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25891 [lbo-talk] Nader, again -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook quoted Perry Anderson: >More acutely, however, the scandals that surrounded his >Presidency made it impossible to convert into any kind of a >rallying-point. He was plainly guilty of the charges-molestation in >Arkansas, perjury and obstruction of justice in Washington-against him, >which were fully impeachable: the Constitution calling for the removal of >a President culpable even of 'misdemeanours' short of such breaches of the >law, which in other fields o ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 11 07:42:21 PDT 2003

25892 [lbo-talk] Nader, again -- rank: 1000

[Thanks to Sam Smith for digging this up.] RECOVERED HISTORY EVEN AL FROM SAYS IT WASN'T NADER'S FAULT http://www.ndol.org/ndol_ci.cfm?cp=3&kaid=86&subid=84&contentid=2919 AL FROM, BLUEPRINT MAGAZINE, JAN 24, 2001 - Proponents of Gore's strategy argue that it was aimed at winning support of downscale white working-class voters, whom they see as the electorate's critical swing voters. They argue that the strategy was a success -- that it produced a "progressive majority" if ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 10 16:02:39 PDT 2003

25893 [lbo-talk] coalition of the shilling -- rank: 1000

Sydney Morning Herald - July 11, 2003 Officials knew of dodgy Iraq file By Mark Riley and Craig Skehan The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) admitted last night that it knew intelligence on Iraq's nuclear program was questionable shortly before the Prime Minister, John Howard, presented it to Parliament to build a case for war. The revelation will deepen the damaging controversy about the Government's use of flawed intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction capabilities. The ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 10 15:45:48 PDT 2003

25894 [lbo-talk] Rakesh writes... -- rank: 1000

At 12:12 PM -0700 7/10/03, Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >seems to be interest in emmanuel todd whom i haven't read; here's a >review which i haven't yet read either. > >yours, r > >http://www.munism.com/archives/EmmanuelToddReview.html

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Date:	Thu Jul 10 13:09:11 PDT 2003

25895 [lbo-talk] Re: Gore Vidal: Hero of the Right? -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >Not surprising, as all the leading lights of the US left - Chomsky, >Nader and of course Vidal, are "Old Republicans": The want to restore >the US to the virtues of the Old Republic, corrupted by the National >Security State, etc. Yeah, those were the good old days, when only propertied white guys could vote!

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Date:	Thu Jul 10 11:57:34 PDT 2003

25896 [lbo-talk] Dennis makes Page Six! -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - July 10, 2003 FALLEN IDOL A PROTEGE of Vanity Fair's Christopher ("Hellbound") Hitchens says his formerly fun friend has turned into a "smug, nasty scold." In a Minneapolis City Pages piece reminiscent of the screeds Hitchens has written attacking his own ex-pal, Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal, Dennis Perrin writes that he misses the man who would routinely scream at bartenders for playing Cat Stevens and would likely have praised the Dixie Chicks f ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 10 11:39:02 PDT 2003

25897 [lbo-talk] pension games -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - July 10, 2003 Firms Had a Hand In Pension Plight By ELLEN E. SCHULTZ Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL A lot of big companies call it a looming crisis: They suddenly need to pour millions of dollars into their pension plans, because there isn't enough cash in them to meet the legal requirements. Now Congress is moving to offer companies relief, and the White House is planning a remedy of its own. But what companies aren't saying is that some of them contributed to t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 10 09:13:59 PDT 2003

25898 [lbo-talk] My Hitch Piece -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >no, it's true. erica blair. Hilarious. If you did that in a novel, it would seem far-fetched or heavy-handed. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 10 09:08:12 PDT 2003

25899 [lbo-talk] Rieff on humanitarian intervention -- rank: 1000

["It may not be politically correct to say so, but there is a strong argument to be made that humanitarian interventions are positive for the people of a Liberia or a Bosnia and negative for the U.S. since, whatever the conspiracy theorists of the anti-globalizing left and the isolationist right imagine, such wars almost never serve any geostrategic or economic interest of the U.S. or Western European powers."] Wall Street Journal - July 10, 2003 Beware Wars of Altruism By DAVID RIEFF ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 10 09:05:14 PDT 2003

25900 [lbo-talk] Microsoft Plans An End Run Around, Oh, Everyone -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> MSFT loses money on almost everything but Windows. It loses something >> like $100 on every Xbox it sells. > >I have a silly question. Aren't these Xboxes completely subcontracted? >If MS sells them for $100 less than they buy them, why don't the companies >who make them buy them in the stores and sell them back to MS? Don't forget marketing expenses! Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 10 07:10:44 PDT 2003

25901 [lbo-talk] Microsoft Plans An End Run Around, Oh, Everyone -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Even if they have lots of cash on hand, it doesn't mean that every >scheme of their will come to fruition. Just look at their troubles >with speech recognition technology, .NET, and their failure to jump >on the Web bandwagon right away. MSFT loses money on almost everything but Windows. It loses something like $100 on every Xbox it sells. MSN/Hotmail is still a money-loser too. But Windows is a profit machine. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 9 11:59:27 PDT 2003

25902 [lbo-talk] Rightwing College Students Target Ehrenreich's 'Nickel & Dimed' -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >The insistence upon seeing "both sides" is what draws >the attention in. > >Ehrenreich's observations about how difficult it is to >live on very meager pay are either correct or not; >there is no debate, only fact checking. What exactly >is the other side? That low wages for some are good for the economy as a whole, promoting high levels of employment and productivity that benefit everyone in the long run. That the poorly paid deserve it becau ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 9 11:24:23 PDT 2003

25903 [lbo-talk] Rightwing College Students Target Ehrenreich's 'Nickel & Dimed' -- rank: 1000

hmm, they must have had good experiences working at Wal-Mart

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 9 11:06:36 PDT 2003

25904 [lbo-talk] RE: Liberia -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Oil has been at the center of geopolitics for over a century, but I >still agree with you that saying it's "about oil" is in specific >instances not very illuminating. It's become the default left explanation for everything the U.S. does. Somalia was about oil. Afg was about a pipeilne. Liberia is about oil - in Nigeria. Etc. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 9 11:05:34 PDT 2003

25905 [lbo-talk] RE: Liberia -- rank: 1000

John K. Taber wrote: >Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> asks: > >> Ok, so does anyone understand the pressure for U.S. >intervention in >> Liberia? > >Noblesse oblige? Daphne Wysham of the Institute for Policy Studies has a press release out today saying it's all about - you guessed it - oil. In Nigeria. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 9 10:15:53 PDT 2003