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22636 [lbo-talk] health care -- rank: 1000

Todd Archer wrote: >Doug said: > >>Again, if you frame it that way, your posish is going to get >>rejected by 97-98% of the electorate. Sure you want to say that? > >How do you think it should be framed to be more readily accepted by >more people? I'd think, at the least, the universal health care >would be able to stand "by itself". The way to do those things is by long painful organizing efforts, not by chimerical presidential runs. Jenny Brown particip ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 15 12:52:26 PDT 2004

22637 [lbo-talk] amy goodman's interview of dennis kucinich -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Unfortunately, the TV version is truly crappy; like a lot of the >stuff on Free Speech TV from what I've seen so far, the production >values were really low. It was basically Goodman and Gonzalez doing >their radio show on TV, looking down at their papers a lot rather >than looking into the camera, and so on. Don't you love the giant headphones (which really earn their radio nickname, "cans")? You could use tiny earphones, which no one would notice on ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 15 12:50:24 PDT 2004

22638 [lbo-talk] Re: amy goodman's interview of dennis kucinich -- rank: 1000

jimi ayler wrote: >in any case, in order to demonstrate the award-winning >journalist capacity to ask several, informed questions >of her guests Several, I'll concede you. Informed? Depends on your definition of informed. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 15 12:07:28 PDT 2004

22639 [lbo-talk] Re: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, as it were... -- rank: 1000

jimi ayler wrote: >multiple 50-minute sessions more like 45 these days!

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Date:	Thu Jul 15 10:51:40 PDT 2004

22640 [lbo-talk] 7/16: Matt Gonzalez invites you to the Nader/Camejo 2004 Kickoff Campaign Rally -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Not only is the Nader/Camejo 2004 campaign the most politically >important -- opposing the occupations of Iraq and Palestine, putting >workers' rights and universal health care squarely on the national >agenda Again, if you frame it that way, your posish is going to get rejected by 97-98% of the electorate. Sure you want to say that? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 15 10:50:00 PDT 2004

22641 [lbo-talk] coalition still strong! -- rank: 1000

[The Daily Show ran clips the other night of Bush saying eight times in one speech that "we've made America safer" by beating the crap out of Iraq. Evidently they're following the same strategy of repetition about the "coalition."] U.S. Insists Iraq Coalition Still Strong By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States insisted on Thursday its coalition in Iraq (news - web sites) remained strong despite the Philippines' decision to withdraw its 51 troops and pointed ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 15 10:16:21 PDT 2004

22642 [lbo-talk] Capitalism & Psychoanalysis -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Capitalists don't enjoy their profits in the future. They enjoy them >in the present. Hmm, not exactly. The stock market is all about future profits - or, more precisely, expectations of future profits. And real investment, as Keynes argued, is determined largely by profit expectations, expectations that are heavily shaped by crowd psychology. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 15 10:09:12 PDT 2004

22643 [lbo-talk] Re: Greens for Nader! -- rank: 1000

Seth Kulick wrote: >Joel Kovel's piece was >completely on target. A piece whose conclusion is worth a return visit (and remember this was written, even though Cde Cox thinks this is irrelevant, by someone who challenged Nader from the left in the 2000 Calif Green primary): >The problem is, however, that a very big difference between >Democrats and Republicans has evolved over the past generation or >so. It has taken root in the Bush administration, who have every >intention of ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 15 10:04:33 PDT 2004

22644 [lbo-talk] Capitalism & Psychoanalysis -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Having said that, a socialist society will not end human suffering >and will greatly benefit from self-reflection. Yup. As someone said at a panel on Marxism & psychoanalysis at the 2000 Rethinking Marxism conference, socialism would bring us "a better set of problems." Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 15 09:47:28 PDT 2004

22645 [lbo-talk] 7/16: Matt Gonzalez invites you to the Nader/Camejo 2004 Kickoff Campaign Rally -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Matt Gonzalez invites you to the Nader/Camejo 2004 Kickoff Campaign Rally. Any Bay Area folks going? I'd love a report. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 15 09:46:40 PDT 2004

22646 [lbo-talk] Greens for Nader! -- rank: 1000

From the party that brought you four candidates for VP in '96 - now, two candidates for president in '04. More choice = more freedom! Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 15 07:58:29 PDT 2004

22647 [lbo-talk] Virulent groupthink -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Thank God the left is immune to this crippling conformism and that >we are free to express the most robust opinions about anything -- >even movies! -- without let or hindrance. Posting 16,000 words on a single subject is hardly evidence of let or hindrance. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 15 07:53:25 PDT 2004

22648 [lbo-talk] Capitalism & Psychoanalysis -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Exactly. As I've said many times, a system that -- by its own >frequent admisssion -- is driven solely by fear and greed is >guaranteed to potentiate anyone's neuroses and bring out the worst >in everyone. Piddling around with individual approaches -- i.e., >sessions on the analyst's couch -- to this collective problem is >ultimately a waste of time. This country doesn't need better >psychiatric benefits as much as it needs socialism. Why can't it have ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 15 07:49:56 PDT 2004

22649 [lbo-talk] Re: Voting and Its Outcomes -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >Moore seems to have worked out what you haven't: "Evil that's out in >the open, not hiding in liberal sheep's clothing, can be much easier >to confront and eradicate." Right. Obviously you're not trying to organize a union in the U.S., or stop drilling in Alaska, or represent people jailed in massive roundups, distribute condoms to prevent AIDS and/or pregnancy, or even proceed with confidence that there's going to be an election in November. Life is swee ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 15 07:43:52 PDT 2004

22650 [lbo-talk] Re: Ends and Odds -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >But that is exactly what psychoanalysis does, which is why it is so >popular among literary critics and so ignored by people actually engaged >in trying to help people with mental illness. It helped mine, a lot. GIve it a try! Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 15 07:18:14 PDT 2004