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8491 [lbo-talk] Samantha Power -- rank: 1000

On Feb 23, 2008, at 9:25 PM, abu hartal wrote: > we are supposed to hate Samantha Power Yeah, why not?

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8492 [lbo-talk] Jacoby on crisis -- rank: 1000

On Feb 23, 2008, at 4:57 PM, Campaign for Peace and Democracy wrote: > I couldn't open it at the url. Is it too much trouble to cut and > paste it as a message to individuals asking for it? It's a regular PDF - Acrobat (or Preview) should open it right up. It's scanned, not text, so it's impossible to cut & paste.

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Date:	Sat Feb 23 14:14:16 PST 2008

8493 [lbo-talk] Jacoby on crisis -- rank: 1000

I've mentioned Russell Jacoby's paper on the history of crisis theory in Marxism several times here. For some reason, Lou Proyect was having trouble receiving it from me as an email attachment, so I posted it to the web. I'll keep it up for a little while, but not too long, to avoid antagonizing the IP cops. For now it's at: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Jacoby.pdf> Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 23 13:34:19 PST 2008

8494 [lbo-talk] Iran nuclear plans of "serious concern": U.N. body -- rank: 1000

On Feb 23, 2008, at 4:12 PM, uvj at vsnl.com wrote: > The U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Friday Iran had failed > to explain Western intelligence reports showing explosives and > missile work > linked to the production of atomic bombs and that this was a "serious > concern". Not to me. How about all those nuclear warheads and missiles controlled by the U.S., UK, France, Russia, and China? Oh, and Israel. Almost forgot that one. Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 23 13:19:33 PST 2008

8495 [lbo-talk] drama at the Brecht Forum -- rank: 1000

On Feb 23, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > In other words, probably the audience at the Brecht Forum was > overhelmingly working class, though they may mostly have been from the > better paid strata of the class. I don't know if that's true. Yes, there are the usual gang of left intellectuals at the Brecht Forum, and certainly the people on the panel were pretty well-fed, but there are a lot of activists and just interested folks who are barely getting by. Some by choice, mayb ...

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8496 [lbo-talk] Iran -- rank: 1000

On Feb 23, 2008, at 12:59 PM, abu hartal wrote: > For not the dime's worth of theorists who insist that there is no > evidence of any differences between Clinton and Obama. I can't > believe that I have to actually cite this evidence on a list of > leftists but it does speak to the indifference to the world fate > among the voters who have it in their hands. Enough! There's a moratorium on this. You've made your point, and so has everyone else. Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 23 11:05:58 PST 2008

8497 [lbo-talk] drama at the Brecht Forum -- rank: 1000

On Feb 23, 2008, at 6:11 AM, Cseniornyc at aol.com wrote: > Well it turned out to be rather anticlimactic this meeting. The threatened leafletting and hostile questions never materialized. > Strange to > arrange a panel about whether the economy is about to crash and > not to have a > single economist on it. I think I was playing the economist on the panel, though as you point out, I don't fit comfortably into any existing occupational classification. But a former investment ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 23 07:18:28 PST 2008

8498 [lbo-talk] Obama/Clinton -- rank: 1000

On Feb 22, 2008, at 8:55 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > What a brilliant idea--bar LBO discussion of the one topic that, > admit it or not, is on the mind of everybody with even the > faintest shred of interest in politics! People keep saying the same shit over & over. It needs a rest. I'm sure it'll come back.

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Date:	Fri Feb 22 18:21:02 PST 2008

8499 [lbo-talk] Obama/Clinton -- rank: 1000

On Feb 22, 2008, at 5:48 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > But now isn't it about time to find a better topic than the > imperialist > Elections? Yes. It's getting really tired.

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Date:	Fri Feb 22 15:01:45 PST 2008

8500 [lbo-talk] Moby - nerd, wuss, or dick? -- rank: 1000

A bit off topic, for sure. From Page Six: > NERD TARGET > > MOBY says he became a hated man when he was dating Natalie Portman > a while back. "I guess in some people's eyes, [nerds] might be > mildly sexy - and, as a nerd, I'm certainly happy to enjoy some of > the effects of that. But as far as the very brief affair that I had > with Natalie, it's made me a target of a lot of nerd wrath," the > techno-whiz tells next month's Spin. "You don't date Luke > ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 22 10:19:32 PST 2008

8501 [lbo-talk] Rove -- rank: 1000

On Feb 22, 2008, at 12:33 PM, shag wrote: > I'd like to talk about that. Listening to Obama last night, he > repeatedly > emphasized that the way to get things done was to stop engaging in the > petty partisan infighting that has characterized u.s. politics. > > What about that is so thrilling to the electorate? It appeals to the middle American instinct to split the difference and to avoid conflict. As if it were possible to split the difference between war and peace, rich a ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 22 09:58:14 PST 2008

8502 [lbo-talk] Rove -- rank: 1000

On Feb 22, 2008, at 11:49 AM, abu hartal wrote: > Obama wants to try diplomacy with Iran. Clinton refuses it <http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/speech/view/?id=1328> "Failure to use diplomacy has damaged our national security interests. The important step forward our country has made with North Korea raises the obvious question: Why will the President refuse to have any kind of process involving Iran as I and others have urged? The United States engaged in talks with North Kor ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 22 09:50:36 PST 2008

8503 [lbo-talk] Rove -- rank: 1000

On Feb 22, 2008, at 10:30 AM, abu hartal wrote: > Obama actually could win and throw a wrench in the war machine You keep saying things like this without offering any evidence. Which I suppose makes sense, since the available evidence is to the contrary. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 22 08:05:27 PST 2008

8504 [lbo-talk] Obama & the white guy -- rank: 1000

On Feb 22, 2008, at 10:16 AM, John Gulick wrote: > More than anything else, though, I don't like the concept anymore > because > it symbolizes intellectual laziness on the left (and I won't exempt > myself from > that charge). For example, I tremendously admire Tariq Ali, and > relish his > written commentary and public speaking, eating it up wherever I can > find it... > but unfailingly, when contrasting Venezuela-Bolivia-Ecuador to > what's going > on elsewhere ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 22 07:26:43 PST 2008

8505 [lbo-talk] ancestors of rendition (aka dropping the ball) -- rank: 1000

[hmm, 1980, that was the Jimmy Carter "human rights" era, no?] New York Times - February 22, 2008 <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/world/americas/22condor.html> Italy Follows Trail of Secret South American Abductions By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO BUENOS AIRES In an unusually sweeping investigation, Italian authorities are seeking to prosecute former top officials in seven South American countries for their roles in a secret operation in the 1970s and 1980s by the region s security ...

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