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25111 [lbo-talk] 2004 -- a lost year? (was Re: CW in Matrix) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >If it's Dean, we can count on four more years of Bush & Co. Maybe, but who knows? Bush isn't invincible. Lots of people despise him - much more in both number & intensity than any president I remember. Doug

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Date:	Sat May 17 12:18:15 PDT 2003

25112 [lbo-talk] CW in Matrix -- rank: 1000

Shane Taylor wrote: >So what is Adolph Reed, Jr.'s take? I can't remember when I last saw a >piece from him in the Progressive or elsewhere. What does he say about >Sharpton? Last I heard, which was a couple of years ago, Adolph saw him as a charlatan. Doug

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25113 [lbo-talk] 2004 -- a lost year? (was Re: CW in Matrix) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Beyond the primary, what might be a plan for those who are engaged >in electoral politics? An OSU student (a member of the OSU chapter >of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, among other things), >who did a great job prodding the OSU Undergraduate Student >Government to pass an anti-war resolution, has organized a local >group called Students for Dennis, but so far he has been able to get >few students excited about the Kucinich campaign. Sh ...

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Date:	Sat May 17 11:47:26 PDT 2003

25114 [lbo-talk] June Carter Cash RIP -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >R: > >"how did you stomach [the Cashes'] religiosity?" > >Didn't bother me -- in Johnny Cash's case it saved his life and >helped to free him of a crippling pill addiction. Whatever works. >I've never had a problem with religious people who use their >faith in positive ways; and besides, Johnny and June sang some >beautiful country gospel duets, and you can hear the sincerity in >their voices. Why sneer at that? > Yeah. How far do ...

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25115 [lbo-talk] free pass on murder -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >Before the war, for example, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) >accused the administration of exaggerating Iraq's nuclear capabilities, >while other Democrats questioned whether Bush and Secretary of State Colin >L. Powell were overstating Hussein's chemical and biological stockpiles. > >This week, Pelosi said it is "difficult to understand" why the weapons >can't be found. Yet she did not seem concerned about whether any are >foun ...

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Date:	Sat May 17 11:22:34 PDT 2003

25116 [lbo-talk] Granma cites LaRoucheite book on the Bush family -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: ><URL: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/mayo03/lun12/19hitler-i.html > So? Is it untrue that Prescott Bush and other members of the U.S. ruling class were friendly with Nazis? Doug

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Date:	Sat May 17 11:19:25 PDT 2003

25117 [lbo-talk] CW in Matrix -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >That said, the long profile in The Nation <URL: >http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010416&s=sherman > >a few yrs. ago, made me rethink my pov on the Rev. Al. Also, check out the long interview with Sharpton, on which Scott Sherman based a lot of his profile, that was published in Transition sometime about a year ago. I don't think it's online, alas. Doug

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Date:	Sat May 17 10:33:55 PDT 2003

25118 [lbo-talk] CW in Matrix -- rank: 1000

eric dorkin wrote: >wasn't there organized boycotting of korean stores in Brooklyn, too? Yup. It was an awful time in NYC. But like I said, that was long ago, and Sharpton's not like that anymore. Doug

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Date:	Sat May 17 09:34:55 PDT 2003

25119 [lbo-talk] CW in Matrix -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >I agree. I was just commenting on conflating criticism of the Rev. with race >baiting. Compared to the present madness, the Brawley farce was a fifth-rate >sideshow. The Rev. has left all that way behind - and the track suits too, thank god. The guy did some time over Vieques - that's pretty serious stuff. Doug

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25120 [lbo-talk] CW in Matrix -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >What's with this Sharpton-baiting? > >As I understand it, the major charge against Rev. Al is that he >supported Tawana Brawley, a young girl whose claims to have been a >victim of a racist attack may have been false or at the least exaggerated. Yeah. His late 80s/early 90s act was pretty questionable, but he's way beyond that now. Sharpton's a very smart guy who knows what he's talking about. He's no revolutionary socialist, but his politics aren't bad. I'm voti ...

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Date:	Sat May 17 08:34:43 PDT 2003

25121 [lbo-talk] Canada accuses Mossad agent of war crimes -- rank: 1000

National Post - May 15, 2003 Federal lawyer cites Israeli 'war crimes' Refugee board rejects claim by Lebanese spy for Mossad Stewart Bell National Post TORONTO - A man who spied on the terrorist group Hezbollah for the Israeli secret intelligence agency Mossad has been branded a war criminal by Canadian authorities, who said his actions helped Israel commit "heinous" atrocities. In a ruling likely to raise diplomatic tensions between Canada and Israel, a lawyer representing the Minist ...

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Date:	Fri May 16 15:21:06 PDT 2003

25122 [lbo-talk] mercenaries in SA -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - May 16, 2003 Bombings Bring U.S. 'Executive Mercenaries' Into the Light The shrouded history of Vinnell Corp. raises questions about its role in privatization of U.S. foreign policy. By William D. Hartung You had probably never heard of the Vinnell Corp. before the brutal bombing that killed at least nine of its employees in Saudi Arabia this week, but you should have. This is the second time Vinnell's Saudi operations have been targeted. The first attack, in November 1995, h ...

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Date:	Fri May 16 11:33:16 PDT 2003

25123 [lbo-talk] AP: Personal bankruptcies up 7.4% -- rank: 1000

Brian O. Sheppard quoted: >Consumer debt has reached record levels in recent years. But Federal >Reserve (news - web sites) data showed that consumers became more cautious >users of credit last year, expanding their borrowing at the slowest pace >in a decade. The rise in credit card and other revolving debt was the >smallest increase since the Fed began keeping records in 1968. That's true of c.c. debt, but Americans have been using home equity cashouts as substitutes for the Visa ...

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Date:	Fri May 16 10:52:49 PDT 2003

25124 [lbo-talk] CW in Matrix -- rank: 1000

So what's the story with Cornel West in the Matrix sequel?

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Date:	Fri May 16 08:55:48 PDT 2003

25125 [lbo-talk] China discovers cure for SARS! - Newsboy -- rank: 1000

Wall Street's favorite economist, Ed "Newsboy" Hyman (my late friend John Liscio nicknamed him that for his habit of pasting newspaper headlines into his daily commentaries and adding comments like "Wow!" next to them) notes it today's edition: "SARS is negatively impacting China's economy. However, China's central bank may inject liquidity to offset it." Whew.

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