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7441 [lbo-talk] turn off that TV and go to work for Ralph! -- rank: 1000

[The opening of a pitch from Ralph Nader. On The Nation cruise this past summer, Ralph had one of his minions circulating around the shiptop bar announcing that Ralph would be holding forth at 10 PM in the ship's library on NAFTA and such. At 10 PM! Trying to lure people out of a bar!! For wonkery!!!] March 26, 2008 www.votenader.org Computer screens. Monster plasma televisions. iPods. Video games. Are we amusing ourselves to death? Isn't it time we got off the couch? And begin an outdoors m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 26 11:16:45 PDT 2008

7442 [lbo-talk] Revolutionary preferences & pathways (was "pointing finger of the neighbourhood") -- rank: 1000

On Mar 26, 2008, at 9:50 AM, Michael McIntyre wrote: > My only point is that one can coherently > understand "better" without reference to one's own parochial views of > what is "better". Of course "we" can't really judge what it would be like to live in a radically different world, or what shape that world would take. But we are fighting, or at least hoping, for a world that's better in certain specific ways - more egalitarian, less violent, less greedy ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 26 09:42:05 PDT 2008

7443 [lbo-talk] pwoggies for Obama -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080407/hayden_et_al> COMMENT | posted March 24, 2008 (web only) Progressives for Obama TOM HAYDEN, BILL FLETCHER JR., DANNY GLOVER & BARBARA EHRENREICH All American progressives should unite for Barack Obama. [etc.]

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 25 18:44:04 PDT 2008

7444 [lbo-talk] women's studies in US -- rank: 1000

<http://jezebel.com/372032/are-womens-studies-departments-dying> LIBERAL ARTS Are Women's Studies Departments Dying? After the current crop of seniors graduates this spring, women's studies will no longer exist as an autonomous field in Britain, says Angela McRobbie in today's Guardian. She thinks women's studies has disappeared for two main reasons: One, the mercenary job market, where a women's studies degree is not immediately applicable to a high paying job (though the same could ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 25 18:40:11 PDT 2008

7445 [lbo-talk] disappearance of women's studies -- rank: 1000

Guardian - March 25, 2008 <http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/mar/25/gender? gusrc=rss&feed=wo> Postfeminist passions The demise of women's studies has more to do with changes in the job market than lost battles Angela McRobbie The disappearance of women's studies at undergraduate level from British universities, to be marked in July by the graduation of the final batch of 12 students from London Metropolitan University, is symbolic of the changes that have been taking pl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 25 18:36:15 PDT 2008

7446 [lbo-talk] the Rev Wright -- rank: 1000

I just asked Adolph Reed, who lived in Chicago at the time and watched Obama's rise up close, why a man who, as David Gergen put it on CNN the other night "doesn't have a radical bone in his body," buddied up to a fiery black nationalist preacher. Adolph said that Obama probably planned to run for mayor of Chicago, and needed to broaden his support beyond his base among Hyde Park liberals and the foundation world, so joining Wright's church would help. It's the only explanation ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 25 14:59:54 PDT 2008

7447 [lbo-talk] "pointing finger of the neighbourhood" -- rank: 1000

On Mar 25, 2008, at 5:20 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Incidentally, I'm only paraphrasing a remark Karl Marx made when asked > if he would like to live in a socialist society. His reply was that he > would be dead by that time. You've got an idiosyncratic definition of paraphrase then. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 25 14:49:52 PDT 2008

7448 [lbo-talk] "pointing finger of the neighbourhood" -- rank: 1000

On Mar 25, 2008, at 4:20 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Whatever social order follows ours is almost certainly one in which > none > of us would very much like to live in. That criterion is itself > foolishly utopian, a mere extension of likes & dislikes grounded in a > given set of social relations. That Albert d Hahnel seek to defend > their > project on this basis is itself a more profound condemnation of their > project than that offered by the critics they are answering ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 25 13:39:39 PDT 2008

7449 [lbo-talk] McCain vs. McCain -- rank: 1000

[from the Institute for Public Accuracy] "I believe that success will be fairly easy." -- John McCain (9/24/02, CNN) "I believe that we can win an overwhelming victory in a very short period of time." -- John McCain (9/29/02, CNN) "The American people ... were led to believe that this would be some kind of a day at the beach which many of us, uh, fully understood from the very beginning would be a very, very difficult undertaking." -- John McCain (8/22/06, CNN) & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 25 13:09:24 PDT 2008

7450 [lbo-talk] a federally sponsored super-SIV -- rank: 1000

<http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/03/25/11796/the-buyer-of-last- resort/> The buyer of last resort Step forward the New York Fed. Bank of America's Jeffrey Rosenberg notes that the central bank has taken on a whole new role in assuming a $30bn portfolio of assets as part of the JPMorgan deal with Bear Stearns. "The extraordinary measures, while reassuring financial markets today, attest to the depths of the credit crunch and its constricting impact on the economy," he w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 25 05:54:43 PDT 2008

7451 [lbo-talk] Krugman on interest rate weirdness -- rank: 1000

On Mar 24, 2008, at 10:24 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > I'm not sure I follow this -- the 1 month T-bill is at 0.5% because > the > market expects the Fed funds rate to come down 1.75% in the next > month? It's in the calculations - the assumption that the Fed will be pushing short rates down.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 24 20:30:07 PDT 2008

7452 [lbo-talk] Krugman on interest rate weirdness -- rank: 1000

On Mar 24, 2008, at 4:52 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Sure, but remember, his original question was the wonkish one of > whether > the Fed could cut the Fed Funds rate to 1% by the end of the year > (as Citi > economists expect): > > http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/fed-funds-question- > seriously-wonkish-and-possibly-dumb-too/ > > And he's saying: maybe they actually can't. In which case, that's > interesting and maybe later could be important. (He l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 24 18:10:03 PDT 2008

7453 [lbo-talk] Jeremiah Wright or Wrong? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 24, 2008, at 5:19 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > It will probably take a lot of > bloodshed. Any volunteers?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 24 17:50:51 PDT 2008

7454 [lbo-talk] Krugman on interest rate weirdness -- rank: 1000

On Mar 24, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Krugman is saying: if it's not true -- if this is a structural spread > between the two rates (based on the perception that bank reserves > actually > aren't as safe as treasuries) -- then no matter how much the Fed > floods > the market, they can't to push the treasury rate below zero. And > if this > spread persisted, the Fed rate would then be stuck at 1.75%. But the Fed's target is 2.25%, meaning that they add and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 24 13:28:57 PDT 2008

7455 [lbo-talk] an exchange -- rank: 1000

The Nation - April 7, 2008 Letters About That Obama Endorsement... New York City I was not surprised by your endorsement of Barack Obama ["Obama's Promise," Feb. 25]. But I was astonished that you made no mention of an editorial you ran almost exactly twelve months earlier vowing "not [to] support any candidate who does not call for a speedy withdrawal of our troops" from Iraq ["Into 2008," Feb. 26, 2007]. "Speedy withdrawal" is not Obama's position, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 24 12:12:35 PDT 2008