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21676 [lbo-talk] future wars -- rank: 1000

The conclusion of Maureen Dowd's column in today's NYT: >And Douglas Feith, the defense under secretary who was in charge of >Iraqi postwar planning and the secret unit that furnished >prêt-à-porter intelligence to back up Dick Cheney's doomsday >scenarios, told conservatives that the administration might set up >an office to plan postwar operations for future wars. > >Well, on the one hand, it would be refreshing to have a postwar >plan. On the other: future wars???

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 6 08:17:35 PDT 2004

21677 [lbo-talk] RE: couple of questions (Sharpton) -- rank: 1000

Gary? wrote: >From: "Gary Mongiovi" > >>. Were it not for all the baggage he's carrying around from an earlier life >(Tawana Brawley etc), he might have been taken >more seriously by the media. > >Well I thought him very impressive and it got me to wondering wether his >previous 'rabble rousing' wasn't just the media painting him a fools hat, >hence my question You don't just wake up one morning with insight and the >ability to convey it. He certainly h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 6 08:13:31 PDT 2004

21678 [lbo-talk] Just Do Something! -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala quoted: >It originally appeared in Radical Society, a small-circulation >journal put out by CUNY professors. Oh yeah, this is complete horsehit. Two of the editors we worked with were grad students and the other a freelance writer. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 5 19:18:40 PDT 2004

21679 [lbo-talk] Just Do Something! -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >sorry, but you cannot simply declare the statement about >Featherstone's work on the ISO in the Nation as a 'strike' Ms. >Featherstone did in fact write some articles for the Nation and the >question of how accurate they were or whether or not they were >red-baiting as stated in the piece I posted has been the subject of >extensive debate. > >As to Christian Parenti's reportage from Baghdad, we are told by >Louis Project that: The other important ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 5 18:42:41 PDT 2004

21680 [lbo-talk] Just Do Something! -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >In Reply to Doug Henwood, Liza Featherstone and Christian Parenti > >posted to www.marxmail.org on February 10, 2004 <yawn>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 5 16:30:13 PDT 2004

21681 [lbo-talk] Just Do Something! -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >What I wanna know is if Christian Parenti considers voting for Kerry >to be an instance of hyper-pragmatism on the left. :-) Last I checked, which was about 30 secs ago (he was in my office on the way to a meeting with his New Press editor), he's gonna do it, while conceding that Kerry is truly awful. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 5 16:18:23 PDT 2004

21682 [lbo-talk] Kerry's Campaign: A Lost Cause for Progressives? -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >May 5, 2004 > >Kerry's Campaign > >A Lost Cause for Progressives? > >By KATHLEEN and BILL CHRISTISON >Former CIA analysts Well, I suppose the "former" part is comforting. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 5 15:54:44 PDT 2004

21683 [lbo-talk] Powell sick of Bush -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review <http://prorev.com>} POWELL BUDDIES TELL ON BUSH ET AL http://us.gq.com/plus/content/?040429plco_01 SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL is exhausted, frustrated, and bitter, uncomfortable with President George W. Bush's agenda, and fatigued from his battles with the Pentagon, reports GQ magazine writer-at-large Wil S. Hylton in the June 2004 issue of GQ magazine. Powell's chief of staff, Larry Wilkerson, on whether Powell will return for a second term: " ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 5 15:33:06 PDT 2004

21684 [lbo-talk] once more on nonvoters -- rank: 1000

Another AAPORite tells me that nonvoters are more "undecided" than voters. I think we have to question the faith that a lot of lefties profess - that nonvoters are a great reservoir of potential progressive support. It just may not be that way, Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 5 14:31:55 PDT 2004

21685 [lbo-talk] Re: Ralph Nader, Suicide Bomber -- rank: 1000

Shane Mage wrote: >Today's NYTimes had an op-ed column by a Yale professor that >puts a decisive challenge to both Nader and the ABB anti-Naderites. >The idea is seemingly very simple: since the return of Ubu and his >Bushits is generally agreed to be the worst possible outcome, let >the two leading anti-Bushit candidates continue to run and to >argue for their programs *while placing the same names on the >ballot as presidential electors*. I kind of like this idea, without ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 5 14:08:28 PDT 2004

21686 [lbo-talk] even more on novoters -- rank: 1000

Of possible interest might be an article Ray Wolfinger and I wrote on "The Political Implications of Higher [American] Turnout," published in the British Journal of Political Science (v.31, January 2001, pp. 179-192). We found only modest differences when we compared the actual voting population to the population of all eligible voters. Ben Highton Department of Political Science University of California Davis, CA 95616-8682

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 5 13:05:08 PDT 2004

21687 [lbo-talk] Re: Ralph Nader, Suicide Bomber -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >A bit "Post hoc, ergo...," Doug? Who knows? How else can you do economics? Experimentation is impossible. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 5 11:24:36 PDT 2004

21688 [lbo-talk] Re: Ralph Nader, Suicide Bomber -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >I think the assertion, taken for granted here, that "the election of Bush >would be worse for working-class, poor people and blacks" than that of >Gore, is difficult to prove, at best. During the 80s boom, real hourly wages declined. During the late 80s/early 90s recession and weak recovery, they declined. During the 90s boom, they rose. During the recent recession and weak recovery, real wages have been flat. At n=4, the sample isn't large, but it's st ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 5 11:06:32 PDT 2004

21689 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Torture report available -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Kelley] The report on torture at Abu Ghraib prison is apparently still classified. But it is now widely available on the internet, including here: http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/reports/2004/800-mp-bde.htm TORTURE REPORT MAY HAVE BROKEN CLASSIFICATION RULES By classifying an explosive report on the torture of Iraqi prisoners as "Secret," the Pentagon may have violated official secrecy policies, which prohibit the use of classification to conceal illegal activi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 5 10:51:15 PDT 2004

21690 [lbo-talk] American dominance: growth or shrinkage? (was, Cultural change?) -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >One day, I'm going to have to write down in detail the >story my brother-in-law, who's S. Korean and a banking >analyst, told me about the tactics S. Korean business >and government officials used to deal with the IMF's >intrusion into their economy. When I interviewed Stiglitz, he told me that the SK's largely ignored the IMF's conditions, which is why their economy recovered. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 5 09:48:13 PDT 2004