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26791 [lbo-talk] Saddam Hussein's Arrest and the Peace Movement -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >This is just it: Will it be a Nuremberg trial or a Noriega trial? We of >the left ought to clamoring for the former, as well as for enforcement of >the death penalty for all who were major sponsors of Saddam's regime, some >of whom have been seen in photos shaking SH's hand at one of SH's many >heights of killing. (That last bit is a joke, but just barely.) <http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/09/30/sproject.irq.regime.change/>

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Date:	Tue Dec 16 07:59:02 PST 2003

26792 [lbo-talk] a good year -- rank: 1000

[I think the censor is an asterisk short...] >YOUR QUOTE OF THE DAY > "A good week for me was buggering my sister, fist-***ing the groom >at a wedding, and also having it off with the bride." -- Malcolm >McDowell, discussing the year he spent making Caligula

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Date:	Tue Dec 16 07:55:17 PST 2003

26793 [lbo-talk] Madonna loves a man recently in a uniform -- rank: 1000

The NY Post's Page Six reports: "Madonna is giving a concert in her home in L.A. as a fund-raiser for Gen. Wesley Clark ."

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Date:	Tue Dec 16 07:47:28 PST 2003

26794 [lbo-talk] Tariq Ali's piece at Counterpunch -- rank: 1000

Brian Siano wrote: >Let's look at this carefully. Mr. Ali begins by saying that he's >disgusted that Saddam couldn't "die honorably," and that this would >have been "the one decent thing he could have done for his country." >Come on. I'm _glad_ he didn't take that opportunity. It is far >_better_ that he be brought to trial, that he stand and be held >accountable for his crimes (and maybe implicate those who helped >him), and that he _not_ have the chance ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 16 07:37:26 PST 2003

26795 [lbo-talk] For Telling the Truth -- rank: 1000

The Baltimore Sun - December 14, 2003 FOR TELLING THE TRUTH By Norman Solomon Few Americans have heard of Katharine Gun, a former British intelligence employee facing charges that she violated the Official Secrets Act. So far, the American press has ignored her. But the case raises profound questions about democracy and the public's right to know on both sides of the Atlantic. Ms. Gun's legal peril began in Britain on March 2, when the Observer newspaper exposed a highly secret memorandum by a t ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 15 18:39:32 PST 2003

26796 [lbo-talk] correction on radio product -- rank: 1000

Apologies on the mischaracterization of Robert Pollin's topic - it's the 1990s boom and after, not the Bush revolution in foreign policy. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 15 17:47:57 PST 2003

26797 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

After a few weeks' delay, some fresh additions to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: December 11, 2003 Steffie Woolhandler of Physicians for a National Health Program on the Medicare reform bill * Robert Pollin, author of Countours of Descent, on the Bush administration's foreign policy revolution December 4, 2003 Psephologist Ruy Teixeira on Bush's poll numbers * Michael Dawson, author of The Consumer Trap, on marketing November 27, 2003 Thanksgiving Bigotr ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 15 16:22:19 PST 2003

26798 [lbo-talk] advising Dean -- rank: 1000

Eubulides wrote: >[.....oh joy.......] > > > >Dean Announces Foreign Policy, National Security Advisors Well, could be worse - they're on the liberal wing of the establishment and not raving lunatics, which would be a slight but still welcome degree of progress. Stansfield Turner was friendly with WBAI's late program director, Samori Marksman, and I interviewed him in the run-up to the first Gulf War. I remember asking him what the Bush admin would do if they won the war, and he p ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 15 14:45:28 PST 2003

26799 [lbo-talk] Hi Tea -- rank: 1000

kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >Bacl in the 70s and 80s there was a computer company started by Lore >Harp, Vector Graphic. When Vector Graphic bellied up, she moved on >to develop a device that allowed women to take a leak standing up, >Le Funelle. She'd developed it because she'd had to travel a lot >while running Vector. damn, you beat me to it - sorry for the repeat

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Date:	Mon Dec 15 14:36:25 PST 2003

26800 [lbo-talk] Hi Tea -- rank: 1000

Kenneth MacKendrick wrote: >I don't know if this has been mentioned or not but... >http://www.travelmateinfo.com/ >I don't care what Freud would have thought about it. : ) Hmm, the first real computer I had was a Vector Graphic CP/M machine I bought in 1981. The founder of Vector was Lore Harp. In 1988, I noticed her name on a list of contributors to the Dukakis campaign, and called her up to ask why. I don't remember her answer, but she said that after Vector's collapse (which came so ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 15 14:32:39 PST 2003

26801 [lbo-talk] supermodel dating Chechen leader? -- rank: 1000

[any of our Russian correspondents heard this?] New York Post [Page Six] - December 14, 2003 POWER COUPLE NAOMI Campbell has met her match. Multiple sources have reported recently that the fiery-tempered beauty was spotted in Moscow on an "exotic date" with Chechen clan leader Umar Dzhabrailov, a wealthy businessman with suspected ties to organized crime, an assassination attempt on a rival, and a high-profile murder. "Campbell was playfully kittenish, while Mr. Dzhabrailov's famo ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 15 13:46:36 PST 2003

26802 [lbo-talk] Sid joins Salon bringing bucks -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - December 14, 2003 WE HEAR . . . THAT former Bill Clinton hatchet man Sid Blumenthal, back to being a journalist, is joining online magazine Salon and bringing in some investors . . .

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Date:	Mon Dec 15 13:45:29 PST 2003

26803 [lbo-talk] polls on SH -- rank: 1000

[Gallup] POLL ANALYSES December 15, 2003 Americans Consider Saddam Capture "Major Achievement," but War Support Unchanged Most Americans say capture won't affect their vote for president by Frank Newport GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- Questions and answers about the impact of Saddam Hussein's capture on American public opinion, based on the results of a special instant-reaction CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll conducted on Sunday, Dec. 14: 1. Do Americans view the capture of Saddam Huss ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 15 13:29:07 PST 2003

26804 [lbo-talk] Saddam Caught -- rank: 1000

DoreneFC at aol.com wrote: >Yep. I have been thinking International Criminal Court. too, but I >have to admit if the Iraqi courts were strong enough to try their >current occupiers too.... But, as I recall, 1) Iraq didn't sign the ICC treaty, 2) neither has the U.S., and 3) it has no jurisdiction over crimes committed before 2002. Aside from that, a good idea. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 15 09:09:47 PST 2003

26805 [lbo-talk] Fake left (was More on the global capitalist crisis) -- rank: 1000

Tahir Wood wrote: >Loren Goldner and his (to me) very impressive body of work What do you find impressive about it? >"Where is the authentic revolutionary alternative?" Well this is >obviously a a rhetorical question, which is intended to suggest that >there can be no such thing. Is that your position? I don't see much of one right now - not in the intellectual sense, but the organizational. Where's the active and/or growing and/or dynamic revolutionary movement that the &q ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 15 07:39:29 PST 2003