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21766 [lbo-talk] Hersh on Abu Ghraib: Systematic and documented months ago -- rank: 1000
snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com wrote: >Would be nice to see an international coalition make use of this to >shove these guys out. Call me a dreamer. Which guys? Doug
Document Size: 5090
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat May 1 11:50:15 PDT 2004
21767 [lbo-talk] "victory over the Americans!" -- rank: 1000
Iraqis Hail Falluja 'Victory' as U.S. Changes Tack By Fadel Badran FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Soldiers of the old Iraqi army led by one of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s generals patrolled Falluja on Saturday, a year after George W. Bush declared "mission accomplished" in ousting the Iraqi regime. Cries of "victory over the Americans" echoed from minarets and gunmen celebrated in the streets under the green banner of Islam and Saddam-era Iraqi flags. Thousands who had fle ...
Document Size: 8235
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat May 1 11:49:22 PDT 2004
21768 [lbo-talk] Norman Geras on the morality of the just war. -- rank: 1000
Miles Jackson wrote: >This reminds me of the argument some feminists raise against >the socialist-feminist claim that capitalism and sexism are >mutually dependent: "Sexism existed before capitalism, so >capitalism can't possible be a cause of sexism!" --The >socialist feminist point, which I still more or less buy, >is that capitalist social relations tend to reinforce >and benefit from discrimination against women (e.g., >free household labor = families survi ...
Document Size: 5941
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat May 1 11:46:20 PDT 2004
21769 [lbo-talk] the Lavender Menace joins the Red Menace -- rank: 1000
[Happy May Day, or Loyalty Day, or Law Day...] The Pridelets Files for May 1 On this day in 1952, Representative Katherine St. George of New York reads into the Congressional record the claims of "Homosexual International" an article by R.G. Waldeck. Its premise: evil gays and lesbians have not only created an international conspiracy parallel to that of Communism, but they've joined forces with the Red Menace. Far more dangerous than just being open to black mail, homosexuals "by ...
Document Size: 5353
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat May 1 11:29:31 PDT 2004
21770 [lbo-talk] Gallup poll: 98% cooperation rate -- rank: 1000
snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com wrote: >That said, polling/ethnography/etc. etc. were and are used as ways >to subjugate populations as part of a nationalizing process. It's a >double-edged sword. But this isn't really news to anyone who has a >healthy understanding of the history of the social sciences and >their ambivalent relation to the state, imperializing or >nationlizing (which are two parts of the same process....). Yup. And polling can also be used to narrow the range ...
Document Size: 5423
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat May 1 09:24:58 PDT 2004
21771 [lbo-talk] Re: Cultural change? -- rank: 1000
Carl Remick wrote: >Wake up and smell the empire. If the cultural revolution had >amounted to anything, the US wouldn't be at war with the world now >and an outrage to civilized people everywhere. "The country is incomparably more civilized than it was 40 years ago." - Noam Chomsky, not exactly a starry-eyed optimist
Document Size: 4834
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat May 1 09:22:45 PDT 2004
21772 [lbo-talk] Re: Cultural change? -- rank: 1000
Gary? wrote: >From: "Jacob Conrad" >> Agreed. I find it simply astounding that anyone old enough to have some >> historical perspective, and certainly any native-born American, can >> blithely dismiss the impact of the 1960s cultural revolution. <snip a load >of self indulgent pompous shite> >how you can mention native born american without , forget it.waste of time. >The sixties were the same as the twenties ,a party after the horrors of war, & ...
Document Size: 5521
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat May 1 09:13:57 PDT 2004
21773 [lbo-talk] a deserter speaks -- rank: 1000
[I just recorded an interview with Mejia; I'll run it on my radio show tomorrow.] <http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040412&s=parenti> A Deserter Speaks by CHRISTIAN PARENTI [posted online on March 25, 2004] The young man across the table looks sad, but not as stressed as one might expect from a US Army deserter. Camilo Mejia served with a unit that crossed into Iraq just after the invasion and then, for five months, fought in the counterinsurgency war in the Sunni Triangle, where ...
Document Size: 12210
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Mar 31 16:09:06 PST 2004
21774 [lbo-talk] phantom sources -- rank: 1000
[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review <http://prorev.com>} EMENDATION WALTER F. WOUK, TOM PAINE PROJECT - On February 10, Newsmax ran a story entitled, "Gen. Giap: Kerry's Group Helped Hanoi Defeat U.S." The story claimed that "In his 1985 memoir about the war, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap wrote that if it weren't for organizations like Kerry's Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Hanoi would have surrendered to the U.S. - according to Fox News Channel war historian Oliver North." No ...
Document Size: 6162
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Mar 31 16:06:23 PST 2004
21775 [lbo-talk] Dominique de Villepin: Hopeless Romantic -- rank: 1000
mike larkin wrote: >I cracked up when I read this totally objective comment in the >middle of a news article: > >"As foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin enraged the Bush >administration with his relentless criticism of the American-led war >and occupation in Iraq and struggled to implement a new activist, >romantic vision of the world in which France would regain the >centrality it lost long ago." > ><http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/international/ ...
Document Size: 9642
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Mar 31 14:28:26 PST 2004
21776 [lbo-talk] Criminal stats question -- rank: 1000
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Doug: >> Those are jail inmates. Jails are local institutions that hold people >> awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses. You want prison >> inmates, who've been convicted of major crimes (prisons are state or >> federal institutions). >> > >I understand that, but these are the only stats on inmate profile I >could find. Try this: <http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/1995/wk1/t639.wk1>. Doug
Document Size: 5118
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Mar 31 14:14:50 PST 2004
21777 [lbo-talk] Criminal stats question -- rank: 1000
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > > Does anyone know where to find statistics of criminal convictions by >> convicts income or social class in this country? > >Ok found it at >http://www.ojp.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/pji96.pdf Check out the massive amounts of data available from the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics <http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/>. Doug
Document Size: 5016
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Mar 31 13:42:57 PST 2004
21778 [lbo-talk] Criminal stats question -- rank: 1000
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > > Does anyone know where to find statistics of criminal convictions by >> convicts income or social class in this country? > >Ok found it at >http://www.ojp.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/pji96.pdf Those are jail inmates. Jails are local institutions that hold people awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses. You want prison inmates, who've been convicted of major crimes (prisons are state or federal institutions). Doug
Document Size: 5053
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Mar 31 13:41:00 PST 2004
21779 [lbo-talk] polling SA -- rank: 1000
The latest Washington Post/Henry J. Kaiser Foundation/Harvard University survey has been released. This poll was conducted in South Africa to measure attitudes toward democracy on the 10th anniversary of the fall of all-white rule. AAPOR members may be particularly interested in the video available on the website that captures on film how the survey was done. A washingtonpost.com videographer accompanied members of the Post/Kaiser/Harvard survey team to South Africa in October to record various ...
Document Size: 6485
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Mar 31 10:59:19 PST 2004
21780 [lbo-talk] Green dropouts -- rank: 1000
alex lantsberg wrote: >as for national media - how much does that really matter if you're building >on the local level? doesn't a singleminded focus on outlets like the nation >(albeit it's an important one) ignore the decentralized nature of >communications these days and the opportunity to get the message out to a >broad range of people and spark other local initiatives? Isn't the point to reach people who've never heard of The Nation? Doug
Document Size: 4910
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Mar 31 10:48:45 PST 2004
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