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8821 [lbo-talk] New School: the Gawker view -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/5114212/university-siege-ends-triumphantly-no-detention-for-revolutionaries > HIGHER LEARNING University Siege Ends Triumphantly: No Detention For Revolutionaries! By Hamilton Nolan, 11:45 AM on Fri Dec 19 2008, 774 views The Siege of the New School, in which students occupied buildings, fought off cops, and terrified school president Bob Kerrey, has ended. Revolution wins! Exclusive first hand journalism and wanton violence below: Here is the most outrageous instance ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 19 09:19:00 PST 2008

8822 [lbo-talk] Obama: a tolerant, rational-sounding bigot -- rank: 1000

<http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1867664,00.html> The Problem for Gays with Rick Warren and Obama By JOHN CLOUD ... Rick Warren may occasionally sound more open-minded than Jerry Falwell, another plump evangelical who once played a prominent role in U.S. politics. But he's not. Gays and lesbians are angry that Barack Obama has honored Warren, but they shouldn't be surprised. Obama has proven himself repeatedly to be a very tolerant, very rational- sounding sort of bi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 19 08:43:33 PST 2008

8823 [lbo-talk] CJR praise for the Kunstler Cast -- rank: 1000

On Dec 19, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > But when he describes what I assume to be his ideal future (and while > he uses words of regret, the relish he takes in imagining it > contradicts the lament) only white people are surviving in anything > close to a civilized state. I'm going to ask him about this. We'll see what he says. If you don't mind, could you frame the question pungently, and I'll attribute it to a friend if you like? Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 19 08:22:23 PST 2008

8824 [lbo-talk] BHO defends Rick Warren -- rank: 1000

On Dec 19, 2008, at 11:02 AM, RCu8598882 at aol.com wrote: > On the Warren issue, Obama seeks dialogue with an someone who > disagrees > with him? Is that so difficult to understand? Dialogue? Inviting him to give the benediction at his inauguration is just "dialogue"? Rick Warren is an odious turd. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 19 08:16:37 PST 2008

8825 [lbo-talk] CJR praise for the Kunstler Cast -- rank: 1000

On Dec 19, 2008, at 10:44 AM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > Besides all the above, I don't understand why so many lefties admire > Kunstler when we have our own, much more comprehensive critique of > modernity's problems, wasteful energy policies and the ugliness of > the built environment. Speaking for myself, he's funny and makes for good radio. That said, the last time I had him on was more than two years ago, so he's not exactly a regular. > I must tell you that as a black guy, whe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 19 07:57:42 PST 2008

8826 [lbo-talk] Das Kapital Vol. 1 reading guide question -- rank: 1000

On Dec 19, 2008, at 10:13 AM, B. wrote: > Was it here or on some blog that I saw a recommended "reading > approach" to Marx's Das Kapital, Volume 1? > > That is, someone who suggested, say, Chapter 14 first, as that > provided a better backdrop and framework, then to Chapter 11, then > on to Chapter X-Y-Z, etc...? > > Anyone know what I'm talking about? Sort of a roadmap that might > make better narrative sense. I cam across it somewhere, but forgot > wher ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 19 07:38:29 PST 2008

8827 [lbo-talk] Anti-union corporate front group at it again -- rank: 1000

On Dec 19, 2008, at 9:40 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > But I agree with Patrick that reflation - if that is a fair account > of Doug's position - is obviously a bollocks of an answer. At best > it is a stop-gap, that might buy one some time. But it can only > perpetuate the problems that preceded, which is to say that, like my > country, the US is consuming more than it produces, and needs to > produce more (or consume less), and it has allowed services to > displace manufac ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 19 07:36:28 PST 2008

8828 [lbo-talk] (Fwd) Fed pump-priming; Doug sees a fix, Whitney doesn't -- rank: 1000

On Dec 19, 2008, at 4:21 AM, Patrick Bond wrote: > What's the difference between comrade Doug's line and that of a > garden-variety Keynesian, or even eclectic-Bernankian? Isn't an > opportunity like writing for the LA Times appropriate for pushing > the envelope on acceptable discourse a bit further leftward? > Contrast with the more explicitly Marxist approach, appropriately > sceptical, from Whitney (below). > > So when Doug says, "It's not just critics who say th ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 19 07:32:00 PST 2008

8829 [lbo-talk] BHO defends Rick Warren -- rank: 1000

On Dec 19, 2008, at 4:05 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > what an incredibly insulting exucse: we need balance and debate. > because rights for homos are debatable, all up in the air. Yup. Olberman got surprisingly energized about this last night, pointing out that somehow gay rights are more open to question than other kinds. It's going to be interesting to watch the MSNBC liberals in the coming months. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 19 05:30:34 PST 2008

8830 [lbo-talk] Dustup, part 2 -- rank: 1000

Part 2 of my exchange with Reason's Brian Doherty. <http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-henwood-doherty18-2008dec18,0,2990655.story >.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 18 19:53:42 PST 2008

8831 [lbo-talk] Bail This Out -- rank: 1000

[pic at original] <http://gawker.com/5113747/bail-this-out> PIC OF THE DAY Bail This Out Detroiters line up today for items like food, toiletries, and toys in one of the poorest areas in the country, with a vast underclass and barely-perceptible aboveground economy colliding with the long-dead auto industry. [Getty] 5:43 PM on Thu Dec 18 2008 By Sheila

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 18 18:26:14 PST 2008

8832 [lbo-talk] Madoff docs -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Jordan for pointing this out] This dude nailed Madoff as the world's biggest Ponzi scheme in 2005, in a report submitted to the SEC. It's damning. They didn't do a thing. <http://online.wsj.com/documents/Madoff_SECdocs_20081217.pdf>

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Date:	Thu Dec 18 18:16:22 PST 2008

8833 [lbo-talk] Rick Warren sez... -- rank: 1000

[this is from a right-wing PR shop fronting for the very fucking reverend Warren] Statement by Dr. Rick Warren, Pastor of Saddleback Church Regarding the Invitation from President-elect Obama to Deliver the Inaugural Invocation Lake Forest, Calif., Dec. 18, 2008 "I commend President-elect Obama for his courage to willingly take enormous heat from his base by inviting someone like me, with whom he doesn t agree on every issue, to offer the Invocation at his historic Inaugural ceremony. H ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 18 18:00:08 PST 2008

8834 [lbo-talk] CJR praise for the Kunstler Cast -- rank: 1000

On Dec 18, 2008, at 5:25 PM, Shane Taylor wrote: > <http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/the_american_nightmare.php> Just booked him for a radio interview in January. Very agreeable fellow for such a doom-monger!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 18 14:52:33 PST 2008

8835 [lbo-talk] Meyerson: Hilda Solis is "great" -- rank: 1000

On Dec 18, 2008, at 5:15 PM, joseph noonan wrote: > And he has invited the gay bashing abortion foe Rick Warren to give > the blessing at his inauguration. It was disgusting enough that he > went to the guy's church for a Q&A while running, bit inviting this > fuckhead to speak? Funny. Time was that you could count on Dems to pursue neoliberal economic policies and an imperialist foreign policy - but they'd soften the blow for the PMC liberals by being kind to queers and such. ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 18 14:26:21 PST 2008