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25576 huh? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >(2) When a major political force (the u.s. ruling class) and a very >minor political force (the Israeli Lobby) both urge teh same policy it >is really stupid to deflect attention from the major force to the minor >force. If partisans of the "Israeli lobby" explanation would like to prove their case, then perhaps they could cite an example where the interests of that lobby clashed with those of the U.S. ruling class and the Israel lobby came out ahead. Dou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 1 14:05:20 PST 2003

25577 Fwd: Re: POCs -- rank: 1000

Ooops. I forwarded the David McReynolds email to the list by mistake. Too late now, I know. How embarrassing. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 1 14:00:05 PST 2003

25578 [lbo-talk] inflation and Ernest Mandel -- rank: 1000

Lance Murdoch wrote: > >Ernest Mandel says inflation occurs because workers are paid to work in >the defense industry, but the goods are not used by consumers, so >inflation occurs in the chase for commodities. So why did inflation fall during the Reagan buildup, and is falling again during W's? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 30 15:48:42 PDT 2003

25579 [lbo-talk] Neocons Inspired By Italian Fascists? -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >I think the article is an amazing example of using a myriad of accurate >historic and theoretical references to mask the simple fact that the >whole argument is based on the classic fallacy of logic that falsely >claims that things that can be shown to have some identical >characterists must therefore be identical in all characteristices and >thus congruent. Well, no. The article said that Ledeen admires the model of Italian fascism, a rather interesting poi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 30 15:37:37 PDT 2003

25580 [lbo-talk] WP ombud on Lynch -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - June 29, 2003 Ombudsman A Long, and Incomplete, Correction By Michael Getler This is the third column in as many months devoted in whole or in part to the case of Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch. If you're tired of it, I can't blame you. But judging from the response to The Post's recent effort to reconstruct how Lynch was captured and rescued, many readers are not yet tired of it, and neither am I. As I have said before, the issue here is not Lynch, a courageous young soldier who has ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 30 13:03:22 PDT 2003

25581 [lbo-talk] Neocons Inspired By Italian Fascists? -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >http://amconmag.com/06_30_03/feature.html > Interesting piece. I wonder what people like Carrol & Chip who police the use of the word "fascism" think of it. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 30 12:55:31 PDT 2003

25582 [lbo-talk] Hilton news -- rank: 1000

>ADMIRED ASSETS > >WHEN Paris Hilton was introduced to Pam Anderson the other night, >the hot-blooded hotel heiress had to get something off her chest: >"I've never felt so flat!" Not missing a beat, Pam - in awe of the >high-stepping Hiltie's bulging bank account - shot back: "I've never >felt so poor!" Dan Mathews, a v.p. of People For the Ethical >Treatment of Animals, introduced the blonde bombshells at the launch >of Vegas magazine at the Palms ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 30 12:44:23 PDT 2003

25583 [lbo-talk] forgetfulness -- rank: 1000

[from the NY Post's Page Six] "I TRANSFORM when I'm in India. I wear a robe and turban and let my hair grow, and I forget about things like wearing underwear" - Ricky Martin as quoted in the Sydney Daily Telegraph.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 30 12:43:42 PDT 2003

25584 [lbo-talk] A Call from the Maoists of Iran -- rank: 1000

Chiang Ching wrote: >To clarify China is no longer Maoist, and has not been since the most >prominent leaders of the Cultural Revolution, the so-called "gang of four" >was overthrown and major purges of the party and the mass organizations were >carried out. In the final years of his life, Mao had warned that there was a >serious danger of capitalist restoration in China. That restoration has >occured. So if Communism was deeply rooted in Chiense society, why'd it hap ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 30 12:39:07 PDT 2003

25585 [lbo-talk] Change [was: Kees van der Pijl] -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Personifying Capital here as wanting or not wanting something is a >serious distortion. Only individual capitalists want or don't want. So what did Marx mean when he said the individual capitalist was the personfication of capital? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 30 12:15:59 PDT 2003

25586 [lbo-talk] Gallup on homosex -- rank: 1000

GALLUP NEWS SERVICE POLL ANALYSES June 27, 2003 Six in 10 Americans Agree That Gay Sex Should Be Legal Older Americans least likely to approve by Frank Newport PRINCETON, NJ -- The Supreme Court's decision on Thursday to invalidate a Texas anti-sodomy law is generally in line with the attitudes of the majority of Americans. About 6 out of 10 Americans believe that homosexual relations between consenting adults should be legal, essentially the Supreme Court's position in its decision in the Lawre ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 30 11:29:20 PDT 2003

25587 [lbo-talk] Ho Ho -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >This is of course pathetic and contemptible; Hitch is >now devouring his own rotting body parts to live. It >is very sad. But the rest of the piece here cited is >both hateful and stupid. I believe that in very short >order, really no more than a year, Hitch has >recapitulated and intensified David Horowitz's slower >self-immolation. As Hitch himself wrote in his November 7, 1987, Nation column on the Horowitz-Collier Second Thoughts conference: & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 29 10:22:29 PDT 2003

25588 [lbo-talk] Ambigious Doug -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >I'm way overposted today (again...) So don't do it then. Stop yourself before writing, much less hitting send. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 26 15:43:57 PDT 2003

25589 [lbo-talk] Dem = PhD -- rank: 1000

<http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0307.thompson.html> >The administration's stem-cell stand is just one of many examples, >from climate change to abstinence-only sex-education programs, in >which the White House has made policies that defy widely accepted >scientific opinion. Why this administration feels unbound by the >consensus of academic scientists can be gleaned, in part, from a >telling anecdote in Nicholas Lemann's recent New Yorker profile of >Ka ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 26 12:55:49 PDT 2003

25590 [lbo-talk] Ambigious Doug -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >"We live, as we dream alone..." Gang of Four lyric. From Joseph Conrad originally, right? Heart of Darkenss? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 26 12:06:03 PDT 2003