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21706 [lbo-talk] CFR on Iraq after 6/30 -- rank: 1000

Q&A FACTSHEET: How will Iraq change on June 30? For the answer, go to: http://www.cfr.org/background/background_iraq_sovereignty.php

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 15:28:34 PDT 2004

21707 [lbo-talk] Re: Ralph Nader, Suicide Bomber -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Al Gore was the same thing as George W. Bush. The share of the population that would believe this is probably well under 5%.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 15:18:03 PDT 2004

21708 [lbo-talk] Cultural Change -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >And actually, Leninist Nikita Khrushchev , General Secretary ( top >leader) of the CPSU, did criticize Stalin for murderous repression. True. And the union organizing in the 1930s that Nathan professes to admire owes no small amount to the CPUSA. Ditto tenant organizing in NYC, and organizing in Harlem and the South (what other predominantly white org gave a damn about black people 60-70 years ago?). Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 15:15:36 PDT 2004

21709 [lbo-talk] Rall on O'Rwilly -- rank: 1000

this should be illuminating - wonder how long he'll get before the thug turns off his mike At 3:07 PM -0700 5/4/04, Soft Skull Media wrote: >Ted Rall, author of the forthcoming "Wake Up You're Liberal: How We >Can Take America Back from the Right," (Soft Skull, June 2004) will >appear on The O'Reilly Factor tonight to discuss his most recent >controversial cartoon and his forthcoming book.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 15:13:05 PDT 2004

21710 [lbo-talk] Re: Ralph Nader, Suicide Bomber -- rank: 1000

BklynMagus wrote: >How the Great Crusader used the Green Party to get his revenge Fascinating. So how many of you Nader voters agree with this strategy? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 14:43:21 PDT 2004

21711 [lbo-talk] complaints against Oprah -- rank: 1000

[hilarious - "Citizens against Unclean Network Trash" - I won't the acronym so I don't set off any filters] At 1:30 PM -0400 5/4/04, editor at thesmokinggun.com wrote: >Thanks to prodding by Howard Stern and Jimmy Kimmel, the Federal >Communications Commission has received more than 1600 letters >complaining about a recent Oprah Winfrey show regarding teenage, um, >practices like tossing someone's salad. Not surprisingly, the >correspondence is brutally frank, funny, and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 13:22:02 PDT 2004

21712 [lbo-talk] Was the USSR a "good try" and valuable counterweight? -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Doug: I think Ted adequately countered your bizarre claim that tyrannies >that enjoy some substantial degree of public support aren't really tyrannies >after all. Popular support doesn't make a regime wise or just. But in this case, it makes it hard to argue that Soviet power was maintained through mainly repression and fear and not substantial popular consent, as people like you like to claim. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 12:54:57 PDT 2004

21713 [lbo-talk] unepmployment numbers -- rank: 1000

bradhatch wrote: >I have question for the economists on the list. According to my local >newspaper there are 2 unemployment surveys used, one surveys businesses to >payrolls the other is a household survey asking families if they have an >unemployed member. If I'm not mistaken, the employer survey is the one thats >taken seriously and used by the department of labor. But recently the other >is being used by republicancs because it gives them better employment >numbers. They ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 12:43:05 PDT 2004

21714 [lbo-talk] Cultural Change? -- rank: 1000

Ted Winslow wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >>It makes it harder to describe Stalinism as tyranny, and if he >>could have won an election, it makes it harder to criticze him on >>democratic grounds at all, if your definition of democracy is that >>the government should respond to popular will. > >This produces absurd implications e.g. Napoleon III's coup d'etat >didn't produce tyranny because it was popular with many peasants. >According to Marx, it more a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 11:56:58 PDT 2004

21715 [lbo-talk] Cultural Change? -- rank: 1000

Ted Winslow wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > >>One more thing you liberal democrats forget is that Stalin was quite popular. > >What implication re Stalin should liberal democrats and others draw from this? It makes it harder to describe Stalinism as tyranny, and if he could have won an election, it makes it harder to criticze him on democratic grounds at all, if your definition of democracy is that the government should respond to popular will. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 11:45:47 PDT 2004

21716 [lbo-talk] FOMC: -- rank: 1000

[This is the Fed's way of preparing the markets for a tightening, but not an imminent one. "Measured" replaces "patient," a slightly more hawkish word. Stocks rose and interest rates fell in relief; expectations were for tougher language.] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/monetary/2004/20040504/default.htm> Release Date: May 4, 2004 For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to keep its target for the federal funds rate at 1 perc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 11:43:28 PDT 2004

21717 [lbo-talk] Hotline editor: Kerry in a rout -- rank: 1000

<http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0405.todd.html> A Kerry Landslide? Why the next election won't be close. By Chuck Todd [...] But there's another possibility, one only now being floated by a few political operatives: 2004 could be a decisive victory for Kerry. The reason to think so is historical. Elections that feature a sitting president tend to be referendums on the incumbent--and in recent elections, the incumbent has either won or lost by large electoral margins. If you ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 11:38:15 PDT 2004

21718 [lbo-talk] RE: Cultural Change -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Except for Eurocommunists (and libertarian communists), Leninists >abjure any strong self-criticism for the murderous repression A trait the western bourgeoisie has never exhibited. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 11:34:15 PDT 2004

21719 [lbo-talk] Bush's harshest critic? Pat Buchanan maybe -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - May 4, 2004 The Magazine Reader By Peter Carlson [...] Buchanan's Right Jab Okay, magazine readers, here's a quick quiz: What magazine has published the most scathing attacks on President Bush and his Iraq invasion? If you guessed the Nation or Mother Jones or the Progressive, you may be right. Those liberal mags have pummeled Bush's war unmercifully. Vanity Fair has also weighed in with several attacks. But the correct answer just might be "the American Conservative." ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 09:30:10 PDT 2004

21720 [lbo-talk] Rall cartoon hated -- rank: 1000

[the cartoon is at <http://www.ucomics.com/rallcom/>] Editor & Publisher Online - May 3, 2004 Rall's 'Tillman' Cartoon Pulled by MSNBC.com By Dave Astor A cartoon questioning late footballer-turned-soldier Pat Tillman's credentials as a "hero" was pulled from MSNBC.com this afternoon. The drawing also brought Ted Rall 110 e-mails in less than 15 minutes. The volume of mail had much to do with the cartoon being mentioned on the Drudge Report site, seen by many conservatives. D ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 09:26:04 PDT 2004