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25036 [lbo-talk] Southern Strategy? (was Profiles In Spinelessness) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >So, what's your Southern strategy? What's your anything strategy? For now, I say forget the South, at least the white part. It's solidly Republican but only a minority of the U.S. population. The Northeast, Upper Midwest, and Pacific Coast are far larger and far more promising. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 29 17:49:58 PDT 2003

25037 [lbo-talk] Profiles In Spinelessness -- rank: 1000

John K. Taber wrote: >But can progressives follow the policy of "no enemies to >the left?" I'm trying. Hard. I've got it down to Stanley Aronowitz and just a handful of others. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 29 17:46:53 PDT 2003

25038 [lbo-talk] Re: Lbo-talk digest, Vol 1 #462 - 16 msgs -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Why are some posters such lazy dumbfucks? That's not very nice. Esp given your often-incomprehensible formatting. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 29 16:24:21 PDT 2003

25039 [lbo-talk] Profiles In Spinelessness -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >What an encouraging comparison! That was the period when the Republicans >did probably their greatest upsurge of organizing, building institutions >like Young Americans for Freedom and other "New Right" groups that laid the >groundwork for taking over the Republican Party completely and shifting >national politics signficantly to the Right. I'm coming around to Nathan's argument that "progressives" should run in Dem primaries and in gener ...

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Date:	Thu May 29 09:40:08 PDT 2003

25040 [lbo-talk] decentralization, Whole Foods style -- rank: 1000

Lance Murdoch wrote: >On Wed, 28 May 2003, Nathan Newman wrote: > >> Folks bash the union leadership on this list a lot, but then they often >> don't even engage in the basic solidarity of supporting organizing >> campaigns. General boycotts may not be particularly useful, but avoiding >> companies actively being organized and engaging in union-busting tactics >> seems the most minimal solidarity called for by leftists. >> >> See http://www.w ...

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Date:	Thu May 29 09:33:42 PDT 2003

25041 [lbo-talk] Japanese banks hemorrhage -- rank: 1000

BrownBingb at aol.com wrote: >Charles: That would be 60 billion for our side, wouldn't it ? ( >small businesses are with us when the rev comes ) You've got to be kidding. Small biz, at least in the U.S., is a deeply reactionary force, anti-union, anti-minimum wage, anti-regulation, you name it. Where did you get this idea? Doug

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Date:	Thu May 29 07:15:27 PDT 2003

25042 [lbo-talk] Green Party 2004 -- rank: 1000

Shane Taylor wrote: >Nope. That's also a fetish of Participatory Economics, isn't it? Yup. I'm going to be interviewing Albert soon on his new Parecon book (just out from Verso). I'm going to ask him about Nancy Folbre's damning critique - that it's a vision of life as one long student council meeting. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 29 07:07:16 PDT 2003

25043 [lbo-talk] Krueger on causes of terorism -- rank: 1000

New York Times - May 29, 2003 Poverty Doesn't Create Terrorists By ALAN B. KRUEGER THE passing of Saddam Hussein's regime will deprive terrorist networks of a wealthy patron that pays for terrorist training, and offers rewards to families of suicide bombers," President Bush predicted in a speech to the American Enterprise Institute in February. Others in the administration, including Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul D. Wolfowitz, ...

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Date:	Thu May 29 06:59:48 PDT 2003

25044 [lbo-talk] Green Party 2004 -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: ><Bookchin also believes that any jurisdiction too >large to >allow face-to-face contact is verboten. That sounds >like an >impossible constraint to me unless you want a >hunter-gatherer economy >to go with it.>.......... > >Well, he does live in Vermont. Yeah, but even Vermont has a governor and a legislature. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 28 16:26:09 PDT 2003

25045 [lbo-talk] lots of Americans believe WMDs have been found! -- rank: 1000

[This stuff gets more surreal every day. Via Sam Smith's Progressive Review.] <http://www.knowledgenetworks.com/ganp> A PIPA-Knowledge Networks poll finds that 68% continue to approve of the decision to go to war with Iraq. However, only 50% said that they were somewhat (29%) or very (21%) certain that "when the US government presented the evidence to justify going to war with Iraq, it was. . . not being misleading." Another 5% said they were not very certain. . . Steven Kull, di ...

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Date:	Wed May 28 15:19:29 PDT 2003

25046 [lbo-talk] CIA on those trailer-borne germs -- rank: 1000

CIA/DIA report: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/iraqi_mobile_plants/index.html

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Date:	Wed May 28 15:15:09 PDT 2003

25047 [lbo-talk] Wolfowitz: WMD story only a bureaucratic convenience -- rank: 1000

Iraqi Weapons Only One Reason for War-Wolfowitz LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The U.S. decision to stress the threat posed by Iraq (news - web sites)'s supposed weapons of mass destruction above all others was taken for "bureaucratic" reasons to justify the war, U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was quoted as saying in remarks released on Wednesday. Wolfowitz, seen as one of the most hawkish figures in the Bush administration's policy on Iraq, said President Saddam Hussein (news - ...

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Date:	Wed May 28 15:11:47 PDT 2003

25048 [lbo-talk] Green Party 2004 -- rank: 1000

Shane Taylor quoted Murray Bookchin: >direct libertarian democracy I think Bookchin also believes that any jurisdiction too large to allow face-to-face contact is verboten. That sounds like an impossible constraint to me unless you want a hunter-gatherer economy to go with it. Why direct? Maybe I'm completely ruined by my capitalist upbringing, but I don't really want to decide everything in a town-hall style gathering. I'm perfectly happy to elect representatives so I can go on with the rest ...

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Date:	Wed May 28 14:08:25 PDT 2003

25049 [lbo-talk] decentralization, Whole Foods style -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Whole Foods is now one of the top organizing targets by the UFCW, yes >grouped explicitly with Wal-Mart as one of the worst companies in the >industry. > >Folks bash the union leadership on this list a lot, but then they often >don't even engage in the basic solidarity of supporting organizing >campaigns. General boycotts may not be particularly useful, but avoiding >companies actively being organized and engaging in union-busting tactics >seems t ...

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Date:	Wed May 28 13:23:20 PDT 2003

25050 [lbo-talk] pledge protection! -- rank: 1000

[the latest piece of idiocy from the American Family Association] AFA Action Alert! Your support is needed for H.R. 2028 - The Pledge Protection Act of 2003 "It will rein in a renegade judiciary that has confused the freedom for religion with freedom from religion. Preventing children from saying 'under God' is nothing less than coercion, and Congress needs to act to defend this essential matter of religious liberty and freedom of speech." - Rep. Todd Akin I have good news but <http ...

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Date:	Wed May 28 10:56:37 PDT 2003