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9661 [lbo-talk] Islamo-Fascism Week - October 22-26 -- rank: 1000

A Student's Guide to Hosting Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week October 22-26, 2007 During the week of October 22-26, 2007, the nation will be rocked by the biggest conservative campus protest ever - Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, a wake-up call for Americans on 200 university and college campuses. The purpose of this protest is as simple as it is crucial: to confront the two Big Lies of the political left: that George Bush created the war on terror and that Global Warming is a greater danger to Amer ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 10 11:14:27 PDT 2007

9662 [lbo-talk] Targeting Empire? -- rank: 1000

On Sep 10, 2007, at 12:42 PM, ravi wrote: > What is it that we are obliged to say, if we are to speak of > Iran? Perhaps it would be best if we did not speak at all. Like I've said several times, I never really felt moved to discuss the internal politics of Iran until I was bombarded with devious apologias. But this topic is tired, and it's time to give it a rest. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 10 09:54:17 PDT 2007

9663 [lbo-talk] Targeting Empire? -- rank: 1000

On Sep 10, 2007, at 12:16 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Maybe her 3000th post of the year on Iran. Is anyone as weary of > this as I am? I know the standard response is I don't have to read > them. But that's a little like saying I can just change the channel > when a tv commercial that bothers me comes on. It's still a bother. Yeah, I think it's time to give it a rest. I didn't read the last two, just to avoid the temptation of responding. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 10 09:47:08 PDT 2007

9664 [lbo-talk] more Western -- rank: 1000

On Sep 9, 2007, at 10:33 PM, Nick C. Woomer-Deters wrote: > According to Western's figures, in 1995 U.S. unemployment adjusted to > include all inmates exceeded the similarly adjusted unemployment rates > of Austria, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland. Those are *male* unemployment rates only. And that rate - which Western and Beckett call u2 - assumes that all the incarcerated would be unemployed - but as the authors say, only 36% of inmates were unemployed at ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 10 09:46:20 PDT 2007

9665 [lbo-talk] Targeting Empire -- rank: 1000

On Sep 10, 2007, at 8:34 AM, james daly wrote: >> From a great distance, that programme looks mostly critical of >> Iran for > theocracy. Evidently the distance is rather great. Do you know anything about Dabashi, Abrahamian, or Moghadam? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 10 05:52:08 PDT 2007

9666 [lbo-talk] no bailout for the bad -- rank: 1000

European Central Bank governor Jean-Claude Trichet, at a Bank for International Settlements meeting in Basel: "It's certainly the sentiment of central bankers who are around the table that bailing out bad investors would be the worst thing to do."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 10 05:30:18 PDT 2007

9667 [lbo-talk] Terror Lord's Lefty "Chum" Chomsky -- rank: 1000

On Sep 9, 2007, at 11:17 PM, 3.3.3. wrote: > Is it true that the Post , Pre - News Corp, wasn't the national > comic book > that it is today? What year was that... Rupe bought the Post in 1976. Before that, it was known as quite a liberal paper - The Daily News was much more right-wing. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 10 04:51:21 PDT 2007

9668 [lbo-talk] Targeting Empire? -- rank: 1000

On Sep 9, 2007, at 10:43 PM, ravi wrote: > On 9 Sep, 2007, at 14:55 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> Apparently you're incapable of opposing war on Iran, or even Bush- >> style regime change, and at the same time acknowledging that the >> Iranian state is run by authoritarian mullahs. > > > Doug, > > I do not believe this "fair and balanced" business is a capability... > I think its a weakness. YMMV. I'm really mystified by this. Because Bush & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 10 04:48:47 PDT 2007

9669 [lbo-talk] Targeting Empire? -- rank: 1000

On Sep 9, 2007, at 10:43 PM, ravi wrote: > On 9 Sep, 2007, at 14:55 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> Apparently you're incapable of opposing war on Iran, or even Bush- >> style regime change, and at the same time acknowledging that the >> Iranian state is run by authoritarian mullahs. > > > Doug, > > I do not believe this "fair and balanced" business is a capability... > I think its a weakness. YMMV. Strength consists in lying or propagandizing ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 10 04:41:28 PDT 2007

9670 [lbo-talk] Why Are So Many Americans in Prison? -- rank: 1000

On Sep 9, 2007, at 9:36 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > You just said that the US has a rate of incarceration that's 8x > France, > and that 1/3 of it is violent crime?! > >> We only stand out on murder. Or so I remember. > > C'mon, don't you read your own posts? Murder in the US is like > 1.2% of > "violent crime" I said two things. One, that U.S. crime rates, aside from murder, are not out of line with Western Europe's. The victimization data in table 2 at ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 9 19:04:37 PDT 2007

9671 [lbo-talk] Why Are So Many Americans in Prison? -- rank: 1000

On Sep 9, 2007, at 6:44 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > The US has a lot of people in prison because the US has a lot of > criminals, end of story. I'm not sure of that. I thought that U.S. crime rates, aside from gun- induced murders, are comparable to Western Europe's. We only stand out on murder. Or so I remember. We just criminalize more stuff. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 9 18:13:27 PDT 2007

9672 [lbo-talk] Bono, thinking -- rank: 1000

On Sep 9, 2007, at 6:26 PM, Ismail Lagardien quoted Larry Lindsey: > Those principles > universal rights to life, liberty and the acquisition of property The last phrase brings this to the level of the sublime, doesn't it? Ismail: > There's no surprise there... he (bono) is > simply rehashing Rightwing Bile. It's not just rightwing - a lot of liberals would agree. Closely related is the near-scriptural reverence for The Constitution, which most of the respectable political spectrum ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 9 15:34:58 PDT 2007

9673 [lbo-talk] Israel detains seven U.S. citizens because they're "Palestinian" -- rank: 1000

The Ledger (Lakeland, Fla.) - September 6, 2007 <http://www.theledger.com/article/20070906/NEWS/709060547/1039> political nightmare Lakeland Family Separated By Rules at Airport in Israel 7 children, declared Palestinians, must stay. By Cary McMullen LAKELAND | The summer wasn't supposed to end like this for the family of Steve and Wedad Yacoub. The Lakeland family was separated on Aug. 18 at an Israeli airport as they attempted to return home from a summer visiting relatives in Palesti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 9 15:32:38 PDT 2007

9674 [lbo-talk] more Western -- rank: 1000

Just came across an Oct 2000 paper in ILLR by Bruce Western and Becky Pettit that recomputes employment/population ratios for men after adjusting for incarceration. If you include the imprisoned in the denominator, population (they're obviously excluded from the numerator, employed), the EPR for those aged 16-65 in 1996 goes down by about 1 percentage point for white men, and about 5 points for black men. For the 20-35 age group, the EPR would go down almost 2 points for whites and 8 for ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 9 15:25:42 PDT 2007

9675 [lbo-talk] Western on incarceration -- rank: 1000

[I mentioned the sociologist Bruce Western as someone who's investigated the link between unemployment & jail. Here's an interview with him. Sorry for not inserting Q/A, but it's easy to figure out.] <http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?articleId=12277> Locked Out Our system of mass incarceration affects more than you think. TAP talks to Bruce Western, author of Punishment and Inequality in America. Elizabeth Henderson | December 5, 2006 | web only The United States incarcerates a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 9 15:00:32 PDT 2007