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22021 [lbo-talk] Wolfie on campus tour -- rank: 1000

[the World Bank bond boycott campaign <http://www.worldbankboycott.org/> must be having an effect] World Bank Chief Treads New Ground in US By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is the World Bank (news - web sites)'s biggest shareholder, and bank president James Wolfensohn wants Americans to know where their dollars are going. For the first time in his nine years as head of the international institution that gives development money to poor countries, Wolfensohn is to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 13 05:39:41 PST 2004

22022 [lbo-talk] The Fringe Speaks from the Center -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer quoted Max Boot (messy formatting cleaned up - why don't posters care enough about readers to format things properly?): >Wilson is motivated by more than a desire for fame and fortune. He's >also an ideologue. On March 3, 2003 - long before the contretemps >over his wife - he was denouncing the invasion of Iraq in the >Nation, a leftist magazine. Doesn't Boot know that The Nation is an apologist for imperialism? I learned that it is on the Internet, so it must be true. Dou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 13 05:30:46 PST 2004

22023 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

Just added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: March 11, 2004 Robert Fatton, author of Haiti's Predatory Republic, on the roots of Haiti's current predicament * Hilary Wainwright, editor of Red Pepper and author of Reclaim the State, on how popular movements can engage with state power without losing their innocence it joins: -------- March 4, 2004 Corey Robin on the militarized worldview of the neocons * Laura Flanders on her new book on the women of the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 12 15:26:10 PST 2004

22024 [lbo-talk] Althusser, depression, subjects -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >Michael Pugliese wrote: > >>"History is a process without a subject." >>Althusser, not a Buddhist > > ><http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/althusse.htm> >On November 6, 1980 Althusser killed his wife. In L'Avenir diure >Longtemps Althusser tells that he used to massage Hélène's neck, but >this time he massaged the front of her neck. "Yet I knew she had >been strangled. But how?..." Another interesting item from that bi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 12 14:47:12 PST 2004

22025 [lbo-talk] lies and the lying liars who tell them -- rank: 1000

BUSH THREATENED TO FIRE OFFICIAL FOR TELLING THE TRUTH During this time of record deficits, President Bush promised the country that his drug-industry backed Medicare bill would cost $395 billion. (1) But just weeks after he signed the bill into law, his own budget office admitted that the bill would actually cost well over $500 billion. (2) And today a new report shows that the President knew that the bill cost more than he had claimed, and yet he deliberately hid the information from the publi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 12 14:42:47 PST 2004

22026 [lbo-talk] Re: -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >"History is a process without a subject." >Althusser, not a Buddhist <http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/althusse.htm> On November 6, 1980 Althusser killed his wife. In L'Avenir diure Longtemps Althusser tells that he used to massage Hélène's neck, but this time he massaged the front of her neck. "Yet I knew she had been strangled. But how?..."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 12 14:41:06 PST 2004

22027 [lbo-talk] Nietzschean visions -- rank: 1000

Ted Winslow wrote: >How does this vision of human authenticity differ from the vision >set out in the passages from Zizek I recently quoted or from the >identification of Marxian politics with "struggle" disconnected from >any consideration of what struggle is for, from any consideration of >"cookbooks for the future"? Not dissimilar. And compare the neocons' attitude towards prosperity with that of our hair-shirt leftists, who hate the decadence of modern cons ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 12 11:56:14 PST 2004

22028 [lbo-talk] Haiti participation -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman challenged the Council on Foreign Relations' assertion that voter turnout in Aristide's election was 5%. Here's corrorboration. I interviewed Robert Fatton, author of Haiti's Predatory Republic, on the radio today - it'll go up on the web tomorrow. The publisher, Lynne Reinner Books, made me pay the FedEx bill and still couldn't get it here before the show, so I only just started looking at it. On p. 123, it says, "While in both instances [1997 & 2000] fraud was pervasi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 11 16:56:56 PST 2004

22029 [lbo-talk] (no subject) -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: ><http://www.tnr.com/blog/campaignjournal?pid=1440>http://www.tnr.com/blog/campaignjournal?pid=1440 It'd be nice if people who posted links also gave some idea of what was being linked to, esp if the subject heading is "no subject." Maybe a headline and lead paragraph or something. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 11 15:56:19 PST 2004

22030 [lbo-talk] the gains from variety -- rank: 1000

"Globalization and the Gains from Variety," by Christian Broda and David Weinstein (Staff Report no. 180, March 2004) Since the seminal work of Krugman, product variety has played a central role in models of trade and growth. In spite of the general use of love-of-variety models, there has been no systematic study of how the import of new varieties has contributed to national welfare gains in the United States. In this paper, we show that the unmeasured growth in product variety from U ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 11 08:32:57 PST 2004

22031 [lbo-talk] NYT names right-winger to edit its tedious book review -- rank: 1000

NYTimes.com - March 11, 2004 The Times Appoints Book Review Editor By THE NEW YORK TIMES Sam Tanenhaus, a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, has been named editor of The New York Times Book Review. The appointment was announced yesterday by Bill Keller, executive editor of The Times. Mr. Tanenhaus, 48, succeeds Charles McGrath, who will be a writer at large for the newspaper. From 1997 until he joined Vanity Fair in 1999, Mr. Tanenhaus was an assistant editor of the Op-Ed pages of The Times. H ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 11 08:17:18 PST 2004

22032 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

Dick N. Viers wrote: >is there a reason why I'm getting 404s for the download and "invalid >resource" for the streaming media? Damn, because I misnamed the files for the 2/26 show. Fixed now: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 10 20:21:55 PST 2004

22033 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

Just added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: March 4, 2004 Corey Robin on the militarized worldview of the neocons * Laura Flanders on her new book on the women of the Bush administration, Bushwomen February 26, 2004 Susie Bright on sex, politics, and her new book, Mommy's Little Girl * Frida Berrigan on who's making money from the war in Iraq * Mark Levitan on the crisis of employment in New York City they join --------- February 19, 2004 Sara Roy, sen ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 10 15:35:19 PST 2004

22034 [lbo-talk] Red, Purple and Blue -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >The net effect is still negative to Kerry, but when likely voters are >considered, the gap between Kerry and Bush triples. Yup, but all Nader's support comes at the expense of Kerry. The Naderites often deny this is true. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 10 14:14:19 PST 2004

22035 [lbo-talk] Red, Purple and Blue -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >The position of leftists on the 2004 election is NOT a matter of >principle; it is a matter of contingent judgment. Anyone who tries to >make it a matter of principle is acting like a provocateur. Coy, very coy - "like a provocateur." You, quite outrageously, once accused a member of this list of sounding like a cop. Be all the asshole you want to be, but cop-baiting is absolutely verboten here. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 10 14:07:38 PST 2004