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5341 [lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Iran -- rank: 1000

On Jun 17, 2009, at 8:29 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Dennis Claxton wrote: >> >>> Wasn't Ahmadinejad Yoshie's Persian Prince? >> > > The phrase was an allusion to Gramsci's Modern Prince, though in the > single nastiest pose ever submitted to lbo-talk Doug sneered that were > she male he would think she was writing from between her legs or > somekthing like that. That vile post was the beginning of making lbo > intolerable for Yoshie. Oh please. She also fou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 17 08:28:40 PDT 2009

5342 [lbo-talk] Does Hamid Dabashi know more than "we" do? -- rank: 1000

On Jun 16, 2009, at 7:41 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Matthias wrote: > > >> Accepting that poor Iranians know more about poor Iranians' >> economic situation than we do, I don't see any reason to assume >> that the majority who see Ahmedinejad as more attractive than >> Mousavi are dupes > > > I was just looking at Dabashi's website. He's not a poor Iranian > but I'd wager he knows more about their situation than "we" do. > > http://w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 16 16:50:45 PDT 2009

5343 [lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Iran -- rank: 1000

On Jun 16, 2009, at 5:14 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > I doubt the Persian Prince won the election, at least by that much, > but you're assuming that the economy, and not say religion, is the > most concern for the Iranian poor in general and the A-Man's > electorate in particular. > > --- On Tue, 6/16/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> >> I don't deny that the rural poor may have good reasons for >> supporting Ahmadinejad, but he hasn't really ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 16 15:56:49 PDT 2009

5344 [lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Iran -- rank: 1000

On Jun 16, 2009, at 4:55 PM, ravi wrote: > I was toying with that question myself. But is this the right > analogy (are we back at "What's the matter with Kansas"?)? Bush/ > McCain are not and do not claim to be economic populists, do they? > AFAIK Ahmadinejad claims to be so, and from the little I know, he > seems to have instituted some redistribution programs[?]. On the > other hand, some white hicks voted for Bush because of the > Christianity thing and on that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 16 14:06:19 PDT 2009

5345 [lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Iran -- rank: 1000

On Jun 16, 2009, at 4:35 PM, ravi wrote: > How is it that a rural voter choosing Ahmadinejad is in reality > being a fool, which (s)he would not be if (s)he voted for Mousavi? Is a white hick who voted for Bush or McCain at all duped?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 16 13:43:04 PDT 2009

5346 [lbo-talk] One or two flawed historical analogies (was Re: Stratfor: Western Misconceptions Meet Iranian Reality) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 16, 2009, at 3:35 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > Oil prices are back up to $70/barrel, and there they will stay. > Reason: > state-owned companies own the oil, and will put a floor under the > price. Not really. The commodity funds are back in oil. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 16 12:46:04 PDT 2009

5347 [lbo-talk] One or two flawed historical analogies (was Re: Stratfor: Western Misconceptions Meet Iranian Reality) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 16, 2009, at 3:28 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > On Tue, June 16, 2009 8:30 am, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>> In fact, >>> the BRICs are sitting on 3 trillion EUR in cash reserves >> >> Almost all of which are denominated in USD. > > I think the latest count is that around two-thirds of the reserves > are in > USD -- the euro is smaller but creeping up, and there's some in yen, > Swiss > francs, etc. The point is that for all your toutin ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 16 12:39:46 PDT 2009

5348 [lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Iran -- rank: 1000

On Jun 16, 2009, at 3:11 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Dabashi says: > >> It is important to keep in mind that Ahmadinejad's supporters come >> from the poorest and most disenfranchised segments of Iranian >> society, subject to his and his campaign's populism and >> demagoguery. From this fact one should not conclude that all the >> impoverished segments of Iranian society, suffering from double >> digit inflation and endemic unemployment, are on his side ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 16 12:23:42 PDT 2009

5349 [lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Iran -- rank: 1000

On Jun 16, 2009, at 2:43 PM, ravi wrote: > On Jun 16, 2009, at 11:04 AM, Doug Henwood quoted Dabashi: >> This nation, as always, can take care of itself. It needs nothing >> but the active solidarity of ordinary people around the globe to be >> a witness to their struggles and demand from their media an >> accurate and comprehensive representation of their movement. So >> please, hands off Iran! No democracy project, no sanction, no >> threat, no military ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 16 11:52:01 PDT 2009

5350 [lbo-talk] One or two flawed historical analogies (was Re: Stratfor: Western Misconceptions Meet Iranian Reality) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 16, 2009, at 1:45 AM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > In fact, > the BRICs are sitting on 3 trillion EUR in cash reserves Almost all of which are denominated in USD.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 16 08:30:06 PDT 2009

5351 [lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Iran -- rank: 1000

[I'm going to have Hamid on my radio show this Thursday.] Diary of a Defiance: Iran un-Interrupted 15 June 2009 With the semi-spontaneous demonstration in Tehran and other major cities (including Shiraz, where we have had eyewitness accounts by members of my family), the civil unrest that began on 13 June with opposition to the announced results of the presidential election of 12 June has entered a new phase. The assumption of the election having been rigged is now a social fact. It is no ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 16 08:04:36 PDT 2009

5352 [lbo-talk] David Brooks on how Obama will sell out the public plan -- rank: 1000

Just read this in the dead tree version. My first two thoughts were: wow, David Brooks really is in the tank for BHO, and he's probably got this just right. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 16 05:38:34 PDT 2009

5353 [lbo-talk] Gary Langer on TFT's Iran poll -- rank: 1000

<http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenumbers/2009/06/irans-election-the-odds-of-fraud.html > Iran's Election: The Odds of Fraud [Gary Langer] June 15, 2009 11:36 AM An outfit called Terror Free Tomorrow claims in an op-ed in today s Washington Post that the contested Iranian elections likely were not fraudulent, since a pre-election poll it sponsored showed the declared winner, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, with a big lead. TFT s own data, though, tell a different story as, oddly, did its own previou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 15 09:05:07 PDT 2009

5354 [lbo-talk] Juan Cole: preliminary reactions to the Iranian vote totals -- rank: 1000

On Jun 15, 2009, at 11:45 AM, ravi wrote: > On Jun 15, 2009, at 10:41 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: >> * 70% favor Western aid & investment, and 80% favor Western >> medical, eduational, and humanitarian assistance > > > I wonder if this 70% can define what is "Western" about the Western > medicine or education mentioned above. ;-) I think "Western," which you can call "imperialist" if you prefer, modifies "assistance" and not med ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 15 09:03:12 PDT 2009

5355 [lbo-talk] Peter Gowan, RIP -- rank: 1000

[via Marxmail] From: Halya Kowalsky Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:55:04 +0100 Subject: Peter Gowan It is with great sadness that we write to inform you that Peter died at 9am on Friday 12 June. On Wednesday he had a severe problem breathing and was taken to hospital, where he died two days later in his sleep with his family around him. Up until early this week Peter was still very active and spent time in his local cafe enjoying a coffee, spaghetti bolognese (with chilli oil) and the Financial Times ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 15 07:51:08 PDT 2009