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4141 [lbo-talk] Mr. Churchill -- rank: 149

>Carrol Cox wrote: > >>As Yoshie has argued, that makes pretty bad politics -- but not I think >>as bad politics as the somewhat sticky moralism or almost-Victorian >>purism of those on this list who are hastening to prove their purity by >>damning Churchill as "crap" or "as bad as the ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Feb 4 18:32:46 PST 2005

4142 [lbo-talk] Mr. Churchill -- rank: 149

Michael Dawson MDawson at pdx.edu, Fri Feb 4 14:14:23 PST 2005: > > We must refute Ward Churchill, but we had better do so in practice, >> by actually putting a stop to US imperialism and attacks on civil >> liberties, not by showing that our sensibilities are more refined >> than his ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Feb 4 14:39:46 PST 2005

4143 [lbo-talk] Horowitz's "Academic Bill of Rights" May Get Adopted in Ohio -- rank: 149

Ward Churchill may lose his job despite his tenure, and David Horowitz's "Academic Bill of Rights [sic]" may get adopted in Ohio. See the text of the bill at <http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_SB_24>. <blockquote>Bill Targets Political Bias at Colleges By Kurt ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Feb 4 12:15:01 PST 2005

4144 [lbo-talk] Mr. Churchill -- rank: 149

>Why? If, say, a bus driver drives his bus recklessly, or if a >doctor performs a crappy procedure in a reckless manner - most >people would agree that these workers should face a disciplinary or >even legal action for their miscounduct. Why are the symbol >manipulating professions different? > >I am just ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Feb 4 11:24:35 PST 2005

4145 [lbo-talk] Mr. Churchill -- rank: 149

> >It is not disputed that the Pentagon was a military target, or that >>a CIA office was situated in the World Trade Center. Following the >>logic by which U.S. Defense Department spokespersons have >>consistently sought to justify target selection in places like >>Baghdad, this placement of an element of ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Feb 4 11:16:13 PST 2005

4146 [lbo-talk] shooting people is fun! -- rank: 149

Doug posted: >Marine General Counseled for Comments > >Associated Press Feb.3 2005 >1 hour, 10 minutes ago > >WASHINGTON - The commandant of the Marine Corps said Thursday he has >counseled a senior subordinate for saying publicly, "It's fun to >shoot some people." > >Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis, an infantry officer who ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Feb 3 16:12:22 PST 2005

4147 [lbo-talk] Two Kinds of Anti-Americanism: Anti-"Americanism" and "Anti-America"-ism -- rank: 149

>[lbo-talk] Re: "Anti-Americanism": define, please >Michael Pugliese michael098762001 at earthlink.net >Thu Feb 3 12:07:06 PST 2005 > >Reminder, from the only period the CPUSA had a productive >contribution to the US Left, "Communism is twentieth century >Americanism." >John>...Re: "Anti-Americanism": define, please... >I'll take ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Feb 3 12:48:39 PST 2005

4148 [lbo-talk] Mr. Churchill -- rank: 149

John Lacny wrote: >The hounding of Ward Churchill is nothing short of real McCarthyism, >with the sole qualifier that "McCarthyism" is itself something of a >misnomer (since red-baiting, including in academia, predated >McCarthy). They're starting with Churchill because he's an easy >target, having really said some egregious and ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Feb 3 09:20:50 PST 2005

4149 [lbo-talk] Re: brilliant billionaire -- rank: 149

... wow!... this guy really is a dickhead... 26 million for nader would have been a much better investment... fs

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Author:	frank scott
Date:	Tue Feb 1 16:26:53 PST 2005

4150 [lbo-talk] U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote -- rank: 149

Mike Larkin posted: >"U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote >Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror >by Peter Grose, Special to the New York Times <snip> >http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_01/005556.php Michael Pollak posted earlier: >http://politicalwire.com/archives/2005/01/31/flashback.html > ><quote> > >United ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Feb 1 07:56:51 PST 2005

4151 [lbo-talk] Blog of deceased US troop in Iraq -- rank: 149

... picture of Woody Guthrie there. His interests listed include: Ralph Nader, Buddhism, beer, Michel Foucault, Ginsberg, The Pixies, "historical cultural analysis ...

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Author:	B.
Date:	Fri Aug 26 08:30:22 PDT 2005

4152 [lbo-talk] Chavez offers Cheap Gas, FREE Healthcare to Poor Americans! -- rank: 149

... must > > be said that he understands Americans better than Ralph Nader (who > > would go for free health care but not cheap ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Aug 25 12:06:13 PDT 2005

4153 [lbo-talk] Chavez offers Cheap Gas, FREE Healthcare to Poor Americans! -- rank: 149

... must > be said that he understands Americans better than Ralph Nader (who > would go for free health care but not cheap ...

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Author:	Jim Devine
Date:	Thu Aug 25 06:33:58 PDT 2005

4154 [lbo-talk] Chavez offers Cheap Gas, FREE Healthcare to Poor Americans! -- rank: 149

Mike posted: > "HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, > popular with the poor at home, offered on Tuesday to help needy > Americans with cheap supplies of gasoline. > > "We want to sell gasoline and heating fuel directly to poor > communities in the United States," the populist leader told > reporters at the end ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Aug 25 01:43:58 PDT 2005

4155 [lbo-talk] LaRouche & Lane -- rank: 149

I just found out that Ambrose Lane, now interim chair of Pacifica, gave a real softball interview to Lyndon LaRouche on WPFW (the Pacifica outlet in DC) on October 1, 2004. Lyndon liked it so much he put it up on his website: <http://www.larouchepac.com/pages/interviews_files/2004 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 9 05:43:18 PDT 2005