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301 [lbo-talk] the state (was: WBAI scores with holocaust denalist'spremium) -- rank: 508

Jim Devine wrote: > > > > Trotsky's statement comes straight out of standard Marxian theory. Any kind of land tenure is self-evidently based on force. Marx makes this observation in passing somewhere in the Grundrisse. And it occurs to me (nearly 50 years after seeing the movie) that this is (among many ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Mon Aug 1 17:09:22 PDT 2005

302 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

Bradford DeLong wrote: >Hasn't his father told him... > >(a) "the Jews don't vote for us. > >(b) when Ariel Sharon was Israeli Defense Minister, he made two >commitments to Ronald Reagan's personal representative Philip Habib: >(i) that Israel would observe the ceasefire Habib had negotiated >with Assad, (ii) that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 11 12:40:34 PDT 2003

303 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

>Brad DeLong wrote: > >>The fact that historically the Bush family has had... close... ties >>with the Al-Saud makes me think it unlikely. But George W. Bush may >>well be an idiot who thinks that Arik is a friendly guy who is >>fighting the same war against the PA that ...

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Author:	Bradford DeLong
Date:	Thu Apr 10 21:56:00 PDT 2003

304 [lbo-talk] WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

I'm saving the image of the us flag on SH's face-- if I can't get my hands on it. When 300 Marines get blown up in front of an embassy or something similar, I'm going to be a vile, small minded person and send their commander a ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 10 20:48:42 PDT 2003

305 [lbo-talk] WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

. Alongside what looks like a vigorous popular spontaneous prowar mobilization today in Baghdad... ^^^^^^^ CB: Probably Steven Spielberg -style special effects produced by putting cannons and missiles to people's heads. > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20030410/ff0c8709/attachment.htm>

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Date:	Thu Apr 10 20:48:35 PDT 2003

306 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

Doug wrote: > Isn't that exactly what he thinks? And isn't that one of many reasons > it's so scary he thinks he runs Iraq now? And isn't that why Tony Blair is beginning to look more like Keynes and less like Lloyd George? Ted

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Author:	Ted Winslow
Date:	Thu Apr 10 17:59:03 PDT 2003

307 RES: Successes of the antiwar movement? (Re: [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

But one of the antiwar movement's big problems is that the moral rhetoric of American peaceniks ("violence is not the answer" "no blood for oil" et cetera) does not map onto the prudential--realist--case that we should sacrifice the well-being of Iraqis to create a calmer and more ...

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Author:	Alexandre Fenelon
Date:	Thu Apr 10 17:35:24 PDT 2003

308 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

Brad DeLong wrote: >The fact that historically the Bush family has had... close... ties >with the Al-Saud makes me think it unlikely. But George W. Bush may >well be an idiot who thinks that Arik is a friendly guy who is >fighting the same war against the PA that he ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 10 17:11:11 PDT 2003

309 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

>Bradford DeLong wrote: > >>Perhaps the most depressing sign are the actions of our dear friend >>Arik, who sees the fall of Saddam Hussein as an excuse to double >>the pace of west-bank settlement. I suspect that the PA's tilt >>toward Saddam was large enough to give the neocons ...

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Author:	Brad DeLong
Date:	Thu Apr 10 16:54:48 PDT 2003

310 Successes of the antiwar movement? (Re: [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

----- Original Message ----- From: "Bradford DeLong" <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu> > But one of the antiwar movement's big problems is that the moral > rhetoric of American peaceniks ("violence is not the answer" "no > blood for oil" et cetera) does not map onto the > prudential--realist--case that we should sacrifice ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 10 16:34:06 PDT 2003

311 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

Bradford DeLong wrote: >Perhaps the most depressing sign are the actions of our dear friend >Arik, who sees the fall of Saddam Hussein as an excuse to double the >pace of west-bank settlement. I suspect that the PA's tilt toward >Saddam was large enough to give the neocons in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 10 16:27:38 PDT 2003

312 Successes of the antiwar movement? (Re: [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

>----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> > > >Nathan Newman wrote: >>Cause it's so much better to get along with each other than attract new >>folks and win. > >-This is bullshit. You're the one who's passing judgment on who the >-good guys and bad guys are ...

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Author:	Bradford DeLong
Date:	Thu Apr 10 11:23:47 PDT 2003

313 Successes of the antiwar movement? (Re: [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

>They started with two-thirds of the public polling as opposed to going to >war without UN approval. That's a strong place to start and they lost 40% >of the population initially opposed to unilateral war to now supporting >Bush's war. > >So what's the achievement? Tactical successes ...

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Author:	Bradford DeLong
Date:	Thu Apr 10 11:19:20 PDT 2003

314 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

>Bradford DeLong wrote: > >>Perhaps, but probably not. The line that signs of enthusiasm for >>Saddam's fall are simply sucking up to the new imperial power is >>going to be hard to maintain. > >Let's revisit the issue in six months. > >Doug Agreed. I still think the odds that "Iraqi ...

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Author:	Bradford DeLong
Date:	Thu Apr 10 10:37:18 PDT 2003

315 [lbo-talk] WBAI scores with holocaust denalist's premium -- rank: 508

Jim Devine wrote: > > > >My take on 9-11 is that it was an instance of blowback perpetrated > > >by angry people of color from the colonies. > > Doug: > > Isn't it interesting that the conspiracists can't admit that Arabs > > could plan 9/11? It just had to be the great white fathers ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 11 15:49:02 PDT 2005