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21511 [lbo-talk] Barbara Ehrenreich -- rank: 1000

Gary? wrote: >From: "Doug Henwood" >> Also, by the way, Gary Younge (thanks to whoever suggested him) and >> George Monbiot. Sadly, Angela Davis, through her business manager >> (!), declined for lack of time. >> >as I'm sure you're aware this is the twentieth anniversary of the miner's >strikes in England, what about interviewing some of those real working class >heroes. I'm sure Richard Branson would sponsor, I heard a few of them when I >was ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 16 12:59:29 PDT 2004

21512 [lbo-talk] Barbara Ehrenreich -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: > >--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >>Sadly, Angela Davis, through her >> business manager >> (!), > >I'm very curious as to why you put an exclamation >point in parentheses there. I would imagine someone of >her fame would never get anything done if they had to >personally field all requests and organize for all >appearances. For sure, I agree - I certainly don't hold having an assistant against her. It's just t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 16 12:58:24 PDT 2004

21513 [lbo-talk] Twilight of the West -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >>>Carl Remick wrote: >> >>>[Good piece, afirming we are a long way now from Reagan's "Morning >>>in America." BTW, whatever happened to editing? NB, first graf >>>below, the egregious "high watermark of western moral virtue," >>>which should be "high-water mark" so the reference is to a flood >>>level, not stationery.] >> & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 16 12:29:04 PDT 2004

21514 [lbo-talk] Re: pick-a-poll? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >The two overlap, but there are fundamental differences, beginning with >the fact that the kind of "poll" I am speaking of _cannot be done over >the phone_ but must be done personally, but the organizer, in direct & >protracted conversation. Ok, I'll agree with this. But that's a completely different ball of wax from a "poll," which is, or should be, a snapshot of opinion as it exists, apart from efforts to influence it. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 16 12:20:52 PDT 2004

21515 [lbo-talk] Sapir -- rank: 1000

[Marc Sapir, director of RetroPoll, sent this reaction to my critiques of his latest. I'll let this float out into the universe before responding.] To Doug Henwood: First off: Retro Poll reached a random sample of 513 Americans from 48 states between April 19-May 5. Your comments suggest you are ignoring almost all the results and the 5 excellent articles on many subjects that were written by our committee while you remain fixated upon the impeachment question with the same objection you had la ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 16 12:04:36 PDT 2004

21516 [lbo-talk] Barbara Ehrenreich -- rank: 1000

Eubulides wrote: >Feminism's Assumptions Upended I'm going to have Cynthia Enloe on my fundraising radio special this Thursday to discuss exactly these issues. Also, by the way, Gary Younge (thanks to whoever suggested him) and George Monbiot. Sadly, Angela Davis, through her business manager (!), declined for lack of time. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 16 10:33:59 PDT 2004

21517 [lbo-talk] Twilight of the West -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >[Good piece, afirming we are a long way now from Reagan's "Morning >in America." BTW, whatever happened to editing? NB, first graf >below, the egregious "high watermark of western moral virtue," which >should be "high-water mark" so the reference is to a flood level, >not stationery.] Bears the non-water mark of a spell checker. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 16 10:04:07 PDT 2004

21518 [lbo-talk] RE: Polling -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Doug writes: >"That's a version of what's known in the trade as a push poll, most >commonly used in political campaigns. A rep of Candidate X calls up, >posing as a pollster, asking: "How would you feel if you heard that >Candidate Y likes to have sex with dogs?" Well not exactly that >question, but you get the idea." > >You're implying that there's a way to do a neutral, clean poll, but >I just can't see it. A poll occurs in th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 16 09:46:29 PDT 2004

21519 [lbo-talk] The First Time as Farce, the Second Time as Tragedy -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >What does it all mean for the working class of the world? Recent >electoral victories of centrist neoliberals in Spain, France, and >India -- riding a wave of discontents about war and economy -- >suggest that the ruling class may be once again betting on socially >liberal faces to pacify the left and rein in wage demands to prevent >any potential wage-push profit squeeze from arising to aggravate the >cost-push inflation. Does the ruling class fully ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 16 09:29:06 PDT 2004

21520 [lbo-talk] Re: the nader menace, still -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >I don't know any place where Nader has explained how he would deal >with this problem of turning the ocean liner around (as I like to >think of it -- changing the course of a huge political/economic >juggernaut), but perhaps he has worked out how he would do it. >Certainly he would have to have a very strong popular movement >behind him -- exactly what he has not proven very good at building. And not just numbers, but actual institutions, like a party, int ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 16 09:13:46 PDT 2004

21521 [lbo-talk] Hersh: How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib. -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook worried about: > unleashing the CIA on Osama bin Laden >and his Al Qeada accomplices. So what's your approach? Should a government - and I assume you're not an anarchist, so a government is ok by you - have an intelligence agency? Our mutual pal Cockburn wrote in The Nation's Nov 12, 2001, issue: >The left should be for peace, which in no way means ignoring the >demands of either side. Bin Laden calls for: an end to sanctions on >Iraq; US troops out of Saudi Arabi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 16 09:04:22 PDT 2004

21522 [lbo-talk] boring... -- rank: 1000

Further to Carl Remick's critique of the military mind, there's this bit from Hersh's latest. Seems the gung-ho civilian is a far scarier breed: >The former senior intelligence official blamed hubris for the Abu >Ghraib disaster. "There's nothing more exhilarating for a pissant >Pentagon civilian than dealing with an important national security >issue without dealing with military planners, who are always worried >about risk," he told me. "What could be more boring ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 16 08:33:46 PDT 2004

21523 [lbo-talk] Saudi royal guard working with AQ? -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - May 16, 2004 Saudi royal guards 'aided al-Qa'ida' in Riyadh bombings that left 35 dead By Mark Hollingsworth 16 May 2004 Al-Qa'ida terrorists whose suicide bombs killed 35 people and injured 200 at a housing compound in Riyadh last May were secretly assisted by certain members of the Saudi National Guard which protects the royal family, military trainers employed by a US firm have claimed. In exclusive interviews with The Independent on Sunday, the former trainers for the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 16 08:09:12 PDT 2004

21524 [lbo-talk] Re: pick-a-poll? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Door-to-door "polling" can be used (and was used by some J.O.I.N. locals >in the mid-60s) as an organizing technique. The questionnaire can be >designed to lead people to think about topics that they had never >focused on before, and of course (as you point out here)the questions >can be designed both to provide information _and_ to pose hypothetical >situations. That's a version of what's known in the trade as a push poll, most commonly used in pol ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 15 06:35:23 PDT 2004

21525 [lbo-talk] Re: Poll: Support for Bush, Iraq war dropping -- rank: 1000

Bradley Mayer wrote: >Except for a politically independent progressive left. That's not >possible for some reason. That thinking is the ultimate delusion. Lots of smart dedicated people have never thought of this, or tried to make it reality. Only Really Smart Guy Bradley Mayer understands. We must make Him our maximum leader. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 15 06:33:16 PDT 2004