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4426 [lbo-talk] Political Cartography -- rank: 149

Marvin Gandall marvgandall at rogers.com, Sat Nov 20 19:38:06 PST 2004: >I respect Stan Goff, but the topic was not "should America go >communist?" nor was he defending public ownership of the means of >production; he wouldn't have won that debate. He was talking to a >university ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Nov 20 20:08:03 PST 2004

4427 [lbo-talk] We must get out of Iraq - now -- rank: 149

We must get out of Iraq - now by Jack Lessenberry > 11/17/2004 http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=6984 We lost the real battle of Fallujah last week, a little more convincingly than we have lost other battles in the insane war our government is waging in Iraq ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Sat Nov 20 17:12:37 PST 2004

4428 [lbo-talk] Political Cartography -- rank: 149

>Well, "hi, I'm a liberal" seems like the kiss of death in American >politics, so why not try "hi, I'm a communist" and see how that >works out? > >MG Stan Goff says that "claim[ing his own] politics up front" worked for him when he had to debate ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Nov 20 14:08:33 PST 2004

4429 [lbo-talk] I Heart Huckabees -- rank: 149

... day. :-> -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: <http://montages.blogspot.com/> * Greens for Nader: <http://greensfornader.net/> * Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Nov 20 13:31:57 PST 2004

4430 [lbo-talk] I Heart Huckabees -- rank: 149

... 2004). -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: <http://montages.blogspot.com/> * Greens for Nader: <http://greensfornader.net/> * Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Nov 20 06:08:48 PST 2004

4431 [lbo-talk] Faith at Work -- rank: 149

>washingtonpost.com >Prayer Breakfast Draws Strong Tech Turnout >By Shannon Henry >Thursday, November 18, 2004; Page E01 > >The guest speakers appearing before a sold-out breakfast of 600 tech >executives usually hold forth on such topics as cable communications >and early-stage venture funding. But on this morning in the ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Nov 19 14:43:58 PST 2004

4432 [lbo-talk] End of Black Reconstruction and the Paris Commune -- rank: 149

Louis Proyect wrote: >Nearly everything I read persuaded me that the Northern and Southern >bourgeoisie saw eye to eye when it came to putting an end to >Reconstruction. Basically, the retreat was part of an overall shift >to the right under the impact of a rising tide in the class struggle ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Nov 19 09:10:07 PST 2004

4433 [lbo-talk] End of Black Reconstruction -- rank: 149

Charles wrote: >I don't think the federal U.S. should be excused. As the discussion >on this thread shows, there was a crime of omission on the part of >the feds to allow fascist terror in this period. The largest >sections of the KKK were in Indiana at some point ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 19 07:40:28 PST 2004

4434 [lbo-talk] End of Black Reconstruction -- rank: 149

Nathan wrote: >>It wasn't the Constitution and the Supreme Court that destroyed >>Black Reconstruction. Abraham Lincoln didn't let the Constitution >>or the Supreme Court or anything else stop him from waging the war >>as he wanted. Had the North had the political will to do so, it >>would have ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Nov 18 21:52:47 PST 2004

4435 [lbo-talk] End of Black Reconstruction -- rank: 149

Nathan wrote: >From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> > >Nathan wrote: >>The overall theme is that the present court is using judicial review >>to attack a range of federal civil rights laws and are replicating >>the history from the 19th century when the courts killed >>Reconstruction. > >-Nathan, you draw a ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Nov 18 07:04:18 PST 2004

4436 [lbo-talk] Politics of Abortion (Al From Beats Tambourine) -- rank: 149

>On Nov 17, 2004, at 7:42 PM, Jon Johanning wrote: > >>The socialist left has presumably already figured out its answer to >>the issue of abortion rights -- it's in favor of them. But the hard >>Christian right has already gotten its answer from God: it's >>agin'em, and ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Nov 18 01:21:58 PST 2004

4437 [lbo-talk] End of Black Reconstruction (was Why I Hate Courts -- or how judicial review destroyed the country) -- rank: 149

Nathan wrote: >Over time, I've discussed why I think progressive use of the courts >is dangerous and why judicial review has historically been one of >the worst evils of our country's history. > >I thought I would distribute a link to a new paper I co-wrote for >the Brennan ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Nov 17 16:01:21 PST 2004

4438 [lbo-talk] Fallujah: a picture of the triumph -- rank: 149

Doug wrote: >>You and Parenti were wrong, horribly wrong. That kind of false >>dependence on passive opinion (as opposed to action) in Iraq and of >>the ability of left-liberals to influence the u.s. government to do >>good things seriously fucks up left thought and action. > >That wasn't our ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Nov 17 15:02:37 PST 2004

4439 [lbo-talk] Fallujah: a picture of the triumph -- rank: 149

Doug wrote: >>My arguments at the time (and the arguments of 10s of millions >>around the world, was (1) that a U.S. occupation would turn out to >>be a disaster (prediction confirmed) > >I thought from the first that the invasion of Iraq would be a crime >and a disaster. But ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 17 14:39:24 PST 2004

4440 [lbo-talk] Fallujah: a picture of the triumph -- rank: 149

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > > >Carrol Cox wrote: > > > > >Doug Henwood wrote: > >>>Independent (London) - November 15, 2004 > >>>A city lies in ruins, along with the lives of the wretched survivors > >>>By Michael Georgy in Fallujah and Kim Sengupta > > > > > >Wow! That will sure get the water running. > >> > >>Carrol > >> > >>Iraqi public opinion Thu, 28 Aug 2003 ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Wed Nov 17 09:40:25 PST 2004