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21736 [lbo-talk] Re: plausible strategy -- rank: 1000

Laurence Shute wrote: >What would a plausible strategy look like? Who would decide if it's >plausible? Got me. That's why I asked. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 3 14:41:27 PDT 2004

21737 [lbo-talk] guest suggestions? -- rank: 1000

I'm planning to do my WBAI fundraising special - May 20, 4-6 PM, tentatively - on "The State of the Empire." I've got a couple of ideas already (George Monbiot and Michael Hardt), but I need, um, some diversity. Any suggestions for nonwhite nonmen with some celebrity power who can make the pledge phones ring? Doug

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Date:	Mon May 3 12:42:54 PDT 2004

21738 [lbo-talk] Brock's blog -- rank: 1000

Anyone looked over David Brock's new site that fact-checks the right? Nothing like gathering a lot of right-wing media stuff in one place to remind you how utterly weird and vile it is: <http://mediamatters.org/>. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 3 12:07:47 PDT 2004

21739 [lbo-talk] RE: Pro Kerry bumperstickers -- rank: 1000

Guilherme wrote: >On Mon, 3 May 2004, Michael Pugliese wrote: > >> Walking from the Ashby BART station to Telegraph Ave. in Berkeley on May >> Day, I saw one. > > seen them on pickup trucks in washington DC. Just saw one on the subway (the 1/9 down from the Upper West Side, which is prime Kerry territory). Doug

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Date:	Mon May 3 11:41:59 PDT 2004

21740 [lbo-talk] Pro Kerry bumperstickers -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >What Chomsky say to you in some casual conversation is not exactly >the best venue for him to express a nuanced position on politics. >But perhaps it is time to knock Chomsky off his big pedestal and >point out that even the great Chomsky is a human who is capable of >saying stupid things and taking dumb ass positions. Chuck, no one belongs on a pedastal, but if there's anyone who deserves to be taken seriously, even if you don't agree with him, it's Chomsky. There' ...

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Date:	Mon May 3 09:29:20 PDT 2004

21741 [lbo-talk] Pro Kerry bumperstickers -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >And why Munson feels a need to mischaracterize my politics is beyond >me. I am obviously not a liberal. Munson is obviously an anarchist, >and I would feel no need to say otherwise. It's just that he is also >obviously a fool. Now, now, boys. Doug, Listmom

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Date:	Mon May 3 09:25:13 PDT 2004

21742 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >I've been trying to get these audio files working on my machine for >some time and haven't yet succeeded, even the low-bandwidth ones (I >have your basic 56K dial-up connection). The directions on the >website haven't helped me because basically I'm a complete dolt >about this computer audio thing. > >Could someone point me toward a source of information which could >help me (a Mac user) figure out what I'm doing wrong -- i.e., >something that spe ...

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Date:	Mon May 3 07:44:01 PDT 2004

21743 [lbo-talk] McLemmee on Russell Kirk -- rank: 1000

[back in my right-wing days, Kirk was a hero of mine] Chronicle of Higher Education - May 7, 2004 A Conservative of the Old School Russell Kirk rowed against the liberal intellectual currents of his time. Now his followers want to rescue him from the riptide of contemporary conservatism. By SCOTT McLEMEE W. Wesley McDonald, a professor of political science at Elizabethtown College, could not have planned for his new book, Russell Kirk and the Age of Ideology (University of Missouri Press), to ap ...

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Date:	Mon May 3 07:23:16 PDT 2004

21744 [lbo-talk] Re: Cultural change? -- rank: 1000

Gary? wrote: >I get it now, this is a contest to see how many times you can say the same >stupid shit in as many different ways. And you're definitely among the semifinalists. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 3 07:35:36 PDT 2004

21745 [lbo-talk] Cultural Change? -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >the period of the 1960s and 70s was an embryonic period for today's far >right. barry goldwater looks almost liberal today. during that period, >militants, liberals, lefties, etc, were constantly being "warned" by the >powers that be about "backlash." reagan was a product of that backlash. >and so is shrub. we're living in that backlash. "World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 contributed mightily to the advent of fascism. The war g ...

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Date:	Mon May 3 07:32:45 PDT 2004

21746 [lbo-talk] Purging Black Votes: 2000 and 2004 -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >what victories? the victories are in the past. what's needed is a clear, >unabashed appraisal of what "liberals" and the left are up against. then >organizing to deal with it. We - and I'm including myself in this - are rather lacking in a compelling vision of the future. Part of the reason may be that we've lost that old Hegelian/Marxist trick of finding the seeds of the new in the belly of the old. So much left discourse is about horrors - exploitation, genocide ...

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Date:	Mon May 3 07:10:01 PDT 2004

21747 [lbo-talk] Purging Black Votes: 2000 and 2004 -- rank: 1000

snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com wrote: >At 12:04 AM 5/3/2004, Chuck0 wrote: > >>Has anybody on this list seen anybody with a pro-Kerry >>bumpersticker on their car? >> >>Chuck0 > >For the most part, I haven't see any bumper stickers, except for old ones. I've seen quite a few Kerry buttons in NYC. And at least as many anti-Bush ones (which are how the coy or ambivalent wear their Kerry endorsements) - e.g. the popular "Re-Defeat Bush." Doug

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Date:	Mon May 3 07:06:08 PDT 2004

21748 [lbo-talk] Winning the Culture War, Losing the Class Struggle -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >It is much more than a clever joke >to refer to the u.s. as a one-party state with two right wings. Or, as Christopher Hitchens once said, the parties are two cheeks of the same derriere. But look what happened to him! Doug

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Date:	Mon May 3 06:57:46 PDT 2004

21749 [lbo-talk] NPR MarketPlace Interview w/Mr. Henwood -- rank: 1000

Peter Huss wrote: >An interview with Doug Henwood / Kai Rysdall was on NPR's >MarketPlace Morning Report this morning. Huh? Really? I recorded that thing about 5 months ago! Doug

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Date:	Mon May 3 06:41:22 PDT 2004

21750 [lbo-talk] Billmon comments on Diary of an Interrogator -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >However, I did get the impression that US TV coverage set new lows when >the story broke. But I can't say from personal experience. Ask me after >I've seen Monday's Daily Show :o) Here's a lovely apoologia. Wall Street Journal - May 3, 2004 COMMENTARY Abu Ghraib By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON SELMA, Calif. -- Pictures of American military police humiliating and, in some cases, allegedly torturing Iraqi prisoners in Saddam's old Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad now flash a ...

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Date:	Mon May 3 06:40:42 PDT 2004