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9946 [lbo-talk] Che: the New Yorker's view -- rank: 1000

On Oct 15, 2007, at 3:06 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Who's worse, Bono or Sting? Bono. He's more sanctimonious, and U2 is awful. The Police - not my favorite, but there are worse, even if they were a CIA plot by The Brothers Copeland to neutralize punk. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 15 12:21:45 PDT 2007

9947 [lbo-talk] Fw: Can Politics Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 15, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > It's important to get this right: I don't 'defend' the Iranian > leadership. > I support the Iranian left and its working class. I do, however, > think that > efforts to be clear about the sources and extent of its obvious > shortcomings > are valuable. The Islamic Republic is "a vile dictatorship", the > Bollinger > neocons* will scream, and in reply, we should that that it is not a > dictatorship, but ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 15 12:06:26 PDT 2007

9948 [lbo-talk] Can Politics Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 15, 2007, at 1:43 AM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > Of course we should argue that as a starting point, but you know as > well as > I do that this won't decide the propaganda struggle. And saying the Iranian regime isn't really so bad - or, more ambitiously, is something of which Gramsci would have approved - will decide the propaganda struggle? It might, actually - just not the way you or I would like. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 15 04:07:44 PDT 2007

9949 [lbo-talk] Che: the New Yorker's view -- rank: 1000

The New Yorker - October 22, 2007 <http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2007/10/22/071022ta_talk_widdicombe> Dept. of Hoopla Having One for Che by Lizzie Widdicombe The fortieth anniversary of Che Guevara's death went by quietly last week unless you count a party at the Brecht Forum, in the West Village, where skirmish erupted between the organizers over mojito pricing. Colin Robinson, Brecht Forum board member and an editor at Scribner, found himself on th losing side of a philosophical rift ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 15 04:02:58 PDT 2007

9950 [lbo-talk] Fidel's advice to Chavez and Morales -- rank: 1000

Speaking of Castro and Che, at a Che retrospective at the Brecht Forum in NYC last Tuesday, Tariq Ali made the point that Castro has advised Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales "not to do what [he] did," and instead to look for electoral approval of their agendas. Look for a writeup of the event - and the after-party held up the block at the lounge Socialista - in The New Yorker this week. Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 14 16:39:13 PDT 2007

9951 [lbo-talk] Fidel calls into Chavez' TV show -- rank: 1000

Cuba's Castro calls in to Chavez TV show By Nelson Acosta Sun Oct 14, 4:06 PM ET SANTA CLARA, Cuba (Reuters) - Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro looked frail in a video shown on Sunday, but his voice was strong when he taunted the United States later in a live telephone call to his Venezuelan ally President Hugo Chavez broadcast from Cuba. It was the first time Cubans have heard Castro speak live since he handed over power in July 2006 to his brother after intestinal surgery. He has not appe ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 14 16:35:03 PDT 2007

9952 [lbo-talk] Can Politics Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 14, 2007, at 5:19 PM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > And, of course, remember > that formally, all bombing campaigns are directed against *regimes* > and not > *peoples*. The right has proven very adept at manipulating the > language of > human rights and internationalism to delegitimise regimes which do not > accept US tutelage, and so when leftists defend aspects of the Islamic > Republic from what they think is unfair obloquy, it should be seen > as a > natural an ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 14 14:32:22 PDT 2007

9953 [lbo-talk] Can Politics Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 14, 2007, at 1:06 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I wish I could work out a full version of my critique of negativism -- > expressing one's "taste" by focusing on what one disapproves of, > because > I think it is relevant here. You should look up Dennis Perrin's > account > of his daughter being embarassed when he picked her up at school > because > he was playing Springsteen on the car's audio. It just wasn't "cool." > That is Doug's attitude on th ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 14 13:48:58 PDT 2007

9954 [lbo-talk] Dumbing Down (was Can Politics Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 14, 2007, at 3:12 PM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > I expect there's a big difference between the deliberately insouciant > language used by Doug in this context and the deliberate > infantilisation of > discourse in US politics as a whole. I should hope so, and appreciate the distinction. Microsoft Word regularly tells me you need 14 grades of education to read my prose. But, turning to more important matters, I doubt there ever was a time when U.S. political discourse wasn't infa ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 14 13:40:15 PDT 2007

9955 [lbo-talk] Fw: Dabashi (Was: Can Politics Be Liberated from ...) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 14, 2007, at 1:14 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > A quick skim of the selected > newspaper essays and other published writings on it might persuade > Michael > of the pitfalls of rushing to judgement. Hey, he couldn't read the whole piece for passing judgment on it - you expect him to familiarize himself with the author too? Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 14 13:31:08 PDT 2007

9956 [lbo-talk] Can Politics Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 14, 2007, at 12:34 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > Why is it evasive or dishonest to resist feeding the prejudices of the > crowd? Why do we have to reinforce the morbid sense of moral > superiority that people in the Western world "naturally" feel towards > Persians, Arabs, Latin Americans, etc.? This is an insult to the thousands, maybe millions, of Persians, Arabs, Latin Americans, etc., who've been jailed and/or killed fighting against their oppressive states. And wh ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 14 13:27:52 PDT 2007

9957 [lbo-talk] Dumbing Down (was Can Politics Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 14, 2007, at 12:23 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > On 10/13/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> call Saddam a "monster" >> the Iranian regime sucks > > I'm struck by the dumbing down of political vocabulary on the Left: > Saddam is a "monster"; "the Iranian regime sucks"; and Lee Bollinger > is "rude."* > > These are children's vocabulary. We can't all be as sophisticated as you. Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 14 09:44:22 PDT 2007

9958 [lbo-talk] up close & personal with the reluctant fundamentalist -- rank: 1000

[Carl Remick enthused about this book a while back...] New York Times - October 13, 2007 <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/13/world/europe/13hamid.html?_r=1> A Pakistani-American Voice in Search of a True Home By JANE PERLEZ LONDON WHEN Mohsin Hamid embarked on an 18-city book tour across the United States, he found readers receptive to his latest novel. It is the story of a young Pakistani Princeton graduate who feels empathy with America, but becomes so disillusioned by the aftermath of ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 14 07:11:49 PDT 2007

9959 [lbo-talk] celebrity: the universal equivalent -- rank: 1000

[From Page Six's "Sightings" feature.] WALTER Cronkite and Joanna Simon at Elaine's with Haile Selassie's granddaughter and Kayce Jennings, Peter Jennings' widow.

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9960 [lbo-talk] latest Greenberg -- rank: 1000

[Interesting take on Congress' low ratings from a leading Democratic functionary.] <http://www.gqrr.com/index.php?ID=2082> NPR: New and Emerging Issues Widen the Deomcrats' 2008 Lead Greenberg Quinlan Rosner / Public Opinion Strategies Executive Summary As anger with the country s direction grows worse, the evolving issues debated in the Congress and in the presidential primaries and fought out with President Bush are virtually all pushing the country further into the arms of the Democ ...

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