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23176 [lbo-talk] Re: RIP, Dr. Fraud -- rank: 1000

Christian Gregory wrote: >Personal anecdotes: I've seen two Freudian and two non-Freudian >therapists in my lifetime. With the former, it didn't take them 20 >minutes to pass judgement on my sexual life. (Needless to say, I >only saw them each once.) Mine - Freudian though non-orthodox - recently apologized for using the word "perverse" in a pejorative sense. It all depends on whom you see. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 19 15:34:36 PST 2004

23177 [lbo-talk] Race & Opinions -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Absolutely. But what I find even more infuriating is a certain genre of >"knee-jerk-anti-racism" or for that matter "anti-sexism" >"anti-imperialism" and what not as practiced in the US. It is based on >the uncritical reversal of the racist/sexist/imperialist discourse. >Thus, the racist/sexist/imperialist discourse claims that all >non-whites/women/non-US-ers are morally inferior in one way or another >or at least su ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 19 08:20:41 PST 2004

23178 [lbo-talk] RIP, Dr. Fraud -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Psychoanalysis Is Dead ... So How Does That Make You Feel? > >Arguably no other notable figure in history was as wrong as Freud >was about every important thing he had to say. Wow, the orthodox are burying Freud almost as frequently as they bury Marx. They just can't give up on it, can they? A little compulsion to repeat, perhaps? Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 19 07:04:37 PST 2004

23179 [lbo-talk] the official line on Haiti -- rank: 1000

[this is from the Council on Foreign Relations] HAITI Current Upheaval Updated: February 13, 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ What is causing the current unrest in Haiti? A coalition of armed groups is trying to oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the former Roman Catholic priest who won the country's first democratic presidential elections in 1990. The anti-Aristide fighters are vying with pro-government forces for control of nearly a dozen towns ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 18 14:02:31 PST 2004

23180 [lbo-talk] Yale in the Oval Office -- rank: 1000

[from my Yale Class of '75 listserv] >Monday's "Boston Globe" ran a straightforward article on this >subject: "Yale Holds Tie To Presidency". As lagniappe, I offer the >following stats noted in the piece: ".. four of the last six >presidents have held Yale degrees... For the past three decades, a >Yale graduate has run as a Democrat or Republican in every >presidential election as either vice president or president, >beginning with Sargent Shriver ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 18 13:59:56 PST 2004

23181 [lbo-talk] Bush expected to announce candidacy any day -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: > >18) Abolish the Senate ( Supreme Court interpretation that >current language >>in the Constitution allows the Senate to be abolished) > >Just curious---I always forget why we wanna do this...It's been >explained to me before but I forget... Because it's deeply undemocratic - California has one senator per 17.6 million people; Wyoming, per 250,000 people, a ratio of over 70 to 1. It was consciously designed as a conservatizing force - I think J ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 18 13:57:24 PST 2004

23182 [lbo-talk] Another Courageous Guerilla Assault Does ISO and ANSWER proud -- rank: 1000

Stephen E Philion wrote: >Hari wrote > > >If so - might it be possible that either the civilian figures are >disguised; & the soldier deaths thereby "down-regulated"? >Isn't it odd that civilian deaths for the imperialists forces are >scrupulously secret while , suddenly, the "civilian" forces killed by >resistance are revealed? Who are the civilians? >If the civilian guerilla fighter swims like a fish amongst the swarms in >the sea - to para ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 18 12:54:33 PST 2004

23183 [lbo-talk] Aaronovitch: a rant -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 16:53:02 +0000 (GMT), Simon Huxtable ><jetfromgladiators at yahoo.com> wrote: > >(he's a typical centre-left liberal > > That may be so ;-) However he is another ex-Communist (Communist >Party of Great Britain) who has moved towards the center. I assume, >Sam Aaronovitch, another CPGB'er, is his 'bro. Nope, the son. >http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2002w49/msg00132.htm Ah, it was Sam who wrote me, not ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 18 11:57:10 PST 2004

23184 [lbo-talk] the Dean effect -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Anybody But Bush!? Isn't that what we were sold back in 1992? And the 1990s saw the biggest upsurge in activism in a long long time - a lot of creative exciting stuff. I think there's a connection. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 18 11:50:46 PST 2004

23185 [lbo-talk] Marines ready for "small war" in Falluja -- rank: 1000

[egads this could get even uglier] U.S. Marines Preparing for 'Small War' in Falluja By Charles Aldinger WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A force of 25,000 U.S. Marines that will take over the dangerous Falluja area of Iraq (news - web sites) from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division in March is preparing to both win the cooperation of Iraqis and fight insurgents, the Marine Corps commandant said on Wednesday. Gen. Michael Hagee said Marines were historically better prepared to fight "small wars" t ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 18 11:36:01 PST 2004

23186 [lbo-talk] Re: Bush to Announce Candidacy Any Day -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >According to the Economic Policy Institute:- >http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/webfeatures_snapshots_archive_12102003 > >NAFTA-related job losses have piled up since 1993 >Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was signed in >1993, the rise in the U.S. trade deficit with Canada and Mexico >through 2002 caused the displacement of production that supported >879,280 U.S. jobs. NAFTA is a free trade and investment agreement >that prov ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 18 11:20:23 PST 2004

23187 [lbo-talk] protest Ashcroft's subpoena -- rank: 1000

Dear friend, I just sent an email calling on Attorney General John Ashcroft to drop his effort to subpoena the medical records of doctors challenging the late term abortion ban, and I hope you will send one, too. In an unprecedented move that directly violates doctor-patient privilege, the Department of Justice has subpoenaed the abortion medical records of hundreds of patients in an effort to intimidate doctors who have filed suit to challenge the recently signed late term abortion ban. This ef ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 18 10:41:07 PST 2004

23188 [lbo-talk] Japanese boom! -- rank: 1000

At 6:01 AM -0500 2/18/04, The Dismal Scientist wrote: >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >The GDP for Japan economic release has been updated. >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >GDP for Japan: 1.7% > >The Japanese economy grew 1.7% on a seasonally adjusted basis in >December after advancing by 0.9% in September. The consensus had >tipped only a 1.2% increase. This result translates to a 7 ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 18 10:31:28 PST 2004

23189 [lbo-talk] the Dean effect -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - February 18, 2004 Spirit of the Dean machine Though Vermont's ex-governor is almost certainly out of the presidential race, valuable lessons can be learned from his campaign Gary Younge If there is one thing more spectacular than the rise of Howard Dean, it has been his fall. On the early evening of January 19, shortly before Iowa caucus-goers assembled to pick the man they wanted to challenge President George Bush, he was poised to turn Democratic party politics inside out. ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 18 10:29:55 PST 2004

23190 [lbo-talk] Bush expected to announce candidacy any day now -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >To run local candidates one needs a local organization to run them. To >build a local organization one needs some sort of substantive link to a >national movement of some kind. Which is why I think you need a national Green Party running local races. Many Greens object on principle to too much national organization, since it reeks of institutionalization and hierarchy. According to a talk I once heard by Jan Myrdal, that's how the Swedish Social Democrats got their st ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 18 09:51:03 PST 2004