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21976 [lbo-talk] Lehrer freaks out on Parenti -- rank: 1000

[Just after the last Gulf War, I talked with an independent video producer who'd done work for the then McNeil-Lehrer Newshour. He'd done a segment reporting that the U.S. let Syria pick up abandoned Iraqi weapons after the war as a thank you for staying out. The Newshour authorities wouldn't run the segment because they couldn't get a U.S. government official to react to the claim on camera. That wonderful tradition continues...] Village Voice - March 17 - 23, 2004 Press Clips by Cynthia Cotts ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 17 06:45:41 PST 2004

21977 [lbo-talk] Bush addresses coalition of the shrinking -- rank: 1000

Bush Urges Iraq-War Allies to Stick with U.S. By Adam Entous WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) on Tuesday called on Spain and other allies in Iraq (news - web sites) to stick with the United States and not cave in to pressure from al Qaeda by withdrawing their troops. The White House said it may seek a new U.N. resolution that could help persuade Spain not to withdraw its forces, as threatened by its newly elected Socialist prime minister in the wake of a suspected al Qaed ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 16 14:32:28 PST 2004

21978 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Pew Global Attitudes Report -- rank: 1000

A Year After Iraq War Mistrust of America in Europe Ever Higher, Muslim Anger Persists A year after the war in Iraq, discontent with America and its policies has intensified rather than diminished. Opinion of the United States in France and Germany is at least as negative now as at the war's conclusion, and British views are decidedly more critical. Perceptions of American unilateralism remain widespread in European and Muslim nations, and the war in Iraq has undermined America's credibility abr ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 16 13:11:01 PST 2004

21979 [lbo-talk] Re: The Consumer Self -- rank: 1000

I think this one has played itself out, individuals and non-individuals. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 16 13:06:03 PST 2004

21980 [lbo-talk] FOMC: no change in policy, weaker view of job market -- rank: 1000

[Sounds like it'll be a while before they tighten. Compare the labor market evaluation in the January statement: "Although new hiring remains subdued, other indicators suggest an improvement in the labor market." No hint of "improvement" this time.] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/monetary/2004/20040316/default.htm> Release Date: March 16, 2004 For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to keep its target for the federal funds r ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 16 12:09:49 PST 2004

21981 [lbo-talk] Re: The Importance of Choice -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: >Carrol Cox: >wherever and >> whenever we find "ourselves," we are always already involved in action, >> i.e., in an ensemble of social relations apart from which we have no >> existence at all.... >> I very much doubt that any of the primates can be individuals, and the >> concept of a human being an individual is obscene > >These two claims require no response. They reveal the quality of mind of >their auth ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 16 10:22:29 PST 2004

21982 [lbo-talk] Amy Goodman arrives in Jamaica with Aristide, talks to CNN -- rank: 1000

<http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/15/2142232> HAITI UNDER SIEGE: DEMOCRACY NOW! SPECIAL COVERAGE Amy Goodman on CNN: Breaks News of Aristide's Return Transcript from CNN.com March 15, 2004 - 2:40 p.m. EST MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Haiti's former president is now on the ground in the Caribbean nation of Jamaica, little more than 100 miles away from Haiti. This has caused some concern in some quarters. In the meantime, as a matter of fact, the current president of Haiti, Ger ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 16 10:18:56 PST 2004

21983 [lbo-talk] the story on the deserter story -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher Online - March 16, 2004 'Chicago Trib' Reporter Stayed the Course to Get Deserter Story By Mark Fitzgerald CHICAGO As Chicago Tribune national correspondent Michael Martinez pursued his exclusive story about the Florida National Guard staff sergeant accused of desertion who emerged from five months of hiding to publicly challenge U.S. conduct of the Iraq war, he found he was not simply portraying one discontented soldier -- but opening a window on the conflicted feelings o ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 16 09:52:54 PST 2004

21984 [lbo-talk] Mitchel Cohen responds -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Equally, if not more amazing is the perceived mobility; those >perceiving themselves as upwardly mobile voted Gore, those who were >downwardly mobile or stuck in the same position voted Bush. >Interestingly, downwardly mobile also voted for Nader more frequently >than those upwardly mobile (4 vs 2%). > >The implication of it is that downwardly mobile people tend to espouse >fascist/reactionary tendencies, which explains their vote for Bush. > ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 16 09:48:59 PST 2004

21985 [lbo-talk] Greenie's Latest Spin -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >But J. Bradford DeLong, a longtime Fed watcher at the University of >California at Berkeley, cautioned that Mr. Greenspan had been right at >times when many others were wrong. > >"I think he's wrong, but he's got a better track record than I have," >Mr. DeLong said. (Sorry about the previous, got away empty.) Hmmm, * 1987 dollar crisis and stock market crash. * Late 80s climax of S&L disaster and leveraging mania. * Three years of stagnation and ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 16 09:46:40 PST 2004

21986 [lbo-talk] Greenie's Latest Spin -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >But J. Bradford DeLong, a longtime Fed watcher at the University of >California at Berkeley, cautioned that Mr. Greenspan had been right at >times when many others were wrong. > >"I think he's wrong, but he's got a better track record than I have," >Mr. DeLong said.

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Date:	Tue Mar 16 09:41:51 PST 2004

21987 [lbo-talk] Booing Manning Marable -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >So is it OK is I say that the Socialist Scholars conference should >go fuck itself? Yup, that's fine. Especially whoever organized the speakers' reception, with the preposterously inadequate supply of wine - "social democratic austerity," as one on the spot critic put it. > I haven't bashed the irrelevant ISO in a while, so it might be nice >to insult them with more obnoxious langauge. Unlike the above, telling the ISO to go fuck itself would lack freshness. ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 16 08:09:38 PST 2004

21988 [lbo-talk] Mitchel Cohen responds -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >The Black Vote in 2000 >A Preliminary Analysis by David Bositis of the Joint Center for >Political Studies >says Nader got 1% of the Black vote in 2000. >http://www.jointcenter.org/selpaper/pdffiles/blackvot/2000/BlackVote2000.pdf > According to the exit polls, Nader got 1% of the black vote, the lowest of any racial/ethnic category. He got 3% of the white and Asian vote, 2% of the Hispanic, and 4% of the "other." See <http://www.cnn.com/EL ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 16 07:56:51 PST 2004

21989 [lbo-talk] Perle drops suit -- rank: 1000

At 9:44 AM -0500 3/16/04, <newsfeed at mediabistro.com> wrote: >PERLE SUES NOT >After vowing to sue The New Yorker's Sy Hersh a year ago, defense >policy board chairman Richard Perle finally backs down. >http://slate.msn.com/id/2097188/

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Date:	Tue Mar 16 07:41:51 PST 2004

21990 [lbo-talk] soros -- rank: 1000

R quoted: >In common with 90 per cent of the world's population, >the Man Who Broke the Bank of England has had enough of President Bush and >his foreign policy. It should be pointed out that in helping crack the pound, Soros did the British economy a big favor. The UK went into the European exchange rate mechanism at a very high value, following the Economist's advice at the time that it should be a level that would make the Confederation of British Industry "scream." This wa ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 16 07:29:19 PST 2004