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6916 [lbo-talk] helicopters -- rank: 1000

Interesting to re-read Bernanke's famous helicopter speech from 2002: <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boardDocs/speeches/2002/20021121/default.htm >. It's pretty much everything they're doing now.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 27 08:27:48 PST 2008

6917 [lbo-talk] question about louis proyect and cuba -- rank: 1000

Lou Proyect writes: > I usually don't answer what appear to be trick questions, but I have > written quite a bit about Cuba for folks who are curious: > > http://www.columbia.edu/%7Elnp3/mydocs/state_and_revolution/pope_and_castro.htm > > http://www.columbia.edu/%7Elnp3/mydocs/state_and_revolution/Che_Guevara.htm > > http://www.columbia.edu/%7Elnp3/mydocs/state_and_revolution/cuba.htm > > http://www.columbia.edu/%7Elnp3/mydocs/state_and_revolution/democracy_in_cuba. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 27 07:55:07 PST 2008

6918 [lbo-talk] Question from La Botz interview on Behind the News -- rank: 1000

On Nov 27, 2008, at 9:47 AM, Charles Turner wrote: > My original thought was that directors of automotive corporations > wouldn't want to take a position against other members of their board > who might also sit on insurance or pharmaceutical corporation boards. I've done some preliminary research into this, with some more still necessary, but I can say that these overlaps just don't seem all that significant. I think the broader class explanation - the US bourgeoisie doesn't want to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 27 07:54:16 PST 2008

6919 [lbo-talk] Marty Peretz on the new order -- rank: 1000

The New Republic - December 3, 2008 From TR to BHO Obama, The New Republic, and the presidents we've loved. Martin Peretz Not that my political history is so important. After all, no one in either the near or more remote environs of The New Republic required my enthusiasm for Barack Obama to kindle their own. As for my own enthusiasm--actually, it was at first a quizzical intrigue--it was sparked by the disciplined and thoughtful passion of my thirty- something children, first my film direct ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 27 07:47:59 PST 2008

6920 [lbo-talk] peaceniks silent as Obama assembles team of hawks -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/16034.html> Doves keep the faith as Obama team tilts right By: Jonathan Martin November 27, 2008 09:04 AM EST Leading opponents of the war have mostly been silent as president- elect Barack Obama, who first built his national image on the foundation of his early opposition to the Iraq war, assembles a group of national security hands that is anything but a team of doves. It's a disorienting moment for the peace wing of the Democratic Party, at ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 27 07:44:07 PST 2008

6921 [lbo-talk] SEIU's Andy Stern throws former protege to the wolves -- rank: 1000

On Nov 27, 2008, at 3:26 AM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Gotta love all the bias evident in that subject line. > > Has anyone else noticed that characters like Steven will criticize > Stern for > absolutely anything? If Stern's actions in this case had been the > opposite, > I guarantee that Steven's whining would have reached intolerable > levels. Wasn't Freeman close to Stern, and the leader of the local that Stern wanted to absorb UHW into, to get rid of the troublesome Ro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 27 07:34:06 PST 2008

6922 [lbo-talk] question about louis proyect and cuba -- rank: 1000

Well let's ask him. Lou? On Nov 26, 2008, at 9:32 PM, SA wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > >> But, not that I can speak for Lou, Cuba is a case of a rather >> successful revolution. I'm sure we could all make a list of its >> shortcomings, but there's a lot to admire there, and making lists >> of shortcomings is easy for us. > > Sure, there are lots of people, at various points on the left > spectrum, who feel that way. But the impression I get - I may be > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 26 18:44:40 PST 2008

6923 [lbo-talk] question about louis proyect and cuba -- rank: 1000

On Nov 26, 2008, at 8:53 PM, SA wrote: > So I'll restate my question: Does anyone know the theory behind the > Trotskyist/LNP emphasis on Cuba and the backstory, if any, on why > it's such a neuralgic topic for Carrol? Carrol just has an intractable case of neuralgia. But, not that I can speak for Lou, Cuba is a case of a rather successful revolution. I'm sure we could all make a list of its shortcomings, but there's a lot to admire there, and making lists of shortcomings is easy fo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 26 18:18:55 PST 2008

6924 [lbo-talk] question about louis proyect and cuba -- rank: 1000

On Nov 26, 2008, at 7:11 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Well, this is a pretty ridiculous post all-in-all. LNP once belonged > to > the SWP, & he still admires _some_ things about Trotsky, but the label > is not very useful -- in fact I would call such labels a substitute > for > thinking on those too lazy to think. Could you disagree with people without the vitriol? No, sorry, silly question. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 26 18:16:54 PST 2008

6925 [lbo-talk] "feminism" and bestiality -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nodo50.org/Laura_Agustin/sex-with-animals-another-swedish-model > Sex with animals - another Swedish Model? 26 November 2008 by laura agustin The Local is an online newspaper published in Sweden, in English, about Sweden. As some readers of this blog know, legislation that criminalises clients purchase of sex but not the sale of it is widely known as the Swedish Model. Two sides of a sociocultural conflict claim opposite effects for this legislation: that it solves the p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 26 06:00:49 PST 2008

6926 [lbo-talk] Deathbed conversion of Gramsci -- rank: 1000

On Nov 26, 2008, at 12:20 AM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Indeed. Jesus' family were working class -- Joseph, after all, was a > carpenter. More a petit bourgeois artisan, then, no? In a subaltern state! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 26 05:08:12 PST 2008

6927 [lbo-talk] the limits of Wise-ism -- rank: 1000

<http://www.alternet.org/election08/108746/> Enough of 'Barbituate' Left Cynicism, Obama Is a Victory over White Supremacy By Tim Wise, Red Room. Posted November 26, 2008. We don't need the "everything sucks" analysis; Obama has mobilized millions of activists and that energy is looking for an outlet.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 26 05:05:46 PST 2008

6928 [lbo-talk] wacky press release of the day -- rank: 1000

[from the right-wing PR shop Special Guests] ECO-UNFRIENDLY: Do Environmentalists Have a Hidden Agenda? Last week, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) announced that October 2008 was the hottest October on record, fueling the fire of environmentalists continually looking to validate their doomsday prognostications for Mother Earth . . . except “oops,” GISS accidentally carried over September’s temperatures into its October data. If anyone were able to use this blunder for fuel ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 25 18:29:23 PST 2008

6929 [lbo-talk] Deathbed conversion of Gramsci -- rank: 1000

On Nov 25, 2008, at 5:23 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > I would think deathbed (re)conversions would be rather common. I > dunno about you, but every time I've thought I might be near death I > grasped at every straw, natural or supernatural, I could find. Many years ago, when I thought I was drowning, I reflexively said an Act of Contrition.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 25 15:36:21 PST 2008

6930 [lbo-talk] oops, he forgot labor! -- rank: 1000

From: "Politico New Story Alert" <noreply at politico.com> Date: November 25, 2008 5:41:26 PM EST To: <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: Politico Alert: Ben Smith has published a new story. Ben Smith has published a new story: Labor pained: Labor sec. not on econ team Labor's low profile in the president-elect's transition is striking because of unions' vital role in the general election campaign. read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15972.html

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 25 15:35:40 PST 2008