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27331 [lbo-talk] Cuba petition -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >This whole discussion is just depressing. Castro kills a number of folks >and imprisons scores of other dissidents and folks just yawn. I'm not >having a Horowitz moment but I sure am having a Walzer moment. 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? Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 15 11:53:01 PDT 2003

27332 [lbo-talk] Sphere of Influence -- rank: 1000

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

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Date:	Tue Apr 15 11:50:28 PDT 2003

27333 [lbo-talk] Cuba petition -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I'll happily condemn it generally in regards to US funding but not in this >petition, since it would imply that the repression against the activists was >somehow justified because they received outside money. Let me see if I've got this straight - accepting money from a foreign power that has spent 40 years trying to overthrow a government is within the bounds of free speech? Is there any government on earth that would tolerate that? Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 15 11:40:27 PDT 2003

27334 [lbo-talk] how's it feel? -- rank: 1000

The Times of London has asked me to do a piece on what it feels like to be a peacenik (the editor's word, Carrol) in America today. I more or less know how I feel, but I'm wondering how others feel - isolated? hopeful? despondent? shocked? confused? regretful? Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 15 11:17:39 PDT 2003

27335 [lbo-talk] flacking for Centcom -- rank: 1000

<http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/columns/medialife/n_8623/>

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Date:	Mon Apr 14 14:48:37 PDT 2003

27336 [lbo-talk] Cuba petition -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >I'm still looking for a progressive regime. Enlightened despotisms >don't count--especially if they are not so enlightened... So assume you didn't have a Harvard PhD and a professorship at Berkeley. Would you rather be a peasant in Cuba or the Dominican Republic? Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 14 14:03:59 PDT 2003

27337 [lbo-talk] Former Sec. of State Lawrence Eagleburger: Bush Should Be Impeached If He Invades Syria or Iran -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >What is to keep the White House from attacking Syria >(apart from perhaps being overextended)? All they >need to do is fabricate a few stories, put it out to >the media and voila` a reason to go to war in the name >of truth, justice and the American way. Dunno, if Eagleburger says this, then maybe elite opinion is more nervous about Bush than they let on during the hot part of the war. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 14 13:59:17 PDT 2003

27338 [lbo-talk] Is the Anti-War Movement A White's Only Mission? -- rank: 1000

============================================= SPECIAL NAT'L BROADCAST OF HARD KNOCK RADIO ============================================= Monday, April 14 2003 IS THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT FOR PEOPLE OF COLOR OR IS IT A WHITE'S ONLY MISSION? Last week, well known Bay Area Hip Hop graf writer Reefa 1 spoke candidly on KPFA's Hard Knock Radio as to why you do not see the average person from the 'hood participating in all these large anti-war demonstrations. His response was that while many of the organ ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 14 13:49:10 PDT 2003

27339 [lbo-talk] Cuba petition -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Here's my bottom line-- I think the ANSWER-style left helped murder Iraqis >in the last couple of months by making the moral argument of the antiwar >forces look implausible, so those looking to a moral solution could be >convinced by the Bushies. And I think those who stay silent in the face of >the repression of the Cuban people are helping to assist an invasion of >Cuba-- which is partly what the letter itself said about Castro himself. >Only a left ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 14 12:44:45 PDT 2003

27340 [lbo-talk] reporting the war -- rank: 1000

<http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/columns/medialife/n_8623/> New York Magazine - April 21, 2003 The Media Life Michael Wolff [...] Still, no matter how jaded these reporters were, when the lights went on, they knew their roles. They had producers and an audience. The show must go on. If everybody here seemed privately to accept that the process of reporting war was a crock, publicly they accepted the war as a coherent event that they had some mastery overthey had inside sourc ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 14 11:33:54 PDT 2003

27341 [lbo-talk] Cuba petition -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Which is why denouncing the Cuba repression is always timely, maybe more so >now. So you'd endorse a Bush admin humanitarian intervention in Cuba? How far would you go? Covert action? Full-blown invasion? Several times now I've asked all you folks how you'd defend any kind of progressive regime against U.S. hostility, and I've yet to hear an approximation of an answer. I'm guessing it's because you don't have one, but I won't give up hope yet. Doug

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27342 [lbo-talk] Iraq local gov't: Made in NC -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - April 14, 2003 North Carolina Research Institute Receives Contract to Help Rebuild Local Governments in Iraq By ELIZABETH F. FARRELL An independent research group affiliated with three North Carolina universities has won a $7.9-million contract from the U.S. Agency for International Development to help rebuild local governments in Iraq. RTI International, based in Research Triangle Park, N.C., was founded in 1958 by Duke University, North Carolina Stat ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 14 11:10:32 PDT 2003

27343 [lbo-talk] Revolution from Above (Review of Berman's _Terror and Liberalism_) -- rank: 1000

Grant Lee wrote: > > What is Zizek's view of the ideas associated here with Jünger, Schmitt >> and Strauss? >> >> Ted > >Yes ... there you go, Doug. Too late - interview's already done. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 14 11:02:03 PDT 2003

27344 [lbo-talk] Radio Slavoj -- rank: 1000

Ok, my interview with Slavoj Zizek is in the can, and will run on my show this Thursday, 5-6 PM NYC time, WBAI 99.5 FM NYC and on the web at <http://www.wbai.org>. He talks in this interview about the war on Iraq, just what's different about the Bush version of American imperialism, the role of fantasy in politics (e.g., the entirely false but widely popular belief that Saddam was behind 9/11), and a million other things in an interview that will take up the entire show. If you miss it liv ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 14 10:58:27 PDT 2003

27345 [lbo-talk] Cuba's response -- rank: 1000

[posted to another list - I hope our petition signers will agree that Ashcroft has violated civil liberties and due process more than Cuba did] Subject: Letter to the G & M from the Cuban Ambassador to Canada From: Carlos Fernandez de Cossio Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 18:25:48 -0400 Subject: letter to the G & M To the Editor of the Globe and Mail: The individuals arrested, prosecuted and sentenced in Cuba in recent days were not accused, nor were they detained, tried and sentenced for being ...

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