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136 [lbo-talk] two reasons to celebrate 4 July -- rank: 1000

Ravi asks about sources for the INA and independence. I found Sucheta Mahajan s Independence and Partition, sage 2000 particularly good on this. The recently published Madhusree Mukerjee, Churchill s Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II, New York, Basic Books, 2010 is fantastic. And well worth a look at is Joyce Lebra, The Indian National Army and Japan, Singapore, 2008 which gives a pro-INA account. Ahmed Akbar s biography of Nehru is good on the Congress ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 3 14:49:18 PDT 2011

137 [lbo-talk] two reasons to celebrate 4 July -- rank: 1000

Bhaskar asks of the Indian National Army: Worth celebrating? I'm not sure on the whole their collaboration with Imperial Japan can be applauded, especially given the historical context. Didn t Lenin take a lift in a sealed train? Many third world freedom fighters took advantage of the Japanese challenge to the British empire to advance their own cause, such as the Burmese and Aung San. At least one can they say were militarily insignificant. Yes, 40,000 or so men and women in the field probabl ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 3 09:31:09 PDT 2011

138 [lbo-talk] two reasons to celebrate 4 July -- rank: 1000

The Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia Independence Day 1776 Subhas Chandra Bose having arrived in Singapore assumes leadership of the Indian National Army and founds the government-in-exile, Azad Hind, 1943

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Date:	Sun Jul 3 05:56:57 PDT 2011

139 [lbo-talk] p.s. to my last post -- rank: 1000

I wrote about the way that public education in the UK had been dedicated to reinforcing class divisions, in the article Where they Teach You How To be Thick http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10254/ Doug: But what's your alternative? Child labor? As the article explains, historically speaking public education was the alternative it was brought in with the express purpose of preventing the many and growing socialist schools organised by Chartists and Ricardian Socialists. ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 3 05:03:30 PDT 2011

140 [lbo-talk] BHL re-fellates DSK -- rank: 1000

You could start at the top with BHL's apparent belief that a verdict of "not guilty" would be the equivalent of vindication and proof that no rape took place. Well, obviously you can t prove a negative. The absence of Dissenting Wren s convictions for race attacks is not proof that no such attacks took place. The presumption of innocence until guilt is proved is a great and wonderful principle, that we should all despair at the loss of. the supposition that her checkered past and lie ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 3 04:53:54 PDT 2011

141 [lbo-talk] p.s. to my last post -- rank: 1000

This is my mad screed on the evils of schooling: Where they teach you how to be thick State education has consistently encouraged working-class children to accept their lot in life. http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10254/

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Date:	Sat Jul 2 06:44:50 PDT 2011

142 [lbo-talk] How bad the recession? -- rank: 1000

I was arguing with a friend about this, and wondered what the view was here. Apart from the rhetorical arguments etc. what would listers say was the answer 1. Have living standards fallen since end of 2008? 2. By how much? 3. How does that compare with recessions of, say 1980, or 1930? 4. Is there worse to come? 5. Are there regional differences? (Partly I ask because the position in Europe seems so mixed. Peripheral countries like Ireland, Spain, Portugal and Greece have suffered very much, tho ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 2 06:29:37 PDT 2011

143 [lbo-talk] p.s. to my last post -- rank: 1000

... mind you, I would happily concede all arguments to the author of this brilliant piece: http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org/2011/06/the_sheepskin_empire_strikes_b.html

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Date:	Fri Jul 1 01:10:40 PDT 2011

144 [lbo-talk] anti-Zionism -- rank: 1000

Michael: I use anti-Zionism as a litmus test. ..For me, it really does separate the sheep from the goats. Anybody who self-identifies as a Lefty but can't come out forthrightly against the odious State of Israel is a goat, and needn't be taken seriously, Maybe so at the height of the Cold War when Israel was the central pillar of US policy in the Middle East. Nowadays anti-Zionist protests are the biggest dork-magnet going. With all the challenges to the dictatorships in the Middle East, the p ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 1 00:49:55 PDT 2011

145 [lbo-talk] copyright and declining appeal of property rights -- rank: 1000

My article in Mute: http://www.metamute.org/en/articles/copyright_and_the_declining_authority_of_private_property

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Date:	Thu Jan 27 16:25:01 PST 2011

146 [lbo-talk] Mark Ames uncorks -- rank: 1000

> Question for American liberal Pollyanna Europhiles Here's Melanie Phillips, 'Just Whose Side is Baroness Warsi on?' [a response to a speech by Britain's only Muslim in the House of Lords] http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/6633889/just-whose-side-is-baroness-warsi-on.thtml "The fact is that, while a very high proportion of Muslims are neither extreme nor violent, the evidence suggests that a terrifying number are - either supporters of Islamic terrorism (some 2000-plus accordin ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 25 16:18:28 PST 2011

147 [lbo-talk] Skocpol on the Tea Party elite/grassroots divide -- rank: 1000

Carrol: Red is code word for black Really? And here s me thinking that black was code word for red.

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Date:	Thu Dec 29 09:01:54 PST 2011

148 [lbo-talk] merry solstice -- rank: 1000

1. Tim Minchin s Praise be to Jesus banned from the Jonathan Ross Show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFdUJLebzU and: Yes we know it s Christmas say African musicians as they finally record a response to Band Aid 2. CAPE TOWN. After 28 years of silently tolerating it, a group of unemployed local musicians have joined forces to release a Christmas single, entitled Yes we do, in response to the Bob Geldof inspired Band Aid song, Do they know it s Christmas? . http://www.hayibo.com/yes-we- ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 23 07:52:17 PST 2011

149 [lbo-talk] Happy Xmas, wretched of the Earth -- rank: 1000

Ethical gifts for Christmas? No thanks. By Saleha Ali Will you be buying so-called ethical gifts for loved ones this Christmas? The range of goods competing for the shoppers conscience has never been greater. Take the charity Oxfam, for example. For a tenner you can buy hygiene hints for people in developing countries. For £13, you can buy a rubbish job , teaching slum dwellers how to make money from recycling rubbish. And for £25 there s the best seller the Goat (and, for a limited t ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 22 06:03:19 PST 2011

150 [lbo-talk] Workers of Europe unite, you've only Euro chains to lose -- rank: 1000

Ken writes: The political stripe of whomever is in power does not seem to make much difference. Both in Greece and now in Italy politicians have been replaced by technocrats. But if the first was true, then why would the second happen? It is reasonable to say that the reformist politicians were poor defenders of workers interests, but too much to say that their being forced out of office and replaced by unelected experts was a question of no weight.

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Date:	Thu Dec 22 01:32:17 PST 2011