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3826 [lbo-talk] "Stay the Course" -- rank: 149

Yoshie makes some good points. We can all agree, I think, that empires always prefer peace and stability - but only on their terms, and where necessary after provoking conflict and disorder. In addition to the factors enumerated by Yoshie affecting the US's imperial reach - military and financial resources, strength of ...

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Author:	Marvin Gandall
Date:	Sat May 28 07:24:14 PDT 2005

3827 [lbo-talk] "Stay the Course" -- rank: 149

Chris wrote: >>Washington's goal is to pacify Iraq so as to set up a new >>pro-Washington Iraqi regime, protected by pro-Washington Iraqi >>military and police forces, whose economic and geopolitical >>interests would more or less coincide with Washington's and >>restructure Iraq's politics and economy accordingly. That ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat May 28 04:11:11 PDT 2005

3828 [lbo-talk] "Stay the Course" (Empires' Development Economics) -- rank: 149

Chris wrote: >>Who said that such a regime would be viable or that Washington >>could pacify Iraq? If Washington had wanted a stable Iraq, it >>would have lifted its economic sanctions on it and encouraged >>American investors to compete with French, Russian, and other >>investors for a chance to invest in ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat May 28 03:33:57 PDT 2005

3829 [lbo-talk] Empires' Development Economics (Coming Around to His Father's Thinking) -- rank: 149

Chris wrote: >>The US power elite, unlike men who presided over the creation of >>the British Empire, have never been interested in developing >>settler colonies (of which North America was once a shining >>example), so > >I wasn't thinking of the Colonies. I was thinking if places like >India, which the ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat May 28 02:00:51 PDT 2005

3830 [lbo-talk] Coming Around to His Father's Thinking (A new turn in US military strategy in Iraq?) -- rank: 149

Carrol wrote: >Agreed with the last point. But having one's head on straight and >being both intelligent and well-meaning do not guarantee >correctness. I would tend to classify CP under that very common type >since Europe began to expand over the globe: the traveller who >spends a few weeks ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri May 27 11:00:25 PDT 2005

3831 [lbo-talk] Organizing Death Squads -- from El Salvador to Iraq (A new turn in US military strategy in Iraq?) -- rank: 149

>Marvin Gandall wrote: >>A report in the Asia Times asserts that the US is abandoning its >>effort to build a conventional army in Iraq in favour of irregular >>militas operating under direct US command against the >>anti-occupation resistance. > >One possibility. This could be a euphemism for something like the ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri May 27 09:00:51 PDT 2005

3832 [lbo-talk] Whom Do Iraqi Guerrillas Target Most Often? (A new turn in US military strategy in Iraq?) -- rank: 149

James Bennet writes: "They [insurgents in Iraq] have put forward no single charismatic leader, developed no alternative government or political wing, displayed no intention of amassing territory to govern now. . . . He [Steven Metz, of the Army War College Strategic Studies Institute] warned that this hydra-headed quality could make the insurgents ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu May 26 12:15:06 PDT 2005

3833 [lbo-talk] Moyers: Take Public Broadcasting Back -- rank: 149

I went looking for some link Pugliese posted on Carl Davidson and found this speech by Moyers. It was given in St. Louis on May 16th. I thought it was good enough to post instead of the link which is: http://freepress.net/news/8120 CG -------------- Take Public Broadcasting Back - Bill ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Sun May 22 15:13:51 PDT 2005

3834 [lbo-talk] Washington "Painted Itself into a Corner" over Iran? -- rank: 149

Chris wrote: >--- Michael Pugliese <michael.098762001 at gmail.com> wrote: >>Re: Arnaud de Borchgrave >>Now that is a vicious mofo. Agit-prop for the Contras and attacks >>ala Robert Moss on the left Institute for Policy Studies. Attacks >>on the neo-cons FROM THEIR RIGHT, like paleo-con Paul Craig Roberts ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun May 22 09:05:51 PDT 2005

3835 [lbo-talk] Popinjays and Wide Boys -- rank: 149

Lance Murdoch lancemurdoch at gmail.com, Sat May 21 08:55:25 PDT 2005: <snip> >The liberal Michael Lewis followed the various Republican >presidential candidates around in 1996, and found Patrick Buchanan >relatively one of the more personable, good-humoured and honest >candidates. And in fact, Buchanan rarely engages in ad ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat May 21 09:25:43 PDT 2005

3836 [lbo-talk] Stay Out of the Labor Market (An Appeal to the U.S. Antiwar Movement) -- rank: 149

Chuck0 chuck at mutualaid.org, Wed May 18 21:42:05 PDT 2005, [lbo-talk] An Appeal to the U.S. Antiwar Movement: >snitsnat wrote: >>you're long-term unemployed? and you're asking this? Or, are you >>saying you don't have to be long-term unemployed? it's your ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri May 20 16:38:12 PDT 2005

3837 [lbo-talk] The Long Day -- rank: 149

>[lbo-talk] FATAL WEDDING RYE >Tom Walker timework at telus.net >Tue May 17 18:38:05 PDT 2005 > >Leigh Meyers wrote, > > >Ergot Poisoning. Ergot grows on rye. > >It causes delirium tremens, convulsions and death. > >Interesting speculation considering the trippiness of the drawing. >Rye is also a type of whiskey ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri May 20 13:06:19 PDT 2005

3838 [lbo-talk] Getting Fired for Not Making Trouble (An Appeal to the U.S. Antiwar Movement) -- rank: 149

>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > >>As a matter of fact, almost all US workers are let go today not >>because of industrial and other political actions but because of >>dearth of them > >The US labor market is very volatile In an average year the US >economy both creates and destroys something like ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri May 20 12:19:42 PDT 2005

3839 [lbo-talk] Getting Fired for Not Making Trouble -- rank: 149

jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net, Thu May 19 12:40:48 PDT 2005: >How many workers get fired shortly after they begin approaching >their co-workers and asking about possible union support? Those >numbers do not show up anywhere so no one has any idea how often >that ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu May 19 19:18:32 PDT 2005

3840 [lbo-talk] Getting Fired for Not Making Trouble -- rank: 149

snitsnat snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com, Thu May 19 11:05:00 PDT 2005: >But, you two go right ahead and wag your fingers at everyone, >telling them their fears are unwarranted. I clearly said that "[g]etting fired for industrial and other political actions is a real possibility, and union ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu May 19 12:24:25 PDT 2005