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24976 [lbo-talk] Superprofits -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: >In order to say that there is no connection, you have to say that there is >room in the world capitalist economy for everybody who "gets it right" to >get rich That's a completely different analysis. I thought we'd initially been discussing whether we're rich because they're poor, a case I think it's hard to make. Now we're shifting the emphasis to whether everyone can be rich, which is obviously not true. The U.S. plainly doesn't want competitors. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 4 14:05:25 PST 2003

24977 [lbo-talk] Chomsky: USA "best country in the world" -- rank: 1000

boddhisatva wrote: >Yes, but Doug that 25% probability does not represent laughing chance. >Certainly we can agree that a great preponderance of the black males who do >get locked up do the crimes they are accused of. And many don't, but that's not the question. Unless you believe in some innate predisposition to criminality - a belief that would be grounds for explusion from civilized society - then you have to ask why so many black men turn to crime. I don't think the answer is very c ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 4 13:45:56 PST 2003

24978 [lbo-talk] Gallup on Bush in Iraq - they said Vietnam, not me -- rank: 1000

Government & Public Affairs November 4, 2003 from Vietnam to Iraq: How Americans Have Rated the President by Lydia Saad, Senior Gallup Poll Editor Public approval of the way President Bush is handling the situation in Iraq has diminished considerably since his peak rating of 76% in mid-April. Following months of decline, only 47% of Americans in early October* approved of Bush's handling of Iraq, and, for the first time, more of them disapproved than approved. The change is not surprising gi ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 4 12:11:13 PST 2003

24979 [lbo-talk] Chomsky: USA "best country in the world" -- rank: 1000

boddhisatva wrote: >How is our incarceration rate a function of our conception of rights? >You think countries that have *fewer* protections against unreasonable >searches incarcerate fewer people? You think all those guys in jail were >falsely accused? There's something deeply wrong with a society, esp one that thinks itself the freest on earth, that jails so many of its citizens. A black male faces a 25% lifetime chance of doing time. That's seriously fucked up. We do have some te ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 4 12:07:13 PST 2003

24980 [lbo-talk] Cheney appoints Syria hawk close to Israeli right -- rank: 1000

Forward (New York) - October 31, 2003 Cheney Taps Syria Hawk As Adviser On Mideast By MARC PERELMAN FORWARD STAFF Despite mounting criticism of the administration's Iraq policy, Vice President Dick Cheney appears to be ratcheting up his commitment to the circle of neoconservative intellectuals who helped spearhead President Bush's war policy, adding one of its most controversial proponents to his national security staff in a little-noticed move last month. David Wurmser, a neoconservative schola ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 4 12:02:03 PST 2003

24981 [lbo-talk] hic -- rank: 1000

[ah, the good old days - via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] I went home and saw my wife and then dined with the Colonel at his lodgings, and as he was to be busy, just drank half a bottle of port; the sallied forth between four and five with an avidity for drinking from the habit of some days before. I went to Fortune's; found nobody in the house but Captain James Gordon of Ellon. He and I drank five bottles of claret and were most profound politicians. He pressed me to take another; but my sto ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 4 11:59:37 PST 2003

24982 [lbo-talk] Chomsky comments on the interview -- rank: 1000

Seth Kulick quoted Noam Chomsky: >It's interesting to compare this with interviews in journals everywhere in >the world, as far as I know, outside of the US mainstream; even in very poor >countries, even dictatorships. Still, it's the best country in the world. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 4 11:17:54 PST 2003

24983 [lbo-talk] David Brooks calls for US war crimes -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Brooks writes: > > >Somehow, over the next six months, until the Iraqis >are capable of their own defense, the Bush >administration is going to have to remind us again and >again that Iraq is the Battle of Midway in the war on >terror, the crucial turning point where either we will >crush the terrorists' spirit or they will crush ours. Oh yeah, I recorded an interview with Ivo Daalder - ex of Clinton admin, now of Brookings, co-author of America U ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 4 10:48:10 PST 2003

24984 [lbo-talk] David Brooks calls for US war crimes -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe quoting David Brooks: >The shooting down of the Chinook helicopter near >Fallujah over the weekend was a shock to the body >politic. The fact is, we Americans do not like staring >into the face of evil. It is in our progressive and >optimistic nature to believe that human beings are >basically good, or at least rational. When we stare >into a cave of horrors, whether it is in Somalia, >Beirut or Tikrit, we see a tangled morass we don't >understand. Our in ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 4 10:45:31 PST 2003

24985 [lbo-talk] NYT as Pravda -- rank: 1000

Washingtonian - [no date given] The New York Times and the NSC: Good Reporting by David Sanger or "the Pravda Tendency" of the Times? How did the New York Times scoop the world on October 6 with its front-page story that the White House was putting national security adviser Condoleezza Rice in charge of Iraqi occupation and effectively demoting Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld? "Condi Rice apparently backgrounded the New York Times," a miffed Rumsfeld told European reporters ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 4 09:18:44 PST 2003

24986 [lbo-talk] papers start reporting noncombat deaths too -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher Online - November 4, 2003 Newspapers Change Reporting on Iraq Deaths Non-combat Fatalities, Injuries Cited More Often By Seth Porges NEW YORK -- Updated at 10:45 a.m. Eastern Standard Time In an about-face, leading U.S. newspapers on Monday reported the number of total U.S. military deaths in Iraq, not just those the Pentagon attributes to combat or hostile action. On Monday, USA Today, The New York Times, and The Washington Post all cited the number of total U.S. deaths i ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 4 09:16:11 PST 2003

24987 [lbo-talk] Fwd: High Profile South African Reparations Cases in New York -- rank: 1000

[Ntsebeza's going to be on my radio show Thursday.] Please come, and please let others know: Verso and the Hue-Man Bookstore invite you to a reading with DUMISA NTSEBEZA Introduced by MAHMOOD MAMDANI, Director of the Institute of African Studies, Columbia University and prize-winning author. On Thursday November 6th at 6.30 pm Dumisa Ntsebeza, a former anti-apartheid activist, political prisoner and torture-victim, is one of South Africa's leading human rights lawyers, and was appointed by Mande ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 4 09:13:41 PST 2003

24988 [lbo-talk] Superprofits -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >India's share in the world trade less than 1%.(It's probably 0.50% >of the world trade) How does India contribute significantly to "the >First world's" prosperity? How does "the First World" contributes >significantly to India's poverty? Excellent questions. I'd really like to hear some good answers from the partisans of the view that it does, but they've been scarce so far. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 4 08:28:20 PST 2003

24989 [lbo-talk] David Brooks calls for US war crimes -- rank: 1000

He was amusing when he was writing about bobos. Now he's revealed himself as a pig. No, sorry, that's unkind to pigs.

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Date:	Tue Nov 4 08:26:38 PST 2003

24990 [lbo-talk] Superprofits,U.S. military omnipresence. -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >1) What is the rate, not absolute value, of profits from colonial investment >( the absolute numbers don't matter anywhere >near as much as percentages) ? Superprofits are super rate profits ,not >super bulk profits. They are a marginal advantage. So what is the _rate_ of >Southern contribution to value production, surplus value production, and >rate of profit contribution ? Rather small. Here are the figures for 2002 - share of profits on direct invest ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 4 08:24:50 PST 2003