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24856 [lbo-talk] Re: Anybody But Bush for Empire -- rank: 1000

<mullah_omar at email.it> wrote: >According this (long, but apparently much informed) article by M.C. Ruppert, >a democrat president after Dubya is already envisaged by power elites (Soros >is an example), at least because it will be more suitable to keep their >businesses going (Iraq occupation included) with a (slightly) increased >popular acceptance. >So, it is dubious who is the lesser evil. >http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/102003_beyond_bush_2.html Ruppe ...

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24857 [lbo-talk] Anybody But Bush for Empire -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >US Left doesn't know "tactical voting"? Most do, but the purist wings - Leninists and some Greens - don't believe in it. Too compromised. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 14 17:56:40 PST 2003

24858 [lbo-talk] Goldman on the Medicare drug benefit: "employers should benefit" -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >How come you get this and I don't? We media types need some perks, esp those of us who pay for our own health insurance.

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Date:	Fri Nov 14 17:55:39 PST 2003

24859 [lbo-talk] Typos in _After the New Economy_ -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Are you collecting typos? Page 25, paragraph 2, line 2 is missing a >"Shiller" before "(2000, pp. 19-21)",... Yes, I know. I think that happened in the indexing phase.

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Date:	Fri Nov 14 17:54:43 PST 2003

24860 [lbo-talk] ADL recruits journo as spy -- rank: 1000

Philadelphia City Paper - November 13-19, 2003 Jew Gotta Be Kidding by Howard Altman Barry Morrison, executive director of the Philadelphia branch of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), is on the line, reminding me about the time when a guy suggested that someone slit my throat, like they did to Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Oh yeah. The guy who called me a "Jew spy" for reporting where Dick Cheney hides. After a few minutes of chitchat about old times, Morrison segues into ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 14 16:04:53 PST 2003

24861 [lbo-talk] Goldman on the Medicare drug benefit: "employers should benefit" -- rank: 1000

>DAILY FINANCIAL MARKET COMMENT 11/14/03 Goldman Sachs Economics > >* A House-Senate conference committee is on the verge of >approving a Medicare drug benefit bill. Some critics claim it >will burden the fiscally troubled program with additional >costs that could grow even larger than many anticipate. Others claim >it will not provide adequate benefits to seniors. In fact, both are >true. > >* Despite the proposal's shortcomings and fiscal implications, >as t ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 14 13:50:39 PST 2003

24862 [lbo-talk] majority believe Bush lied -- rank: 1000

THE PIPA/KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS POLLL THE AMERICAN PUBLIC ON INTERNATIONAL ISSUES --Media Release-- Majority Believes US Acted on Incorrect Assumptions in Rush to War Does Not Believe Evidence on Iraqi WMD, Al Qaeda Links, Human Rights, Met Proper Standards for Going to War Believes Bush Was Determined to Go to War Irrespective of Evidence No Clear Consensus For or Against Decision to Go To War Support for Iraq Reconstruction Undaunted For Release: Nov. 13, 2003, 12:15 pm Contact: Steven Kull (202) ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 14 13:46:02 PST 2003

24863 [lbo-talk] Re: Anybody But Bush for Empire -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Besides, as Ted argues, both arguments can't be true at the same time: >the multitude are ready to "take it over" and the multitude must vote >for Anybody But Bush ("or else"). If the multitude were ready to "take >it over," why bother electing a Democrat? You've always struck me as very smart. Why do you refuse to think about two things at once? Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 14 13:27:46 PST 2003

24864 [lbo-talk] Beyond Globophobia -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >In sum - an excellent, highly informative, well-written and refreshing >article, Doug. Thanks (and thanks to all the others who've been saying kind things too). But the book chapter is even better! Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 14 13:20:25 PST 2003

24865 [lbo-talk] Anybody But Bush for Empire -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The question I'd like to ask Doug is how he squares the fearless call to >action expressed in Patti Smith's line, "We created it. Let's take it >over," with the slogan motivated by nothing but fear: Anybody But Bush. Like I've said a hundred times now, the political and discursive atmosphere created by W is fearful and repressive. If he were replaced, the atmosphere would improve. And it'd be somewhat easier to organize unions. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 14 12:28:01 PST 2003

24866 [lbo-talk] Facility 1391 -- rank: 1000

Guardian - November 14, 2003 Facility 1391: Israel's secret prison It has been removed from maps and airbrushed from aerial photographs. But Facility 1391 certainly exists - you just have to ask the Palestinians and Lebanese who have been imprisoned and tortured there. Chris McGreal reports The men under the black hoods all have the same question once the blindfolds and manacles are off: Where am I? A voice filtering through a narrow slit in the steel door told Sameer Jadala he was "in Hono ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 14 12:22:51 PST 2003

24867 [lbo-talk] Re: Alterglobalization (was Beyond Globophobia) -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Liza Featherstone wrote: > >>I've always liked it. But then again, I'm kind of a dork. >> >>Why is it dorky? > >Because it is a attempt to relate to real working people using a >positive vision instead of something like "all power to the >proletarian American soviets," or something like that. And it's optimistic and utopian. Bad. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 14 12:10:16 PST 2003

24868 [lbo-talk] Re: Alterglobalization (was Beyond Globophobia) -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >In his great article, Doug writes the following: > >"Afghanistan is an extreme example of this - it's almost completely >outside the global circuits of capital." > >What about the drug and arms trade? Russia is swamped with Afghan heroin. That's not "legitimate" trade or capital. Deep involvement with drugs is usually a sign of exclusion, no? Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 14 12:09:03 PST 2003

24869 [lbo-talk] Re: Alterglobalization (was Beyond Globophobia) -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: >What slogan would not be dorky, BTW? "Subvert the Contradictions"? >"Workers of the World Unite"? "Death to Running-Dog Imperialists"? "For some people, four walls are three too many."

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Date:	Fri Nov 14 10:18:45 PST 2003

24870 [lbo-talk] Re: Beyond Globophobia -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Presumably, a popular movement, working in alliance with popular >movements across borders, can take power at the level of a state, not to >manage it on behalf of capital (like the Workers Party in Brazil), but >to expropriate the expropriators; and once in power, it can materially >aid the popular movements outside its borders with which it is in >alliance. I'm not at all opposed to taking state power - in fact, I could make a reasonably long list of p ...

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