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4681 [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 podcast: <http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php> iTunes: <http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73801817 > or <http://tinyurl.com/3bsaqb> opening commentaries now at: <http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/> Facebook group: <http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53240558375>. ---------------------------------- ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 5 12:18:37 PDT 2009

4682 [lbo-talk] Michaels, Against Diversity -- rank: 1000

On Oct 5, 2009, at 3:01 PM, Chris Maisano wrote: > Alan says: "can you tell me how making the argument the way he makes > it - collapsing all racial politics or class-work for minority > community into neoliberal diversity..." > > I think you're missing WBM's point here. Seems to be a lot of that going around. At the risk of courting another outburst from Carrol "Fire and Brimstone" Cox, I think this sort of passage, from the LRB piece, makes people uncomfort ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 5 12:10:43 PDT 2009

4683 [lbo-talk] Michaels, Against Diversity -- rank: 1000

On Oct 5, 2009, at 2:57 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > But this ad hominem, "if he's struck a nerve," is what makes me think > you are the asshole. > > Are you totally incapable of discussing ideas and positions without > making sstupid statements about the people involved. That is > despicable > even when the people your are referring to are themselves despicable. Love you too, Carrol! Happy Ray Kroc's Birthday!!

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Date:	Mon Oct 5 12:06:41 PDT 2009

4684 [lbo-talk] Michaels, Against Diversity -- rank: 1000

On Oct 5, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Alan Rudy wrote: > How is saying that "we" all embrace the neoliberal immigration > agenda really > helping? > How is saying that folks working with the "truly disadvantaged" - the > staggeringly disproportionately poor and imprisoned communities of > color - > are cozying up to neoliberals going to bring anyone to the post-class > politics class analysis side of things? Those would be rather terrible things to say. Did he a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 5 11:34:56 PDT 2009

4685 [lbo-talk] Michaels, Against Diversity -- rank: 1000

On Oct 5, 2009, at 1:33 PM, Chris Maisano wrote: > Calling Michaels a "prick" or "assholic" based simply on listening > to the interview is total projection. I'm really taken aback by the vitriol people are directing against him. Makes me wonder if he's struck a nerve. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 5 11:05:55 PDT 2009

4686 [lbo-talk] second bill of rights -- rank: 1000

On Oct 5, 2009, at 1:20 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > What all liberals and progressives, as well as all too many Marxists, > share in common is a belief in the Certainty of Progress When, no doubt, we should all believe instead in the Certainty of Regress.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 5 10:31:05 PDT 2009

4687 [lbo-talk] cui bono? -- rank: 1000

Ed Hyman, Wall Street's favorite economist, features a poll asking who's been helped most by admin econ policies: large banks 62% Wall Street 54 manufacturing firms 21 people who've lost jobs 15 average working person 13 small biz 11 my family/me 10 For once, Americans are dead on!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 5 06:26:29 PDT 2009

4688 [lbo-talk] finally, change we can really believe in! -- rank: 1000

[Could this be the last straw for the NPR set?] <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/04/AR2009100403262.html > Obama's Meeting With the Dalai Lama Is Delayed Move Appears to Be A Nod to Chinese By John Pomfret Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, October 5, 2009 In an attempt to gain favor with China, the United States pressured Tibetan representatives to postpone a meeting between the Dalai Lama and President Obama until after Obama's summit with his Chinese co ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 5 06:16:22 PDT 2009

4689 [lbo-talk] Treasury & Fed lied about banks' health -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=8748299> They Lied: Watchdog Says Treasury and Fed Knew Bailed-Out Banks Were Not 'Healthy' Before the $700B Bailout, Senior Government Officials Had Financial Concerns About Nine Bank Instiutions Receiving TARP Funds By MATTHEW JAFFE WASHINGTON, Oct. 5, 2009 The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve lied to the American public last fall when they said that the first nine banks to receive government bailout funds were healthy, a government watchdog ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 5 06:02:47 PDT 2009

4690 [lbo-talk] Michaels, Against Diversity -- rank: 1000

On Oct 4, 2009, at 9:31 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > The interview is already up here: http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/ > 55027 Your > show starts at around the 4-5 minute mark. Mine's in higher fidelity!

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Date:	Sun Oct 4 20:13:40 PDT 2009

4691 [lbo-talk] Michaels, Against Diversity -- rank: 1000

On Oct 4, 2009, at 9:20 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > WBM would provoke such a stir It occurred to me earlier today that one of the things that annoys people about WBM is that he's making critical comments about some fights "we" thought "we" had won. But such is the recuperative power of capital, no?

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Date:	Sun Oct 4 18:25:36 PDT 2009

4692 [lbo-talk] Michaels, Against Diversity -- rank: 1000

On Oct 4, 2009, at 9:20 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > I find it funny that Tariq Ali's brand of "anti-imperialism" can be > published in the NLR month after month without no one mentioning a > thing Whaddya got against it?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 4 18:24:30 PDT 2009

4693 [lbo-talk] Michaels, Against Diversity -- rank: 1000

I'm going to post my interview with WBM tomorrow. I hope all the people who are discoursing confidently on his failings give it a listen. I have my doubts, so please prove me wrong. Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 4 17:47:34 PDT 2009

4694 [lbo-talk] Michaels, Against Diversity -- rank: 1000

On Oct 4, 2009, at 6:19 PM, SA wrote: > Doesn't Wise spend a lot of his time doing racial sensitivity > workshops and such for corporations? I would guess, though I don't > really know, that that could be a very lucrative line of business. > It could work sort of like a protection racket. He's also very busy on the college circuit: <http://speakoutnow.org/userdata_display.php?modin=50&uid=156> 10/7/09: Waltham, MA Bentley University 10/8/09: Boston, MA Emerson College 10/ ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 4 15:38:43 PDT 2009

4695 [lbo-talk] Michaels, Against Diversity -- rank: 1000

On Oct 4, 2009, at 6:19 PM, SA wrote: > Doesn't Wise spend a lot of his time doing racial sensitivity > workshops and such for corporations? I would guess, though I don't > really know, that that could be a very lucrative line of business. > It could work sort of like a protection racket. This is from his website, timwise.org: "He has trained teachers, as well as corporate, government, media and law enforcement officials on methods for uprooting institutional racism...."

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Date:	Sun Oct 4 15:36:44 PDT 2009