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5461 [lbo-talk] yoshie? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 4, 2009, at 3:20 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Yoshie, despite very possibly being wrong, does probably know more > Iran than everybody else on this list put together. You should see some of the comments from Iranian leftists on MRZine who are outraged by all the propaganda from the Iranian state she's repurposing.

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Date:	Sat Jul 4 15:55:52 PDT 2009

5462 [lbo-talk] yoshie? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 4, 2009, at 3:13 PM, James Straub wrote: > Is Yoshie on lbo? Or still 86'ed? She was not 86d. She signed off, just like she did from PEN-L and Marxmail. She's always welcome to return if she likes.

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Date:	Sat Jul 4 15:54:53 PDT 2009

5463 [lbo-talk] amazing headlines of our time -- rank: 1000

[via Gawker] <http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2515872/Midget-wrestlers-dead-after-hookers-drug-drinks.html > Midget wrestlers killed in hooker romp

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Date:	Sat Jul 4 11:18:20 PDT 2009

5464 [lbo-talk] No oil for blood -- rank: 1000

On Jul 3, 2009, at 4:03 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > Why do you think Bush invaded Iraq Doug? I'm not really sure. No doubt it had something to do with oil, but exactly what, I don't know. And, as the outcome of the invasion shows, they were probably wrong.

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Date:	Fri Jul 3 13:36:18 PDT 2009

5465 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Fri Jul 3 13:15:56 PDT 2009

5466 [lbo-talk] fresh punditry -- rank: 1000

http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/radio-commentary-july-2-2009/

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Date:	Fri Jul 3 12:02:21 PDT 2009

5467 [lbo-talk] No oil for blood -- rank: 1000

On Jul 3, 2009, at 2:38 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > [Leopold here describes the sources of the Bush administration's > participation in the long-term US insistence on control of Mideast > energy, not for domestic use -- the US still imports only a small > percentage of the oil used here from the Mideast -- but for > geopolitical advantage. --CGE] No doubt both Chomsky and Bush believe this. But, once again, I'll ask: what is the mechanism of this advantage? How does it work, or ...

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5468 [lbo-talk] No oil for blood -- rank: 1000

On Jul 2, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Lew wrote: > Politicians are often ill-informed, but Alan Greenspan admitted that > the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq was really aimed at protecting > Middle East oil reserves. "I thought the issue of weapons of mass > destruction as the excuse was utterly beside the point", he said. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2170602,00.html > ). Another assertion, quoted from an authority. Could you explain just how this works?

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Date:	Thu Jul 2 13:01:15 PDT 2009

5469 [lbo-talk] No oil for blood -- rank: 1000

On Jul 2, 2009, at 1:52 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > Geopolitically, for all the Bremeresque mismanagement (from > Kissinger's shop) of the Iraq occupation, Bush/Obama have > established the first secure military bases in a dependent client > state at the heart of the world s major energy reserves. These have > been crucial policy concerns throughout the post-World War II > period, even more so in today s evolving tripolar world, with its > threat that Europe and Asia might ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 2 11:05:39 PDT 2009

5470 [lbo-talk] No oil for blood -- rank: 1000

On Jul 2, 2009, at 12:34 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > Shortly after the invasion of Iraq, Zbigniew Brzezinski -- senior > foreign policy adviser to the Obama campaign and quondam sponsor of > Osama bin Laden -- pointed out in the journal National Interest that > America's control over the Middle East "gives it indirect but > politically critical leverage on the European and Asian economies > that are also dependent on energy exports from the region." Again, that's rep ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 2 09:44:34 PDT 2009

5471 [lbo-talk] No oil for blood -- rank: 1000

On Jul 2, 2009, at 11:36 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > Oil (and gas) was certainly part of the essential background of the > war. If the primary product of Iraq were asparagus, we wouldn't > have half the American military there. The control of what the US > State Department, in 1945, described as "a stupendous source of > strategic power, and one of the greatest material prizes in world > history" -- Mideast energy resources -- has been the cornerstone of > US po ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 2 08:54:26 PDT 2009

5472 [lbo-talk] Gay sex decriminalised in India -- rank: 1000

On Jul 2, 2009, at 10:10 AM, ravi wrote: > On Jul 2, 2009, at 9:34 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> Oh, and you probably noticed that India *overturned* the ban. Any >> bets on when that might happen in Iran? >> > > I am guessing pretty soon after they get a chance to determine their > own future, etc. Huh? Iran has been determining its own future, to the extent that any smallish country can, for 30 years. > The decision in India is great news of course, thou ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 2 07:18:59 PDT 2009

5473 [lbo-talk] Gay sex decriminalised in India -- rank: 1000

On Jul 2, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Doug Henwood<dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: >> This is all true. But so what? Our thinking should be shaped by >> inverting >> the priorities of the Western press? Or is this just an observation >> on >> ideological bias of a sort that has been made thousands of times >> before? > > In my case, it was the latter. > Sorry, I didinīt know there was a subj ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 2 07:13:27 PDT 2009

5474 [lbo-talk] reasons to be cheerful: the Wall Street view -- rank: 1000

[from this morning's report by Ed Hyman, Wall Street's favorite economist - doesn't "down -7.9%" = +7.9%?] INCREDIBLE PRODUCTIVITY: Good news for profits Hours worked plunged -8.9 in 1Q versus -5.5% for real GDP. Hours worked in 2Q plunged again, down -7.9%. This is good news for productivity, unit labor costs, and profits.

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Date:	Thu Jul 2 06:50:17 PDT 2009

5475 [lbo-talk] Gay sex decriminalised in India -- rank: 1000

On Jul 2, 2009, at 9:10 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > I was thinking exactly the same thing. > > --- On Thu, 7/2/09, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote: > >> From: Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Gay sex decriminalised in India >> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org >> Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 8:30 AM >> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Chris >> Doss<lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> >> wrote: &g ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 2 06:34:43 PDT 2009