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21376 [lbo-talk] Doug Henwood profile -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Lynne Stewart There's a good piece in the current ish of Reason (not on web) on the Justice Dept's attempts to criminalize being a defense attorney. It's not just Stewart they're after - it's an entire pattern. Of course the Stewart prosecution is politically scarier. She's not being charged under the PATRIOT Act, because her alleged offenses were committed before that law was passed. Under the PATRIOT Act, the very defense of an accused "terrorist" could it ...

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Date:	Thu May 27 07:35:00 PDT 2004

21377 [lbo-talk] I'm a "committed Leninist" -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: > There's no way to know how much of what they did was out of >ideological fervor and how much out of being backed into a corner. Which is the story of much of the Soviet experience, no? A couple of world wars, a civil war, a cold war, international isolation, etc. It wasn't an environment in which DSA types could calmly make policy in a peaceful democratic setting. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 27 07:05:32 PDT 2004

21378 [lbo-talk] SSC news -- rank: 1000

[Dunno how much interest in this, but it sounds, among other things, like DSA types purging a Red. More to follow...] May 23. 2004 To: The Socialist Scholars Conference community. From: Stanley Aronowitz, Nancy Holmstrom, Manning Marable, Leith Mullings, Frances Fox Piven, Julia Wrigley. At its meeting on the evening of May 19th, the Board of the Socialist Scholars Conference voted by 8 to 7 to terminate the services of our staff director, Eric Canepa. This move has been afoot for some months, a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 27 06:24:27 PDT 2004

21379 [lbo-talk] Al Gore gets tuff -- rank: 1000

[Ozone Man must be taking some B-12 shots.] <http://www.moveonpac.org/goreremarks052604.html/> [...] Our founders understood full well that a system of checks and balances is needed in our constitution because every human being lives with an internal system of checks and balances that cannot be relied upon to produce virtue if they are allowed to attain an unhealthy degree of power over their fellow citizens. Listen then to the balance of internal impulses described by specialist Charles G ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 26 14:59:24 PDT 2004

21380 [lbo-talk] Perle: U.S. occupation of Iraq a "grave error" -- rank: 1000

Toronto Star - May 26, 2004 Ex-Rumsfeld aide admits occupation of Iraq a failure Britain, U.S. at odds over interim government's role SANDRO CONTENTA EUROPEAN BUREAU LONDON, England-One of the ideological architects of the Iraq war has criticized the U.S.-led occupation of the country as "a grave error." Richard Perle, until recently a powerful adviser to U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, described U.S. policy in post-war Iraq as a failure. "I would be the first to acknowled ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 26 14:07:17 PDT 2004

21381 [lbo-talk] Democracy Now 5/26 -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Actually Doug, so blinded are you by your bias against me that you >make an argument I have not made, certainly not in my last post. The >view that the neo-cons used (rather than engineered) the 9-11 >attacks as a pretext to further their imperial designs is a passe >view, which is expounded by Chalmer Johnson, Rahul Mahajan, Chomsky, >and indeed by even Berlet on DN! And me too. Sure they used it as a pretext for all kinds of nastiness. But that's a lot ...

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Date:	Wed May 26 13:59:14 PDT 2004

21382 [lbo-talk] WBAI crisis -- rank: 1000

The management of WBAI - the station where I do my show - won't pay for its Arbitron ratings, because they're allegely too expensive ($6,000, out of a budget of some $3-4 million) and sinister (creeping commercialism and all). It claims rising listenership, on the basis of undisclosed evidence. But according to someone who's seen the numbers: >In the last year alone, WBAI's listenership fell by nearly 18%. It >fell by a similar amount in the year preceding. Today WBAI's audience >share ...

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Date:	Wed May 26 13:31:05 PDT 2004

21383 [lbo-talk] breaking news: I'm a "committed Leninist" -- rank: 1000

Todd Archer wrote: >According to Hal Draper, that whole idea of ascribing such a "model" >to Lenin looks bogus, dreamed up by demonizing Leninologists and >Lenin's detractors eg Rosa Luxemburg. > >The Myth of Lenin's "Concept of The Party" >or >What They Did to What Is To Be Done? > >http://www.ex.ac.uk/Projects/meia/draper/1990/myth/myth.html > >I've been thinking for some time that "Leninism" is something of a >shibboleth of the ...

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Date:	Wed May 26 13:19:06 PDT 2004

21384 [lbo-talk] Democracy Now 5/26 -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >One of the central points argued by Griffin and others is that the >9-11 attacks provided a pretext for the war on Afghanistan, which >had among other things to do with gaining strategic control over >that region (Afghanistan being positioned between Central Asia and >the oil rich former Soviet Republics). Falk wrote the foreward to >Griffin's book *after* his article in the Nation in which he >supported the intervention in Afghanistan. While Falk does ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 26 12:19:53 PDT 2004

21385 [lbo-talk] I'm a "committed Leninist" -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Actually, I have a hard time distinguishing between Marx and Leninism,too. I was going to say something like that - i.e., a lot of Leninists would make the same equivalence as anarchists - but I didn't want to get into trouble for overgeeralization. But thanks for doing it for me! Doug

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Date:	Wed May 26 12:15:25 PDT 2004

21386 [lbo-talk] Ladyfest East -- rank: 1000

Hi Everyone! Ladyfest*East is a grassroots, non-profit organization committed to supporting contemporary women* artists. We are also committed to building communities and collaborations among women artists in the Northeast, with an emphasis on the greater New York City area, as well as to raising funds for organizations devoted to the advancement and equality of women everywhere. In 2004, Ladyfest*East is donating our profits to local women's organizations. Ladyfest*East places the majority of o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 26 11:13:17 PDT 2004

21387 [lbo-talk] Robert Reich media blitz -- rank: 1000

Gary? wrote: > did I hear wrong or did he pronounce Abu Ghraib three different ways, He tripped over it, like it was a pile of bricks in the middle of the road, making three attempts. The press accounts the next day made no mention of that. > and >Freudian slip the second 'calvary'.? Missed that. What was he trying to say? Doug

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Date:	Wed May 26 11:10:33 PDT 2004

21388 [lbo-talk] GSS -- rank: 1000

Anyone experienced at working with the General Social Survey <http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/gss>? I'm trying to draw a bead on the social and political attitudes of the self-employed, and how the differ from the general pop. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 26 10:50:18 PDT 2004

21389 [lbo-talk] Amnesty slams US -- rank: 1000

Amnesty slams 'bankrupt' vision of US in damning human rights report LONDON (AFP) - The United States has proved "bankrupt of vision and bereft of principle" in its fight against terrorism and invasion of Iraq (news - web sites), Amnesty International charged. In its 2004 report on the state of human rights around the globe, the London-based group cited grave violations in dozens of other nations. But it targeted in particular the "war on terror" initiated by US President Geo ...

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Date:	Wed May 26 10:23:06 PDT 2004

21390 [lbo-talk] breaking news: I'm a "committed Leninist" -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >If Leninism is a methodology rather than a set-in-stone doctrine Is it? If Leninism is just the "concrete analysis of the concrete situation," it means little more than having your head screwed on straight (no mean feat these days, I concede). If it refers to the model of party organization - a small band of secretive professional revolutionaries at the "vanguard" of a popular movement - then what does that mean today? Surely not the British SWP, and eve ...

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Date:	Wed May 26 09:47:53 PDT 2004