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21421 [lbo-talk] Mr Iran/Contra Speaks -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >Can always count on Ledeen: > >May 24, 2004, 8:53 a.m. >The Agency Rides Again >Angleton on Chalabi. > >Like everyone else, I've been reading the stories about my friend Ahmad >Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress, and the accusations that he's an >Iranian spy. I don't believe it, but before launching a tirade against >the misnamed Central Intelligence Agency I thought I'd better check with >the greatest unliving expert on intelligence, the l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 24 11:11:57 PDT 2004

21422 [lbo-talk] Orientalist Torture, Cont'd -- rank: 1000

YOSHIE FURUHASHI wrote: >George Neumayr wrote in The American Spectator: "Had >Robert Mapplethorpe snapped the photos at Abu Ghraib, >the Senate might have given him a government grant" >("The Abu Ghraib Collection," May 12, 2004). The >outrageous equation of photographic evidence of prison >torture in the real world with works of art that stage >scenes of S/M (which is itself a kind of theater for its >practioners) has since been picked up and gleefu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 24 11:01:24 PDT 2004

21423 [lbo-talk] A 'Progressive Conference' -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I think that Brad's attitude is on target here. What is Moveon doing >other than replicating Wyrich's direct mail organizing for the >Republicans and taking it to the Internet? That was massively successful. If that's "all" they're doing, it could have formidable long-term effects. The right has beaten us on at least two important fronts - one, the sort of database building that Weyrich did, and two, getting radical ideas taken more seriously by the less radical ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 24 11:00:00 PDT 2004

21424 [lbo-talk] more WMT -- rank: 1000

U.S. Historic Group Targets Mega Wal-Mart Stores By Sue Pleming WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vermont was designated an "endangered place" on Monday by preservationists who say Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer, threatens the picturesque state with huge new stores that smash rural life. In its annual list of most endangered historic places, the National Trust for Historic Preservation included the state of Vermont because of an "onslaught of big-box" stores by Wal-Mart, the Ark ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 24 10:16:55 PDT 2004

21425 [lbo-talk] Abe, Rush, and E&P -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher - May 21, 2004 Abe Rosenthal, Rush Limbaugh, and Me Gross distortions on an Iraq column, amplified. By Greg Mitchell (May 21, 2004) -- Mark Twain put it best when he said, "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes." That was certainly the case this week, when A.M. Rosenthal, former New York Times executive editor, now writing for the New York City daily called The Sun, grossly mischaracterized something I wrote in th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 24 10:12:35 PDT 2004

21426 [lbo-talk] more nonvoters -- rank: 1000

There are some real issues here, certainly worth debating, but could we do it without the personal barbs? Doug Chuck0 wrote: >John Lacny wrote: > >>Munson writes: >> >>Using the word "scene" is just another way of saying "activist community." >> >>My point exactly. "Activist community" is, if anything, an even >>more telling choice of words than "scene." When people talk this >>way it is a sign that their ide ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 24 10:05:25 PDT 2004

21427 [lbo-talk] A 'Progressive Conference' -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Moveon sucks. They are just a front group for the Democratic Party. >It's a shame that Doug feels compelled to rise to their defense. I'm not defending their politics - it's pretty standard issue DP stuff. But they've mobilized a lot of people, and we should be stealing their organzing model instead of filing obvious and bitchy remarks about them, a la Brad M. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 24 09:57:12 PDT 2004

21428 [lbo-talk] A 'Progressive Conference' -- rank: 1000

What's the context on this? Who's being addressed, and what inspired this bit of pissiness? Doug Michael Pugliese wrote: > From the chair of the Socialist Party of Oregon. > Ehrenreich has reached millions more w/ left opinion and moved >many , many more leftwards than purists like this. > >------- Forwarded message ------- >From: "Michael C. Marino" <action_chair at yahoo.com> >To: SocialistsUnmoderated at yahoogroups.com >Subject: [SocialistsUnmodera ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 24 08:50:01 PDT 2004

21429 [lbo-talk] Bush, hoping to reassure a worried world -- rank: 1000

Check out this photo, with the ironically straight caption, while it's still around! <http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040524/photos_ts_wl_afp/040524105737_c0jtonmb_photo0>. Leave it to the French....

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 24 08:17:47 PDT 2004

21430 [lbo-talk] blogs go commercial, agents not far behind -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gawker.com/topic/the-agenting-of-the-blogs-kate-lee-will-enrichen-you-016385.php> MAY 24 2004 The Agenting of the Blogs: Kate Lee Will Enrichen You Now that a couple of losers have figured out how to get paid for writing weblogs, along comes someone with a smarter scheme: how can I get 15% of that? Today's New Yorker introduces us to Kate Lee, ICM agent and blog enthusiast. Avast, bloggers! Thar be agents, ready for their percentage. You know, the publishing industry is such a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 24 07:56:10 PDT 2004

21431 [lbo-talk] A 'Progressive Conference' -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >Another NoveOn farce THeir politics kinda suck, but they've literally mobilized millions of people. What have you done? Doug

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Date:	Mon May 24 07:37:42 PDT 2004

21432 [lbo-talk] Saudi diplomat: war was colonial and about oil -- rank: 1000

Saudi Envoy: Iraq War Was 'Colonial' and About Oil Mon May 24, 7:16 AM ET DUBLIN (Reuters) - The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq (news - web sites) was a colonial war and there were some in the United States who saw it as a means of getting their hands on Iraqi oil, a senior Saudi ambassador was quoted as saying Monday. Prince Turki al-Faisal, ambassador to Britain and Ireland, told the Irish Independent newspaper Washington's stated aims in going to war in Iraq masked a more cynical reality. "No ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 24 07:19:23 PDT 2004

21433 [lbo-talk] journalists' disgruntlement -- rank: 1000

Bottom-Line Pressures Now Hurting Coverage, Say Journalists Press Going Too Easy on Bush Journalists are unhappy with the way things are going in their profession these days. Many give poor grades to the coverage offered by the types of media that serve most Americans: daily newspapers, local TV, network TV news and cable news outlets. In fact, despite recent scandals at the New York Times and USA Today, only national newspapers - and the websites of national news organizations - receive good pe ...

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Date:	Mon May 24 07:15:02 PDT 2004

21434 [lbo-talk] Orientalists and Islamists -- rank: 1000

kjkhoo at softhome.net wrote: >It would appear that much rests in the hands of Americans: while >what's happening derives from sources internal to Muslim culture, >the environment that gives cache to the enabling internal structure >of belief is to a large degree established by American policy and >actions. I agree with this, with the addition that the earlier U.S.-encouraged destruction of the secular left in the ME contributed as well. But it should be pointed out that Saddam's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 23 12:05:21 PDT 2004

21435 [lbo-talk] Iran responds -- rank: 1000

Iran Sends Diplomatic Warning to U.S. Over Iraq Sun May 23, 4:21 AM ET TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - Iran said Sunday it had sent a formal message of warning to the United States about its actions in neighboring Iraq (news - web sites). Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi also denied suggestions made by some U.S. officials in recent days that Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi had passed sensitive U.S. intelligence about Iraq to Iran. "We have warned the Americans about Iraq, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 23 10:08:24 PDT 2004