than there was a few years ago. But the problem I see is that the vast majority of people is uninformed and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 29 09:24:20 PDT 2004

21348 [lbo-talk] The Feminism of Fools -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Many liberals are appalled by such deference by the state to religion. >Although I don't know much about the legislation, it strikes me as more >communitarian than liberal in spirit. That was a joke on the watered-down nature of beating a wife with a toothpick, which seems like a "liberal" version of the hardcore stuff. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 28 15:06:28 PDT 2004

21349 [lbo-talk] The Feminism of Fools -- rank: 1000

Ted Winslow wrote: >From a letter from two Muslim women in yesterday's Toronto Star >defending the Ontario government's decision to allow the setting up >of shari'a based arbitration panels: > >"Beating or hurting one's wife is not permitted in Islam; only a >slight tap that doesn't cause any pain with a _miswack_ (toothpick) >is allowed; anything further is reprehensible." As Alexander Cockburn once said in a very different context, I love liberals when they try t ...

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Date:	Fri May 28 14:38:40 PDT 2004

21350 [lbo-talk] Take the Bernie Sanders current events quiz! -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >http://bernie.house.gov/flash/bernie_quiz15.html > >Not bad at all. But how sound is his data? Quite, except the duration of unemployment is a little misleading (it's always longest early in employment recoveries), and the Medicare question isn't quite fair (you're always going to max out at the deductible, and if you add the premium it's of course going to be greater than the deductible - a Bushie could choose an equally stacked set of numbers to minimize it). Doug

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Date:	Fri May 28 13:44:05 PDT 2004

21351 [lbo-talk] Re: 9/11 related interviews or content -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Also, it is simply not true at KPFA and KPFK that listenership has >declined. Fund drives a re a tangile measure of listener support and >both KPFA and KPFK just completed very succesful fund drives (as >KPFA programmers/listeners on this list can attest - or just go to >their websites. How do you know listenership hasn't declined? Do you have Arbitrons? Or is it just a feeling? Fundraising is a hint, but it's hardly definitive. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 28 09:17:23 PDT 2004

21352 Lawyers Should be Indicted (Re: [lbo-talk] Doug Henwood -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Yes, she says in the abstract she's for free speech, but when the revolution >is at stake, the gulag is okay. Everyone likes free speech in the >abstract-- the world divides on whether you believe in it when it's Nazis, >Commies or terorists or whoever you don't like speaking. But denying people the right to counsel is ok if it's done by one of Us. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 28 09:08:39 PDT 2004

21353 Lawyers Should be Indicted (Re: [lbo-talk] Doug Henwood profile -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center has zero chance of eliciting such >a response, and I think it's dangerous for the Left to fit this case into >the general paradigm of righteous political lawyering. Neither is defending mobsters. But that doesn't mean the government should eavesdrop on Tony Soprano's lawyer. >The point here is that the best lawyers for those accused of being >terrorists are people who don't sympathize with their politics. That's not ...

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Date:	Fri May 28 09:06:50 PDT 2004

21354 [lbo-talk] Did the Bolsheviks Seize Power by Deception? -- rank: 1000

Lance Murdoch wrote: >All power to the soviets! Which soviets are those? Doug

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Date:	Fri May 28 07:25:28 PDT 2004

21355 [lbo-talk] Susie Bright interviews some guy, then talks about douching -- rank: 1000

"In Bed with Susie Bright: Work Ethics with Doug Henwood" <http://www.audible.com/huffman/store/productEntry.jsp?source_code=AUDP0286BN 092001&productID=PF_SUZY_040507> Author: Susie Bright Audio Original Nonfiction Non AudibleListener Price: $5.95 Audio Length: 33 min. Provider: Susie Bright Year Published: 2004 Is the American work ethic ruining our sex lives? Susie has thought so for years, and now she gets to pose her question to economist Doug Henwood. Doug Henwood is th ...

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Date:	Fri May 28 07:19:03 PDT 2004

21356 [lbo-talk] a little Nixon nostalgia -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0526044nixon1.html> October 11, 1973, 7:55 PM S[cowcroft]: "This is ____, Henry. The switchboard just got a call from 10 Downing Street to inquire whether the President would be available for a call within 30 minutes from the Prime Minister. The subject would be the Middle East. K[issinger]: Can we tell them no? When I talked to the President he was loaded.

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Date:	Fri May 28 07:09:27 PDT 2004

21357 [lbo-talk] Re: 9/11 related interviews or content -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala quoted: >I am a radio host and Pacifica journalist. Hmm, wonder if this has anything to do with the listenership falling to almost immeasurable levels? Doug

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Date:	Fri May 28 07:01:57 PDT 2004

21358 [lbo-talk] Democracy Now 5/26 -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >As for the government not scrambling jets or otherwise stopping this >conspiracy--let's remember what happened in Seattle in 1999 when the >cops panicked and made history. Big surprises happen. Seattle was >the result of a general attitude among police forces that activists >were not to be taken seriously. Sure, the U.S. government had talked >about the possibility of flying planes into buildings (remember the >photos from Genoa of the ground-to-air missile ba ...

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Date:	Fri May 28 07:00:16 PDT 2004

21359 [lbo-talk] I Loves Me Some Chalabi -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >"As to the accusation that Chalabi has endangered American national >security by slipping secrets to Tehran, I can only say that three >days ago, I broke my usual rule and had a 'deep background' meeting >with a very 'senior administration official.' This person, given >every opportunity to signal even slightly that I ought to treat the >charges seriously, pointedly declined to do so. I thought I should >put this on record." > >So, I was ...

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Date:	Fri May 28 06:31:24 PDT 2004

21360 [lbo-talk] new Iraqi PM to be CIA guy (and Chalabi relative)? -- rank: 1000

Iyad Allawi to Be Iraqi PM - Allawi Aide By Tom Perry BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iyad Allawi, a member of Iraq (news - web sites)'s U.S.-appointed Governing Council with long-time links to the CIA (news - web sites), has been chosen as prime minister in Iraq's interim government, an aide to Allawi told Reuters Friday. "There was a meeting of the Governing Council and Dr. Allawi was unanimously chosen as prime minister," Hani Adris said. He added that U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi and the U.S.-ru ...

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Date:	Fri May 28 06:27:21 PDT 2004