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8431 [lbo-talk] that NAFTA talk? just campaign rhetoric -- rank: 1000
<http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080228/ turkey_Gates_080228/20080229> Obama campaign mum on NAFTA contact with Canada Updated Fri. Feb. 29 2008 12:32 PM ET CTV.ca News Staff Despite repeated requests, Barack Obama's campaign is still neither verifying nor denying a CTV report that a senior member of the team made contact with the Canadian government -- via the Chicago consulate general -- regarding comments Obama made about NAFTA. Allegations of double talk on the ...
Document Size: 9226
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Feb 29 12:00:33 PST 2008
8432 [lbo-talk] post-partisanship -- rank: 1000
[from The Note] Obama told the Cincinnati Enquirer Thursday that Clinton's "natural inclination when she's campaigning has been to draw very sharp lines and paint Republicans as folks who just have to be crushed and defeated. . . . I do think that there is that sense of aggrievement on her part that makes if difficult to essentially bring the country together."
Document Size: 4825
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Feb 29 11:56:46 PST 2008
8433 [lbo-talk] Chavez: slow down -- rank: 1000
On Feb 29, 2008, at 1:40 PM, Paul Papadeas wrote: > Bush, Obama, Clinton, Sarkozy, Chavez and Castro, all these > messiah's of representative democracy ad nauseam should all be > fought against tooth and nail. Yeah? You and what army? Doug
Document Size: 4727
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Feb 29 11:26:19 PST 2008
8434 [lbo-talk] WFB, again -- rank: 1000
On Feb 29, 2008, at 1:56 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > Even on the purely intellectual/ideological plane Buckley always > seemed to me like a premature proto-Fascist, his movement little > more than a rather precious cult. Yup. He had a lot in common with Catholic authoritarians, and was deeply antidemocratic. The Best - i.e., people like him - had a direct line to the Transcendent, but the masses were always in danger of breaking in on his connection. Doug
Document Size: 4921
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Feb 29 11:11:48 PST 2008
8435 [lbo-talk] Steve Schwarzman in soft focus -- rank: 1000
<http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/02/ steve_schwarzman_employs_catho.html> Steve Schwarzman Endeavors To Look More Human Blackstone honcho Stephen Schwarzman seems to be conducting a little public-relations campaign to sweeten his image. Fresh off a New Yorker profile in which "the designated villain of an era on Wall Street" came across as semi-endearing, he took the Times along on a trip to the Sacred Heart School in the Bronx, to which he recently gave $5 million. I use ...
Document Size: 5831
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Feb 29 10:21:00 PST 2008
8436 [lbo-talk] Interview with Jerry Lembcke on Conspiracy Theory, Fears of Betrayal, and Antiwar Movements -- rank: 1000
On Feb 29, 2008, at 11:45 AM, John Gulick wrote: > Henwood: >> I'll be having him on the radio soon, probably next week.Some >> other guy: > Right... just as soon as WBAI is done with its pledge > drive, the hook being bonus copies of Spare Change. Actually this time around it's The Money Masters, a right-wing populist video about the origins of the Federal Reserve. Bad stuff, and shot through with the usual anti-Semitic undertones, not to mention shallow understanding of ...
Document Size: 5693
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Feb 29 10:08:51 PST 2008
8437 [lbo-talk] WFB, again -- rank: 1000
On Feb 29, 2008, at 12:03 PM, MK wrote: > And now David "Bobo" Brooks has weighed in. Lord, I dare not look. > Just thinking about the man slices 20 points off my IQ. Ha, no. He should make you feel smarter! Because he's a dreadful hack. For those with a strong stomach, Brooks's funeral oration is at: <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/opinion/29brooks.html>. In it, he says: "He had a Tory gratitude for the pleasures of life: for music, conversation, technology and ad ...
Document Size: 5307
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Feb 29 10:01:32 PST 2008
8438 [lbo-talk] WFB, again -- rank: 1000
On Feb 29, 2008, at 11:26 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Thursday 28 February 2008 22:22:17 Doug Henwood wrote: > >> [Buckley] was pretty influential. > > I wonder. Isn't this a little like thinking that the guy on > the surfboard is creating the wave? > > Don't you think there was a pretty general move on the > part of the American elites to retrench and recover lost > ground after WWII -- which was interrupted and even to > some extent reversed during the Six ...
Document Size: 6943
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Feb 29 09:55:28 PST 2008
8439 [lbo-talk] NYT on SEIU dispute -- rank: 1000
On Feb 29, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Mark Rickling wrote: > Unlike some other stuff posted to this list, I think this article gets > to the heart of the dispute between SEIU and one of its locals. Because a Stern ally gets the last word? And WTF is up with Stern not giving an interview to Greenhouse? Doug
Document Size: 4787
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Feb 29 09:32:16 PST 2008
8440 [lbo-talk] Moby - nerd, wuss, or dick? -- rank: 1000
On Feb 29, 2008, at 9:15 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > Like, the band lineup would be composed entirely of > offensive stereotypes -- the lazy Mexican, the cudely > racist White man, the violent Black, the vapid > sluttish woman, the flouncy sluttish gay guy. Like a cross between Laibach and the Village People?
Document Size: 4910
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Feb 29 07:05:00 PST 2008
8441 [lbo-talk] WFB, again -- rank: 1000
On Feb 28, 2008, at 11:49 PM, B. wrote: > Are we talking about the same William F. Buckley that > told Chomsky on air he'd "punch [him] in the god damn > face"? That civil guy? For the guardians of civility, it's ok to threaten Chomsky, since he doesn't winter in Gstaad. Doug
Document Size: 4867
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Feb 29 05:01:59 PST 2008
8442 [lbo-talk] Interview with Jerry Lembcke on Conspiracy Theory, Fears of Betrayal, and Antiwar Movements -- rank: 1000
On Feb 29, 2008, at 12:01 AM, Stephen Philion wrote: > An interview I conducted with Jerry Lembcke on Conspiracy Theory, > Fears of Betrayal, and the Anti-war Movement at Counterpunch > yesterday: > We discussed the discussion of conspiracy theorists at antiwar > planning meetings a few months back on LBO-L > > http://counterpunch.org/philion02272008.html I'll be having him on the radio soon, probably next week. Doug
Document Size: 5525
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Feb 29 04:55:24 PST 2008
8443 [lbo-talk] WFB, again -- rank: 1000
On Feb 28, 2008, at 9:21 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > The interesting thing about Buckley's > embarkation for a nice long spell in > Purgatory is that so much attention is > being paid to it. > > Why? Well, I guess he was a celebrity > of sorts. If Jerry Lewis had died -- he hasn't, > has he? Don't tell me I missed it -- then there > would probably be quite an outpouring too. Hey, he used to be one of my heroes. And he was pretty influential. So I'm interested in the ol ...
Document Size: 5440
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 28 19:22:17 PST 2008
8444 [lbo-talk] Jamie Galbriath on Bill Buckley -- rank: 1000
[hmmmm.....] <http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/02/28/james-k- galbraith-on-bill-buckley.aspx> James K. Galbraith on Bill Buckley Marking the death of William F. Buckley, Jr. yesterday, TNR asked James K. Galbraith to share his thoughts on the influential conservative journalist and intellectual. Galbraith--whose father, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, was a close personal friend of Buckley's--is a professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin. What ...
Document Size: 8408
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 28 13:20:48 PST 2008
8445 [lbo-talk] crises kill -- rank: 1000
On Feb 28, 2008, at 3:41 PM, Ben Jackson wrote: > I have no doubt that neoliberal policies have caused millions of > deaths, but what is your baseline here? Is this a projection based on > trends underway before the eighties? What is the proposed scenario > under which these deaths would not have occurred? As I recall, one of the early Human Development Reports came up with an estimate based on the decline in mortality rates/rise in life expectancy a decade or two before the debt ...
Document Size: 5105
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 28 12:51:02 PST 2008
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