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27241 [lbo-talk] Meanwhile in Argentina............. -- rank: 1000

<npchilds at connect.ab.ca> wrote: >Got to admit, I had no idea this stuff was going on Ah, but if you'd listened to my interview with Naomi <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html> you would! Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 24 08:47:01 PDT 2003

27242 [lbo-talk] Food Stamps make people fat -- rank: 1000

A bit old, but if you're looking for some fuel for America-bashing, here's some: Kate O'Beirne wondering why we spend all this money on Food Stamps when poor people are so damned fat: <http://www.nationalreview.com/kob/kob.asp>. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 24 06:32:01 PDT 2003

27243 the squishing... the squishing... (was Re: [lbo-talk] Hitch returns to 7th grade) -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >If anybody here feels despair about the current >scene, read this dreck and know what we're up against. It ain't much. Yeah, but hegemony consists in part of being able to assert things as true without having to prove them. America good, France bad. QED. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 24 06:23:31 PDT 2003

27244 [lbo-talk] Counterpunch on the Leo Casey Letter -- rank: 1000

Ulhas Joglekar wrote: >I can see more states catching up with Kerala in the next 20 years. Well yeah, but 20 years is a long time, unless you're using a geologic time scale. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 23 21:31:28 PDT 2003

27245 [lbo-talk] Cuban HDI -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Well, the simple answer is to do good and not evil. To build a Cuba >in which there is freedom of speech. To build a political society in >which Cubans can debate and discuss and decide on their own destiny, >rather than to build yet another despotism that has already lost its >claims to be 'enlightened'. Tell it to every American president since JFK. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 23 15:39:09 PDT 2003

27246 [lbo-talk] radio oops -- rank: 1000

The link for that radio archive is, of course, <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>.

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Date:	Wed Apr 23 15:22:05 PDT 2003

27247 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

Just added to my radio archive: April 17, 2003 Cultural theorist and philosopher Slavoj Zizek on the Iraq war, American imperialism, the role of fantasy in politics, etc. April 10, 2003 Bill Fletcher, one of the principal organizers of United for Peace and Justice, in a return engagement on the antiwar movement after the war ends * Gilberto Buenaño, professor of planning and former minister in the Venezuelan government, on what's going on in that belaguered country * former investment banker (an ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 23 15:21:02 PDT 2003

27248 [lbo-talk] Woj & America -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I have to admit that anti-US ranting on this particular list is >misplaced and I should probably refrain form it - but how about human >sympathy for people like me, who feel being trampled by gloating >warmongering crowds? I feel the same way sometimes, but as I've said to you many times, those yahoos aren't the whole story. There are all kinds of humane and interesting people in the U.S. The ruling class and their cheering section exclude them from the &quo ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 23 13:04:40 PDT 2003

27249 [lbo-talk] Cuban HDI -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Castro's repression is wrong, and I'll say it now or at any time. >I'll also say that I'm not sure what other choice Castro has, a >point I have pressed on you repeatedly, and you have failed >to address. Brad's not alone in this. Not a single one of the list's social dems or anarchists has been able to answer this question. Nathan himself has pointedly ducked it about five times in the last two weeks, quoting and responding to other portions of a post tha ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 23 12:30:48 PDT 2003

27250 [lbo-talk] GOP's Santorum says homosexuality a threat -- rank: 1000

loupaulsen at attbi.com wrote: >My brother would agree with you. He's not normally a political activist or >anything. He called me up the other night to rant for about 45 minutes about >how awful things were. He was talking about leaving the country and has >gotten as far as looking up the lists of favored professions in the "Welcome >to Australia, Mate" website and so on. > >I'm not as freaked out as he is, but then I live in Chicago and he lives in >Ithaca, ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 23 12:25:14 PDT 2003

27251 [lbo-talk] Woj & America -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow wrote: >On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 10:05:08 -0400 Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> spat > ><snip> >> - How come that the nation of fat and lazy morons, plagued with >> monumental inefficiencies and waste, and producing very little tangible >> goods still wields power and enjoys one of the highest standards of >> living on earth? The greenbacks for goodies exchange hypothesis >> explains that fairly well - the world makes it, the Yan ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 23 12:01:42 PDT 2003

27252 [lbo-talk] some forms of ethnic cleansing are ok -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - April 23, 2003 Americans accused of turning blind eye to killings by Kurds By Kim Sengupta in Kirkuk A bitter conflict is unfolding in northern Iraq between two minority communities, with the Americans accused of turning a blind eye to killings and ethnic cleansing. The Kurds, the victims of oppression by Saddam Hussein and previous regimes in Baghdad, are being blamed for a violent campaign of intimidation against the Turkoman population. Organisations representing the Tu ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 23 10:59:53 PDT 2003

27253 [lbo-talk] Ignorance on stilts 2 -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Must be a real shock to him watching Shias converge on Karbala and cut >their heads open. After reporting that on the Daily Show last night, Jon Stewart added that the practice was banned by Saddam - "that bastard!" Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 23 10:54:24 PDT 2003

27254 [lbo-talk] GOP's Santorum says homosexuality a threat -- rank: 1000

Brian O. Sheppard wrote: >Santorum Says Homosexual Acts a Threat Am I just oversensitive, or is American public life descending even deeper into stupidity, bigotry, and violence? Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 23 10:46:15 PDT 2003

27255 [lbo-talk] WH: no comment -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - April 22, 2003 An Answer? Out of the Question By Dana Milbank It was, perhaps, inevitable, and it happened late last week: The White House went completely incommunicado. For two years, lawmakers, journalists and watchdog groups have complained that the Bush administration has been stingy with information on everything from energy policy to Iraq rebuilding. But the less-is-more communications approach reached its logical extreme in a pair of briefings in Texas on Thursday and Fr ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 23 10:30:49 PDT 2003