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27346 [lbo-talk] Re: Two Takes -- rank: 1000

Shane Mage wrote: >Stalinism is the most murderous form of anti-Communism. Speaking of Stalin, after I interviewed Slavoj Zizek yesterday (to be broadcast this Thursday, and on the web late Thursday/early Friday), he said that when Stalin was devising a puppet government for Bulgaria, he insisted there be a representative parliament. When the parliament was put together and Stalin looked over the membership list - and here Slavoj interjected, "this was the genius of Stalin" - he ask ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 14 10:30:05 PDT 2003

27347 [lbo-talk] Re: Cuba petition -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >In what sense is Castro's, or Saddam's, or Aideed's, or Milosevic's, >or Coard's government "revolutionary"? By the time *that's* your >definition of human progress, the abyss has looked you over quite >thoroughly... I wouldn't give the regimes you list following Castro's the time of day, but there's much to admire in Cuba - First World-level social indicators, to start with, enough to earn James Wolfensohn's praise. And I don't like to see dissident ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 14 10:26:20 PDT 2003

27348 [lbo-talk] Cuba petition -- rank: 1000

BrownBingb at aol.com wrote: >> Two years ago you called me, J. Edgar. How pathetic. >>Michael Pugliese >> >>^^^^^^^^ >> >>CB: You seem to be doing the same things you were doing two years >>ago. Have you changed ? Cop-baiting is verboten here. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 13 21:04:45 PDT 2003

27349 [lbo-talk] Cuba petition -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >This is exactly the time to sign such petitions-- if Cuba is being so >idiotic as to start handing ammunition to the Bush folks, it's about time >for those who are friends of the Cuban people to send a message to Castro >to back off. Don't you care how these things operate? Your petition is ammo for Bush too. "Even the left admits...." But you don't want to see how humanitarian intervention greased the chute for the war on Iraq. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 13 15:03:20 PDT 2003

27350 [lbo-talk] "Knee-Jerk Anti-Imperialism" Re: Two Takes -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >Most historians say this claim is simply bogus, because there is no evidence >linking the messages to any awareness by Roosevelt. > >Please name the sources you rely on for your assertion about FDR, other than >material circulated by the Institute for Historical Review. Doesn't Alexander Cockburn subscribe to some such reading of Pearl Harbor? Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 13 14:55:49 PDT 2003

27351 [lbo-talk] so it goes... -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - April 12/13, 2003 WAR IN IRAQ MILITARY: 'The US military are wonderful people, but they are very blunt about what their job is: to kill' By Charles Clover The battle for Najaf is largely over. The 101st Airborne Division is now patrolling the city and resistance from Iraqi Fedayeen units is slight. For me, this is the most interesting part of the story: the outcome of the war is basically inevitable; the outcome of the peace is not. I have one telephone number to start with, th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 13 14:16:17 PDT 2003

27352 [lbo-talk] Israeli soldiers shoot another ISM activist in the head -- rank: 1000

Bryan Atinsky wrote: >Israeli soldiers shoot another ISM activist in the head One is a tragedy, three now is what, a strategy? Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 13 14:04:39 PDT 2003

27353 [lbo-talk] Rummy -- rank: 1000

Ted Winslow wrote: >Doug quoted Rumsfeld: > >>>"It is a fundamental misunderstanding to see those images over and >>>over and over again of some boy walking out (of a building) with a >>>vase and say 'Oh my goodness you didn't have a plan' -- That's >>>nonsense," he told reporters. > >Does anyone know if Rumsfeld's "plan" - he frequently mentions that >all the possible consequences have been predicted and planned for - >is ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 13 13:31:54 PDT 2003

27354 [lbo-talk] Re: Cuba petition -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> >To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> >Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2003 4:05 PM >Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Cuba petition > > >> I'm enough of a liberal to think that procedural justice is very >> important. But, aside from the timing issue, which I think is >> critical, I'm still waiting for a good answer to a question I've >> asked here ma ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 13 13:27:00 PDT 2003

27355 [lbo-talk] Re: Cuba petition -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Doug questions timing, which is reasonable given the slaughter of >thousands of Iraqi in the past weeks. But, I doubt very much given >he forwards Human Rights Watch bulletins that he wouldn't find the >lack of procedural justice appalling and the balance of political >views among the Cuban dissidents (ex-Marxists like Elizardo Sanchez, >left socdems, left Christian Democrat [like a Ruben Zamora of the >FDR-FMLN] sons of a founder of the Cuban Commun ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 13 13:05:42 PDT 2003

27356 Fwd: RE: [lbo-talk] is this your liberation? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Three in four Americans approve of the job that Bush is doing as president He's still a bit below dad's level. 41 peaked at 89% approval (according to Gallup), in a poll taken on Feb 28, 1991 - the day the cease fire took effect in GW I. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 11 17:26:34 PDT 2003

27357 [lbo-talk] market call -- rank: 1000

So my secret-vice gurus at <http://www.elliottwave.com> are saying that the major phase of the bear market is about to begin. Their interpretation, translated out of their mystical numbering system, is that we've been experiencing a long rally within a larger downtrend that is now peaking - if it hasn't already peaked. (Fun fact: the recent high in the market occurred exactly at the minute SH's statue fell on Wednesday.) What's about to begin is the central major downthrust of the long bea ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 11 17:11:42 PDT 2003

27358 [lbo-talk] Rummy -- rank: 1000

Sometimes there's something beautiful about the sparseness of wire copy. This is from Reuters: >In Washington on Friday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld denied >Iraq was falling into chaos, saying television images of isolated >acts of looting and violence were being played "over and over again" >for sensational effect. > >"It's untidy. And freedom's untidy. And free people are free to make >mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things," stormed Rumsfel ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 11 17:03:20 PDT 2003

27359 [lbo-talk] Two Takes -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Self-emancipation is really hard. To believe that the Iraqis could >have done it by themselves in less than decades is, IMHO, an act of >self-deception. So was the U.S. right to support Saddam from 1959-1990? Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 11 15:48:30 PDT 2003

27360 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Cuba petition -- rank: 1000

Why in god's name are you people doing this now? With the American imperium full of adrenaline, jacking up the machinery of domestic repression, and Israel shooting Palestinians at the rate of five a day, is this really the moment for this? Utterly disgusting. Doug ---- >We are women and men of the democratic left, united by our >commitment to human rights, democratic government and social >justice, in our own nations and around the world. In solidarity with >the people of Cuba, we c ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 11 15:41:31 PDT 2003