Search LBO-Talk Archives

28636 Campaign 2004: so far, so predictable -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >>Carl Remick wrote: >> >>>Lieberman Keeping Eye on Gore and '04 >> >>I can't wait for the pleas in October 2004 coming from the liberals >>- you just *have* to vote for Lieberman! What about the Supreme >>Court?!?!?!?! >> >>Doug > > >And you are *happy* now with Otto Reich and Elliott Abrams? Not at all. But how much different do you think Lieberman would be? He's criticizing Bush from the right on the Middle E ...

Document Size:	5271
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 2 10:18:51 PDT 2002

28637 Fwd: The Incomplete, True, Authentic & Wonderful... -- rank: 1000

X-From_: jim at autonomedia.org Thu May 2 11:48:58 2002 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: @ (Unverified) Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 11:54:37 -0400 To: info at autonomedia.org From: Jim Fleming <jim at autonomedia.org> Subject: The Incomplete, True, Authentic & Wonderful... ...History of May Day, by Peter Linebaugh http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/02/1029240 -- Jim at autonomedia.org http://www.autonomedia.org

Document Size:	5420
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 2 08:49:43 PDT 2002

28638 Campaign 2004: so far, so predictable -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Lieberman Keeping Eye on Gore and '04 I can't wait for the pleas in October 2004 coming from the liberals - you just *have* to vote for Lieberman! What about the Supreme Court?!?!?!?! Doug

Document Size:	4745
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 2 07:36:57 PDT 2002

28639 HISTORIC ANTIWAR DEMONSTRATION -- rank: 1000

jacdon at earthlink.net wrote: >I would like to thank list member Chuck Munson for his intemperate >diatribe May 1 in opposition my article about the April 20 antiwar >protest posted earlier in the day and titled Historic Antiwar >Demonstraton. As with all complex political articles containing many >facets, including internal movement contradictions, a writer always >fears that he or she may have gotten some major facts wrong, or >misinterpreted something important. Muns ...

Document Size:	5785
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 2 07:35:57 PDT 2002

28640 HISTORIC ANTIWAR DEMONSTRATION -- rank: 1000

Chuck Munson wrote: >the anemic events that ANSWER put >together Speaking of which - and I think you mentioned this the other day - who needs rallies with interminable lists of speakers? The press release for the ANSWER gabfest in DC listed something like 55 speakers! Who fucking cares? What is the point of an endless procession of windbags invoking every predictable phrase and cause ever imagined by someone left of center? Why does this style and structure persist? Does anyone really like ...

Document Size:	4983
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 2 07:00:00 PDT 2002

28641 Lab Monkeys and drug testing -- rank: 1000

Many research hospitals are located in poor urban neighborhoods. The staff has a ready-made experimental population - people who don't know what they're signing, if they sign anything, and who are extremely unlikely to sue if something goes wrong. And lots of hospital staffers believe that poor people bring diseases on themselves through bad lifestyle choices, so they pretty much get what they deserve. Doug Max B. Sawicky wrote: >what a country. how come nobody ever writes about this? > & ...

Document Size:	5636
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 1 17:21:26 PDT 2002

28642 Republican potheads -- rank: 1000

A friend writes... >Eleven teenage House pages were "caught using marijuana" and were "dismissed >from their duties" 4/30. Two Dem sources "said that all 11" were sponsored >by GOP members (Roll Call Daily <http://www.rollcalldaily.com>). >NORML is offering internships to the House pages over 18 years old who were >dismissed for alleged marijuana use. The group <http://www.norml.org/> >"pledges" to enforce a "Zero Intoler ...

Document Size:	5020
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 1 16:02:08 PDT 2002

28643 Upton Sinclair, The Brass Check -- rank: 1000

Dennis Robert Redmond wrote: >On Wed, 1 May 2002, Dennis Perrin wrote: > >> I'll take independent capitalists over the mega-corp press any day. > >The consistent quality of the Wall Street Journal, and other giant >institutions such as the BBC or the European press, says that big ain't >necessarily bad. Also, where would independent publishers be nowadays >without vast, collectivized telecom/Web networks and huge computer >factories? The LA Times is a much better p ...

Document Size:	5148
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 1 15:19:25 PDT 2002

28644 the Lays' fight for liquidity opens a new front -- rank: 1000

USA Today - May 1, 2002 Linda Lay's new store will sell some of her furniture By David J. Phillip, AP HOUSTON (AP) - The Kenneth Lay family is downsizing. Linda Lay, the wife of Enron's ex-chief executive, is opening an antiques and secondhand shop called Jus' Stuff - and will sell items including the family's personal property and furniture from its rental property, said Kelly Kimberly, a Lay family spokeswoman. "She determined that some of these furnishings were just stuff and could be s ...

Document Size:	6041
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 1 15:16:28 PDT 2002

28645 April 20th: Unity-Building and Youth Leadership -- rank: 1000

Chuck Munson wrote: >I'm sorry, but I want movements where more older people are involved. >People my age. People who are older. I noticed in DC that there were lots of people a short distance in both directions from 20, and a secondary bunching around 60 or higher. (One excellent moment: I saw a guy with all-gray hair talking to a young woman with orange hair - they were bonding over how much they hate cops. Heartwarming stuff.) Missing were people in their 30s through their 50s. They jus ...

Document Size:	5198
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 1 13:38:48 PDT 2002

28646 Upton Sinclair, The Brass Check -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I was delighted in opening the latest issue of MR today to see that it >featured a lead article on Upton Sinclair's greatest work, _The Brass >Check_. For many years, in answer to people who complained about the >"consolidation" of the press in the last decades I have urged them to >read this work. The Press is not a whit worse today than it was a >hundred years ago. Then as now it serves its owners -- the capitalist >class. Complaints about the ...

Document Size:	6121
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 1 13:34:43 PDT 2002

28647 Gallup: Americans down on Andersen, ENE; up on MSFT -- rank: 1000

[all you MSFT-haters out there - there ain't many of you!] Gallup - May 1, 2002 Americans Decidedly Negative Toward Arthur Andersen, Enron Have very positive view of Microsoft by Jeffrey M. Jones GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- News about corporations has moved beyond the business pages to the front pages of most newspapers in 2002. For much of the earlier part of the year, the collapse of the Enron energy corporation and the role its accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, played in its demise w ...

Document Size:	8113
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 1 09:50:00 PDT 2002

28648 placing the palestinian struggle -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >A prominent African-American activist recently said in a talk that "the >leading liberation struggle of our time is that of Palestine." Much like >South Africa in the 1980s, it should be the focus of progressives in the >U.S., so that we can build critical mass -- since we live in the country, of >course, which has the power to shape the outcome of the conflict. (For those >of you who are secretly wondering, the speaker is/was resolutely opposed to ...

Document Size:	5352
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 31 19:30:04 PST 2002

28649 Desperate hope based on dubious assumption -- rank: 1000

Shane Mage wrote: >"Thunderbolt steers all things." > >Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64 Been meaning to ask - who or what is this controlling Thunderbolt? Doug

Document Size:	4759
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 31 17:37:25 PST 2002

28650 Fwd: Civilians and Medics Arrested -- rank: 1000

Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 13:28:57 -0500 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Zahi Damuni <zdamuni at comcast.net>(by way of Todd Eaton <redscares at yahoo.com>) Subject: Civilians and Medics Arrested From: <mailto:huwaidaa at yahoo.com>Huwaida Arraf Ten international civilians and three Palestinian medics have just been arrested and taken to the Beit El Israeli Military compound. Among the arrested is Jose Bove. Please call Peter Lunar the Israeli Defense Spokespersons and requ ...

Document Size:	6524
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 31 17:16:37 PST 2002