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2986 [lbo-talk] recessions: better for right than left -- rank: 1000

On May 18, 2010, at 1:15 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > And that erostion is in part illusory, in so far as the 'advanced' or > 'core' capitalist nations no longer 'compete' for hegemony. In fact > Germany, France, UK, China, Japan, Russia have in part 'turned over' > to > the U.S. the task of maintaining global order in the capitalist > system. Yup. This is one of the things that Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin are so good on. I recommend their little book (written with Greg Albo) from ...

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Date:	Tue May 18 11:34:09 PDT 2010

2987 [lbo-talk] recessions: better for right than left -- rank: 1000

On May 18, 2010, at 11:02 AM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > The US dollar is getting a temporary lift from the crisis, but > that's not > the same thing as US hegemony, which is gone. No it's not. It's eroding over many decades, but it's far from gone. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 18 08:17:57 PDT 2010

2988 [lbo-talk] another family values guy goes down -- rank: 1000

<http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/05/anti-gay-family-values-gop-rep-mark.html > Anti-Gay Family Values GOP Rep. Mark Souder To Resign Over Affair With Staffer Family values evangelical Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN), who in 2004 famously compared gay people to alcoholics, will resign today amid allegations that he had an affair with a female staffer. Souder is married with three children. Saying he "sinned against God, my wife and my family by having a mutual relationship with a part-t ...

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Date:	Tue May 18 08:07:35 PDT 2010

2989 [lbo-talk] A $95, 000 question: why are whites five times richer than blacks in the US? -- rank: 1000

On May 18, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Eric Beck wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: >> >> On May 18, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Eric Beck wrote: >> >>> A $95,000 question: why are whites five times richer than blacks >>> in the >>> US? >> >> Inheritance, mostly. > > Really? I wondered if that accounted for it, but didn't dig into it > too much. I knew that income differential hadn't ...

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Date:	Tue May 18 08:04:52 PDT 2010

2990 [lbo-talk] Obama appoints climate denialist and proud homophobe to fix Gulf spill -- rank: 1000

<http://www.americablog.com/2010/05/obama-admin-picks-climate-change.html > Obama admin picks climate-change-denying homophobe to 'fix' Gulf oil spill disaster by John Aravosis (DC) on 5/17/2010 02:57:00 PM The oil industry would be proud of Jonathan I. Katz, the man the Obama administration has chosen to take a stab at fixing the Gulf oil spill disaster. He's an avowed "proud homophobe," who thinks that "sodomites" are responsible for infecting "innocent victi ...

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Date:	Tue May 18 07:59:26 PDT 2010

2991 [lbo-talk] A $95, 000 question: why are whites five times richer than blacks in the US? -- rank: 1000

On May 18, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Eric Beck wrote: > A $95,000 question: why are whites five times richer than blacks in > the US? Inheritance, mostly. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 18 07:47:53 PDT 2010

2992 [lbo-talk] Krugman: The existence of the Euro means massive falling wages -- rank: 1000

On May 18, 2010, at 1:54 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > The average falls won't be as savage as this, which is a system-wide > financial crisis on top of a cyclic downturn. But they will always > be savage because they can only happen by cutting nominal wages -- > which is the definition of savage wage cuts. The underlying problem is the productivity mismatch I've been writing about since 1998! How can Greece and Germany be in the same currency zone? Wages will have to adjust - esp. ...

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Date:	Tue May 18 07:02:20 PDT 2010

2993 [lbo-talk] left is to blame for tea party -- rank: 1000

On May 18, 2010, at 9:15 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > actually, it's the idea that, even if there's a we, that we can unify > THEM. it's the entire idea that there's this herd of people out there > who "we" can herd about, pushing them this way and that. i asked julio > this question recently. leftist imagine that we can change the world. > that there's this world out there that we will shape and mold so that > people will rise up and revolt against the existing orde ...

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Date:	Tue May 18 06:32:50 PDT 2010

2994 [lbo-talk] recessions: better for right than left -- rank: 1000

On May 17, 2010, at 11:38 PM, Patrick Bond wrote: > Hang on, Doug, I'm not quite ready to 'put this one away'. A little > unpacking would be good here. > > * Are you against the hope that with crisis, hegemonic power > declines and financial circuits of capital wane? That, to me, is the > merit of capitalist crisis joined by progressive reregulation, e.g. > the demise of the Gold Standard, Glass-Steagall, the New Deal. Like I said: "A major exception, of course, was the ...

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Date:	Tue May 18 06:16:33 PDT 2010

2995 [lbo-talk] more Ratso on homosex -- rank: 1000

<http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20030731_homosexual-unions_en.html > There are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God's plan for marriage and family. Marriage is holy, while homosexual acts go against the natural moral law. Homosexual acts close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under ...

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Date:	Mon May 17 18:18:56 PDT 2010

2996 [lbo-talk] for want of a rope -- rank: 1000

On May 17, 2010, at 8:40 PM, Alan Rudy wrote: > I am not saying that I expect the church to be free of pedaphilia, I > am > saying - as others have - that priests and hierarchies who rigidly > hold > others to higher standards and are in positions of notable authority > can > legitimately be held to higher standards than that of the general > public... Not merely that, but an institution that holds its priests to preposterous standards of celibacy and regards homosex as ...

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Date:	Mon May 17 18:16:23 PDT 2010

2997 [lbo-talk] young Jews: not very Zionist -- rank: 1000

[posted to Marxmail by Lou Proyect - this is amazing coming from a liberal hawk like Beinart] New York Review of Books - June 10, 2010 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/jun/10/failure-american-jewish-establishment/ The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment by Peter Beinart In 2003, several prominent Jewish philanthropists hired Republican pollster Frank Luntz to explain why American Jewish college students were not more vigorously rebutting campus criticism of Israel. In r ...

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Date:	Mon May 17 13:01:02 PDT 2010

2998 [lbo-talk] Elena Kagan, socialist -- rank: 1000

On May 17, 2010, at 1:09 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: >> Anyone know who Marc Kagan is/was? >> > > I've seen a few blogs report that he's this guy: > > http://www.bxscience.edu/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=35865&type=u Look at that lesson plan. A total commie. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 17 11:38:09 PDT 2010

2999 [lbo-talk] recessions: better for right than left -- rank: 1000

http://lbo-news.com/2010/05/17/recessions-better-for-right-than-left/ For a long time, I ve been critical of the left-wing penchant for economic crisis. Many radicals have fantasized that a serious recession or depression would lead to mass radicalization, as scales simultaneously fell from millions of pairs of eyes and the imperative of transcending capitalism became self-evidently obvious. I ve long thought that was nonsense, and now there s empirical support for my position....

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Date:	Mon May 17 11:31:12 PDT 2010

3000 [lbo-talk] Elena Kagan, socialist -- rank: 1000

On May 17, 2010, at 12:53 PM, SA wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > >> The conclusion of Elena Kagan's Princeton undergrad thesis, >> transcribed by Brad De Long. She was clearly some sort of leftist >> back in 1981. > > I'm not sure. The acknowledgments say it was her brother's politics > that got her interested: Yes, but that conclusion really sounds like someone who was sympathetic, and not just a disinterested scholar.

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Date:	Mon May 17 10:36:24 PDT 2010