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22861 [lbo-talk] Imperialism & Exploitation -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >At least four questions are being conflated. > >One is simply whether, due to foreign capital, >Indian people are better off than they were otherwise. > >The second is whether you want to call profit-making >exploitation. If you're in a miserable state and I >come along with some capital and devise a way to make >you slightly better off and myself much better off, >is or is that not exploitation. > >There is also the long v. the short r ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 21 12:51:36 PST 2004

22862 [lbo-talk] Dean's Self-Demolition -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >I mean honestly -- were Dean to become the candidate, do you think this >trope that "he's fast and loose with the facts" could possibly endure when >he's compared to Bush? Hey, the Reps managed to impugn Max Cleland's patriotism - and he lost three limbs in Vietnam. Doug

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22863 [lbo-talk] Imperialism & Exploitation -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >"Is India exploited by imperialism?" is a question that obscures >class relations at the heart of the term exploitation in the Marxist >sense. Shouldn't the question be something like, "Are Indian >workers and peasants more exploited by capitalists and landlords in >India and elsewhere because of imperialism?" or "Does imperialism >help capitalists in India and elsewhere extract more surplus value >out of Indian workers?&quo ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 21 09:57:57 PST 2004

22864 [lbo-talk] Dean's Self-Demolition -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >I heard something yesterday about "a generic Democrat" running >closer than that to W; I don't remember which poll was being >referred to. For a while now, "generic" Dems have been polling better than actual Dems. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 21 09:04:18 PST 2004

22865 [lbo-talk] Is India Exploited by imperialism? -- rank: 1000

Hari Kumar wrote: >Doug: "Well, yeah. Here's a specific question: Ulhas says India is >not exploited by imperialism - do you agree? >REPLY: In a word "No". (<no wink>). Now Grand Inquisitor - You are >the expert economist - tell me what you think is the answer to that >question. H Not inquisitor, but interviewer: I'm asking because I can't really make up my mind on this question. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 21 06:17:36 PST 2004

22866 [lbo-talk] Free Martha! -- rank: 1000

nathanne at nathannewman.org wrote: >We can care about thousands of things at a time-- I just think there are >thousands of folks railroaded into jail who should have more attention >than Martha. That's not "our" choice, really. She's the one getting all the column inches in the papers and precious minutes on TV. I thought I could work a critique into the slip-stream of her fame. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 21 06:00:26 PST 2004

22867 [lbo-talk] another view of Lord Black -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gawker.com/archives/another_juicier_perspective_on_lord_black_012174.php> Another, Juicier Perspective On Lord Black # Yes: I have been bored to tears by the Lord Black/Hollinger scandal. But when a reader writes it all up like this, it makes me kind of hot and bothered: You cannot deny the harrowing yet mesmerizing fascination of a man who refers to his corporate shareholders as "hypocrites and ingrates," while describing himself as a "beleagured proprietor.&quo ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 21 05:35:39 PST 2004

22868 [lbo-talk] RE: Free Martha -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Well, yeah, and agreed, but are you arguing that no one should be >prosecuted for insider trading? What difference does it make? Who's the victim? > I mean if Carrol or ChuckO made this argument what would you say? Chuck0 doesn't believe in prosecutors, does he? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 20 18:21:46 PST 2004

22869 [lbo-talk] Free Martha! -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: >The point is that Doug's friend claims Stewart is somehow a >feminist icon, is somehow challenging gender stereotypes. Well, no, that's not exactly what she said. She said she confounds our received notions of gender - doubly, as she turns the "girly" arts into a business, and runs The Home with businesslike efficiency: >She invaded the traditionally male turf of big business, but her >business is based on "skills that were supposed to be gi ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 20 17:33:33 PST 2004

22870 [lbo-talk] re. Free Martha! -- rank: 1000

Todd Archer wrote: >What do you mean by political clarity? What will be made clear? We shouldn't entertain any illusions that Wall Street is "fair," or could ever be made "fair." Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 20 16:59:35 PST 2004

22871 [lbo-talk] Free Martha! -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: >Meanwhile, I don't think I agree that this is merely an effort to legitimate >Wall Street. Not just the prosecution of MS, but the prosecution of "insider trading" itself. To preserve the legitimacy of the securities markets, it's essential the public believe in the proverbial level playing field, which is ludicrous. Not only do insiders know more than amateurs, the whole profit system is rigged so that those on top make money from those below them. Pr ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 20 16:41:20 PST 2004

22872 [lbo-talk] Kevin Phillips: No Demographic Trend to Save Us FromBush -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Actually, judging from the record, Kevin Phillips' expectations >weren't totally unrealistic. Phillips' 1969 "The Emerging >Republican Majority" was, as I recall, as much a catalyst of the >GOP's wildly successful Sunbelt Strategy as it was an analysis of >the phenomenon. I would credit Phillips with playing a large role >indeed in creating the GOP-centric world we now inhabit. Or as Thomas Byrne Edsall (no fan of KP, and vice versa) put it in hi ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 20 16:13:32 PST 2004

22873 [lbo-talk] Todd's serious question -- rank: 1000

Hari Kumar wrote: >How to operationalise that in the era of globalisation? >[Should I say the current era of globalisation - to de-uniquify the >current ear?] - Iis a point that I submit, bears a lot of >discussion. Well, yeah. Here's a specific question: Ulhas says India is not exploited by imperialism - do you agree? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 20 15:56:00 PST 2004

22874 [lbo-talk] gov using Census data for "terror" profiling -- rank: 1000

<http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040118-114335-2930r.htm> Washington Times - January 19, 2004 Study used census information for terror profile By Audrey Hudson U.S. census information provided by millions of Americans was used in a government study to profile airline passengers as terrorist risks. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration also obtained for its study the private information of hundreds of thousands of passengers flying Northwest Airlines, an action NASA de ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 20 15:31:01 PST 2004

22875 [lbo-talk] Free Martha! -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >But why should we care about Martha when there are hundreds of thousands of >other stories of poorer, less famous folks railroaded into jail? Oh, right. We can only care about one thing at a time. Sorry! And forget the part about how her prosecution is an attempt to legitimate Wall Street, which doesn't deserve such treatment. Doug

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