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5281 [lbo-talk] Schadenfreude -- rank: 1000

Ruth Madoff rides the subway: <http://www.nypost.com/seven/06252009/news/regionalnews/manhattan/the_ruth_hurts_176041.htm >

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 25 08:22:02 PDT 2009

5282 [lbo-talk] Tell them we are democrats (was: freedom to swim) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 25, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > Of course we can't know, which is my point. However, one thing you > can be almost certainly sure of is that a lot of Iranians are A- > supporters, and an even larger percentage are for reforming the > theocracy in various ways, not for abolishing it. I mean, as far as > I can tell the protests are couched in religious terms, like, you > know, the color green. Probably there are people who think that A is > too secular. That' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 25 07:27:02 PDT 2009

5283 [lbo-talk] Tell them we are democrats (was: freedom to swim) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 25, 2009, at 4:20 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > SOME (a few? half? most?) Iranians want a secular government. In > particular, those who write books in English. ;) Well we can't really know, can we? Especially since the gov won't allow anyone who doesn't pass the religious exams to run for office. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 25 07:03:57 PDT 2009

5284 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Summer Study Group/please announce -- rank: 1000

[From Loren Goldner] Dear Doug, Greetings. I'd appreciate it if you would post this announcement on your list. Many thanks Loren Howie Seligman and I will be doing a 9-week study group in the New York City area on Marxian theory and the current crisis. If you are interested, read on. As the group is limited to 15 people, we will give priority to "advanced beginners" rather than to the pros who tend to predominate on Meltdown. But all applicants are welcome. SUMMER STUDY GROUP ON MA ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 25 04:52:20 PDT 2009

5285 [lbo-talk] Zizek on Iran -- rank: 1000

On Jun 24, 2009, at 3:37 PM, brad bauerly wrote: > ow could Langley run Iran? > Doug > --------------------------------------- > > The sameway that it does Mexico or S. Korea or Japan or India > or....duh. The U.S. runs Japan? Really? Let's look at the four countries on this list. Mexico, well that one's pretty obvious - a country the U.S. has been pushing around for a long time. South Korea - well the U.S. does have almost 30,000 troops there, and bases, and stuff, but it's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 24 13:02:15 PDT 2009

5286 [lbo-talk] the work of opposing U.S. imperialism -- rank: 1000

<http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/latest-updates-on-irans-disputed-election-5/ > Update | 1:15 p.m. A reader wrote to tell us earlier that CNN had conducted a phone interview with a woman who said she had witnessed today s events in Tehran. This telephone interview does not appear to be posted on CNN s Web site yet, but another reader points out that some of the audio of the woman s account has been posted on YouTube. Using this video and a rough transcription of some of the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 24 12:28:13 PDT 2009

5287 [lbo-talk] Fed makes cooing sounds -- rank: 1000

[This is, as they say, very supportive. They're not buying the inflation fears circulating in precincts of the U.S. bond market and in European finance circles.] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/monetary/20090624a.htm> Press Release Release Date: June 24, 2009 For immediate release Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in April suggests that the pace of economic contraction is slowing. Conditions in financial markets have generally improved in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 24 11:28:07 PDT 2009

5288 [lbo-talk] Russian humor -- rank: 1000

<http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009/06/23/the-best-russian-tv-interview-ever/ >

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 24 09:37:45 PDT 2009

5289 [lbo-talk] the Baffler, born again -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/5302031/prepare-to-be-baffled-again> REMAKES Prepare to Be Baffled Again By John Cook, 10:55 AM on Wed Jun 24 2009, 679 views The Baffler, the late-'90s journal of stuffy-and-crotchety-yet- youthful dissent, which always read like it was edited by precocious 13-year-olds who wore bow-ties and read Das Kapital and listened to the Misfits semi-ironically and hated their parents, is returning. The New York Observer reports that co-founder Thomas Frank is relaunching the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 24 09:13:31 PDT 2009

5290 [lbo-talk] Zizek on Iran -- rank: 1000

On Jun 24, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Michael McIntyre wrote: > Really, just how bad does the repression in Iran have to get before > the > Hanly/Smith axis reconsiders? The repression is a lie, or a necessary price to resist U.S. imperialism. What I don't get is how a victory for U.S. imperialism - if you accept that the fall of the Islamic regime would be such - would be in any significant way worse than what Iranians are experiencing now? The U.S. is having a helluva time running a puppe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 24 08:59:07 PDT 2009

5291 [lbo-talk] blog post: throw Iran's reactionary leaders onto history's rubbish pile -- rank: 1000

On Jun 23, 2009, at 5:48 PM, MICHAEL YATES wrote: > > Full at http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org > Hi Michael - the text is missing!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 23 15:00:14 PDT 2009

5292 [lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Iran -- rank: 1000

On Jun 23, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Michael Smith<mjs at smithbowen.net> > wrote: > >> These are hard questions to answer, and some of them I think are >> silly -- >> what kind of movement would I *like* to see in Iran? Who cares what I >> (or any of us) would like or wouldn't? > > You are not telling the truth. You do care. When you label a blog post > relating the news that A. won "My man!" ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 23 10:50:51 PDT 2009

5293 [lbo-talk] PressTV -- rank: 1000

On Jun 23, 2009, at 1:03 PM, ken hanly wrote: > Does anyone know what the status of this website is? Is it state > owned or state controlled or is it independent to a degree. Skimming > through the articles it looks to follow official lines on the whole > but in the comments section it seems completely uncensored with > scurrilous comments of all types pro and anti Iran. > The following post gives a favorable impression of the Obama > administration but slams the US on pri ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 23 10:40:22 PDT 2009

5294 [lbo-talk] The New York Review of Racks -- rank: 1000

<http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/flicked-off-transformers2-the-revenge-of-megan-foxs-rack > Flicked Off: 'Transformers 2: The Revenge of Megan Fox's Rack' Have you ever fallen into a city-sized Cuisinart that is grinding its way through a vast Chinese scrap metal field and had your face abraded with shards of aluminum and eyelash-size scraps of rusty torn iron, so all the skin is peeling off your face, your delicate nose-bones being flayed by grinding gear bits and yesterday's shredded m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 23 08:00:10 PDT 2009

5295 [lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Iran -- rank: 1000

On Jun 23, 2009, at 9:44 AM, Marv Gandall wrote: > Would you ever join a movement for democratic rights aimed at > deposing the > present regime? How would it differ from the one which presently > exists? > Would you decline to march with those whose class background or > possible > illusions about the West offended you? How would you propose to > exclude > those you disliked or with whom you disagreed? The Iranians should heed Ken Hanly, and realize that they must suf ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 23 07:52:16 PDT 2009