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9886 [lbo-talk] Why I Skip Anti-Globalization Protests -- rank: 1000

On Oct 22, 2007, at 10:49 AM, Mr. WD wrote: > As far as I can tell, the DC protests this past weekend were a > complete and total bust It's an interesting conjuncture, as they say in NLR - the IMF and World Bank are both discredited among the bourgeoisie, and flailing about without a definable mission. Seems like the youth are fighting the last war. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 22 08:49:25 PDT 2007

9887 [lbo-talk] Marjane Satrapi: Revolutionary Spirit -- rank: 1000

On Oct 21, 2007, at 10:46 PM, ravi wrote: > I disagree. A lot is already being said for bourgeois wealth and > liberties. By bourgeois people and their running dogs. Not by critics of bourgeois society. I'm an old-fashioned Marxist about this sort of thing. Doug

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9888 [lbo-talk] Marjane Satrapi: Revolutionary Spirit -- rank: 1000

On Oct 21, 2007, at 3:59 PM, joanna wrote: > I read the inteview Yoshie sent along and found Satrapi's observations > quite sensible. I would prefer to discuss those remarks on their own > merit without dragging Satrapi's current residence into it. Nothing Satrapi said made her residence relevant - it was Yoshie's typically preachy and annoying headnote that did. Years ago, I had a discussion with some woman at the Brecht Forum who went on and on about how wonderful Africa is and how ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 21 18:23:52 PDT 2007

9889 [lbo-talk] fight within Respect -- rank: 1000

On Oct 21, 2007, at 2:45 PM, Russell Grinker wrote: > One would surely need to ask about the political basis on which > such gains were made? Word has it that the Respect coalition was > predicated on a fairly radical shift to the right by the SWP and an > adaptation to the politics of coalition partner the Muslim > Association of Britain (MAB) - a group who see homosexuality as a > sexual perversion . > > The MAB identifies unambiguously with the Brotherhood, a moderate ...

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9890 [lbo-talk] Marjane Satrapi: Revolutionary Spirit -- rank: 1000

On Oct 21, 2007, at 9:48 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > If you have a lot of > formal education or a great deal of uncommon talents like Marjane > Satrapi's artistic gift, you are likely to make much more money in the > West than in Iran or anywhere else in the South for that matter. So, in other words, the materialism of the West - which Satrapi denounces from Paris, the echt cosmopolitan city, and you denounce from Columbus, the echt middle-American city - has charms that trump t ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 21 07:23:54 PDT 2007

9891 [lbo-talk] fight within Respect -- rank: 1000

[posted to Lou Proyect's Marxmail - wuzzup, Lenin's Tomb?] Subject: [Marxism] The fight inside Respect From: Ethan Young <ethanyoung at earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:29:11 -0400 (GMT-04:00) I call readers' attention to the current fight in the UK electoral group Respect. The group is the most successful attempt at a left alternative to Labour, having elected George Galloway, an outspoken critic of the war and defender of Muslim communities, to Parliament. The group also incl ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 21 06:58:54 PDT 2007

9892 [lbo-talk] Marjane Satrapi: Revolutionary Spirit -- rank: 1000

On Oct 21, 2007, at 8:54 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Persepolis cartoonist Marjane Satrapi, unlike typical Westerners and > West-stricken Iranians, doesn't think that the so-called "Western > Civilization," its consumerist individualism, and its sexism are > superior to Iran, its Islam, and its patriarchy. > [Q] Why do you live in Paris? So why doesn't she live in Tehran? Lots of female solidarity there, I hear. Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 21 06:19:49 PDT 2007

9893 [lbo-talk] Hillary clarifies her position on Iran -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1007/ Clinton_plays_defense_on_Iran.html> Clinton plays defense on Iran [Ben Smith] Hillary Clinton has mailed an unusual, direct defense of her stance toward Iran to Iowa voters, suggesting that she thinks her tough talk toward the country threatens to alienate some Democrats, and that her rivals' suggestions that she is too hawkish on Iran may be having an effect. The letter is included in a mailing that advertises an "important letter fr ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 20 19:55:45 PDT 2007

9894 [lbo-talk] more from the racist imperialists at AI... -- rank: 1000

<http://web.amnesty.org/library/eng-isr/index> [1] Showing results 1 - 31 out of 535 21/09/2007 Israel: Fear for Safety (URGENT ACTIONS) MDE 15/062/2007 05/09/2007 Israel/Occupied PalestinianTerritories: Cutting vital supplies to Gaza would amount to collective punishment (NEWS) MDE 15/060/2007 14/08/2007 Israel/Occupied Territories: Further information on Health Concern (URGENT ACTIONS) MDE 15/058/2007 14/08/2007 Israel/Occupied Territories: Further information on house demolition / ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 20 16:23:09 PDT 2007

9895 [lbo-talk] the racists at AI say... -- rank: 1000

http://web.amnesty.org/library/eng-usa/index Showing results 1 - 31 out of 1723 18/10/2007 USA: Pause for thought. Another lethal injection halted by US Supreme Court (REPORTS) AMR 51/161/2007 17/10/2007 USA: One year with the Military Commissions Act; four years without a lawyer; six years without justice (REPORTS) AMR 51/160/2007 16/10/2007 USA (Nevada): Further information on Death penalty: William Patrick Castillo (m) (URGENT ACTIONS) AMR 51/157/2007 10/10/2007 Amnesty International r ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 20 16:20:13 PDT 2007

9896 [lbo-talk] Friedman, Free Market and Freedom -- rank: 1000

On Oct 20, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Robert Wrubel wrote: > What were these "common rooms"? As I recall there > were dining halls, quadrangles, and a town commons > next to the freshman campus, on which statues of > people like Nathan Hale stood. The common rooms were just outside the dining halls in the residential colleges. Leather wing chairs, fireplaces, old heavy wooden tables - kind of like an old WASP club. There's a replica of that Nathan Hale statue in front of CIA hea ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 20 16:11:29 PDT 2007

9897 [lbo-talk] Dumbing down (part 2) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 20, 2007, at 3:22 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > The ideology that it cannot do without is one > that would have us believe that people of the South need help of > people of the North _but not vice versa_ -- a fundamentally racist, > imperialist ideology. Yeah, forget all that stuff that Amnesty has done about capital punishment, mass imprisonment, and torture practiced by the U.S. It's just a distraction from their racist, imperialist mission. Doug

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Date:	Sat Oct 20 16:09:28 PDT 2007

9898 [lbo-talk] the New Dark Ages -- rank: 1000

On Oct 20, 2007, at 2:27 PM, Chris Doss quoted: > Watching tanks rumble down the street, > Manhattanites were amazed to discover that the Seventh > Regiment Armory on Park Avenue really is an armoury Yeah. It was built to bust strikes and otherwise repress the 19th century working class. The 7th regiment was staffed by the upper classes, who stayed in posh hotels when they went off on maneuvers, and several of the rooms are by Tiffany. Blackstone boss Steve Schwarzman held his 60th ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 20 11:50:41 PDT 2007

9899 [lbo-talk] living paycheck to paycheck gets harder -- rank: 1000

Living paycheck to paycheck gets harder By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO, AP Business Writer Sat Oct 20, 6:10 AM ET NEW YORK - The calculus of living paycheck to paycheck in America is getting harder. What used to last four days might last half that long now. Pay the gas bill, but skip breakfast. Eat less for lunch so the kids can have a healthy dinner. ADVERTISEMENT Across the nation, Americans are increasingly unable to stretch their dollars to the next payday as they juggle higher rent, food and ene ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 20 10:27:46 PDT 2007

9900 [lbo-talk] the New Dark Ages -- rank: 1000

[sign up for the Human Events mailing list and you get this, along with Ann Coulter's columns] Dear Fellow Conservative: Someday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer from a Muslim muezzin. Millions of Europeans already do. And liberals will still tell you that "diversity is our strength" -- while Talibanic enforcers cruise our cities burning books and barber shops... the Supreme Court decides sharia law doesn't violate the "separation of church and state" ... an ...

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