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21361 [lbo-talk] Political leaning of the US population -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I deliberately rejected the Nader - Buchanan comparison in 2000 because >conservatives already had their prime choice candidate in the persona of >George Bush. George Bush did not run as a right-winger. He ran as the "compassionate conservative" who promised a "humble" foreign policy. It seemed likely he'd be a reprise of his father, who was mostly an old-style WASPy Republican. > Not so for the leftists. Nader was in similar position ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 27 15:36:44 PDT 2004

21362 [lbo-talk] costs of war -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review - this all came from an Institute for Public Accuracy press release - the reporter never contacted me] WAR WILL COST AMERICAN HOUSEHOLDS $4000 EACH http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=16998 SEAN GONSALVES, CAPE COD TIMES - According to Doug Henwood, author of "After the New Economy," $4,000 is the amount that each household will have to fork over in taxes to foot the Iraq occupation bill. "I feel a little callous about talking abo ...

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Date:	Thu May 27 15:27:10 PDT 2004

21363 Lawyers Should be Indicted (Re: [lbo-talk] Doug Henwood profile -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >By the way, I have to admit I lost most of my sympathy for Stewart and her >worries about "police state tactics" after her interview with MONTHLY REVIEW >where she said: >http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1132/is_6_54/ai_94142091/pg_2 > >"I don't have any problem with Mao or Stalin or the Vietnamese leaders or >certainly Fidel locking up people they see as dangerous. Because so often, >dissidence has been used by the grea ...

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Date:	Thu May 27 12:55:33 PDT 2004

21364 [lbo-talk] Political leaning of the US population -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I would use the >Nader vs. Wallace split (2.7% vs. 13.5%)as a proxy to measure the >popular support of left vs a far right candidate in the US. Again, you're comparing things a generation ago with things today. A more relevant comparison would be Buchanan with Nader. Nader was a serious force in 2000 and Buchanan got almost no votes at all (and a lot of those were the mistaken or fraudulent "Jews for Buchanan" votes in Miami). His primary candidacies ...

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Date:	Thu May 27 10:21:05 PDT 2004

21365 [lbo-talk] response to Woj -- rank: 1000

[This bounced because html coding increased its size almost threefold. PLAIN TEXT PLEASE!!!!] Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 13:18:54 -0400 Message-ID: <673030F0EB746B4684294196207763DB33F045 at cwp-m1.liunet.edu> From: "Louis Kontos" <Louis.Kontos at liu.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> this is an interesting analysis but you make a number of problematic assumptions. First, you assume that presidential candidates present their agendas in a fairly accurate way and that peo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 27 10:22:52 PDT 2004

21366 [lbo-talk] the NYT editors' note -- rank: 1000

<http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war36.html> "Fuck a mild-mannered apology* on Page 10. The only honest way for the New York Times to deal with this shit would have been to run a big-ass banner headline that says, "WHY THE HELL ARE YOU STILL READING US? DOES JUDITH MILLER HAVE TO KILL YOU HERSELF?" -- *"I don't see this as an apology. I see this as an explanation. It's not a note that's going to satisfy our most bloodthirsty critics." - NYT exec ed Bill Keller <h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 27 10:07:13 PDT 2004

21367 [lbo-talk] SSC news -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >The side that wanted to fire Eric included >Bogdan, Ian Williams and Jeff Gold. I.e., in at least two of the three cases, humanitarian interventionists. Those that resigned (and Eric) are not. If there's no political subtext to the definition of competency, I'm Marie Queen of Romania. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 27 09:34:05 PDT 2004

21368 [lbo-talk] Political leaning of the US population -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Take voting. Conservative Republicans consistently receive nearly half >of the popular votes if the opposing candidate is a centrist Democrat >(cf. Bush vs. Gore), but that support skyrockets if the Democrat is even >slightly leaning to the left. Such was the case even the supposedly >"liberal" 1960s and 1970s cf. McGovern 37.5% vs. Nixon 60.7% in 1972. Both Dukakis and Gore rose in the polls when they took an anti-corporate "populist&quo ...

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Date:	Thu May 27 09:32:41 PDT 2004

21369 Lawyers Should be Indicted (Re: [lbo-talk] Doug Henwood profile -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >As for Lynne Stewart, she was not indicted for defending an accused >terorist, but was indicted under charges of facilitating ongoing terrorist >activity. The evidence may be sketchy and the eavesdropping used to collect >that evidence wrong, but if she actually did what it is claimed she did -- >facilitate the delivery of a message directing terrorist attacks -- there is >no reason she shouldn't be indicted. I don't know about the legal arguments or the ...

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Date:	Thu May 27 09:24:35 PDT 2004

21370 [lbo-talk] Two, Three, or Many Oil Wars -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The rising value of an increasingly scarce resource is a form of >monopoly rent, and a future permanent crude-oil regime of $50 per >barrel (or higher) would transfer at least $1 trillion per decade >from consumers to oil producers. In plain English, this would be the >greatest robbery by a rentier elite in world history. Someday, Enron >may seem like the equivalent of a liquor store hold-up by comparison. If oil prices were to rise simply out of monopo ...

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Date:	Thu May 27 08:01:34 PDT 2004

21371 [lbo-talk] hurtling towards martial law -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >And thus we head towards martial law. Except the military is getting more & more critical of the Bush admin, no? Doug

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Date:	Thu May 27 07:49:07 PDT 2004

21372 [lbo-talk] On a wider scale... -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >What mainstream are you looking at? On the contrary -- it looks to >me as though every news org from the NY Times and Washington Post to >Newsweek and Time (not Fox, of course) is working overtime trying to >see how far up the "chain of command" the authority for the torture >can be traced (actually not only torture but outright murder, as the >Times pointed out on its front page -- no cover-up here! -- >yesterday). Wall Street Journal - May 2 ...

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Date:	Thu May 27 07:47:12 PDT 2004

21373 [lbo-talk] Bush admin planning nasty budget cuts -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - May 27, 2004 2006 Cuts In Domestic Spending On Table By Jonathan Weisman The White House put government agencies on notice this month that if President Bush is reelected, his budget for 2006 may include spending cuts for virtually all agencies in charge of domestic programs, including education, homeland security and others that the president backed in this campaign year. Administration officials had dismissed the significance of the proposed cuts when they surfaced in February ...

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Date:	Thu May 27 07:41:33 PDT 2004

21374 [lbo-talk] I'm a "committed Leninist" -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >That Russia is no longer in that situation seems to be one of the >only positive things Putin thinks about the collapse of the USSR, >from what I can gather from his public statements. (And that Russia >no longer wastes money, in his view, on funding revolutions and >socialist governments abroad. There are a number of Soviet jokes in >which Castro is depicted as sucking on Brezhnev's teat.) When I interviewed Kagarlitsky around 1992, I asked him what he thoug ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 27 07:37:59 PDT 2004

21375 [lbo-talk] SSC news -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I'm definitely not happy with these folks leaving the SSC, but from the >wording of the letter, it seems like it was far more about nasty personnel >politics and power grabbiness among the majority of board members. Why turn >it into a "red purge" accusation? Because from what I've heard, there was a history of just that. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 27 07:36:07 PDT 2004