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24871 [lbo-talk] Hagel, not Hegel -- rank: 1000

[from today's Washington Post] "We so underestimated and underplanned and underthought about a post-Saddam Iraq that we've been woefully unprepared," said Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), a Vietnam War veteran and member of the Foreign Relations Committee who has frequently visited Iraq. "Now we have a security problem. We have a reality problem. And we have a governance problem. . . . And time is not on our side."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 14 10:07:47 PST 2003

24872 [lbo-talk] A Box from Amazon Arrives... -- rank: 1000

I use Amazon a lot too. It's so easy. If I want something immediately, I walk two blocks down Broadway to a giant B&N. I buy lots of stuff online - some critic of the new economy I am, eh? - but no one makes it easier than Amazon. They're really very good at what they do. Doug Brad DeLong wrote: >>I do--I generally use Amazon to find used books and DVDs (much >>cheaper than going to any book store I know of), though I haven't >>ordered anything via Amazon since the Borders ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 14 09:57:30 PST 2003

24873 [lbo-talk] managing the news -- rank: 1000

Boston Globe - November 13, 2003 Media protest treatment in Iraq Letter to Pentagon accuses US troops of intimidation By Mark Jurkowitz, Globe Staff, 11/13/2003 he Associated Press says soldiers in Iraq detained one of its photographers and a driver in late September near the site of the Abu Ghraib prison. Knight Ridder says its photographer at the scene of the Nov. 2 downing of a Chinook helicopter had photographs destroyed by the US military. Reuters, which had a cameraman killed in August in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 14 09:45:56 PST 2003

24874 [lbo-talk] Re: Beyond Globophobia -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >How do you take it over without taking power at the level of a state? I don't see it as either/or. Popular movements can force politicians to adapt, and movements linked on a global scale can do it globally. And workers can organize across borders and fight capital on an appropriately large scale too. And taking state power can expose "progressives" to awful constraints - look at the Workers Party in Brazil, which capital is mostly quite pleased with. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 14 09:40:49 PST 2003

24875 [lbo-talk] Review of Michael Lewis's Moneyball -- rank: 1000

Grant Lee wrote: >Edward Miliband is a visiting lecturer in government at Harvard University. >[ Ralph Miliband's son I believe.] Yes. He lived in New York for a while about ten years ago, where he was, among other things, an intern at The Nation. Very smart and likeable fellow. His brother David sold his soul completely and became part of Tony Blair's inner circle. Eddie sold only a piece of his, working for a Blairite think tank whose name escapes me, but I heard he was fairly troubled b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 14 07:53:27 PST 2003

24876 [lbo-talk] Dittohead? -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > > What's a "dittohead"? >> >> Joanna > >Was not that term originally used for the Rush Limbaugh audience - >basically implying lazy idiots who pass canned opinions without even >going to trouble of actually uttering them themselves? And when Rush's fans really really agree with him, they say "megadittoes."

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Date:	Fri Nov 14 07:45:40 PST 2003

24877 [lbo-talk] Beyond Globophobia -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: >Doug's new Nation piece is available online. I think it rocks the house! > ><http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20031201&c=1&s=henwood>http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20031201&c=1&s=henwood Thanks. It's a slightly-modified-for-magazine excerpt from the globalization chapter of After the New Economy. The chapter is even fuller with provocations and delights. Doug -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrub ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 14 07:11:35 PST 2003

24878 [lbo-talk] New Left's Dollars & Sense magazine Nov/Dec 2003 issue -- rank: 1000

Bob Feldman wrote: >If you're an anti-war/anti-corporate/anti-plutocratic activist who both >opposes continued U.S. military aid to the Israeli Establishment and rejects >the undemocratic economic system that Soros's Dems and Bush's GOP are still >trying to preserve, you might be interested in checking out the New Left's >magazine of economic justice, Dollars & Sense. Dollars & Sense magazine has >been providing politically principled alternative media coverage of the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 14 06:44:02 PST 2003

24879 Marxist for Dean? Re: [lbo-talk] Dean - biz as usual??????? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The question is what is accomplished by such a group? Oh, Nathan, you're so practical! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 13 11:14:14 PST 2003

24880 [lbo-talk] Re: Dirty Hands -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Barring another terrorist attack to the magnitude of 9.11.01, Bush >is finished, due to the quagmire in Iraq and "the worst record on >jobs for any president since Herbert Hoover led at the beginning of >the Great Depression" I wouldn't be too confident on jobs. If we're putting on 150k a month for the next six months, he could get a "things are improving" pass. Some pollster said that the electoral dynamics of another terrorist attack are ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 13 09:21:32 PST 2003

24881 [lbo-talk] Let Ralph Debate in 2004 -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >I agree with you: U. S. foreign policy under Clinton was nothing to >be proud of. However, Bush is clearly an order of magnitude worse. I'm amazed how provincial some people are about this - several billion non-USers are extremely alarmed by the Bush admin. *They* think something is different - as Zizek put it, one of those differences of degree becoming a difference of kind. We owe it to the outside world to get rid of the thugs. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 13 09:11:24 PST 2003

24882 [lbo-talk] M4D -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >All you want is digital bodies, right? I don't need to be a rabid >fan or anything, right? Exactly. I''m going to write a highly qualified manifesto. > Can I bail on the guy later, if I want? I don't, like, have to do >anything, right? No more than affix a digital signature. > I've got five pieces of furniture to strip and refinish, a yard >that needs help, and a partner moving in shortly. This broad has no >time. > >M4D, of course, looks like MAD. Int ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 13 09:03:21 PST 2003

24883 [lbo-talk] Taibbi analyzes Tom Friedman -- rank: 1000

New York Press - November 12-18, 2003 Cage Match Back at the Wheel Thomas Friedman just loves to grind the gears. [Matt Taibbi] The New York Times' Tom Friedman has a thing about wheels. They recur in his columns with chilling frequency. The tendency is so overt that he often reads like a classic case study in sexual fetishism-particularly given the fact that he sometimes mentions wheels in conjunction with his wife. A few years ago, he began a column on the E.U. as follows: More and more these ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 12 19:05:54 PST 2003

24884 [lbo-talk] Anybody But Bush? -- rank: 1000

John Adams wrote: >I've been on a short-term contract in Atlanta for a year and a half >now and am staying in McKinney's district. Not once did anyone ever >knock on our door--in fact, I saw no signs of a McKinney campaign at >all, other than one yard sign. The extent to which she beat herself >is, I think, underestimated. I read or heard somewhere that the influence of local issues on her loss was huge and underestimated by the national commentariat. Do you or does anyone else kn ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 12 17:55:06 PST 2003

24885 [lbo-talk] M4D -- rank: 1000

Only one taker so far for the "Marxists for Dean" club. Any others? And are there any web-literate folks out there who could code a simple sign-up sheet that added names automatically? Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 12 16:16:28 PST 2003