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27196 [lbo-talk] Albert Responds On Cuba -- rank: 1000

Shane Taylor wrote: >Michael Albert's Prolix-o-matic churned out: 20.3K > >Aren't most of you as sick of and baffled by -- seeing as these are the >beginning days of the US occupation of Iraq -- the endurance of this >topic? Sick of but not baffled by: it's a lot easier to condemn the Cuban government than your own, even for supposed leftists. Leo Casey's useless union is doing nothing I can see to fight the budget cuts in NY city and state, either. Oh, but he can circulate a peti ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 29 14:05:17 PDT 2003

27197 [lbo-talk] Banfield rebuked -- rank: 1000

Reuters - April 29, 2003 NBC's Banfield Chided Over Criticisms NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC News president Neal Shapiro has taken correspondent Ashleigh Banfield to the woodshed for a speech in which she criticized the networks for portraying the Iraqi war as "glorious and wonderful." Banfield delivered her remarks Thursday at Kansas State University. "She and we both agreed that she didn't intend to demean the work of her colleagues, and she will choose her words more care ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 29 13:53:10 PDT 2003

27198 [lbo-talk] we splashed that bastard -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher - April 29, 2003 Missteps by Press Color Iraqi Perceptions Cox's Nelson on Some Unfortunate Incidents By Craig Nelson NEW YORK -- With tanks and armored personnel carriers, U.S. Marines had surrounded the Palestine Hotel, home to the foreign press corps in Baghdad, Iraq. Now, at a checkpoint located at the foot of the hotel's driveway, they were requesting identification from me and other reporters who had been living in the hotel for weeks. At first, the two Marine guards ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 29 13:50:54 PDT 2003

27199 [lbo-talk] cuba petition -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: ><URL: >http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/bright/dolgoff/cubanrevolution/toc.html > >The Cuban Revolution >A Critical Perspective >by Sam Dolgoff >The Character of the Cuban Revolution 16k with a URL for something we've all heard a million times. One more of these and you go into the bounce filter, Michael. Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 29 13:48:00 PDT 2003

27200 [lbo-talk] sauce for the goose... -- rank: 1000

Robert Sandels writes in Counterpunch about Cason & the U.S. interests section's activities in Havana: >The State Department calls these activities "outreach." However, under >the United States Code, similar "outreach" by a foreign diplomat in the >United States could result in criminal prosecution and a 10-year prison >sentence for anyone "who agrees to operate within the United States >subject to the direction or control of a foreign government or of ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 29 13:44:28 PDT 2003

27201 [lbo-talk] Gallup: Lieberman leads Dems -- rank: 1000

POLL ANALYSES April 29, 2003 Lieberman Leads Field of Nine Bush not seen as invincible by Lydia Saad GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- A new CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll on the 2004 presidential election, based on a national survey conducted April 22-23, finds Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman holding a slight edge over the field of nine Democratic candidates that will meet in South Carolina this weekend in the season's first nationally televised debate. Massachusetts Senator John Kerry and Miss ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 29 13:31:04 PDT 2003

27202 [lbo-talk] US Ambassador on Russian Oil Contracts with Iraq -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >Vershbow announced that the US Administration welcomed Russia's >participation in the development and restoration of the Iraqi economy. He >also confirmed the USA was going to spend from $50m to $100m for the >restoration of the Iraqi economy. $50-100m as in million? Is that a misprint? That's not even pocket change. Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 29 13:19:45 PDT 2003

27203 [lbo-talk] nude Bush? -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - April 29, 2003 HUSTLER magazine honcho Larry Flynt is hunting for a videotape rumored to show First Daughter Barbara Bush in the nude. Flynt's cronies are scouring the New Haven, Conn., campus of Yale University, where Barbara, 21, is a student, in hopes of buying a video supposedly made at one of Yale's notorious "naked parties." "We definitely have heard the story and we definitely have a rep over there but so far we have not been able to substantiate ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 29 12:59:20 PDT 2003

27204 [lbo-talk] that odd Miller piece -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> > >> [Back in the 80s, Spy magazine used to make relentless fun of Miller >> in its column on the NYT. Back then, she was not popular with her >> colleagues at all.] > >What did she write about back then? Middle East stuff, if I'm remembering. A lot of the Spy material was very nasty, personal stuff. I've been meaning to dig out my old copies, so this gives me an excuse. Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 29 11:40:40 PDT 2003

27205 [lbo-talk] Re:Cuba petition -- rank: 1000

Still waiting for some of our petition authors and signers to explain how Cuba should have defended itself against the U.S. Nothing very convincing yet, but I'm not giving up hope yet. Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 29 10:43:15 PDT 2003

27206 [lbo-talk] NYC event -- rank: 1000

"The globalization we want" with Luca Casarini and Michael Hardt May 3, 2003 7pm The Brecht Forum 122 West 27th Street, 10th Floor New York City This event will focus on the intersection of the movements against capitalist globalization and the anti-war movements. Hardt and Casarini will use the current Italian situation as an example, discussing the forms of the movements in Italy during the Iraq war and after. They will also facilitate conversation regarding linkages between these mo ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 29 10:40:21 PDT 2003

27207 [lbo-talk] Andy & the talking squirrels: Lou Reed talks to the FT -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - April 28, 2003 Music: Reed's long walk on the wild side By Richard Wolfson Lou Reed's driver has just been held for an hour by traffic police for allegedly driving through a stop sign. She's adamant that she didn't do it. "They should have better things to do than that right now," says Reed. "Three cops for one woman with a stop sign. What is wrong with these guys? No wonder people hate them." He turns to Nina: "If you'd had a gun you could have just sh ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 28 19:51:27 PDT 2003

27208 Heresy (Was Re: [lbo-talk] Lieberman) -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >I might vote for a Democrat. Further confession of heresy: I probably will too. I have absolutely no illusions about what a Dem president would do; I'm not going to channel Nathan and tell you about how secretly great the party is. It's not; it sucks. But it sucks less than Bush & Co. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 28 13:54:32 PDT 2003

27209 [lbo-talk] Lieberman -- rank: 1000

A friend dismayed by the Bushies just said she'd even vote for Lieberman. Anyone else here feel that way? Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 28 13:25:50 PDT 2003

27210 [lbo-talk] Awww...soo sad.... -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >It's still funny (i.e. _Aww...soo_ sad), but I wonder how close we are >to the appearance of death squads in the u.s. Didn't a few Black Panthers meet their ends at the hands of death squads of sorts? Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 28 08:50:27 PDT 2003