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9721 [lbo-talk] Request for Bernstein & Cockburn material -- rank: 1000
On Sep 3, 2007, at 6:36 PM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > For instance, anyone who can guess how much I > paid to see Doug perform in 'The American Ruling Class' can have > that exact > sum of money right away. I haven't seen it yet.
Document Size: 4985
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 3 16:13:08 PDT 2007
9722 [lbo-talk] Request for Bernstein & Cockburn material -- rank: 1000
On Sep 3, 2007, at 5:48 PM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > I'm sorry to burden list members, but I wonder if anyone can help > me: I > need, if anyone has it, a) a copy of Bernstein's 'The Struggle of > Social > Democracy and the Social Revolution'; and b) Alexander Cockburn's > article > for the Nation, November 1996, about Paul Berman on Ben Linder. > > If I may be a little flirtatious about it - I'd be *very* > grateful. Thanks. You can buy back articles from The Nation ...
Document Size: 5404
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 3 15:05:51 PDT 2007
9723 [lbo-talk] Naomi Klein's latest -- rank: 1000
Globe and Mail (Toronto) - August 31, 2007 Shocked and appalled JOHN ALLEMANG From Saturday's Globe and Mail August 31, 2007 at 11:57 PM EDT If there's anyone who knows the ins and outs of a successful marketing campaign, it's Naomi Klein. So why is the author of the bestselling No Logo, the 2000 book that tore apart the pretensions of "Just Do It" brand-building while inspiring the social-justice spirit in young consumers, walking away from a screening of the video for her long-aw ...
Document Size: 22067
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 3 11:54:52 PDT 2007
9724 [lbo-talk] 600 words -- rank: 1000
[more from the Wasserman piece] It is a striking irony, as Wieseltier points out, that with the arrival of the Internet, a medium of communication with no limitations of physical space, everything on it has to be in six hundred words.
Document Size: 4656
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 3 10:05:07 PDT 2007
9725 [lbo-talk] on the decline of books in papers -- rank: 1000
Steve Wasserman, ex-editor of the LAT Book Review, reflects on the decline of books coverage in U.S. newspapers: <http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/goodbye_to_all_that_1.php?page=all> [...] In this view, only the review (or book) that is immediately understood by the greatest number of readers can be permitted to see the light of day. Anything else smacks of elitism. This is a coarse and pernicious dogma a dogma that is at the center of the anti- intellectual tradition that is alive and ...
Document Size: 5682
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 3 09:56:43 PDT 2007
9726 [lbo-talk] FW from the NLG: Bush Plans War on Iran -- rank: 1000
On Sep 3, 2007, at 12:04 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > But my point was that the Iranian elite would ally themselves to > the US if > they could Didn't they essentially give the green light for the U.S. invasion of Iraq? Doug
Document Size: 4943
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 3 09:51:23 PDT 2007
9727 [lbo-talk] reviewing the turmoil: not as bad as it felt -- rank: 1000
<http://www.ft.com/cms/s/1/0a27fcb4-5986-11dc-aef5-0000779fd2ac.html> Markets in August Published: September 2 2007 19:56 | Last updated: September 2 2007 20:15 Just how nasty was August in the end? Equity investors lucky enough to be returning from a long holiday on Monday will wonder what all the fuss was about. In spite of some stock markets moving around by up to 4 per cent in a day, declines for the month were ultimately tame. Most bourses in Asia fell between 1 and 3 per cent in ...
Document Size: 6978
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 3 06:39:20 PDT 2007
9728 [lbo-talk] the capitalist tool explains Labor Day (and that stinking collaborator Gompers) -- rank: 1000
<http://www.forbes.com/home/2007/08/30/labor-day-history-forbeslife- cx_ml_0830mayday.html> Labor The History Of Labor Day Mark Lewis 08.30.07, 12:00 PM ET In Pictures: The History Of Labor Day Related Stories In Pictures: The History Of Labor Day Most of the world marks Labor Day on May 1 with parades and rallies. Americans celebrate it in early September, by heading to the beach or firing up the grill. Why the discrepancy? Here's a hint: The answer would have been a great disappointme ...
Document Size: 11398
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 3 06:29:44 PDT 2007
9729 [lbo-talk] further on Labor Day....the fashion angle -- rank: 1000
[more from Wikipedia] An old custom eschewed wearing white after Labor Day. The custom is rooted in nothing more than popular fashion etiquette.[1] In actuality, the etiquette originally stated that white shoes were the taboo while white or "winter white" clothes were acceptable.[2] This custom is fading from popularity as it continues to be questioned and challenged, particularly by leaders in the fashion world. "Fashion magazines are jumping on this growing trend, calling ...
Document Size: 5589
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 3 06:24:00 PDT 2007
9730 [lbo-talk] Labor Day -- rank: 1000
Happy anti-May Day to the Americans on the list. A reminder of its history: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day> > The Knights of Labor organized the original parade on Tuesday, > September 5, 1882 in New York City. In 1884 another parade was > held, and the Knights passed resolutions to make this an annual > event. Other labor organizations (and there were many), but notably > the affiliates of the International Workingmen's Association, many > of whom were socialis ...
Document Size: 6010
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 3 06:21:06 PDT 2007
9731 [lbo-talk] FW from the NLG: Bush Plans War on Iran -- rank: 1000
On Sep 3, 2007, at 3:32 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Those Iranians whom American and expatriate Iranian liberals and > leftists think of as "left-wing" aren't left-wing, nor are those whom > they think of as "right-wing" necessarily right-wing. Terms like left > and right are more or less irrelevant to politics in Iran. The > divide, if anything, is between liberal Westernizers and populist > anti-imperialists, with Ali Khamenei serving as the arbiter am ...
Document Size: 5503
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 3 06:13:36 PDT 2007
9732 [lbo-talk] Edwards gets Steelworkers and Mine Workers endorsements -- rank: 1000
<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0907/5606.html> Edwards gets two big union labels By: Mike Allen Sep 3, 2007 08:15 AM EST In a surprise announcement, John Edwards will be endorsed this Labor Day morning by two powerful unions -- the United Steelworkers and United Mine Workers. That gives Edwards the largest bloc of formal labor support among the Democratic presidential candidates. The announcement is being made in Pittsburgh, where the presidents of the two unions are to march wi ...
Document Size: 9251
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 3 06:02:05 PDT 2007
9733 [lbo-talk] omigod! democratic capitalism under attack!! -- rank: 1000
On Sep 2, 2007, at 3:37 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I think all statements about the "shape of the left" tend to be > incorrect, in that they ignore that (if I remember correctly the > terminology from a few decades back) the _primary_ pole of politics in > the u.s. is the strength of capital. Until that strength is undermined > considerably by factors external to "the left" leftists must focus on > doing what they can to prepare and to remain prepared for that ...
Document Size: 6402
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Sep 2 17:19:58 PDT 2007
9734 [lbo-talk] FW from the NLG: Bush Plans War on Iran -- rank: 1000
On Sep 2, 2007, at 7:55 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > The Sunday Times of London is reporting that the > Pentagon has plans for three days of massive air > strikes against 1,200 targets in Iran . How definitive is this? Don't they have plans for everything? Doug
Document Size: 4979
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Sep 2 17:10:39 PDT 2007
9735 [lbo-talk] omigod! democratic capitalism under attack!! -- rank: 1000
On Sep 2, 2007, at 12:50 PM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > Wow. Someone somewhere is still interested in what Roger Kimball > has to say > about anything. I'm sure Anderson's book will take its place right > next to > Tenured Radicals as a contemporary classic. Seems to be the right is tired, spent, wad-shot. If only we could do something about it! Doug
Document Size: 5134
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Sep 2 10:16:57 PDT 2007
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