Published on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 by CommonDreams.org
Bush Fails History...Jefferson Predicted Iraq
by Thom Hartmann
Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon thought they could bomb Vietnam into
accepting democracy. George W. Bush thinks he can do it with Iraq.
But the first American president to
to have had liberal-left background... michael hoover
from London Observer
http://www.observer.co.uk
Year the music died
In 1968 we thought we could change the world. But we didn't change that
much
David Aaronovitch, columnist of the year
Sunday April 25 2004
Some brands never die; but the people who buy them always change. On
the first floor
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perhaps a more 'exoteric' rather than 'esoteric' reading of machiavelli
on occupation would have 'better' served so-called straussians (both
they and ole' leo have now had their 15 minutes) in bush
administration...
on other hand, maybe they just skipped ch. 5 of 'the prince'...
michael hoover
side to predict other's choice in
subsequent period - may be quite different that one time encounter)...
michael hoover
in such matters is irrelevant...
michael hoover
Counterpunch, May 19, 2004
Where's John Kerry?
Homes Destroyed; Death Toll Mounts
By JOSH FRANK
Even if he turns out to be the second worst president in US history,
John F. Kerry will still be better than our sitting president. At least
many liberal and progressive Americans are stating as much
linguistic victory
for anti-abortionists (so-called 'pro-lifers'), result is above (in
addition to numerous state laws)... michael hoover
Cannes stands to cheer story of Che's road to revolution
By Hugh Davies (Filed: 20/05/2004)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
As the 20th century's most romanticised revolutionary,
Ernesto Che Guevara, dead since 1967, is being
immortalised in a rash of new films led by a British-backed
epic based on
Date: Sun, 24 May 2004
South Asia's women garment workers:
Globalisation's race to the bottom
By Ron Chepesiuk
The Daily Star (Pakistan)
Vol. 4 Num 344
Wed. May 19, 2004
Ech day, 20-year old Farida leaves her home in the
slums of Dhaka and walks for one hour to her job at the
Dalia Garment
May 2004 FFIPP Update
Dear Friends of FFIPP,
Recent events in Gaza, the massive destruction of homes and civilian lives
in Rafah and Gaza City, should be protested world wide. (See below
information on events in Gaza and email addresses for sending messages of
outrage and condemnations.)
, he may dip below 40% by november)...
i said months ago that dem party fix was in... michael hoover
David Dellinger Dies
By DAVID GRAM
Associated Press Writer
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) David Dellinger, whose advocacy for peace stretched
from draft resistance in World War II to the Chicago Seven trial in the
late 1960s to his strong opposition to the Iraq war, has died at 88.
Dellinger died Tuesday,
F A C I N G S O U T H
A progressive Southern news report
May 19, 2004 * Issue 80
INSTITUTE INDEX * Election for Sale
Number of Bush Rangers who have raised $200,000 or more for Bush campaign: 208
Number of Bush Pioneers who have raised $100,000 or more: 303
Number of Kerry Vice Chairs who have
May 26, 2004
Dear Editor,
As the publisher of the book The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che
Guevara, I was somewhat mystified by Larry Rohter's Che Today? (May
26, 2004) and references to its suppression in Cuba.
The book has in fact been published in Cuba -- one edition published by
the
Published on Tuesday, May 25, 2004 by the Long Island, NY Newsday
Watchdog Group Report: Most NPR Sources are Conservative
by Peter Goodman
Despite a perception that National Public Radio is politically liberal,
the
majority of its sources are actually Republicans and conservatives,
according to
F A C I N G S O U T H
A progressive Southern news report
May 28, 2004 * Issue 81
Fingers
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INSTITUTE INDEX * America, Idle? (the sequel)
Number of votes cast for the TV talent show, American Idol, this week in millions: 65
Number of U.S. citizens aged 18-35 in the year 2000, in millions:
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Gitlin is a repulsive character, but everything he says in this
passage is, sadly, true:
But there is no evidence that nonvoters differ from voters in any
ideological way.
poli sci guy stephen earl bennett's 1990 'deconstruction' ('the uses
and abuses of
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poli sci guy stephen earl bennett's 1990 'deconstruction' ('the uses
and abuses of registration and turnout data', _ps_) of above exposed
it
for canard it actually is...
That's not what a bunch
did reagan croak or something, gee, guess i missed it, didn't see
anything in the news, seems there would have at least been a press
release or obit notice... michael hoover
to be correct re. resource
supply, theory of exhaustion as fountain of change is not likely to be
tenable, unequal/uneven control distribution of existing quantities is
political issue that must be addressed...
michael hoover
out to be correct re. resource
supply, theory of exhaustion as fountain of change is not likely
tenable, unequal/uneven control distribution of what is known to exist
is political issue that must be addressed...
michael hoover
)...
of course, while force may be reduced by such hegemony, force always
remains tools of coercion re. those who do not accept 'norms' or who
aspire to create different arrangements...michael hoover
to attain goals
through economic sanctions, conventional diplomatic channels, legitimate
negotiations, resulting tendency towards dependence upon last resort:
retreat to naked military power...
where/when will u.s. suez be... michael hoover
- politics of streets
politics of
suites...michael hoover
'), but rejection of nader is
'good thing' if party is to have legs as 'party of idea'... michael
hoover
mail), thomas rarely asks questions during
court
hearings no matter case issues and has little written record, but these
votes
(and several) others suggest that claims of his proclivity for porn may
have
merit... michael hoover
to u.s. flag...
hussein's trial at this time (on u.s. tv, no less) is for bush campaign
(yeah, yeah, i know the interim gov't wanted to expedite things, blah,
blah, blah)...
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States again, says the chairman of a new federal voting commission.
didn't nixon's people have contingency plan to cancel 72 elections in
event
of 'domestic disturbances'... michael hoover
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ironically, in florida, gore lost if vote had been recounted *only* in 4
majority
dem counties that his people cynically pushed for but he won if the
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Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004
Subject: Utah miners, United Mine Workers strike forces rehiring of
Utah miners
This was a small strike that won wide support in the labor movement and
highlights the growing possibilities for union organizing in the western
mines and among immigrant and other workers. It
FLORIDIANS FOR ALL
A Campaign to Raise the Minimum Wage
Embargoed until Friday, July 2nd at 12 AM
Contact:Joe Johnson: 727-542-3498
Floridians for All Submits 900,000 Petitions to Raise the Minimum Wage!
On Friday, July 2nd Floridians for All, a coalition of community and
labor
is perhaps idiomatic 'split' state...
fwiw2: florida dems still hold lead (43% to 41%) over reps in voter reg
(down from about 75% to 25% 30 years ago), dem percentage includes
'dixiecrats' who have
never changed registration but vote republican...
michael hoover (who is checking in from ann arbor
Torture: Bush Reaps What Kennedy Sowed
By Steve Weissman
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Thursday 24 June 2004
New photos of American soldiers raping and killing Iraqis will likely emerge in
the coming days, as Secretary Rumsfeld obliquely warned us weeks ago. Far more graphic
readers with, self-congratulatory air of
author who is able to see michael moore for what he 'really' is, like
wow... michael hoover
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A progressive Southern news report
June 30, 2004 * Issue 82
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INSTITUTE INDEX * Iraq: Loot and Run
Amount of U.S. money allotted for reconstruction project in Iraq, in billions: $18.6
Number of projects promised in Iraq: 2,300
Number of projects actually underway:
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first problem with above article: venue environment that author viewed
film,
get out some man, go see film in mass. equivalents of kissimmee fl,
ocala, fl, eustis, fl (places where film is playing, towns where no
films like this ever play)...
FAHRENHEIT 9/11
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Original Message
Subject: RE: [Marxism] Kerry: no drivers licenses for illegals Date:
Sat, 3 Jul 2004 21:51:55 -0400
From: Jose G. Perez
Until very recently, virtually no state mixed immigration matters with driver's
licenses.
Among
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On Nader's
site, a major push is for impeachment of the current Resident. in
Chief. In my mind this is the only viable defensive action available
to the American people at the moment. When Bush gets his second term,
even that avenue will be gone -- in his mind
as well as simplistic notion that film is simply diatribe
against bushes)... michael hoover
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Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004
Subject: AFSCME Convention Votes to Bring Troops Home Now
-
Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the July 8, 2004
issue of Workers World newspaper
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AFSCME CONVENTION VOTES TO BRING TROOPS HOME NOW
By Sharon Black
same ballot for prez election
(1787 constitution assigns almost all election responsibilities to
states so it may be asking too much
for a common national prez ballot)...michael hoover
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and in Washington, DC, and at the two national political
conventions in 2000.
similar view was also held by jello biafra whose candidacy for green
party nomination in 2000 i personally favored, ex-dker focused, however,
on green party rather than nader... michael hoover
. is leading developer of
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('their') party... michael hoover
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Is he really running for Senator? Charles Barkeley spoke about running
for Alabama
governor, but he dropped the matter.
Michael Perelman
Some in Illinois Want Ditka for Senate
By MIKE COLIAS
Associated Press Writer
July 14, 2004, 4:42 AM EDT
CHICAGO -- In a
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For some inexplicable reason I am cyber-debating some American social
democrat. He insists that the 1974-75 oil shock caused the US recession
and (implicitly) US decline from hegemony and the good days. We three
all disagree with each other on many questions
F A C I N G S O U T H
A progressive Southern news report
July 9, 2004 * Issue 83
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INSTITUTE INDEX * Remember Enron?
Amount of contributions that Enron gave to President Bush's 2000 campaign: $623,000
Rank of Enron among Bush's biggest campaign contributors in 2000: 1
Out of 8
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Michael Hoover wrote:
The Hall of Famer led the Bears to the 1986 Super Bowl and now spends
most of his time on TV as a football analyst and pitchman for a casino
and an anti-impotence drug.
This would seem to qualify him to run as a Democrat, a party
) novels, if so,
never mind... michael hoover
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Former Football Coach Won't Run for Senate in Illinois
By STEPHEN KINZER
Published: July 15, 2004
CHICAGO, July 14 - Nothing may more vividly reflect the Republican
Party's difficulty finding a suitable candidate for the Senate here than
its flirtation this week with the former Chicago
'no future', below from another list
in another time (well, almost 4 yrs ago), ... michael hoover
NY Times, November 2, 2000
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 - For as long as he has been running for president,
Ralph Nader has made clear that his quest is not about winning, but
about
building a viable third party
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Michael Hoover wrote:
By 1936, left congressional candidates were negligible factor in wake
of
most left-leaning period of New Deal that secured FDR's re-election.
Well, this is not quite accurate. Those candidates tended to function as
the left wing
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Michael Hoover wrote
36 'left' (note scare quotes, few people realized
that party was front for father coughlin)) prez alternative was populist
candidacy of union party's william lemke (farmer-labor member of
congress from north dakota)...
left out of above
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Michael Hoover wrote:
big difference between 36 and today re. above is that fdr did court
variety of progressive types, in fact, he ran 36 campaign as
'progressive coalition' rather than DP candidacy, number of 'soft'
left
leaders did sign on to become
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A progressive Southern news report
July 15, 2004 * Issue 84
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INSTITUTE INDEX * The Two Americas
Amount that job growth is lower than Bush Administration predicted in February 2004,
in millions: 1.5
Of 13 Southern states, number that have had a net job gain since
explanation, they've convincingly shown impact of droughts,
flu, shark attacks, etc. on electoral responses, for example, 1916 shark
attacks (that inspired peter benchley's novel 'jaws') along new jersey
beaches resulted in 10% decline from 1912 in beach town votes for
woodrow wilson... michael hoover
has below been in news...
Summary of Complaint against Rep. Tom DeLay
Filed by Rep. Chris Bell
June 8, 2004
On June 8, 2004, Congressman Chris Bell (D-TX) submitted a complaint to the House
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct regarding the conduct of House Majority
Leader Tom DeLay. The
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michael hoover (reporting from birkenstock, i mean
ann arbor, where forum on third parties this weekend includes
representative of the righteously named - and no doubt - growing group,
league of pissed off voters)
Isn't that another front group
listers with any info... michael hoover
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reaction to
name lopov)...
fwiw: league rep at ann arbor forum yesterday argued for voting for
anybody but kerry or bush, guess she's out of step with her comrades re.
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we've really had enough 'party of person' candidacies/parties...
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Michael Hoover wrote:
another panelist referred with reverence to eugene debs, well i dig
debs
too but real importance at that time was neither his 6% of prez vote
in
1912 or million votes he got in 1920 while in prison, more significant
was over 1300
million eggs)... michael
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national/state dem 'leaders' might have to react,
maybe they'd play their hand and decide to decertify local executive
councils run by leftists/ progressives, so dem party could become
something different from what it is today or it might be be destroyed,
either outcome would be ok...michael
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Michael Hoover:
will rogers said something to effect that he wasn't a member of any
party, he was a democrat...
when I quoted this, I was corrected: he wasn't a member of any
_organized_ party.
i stand (actually, i'm sitting) corrected...
maybe
myself thinking that Owen and the pre-Engels British
Socialists are probably worth another look, but have always been put off
by
the teetotal tendency which one tends to find there.
dd
tawney's _the radical tradition_ includes brief essay on owen that is
worth looking at... michael hoover
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Michael Hoover wrote:
maybe the three million or so people who voted for nader in 2000
should
take control of local democratic executive committees, use structure
in
place to recruit candidates, slag off on dems who suck, use available
funds to issue policy
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Michael Hoover wrote:
maybe the three million or so people who voted for nader in 2000 should
take control of local democratic executive committees, use structure in
place to recruit candidates, slag off on dems who suck, use available
funds to issue policy
it was singular attempt
rather than across-board - er, nation - one (btw: wouldn't take 3m
people, used number bit facetiously), this form of 'entryism' would - by
definition - be opposed
to established leadership...
again, nothing may well come of it...
heighten the contradictions man , michael hoover
ps
who went public early did
so just a few days before party conventions, kerry breaks record bigtime
by advancing announcement three weeks, indication of weakness imo (lame
attempt by lame candidate to get some news coverage)... michael hoover
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charles curtis, george dallas, john garner, garrett hobart, richard
johnson, william king, thomas marshall, levi morton, daniel thompson,
william wheeler, henry wilson...
following somehow deleted from above message: these are among names that
roll off
... michael hoover
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party support or not (and sometimes prefer not), surely
progressive/left folks can do better than this with whatever shell of an
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An argument against it? You would actually try it yourself if it
were really a good idea.
Yoshie
nah, doug's a journalist, he'd write about it... michael hoover
A person who puts forward a proposal should be prepared to act on it.
Otherwise, others
would
have won two-candidate race between himself and humphrey by larger than
the 45-43% margin in three person race... michael hoover
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that wind began running out of term limits sails when rep party gained
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could agitate amongst local dem 'leadership' groups as well... michael
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(by such measures *all attempts will
fail), pervasive problem imo...
think i'll leave it at that, michael hoover (checking in for last time
from ann arbor
where i ran into al haber - an sds founder - the other day, he's trying
to rekindle sds as 'students' for dem society on one hand, seniors for
dem society
what is progressive economist take on ford and general motors releasng
info the other day indicating that each only made profits from
credit/lending operations...
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Michael Hoover wrote:
responses to my initial post conveyed, by and large, varying degrees
of maximalism, making quantitative leap from my modest suggestion
all the way to presidential electoral politics (by such measures
*all attempts will fail), pervasive
.
Yoshie
i've not suggested working through local dem branches as such nor
working only on local issues... michael hoover
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Presumably, leftists who follow your suggestion will be working on
local issues first of all till they succeed in wresting the control
of the Democratic Party at the state level.
At 9:10 PM -0400 7/27/04, Michael Hoover wrote:
greens electing green mayors
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was expecting to read about jet airplanes given post header, and then to
find out that rob reiner was not among leading contributors to 527
orgs, well, my disappointment runneth over... michael hoover
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Michael Hoover wrote:
but
conversations here indicate that we sure do live in the age of
diminishing expectations, which in itself gives people fewer reasons
to spend time on political activism.
above was yoshie
plays a blind swordsman...
finally: blind swordsman films inspired 71 entitled 'deaf mute heroine'
directed by wu ma, one of number of hk martial arts films featuring
women... michael hoover
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finally: blind swordsman films inspired 71 entitled 'deaf mute heroine'
directed by wu ma, one of number of hk martial arts films featuring
women... michael hoover
neglected to mention that helen ma had lead role in above... mh
F A C I N G S O U T H
July 27, 2004 * Issue 85
INSTITUTE INDEX * Elections at Risk
Number of felons purged from Florida's voter lists in the 2000 elections: 173,000
Number that weren't felons and were wrongfully barred from voting: 50,000
Number of felons Florida had planned to remove from
Proposal To Up The Minimum Wage Makes Florida Fall Ballot
POSTED: 6:14 pm EDT July 27, 2004
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A proposed constitutional amendment to create a
state
minimum wage that starts at $6.15 and is tied to inflation made the
November ballot Tuesday when it cleared the signature
. kennedy,
not john f. kerry, guess i got jfks mixed up, and here i've been
wondering for sometime about that 22nd amendment term limits thing...
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killed - by racists, he opposed increases in minimum wage, he sought to
constrain wage demands by unions, he opposed reducing work week, he
presided over tax cuts for rich and corporations...
back to yesterday with jfk... michael
From the Law and Politics Book Review
WELFARE AND THE CONSTITUTION, by Sotirios A. Barber. Princeton, New
Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2004. 184pp. Cloth $27.95 / £17.95.
ISBN: 0-691-11448-X
Reviewed By Ronald Kahn, Department of Politics, Oberlin College.
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interpretation of 'progressive tendency' of capitalist development...
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' of capitalist development...
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oops, my source for above is nicholas stargardt's _the german idea of
militarism : radical and socialist critics, 1866-1914_... mh
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