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23626 [lbo-talk] David McReynolds on Iraq etc. -- rank: 1000

Watching BBC yesterday I was a bit disturbed that for their "expert" on developments in Najaf they called on a resident scholar at the U.S. Institute for Peace. I say this with some hesitation because I am not even a "partial and incomplete expert on Iraq". My one visit there, in 1981, as part of a team from the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and what I remember as a visit to Najaf, doesn't begin to qualify me. However the U.S. Institute for Peace is a kind of "official&q ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 29 07:39:34 PDT 2004

23627 [lbo-talk] RNC Protests: 1st few days -- rank: 1000

Paul wrote: >I write on the 'big day' an hour before setting out -- everything >may change but here are some reflections from the first few days in >areas that may not have received much press outside of NYC. Be sure to check out the reports on The Nation's website, including the dazzling entries by Liza Featherstone <http://www.thenation.com/blogs/protest>. Doug

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Date:	Sun Aug 29 07:32:31 PDT 2004

23628 [lbo-talk] Bush as sex fantasy -- rank: 1000

2004-08-26 - <http://www.ncbuy.com/news/category_weirdnews.html> Sex Toy Fans Pick Bush As Top Fantasy Bedroom Buddy NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) -- George W. Bush may be a conservative, but he has liberal sex appeal with the ladies. Case in point: He's the presidential candidate that women most want to bed, according to a survey by an online sex toy company. Forty-five percent of the 1000 proud sex toy fans who answered the MyPleasure.com poll chose Bush, compared to 33 percent who prefer Jo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 28 15:10:28 PDT 2004

23629 [lbo-talk] Re: Klein vs. Gitlin vs. Cooper -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:04:00 -0400, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > > Oops. O.K. Klein in innocent of the "Sadr symp" tag. Wow. Thanks. You don't see that sorta thing very often. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 28 13:04:51 PDT 2004

23630 [lbo-talk] GOP sex party! -- rank: 1000

[listing from Time Out NY] Sun 29 Magnum Republican Sex Party 13 Little Devils 120 Orchard St at Delancey St (212-420-1355). Subway: F to Delancey St; J, M, Z to Delancey-Essex Sts. 10pm; $20, $10 before 11pm. Dean Johnson and Daniel Nardicio bring back their infamous party for size queens and their admirers with tonight's all-star gang bang. The evening stars Nomi DiMilo as Condoleeza in "The Oral Office," and more bushes and dicks than you can shake a stick at!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 28 12:24:15 PDT 2004

23631 [lbo-talk] crash course: RNC parties -- rank: 1000

<http://www.wonkette.com/archives/grand-old-party-schedule-020008.php> AUG 20 2004 Grand Old Party Schedule We've finally gotten a party list for the Republican Convention and we admit that it's sort of impressive -- sure, they're short on celebs, but they do have Lynyrd fucking Skynyrd. And who needs Ben Affleck when you've got Fred Thompson (at the "Warrior Foundation" lunch, no less)? We're also totally psyched for the Fanny Mae "Day at the Spa," where we're hoping s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 28 12:22:01 PDT 2004

23632 [lbo-talk] Palast: Still Unreported: The Pay-off in Bush Air Guard Fix -- rank: 1000

STILL UNREPORTED: THE PAY-OFF IN BUSH AIR GUARD FIX Saturday, August 28, 2004 by Greg Palast In 1968, former Congressman George Herbert Walker Bush of Texas, fresh from voting to send other men's sons to Vietnam, enlisted his own son in a very special affirmative action program, the 'champagne' unit of the Texas Air National Guard. There, Top Gun fighter pilot George Dubya was assigned the dangerous job of protecting Houston from Vietcong air attack. This week, former Lt. Governor Ben Barnes of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 28 12:16:53 PDT 2004

23633 [lbo-talk] Re: Klein vs. Gitlin vs. Cooper -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:14:52 -0400, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >>Not really. She called for solidarity with Iraqis who want an end >>to the occupation. Cooper is so busy distancing himself from the >>left that he can't read straight. >> >>Doug > > Then why didn't she make that explicit? She did. <http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040913&s=klein> >And Muqtada al-Sadr and his followers ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 28 12:04:00 PDT 2004

23634 [lbo-talk] myths of '68 -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher - August 27, 2004 Challenging a Media Myth: '68 Riots Didn't Doom Humphrey N EW YORK If you've read or heard it once, you've probably read or heard it a hundred times in the past few weeks: If anti-Bush protests turn violent at the Republican National Convention in New York next week, it will surely doom Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) to defeat in November. After all, the conventional wisdom holds, this is precisely what happened to Vice President Hubert Humphrey in 19 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 28 10:38:30 PDT 2004

23635 [lbo-talk] Re: Klein vs. Gitlin vs. Cooper -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I would love it if the resistance to the u.s. aggression in Iraq were >led by devoted followers of Amilcar Cabral, Patrice Lumumba, and >Mohammad Mossadegh. But it is not up to us, as residents of The Monster, >to pick an choose among those who in fact are resisting that aggression. So you're now lowercasing "u.s." and capitalizing "Monster"? Is this just a keyboard accident (though it's the second time I've noticed the l.c. u.s.), or is there s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 28 10:19:41 PDT 2004

23636 [lbo-talk] MSNBC - FBI investigates alleged Pentagon spy -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: ><URL: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5844415/ > >Someone in the office of Feith, NPR just said. >>...Agents said they had evidence that the official passed sensitive >>information, including draft policy documents and presidential >>policy directives, to Israel through the American-Israel Public >>Affairs Committee, or AIPAC. > Cue to fs, for a ZOG U$rael spiel. But if Israel really was the U.S.'s puppetmaster, why would they need spies ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 28 10:17:19 PDT 2004

23637 [lbo-talk] re: KPFA Open Letter (part 3 of 3) -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala quoted Maria Gilardin: >Even friends of staff, such as Doug Henwood, say - terrible to >hear - that "KPFA is irrelevant". I don't recall having said that. I've said that Pacifica audiences are too small, too dominated by the faithful, and missing large numbers of people who should be listening, and that the network should have a much bigger influence than it does. But I don't recall ever having said it was irrelevant. Doug

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Date:	Sat Aug 28 10:14:07 PDT 2004

23638 [lbo-talk] right counter-protests @ RNC -- rank: 1000

RightMarch.com - Patriotism In Action. <http://www.rightmarch.com/nyc2.htm> Schedule for Counter-Protest in New York ALERT: Like our hugely successful demonstration in Washington, DC , in April, our counter-protest against the New York "March of the Radical Liberals" is launching! But we still need YOUR help: FLASH! RightMarch.com will be co-hosting a Hospitality Suite with our partners at NF-RA.com, across the street from Madison Square Garden, during the entire Republican Conve ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 28 09:52:43 PDT 2004

23639 [lbo-talk] censorship at the Life After Capitalism conference -- rank: 1000

[Marc Rodrigues, what's the conference organizers' side of the story? This sounds ugly if this is an accurate report.] <http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/103729/index.php> VICTORY FOR FREE EXPRESSION AT LAC CONFERENCE! Current rating: 1 by Anti-Authoritarian (No verified email address) 26 Aug 2004 The forces for freedom of speech and the free flow of ideas won a small but significant victory this past weekend. Organizers of the Life After Capitalism conference at New York's City Un ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 28 09:44:04 PDT 2004

23640 [lbo-talk] It's the IQ, stupid -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug, I don't think we need Mr. Ostrum on the list. I mean it makes one >feel a bit unclean. I was coming around to that point of view. He hasn't hanged himself yet, but he is preparing the noose. Doug

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Date:	Sat Aug 28 09:38:33 PDT 2004