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21571 [lbo-talk] Hezbollah condemns beheading -- rank: 1000

Thursday May 13, 05:02 AM Hizbollah Slams Beheading of American as Un-Islamic BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrilla group condemned Wednesday the beheading of an American hostage by Iraqi militants as an ugly crime that flouted the tenets of Islam. "Hizbollah condemns this horrible act that has done very great harm to Islam and Muslims by this group that claims affiliation to the religion of mercy, compassion and humane principles," the Shi'ite Muslim group said in a stateme ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 12 14:24:54 PDT 2004

21572 [lbo-talk] latest Pew poll: mass dissatisfaction spreads -- rank: 1000

<http://people-press.org> Iraq Prison Scandal Hits Home, but most Reject Troop Pullout 76% have seen Prison Pictures; Bush Approval Slips Public satisfaction with national conditions has fallen to 33%, its lowest level in eight years, in the wake of revelations of prisoner abuse committed by U.S. soldiers at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. President Bush's overall job approval rating also has dropped into negative territory: 44% approve of his job performance, while 48% disapprove. The Iraq pris ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 12 14:23:35 PDT 2004

21573 [lbo-talk] civilized -- rank: 1000

T Fast wrote: >I do ,however, find the terms civilisation and civilised >really "unfortunate" choices of terms by which to speak about these >sentiments and political achievements. One of the things I like about Marxism is that it aims to redeem the false promises of bourgeois ideology, which are denied or distorted by class society. Or, as I think Adorno said, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is take the promises of bourgeois society seriously. So in this case, we' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 12 10:38:20 PDT 2004

21574 [lbo-talk] Brit journalist busted at LAX -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - May 11, 2004 COMMENTARY A Foreign Reporter Gets a Story of U.S. Paranoia By Elena Lappin As I boarded my flight from London to Los Angeles on May 3, I looked forward to my first California experience. I had a freelance assignment for a British newspaper but also had been offered a bit of sightseeing by friends during my six-day stay. Instead, I spent 26 hours as a detainee. My only view of the city was framed by the metal bars on the security van transporting me, in handcuffs ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 12 09:19:08 PDT 2004

21575 [lbo-talk] more videos... -- rank: 1000

T Fast wrote: >Obviously, this is not a scandal but is the reality war. Those who want a >civilised war need to get their diapers changed. Sorry. Could you expand on this cryptic remark? It sounds like an insult, but the point and target are unclear. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 12 06:33:30 PDT 2004

21576 [lbo-talk] execution video -- rank: 1000

Michael Simkin wrote: >Perhaps this can serve as a shock therapy for some members of the list What exactly does this mean? I'm surprised you didn't have a "which is the real/which is the fake video?" test. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 12 06:30:29 PDT 2004

21577 [lbo-talk] more videos... -- rank: 1000

BS to Air U.S. Soldier's Video Diary of Iraq Abuse Tue May 11, 2004 08:20 PM ET By Giles Elgood WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An American soldier's video diary showing her disdain for Iraqi detainees who died in her charge is to be broadcast by a U.S. network on Wednesday in a further escalation of the prisoner abuse scandal that has shaken the Bush administration and provoked world outrage. CBS, which two weeks ago broadcast the first pictures of Iraqi prisoners being abused in Abu Ghraib prison near ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 11 17:55:16 PDT 2004

21578 [lbo-talk] Re: AP: Video Seems to Show Beheading of American -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Doug is just wrong when he claims that "the prospects for an antiwar >movement are brighter." Antiwar movement <> ANSWER. Sorry, don't have a not-equals sign in this all-text font. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 11 17:40:41 PDT 2004

21579 [lbo-talk] AP: Video Seems to Show Beheading of American -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >If progress is automatic; if things get better year by year, then indeed >there would be no point to being leftist. Who ever said progress is automatic? From having read your stuff over the years, you're the one wedded to an agentless view of History. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 11 16:29:00 PDT 2004

21580 [lbo-talk] Re: AP: Video Seems to Show Beheading of American -- rank: 1000

Bradley Mayer wrote: >Poor Doug. Can't really blame him and others who are dismayed that >we really do live in Yoshie's "Age of Regress", and perhaps don't >really want to face up to the consequences of this (by now >established) fact in any consistent way. They really want to >believe, as with the Beatles song "Revolution No. 9" that >"everything's going to be alright" in the end. But maybe not. Man, who the fuck said "everything's going t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 11 16:26:59 PDT 2004

21581 [lbo-talk] father of beheaded man antiwar -- rank: 1000

<http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-05-11-berg-family_x.htm?POE=click-refer> [...] Michael Berg described himself as fervently anti-war, but said his son disagreed. "He was a Bush supporter," Berg said. "He looked at it as bringing democracy to a country that didn't have it." Michael Berg lashed out at the U.S. military and Bush administration, saying his son might still be alive if he had been allowed to leave the country on March 30, as he had originally pla ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 11 16:00:28 PDT 2004

21582 [lbo-talk] AP: Video Seems to Show Beheading of American -- rank: 1000

T Fast wrote: >If we could just get off the continuum of barbarity and civilisation as it >applies to nations, races, ethnic groups etc., then perhaps we could move >forward (dare I say progress) with a conversation about where progress (with >a substantive normative position which underpins the definition) has taken >place and where regression has set in. This whole thread started in reaction to a claim by Noam Chomsky, with several specific components. It veered into an odd and ...

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Date:	Tue May 11 15:39:19 PDT 2004

21583 [lbo-talk] AP: Video Seems to Show Beheading of American -- rank: 1000

T Fast wrote: >And then the anticipated retort: Civilised people...civilised for what? You're right. Nothing but unmitigated barbarity, and it keeps getting worse. Since nothing has ever gotten better, why bother to be a leftist, then? Religious purity? Moral masochism? Feeling superior to the vast lot of humanity? Dysthymia masquerading as politics? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 11 14:47:30 PDT 2004

21584 [lbo-talk] WashPost has pub'd <1% of photos -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher - May 11, 2004 'Washington Post' Publishes Only a Few of Its Many Iraq-Prison Photos By Joe Strupp Published: May 11, 2004 12:01 AM EST NEW YORK Despite having more than 1,000 photos taken by American soldiers of life in and around the abuse-filled Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, The Washington Post has published just 10 depicting alleged mistreatment of prisoners due to concerns over incomplete information about the pictures and the "dignity of those [who are naked] in th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 11 11:52:22 PDT 2004

21585 [lbo-talk] Fascist voice -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >"These prisoners, you know they're not there for traffic violations," >Inhofe said. According to the Red Cross, 70-90% were arrested by mistake. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 11 11:46:47 PDT 2004