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27316 [lbo-talk] The Making of Saving Private Lynch -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >The Times is a Murdoch paper: But largely insulated from his evil influence. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 16 09:46:17 PDT 2003

27317 [lbo-talk] Walzer -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >I don't keep up with these things too often. Anyone willing to >provide me with a good synopsis? I find Walzer's gravity and piety disgusting enough, but it's his Zionism that's the real killer for me. He's a master of that faux even-handedness: "both sides" want to destroy each other. Of course one side has mostly stones, and the other, Apache helicopters, Catepillar bulldozers, and F-16s. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 16 09:31:12 PDT 2003

27318 [lbo-talk] How's It Feel -- rank: 1000

eric dorkin wrote: >it is hard to say that the Gulf War caused anything of the sort when >you consider that war had nothing to do with Columbine et al.....a >more likely suspect is the culture more generally.....the war may >have been the impetus for a few, but the damage was already there Malvo and McVeigh were both GW vets. I don't have any stats, but I'll bet a lot of GW vets came home and beat their wives too. There's a lot of homefront blowback from war. And the sickness, physic ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 16 07:08:45 PDT 2003

27319 [lbo-talk] Cuba petition -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> A Walzer moment is when one is overcome by the inability to recognize >> American imperialism, and so one focuses on external and far less >> murderous regimes to avoid the stressful confrontation? > >To be fair, fwiw, Walzer was against the war on Iraq. Why be fair to Walzer? He's a creep and a thug. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 16 07:05:51 PDT 2003

27320 [lbo-talk] Number of job seekers in Israel jumps 6.4% in first quarter of 2003 -- rank: 1000

Bryan Atinsky wrote: >6.4% increase in Job seekers in one quarter seems like a lot to me, but to >give proportion to the numbers, how does this compare with the US or Europe? The U.S. doesn't measure job seekers specifically, but a 6.4% increase in the number of unemployed would translate into an 0.4 percentage point increase in unemployment (at current levels), which would be high, but not outlandishly so. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 16 07:03:16 PDT 2003

27321 [lbo-talk] RIP, PR -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - April 16, 2003 'Partisan Review' Folds After 68 Years of Publication By JENNIFER K. RUARK Partisan Review, once the nation's pre-eminent journal of culture and politics, has folded after 68 years of publication. Its most recent issue, released on Monday, will be its last. The future of the quarterly journal, which is published at Boston University, was up in the air after the death of its cofounder and editor, William Phillips, in September 2002. Its h ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 16 06:56:30 PDT 2003

27322 [lbo-talk] RE: how's it feel? -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >No, it's a long way from being worse. It's gotten pretty bad, but >most activists have no perspective on the situation, because most of >them will never feel the worst effects of increased government >repression. I'm editing my interview with Zizek, and listened to a bit that sort of went by me when I was doing the interview. He said the danger isn't really that Bush will literally institute police-state measures as the bounds of what's acceptable have moved considerab ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 16 06:49:33 PDT 2003

27323 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Should Iraq Be Democratized? -- rank: 1000

[fascinating insight into the libertarian mind here - if postwar Germany had been democratic, they would have chosen the wrong policies - ditto Iraq - you need some good authoritarians to establish "freedom"] <http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1210> Should Iraq Be Democratized? by D.W. MacKenzie [Posted April 16, 2003] Now that the regime of Saddam Hussein has passed into history, the most pertinent question is what kind of authority will emerge in its place. A U.S.-spo ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 16 06:37:03 PDT 2003

27324 [lbo-talk] How's It Feel -- rank: 1000

maria.gilmore wrote: >But then there are things that make me cry, and feel alienated on top of >that grief: not only the horrors visited on the innocent and the helpless >in Iraq, but the solemn joy thousands of Americans seem to be taking in >burying their 18-year-olds, their children home via body bag and they're >GLAD! The first gulf war severely damaged the Americans who fought there, and produced Malvo & McVeigh, sickness, and thousands of early deaths. This one is so mu ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 15 18:01:18 PDT 2003

27325 [lbo-talk] Fwd: lacan.com -- rank: 1000

>from lacan dot com >http://www.lacan.com > >The latest from Slavoj Zizek > >04/14/2003 - TOO MUCH DEMOCRACY? at Columbia University >http://www.lacan.com/lacan1.htm > >03/13/2003 - THE IRAQ WAR: WHERE IS THE TRUE DANGER? at Deitch Projects >http://www.lacan.com/lacan1.htm

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Date:	Tue Apr 15 15:58:14 PDT 2003

27326 [lbo-talk] RE: how's it feel? -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >the left needs to find what and where it loves. > >"I was not a cynic by nature; only by revolt. I had got >away from what I hated, but I hadn't found where I >loved, and so I pretended that there was nowhere to >love. Handsomely equipped to fail, I went out into the >world." >--John Fowles, The Magus "Behind every no lay a passion for yes that had never been broken." - Wallace Stevens

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Date:	Tue Apr 15 14:37:59 PDT 2003

27327 [lbo-talk] RE: how's it feel? -- rank: 1000

Stannard67 at aol.com wrote: >With popular talking heads calling for the suspension of rights of >protest, defending the ruining of people's careers for their >political beliefs, comparing anti-war folks to the Vichy, I guess I >am angry as an activist, but scared as a father--frightened that my >political positions will render me unable to provide for my >children, or gain any future comforts in old age myself. Well, we survived McCarthyism. Is this worse? Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 15 12:46:41 PDT 2003

27328 [lbo-talk] Sphere of Influence -- rank: 1000

No, but now that you mention it, I'll lie and say yes! - Doug loupaulsen at attbi.com wrote: >Nice pun - was it intentional? :-) > >lp >> dredmond at efn.org wrote: >> >> >If Iran is smart, they'll conclude a mutual defense treaty with the EU >> >tomorrow. >> >> How many divisions has the EU? >> >> Doug >> ___________________________________ >> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk >_____________ ...

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27329 [lbo-talk] more in Iraqwar.ru -- rank: 1000

DID RUSSIANS USE BLOG TO AID IRAQIS? Daniel Forbes The U.S. and British military won't have the Russian secret services to contend with in Iraq anymore, at least not on the Net. Early last week, the Russian military analysis Web site, Iraqwar.ru, discontinued its daily "Russian military intel update." The three-week-old, daily feature - was it real-world intelligence useful to the Iraqis or merely the product of a fertile imagination? - claimed to be based on leaks from senior Russian ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 15 12:37:39 PDT 2003

27330 [lbo-talk] AQ fading? -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - April 14, 2003 Conflict 'may cut' role of al-Qaeda By Mark Huband in London, Victoria Burnett in Islamabad and Farhan Bokhari in Lahore The US-led invasion of Iraq and signs of a resurgence of militancy among national Islamist groups may diminish the global role of the al-Qaeda terrorist network, security officials and political analysts say. The al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's call on April 9, for Iraqis to resist the US and UK invasion by launching suicide bomb attacks, is ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 15 12:30:45 PDT 2003