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286 [lbo-talk] Pol Pot: Not Such A Bad Guy -- rank: 1000

On Oct 16, 2012, at 3:44 PM, "Carl G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote: > Lost your faith again? No, but reading that at the end of a long apologia for Pol Pot degrades the socialist dream totally. Doug

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287 [lbo-talk] Pol Pot: Not Such A Bad Guy -- rank: 1000

On Oct 16, 2012, at 3:23 PM, "Carl G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote: > Maybe you should have persevered to the end, viz.: > > "...Now we may cautiously reassess the brave attempts to reach for socialism in various countries. They were done under harsh, adverse conditions, under threat of intervention, facing hostile propaganda. But let us remember: if socialism failed, so did capitalism. If communism was accompanied by loss of life, so was and is capit ...

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288 [lbo-talk] Pol Pot: Not Such A Bad Guy -- rank: 1000

I didn't read the whole thing - did Shamir get into Pol Pot's sensitive readings of Mallarme and Rimbaud? Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 16 11:21:22 PDT 2012

289 [lbo-talk] catastrophism -- rank: 1000

I wrote the intro to this excellent collection on the unfortunate thing known as catastrophism: https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=501 Doug

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290 [lbo-talk] Iraq buys military hardware from Russia -- rank: 1000

On Oct 9, 2012, at 3:46 PM, "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > Nothing of course ever works out as planned, but the US/EU invasion of the > Middle East has gone pretty damn well. Not so sure about that. Iraq is doing what it wants to, and much of the Arab world is evolving in ways not pleasing to US-Israeli interests.

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291 [lbo-talk] Iraq buys military hardware from Russia -- rank: 1000

On Oct 9, 2012, at 3:38 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand at gmail.com> wrote: > At least the US was able to install a puppet government in Iraq and establish forward military bases in the country which has allowed them to isolate Iran and extend their influence in the Middle East. Oh, right, that didn't quite work out as planned either: > > "Mr. Maliki s tolerance of Iran s use of Iraqi airspace suggests the limits of the Obama administration s influence in Iraq, despite the Americ ...

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292 [lbo-talk] Iraq buys military hardware from Russia -- rank: 1000

On Oct 9, 2012, at 3:37 PM, "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > No. International capital benefitted. It was NEVER "part of the plan" to > secure Iraq (oil, customers, etc) for the United States (as was the case in > the overthrow of Mossedegh). Capital has become thoroughly international. > The U.S. is the primary enforcer for it. This is one of the major points of Leo Panitch & Sam Gindin's new book - only it's not such a recent innovation. The ...

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293 [lbo-talk] Iraq buys military hardware from Russia -- rank: 1000

On Oct 9, 2012, at 2:46 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > I'm so confused. I thought part of the point of the "liberation" was for them to be a captive buyer of US hardware. French, Chinese, and Russian companies got big gobs of their oil too. It's just not working out as planned.

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294 [lbo-talk] Singapore -- rank: 1000

On Oct 3, 2012, at 9:29 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote: > I hate to quibble but the vehemence with which liberal approach the > death penalty issue strikes me as rather irrational. There are far > more preventable deaths from other causes, traffic accidents, > industrial accidents, crime, inadequate health care inadequate > nutrition - to name a few, but among these death penalty occupies the > center stage of the liberal attention. That is like saving the ro ...

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295 [lbo-talk] Singapore -- rank: 1000

On Oct 3, 2012, at 8:58 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote: > Capital punishment is the norm outside EU, so why mentioning it regarding Singapore? Hardly. http://www.amnesty.org/en/death-penalty/abolitionist-and-retentionist-countries More than 2/3 of the world's countries have abolished the DP in law or practice. As a "retentionist," the USA is in some august company: Countries and territories that retain the death penalty for ordinary crimes Afghanistan, Antigua and B ...

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296 [lbo-talk] Singapore -- rank: 1000

On Oct 3, 2012, at 8:35 AM, Ismail Lagardien <ilagardien at yahoo.com> wrote: > Would like to know your thoughts. I have mixed feelings about the place. You were just there - what are your thoughts? Doug

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297 [lbo-talk] Today's interview with Frank Bardacke -- rank: 1000

On Nov 30, 2012, at 1:00 PM, michael yates <mikedjyates at msn.com> wrote: > Monthly Review Press will be publishing a book about farm labor and the UFW, by Bruce Neuburger, titled Lettuce Wars. Watch for it in January. Maybe Doug can have Bruce on his show! For sure. So how's his line different from Frank's? Doug

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298 [lbo-talk] Marvin Miller -- rank: 1000

On Nov 28, 2012, at 3:53 PM, "Jordan Hayes" <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote: > And income inequality in baseball inversely correlates with performance. > > http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1441352310000549 > > Abstract > This paper presents evidence that payroll inequality within a team is negatively related to on field performance, in terms of team winning percentages in Major League Baseball. This relationship is increasing over time during ...

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299 [lbo-talk] Marvin Miller -- rank: 1000

On Nov 28, 2012, at 3:00 PM, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote: > When it comes to baseball, George is semi one of our own, so he says anyway: > > "55, 56 million people pay to get into ballparks every year. Not one of them buys a ticket to see an owner. I happen to be a semi-Marxist in this field, I believe in the labor theory of value. The players are the labor, they create the economic value. They ought to get the lion's share of the rewards." of cours ...

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300 [lbo-talk] Harvard and the masters of the universe -- rank: 1000

On Nov 28, 2012, at 2:11 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Mexican President Felipe Calderon will become a fellow at Harvard s Kennedy School of Government after he leaves office on Saturday, the leading US University says. Calderon will be the first participant in a specially endowed fellowship for outgoing government leaders. He will lecture, write and develop case studies based on his six-year term in office. The Kennedy School has praised Calderon for free-market policies that boosted Me ...

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