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1 [lbo-talk] Born in the eye of the FBI - red diapers -- rank: 1000

>It is 50 years since Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed as spies. >Their son Robert was just one of the 'red diaper' babies - children of >communists, targets of McCarthy. Gary Younge tracks them down Guardian article http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,970822,00.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20030608/f2bf3301/attachment.htm>

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Date:	Sun Jun 8 02:27:48 PDT 2003

2 [lbo-talk] characteristics of fascism -- rank: 1000

Doug wrote: >That's just as unhelpful as reckless deployment of the word fascist. >It's as if the struggles of the last several centuries for civil >liberties and the right to vote don't count for anything. And it's as >if nothing is being lost by their relentless erosion either. There >are a lot of ways in which the American form of capitalist repression >is different from the European. Britain fighting the IRA, France the >Algerians, Spain the Basques, Italy the Red Brigad ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 7 15:45:54 PDT 2003

3 [lbo-talk] "I was silly to trust America" Max Hastings -- rank: 1000

But the damage may already have been done. Read this article by this decent British pillar of British conservatism and imperialism, in yesterday's Sunday Telegraph. This is more threatening for Blair and the alliance with Bush than any number of embarrassed left wing Labour MP's. It probably indicates that the Conservatives would support Robin Cook's call for an enquiry. It may be very difficult to Tony Blair to resist this. Chris Burford ______ I was silly to trust America By Max Hastings (File ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 1 23:57:13 PDT 2003

4 [lbo-talk] Kristol rushes to defend Wolfowitz -- rank: 1000

"Let's be clear: Though Paul Wolfowitz has friends and admirers at The Weekly Standard, we would be surprised and more than a little distressed had he actually said what he's supposed to have said in this instance." http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/757wzfan.asp

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Date:	Sun Jun 1 23:52:17 PDT 2003

5 [lbo-talk] The lies that led us into war ... -- rank: 1000

>Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 00:19:29 -0500 >From: steve philion <philion at hawaii.edu> >To: lbo <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> >Subject: [lbo-talk] The lies that led us into war ... >Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org > >http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=411300 > >The lies that led us into war ... >Glen Rangwala shows how the UK and the US manipulated UN reports - and >conjured an anthrax dump from thin air >01 June 2003 > &g ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 1 10:28:12 PDT 2003

6 [lbo-talk] Kenya to sue UK for human rights abuse -- rank: 1000

>[lbo-talk] Kenya to sue UK for human rights abuse > >From: Ulhas Joglekar (uvj at vsnl.com) >Date: Mon May 19 2003 - 11:39:36 EDT Hurrah ! This will give me particular satisfaction. I remember as an English boy puzzling over the headlines which never really made sense. And let me take the opportunity of thanking Ulhas for the high quality of the selection of the items which he forwards to this list. I can not read them all, but everyone I read, seems to me to give a perspective that ...

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Date:	Mon May 19 11:02:54 PDT 2003

7 [lbo-talk] defending democracy from the risk of fascism -- rank: 1000

It is probably foolish of me to appear to intervene in a thread in which I do not fully understand the context in which others perceive it, but broadly I think one thing the 30's taught us was to give higher prominence to the fight to defend democratic rights in the struggle for socialism. This is so even when they are formal bourgeois democratic rights, although it would be better if the struggle can convert them into social democratic rights bearing in mind all the rights of working people. Th ...

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Date:	Sun May 18 05:13:28 PDT 2003

8 [lbo-talk] right wing Jewish lobby -- rank: 1000

BBC2 Newsnight has just run an in depth analysis of the success of the Jewish lobby in the US and discussed why it is more right wing than the majority of Jewish voters. And also some points of vulnerability. Although the information is presumably known in the USA, this may be a useful compilation of sources in a neutral venue. AIPAC, Michael Hoenlein, and the hopelessness of the "right of return" for Palestinian refugees [the largest group of refugees in the world] Last third of video ...

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Date:	Wed May 7 16:13:53 PDT 2003

9 [lbo-talk] $:E 1.12 -- rank: 1000

About the summer of last year Soros predicted a fall of 30% in the dollar. We are now approaching that. Will the US now stabilise at this position, having got the advantage of lower export prices? And will the loss of inward investment stop, now that the fall is near completion, with new investment in the USA is more likely to appreciate than depreciate? Chris Burford London

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Date:	Mon May 5 23:55:08 PDT 2003

10 [lbo-talk] America the omnipotent? -- rank: 1000

>From: Carl Remick (carlremick at hotmail.com) >Date: Sat Apr 26 2003 - 12:01:53 EDT > > >New York Times Week in Review > >April 27, 2003 > >American Power Moves Beyond the Mere Super > >By GREGG EASTERBROOK > ><http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/27/weekinreview/27EAST.html> >As the global arms race ends with the United States so far ahead >no other nation even tries to be America's rival, the result may be a world >in which Washington has histor ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 27 02:44:41 PDT 2003

11 [lbo-talk] Dixie sluts fight on with naked defiance -- rank: 1000

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,943201,00.html >Now the Texas-based Dixie Chicks are fighting back. They have posed for >the cover of next week's Entertainment Weekly cheerfully wearing nothing >but the epithets they have attracted and vowing to continue to speak their >minds.

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Date:	Fri Apr 25 00:44:39 PDT 2003

12 [lbo-talk] UK attacks on CEO salaries -- rank: 1000

Although the union, Amicus, is championing criticism of momumental executives fees in the UK, the real impetus for this story is that the association of pension fund managers is demanding accountability. It is asking for evidence of what executives have done to earn their fees, particularly if there are massive severance packages at a time when the share price has fallen drastically. What we are seeing here is the contradicion, exposed at the time of Enron, between finance capital at its most ra ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 23 23:43:46 PDT 2003

13 [lbo-talk] Fisk wrong on arsonists? -- rank: 1000

>From: Michael Pollak (mpollak at panix.com) >Date: Thu Apr 17 2003 - 16:31:13 EDT >[lbo-talk] Fisk on torturers and looters In an incandescent moral piece Fisk tears apart the veil of legitimacy over the invasion, including on the issue of torture where it appears to stand most in the right. But I think his analysis is wrong about the fire-setting. (see extract below) He assumes, like the hegemons, that a society that used physical brutality including torture, to ensure social norms mu ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 17 23:55:51 PDT 2003

14 [lbo-talk] Tim Robbins speech at National Press Club--quite good -- rank: 1000

>[lbo-talk] Tim Robbins speech at National Press Club--quite good > >From: steve philion (philion at hawaii.edu) >Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 22:04:42 EDT http://news.mpr.org/play/audio.php?media=/midday/2003/04/15_midday2 "quite good" I appreciate the lead because movements need personalities, and his persona is quite a suitable one. But what more could he have said? I wonder if it was only "quite good"! It seemed to me to be positive because it tried to build middle ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 17 00:51:34 PDT 2003

15 [lbo-talk] Have medical journals helped to justify war? -- rank: 1000

> BMJ -- Press Releases >______________________________ >Releases Saturday 12 April 2003 >(4) HAVE MEDICAL JOURNALS HELPED TO >JUSTIFY WAR? > >(Letter: Medical journals may have had a role in >justifying war) >http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7393/820 > >Medical journals may have played an important part in >providing the political justification for attacking Iraq, >argues a public health expert in this week's BMJ. > >Professor Ian Roberts believ ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 11 23:20:06 PDT 2003