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21601 [lbo-talk] Fear and Gnawing in Palm Beach (was: Why Kerry?) -- rank: 1000

snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com wrote: >ove's strategy is to attack the opponent on their strongest point, >in this case the war and the economy. This is a point also made by the master of the ad hominem polemic, former NY Observer columnist Michael Thomas. He said if you want to go after someone, hit the point he's proudest of, not his weak spots. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 10 08:18:06 PDT 2004

21602 [lbo-talk] Camp Bucca and beyond -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >No, I'm not joking at all. Such photos wouldn't find their way into the >press in an unfree and undemocratic state. An admirable journalist like Sey >Hersh would be imprisoned, dead, or in a different line of work. You might be cheered to know that Chomsky agrees. A bit before the excerpt I quoted yesterday, he says that U.S. standards of free speech are perhaps the highest in the world. I don't know if I agree, but that's what he said. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 10 08:11:16 PDT 2004

21603 [lbo-talk] Red Cross warned U.S. over a year ago on prisons -- rank: 1000

[The Red Cross report is at <http://online.wsj.com/documents/wsj-ICRC_report050904.pdf>.] Wall Street Journal - May 10, 2004 Red Cross Cited Detainee Abuse Over a Year Ago Agency Filed Complaints About Abu Ghraib Prison Months Before U.S. Probe By DAVID S. CLOUD Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Even before the war in Iraq ended a year ago, and well before U.S. officials have generally acknowledged it, the Red Cross began periodically lodging complaints about the treatment of Iraqi ...

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Date:	Mon May 10 08:07:14 PDT 2004

21604 [lbo-talk] Beware The Ides Of June -- rank: 1000

Gregory Lipman wrote: >?(Even the heavens line up against the Bush Regime.) > >THE IDES OF JUNE > >by Henry Selzer > >This article explores the Saturn transit to the Sun in the United States >chart coming up in June 2004 in the context of other outer planet transits >to the U.S. chart. The symbolism reveals further problems for the Bush White >House at this time. Like the prophetic "Ides of March" from Shakespeare's >Julius Caesar, mid June spells troub ...

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Date:	Mon May 10 07:52:29 PDT 2004

21605 [lbo-talk] Dean's new mission -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - May 10, 2004 Howard Dean: 'Politics is a dirty business but it's on our doorstep and we have to deal with it' Former Democrat presidential candidate and founder of Democracy for America By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles Howard Dean is still fighting. It has been more than three months since the former Vermont governor's blazing presidential campaign crashed as spectacularly as it soared out of nowhere. But he is still touring the country, still articulating his blunt assessm ...

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Date:	Mon May 10 07:32:51 PDT 2004

21606 [lbo-talk] Hersch [sic] an (unwitting) mouthpiece? -- rank: 1000

Liza Featherstone wrote: >Agree with Jeet - SH is probably the best journalist in America, and this >conspiracy theorizing by Counterpunch is garbage. Paged through Cocky's Corruptions of Empire last night. It has two approving citations of Hersh - one for an article on Kissinger's role in overthrowing Allende, and another on Reagan's attempts to kill Qaddafi. Guess that's before he was on the Company payroll. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 10 07:28:41 PDT 2004

21607 [lbo-talk] Re: Eagleton on fascism -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >It would appear for Eagleton's review that Paxton doesn't think >Hirohitos' Japan was fascist. Neither is Japan mentioned in a review by >G. Pascal Zachary in the SF Chronicle (that I have in hand). That's a >blind spot characteristic of views both "Eurocentric" and narrow in >their intrepretation of the modern political culture. Following Paxton, Eagleton wants to make a distinction between fascism and other forms of military authoritarianism. I'm n ...

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Date:	Mon May 10 07:19:42 PDT 2004

21608 [lbo-talk] Hersch an (unwitting) mouthpiece? -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >A good one from "evil" Counterpunch: "Company Men like Seymour Hersh." They're not fit to tie his shoes. A new low. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 9 22:04:42 PDT 2004

21609 [lbo-talk] Barenboim causes a ruckus -- rank: 1000

Ha'aretz - May 9, 2004 Barenboim's attack on Israel angers Katsav, Livnat By Gideon Alon, Haaretz Correspondent Conductor Daniel Barenboim elicited angry responses Sunday night from President Moshe Katsav and Education Minister Limor Livnat after he sharply criticized Israel's policies toward the Palestinians. Barenboim, speaking at the Knesset where he received the Wolf Foundation Prize, said "With pain in my heart, I ask today whether a situation of conquest and control can be reconciled ...

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Date:	Sun May 9 17:49:09 PDT 2004

21610 [lbo-talk] Eagleton on fascism -- rank: 1000

Shane Mage wrote: >For an anthology of "leftist" idiocies: That Terry Eagleton, such an idiot! Good thing we've got some smarties around to keep score. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 9 17:47:44 PDT 2004

21611 [lbo-talk] Camp Bucca and beyond -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Murder was the main tool of many a people's liberation movement. Would you >be willing to claim that none of them had any scruples either? I'd imagine >you think that the US intelligence community should be disbanded. Maybe >that's right; I certainly can't point to any shining successes. Depends on your measure of success. The U.S. "intelligence community" (and "community" is a funny word - lately I've heard refs to the "copyright commu ...

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Date:	Sun May 9 15:29:28 PDT 2004

21612 [lbo-talk] cutting up George -- rank: 1000

Cheap humor, but still kinda funny. An edited version of W's recent news conference. <http://archive.wfmu.org:5555/archive/BL/dubya-my_message_today.mp3>. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 9 13:11:09 PDT 2004

21613 [lbo-talk] what Chomsky said -- rank: 1000

The closing of my interview with Noam Chomsky, broadcast February 10, 2002. I think he's wrong about intellectuals - take a look at the books and presses that thrive now that didn't in the early 1960s. But I don't want to quibble... [starts at 1:14:22] NC: There's plenty of dissent and opposition and concern. Plenty of grounds for optimism for people who are trying to organize and work. It's certainly far easier now than 40 years ago when Kennedy was launched his attack on South Vietnam. Then yo ...

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Date:	Sun May 9 12:53:32 PDT 2004

21614 [lbo-talk] Camp Bucca and beyond -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >the scruples of the intelligence community Huh? What scruples? Lying and murder are the major tools of their trade. What planet you been living on? Doug

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Date:	Sun May 9 12:24:44 PDT 2004

21615 [lbo-talk] Bush for president - so he completes his failure -- rank: 1000

These punishments for Rummy are too uncreative. I'd rather see him as a hospital orderly in Iraq, tending to people who've been shredded by the U.S. military. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 9 12:13:44 PDT 2004