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31 [lbo-talk] cleansing reality of its content -- rank: 414

On Jun 23, 2008, at 11:58 AM, (Chuck Grimes) wrote: > I listened to Doug's show on podcast this morning with Corey Robin. > The > basic premises or view is outlined here: > > http://www.bostonreview.net/BR29.1/robin.html That's not really what Corey was talking about. It's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 23 08:35:41 PDT 2008

32 [lbo-talk] more Furman -- rank: 262

New York Sun - June 17, 2008 <http://www.nysun.com/national/an-ex-new-york-knife-juggler-to-hone- obamas-econ/80153/> An Ex-New-York-Knife-Juggler To Hone Obama's Econ Policy By JOSH GERSTEIN, Staff Reporter of the Sun As the new economic policy director on Senator Obama ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 17 10:54:07 PDT 2008

33 [lbo-talk] Stephanie Luce on LN -- rank: 414

... Employees International Union, based on allegations that union members were stalking and harassing organizers of the rival California Nurses Association, was ...

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Author:	Mark Rickling
Date:	Wed Apr 23 05:49:56 PDT 2008

34 [lbo-talk] To each according to work -- rank: 262

It's as useful, pace Marx, to talk about principles of justice, what ideals we might seek to advocate, as it ever was. Marx thought not at all, which is why he gave up philosophy and mocked talk of justice and morality. Apparently we haven't come that conclusion here, I ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Sun Apr 20 14:17:58 PDT 2008

35 [lbo-talk] advances in union militance -- rank: 262

[This is from the CNA, not a neutral source.] A report from the magazine Labor Notes on the SEIU attack on their conference in Michigan Saturday night, with two of their photos, followed by the CNA/NNOC release For Immediate Release April 12, 2008 Contact Chris Kutalik 313-378-2588 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 13 11:09:04 PDT 2008

36 [lbo-talk] one person's thug is another's victim... -- rank: 414

... NNOC Demand Andy Stern Immediately Cease SEIU s Harassment and Stalking of Nurses at Home and on Patient Care Floors Service ... targeting CNA/ NNOC leaders and members with threats and intimidation, stalking them at home and in patient care units at hospitals ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 11 08:46:38 PDT 2008

37 [lbo-talk] panopticon update -- rank: 262

<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/339881_boeingsurveillance16.html> Boeing bosses spy on workers At companies like Boeing, employees enjoy little privacy Friday, November 16, 2007 Last updated 7:48 a.m. PT By ANDREA JAMES P-I REPORTER Within its bowels, The Boeing Co. holds volumes of proprietary information deemed ...

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Author:	Eubulides
Date:	Mon Nov 19 08:29:36 PST 2007

38 [lbo-talk] Google discrimination and radical politics -- rank: 262

That YouTube vid Jim Farmelant posted shows employers tut-tutting while looking at online pictures of job applicants partying and having drinks with friends, Part of me wants to grab those employers and say, "Welcome to the real world, idiot." People do these things. People sharing photos of themselves having fun ...

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Author:	B.
Date:	Tue Oct 30 07:19:17 PDT 2007

39 [lbo-talk] Islamofascism Awareness Week -- rank: 262

Jerry: > We, yes you and me, are murderers and torturers of Iranians. I am not equivalent to the government. I try to influence the policies of my government, and when I fail it is because I could not muster enough power to do so (and there is the legitinmate question of ...

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Author:	BklynMagus
Date:	Thu Oct 25 13:41:24 PDT 2007

40 [lbo-talk] Mirror neurons -- rank: 262

... I did this sort of work, Davidson was a > favorite stalking horse of mine. > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a vacation? Get

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Sep 4 15:48:27 PDT 2007

41 [lbo-talk] Mirror neurons -- rank: 262

... I did this sort of work, Davidson was a favorite stalking horse of mine. --- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Tue Sep 4 15:09:06 PDT 2007

42 [lbo-talk] Hamas op-ed pieces in today's NY Times and Washington Post -- rank: 262

Below are two op-ed pieces by Ahmed Yousef - each slightly different than the other - published simultaneously today in the Washington Post and the New York Times. Yousef is a senior official in the Hamas government. Last November, the NYT ran another opinion piece by Yousef which explicitly drew a parallel ...

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Author:	Marvin Gandall
Date:	Wed Jun 20 07:40:58 PDT 2007

43 [lbo-talk] Nepal government gears up to break Terai strike -- rank: 262

HindustanTimes.com http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/124_0,0000.htm » South Asia » Nepal Tuesday, March 6, 2007 Nepal government gears up to break Terai strike http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/7598_1945678,000500020003.htm Indo-Asian News Service Kathmandu, March 6, 2007 Nepal's government on Tuesday started marshalling its ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Wed Mar 7 15:35:50 PST 2007

44 [lbo-talk] Some background to the Anglo-Irish Peace Process -- rank: 262

Some background to the Anglo-Irish Peace Process Sinn Fein's giving up of the revolutionary claim that the IRA was the designated inheritor of the second Dail (1920s insurrectionary all Ireland Parliament), and therefore the legitimate government of Ireland, and its acceptance that its only mandate was electoral, led, firstly ...

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Author:	james daly
Date:	Sun Feb 11 04:23:35 PST 2007

45 [lbo-talk] Sam Smith on Doug Henwood -- rank: 262

On 2/9/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > > I would make that argument rest on a different Hofstadter's notion - > > "anti-intellectualism." > > That's a not-unrelated affair. According to Hof (and I'm totally > persuaded), much of American anti-intellectualism can be traced to > the Protestant valorization ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Feb 9 16:18:07 PST 2007