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25696 [lbo-talk] Jeet Heer, LDTrotsky Ghost @ W.H. -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >http://www.nationalpost.com/search/site/story.aspid=EC4AD553-8A1D-4324-8D37-A99B2DFF9F85 Which says: >Then in the 1980s, many Social Democrats found themselves working in >the Reagan administration, notably Jeanne Kirkpatrick (who was >ambassador to the United Nations) and Elliott Abrams (whose tenure >as assistant secretary of state was marred by his involvement with >the Iran-Contra scandal). Abrams went to the Little Red Schoolhouse and Elizabeth Irw ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 7 13:55:01 PDT 2003

25697 [lbo-talk] 14 characteristics of fascism -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 11:47:39 EDT, <BrownBingb at aol.com> wrote: > >>Furthermore, the U.S. is not "domestically" fascist right now. >>However, by being so insistent that the term "fascist" not be used >>to describe the potential and direction of the measures being taken >>today, one implies an American exceptionalism in the vein that "It >>can't happen here. We're special." > > Yup, Carrol is ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 7 13:45:12 PDT 2003

25698 Subject: [lbo-talk] Genocide, Holocaust -- rank: 1000

Barkley wrote: >Regional bosses were zeroes. That is why there >were immigration restrictions for Moscow. Go see >the movie, "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears." >The folks who were living very well were the ones >at the very top, and they were mostly in Moscow. Does that contradict my point? For the top guy in the construction industry in a country's second-largest city to be a "zero" suggests that class privileges in the USSR were pretty limited. A comparabl ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 7 08:10:55 PDT 2003

25699 [lbo-talk] Lula to poor countries: quit whining -- rank: 1000

Thiago Oppermann wrote: >[He's totally flipped.] > >Lula says that poor countries must stop crying There was a short item in the NYT today reporting that Brizola's party has left Lula's coaltion, crying betrayal, to be replaced by two center-right parties. Anyone know anything more? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 7 07:58:19 PDT 2003

25700 [lbo-talk] 4th Generation Warfare In Iraq: Fighting In God's Time -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Almost all of them, regardless of political posture, >see the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq as stupid, >slopiily executed maneuvers that will end with the US >leaving, as former UN weapons inspector and US Marine >Scott Ritter once said, "with it's tail between its >legs." Financial Times - June 5, 2003 Karzai seeks more aid for broken country By Victoria Burnett in Kabul President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan arrived in Britain yesterday t ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 6 13:25:41 PDT 2003

25701 Subject: [lbo-talk] Genocide, Holocaust -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >To say that the Soviet nomenklatura had anything approaching the economic >and social priviliges of Western elites is quite mad. They went to special >shops and could buy Western goods. They weren't rolling around in Mercedes. During the early perestroika days I remember reading the sad tale of the regional boss of the construction industry in Leningrad living in a smallish two-bedroom apartment. If he'd been in the west, he'd have had several penthouses and/or mansio ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 6 12:14:35 PDT 2003

25702 [lbo-talk] Chomsky -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 07:31 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > >>Quoting Chuck0 <chuck at mutualaid.org>: >> >>>In my experience, people who spend too many years in >>>college (i.e. Ph.Ds) are highly indoctrinated and VERY out of touch with >>>the news and popular culture. >> >>Hardly. Universities are some of the most politicized communities >>around, with >>demos, speakers, cultural stuff ha ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 6 12:03:35 PDT 2003

25703 [lbo-talk] US in Iraq: crackdown -- rank: 1000

< http://sg.news.yahoo.com/030605/1/3bl9w.html> Agence France Presse: June 5 The US-led administration in Iraq moved to crack down on growing unrest as the top UN arms inspector questioned the credibility of coalition experts searching for Saddam Hussein's banned weapons. The occupation authority warned it would enforce a ban on incitement even in mosques as a US soldier and prominent Iraqi tribal leader were killed in separate attacks. "This applies to the territory of Iraq. We respe ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 5 18:13:37 PDT 2003

25704 [lbo-talk] Re: 14 characteristics of fascism -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> >> >> Outside of the Democratic Party, there is no solid political party >> that can marshal enough motivated organizers to make a difference in >> 2004. >> >> Do you have any candidate for whom you don't mind busting your own >> ass doing campaign work for, say, at least 10-15 hours per week? >> -- > >The question, "Does it make a difference who is in the White House?" is ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 5 16:31:49 PDT 2003

25705 [lbo-talk] Another one bites the dust -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: >On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 at 3:50pm Doug Henwood wrote: > >> budge wrote: >> >> >"superior sound quality" >> >> A Coup fan are you? > >you know it! party music was the best cd of any kind i've >heard in a looong time and the best damn polical cd ever. Me too. It was on my 10 desert island CD list I did for The Nation's music issue. >and if i had a daughter, i could only have hoped to have >written her something half as fi ...

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25706 [lbo-talk] Another one bites the dust -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: >"superior sound quality" A Coup fan are you? Doug

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25707 [lbo-talk] Guardian Retraction of Wolfowitz Oil Story -- rank: 1000

"Out of context" can be misleading. Or, more exactly, context can be a way of burying a truth. To take a less incendiary example than Wolfie's quote, how about Greenspan's famous "irrational exuberance" remark. It was buried in a dull speech on central banking in a democracy <http://www.federalreserve.gov/BOARDDOCS/SPEECHES/1996/19961205.htm>, and the phrase itself was buried in a timid question: >Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the &g ...

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25708 [lbo-talk] Re: 14 characteristics of fascism -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Is there some sort of political subtext to the rising frequency of >the use of the term "fascist" to characterize the Bush >administration and/or the Republican Party? Like preparing for an >all-out electoral campaign to vote a Democrat -- any Democrat -- >into the White House? Do you think it makes no difference who's in the WH? Is it all the same imperial America to you? Doug

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25709 [lbo-talk] Re: 14 characteristics of fascism -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >Most of the characteristics Britt lists are actually properties than >can be observed in any nation in a state of war. But that's partly the point - the Bush admin is trying to construct a master narrative of permanent war, and with some success. Newspaper references to him as "a wartime president" are routine. We're on a state of constant terror alert, gradations periodically and teasingly altered. The right to counsel is under attack, critical opinions are ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 5 11:19:03 PDT 2003

25710 [lbo-talk] The Markets and Reality: What, If Anything, Is the Linkage? -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >However, I'm getting $800 for my wanton >breeding habits, and I'm going to make a healthy payment on my >bloated line of credit at my credit union. How many other people >are going to do that, and does personal debt reduction have any >stimulative economic effect? No. Personal debt reduction is a big drag! It seems a lot of people did that with their $300 checks last year - saving or debt reduction (same thing, more or less). Doug

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