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9646 [lbo-talk] trading Hagel for Kerrey: good for warmongers -- rank: 1000

On Sep 11, 2007, at 10:25 AM, ken hanly wrote: > I thought the New School was reasonably leftist in > orientation or at least "progressive". What are they > doing with a president such as Kerrey? They've been trying hard to purge the left for years, going back to when that scumbag Alan Wolfe - who profoundly regrets his youthful Marxism - was dean or provost or some sort of fuhrer.

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Date:	Tue Sep 11 07:39:57 PDT 2007

9647 [lbo-talk] Pager excerpt: the credentialing of stigma -- rank: 1000

<http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/644839.html> At the start of the 1970s, incarceration appeared to be a practice in decline. Criticized for its overuse and detrimental effects, practitioners and reformers looked to community-based alternatives as a more promising strategy for managing criminal offenders. A 1967 report published by the President s Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice concluded: Life in many institutions is at best barren and futile, ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 11 07:24:18 PDT 2007

9648 [lbo-talk] more Pager -- rank: 1000

[In searching for Devah Pager's papers last night I discovered she has a new book out. I'm going to have her on the radio in the next few weeks to discuss it. Woj, be sure to listen!] <http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/235408.ctl> Pager, Devah Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration. 256 p., 18 halftones, 5 line drawings. 6 x 9 2007 Cloth $25.00 ISBN: 978-0-226-64483-7 (ISBN-10: 0-226-64483-9) Fall 2007 Nearly every job application asks it: ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 11 07:17:36 PDT 2007

9649 [lbo-talk] is this Photoshop, or is Madonna packin'? -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Tue Sep 11 07:11:58 PDT 2007

9650 [lbo-talk] trading Hagel for Kerrey: good for warmongers -- rank: 1000

New York Sun - September 11, 2007 <http://www.nysun.com/article/62343> Kerrey Edges Toward a Senate Comeback BY JOSH GERSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun The president of the New School, J. Robert Kerrey, is a step closer to a possible bid to return to the Senate following Senator Hagel's announcement yesterday that he won't seek re-election next year. If Mr. Kerrey runs and wins, the Nebraska seat would switch from the Republican to the Democratic column. That would be a boon to the D ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 11 06:46:22 PDT 2007

9651 [lbo-talk] forget the mess in Iraq - let's bash MoveOn! -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] We all knew yesterday would mark a turning point in the politics of the Iraq war -- and this is no time to envy the Republicans. But all it took was a newspaper ad (and one particularly poor pun) to make Democrats squirm, at the very time the party needs unity the most. Republicans' rallying point actually had little to do with the long- awaited report to Congress by Gen. David Petraeus. Moveon.org's ad in yesterday's New York Times was meant to help Democrats make a case ag ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 11 06:39:22 PDT 2007

9652 [lbo-talk] Constructive Criticism vs. Opposition Criticism (was Targeting Empire?) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 11, 2007, at 8:56 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Regarding Iran, what most leftists in the West do is what Ellner calls > "opposition criticism." You've failed to provide any serious evidence of this, but you keep saying it over and over. Besides, what's wrong with oppositional criticism of a capitalist state, even if it is anti-imperialist? Venezuela is trying to change capitalist property arrangements and class relations; Iran has never done that, and never will, give ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 11 06:28:54 PDT 2007

9653 [lbo-talk] What are you reading now? -- rank: 1000

On Sep 11, 2007, at 5:44 AM, Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > commodities never themselves count as depositaries of abstract social > labor time So why are so many Marxists goldbugs who distrust fiat money as a sham? Isn't it because gold embodies labor time and credit money doesn't? Even if credit money is guaranteed by a state? Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 11 04:50:14 PDT 2007

9654 [lbo-talk] Israeli Neo-Nazi bust prompts calls for change of Law of Return -- rank: 1000

On Sep 11, 2007, at 4:53 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > I'm scratching my head wondering why > anybody would want to move to Israel, other than > religious/ideological attachment. Nicer weather? Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 11 04:48:05 PDT 2007

9655 [lbo-talk] too weird to contemplate -- rank: 1000

[from Tom Heald's Pridelets] PageOneQ Pridelets for September 11 On this day in 1992, Geraldo's sleazy syndicated talk show warns of the dangers of "Bedding Down with Bisexuals." Apparently he's hoping nobody ready his autobiography released 10 days earlier in which he admits he had sex with Mick Jagger.

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Date:	Mon Sep 10 18:43:06 PDT 2007

9656 [lbo-talk] Targeting Empire? -- rank: 1000

On Sep 10, 2007, at 9:05 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > If I wanted to be ungenerous I would be tempted to say that the > problem > is that people would rather be right than on the right side. The crazy > thing is that the mullahs, though they are not right, *are* on the > right > side. You seem to subscribe to the Cockburn theory of political truth, which is that it's what fucks things up the most. It's a pretty weird notion of "right" you're trafficking in here. > ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 10 18:29:49 PDT 2007

9657 [lbo-talk] Why Are So Many Americans in Prison? -- rank: 1000

On Sep 10, 2007, at 6:14 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > So if you believe that there are no jobs available, how do you explain > the undocumented immigration to the US in search of jobs? It > stands to > reason that there must be jobs available, if people abroad are taking > considerable risk and cost to come here to work, no? So it follows > that > these jobs are also available to the domestic population, which > demonstrates > that structural joblessness is an unli ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 10 18:05:36 PDT 2007

9658 [lbo-talk] Targeting Empire? -- rank: 1000

On Sep 10, 2007, at 5:49 PM, ravi wrote: > In a later post you mentioned that that latter > acknowledgement would be the intellectually honest thing to do. My > objection is to that idea. Three cheers for intellectual dishonesty? Or are we supposed to take a "strategic view of the truth," as a former agent of mine said of a left celebrity? Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 10 17:13:45 PDT 2007

9659 [lbo-talk] Targeting Empire? -- rank: 1000

On Sep 10, 2007, at 4:52 PM, John Thornton wrote: > Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> Where does the last insistence come from? Ignorance? Partly. >> But it >> also must be a fear that the New York Post or something like that >> might call you "Terror Sponsor's Lefty 'Chum' Henwood," "Imam >> Henwood," or some such name if you even just point out basic facts >> that one can learn from BBC (e.g., the government provides free >> contracep ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 10 13:33:23 PDT 2007

9660 [lbo-talk] General Betray-us -- what a hero! -- rank: 1000

On Sep 10, 2007, at 2:25 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > Wikipedia notes that "Petraeus did not see combat before his 2003 > deployment to Iraq." But get a load of the ribbons -- what the > military used to call "fruit salad" -- on Petraeus's chest! You'd > think the guy had thrown the Wehrmacht out of France single- > handedly. Do they now hand out massive military honors for being a > career suck-up? Didn't they give out more medals for the invasion of Grenada ...

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