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481 [lbo-talk] Small business job creation nonsense -- rank: 1000

On Jul 12, 2012, at 4:10 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > There is another problem with the small business job creation > trope, related to the 10 percent of business that have more than 20 > employees and less than 500. If a firm with, say, 450 workers hires > 100 additional workers, it is said that 'small business created 100 > jobs' because that firm falls below the 500 people cutoff. But if the > same firm sacks these 100 people next year, it is said that "large > business l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 12 13:18:42 PDT 2012

482 [lbo-talk] Leave it in the ground. -- rank: 1000

THe paper that inspired Monbiot's column makes for interesting reading. U.S. oil production likely to zoom by 2020: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/Oil-%20The%20Next%20Revolution.pdf

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 7 09:35:29 PDT 2012

483 [lbo-talk] BTN break? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 5, 2012, at 3:29 PM, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Was the June 21 BTN show the last show to be posted? Keep checking my > podcast every day hoping to hear the latest, but still nothing. I see the > same your website. I was off last week, but back this. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 5 14:42:45 PDT 2012

484 [lbo-talk] blog post: are you now or have you ever been an anti-labor leftist? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 4, 2012, at 11:00 AM, michael yates wrote: > This was on counterpunch. However, here I have added links and end notes so readers can look at this discussion for themselves. While the acrimony has been considerable, the debate itself is interesting, and, given the revolts going on in the world and the ones that are going to occur, the rebuilding of the left and the labor movement are important projects. I might add that Doug really got this whole debate going. He has taken a good deal o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 4 10:52:01 PDT 2012

485 [lbo-talk] Pena Nieto claims victory in Mexico election -- rank: 1000

On Jul 3, 2012, at 5:34 PM, John Gulick wrote: > I think (only a hypothesis, mind you) that the gravitation of "reading" (actually browsing) habits to social media vehicles has resulted in > significantly less (not more) cosmopolitanism. I dunno - these media have made it easier to pay attention to the eurocrisis and what we used to call the Arab spring too. Those have upstaged LatAm.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 3 14:49:55 PDT 2012

486 [lbo-talk] Pena Nieto claims victory in Mexico election -- rank: 1000

On Jul 3, 2012, at 4:38 PM, John Gulick wrote: > Is it just me, or did the Mexican presidential election get less attention in the US press (left and mainstream) this year than in 2006 and 1994, and arguably 2000? If so, why is this? The increasing provincialism and vacuity of the US media, and/or superficiality and illiteracy of its audience? The fact that there were no significant social movement explosions in the run-up to the election (unlike '94 and '06)? The declining interest in Latin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 3 13:49:29 PDT 2012

487 [lbo-talk] Michael Yates on Wisconsin -- rank: 1000

Great stuff from Michael Yates: http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/07/02/are-you-now-or-have-you-ever-been-an-anti-labor-leftist/

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 2 08:00:09 PDT 2012

488 [lbo-talk] Pena Nieto claims victory in Mexico election -- rank: 1000

On Jul 2, 2012, at 10:15 AM, Wojtek S wrote: > http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/07/2012722615392786.html > > [WS:] One thing that puzzles me is that despite the colossal failures > of neoliberalism and austerity measures it brought about, neoliberal > parties keep "winning" elections. There seem to be two logical > explanations 1. It does not matter who casts the votes, but who counts > them; or 2. The majority of the voting population (i.e. the > pr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 2 07:36:49 PDT 2012

489 [lbo-talk] Value of the dollar -- rank: 1000

On Jan 31, 2012, at 10:41 PM, // ravi wrote: > What makes blogging different? Because it's endless and never satisfying. You update, link, and it's as if it never happened, because you have to update and link again. It's a romance with the void. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 31 20:15:29 PST 2012

490 [lbo-talk] Value of the dollar -- rank: 1000

On Jan 31, 2012, at 9:16 PM, // ravi wrote: > On Jan 31, 2012, at 9:05 PM, Eric Beck wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> >>> Damn, I have to blog more. > > > The zeroth rule of blogging. :-) Which is its link to the death drive, as Jodi Dean has demonstrated. It's insatiable, and you never win. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 31 18:19:39 PST 2012

491 [lbo-talk] Value of the dollar -- rank: 1000

On Jan 31, 2012, at 7:39 PM, // ravi wrote: > Here is Krugman on Apple and China: > > http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/apple-and-agglomeration/ Damn, I have to blog more. Because those were exactly my thoughts on reading that NYT piece. China isn't just about wages - it's reached critical mass as a manufacturing powerhouse. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 31 17:10:41 PST 2012

492 [lbo-talk] Journal Article Request Number 2 -- rank: 1000

On Jan 31, 2012, at 2:27 PM, Ismail Lagardien wrote: > Hi Everyone > > This is not urgent... but if any academic has access to J-Store, would you care to retrieve this for me, please. It's published by Sage. > > `So These Folks are Aggressive': An Orientalist Reading of `Afghan Warlords' > Security Dialogue February 2009 40: 73-94, Yale alums now have free access to JSTOR, but they ain't got that journal.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 31 11:44:29 PST 2012

493 [lbo-talk] "From False Ideas to Correct Practice" -- rank: 1000

On Jan 31, 2012, at 3:09 AM, Tahir Wood wrote: > From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > > On Jan 30, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: >> So the incorrect analysis No Blood for Oil is after all more correct than >> any quibbles with it are. > > You don't have to agree with the slogan to have opposed the Iraq war, you know. > > > T: I in fact agree with the slogan, but there is a more important point, and that is that imperialist foreign policy de ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 31 11:21:04 PST 2012

494 [lbo-talk] Value of the dollar -- rank: 1000

On Jan 31, 2012, at 10:18 AM, // ravi wrote: > But neither of those points says much, does it? You would expect more labour militancy where the alternative is mass suicide, toxic work environments with spiking cancer rates, etc. Second, wages are bound to increase when the economy is growing at a good clip. No? You wouldn't necessarily expect the first, no. Sometimes workers are so beaten down that they don't protest at all. How much militancy has there been in Latin America during the neolib ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 31 07:52:08 PST 2012

495 [lbo-talk] Value of the dollar -- rank: 1000

On Jan 31, 2012, at 9:23 AM, Eric Beck wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >>> If the dollar is 20 percent above its proper value then it is >>> equivalent to putting a 20 percent tariff on all of our exports. >> >> This is a little devious. Is Dean arguing that the dollar is 20% overvalued? Against what, if so? The euro? The eurozone is a mess. The yen? The renminbi? > > Maybe I'm a little too se ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 31 06:49:36 PST 2012