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23071 [lbo-talk] guesting on MaxSpeak -- rank: 1000

I'm guest blogging at Max Sawicky's for a few days <http://www.maxspeak.org/mt/>. Not much there yet except for a hello, but that should change as the day goes on. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 2 07:41:22 PST 2004

23072 [lbo-talk] CAFTA Trips -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >In Doug's most recently archived radio interview, Larry Hirns Minor correction: it's Birns. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 2 07:22:36 PST 2004

23073 [lbo-talk] no worries in Washington about falling dollar -- rank: 1000

U.S. Not Seen Worried About Dollar Drop Thu Jan 1,10:35 AM ET By Glenn Somerville WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar's steady decline in value against the euro and other key currencies may cause agony in European capitals but there is little sign it is rising to the level of a major policy concern in Washington. Analysts say the steady depreciation not only remains orderly but also carries the potential to help America get its whopping trade and current account deficits, which are widely cri ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 1 13:53:27 PST 2004

23074 Fwd: Re: Fwd: [lbo-talk] RE: sex worker -- rank: 1000

[I asked Tracy Quan to comment on Joanna's reaction to her sexworker article. Here 'tis.] Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 16:54:59 -0500 From: Tracy Quan Subject: Re: Fwd: [lbo-talk] RE: sex worker This is an extreme point of view and interesting for that very reason but ... hard for me to relate. Though, hm, may I add that a first step toward the utopian state this gal aspires to might be the ability to recognize that differences between straight life and The Life (as it's called) are superficial. So ac ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 1 11:38:31 PST 2004

23075 [lbo-talk] BDL on Sweezy -- rank: 1000

Brad, that you think apologetics for Stalin represents Sweezy's life, and is the thing to single out on his death, is sad, really sad. Is this what the bourgeoisie does to thought? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 29 21:25:24 PST 2004

23076 [lbo-talk] Re: Guardian on Miliband -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Please tell me you didn't miss Tim Horton's ... Couldn't miss them in the street, but didn't set foot in one. Good point, Tim Horton's, like Dunkin' Donuts only Canadian. I went to a Tim Horton's in Sudbury about five years ago though. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 29 18:46:47 PST 2004

23077 [lbo-talk] BDL on Sweezy -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong writes at: <http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/Index.html/>: >Paul Sweezy, 1910-2004. > >I would like Paul Sweezy to be remembered for the following passage: > > >"The publication in 1952 of Stalin's Economic Problems of Socialism >in the USSR would make possible today a more satisfactory reply.ŠIn >the light of [Stalin's] explanationŠI would like to amend the >statement which Mr. Kazahaya criticizes.Š[The amended statement] >convey ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 29 18:45:52 PST 2004

23078 [lbo-talk] Re: Guardian on Miliband -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >Doug: "I was away for a long weekend in Toronto...." > >You went to Canada and you CAME BACK??!!!? For >heaven's sake, man, what's wrong with you? Were they >smoking pot in the streets? I read in National Review >that it's like Sodom and Gomorrah up there. Ha. I like Toronto a lot. And the weather cooperated too. Didn't see any public potsmoking, but there were plenty of homos around - and the Toronto Hemp Company (THC), which offered everything he ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 29 18:18:01 PST 2004

23079 [lbo-talk] Guardian on Miliband -- rank: 1000

I was away for a long weekend in Toronto and am just catching up. I don't think anyone posted the link to the Guardian's profile of Ralph Miliband, which touches on the more conventional career choices of his sons, David and Ed <http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,1157093,00.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 29 17:52:06 PST 2004

23080 [lbo-talk] Paul Marlor Sweezy (1910- 2004) -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >Paul Sweezy, a man I loved, died last night. >He was a Marxist revolutionary. Sad news, though dying at the age of 94 after an exemplary life is quite an accomplishment. Monopoly Capital was one of the most influential books I ever read. What a thoroughly admirable man. Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 29 17:48:03 PST 2004

23081 [lbo-talk] Re: LA Grocery Strike: Where Was the Left? -- rank: 1000

Lance Murdoch wrote: >To paraphrase Joe Hill, don't whine - organize. Who exactly are you, and what do you do? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 29 17:35:10 PST 2004

23082 [lbo-talk] LA Grocery Strike: Where Was the Left? -- rank: 1000

What was "the Left" supposed to do? Write supportive editorials in Workers Vanguard and/or The Nation? Who is this Left anyway? Does it include other unions and the national AFL-CIO leadership? What did they do? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 29 17:34:11 PST 2004

23083 [lbo-talk] Radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

On my radio show today, Thursday 5-6 PM eastern US time, WBAI New York 99.5 FM and <http://www.wbai.org>: * Susie Bright on sex, politics, and motherhood * Frida Berrigan on the contracting bonanza in Iraq (it's not just Halliburton!) * Mark Levitan on the NYC labor market Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 26 11:58:10 PST 2004

23084 [lbo-talk] Howard Stern: Flaming Leftist? -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >"Left culture, " Holly Near singing, "No More Genocide In My Name." Ick. Ani DiFranco, ick. Pete Seeger, ick. Gang of Four, much better. Think I'll play them on the radio today. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 26 11:53:52 PST 2004

23085 [lbo-talk] Re: Boom Box Aggression -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: 9 posts so far today. 4 posts on Wednesday. 11 posts on Tuesday, for an average of 8 a day. The limit is 3. The new version of Mailman makes it very easy to put people on invidiual moderation, so that makes it very easy to enforce the posting limits, which I'm doing now. Woj, please control your expressive urges as tightly as you'd like poor African Americans to do. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 26 09:59:47 PST 2004