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5446 [lbo-talk] Christian Parenti interviews me on the bust -- rank: 1000

Christian Parenti interviews me (with the assistance of respectable quantities of red wine): http://bit.ly/Fols4

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 10 05:33:16 PDT 2009

5447 [lbo-talk] Steve Jobs responds to Google Chrome OS -- rank: 1000

On Jul 9, 2009, at 2:20 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > --- On Thu, 7/9/09, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > > >> Just as those who call the Democrats weak or opportunist or >> incompetent >> are really saying the DP has the good of humanity at heart >> but just >> doesn't have the brains and courage to carry out the >> policies that deep >> in their hearts they really believe in. >> > > [WS:] Who is doing this? I've be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 9 11:27:02 PDT 2009

5448 [lbo-talk] Iran: the protesters started the violence, sez MRZine -- rank: 1000

Those of you who miss Yoshie should check out this piece of crap she posted to the website she edits: <http://www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine/wilayto080709.html> While it's now unquestioned wisdom to talk about how the Iranian government ruthlessly repressed peaceful demonstrators, Western media at first reported that it actually was the protesters who initiated the violence. Lots of violence. ... While many U.S. activists talk about the attack on student dormitories by members of the B ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 9 08:52:21 PDT 2009

5449 [lbo-talk] EPA: dump 3m tons of toxic waste on poor black people -- rank: 1000

<http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/07/decision-to-dump-tvas-spilled-coal-waste-in-alabama-community-sparks-resistance.html > Decision to dump TVA's spilled coal waste in Alabama community sparks resistance The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved a plan last week to dump 3 millions of tons of coal ash that spilled from a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant in eastern Tennessee in an impoverished, largely African-American community in Alabama -- and the decision is sparki ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 8 07:06:25 PDT 2009

5450 [lbo-talk] judge rules against ward churchill -- rank: 1000

On Jul 7, 2009, at 10:14 PM, MICHAEL YATES wrote: > Our universities have sunk to such a low state in almost all > respects that they appear beyond fixing. If anyone can offer me a > hopeful sign, > > I'd love to hear it. This sucks, re: Churchill. But when were the universities riding high? When William Graham Sumner ruled the roost?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 7 20:16:31 PDT 2009

5451 [lbo-talk] economic crisis: The Pope weighs in -- rank: 1000

<http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate_en.html > ENCYCLICAL LETTER CARITAS IN VERITATE OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF BENEDICT XVI TO THE BISHOPS PRIESTS AND DEACONS MEN AND WOMEN RELIGIOUS THE LAY FAITHFUL AND ALL PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL ON INTEGRAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN CHARITY AND TRUTH ... 14. In his Apostolic Letter Octogesima Adveniens of 1971, Paul VI reflected on the meaning of politics, and the danger constituted by u ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 7 13:53:19 PDT 2009

5452 [lbo-talk] Iran @ The Brecht Forum -- rank: 1000

Event: Iran Today: Democracy, Dissent, Repression and Solidarity "w/Ervand Abrahamian, Hamid Dabashi, Leili Kashani & Arang Keshavarzian " What: Lecture Host: The Brecht Forum Start Time: Monday, July 13 at 7:30pm End Time: Monday, July 13 at 10:00pm Where: The Brecht Forum Street: 451 West Street (Between Bank and Bethune) City/Town: New York, NY

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 6 17:56:00 PDT 2009

5453 [lbo-talk] Americans say they're moving right -- rank: 1000

On Jul 6, 2009, at 7:28 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Let me live in a house at the side of the road > And sneer at the fools going by. > > Said the superior fool. That would be you, right?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 6 17:25:03 PDT 2009

5454 [lbo-talk] Old Running Buddy Makes Good -- rank: 1000

On Jul 6, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Max Sawicky wrote: > After toiling in the trenches of the USPS for decades, an ancient > friend busts out with a book. > > http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2009/04/22/pages/5110/ Interviewed by me months ago: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#090129>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 6 11:55:55 PDT 2009

5455 [lbo-talk] Americans say they're moving right -- rank: 1000

On Jul 6, 2009, at 12:02 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: > Doug posted: > >> <http://www.gallup.com/poll/121403/Special-Report-Ideologically-Moving.aspx >> > >> >> July 6, 2009 >> >> Special Report: Ideologically, Where Is the U.S. Moving? >> Nearly 4 in 10 Americans say their views have grown more conservative > ================================================ > On the other hand, a recent study co-sponsored by the liberal > organizations & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 6 09:21:28 PDT 2009

5456 [lbo-talk] Americans say they're moving right -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/121403/Special-Report-Ideologically-Moving.aspx > July 6, 2009 Special Report: Ideologically, Where Is the U.S. Moving? Nearly 4 in 10 Americans say their views have grown more conservative by Lydia Saad PRINCETON, NJ -- Despite the results of the 2008 presidential election, Americans, by a 2-to-1 margin, say their political views in recent years have become more conservative rather than more liberal, 39% to 18%, with 42% saying they have not changed. While i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 6 07:53:26 PDT 2009

5457 [lbo-talk] yoshie? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 5, 2009, at 11:45 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Doug Henwood<dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: > >> When "foolish leftists" should be instead backing theocrats and >> fraudulent >> populists! > > Perhaps we should instead focus our attention on the crimes of our own > government. Those are, after all, our concern, in a way the internal > affairs of the Iranian state are not. Crazy talk, I know Yes, time is s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 6 04:50:05 PDT 2009

5458 [lbo-talk] yoshie? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 5, 2009, at 5:57 AM, Barry Brooks wrote: > >I don't know if she is right or not... > There's nothing wrong with this comment. > > http://montages.blogspot.com/ > > Saturday, June 27, 2009 > Rafsanjani, Mousavi Vow Support to End Unrest > See how they have sold out sincere reformers of Iran: "Rafsanjani, > Mousavi Vow Support to End Unrest" (Press TV, 25 June 2009)? > > The only freedom that men like Rafsanjani and Mousavi care about is > in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 5 17:19:04 PDT 2009

5459 [lbo-talk] Qum shot -- rank: 1000

[a challenge for the left apologists for Ahmadinejad's re-election] <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/world/middleeast/05iran.html> Leading Clerics Defy Ayatollah on Disputed Iran Election By MICHAEL SLACKMAN and NAZILA FATHI CAIRO The most important group of religious leaders in Iran called the disputed presidential election and the new government illegitimate on Saturday, an act of defiance against the country s supreme leader and the most public sign of a major split in the countr ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 5 05:58:35 PDT 2009

5460 [lbo-talk] death to habermas-reading clerics -- rank: 1000

On Jul 4, 2009, at 9:44 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > In a theocracy, homo economicus does not rule. Iran is not a pure theocracy. It's an odd hybrid of democracy and theocracy. So Homo economicus is hardly silent. And the theocrats have support of the merchant bourgeoisie, too. It's not all a bunch of bearded lunatics channeling God.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 4 18:51:06 PDT 2009