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26896 [lbo-talk] Peter Lamborn Wilson in NYC -- rank: 1000

[for those of you into this sort of thing...] At 2:50 PM -0500 12/4/03, Ben at Autonomedia wrote: >Everyone gets excited when Peter Lamborn Wilson wanders to the front of >the room at the Libertarian Book Club and starts talking; his wit, >erudition, and wide-ranging grasp of secret knowledge give a mischievous >glow to the dark December nights. This year's talk, next Tuesday night, >should be no exception. Peter will speak on the topic of "Ecology and >Anarchism"; he ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 4 12:12:40 PST 2003

26897 [lbo-talk] Israel, USA and TINA-Marxism -- rank: 1000

Is this account accurate? Has anyone else seen Tariq Ali give this talk? Is it in his new book (which I haven't seen)? If so, it's pretty wacko. But it fits with Perry Anderson's fatalism I guess. Doug Michael Pugliese wrote: >Israel, USA and TINA-Marxism ><http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article >&sid=1505&mode=thread&order=0> >By Colin Foster >A presentation by Tariq Ali on "War and Empire" at an "Ideas ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 4 12:08:10 PST 2003

26898 [lbo-talk] Fwd: New Chomsky recording available from Radio Free Maine -- rank: 1000

[this came in literally less than a minute after I sent off my last post...] Radio Free Maine presents Noam Chomsky speaking at a Benefit for the Massachusetts Anti-Corporate Clearinghouse Corporations and Terrorism: War is Terrorism for the Rich and Terrorism is War for the Poor Jonathan Leavitt, the organizer of this event, should be happy with what happened Tuesday night. Hundreds of people got to listen to Noam Chomsky speak for over an hour (70 minutes). Reminding concerned citizens that ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 4 10:20:15 PST 2003

26899 [lbo-talk] The postmodern prince -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Later, passing mention of Howard Stern. The Noamster knows not who >Howard is. Wow. How can you understand media & ideology in the USA without knowing the likes of Howard Stern? As Liza asked last night, why the obsession with the NYT? For all its faults, you can learn a lot by reading it. But most people don't - they get their news, if they do at all, from crappy local papers, TV, and radio. Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 4 10:19:13 PST 2003

26900 [lbo-talk] Negri & Callinicos -- rank: 1000

[a bit old, but I don't think this made its way here] ESF: Another Venue is Possible: Negri vs Callinicos : Melbourne Indymedia Melbourne Independent Media Center -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ESF: Another Venue is Possible: Negri vs Callinicos by j.walker, Monday November 17, 2003 at 10:56 AM It's certainly possible to level a critique of the social forum process as elevating certain individuals to movement stars, something the radical edge of ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 4 09:37:11 PST 2003

26901 [lbo-talk] more Bush lies -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - December 4, 2003 The Bird Was Perfect But Not For Dinner In Iraq Picture, Bush Is Holding the Centerpiece By Mike Allen Washington Post Staff Writer President Bush's Baghdad turkey was for looking, not for eating. In the most widely published image from his Thanksgiving day trip to Baghdad, the beaming president is wearing an Army workout jacket and surrounded by soldiers as he cradles a huge platter laden with a golden-brown turkey. The bird is so perfect it looks as if it cam ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 4 09:24:38 PST 2003

26902 [lbo-talk] Bartley gets a gold star from W -- rank: 1000

["The occasional whitewater," ha ha. They're so funny. Bartley, it's said, has absolutely no sense of humor and never smiles.] Wall Street Journal - December 4, 2003 Bartley's Medal We hope our readers will allow us a moment of pride and gratitude today as we extend our heartiest congratulations to Wall Street Journal columnist and Editor Emeritus Robert Bartley, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom yesterday by President Bush. In bestowing the nation's highest civilian ho ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 4 09:21:46 PST 2003

26903 [lbo-talk] The postmodern prince -- rank: 1000

kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >I don't see how they are a threat to anything. What's at stake if >Judith Butler uses too much verbiage? Rivalry in the field of cultural/political production? I know one "anti-pomo" teacher who's jealous that all the cute young dyke students have crushes on Judy. This shouldn't affect Noam, who has a massive following, but many Old Left types attribute their marginalization to the rise of more "fashionable" thinkers like Foucault. It h ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 4 07:30:18 PST 2003

26904 [lbo-talk] The postmodern prince -- rank: 1000

Jonathan Lassen wrote: >I've really never understood how/why people try to de-Hegelize Marx. >But you guys are going one step further: you want to take the >dialectic away from Marx Because, you know, as Perot used to say, "It's just that simple." Everything's simple. Who needs a theory of complexity, contradiction, and change when everything out there is obvious? Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 4 07:22:32 PST 2003

26905 [lbo-talk] Re: the postmodern prince -- rank: 1000

Jonathan Lassen wrote: >I would suggest that rather than dismissing the theory of the >academy as being useless theory, we rather understand it as one >expression of the alienated condition of intellectuals (and society >in general), and realize that sometimes they stumble on some serious >shit. Funny how we can bash the intellectuals of our day, all the >while Marx stole everything he came up with from boug. intellectuals >of his day, and then reworked it. I wonder how wide ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 3 17:42:49 PST 2003

26906 [lbo-talk] please, ralph, NOOO!!! -- rank: 1000

Lance Murdoch wrote: >These DLC "new" Democrats are perfectly happy >with half of Americans, mostly poor and working class Americans, being >disengaged from politics. But the DLC guy, Lieberman, is unlikely to get the nomination, and they're beside themselves over Dean's alleged (and phantasmic) McGovernish liberalism. And I'm not a DLC guy, or even a Democrat, and I want Nader to go jump in a lake, with heavy rocks in his pockets. Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 3 17:39:43 PST 2003

26907 [lbo-talk] Bush Post '04: A Nightmare Scenario -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Actually, I think the Iraq debacle means tht we're not >going to invade anything tougher than Greneda or >Panama for a long time. It's expensive, unpopular, and >embarassing, and even if the Bushies get away with the >harm they have done themselves in Iraq, it's now clear >that the war in Iraq was not a plus for their >campaign. jks And they're having morale and retention problems with a professional army. Imagine a bunch of conscripts! Fragging a ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 3 17:30:40 PST 2003

26908 [lbo-talk] cronyism, Bush style -- rank: 1000

Medicare Chief Resigns, Seeks Industry Job By Lisa Richwine WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tom Scully, the head of U.S. Medicare and Medicaid services, said on Wednesday he was resigning, just a week after Congress passed a landmark bill he helped shape to provide a Medicare prescription drug benefit. Scully, who has headed the agency since 2001, said he would step down on Dec. 15. In an interview, he said he was seeking health care-related law or investment work in the private sector but had no formal ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 3 16:19:31 PST 2003

26909 [lbo-talk] Re: the postmodern prince -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >No, it wouldn't throw it out the window, it would just reduce it >from a "religious" text or a "scientific" text...to a text that >helps us critique capitalism in an interesting and useful way. I >teaches us how to recognize the social and historical layers upon >which certain apparent "common sense" notions -- like labor, money, >property -- are built. What makes "Capital" hard is not the jargon, >but the depth of ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 3 15:53:59 PST 2003

26910 [lbo-talk] The postmodern prince -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: > > I'm pretty indebted to the classics - Marx, Freud, the Frankfurters - >> though it may not always show. Theories don't come much Bigger than >> those. > >I still think we're talking past one another. By Big Theory, I think I mean >what Chomsky rejects, which is the pretensions that social science needs to >trade in "sophisticated" (i.e., unclear) ideas in order to produce results. Derrida doesn't equal Theory. Not even he ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 3 14:13:55 PST 2003