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106 [lbo-talk] Oswald, was 'Why not Paul?' -- rank: 1000

Shane says that Kennedy 'had lost his anti-communist spine and was about to withdraw from Vietnam'. Which seems as likely as Hitler reconsidering his position on the Jews. 'I can assure you that from the President on down everybody is determined to support you and the country team in winning the war against the Viet Cong' Averell Harriman wrote to Ambassador Lodge on 14 September 1963, following his meetings with Kennedy. On 17 September Kennedy told his NSC advisers that the goal remains the wi ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Nov 29 18:09:52 PST 2011

107 [lbo-talk] Prepare for riots in euro collapse, Foreign Office warns -- rank: 1000

Doug writes: Greece dropping the euro would be really messy, including for Greeks, but it's hardly impossible. It's a sovereign country and it's not really up to its creditors whether it defaults. Default has been very common throughout history - the U.S. was practically founded on it. Germany might be happy to offload the southerners and just stick with a core of mini-Teutons and maybe France. Yanis Varoufakis says that if Greece means to exit the euro, it should default on its euro bonds and ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Nov 29 17:31:40 PST 2011

108 [lbo-talk] Davies v Assange -- rank: 1000

Watching Nick Davies' programme about wikileaks on UK's channel 4 tonight, and three times now have heard a man who looks like Edna Everage (David Leigh) and another who looks like an orange left under a sun lamp (Nick Davies) protest that Julian Assange 'was very weird'. Evidence to the Guardian journalists of just how weird Assange was included the damning allegation that he stayed up late on his laptop, and wore a leather jacket. It probably never occurred to these two that they would have lo ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Nov 29 16:53:56 PST 2011

109 [lbo-talk] Prepare for riots in euro collapse, Foreign Office warns -- rank: 1000

(British) Foreign Office hopes, more like. There is no doubt that the European Economy is in bad shape, but collapse in the Euro is a bit fantastical, and also a bit ambiguous. Of course the Euro can lose value, that is already happening (though, not it seems as much as Sterling has lost value in my recent experience after all, Sterling s value was much more inflated by the pre-2008 asset boom than was the Euro, which is lucky enough to have a very solid industrial base behind it). But there ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Nov 29 12:30:28 PST 2011

110 [lbo-talk] Why not Paul -- rank: 1000

Re. Lee Harvey Oswald: is it so unbelievable that Oswald was sincere in his wish to shoot Kennedy?

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Nov 29 06:08:05 PST 2011

111 [lbo-talk] On the British Empire -- rank: 1000

I hope the list will forgive me if I refer you to my review of two new books on the British Empire: http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/reviewofbooks_article/11661/

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Nov 25 07:10:01 PST 2011

112 [lbo-talk] Very good sentences -- rank: 1000

Quoth someome: The Mekons got > "rich and > fat and loathsome. It was hard to remember them as young rebel poets from > Leeds considering the gaseous VIP-lounge hairballs they had become." The Mekons? Is there no limit to Capitalism s powers of incorporation? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2baS7ZVmmiQ

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Nov 18 10:46:00 PST 2011

113 [lbo-talk] blame berlusconi? -- rank: 1000

Nicholas writes you've got to wonder if the economic and political situation today would of been better if Berlusconi hadn't so comprehensively smashed the anti-globalization movement in July 2001 Really? It seems a bit of a non-sequitur to me. Granted that Berlusconi's repression was severe, I think that the anti-globalisation movement was not smashed. I would have said that the anti-globalisation movement was somewhat patronised by Europe s political leaders (and also by Bill Clinton). The mo ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Nov 10 07:26:49 PST 2011

114 [lbo-talk] history of US in latin America? -- rank: 1000

Listers, is there a good book on US imperialism in Latin America, that covers the 1890-1945 period? James Heartfield

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Mar 8 16:17:23 PST 2011

115 [lbo-talk] 'anti-Zionists' (was Die Linke has the Sexiest Member of Parliament) -- rank: 1000

Michael Smith writes: I still want to hear why it's a good thing to "piss off" anti-Zionists, as our angelic friend of communism suggested here recently. I don t know about what he meant, but when I found the Palestine Solidarity Campaign picketing Jewish shops in London, I felt bound to tell them that this had been tried before... James Heartfield

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Jun 30 15:29:04 PDT 2011

116 [lbo-talk] Alex Cockburn is funny -- rank: 1000

Who says these days that in the last analysis, the only way to change the status quo and challenge the Money Power of Wall St is to overthrow the government by force? That isn t some old Trotskyist lag like Louis Proyect, dozing on the dungheap of history like Odysseus lice-ridden old hound Argos, woofing with alarm as the shadow of a new idea darkens the threshold. And what s not to like about that?

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Jul 29 05:03:29 PDT 2011

117 [lbo-talk] Obama and His Discontents -- rank: 1000

Maybe it s hard to see from over here, but notwithstanding the hype around Obamania, and taking into account the low attainment levels of contemporary political leaders, Obama does seem to stand out. Perhaps it is to do with your expectations. I never thought that he was left-wing, or even radical, but it seems to me that, in the context of these anti-political times, he was a leader of some gravitas, and if he didn t end the war in Afghanistan, he did in Iraq. Would there have been an Arab spri ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Jul 29 04:36:00 PDT 2011

118 [lbo-talk] My Aborigines' Protection Society book -- rank: 1000

Friday 29 July 2011 Humanitarian imperialism in the age of Queen Victoria The author of a new book explains how well-meaning but elitist Brits helped justified the spread of the Empire - and the uncomfortable parallels with present-day campaigners for Western intervention. James Heartfield The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge or Wills and Kate as they re better known were recently greeted by native Canadians in Charlottetown, on Prince Edward Island, Canada. One hundred and fifty-one years befo ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Jul 29 04:26:04 PDT 2011

119 [lbo-talk] a favour? -- rank: 1000

If anyone gets the Washington Post, could they keep page C8, Galleries , and post it to Patrick Hughes, Reverspective, 72 Great Eastern Street, London, EC2A 3JL?

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Jul 22 08:27:06 PDT 2011

120 [lbo-talk] Krugman: "The question then is why." -- rank: 1000

> ...and monistic systems of thought reducing all the world's > diversity into a single cause or force. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. Herakleitos

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Jul 15 14:20:21 PDT 2011