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22441 [lbo-talk] Hersh book in the works -- rank: 1000

At 10:06 AM -0400 6/3/04, <newsfeed at mediabistro.com> wrote: >SY HERSH SELLS ABU GHRAIB BOOK >HarperCollins announced that it had acquired world rights to Chain >of Command, a book about the Abu Ghraib prison scandal by Seymour >Hersh. >http://www.nypost.com/business/22206.htm

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Date:	Thu Jun 3 09:52:32 PDT 2004

22442 [lbo-talk] Got Faith? -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: If it is "faith in the continued supply" of oil that matters more than oil reserves themselves "The monetary system is essentially Catholic, the credit system essentially Protestant. 'The Scotch hate gold.' As paper, the monetary existence of commodities has a purely social existence. It is faith that brings salvation. Faith in money value as the immanent spirit of commodities, faith in the mode of production and its predestined disposition, faith in the in ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 3 08:13:55 PDT 2004

22443 [lbo-talk] WSJ: "renaissance for the left" -- rank: 1000

[with help from a hedge-fund billionaire!] Wall Street Journal - June 3, 2004 Hopeful Liberals See Signs Of a Political Comeback As Bush's Ratings Decline, Left Draws Money, Support; A Victory in South Dakota By JOHN HARWOOD Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- Democrats were crowing yesterday about snatching a U.S. House seat in South Dakota from Republicans. But to 2,000 liberal warriors gathering for a conference here called "Take Back America," the result is just ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 3 07:04:51 PDT 2004

22444 [lbo-talk] artists in PATRIOT snare -- rank: 1000

June 2, 2004 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Beatriz da Costa, mailto:media at caedefensefund.org ARTISTS SUBPOENAED IN USA PATRIOT ACT CASE Feds STILL unable to distinguish art from bioterrorism Grand jury to convene June 15 HELP URGENTLY NEEDED - SEE BELOW Three artists have been served subpoenas to appear before a federal grand jury that will consider bioterrorism charges against a university professor whose art involves the use of simple biology equipment. The subpoenas are the latest install ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 2 18:27:39 PDT 2004

22445 [lbo-talk] Lurch gone to Choate -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review <http:/prorev.com>] HOWELL RAINES ON JOHN KERRY http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1229285,00.html [Raines is now writing for the British Guardian] HOWELL RAINES, GUARDIAN – I believe Kerry can do it, but I feel less sure of that now than I did in the primaries. Every time I talk to a reporter who has covered him, new doubts creep in about his ability to connect with voters. I personally find him easier to talk to than Al Gore, but there's no deny ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 2 15:52:34 PDT 2004

22446 [lbo-talk] The Return of the Draft -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: Six posts today, twice the daily limit. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 2 15:47:56 PDT 2004

22447 [lbo-talk] The Return of the Draft -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Let's make a stink about the class war aspect of the current >military and bipartisan war policies, before we waste words on the >remote possibility that middle class kids will be drafted. Someone just told me he saw a guy on ABC News last night say that for the cost of the war in Iraq so far, we could send everyone in Chicago to college for free. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 2 14:32:49 PDT 2004

22448 [lbo-talk] The Return of the Draft -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Even one of the least persuasive arguments mentioned in this thread >(invasion of Syra, Iran, etc.) and subsequent need for larger and larger >forces is not 100% silly: One of the ways the U.S. seriously considered >escaping from the Vietnam quagmire was by expanding the war to China. I >find it hard to imagine that the u.s. rulers would seriously consider a >draft for the reasons you give. But back after Sadaam's invasion of >Kuwait I found it hard to ima ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 2 14:20:42 PDT 2004

22449 [lbo-talk] The Return of the Draft -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: Five posts so far today. The limit is three. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 2 13:53:31 PDT 2004

22450 [lbo-talk] The Return of the Draft -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: > hasn't the army as it stands now shown itself to be a disaster as a >fighting force - at least in the Middle Eastern theatre? They're very good at following orders and killing people (and not their commanding officers). What more is a fighting force expected to do? They can't compensate for stupid political leadership. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 2 13:53:01 PDT 2004

22451 [lbo-talk] Enron tapes -- rank: 1000

Ah, Enron. As Bush 41 liked to say, "that's history." Which is how Americans forget about things. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 2 13:03:44 PDT 2004

22452 [lbo-talk] The Return of the Draft -- rank: 1000

All these draft-is-coming-back arguments ignore at least two important points: 1) the conscript army of the Vietnam era was a disaster as a fighting force (see the piece quoted below), and 2) the risk of political backlash would be enormous, the best recruiting assistance the antiwar movement could ever ask for. Doug <http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/Vietnam/heinl.html> THE COLLAPSE OF THE ARMED FORCES By Col. Robert D. Heinl, Jr. North American Newspaper Alliance Armed Forces Journa ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 2 12:06:32 PDT 2004

22453 Lawyers Should be Indicted (Re: [lbo-talk] Doug Henwood profile -- rank: 1000

Dennis Redmond wrote: >It was the distorted, unconscious >cognition that Jailhouse USA has been torturing, raping, and brutalizing >millions of prisoners in similar fashion for decades. Financial Times - May 29, 2004 Abused Iraqis 'experienced standard fare of US jails' By Salamander Davoudi For weeks, the White House has struggled to cope with the unfolding detainee-abuse scandal at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison. The scandal has damaged many Americans' confidence in the war in Iraq, prov ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 2 11:41:15 PDT 2004

22454 [lbo-talk] Charity for Occupation -- rank: 1000

Stephen E Philion wrote: >It looks like a new charity that supports the occupation is up and >running. I found out about this on Cooper's blog, which urged everyone >on the left to step up and put our money where our mouths were or 'shut >up'. Hm, a project of CyberCentury Forum, a rather creepy-sounding thing about which we learn <http://www.cybercenturyforum.org/events/index.htm>: >Mission and Objectives >The mission of Spirit of America is to expand the abilities of & ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 2 11:15:34 PDT 2004

22455 [lbo-talk] Patai's daughters' statement -- rank: 1000

MISREADING THE ARAB MIND By Jennifer Patai Schneider and Daphne Patai There's nothing new about written work, including scholarly work, being put to uses its authors never dreamed of. But still it rankles when it's an esteemed family member who is being maligned. We are the daughters of Raphael Patai, author of the book THE ARAB MIND, which was mentioned by Seymour Hersh in his May 24 New Yorker piece on American abuse of prisoners in Iraq. Hersh argued that the torture and sexual humiliation of ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 2 09:56:49 PDT 2004