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21406 [lbo-talk] Re: Comments re caste & CP's of India -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >And - Dennis Redmond - i *have* let my annoyance with Ulhas' one-liners >get the better of me. We have our disagreements, and i've been often >wrong in my life. The questions of caste and the history of the Indian >CPs, and the role of US/UK imperialism in south Asia, are alike complex, >interesting and important. They deserve detailed informed discussion, not >one-liners (on any of the 5 or 6 sides of the questions). One of the things that deserves discussion ...

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Date:	Tue May 25 12:45:51 PDT 2004

21407 [lbo-talk] A 'Progressive Conference' -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I am pretty sure that if the US had the population density similar to >Europe - US-ers would be voluntarily patrolling the borders and shooting >everyone trying to cross them, as some have already done in Texas. New York City is very densely populated, we're full of immigrants, and there's almost no anti-immigrant sentiment in public life. New Jersey is the most densely populated state in the U.S., and as far as I know, there's no anti-immigrant movement there ...

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Date:	Tue May 25 12:29:51 PDT 2004

21408 [lbo-talk] Dershowitz gets his way -- rank: 1000

[wotta creep this guy is] Boston Globe - May 25, 2004 Dershowitz protests, and a new, milder book review runs By David Mehegan, Globe Staff It's many a disgruntled author's dream, but it almost never happens: A publication prints a second review of a book after the author complains about the first one. This time it happened. Harvard Law School professor Alan M. Dershowitz was unhappy with the April 12 Publishers Weekly review of his new book, "America on Trial: Inside the Legal Battles that ...

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Date:	Tue May 25 12:22:06 PDT 2004

21409 [lbo-talk] A Giant Sucking Sound of the Presidential Election Year -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Has anybody attempted to analyze the damage that the presidential >elections do to the left alternative press? How much coverage is >wasted on the presidential elections in the Left press which could >have been devoted to more important news and analysis? It kinda stuns me that you think that analyzing the issues around the election of what the Sparts call the chief executive of the world bourgeoisie is a waste of time. Do you think that if you just ignore the state it ...

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Date:	Tue May 25 12:17:11 PDT 2004

21410 [lbo-talk] the modern worklife -- rank: 1000

At 10:00 AM -0400 5/25/04, <newsfeed at mediabistro.com> wrote: >BLOOMBERG STAFFERS COMPLAIN ONLINE >Employee morale is so low at Michael Bloomberg 's news company, >Bloomberg LLC, that staffers have taken to complaining anonymously >on ourbloomberg.com. >http://www.nypost.com/gossip/21523.htm >http://www.ourbloomberg.com/ OurBloomberg redirects to a Newspaper Guild site, so this isn't exactly spontaneous kvetching. But the demands on employee time are amazing: >Matt W ...

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Date:	Tue May 25 12:12:38 PDT 2004

21411 [lbo-talk] Re: "How Class Works" Conference 2004 -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: > >On Tue, 25 May 2004, marc .. wrote: > >> one criticism i have, though, is the sort of class reductionism i sensed >> many times while reading zweig's book, and the sort of tokenized, >> patronizing way issues of race and gender are being treated in this >> conference. > >As I remember it, Zweig did a good job of responding to these questions >when Doug interviewed him. It's the last interview in the archive, on the >secon ...

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Date:	Tue May 25 12:05:23 PDT 2004

21412 [lbo-talk] Dial Tone Iraq -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >I have to wonder if Zinni, Scowcroft, Schwarzkopf, Clark and Shinseki >have no problem standing up to say the war in Iraq is bullshit, why is >our hero and great conscience of Vietnam, John Kerry so shy? Does he >really think a few votes from the perplexed bubbas will make a >difference? Or is he afraid of being labeled an anti-Semite? Generals can be against a war; Democrats can't so easily. Dems are always under suspicion that they're pansies and peaceniks, ...

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Date:	Tue May 25 11:58:06 PDT 2004

21413 [lbo-talk] Mises gang: the state was a mistake -- rank: 1000

Jeet Heer wrote: >I once interviewed Block for an article. He told me he thought Hayek was a >socialist. That's a common line among some von Mises partisans. Hayek believed in some sort of state, and even some income supports for the poor. Therefore he was a socialist. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 25 11:52:20 PDT 2004

21414 [lbo-talk] Mises gang: the state was a mistake -- rank: 1000

[Chuck0, you agree?] http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1522 The State Was a Mistake By Walter Block [Posted May 25, 2004] Once upon a time, long, long ago, in a faraway place (actually, a contrary-to-fact made-up one), there lived a group of human beings without benefit of government. Any government at all. How did they manage? Well, whenever there was a dispute between two neighbors, or friends, or merchants, or between a retailer and a customer, the plaintiff and defendant together wo ...

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Date:	Tue May 25 07:04:20 PDT 2004

21415 [lbo-talk] A 'Progressive Conference' -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >You don't own a car do you? Nope. Thank god. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 25 06:52:19 PDT 2004

21416 [lbo-talk] GI's Appeal To Ralph Nader for harder anti-war stand -- rank: 1000

mitchelcohen at mindspring.com wrote: >Are you afraid that too many people will abandon Kerry and vote for you? Hahahaha. That's a joke, right? At the CFR yesterday, Nader called for a U.S. military and corporate withdrawal from Iraq by year-end; the creation of a new peacekeeping force from neutral countries, including some Arab/Moslem ones; and internationally supervised elections by next year. Not exacty what the U.S. Out Now! crowd would like to hear. The CFR audience, while not enthusias ...

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Date:	Tue May 25 06:47:46 PDT 2004

21417 [lbo-talk] Lawrence on the mess in Mesopotamia -- rank: 1000

<http://www.antiwar.com/orig/lawrence.php> A Report on Mesopotamia by T.E. Lawrence August 2nd, 1920 Thomas Edward (T.E.) Lawrence, a.k.a. "Lawrence of Arabia" (1888-1935), British soldier and author, whose works include The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, achieved world renown for his exploits as Britain's military liaison to the Arabs during the rebellion against the Ottomans. Sent to Mecca on a fact-finding mission when the Arabs rose in revolt, in 1916, he soon became a friend of th ...

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Date:	Mon May 24 13:52:17 PDT 2004

21418 [lbo-talk] A 'Progressive Conference' -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >What really burns me up is how lousy the left is in supporting its >websites, magazines, and other projects. Tell me about it. I have a newsletter with about 3,500 subscribers. There's no reason it couldn't be 10,000 - a tiny fraction of The Nation's 160,000. Maybe I'm biased, but I think it's an awful lot better than most of what I see in the "left" press (I'm excluding The Nation from this comparison) - smarter, more informative, and funnier too. Far duller sheet ...

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Date:	Mon May 24 13:16:21 PDT 2004

21419 [lbo-talk] A 'Progressive Conference' -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >LOL. Yes, the Internet is massively "cheaper" than direct mail, but >it isn't as "free" as everybody thinks. I know that. I used to pay for this list, and I still pay for a website. Still, the costs are minimal compared to direct mail, and not beyond our means at all. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 24 11:54:37 PDT 2004

21420 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

Just added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: May 20, 2004 Marathon Special: State of the Empire Gary Younge, New York correspondent of The Guardian, on U.S. reactions to the torture photos, comparisons with British and other European imperialisms, and race in the U.S. vs. the UK * Cynthia Enloe of Clark University, famous for her feminist analyses of the military, talks about masculinity in the Bush administration, the oil industry, and military prisons ...

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Date:	Mon May 24 11:45:47 PDT 2004