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9676 [lbo-talk] Why Are So Many Americans in Prison? -- rank: 1000

On Sep 9, 2007, at 3:23 PM, J. Tyler wrote: > I assume persons in prison don't > count, because they aren't looking for work, and of course the people > employed by prisons do count, and make up an ever-increasing > percentage of > the workforce. So what would the unemployment rate be without this > huge > trend upward in incarceration over the last four decades and has > anybody > written about this? The sociologist Bruce Western has. Prisoners are not included in th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 9 13:28:05 PDT 2007

9677 [lbo-talk] Targeting Empire? -- rank: 1000

On Sep 9, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Oddly, the same dichotomy surfaces even in the far left rhetoric: > e.g., "Under increasing pressure from the US government, which has > classified Iran as part of its 'axis of evil', there has been a recent > escalation of conflicts within the Islamic regime" (Justus Leicht, > "Social Tensions Escalate Conflicts within Iranian Regime," 6 > September 2002," > <http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 9 11:55:02 PDT 2007

9678 [lbo-talk] Why Are So Many Americans in Prison? -- rank: 1000

On Sep 9, 2007, at 2:24 PM, Nick C. Woomer-Deters wrote: > Race and the transformation of criminal justice Glenn C. Loury Loury? What happened to him? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 9 11:33:39 PDT 2007

9679 [lbo-talk] SEIU defends Kaiser-Permanente -- rank: 1000

[Those of you who've seen SiCKO know how Kaiser-Permanente dumped a homeless woman suffering from dementia onto the street. SEIU defends Kaiser! From an article by Charles Andrews] <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/andrews050907.html> [...] Enter SEIU United Healthcare Workers-West (UHW-W), a large subunion within the Service International Employees Union (SEIU), represents many Kaiser workers. One might expect UHW-W to recognize in SiCKO a wonderful opportunity to expose and denounce ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 9 10:24:07 PDT 2007

9680 [lbo-talk] Bono, thinking -- rank: 1000

[from the Rush & Molloy column in The New York Daily News] "America is not just a country," Bono said here recently. "It's an idea."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 9 10:13:08 PDT 2007

9681 [lbo-talk] Targeting Empire -- rank: 1000

On Sep 9, 2007, at 11:04 AM, ravi wrote: > On 9 Sep, 2007, at 9:59 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> >> One >> hopes that the guests had more influence on the audience than the >> host, but if what you say about the size and quality of WBAI audience >> ... is true, >> perhaps it doesn't matter who's on the show. > > > Hey, don't pull us into this!!! Stooge. You obviously support the immediate carpet-bombing of Tehran. How can you live with yourself? ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 9 08:16:02 PDT 2007

9682 [lbo-talk] black books -- rank: 1000

If you think this is an example, then you're really reaching. Zunes advocates "regime change" in Iran done by Iranians, not foreigners. I suspect what annoys you is that he's referring to you as one of the credulous bloggers and editors, while curiously failing to name MRZine. You forgot to quote this paragraph: > In apparent recognition of this trend, Congress last year approved > $75 million in funding for an administration request to support > various Iranian opposition ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 9 07:44:57 PDT 2007

9683 [lbo-talk] black books -- rank: 1000

On Sep 8, 2007, at 9:05 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > On 9/8/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> Imam Yoshie writes: >> >>> Most leftists are too busy writing a Black Book of Khomeinism to >>> bother fighting against the general US propaganda campaign against >>> Iran exemplified by this cartoon... >> >> I'm trying to decide whether this is a smear or a lie. Name a leftist >> who spends even a tenth as much time com ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 9 06:31:26 PDT 2007

9684 [lbo-talk] Targeting Empire -- rank: 1000

On Sep 8, 2007, at 8:45 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Responsible leftists should be making efforts to counter propaganda > like this, but don't expect Doug to do it -- he's too busy countering > me to bother thinking about what the empire is doing to the Iranian > people and to do the right thing to stop it. You're so utterly full of shit. Take a look at the people I've had on my radio show to discuss Iran over the last year: May 31, 2007: Saadia Toor and Kourosh Shemirani on how W ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 9 06:29:23 PDT 2007

9685 [lbo-talk] who'll believe Petraeus? -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3575558&page=1> Most Are Skeptical of Petraeus Report ABC News/Washington Post Poll: Few Think Bush Will Change Course on Iraq War ANALYSIS by GARY LANGER Sept. 9, 2007 A skeptical public expects little of this week's developments on Iraq: More than half of Americans think the Petraeus report will try to sugar-coat the real situation there, and two-thirds don't believe it will influence George W. Bush's war policy anyway. Fifty-three percent in th ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 9 05:58:25 PDT 2007

9686 [lbo-talk] black books -- rank: 1000

Imam Yoshie writes: > Most leftists are too busy writing a Black Book of Khomeinism to > bother fighting against the general US propaganda campaign against > Iran exemplified by this cartoon... I'm trying to decide whether this is a smear or a lie. Name a leftist who spends even a tenth as much time compiling such a black book as you do writing and editing apologetics for the Iranian state. Name one who doesn't agitate against a war on Iran. And why are you so obsessed with what &qu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 8 07:30:32 PDT 2007

9687 [lbo-talk] Terror Lord's Lefty "Chum" Chomsky -- rank: 1000

[I wrote Noam, saying it must feel odd to be praised by ObL. His answer: "Feels more odd to be mentioned in the same breath with the ultra-hawk Michael Scheuer...."] New York Post - September 8, 2007 TERROR LORD'S LEFTY 'CHUM' CHOMSKY By ANDY SOLTIS Osama bin Laden took time in his videotape rant to play literary critic - plugging the writing of leftist MIT professor Noam Chomsky. Chomsky is "one of the most capable of those from your own side," bin Laden said. Chomsky is ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 8 06:10:32 PDT 2007

9688 [lbo-talk] ObL criticizes Dems, praises Chomsky, notes subprime crisis, urges conversion to Islam to lower taxes -- rank: 1000

On Sep 8, 2007, at 12:50 AM, Tim Francis-Wright wrote: > Who knew that Osama bin Laden was a Club for Growth member? Grover Norquist is an Islamophile, isn't he? FrontPage says he's a radical Islamist! <http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID= {C7CD908B-6D7E-49EB-A0A9-DA0A18745A29}>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 8 05:49:47 PDT 2007

9689 [lbo-talk] ObL criticizes Dems, praises Chomsky, notes subprime crisis, urges conversion to Islam to lower taxes -- rank: 1000

Yeah maybe the right will have a field day with this, but maybe some people will say, hey this guy isn't totally unreasonable....

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 7 19:34:08 PDT 2007

9690 [lbo-talk] Targeting Empire -- rank: 1000

On Sep 7, 2007, at 8:58 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > Not the point. You keep blasting away at the mythical Iran-bashing of > mythical Leftists, when we should be blasting away at the > alarmingly real > Iran-bashing of equally alarming Dems. No kidding. Yoshie really makes me more of an Iran-basher than I would otherwise be. I wouldn't have gone out of my way to criticize the country otherwise, but she just makes me want to do it. But I don't want to bomb them. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 7 19:32:12 PDT 2007