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3391 [lbo-talk] Mossad chief: Israel a burden to U.S. -- rank: 1000

[posted by Bryan Atinsky to Facebook] Mossad Chief Meir Dagan said on Tuesday that Israel is progressively becoming a burden on the United States. "Israel is gradually turning from an asset to the United States to a burden," said Dagan, speaking before the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

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Date:	Tue Jun 1 13:30:16 PDT 2010

3392 [lbo-talk] U.S. in Israel's corner -- rank: 1000

On Jun 1, 2010, at 9:14 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> "We're the only ones who believe them" > > What we have is the U.S. assuming 'pubic' responsibility for a policy > which the other 'great' powers share bu would encounter greater > domestic > problems than will the U.S. in being public about it. Looks like your inner 12-year-old typed the first line there! But I'm not sure that the other powers are as devoted to Israel as the U.S. ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 1 08:09:11 PDT 2010

3393 [lbo-talk] U.S. in Israel's corner -- rank: 1000

"We're the only ones who believe them" http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37992.html

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Date:	Tue Jun 1 04:56:49 PDT 2010

3394 [lbo-talk] Terry Bisson makes a passing comment about Pacifica Doug will appreciate -- rank: 1000

On Jul 30, 2010, at 10:14 PM, Gar Lipow wrote: > Terry Bisson (whose "Fire on the Mountain" I consider the greatest > alternate world Science Fiction story ever written) has a very fun > read out "The Left Left Behind" with PM press. It is a satire on the > "Left Behind" series the world becomes a much better place without > the people who are raptured. So this is how the rapture is reported > on Pacifica in this light hearted fantasy: ".. ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 30 19:37:38 PDT 2010

3395 [lbo-talk] problem with addiction memoirs -- rank: 1000

<http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/the-problem-with-addiction-memoirs> The Problem With Addiction Memoirs by Balk posted @11:50 AM The happy news about Awl pal Julie Klausner sent me down a relatively shallow rabbit hole which resulted in my seeing this promo, for the short film Successful Alcoholics, for the first time. It looks great Lizzy Caplan is involved, how could it not but it stirred up resentments which I have held at bay for a long time but no longer feel capable of restraint in rem ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 30 13:47:06 PDT 2010

3396 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 many opening commentaries at: <http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/> -------------------------------------------------- Just posted to my radio archive (and apologies for the delay) <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: July 29, 2010 Michael Lind on infrastructure, who s behind the parties, and the USA s evolution into an oligarchy Astra Taylor ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 30 13:12:34 PDT 2010

3397 [lbo-talk] Zinn's FBI file -- rank: 1000

Via Gawker, Howard Zinn's FBI file has just been released: http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/zinn_howard.htm

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 30 11:23:45 PDT 2010

3398 [lbo-talk] emerging CW: Gulf spill a "nothingburger" -- rank: 1000

On Jul 30, 2010, at 1:46 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > Joanna: 'It remains to be seen how the finely dispersed oil makes its way up the food chain.' > > Well, it is a naturally occurring substance, and many micro-organisms thrive on it. I'm reminded of former NY Gov Hugh Carey's offer to drink a glass of PCB, to counter fears that the Hudson was wrecked. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 30 05:16:27 PDT 2010

3399 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 many opening commentaries at: <http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/> -------------------------------------------------- Just posted to my radio archive (and apologies for the delay) <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: July 22, 2010 Yves Smith, keeper of the Naked Capitalism blog and author of Econned, on the contribution of the dismal science to ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 29 10:59:24 PDT 2010

3400 [lbo-talk] SEK3 -- rank: 1000

[Sam Konkin wrote me in the early days of LBO and struck up something of a friendship - as he did, if I'm remembering right, with Alexander Cockburn. I think Dennis Perrin knew him too. He was a libertarian nut, but an engaging one, and interested in the left. This is from today's Mises Daily.] <http://mises.org/daily/4597> ... Clearly, in 1967, at the age of 20, Samuel Edward Konkin III had not yet discovered libertarianism. He would do so in short order, however. He had already discovere ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 29 07:33:10 PDT 2010

3401 [lbo-talk] Jobless Workers Look to Shift Elections -- rank: 1000

On Jul 28, 2010, at 11:07 PM, SA wrote: > I'm not trying to deny that the party did all these good things. I'm just saying that they didn't *appear* to amount to all that much at the time. What looks to you in retrospect like "sustained and nationally coordinated activity" looked at the time like scattered local actions, stirred up by a CP that had - what, 10,000 members? 10,000 is not small. Adjusted for pop growth, it'd be 25,000 now. If only we had that. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 29 06:48:00 PDT 2010

3402 [lbo-talk] emerging CW: Gulf spill a "nothingburger" -- rank: 1000

GAME CHANGE -- TIME's Michael Grunwald, who's on the speed-dial of all enviro flacks, nevertheless writes from Port Fourchon, La., that Rush was right about the BP spill -- it's an environmental nothingburger: [I]t does not seem to be inflicting severe environmental damage. 'The impacts have been much, much less than everyone feared,' says geochemist Jacqueline Michel, a federal contractor who is coordinating shoreline assessments in Louisiana. Anti-oil politicians, anti-Obama politicians and ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 29 06:07:33 PDT 2010

3403 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Out of Office: Gary Super Sad True Love Story -- rank: 1000

Wow, try to publicize someone's book, and look at the thanks you get. Begin forwarded message: > From: Atrandompublicity <Atrandompublicity at randomhouse.com> > Date: July 28, 2010 5:28:43 PM EDT > To: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > Subject: Out of Office: Gary Shteyngart Super Sad True Love Story > > Thanks for your email. Please make certain that in all future emails you include the name of the book and author in your subject line. If you are listing requ ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 28 14:33:31 PDT 2010

3404 [lbo-talk] Are recessions better for the left or right? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 26, 2010, at 2:15 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > Thanks for posting this, Michael. Bloom is hilarious, with his > thundering declarations and his angst over The Common Reader. It's > also a pretty interesting reading, though almost all wrong. Do tell how.

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Date:	Mon Jul 26 11:30:20 PDT 2010

3405 [lbo-talk] changiness (cont.): deportation of "illegal immigrants" up from Bush years -- rank: 1000

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/25/AR2010072501790_pf.html> Deportation of illegal immigrants increases under Obama administration By Peter Slevin Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, July 26, 2010; A01 In a bid to remake the enforcement of federal immigration laws, the Obama administration is deporting record numbers of illegal immigrants and auditing hundreds of businesses that blithely hire undocumented workers. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agenc ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 26 09:03:55 PDT 2010