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25186 [lbo-talk] immigrants & Iraq war -- rank: 1000

San Francisco Chronicle - May 5, 2003 Surveyed immigrants mostly back Iraq war Poll conducted in native languages finds support lower than in general population Christian Berthelsen, Chronicle Staff Writer A majority of immigrants in the United States support the recent war in Iraq, but at significantly lower levels than the population at large, according to the results of a public opinion poll to be released today. The nationwide study found that a majority in each ethnic group it examined felt ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 5 08:20:39 PDT 2003

25187 [lbo-talk] Straussian moralist as high rolling gamber -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Yes, but that's just the point: Bennett has never denounced this. And he >said publicly a decade ago that he never would. I don't care about gambling, but I'm a moral libertarian. Bennett is anything but a moral libertarian, and he's aligned politically with Bible-thumping scolds who intesnely disapprove of gambling. It's not about his behavior but his politics. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 4 08:52:16 PDT 2003

25188 [lbo-talk] Neoconservatism as identifiable ideology -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >But where I work we have been studying the neoconservative movement as a >consistent and self-identified movement for close to 20 years. We shelve >their books together in our library. We discuss them in our publications. >We know who they are. They know who they are. Could you give a concise definition? Were I to try, it'd focus on their love of morality, hierarchy, the use of state power to enforce both, their fondness for imperialism, and their relative indiffe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 4 08:45:07 PDT 2003

25189 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

Just posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: May 1, 2003 DH on economic news (more on jobs, confidence, Greenspan) * Nina Revoyr, on the social history of Los Angeles, its charms as a subject, and her novel Southland * Robin Hahnel, author of The ABCs of Political Economy, on mainstream theory, its faults, and a better way It joins: April 17, 2003 Cultural theorist and philosopher Slavoj Zizek on the Iraq war, American imperialism, the role of fantasy i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 3 14:25:30 PDT 2003

25190 [lbo-talk] Bush proclaims May 1 is "Loyalty Day" -- rank: 1000

enough of the lurid epithets already

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 3 13:33:58 PDT 2003

25191 [lbo-talk] Bush proclaims May 1 is "Loyalty Day" -- rank: 1000

Brian O. Sheppard wrote: >What an asshole. - Brian > >--- > >http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/05/20020502-20.html > >Loyalty Day, 2003 Clinton's last, a pretty different text: > THE WHITE HOUSE > Office of the Press Secretary > >For Immediate Release May 1, 2000 > > > > LOYALTY DAY, 2000 > > - ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 3 13:31:23 PDT 2003

25192 [lbo-talk] Iraq: hit 'em upside the head, quick! -- rank: 1000

[the pretenses are slipping away rapidly] <http://slate.msn.com/id/2082292/> Law and Order: Special Iraq Unit Six new ideas for bringing real security to Iraq. By David Plotz Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2003, at 9:54 AM PT Read the introduction to Iraq's Progress, and the first installment on the best new ideas for democratizing Iraq. The American goal for Iraq is self-government, but for the moment our job is to replace one dictatorship with another. Until order returns to Iraq, any grand ...

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Date:	Sat May 3 12:50:23 PDT 2003

25193 [lbo-talk] Shades of lavender among 2004 Dems -- rank: 1000

Gay City News (New York) - May 2 - 8, 2003 Handicapping a Cautious Field Shades of lavender among 2004 Democratic presidential contenders By ANDY HUMM With George W. Bush praising Senator Rick Santorum as "an inclusive man" in the wake the Pennsylvania conservative's extreme anti-gay proclamations, even the Log Cabin Republicans are going to be hard-pressed to support the President for re-election. Most LGBT Americans are hungrier than ever for an alternative in 2004 and the candidates ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 3 10:00:35 PDT 2003

25194 [lbo-talk] Straussian moralist as high rolling gamber -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >Relentless Moral Crusader Is Relentless Gambler >By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE >Online reports assert that William J. Bennett, author of >"The Book of Virtues" and a relentless moral crusader, has >lost more than $8 million at casinos in the last decade. Slavoj has a riff somewhere about how things like this aren't hypocrisy, but are instead an illustration of the inseparability of hypermoralism and prurience - the two go inseparbly together, like Jimmy Sw ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 3 08:34:32 PDT 2003

25195 [lbo-talk] Re: outsourcing BS production -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >But actually, I would like to see an analysis of _why_ the Wall Street >firms are driven to such a policy. "Greed" is not really a marxist >category; what needs to be explained is what _drives_ the "greed" in >this case. Profit maximization, what else? Wall Street is used to making gobs of money. The last year or two they're making amounts more approaching droplets than gobs. They lust for a return to gob-land, and if you can get an Indian to do ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 3 08:09:25 PDT 2003

25196 [lbo-talk] Re:Cuba petition -- rank: 1000

lweiger at umich.edu wrote: >OK, Doug, I'll bite the bullet: the US also shouldn't throw people >in jailing for meeting with ambassadors. Consistency's tough... >except when it's not. It's not about meeting with ambassadors - it's about "taking direction," which is how the U.S. law phrases it. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 2 12:24:10 PDT 2003

25197 [lbo-talk] Re:Cuba petition -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Arresting 75 guys and putting them in jail for long periods of time >is "defending yourself"? So you're convinced none of them were meeting with Cason? If they did meet with Cason, should that be a crime? Is the U.S. wrong to criminalize such behavior and punish it with up to 10 yrs in the clink? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 2 11:28:09 PDT 2003

25198 [lbo-talk] meanwhile, on the masturbation front -- rank: 1000

In case you didn't know it, May is Masturbation Month, and May 18 will be the fifth annual Masturbate-a-Thon. For further details, visit <http://www.babeland.com/salon/mthon_frame.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 2 11:17:50 PDT 2003

25199 [lbo-talk] human rights abuses in Cuba... -- rank: 1000

[...by the U.S., that is. This is a March 12 BBC story - more than six weeks old, but worth reviving in the light of all the petitions.] Guantanamo appeal denied About 600 prisoners are at the base A US appeals court has ruled that prisoners held at a US military base in Cuba do not have the right to hearings in American courts. Handing a major victory to the Bush administration, the judges said suspected al-Qaeda and Taleban fighters held at Guantanamo Bay were aliens outside US sovereign terri ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 2 06:01:14 PDT 2003

25200 [lbo-talk] Re: Fwd: Letter: No Human Rights in Cuba -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >But, Doug, I'm curious, why do we need to know what the Randites are up to? It was a poke at the petition signers. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 1 17:36:51 PDT 2003