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25771 [lbo-talk] Wolfowitz Says Hussein's Loyalists May Approach 20,000 -- rank: 1000

20k? It was 5k just the other day. Are their ranks growing?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 29 12:36:56 PDT 2003

25772 [lbo-talk] After the New Economy: the blurbs roll in! -- rank: 1000

AFTER THE NEW ECONOMY by Doug Henwood (forthcoming from the New Press, October 2003) "Fast, funny and consistently merciless toward the purveyors of economic delusion and deception. I feel ten times smarter than I was before I read this book!" -Barbara Ehrenreich "Here, finally, is the touch of the real thing, the antidote to the flourishing fashionable anti-capitalism in today's academia - like a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice after a chemical 'orange drink.' If Doug Henw ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 29 12:34:50 PDT 2003

25773 [lbo-talk] more Judith Miller... -- rank: 1000

...for those who can't get enough: <http://ajr.org/Article.asp?id=3057>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 29 12:02:31 PDT 2003

25774 [lbo-talk] covering GI complaints -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher - July 29, 2003 Papers Cover Discontent Among Soldiers in Iraq Editor: 'More Coverage on the Families' By Joe Strupp NEW YORK -- As U.S. military casualties in Iraq continue to mount, newspapers find themselves thrust into a new area of coverage: the growing discontent among soldiers who have to remain in the war-torn country, and the angry protests of some of their families back home. Newspapers have used everything from a column by an angry spouse to the publication of a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 29 12:00:07 PDT 2003

25775 [lbo-talk] License to kill, was Pentagon plans online terror bets -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >The application of casino values to matters such as >coups, assasinations, terrorist acts and so forth is >yet another facet of this darkly beautiful gift - >another public manifestation of the ideas - as foul as >rotting corpses and not as nutritious to the >surrounding plant and animal life -which animate and >reanimate this admnistration. Hey, but this is just the going-to-seed of efficient market theory, born in the late 1950s/early 1960s. Markets a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 29 11:51:31 PDT 2003

25776 [lbo-talk] 'Empire' after Iraq -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >To which I have to say that I can well believe that US triumphalism >did not last (indeed I think it is a prejudice of Euro-chauvinism >that sees it much stronger than it is). But I am not so ready to >believe that the US's 'stubborn unilateralism' is part of the >problem. Bush walked all over Europe, which was incapable of doing >anything about it. If he has problems, they are his own. Part of his problem is that he thought the U.S. could do it all alo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 29 11:15:39 PDT 2003

25777 [lbo-talk] evil captured dictator was sexual pervert storytime again -- rank: 1000

steve philion wrote: >Notice the media are reporting unquestioned the military's claim that they >found viagra, condoms, bras?, yada yada in the house that saddam's 2 sons >were staying in on their last day? funny how the story is almost always the >same whenever we catch our bad guys. ya'd think they'd be kind of >embarrassed about reporting this kind of psyops nonsense. What's wrong with viagra, condoms, and bras? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 29 10:43:13 PDT 2003

25778 [lbo-talk] creepy journal -- rank: 1000

Anyone know anything about a right-wing journal called The Occidental Quarterly? Reads like high-end intellectual racism. But it sounds a lot like some antiglobo activism - your average International Forum on Globalization partisan of "community" might half-agree with this conclusion from an article by Alain de Benoist: <http://theoccidentalquarterly.com/vol3no2/adb-democracya.html> "Therefore, to return to a Greek concept of democracy does not mean nurturing a shallow hope ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 29 10:41:22 PDT 2003

25779 [lbo-talk] OP ED: Getting Mad and Getting Even -- rank: 1000

staff wrote: >Getting Mad and Getting Even Who are you? Where'd this come from? It reads like spam. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 28 20:55:08 PDT 2003

25780 [lbo-talk] OP ED: Getting Mad and Getting Even -- rank: 1000

staff wrote: >Getting Mad and Getting Even

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 28 20:54:27 PDT 2003

25781 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Letter on "Study" Equating Conservatives toMass Murderers -- rank: 1000

Jeet Heer wrote: >Well, that describes the membership accurately enough, but there the rand >cult as a sociological phenomeon -- characterized by rand's hold on her >followers and their dog-like obedience to her every whim (including sharing >her eccentric literary and musical tastes). The right-wing libertarian >Murray Rothbard made a good stab at describing the group dynamics of the >randians. See: >http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard23.html Damn, I didn't realize ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 28 13:08:52 PDT 2003

25782 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Letter on "Study" Equating Conservatives to Mass Murderers -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Some psychologist should do a study on the Rand cult. Isn't it mainly a bunch of smarty pants guys who never matured past the mental age of 14? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 28 12:30:18 PDT 2003

25783 [lbo-talk] Any Christians left in the U. S.? -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Washington Post Book World has an asst. editor now >alumnus of The Baffler, Tom Vanderbilt, no? Chris Lehmann, Baffler contrib, is the editor in charge of political books. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 28 11:53:00 PDT 2003

25784 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Letter on "Study" Equating Conservatives to Mass Murderers -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 13:38:41 -0500 From: The Ayn Rand Institute <media at aynrand.org> Dear Editor: Leftist college professors have reached a new high in intellectual absurdity. In a recent study published in the Psychological Bulletin, they claim to have discovered that Reagan, Hitler, Mussolini and Rush Limbaugh have important personality traits in common. They are all right-wing "conservatives," by which the authors mean they "resist change." Whether such resistan ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 28 11:46:53 PDT 2003

25785 [lbo-talk] f'in' history -- rank: 1000

At 1:50 PM -0400 7/28/03, editor at thesmokinggun.com wrote: >In need of a legal and scholarly review of the "F" word's history? >Well, thanks to a Colorado public defender, we have one for you--and >it's our pick for 2003's Legal Document of the Year: > >http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/fword1.html

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 28 11:37:13 PDT 2003