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16 [lbo-talk] This time it's a September Surprise on Romney -- rank: 149

... are to them. But the populist movements (from Debs to Nader and Stein) have always, rightly, seen them in a very ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Sat Oct 6 12:28:43 PDT 2012

17 [lbo-talk] This time it's a September Surprise on Romney -- rank: 149

On Oct 6, 2012, at 2:08 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On 10/06/2012 11:25 AM, Wojtek S wrote: >> You are correct that elections are not about choice. They are about >> 'voting' that is voicing affirmation. No, not the candidates, but >> the >> process and the community defined by it ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Sat Oct 6 12:11:10 PDT 2012

18 [lbo-talk] Barry Commoner, Pioneering Environmental Scientist and Activist, Dies at 95 -- rank: 149

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/barry-commoner-dead_b_1928377.html Barry Commoner, a pioneering environmental scientist and activist, died Sunday at age 95. Described in 1970 by Time magazine as the "Paul Revere of ecology," Commoner followed Rachel Carson as America's most prominent modern environmentalist. He viewed the ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Mon Oct 1 08:26:37 PDT 2012

19 [lbo-talk] Final version: Alex Cockburn's memorial and WBAI -- rank: 149

Eight years ago I'd proposed to Bernard White, former Program Director at WBAI, that we invite Alexander Cockburn -- probably the greatest and most fascinating left columnist of our time -- to broadcast a regular column on WBAI. Bernard said, "interesting idea", and proceeded to do absolutely nothing about it. I nevertheless ...

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Author:	Mitchel Cohen
Date:	Sun Sep 23 11:13:24 PDT 2012

20 [lbo-talk] Alex Cockburn's memorial and WBAI -- rank: 149

Eight years ago I'd proposed to Bernard White, former Program Director at WBAI, that we invite Alexander Cockburn -- probably the greatest and most fascinating left columnist of our time -- to broadcast a regular column on WBAI. Bernard said, "interesting idea", and proceeded to do absolutely nothing about it (as usual ...

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Author:	Mitchel Cohen
Date:	Sun Sep 23 09:54:51 PDT 2012

21 [lbo-talk] Mark Ames on Pussy Riot -- rank: 149

At 09:39 PM 8/21/2012, // ravi wrote: >On Aug 21, 2012, at 9:04 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > > Terrific piece by Mark Ames on Pussy Riot: > > http://nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/pussy-riot > > >Why did you like it so much? I like what little I have ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Sat Aug 25 05:08:57 PDT 2012

22 [lbo-talk] Mark Ames on Pussy Riot -- rank: 149

Yeah, agreed Ames' piece is tepid and. worse, not very insightful. I am so deeply confused. These stunts -- or rather the mentality behind them -- are so nineteenth century. What the fuck? How is desecrating a church radical? It's about as petit bourgeois as it gets. I guess I have to ...

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Author:	123hop at comcast.net
Date:	Tue Aug 21 19:25:20 PDT 2012

23 [lbo-talk] Mark Ames on Pussy Riot -- rank: 149

... national bogeymen (the Islamic hordes without), so on. Heck, the Nader hating from liberals post 2000 is a good example. No ...

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Author:	// ravi
Date:	Tue Aug 21 18:39:06 PDT 2012

24 [lbo-talk] Query: Your favorite speeches and talks -- rank: 298

... https://vimeo.com/8621774) would be good for this. Ralph Nader also had something appropriate (about corporate personhood?) at some law ... others. But in terms of performance, I think Malcolm and Nader are very good. Nader in particular acts like a statesman without a state.) All ...

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Author:	Tayssir John Gabbour
Date:	Thu Jun 28 08:44:02 PDT 2012

25 [lbo-talk] yakking... -- rank: 149

... the former - minorities are invariably treated as 'spoilers' (cf. Ralph Nader) because they are spoilers - they siphon off votes that get ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Sun Apr 8 08:27:26 PDT 2012

26 [lbo-talk] Sachs on Obama's budget for the rich and powerful -- rank: 149

... are nothing more than self-promotion celebrity stunts. This includes Nader, who imho is another ambitious social climber riding on the ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Wed Feb 15 11:29:57 PST 2012

27 [lbo-talk] Sachs on Obama's budget for the rich and powerful -- rank: 235

... possibly. What is different this time, as opposed to the Nader candidacies, is the degree of dissatisfaction within the DP and ... public intellectuals to contemplate the possibility of a third party. Nader's forces for the most part were drawn from outside ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Wed Feb 15 10:54:46 PST 2012

28 [lbo-talk] structural racism/sexism -- rank: 298

... have the same early attraction to liberal Democrats as did Nader, but they >they would subsequently draw back when they realized, as in Nader's case, >that he was unelectable. Of course, Nader had a much more compatible >liberal program than Paul, and ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Wed Jan 11 17:52:24 PST 2012

29 [lbo-talk] structural racism/sexism -- rank: 298

On 2012-01-11, at 2:21 PM, Alan Rudy wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> >> On Jan 11, 2012, at 1:06 PM, Alan Rudy wrote: >> >>> You may be right about what Paul's talking about, Doug, but given ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Wed Jan 11 13:04:33 PST 2012

30 [lbo-talk] A liberal geek defense of Ron Paul -- rank: 149

On Jan 2, 2012, at 11:56 AM, c b wrote: > > And what goddamn American President ever fulfilled all their campaign > promises , unless it was bad stuff ? U hold Obama to a standard > higher than the country has ever had... But no higher than those to which we revolutionary socialists have ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Mon Jan 2 12:11:32 PST 2012