Michael Hirsch twits fellow reformists

2004-08-12 Thread Louis Proyect
-Kerry sentiment there even too much for him to bear, by the appearance of the rather well-aimed satire.) HEADLINE: Kerry's New Stances No Shock to Fervent Supporters By Michael Hirsch, Special to Democratic Left (Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 15, 2004) Seeking to winnow away more of the Bush electoral base

Re: HDI\PPP Michael,Ulhas and Michael

2004-07-29 Thread Daniel Davies
Michael,Ulhas and Michael[See what happens with some encouragement - soon I'll be overposting! I'll try to make this the last.]1)Uhlas writes: Paul was trying to show how PPP numbers overstate theeconomic growth in the developing countries. I am notsure I understand how he has reached

Re: HDI\PPP Michael,Ulhas and Michael

2004-07-29 Thread Ulhas Joglekar
Paul wrote: [See what happens with some encouragement - soon I'll be overposting! Is there a limit on posting? For India, from 1992 to 2001, the GNI increased by 64% when calculated by the World Bank Atlas method (non-PPP). I presume this comment is about India's GDP as a whole and not

HDI\PPP Michael,Ulhas and Michael

2004-07-28 Thread Paul
numbers. See below for examples.] 2) Michael Perelman writes: If we were go[ing] to try to make some sort of quantitative measure of a human development index, I think I [would] try to get a handle on how people at the bottom fared rather than looking at averages. I couldn't agree more. One catch

Michael Moore defends Kerry's vote in favor of war

2004-07-27 Thread Louis Proyect
SNAPSHOT 'Fahrenheit 9/11' fans welcome hero to hotbed By Yvonne Abraham, Boston Globe Staff | July 27, 2004 The man of the hour was more than an hour late. A group of veterans and soldiers' families waited for Michael Moore in a North End park yesterday, chatting, eating pizza, checking

Re: A critical look at Michael Moore

2004-07-27 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Date:Mon, 26 Jul 2004 19:26:38 -0400 From:Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: A critical look at Michael Moore (clip) Considering the fact that Gibson had plans at one point to bankroll Fahrenheit 9/11, this does not seem so far-fetched. Moore's next project will deal with the health

A critical look at Michael Moore

2004-07-26 Thread Louis Proyect
In some ways, Michael Moore's rise to fame and fortune is a classic Horatio Alger story. Starting out as the son of a General Motors assembly line worker who lived in blue-collar Flint, Michigan, Moore now sits at the top of the mountain. With his face on the cover of Time Magazine and ticket

Re: A critical look at Michael Moore

2004-07-26 Thread Devine, James
Mother Jones magazine, a magazine catering to Birkenstock-wearing, Sierra Club-donating, brie-eating liberals. hey, Louis, have you been channeling Dick Cheney? It sure sounds like him or someone in the neo-con crowd. Are the MJ folks cheese-eating surrender monkeys, too? By the way, is

Re: A critical look at Michael Moore

2004-07-26 Thread Louis Proyect
Devine, James wrote: Mother Jones magazine, a magazine catering to Birkenstock-wearing, Sierra Club-donating, brie-eating liberals. hey, Louis, have you been channeling Dick Cheney? It sure sounds like him or someone in the neo-con crowd. Are the MJ folks cheese-eating surrender monkeys, too?

Re: A critical look at Michael Moore

2004-07-26 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
At 7:48 PM -0400 7/26/04, Louis Proyect wrote: Devine, James wrote: Mother Jones magazine, a magazine catering to Birkenstock-wearing, Sierra Club-donating, brie-eating liberals. hey, Louis, have you been channeling Dick Cheney? It sure sounds like him or someone in the neo-con crowd. Are the MJ

Michael Moore letter to las vegas

2004-07-23 Thread Charles Brown
, constiutionalist talk. We've got to critique all, new Gotha Programmes more. Meanwhile, it seems as though Michael Moore is doing more good than harm, but criticism-self-criticism is one of our modes.

FW: [Marxism] Fwd: Michael Moore letter to las vegas

2004-07-22 Thread Craven, Jim
From Michael Moore's letter to Las Vegas: What country do you live in? Last time I checked, Las Vegas is still in the United States. And in the United States, we have something called The First Amendment. This constitutional right gives everyone here the right to say whatever they want to say

Re: Michael Moore letter to las vegas

2004-07-22 Thread Devine, James
Michael Moore writes: Last time I checked, Las Vegas is still in the United States. And in the United States, we have something called The First Amendment. This constitutional right gives everyone here the right to say whatever they want to say. All Americans hold this right as sacred. isn't

Re: Michael Moore letter to las vegas

2004-07-22 Thread Craven, Jim
Michael Moore writes: Last time I checked, Las Vegas is still in the United States. And in the United States, we have something called The First Amendment. This constitutional right gives everyone here the right to say whatever they want to say. All Americans hold this right as sacred. isn't

Re: Michael Moore letter to las vegas

2004-07-22 Thread Eugene Coyle
Yes, I think that would have been a better point for Moore to make. Remind people they don't have free speech at work. Gene Coyle Devine, James wrote: Michael Moore writes: Last time I checked, Las Vegas is still in the United States. And in the United States, we have something called The First

Review of Michael Yates's book

2004-07-18 Thread Louis Proyect
http://www.pressaction.com/news/weblog/full_article/sandronsky07162004/ Friday, July 16, 2004 Labor Lessons By Seth Sandronsky Review of Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global Economy by Michael D. Yates (Monthly Review Press, 2003, 288 pages). Working Americans are not alone

American Leftists, Michael Moore, and Ralph Nader

2004-07-13 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
American Leftists, Michael Moore, and Ralph Nader: http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/american-leftists-michael-moore-and.html -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/ * Calendars of Events in Columbus: http

Re: American Leftists, Michael Moore, and Ralph Nader

2004-07-13 Thread Louis Proyect
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: American Leftists, Michael Moore, and Ralph Nader: http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/american-leftists-michael-moore-and.html This Mark Ames is a real piece of work, isn't he? He barely looks old enough to shave, but has the gall to dress down the US left. What gives

Re: Michael Moore's Dilemma: Israel, Saudi Arabia, and John Kerry

2004-07-09 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
From: Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Moore's Dilemma: Israel, Saudi Arabia, and John Kerry (There are two conspicuous absences in Fahrenheit 9/11: John Kerry and Israel. The two absences are dependent on each other. Moore's electioneering really beats the stuffing out of the historical

Michael Moore's Dilemma: Israel, Saudi Arabia, and John Kerry

2004-07-08 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Michael Moore's Dilemma: Israel, Saudi Arabia, and John Kerry (There are two conspicuous absences in Fahrenheit 9/11: John Kerry and Israel. The two absences are dependent on each other. Plus, notes on John Kerry's latest policy paper on Israel John Kerry: Strengthening Israel's Security

Re: Michael Moore's Dilemma: Israel, Saudi Arabia, and John Kerry

2004-07-08 Thread Carl Remick
From: Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Moore's Dilemma: Israel, Saudi Arabia, and John Kerry (There are two conspicuous absences in Fahrenheit 9/11: John Kerry and Israel. The two absences are dependent on each other. Moore's electioneering really beats the stuffing out of the historical

Re: Michael Moore's Dilemma: Israel, Saudi Arabia, and John Kerry

2004-07-08 Thread Carl Remick
From: Carl Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...To examine the Iraq war without mentioning the neocons and the Wolfowitz Doctrine is like, say, looking at the origins of World War I without mentioning the General General Staff ... Er, make that the German General Staff. I must have been thinking of

Michael Moore, Paul Berman and John Weeks

2004-07-04 Thread Louis Proyect
(In doing some background research on Michael Moore for a Revolution Magazine article on Fahrenheit 9/11, I found an article that reminded me why I will always have a soft spot in my heart for him whatever mistakes he makes around electoral politics. In 1990, I was setting up a debate on Nicaragua

Michael Moore on CBS

2004-07-01 Thread Robert Naiman
, seriously, though... STORM: No, let's talk about your movie. Copyright 2004 CBS Worldwide Inc. All Rights Reserved CBS News Transcripts SHOW: The Early Show (7:00 AM ET) - CBS June 25, 2004 Friday TYPE: Interview LENGTH: 1467 words HEADLINE: Michael Moore discusses his film, Fahrenheit 9/11 STORM: So

Bush and Disney gang up on Michael Moore

2004-05-05 Thread Louis Proyect
NY Times, May 5, 2004 Disney Forbidding Distribution of Film That Criticizes Bush By JIM RUTENBERG WASHINGTON, May 4 The Walt Disney Company is blocking its Miramax division from distributing a new documentary by Michael Moore that harshly criticizes President Bush, executives at both Disney

FW: Disney Has Blocked the Distribution of My New Film... by Michael Moore

2004-05-05 Thread Devine, James
In case you haven't heard... Disney Has Blocked the Distribution of My New Film... by Michael Moore May 5, 2004 Friends, I would have hoped by now that I would be able to put my work out to the public without having to experience the profound censorship obstacles I often seem to encounter

FW: New Palm Digital Media books by Michael Perelman

2004-02-28 Thread Devine, James
perhaps of interest to pen-pals... -Original Message- From: Palm Digital Media [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 2/28/2004 12:20 AM To: Devine, James Cc: Subject: New Palm Digital Media books by Michael Perelman

My review of Michael Yates' book

2004-02-26 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Labor lessons By Seth Sandronsky Working Americans are not alone, though it may seem that way sometimes. In fact, they join a mass of about 2.5 billion people worldwide who labor for a living. In Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global Economy, author Michael D. Yates focuses

Re: Michael Moore

2004-02-11 Thread Dan Scanlan
Now that Gen. Clark's no longer running, who will Michael Moore endorse, knocking him out of the race? ;-) Whichever candidate will best serve the marketing needs of his next film? (Some of which, I hear, will be animated in China.) Dan Scanlan

Re: Michael Moore

2004-02-11 Thread Louis Proyect
We await Michael Moores concession speech after his hero, General Wesley Clark, tasted the ashes of defeat in Tennessee and Virginia and sensibly threw in the towel. If Dean was the hero of the dot coms, Clark was a creation of the Arkansas-Hollywood axis embodied in Clinton-era stage managers

Re: Michael Moore

2004-02-11 Thread Michael Hoover
with kerry to winning with dean... clark's candidacy became increasingly irrelevant with onset of primary and caucus 'ratifying' destruction of dean campaign, he stuck around at least one extra week, however, in order to split 'southern' vote with edwards (who ought to be properly agitated)... michael

Re: Michael Moore

2004-02-11 Thread Carrol Cox
Michael Hoover wrote: dem power brokers would prefer losing with kerry to winning with dean... They have always preferred to lose with [whoever] rather than win with anyone who might conceivably (even unintentionally) give encouragement to anythink like a social movement. Dean was quite

Re: Michael Moore

2004-02-11 Thread Doug Henwood
Carrol Cox wrote: Michael Hoover wrote: dem power brokers would prefer losing with kerry to winning with dean... They have always preferred to lose with [whoever] rather than win with anyone who might conceivably (even unintentionally) give encouragement to anythink like a social movement

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-20 Thread Michael Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/15/04 06:24PM Wednesday, January 14th, 2004 I'll Be Voting For Wesley Clark / Good-Bye Mr. Bush by Michael Moore Many of you have written to me in the past months asking, Who are you going to vote for this year? I have decided to cast my vote in the primary for Wesley

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-20 Thread Michael Hoover
out in earlier post today, moore actively encouraged clark to run, his recent public announcement endorsing clark, however, follows that of madonna 'coming out' for the general last month... michael hoover

Re: some questions for Michael Moore

2004-01-19 Thread Doug Henwood
Carrol Cox wrote: This is what I mean by saying leftists should give up the myths of DP cowardice or stupidity. Assume that DP leadership knows what it is doing and has as much courage as any given bunch of leaders from either party. So they really mean to keep losing governorships and

Re: some questions for Michael Moore

2004-01-19 Thread Michael Perelman
at the same time. That ideological division makes them bad at partisan conflict, esp when their rival's approach is take no prisoners. Doug -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-19 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
So we're reduced to the old, If you don't know, then I'm certainly not going to tell you, are we? More like the old lean by doing method. . . . -- Yoshie

Re: Michael Moore et al: To Louis

2004-01-18 Thread Hari Kumar
Louis: I am clear that I misunderstood you - when you clairfy in tihs ntoe that you are not an 'abstentinis'. With repsects to the Green party I suppose you are quite aware of infomration on Portside today, that they won a signficant vote (I think in the SF area). My apologies, I caught one

Re: Michael Moore et al -Carrol Cox

2004-01-18 Thread Hari Kumar
CC: 4. If a real fascist (or some new kind authoritarian populism) were to arise in the U.S. it could not be defeated by DP politicians. It could only be defeated by the unity of a _real_ social democratic party _and_ the 21st c. equivalent of a communist movement. But those urging us to support

Re: Michael Moore et al: To Louis

2004-01-18 Thread Louis Proyect
Hari: Well, Lenin viewed those SD parties as bourgeois parties. Certainly if you read his writings with the British (Dreadnought Pankhursts etc) in mind, that is clearly the intent. No, he did not see them as bourgeois parties. The Kadets in Russia were a bourgeois party, as are the Republican

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-18 Thread Doug Henwood
Carrol Cox wrote: You mean that there will come a wonderful day when, having gone to bed voting for the DP, we awaken the next morning to a glorious dawn of class consciousness. Wow! If that day doesn't come, will there be a day when we go to bed not having voted for the DP, but done things

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-18 Thread joanna bujes
It seems, really, that there are two issues here: 1) whether to vote DP in 2004 2) whether it's important to organize something like a labor party The answer to both seems to be yes, though I fear 2) won't really happen until after the economic collapse. Joanna Doug Henwood wrote: Carrol Cox

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-18 Thread Carrol Cox
Doug Henwood wrote: Carrol Cox wrote: You mean that there will come a wonderful day when, having gone to bed voting for the DP, we awaken the next morning to a glorious dawn of class consciousness. Wow! If that day doesn't come, will there be a day when we go to bed not having voted for

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-18 Thread Doug Henwood
Carrol Cox wrote: Doug Henwood wrote: Carrol Cox wrote: You mean that there will come a wonderful day when, having gone to bed voting for the DP, we awaken the next morning to a glorious dawn of class consciousness. Wow! If that day doesn't come, will there be a day when we go to bed not

Re: Michael Moore et al

2004-01-18 Thread Devine, James
Carrol writes: But those urging us to support the DP this year are telling us to postpone once more the effort to build a mass left movement. Supporting the DP intead of focusing on our real task of mass-movement building can leave the u.s. helpless against fascism down the road. in the US at

Re: Michael Moore et al

2004-01-18 Thread Martin Hart-Landsberg
It seems to me, following on Jim D’s comments below, that our job in this election period should be to develop criteria for people to use when thinking about voting. In other words, we need to get working people to see that a strong and accountable public sector is desirable and feasible.

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-18 Thread Carrol Cox
Doug Henwood wrote: Carrol Cox wrote: Doug Henwood wrote: Carrol Cox wrote: You mean that there will come a wonderful day when, having gone to bed voting for the DP, we awaken the next morning to a glorious dawn of class consciousness. Wow! If that day doesn't come, will

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-18 Thread Michael Perelman
movement of any momentum whatever, from local reforms to successful overthrow of the state, has always practiced. It is simply bizarre to divide the population into the radical and the non-radical. And if you can't see how bizarre that is, I can't help you. Carrol -- Michael Perelman Economics

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-18 Thread Frederick Emrich, Editor, info-commons.org
- Original Message - From: Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 3:30 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Michael Moore and General Clark Doug Henwood wrote: Carrol Cox wrote: Doug Henwood wrote: Carrol Cox wrote: You mean

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-18 Thread Mike Ballard
--- Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Ballard wrote: We have to take what we can get until we're class consciously organized and therefore powerful enough to take it ALL back. You mean that there will come a wonderful day when, having gone to bed voting for the DP, we

Re: Michael Moore et al

2004-01-18 Thread Louis Proyect
This way we do not become captive to a candidate and his political shifts. This is how I understand the meaning of an anybody but Bush movement. We build a movement with criteria and then accept the need to vote for the democratic candidate that best measures up. In this way we are building

Re: some questions for Michael Moore

2004-01-18 Thread MICHAEL YATES
In today's New York Times magazine there is an interesting article about a woman who has worked hard her whole life but keeps falling further and further behind. It is titled "A Poor Cousin of the Middle Class" and is written by David K. Shipler. I want to urge Michael Moo

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-18 Thread Carrol Cox
Mike Ballard wrote: No you silly boy. I mean that we have to engage in the class struggle over the social product of labour until we're strong enough to take it all i.e. abolish the wages system. How does we get defined? How are conflicts within that we (racism, sexism, skill levels,

Re: Michael Moore et al

2004-01-18 Thread John Gulick
Lou Proyect said: Matt Gonzalez was a lifelong Democrat, but decided to run as a Green in SF. He got 47 percent of the vote, a very good indication of what is possible. John Gulick says: Regardless of what disposition Marxists, radicals, left-liberals, etc. take toward electoral politics in

Re: some questions for Michael Moore

2004-01-18 Thread Michael Perelman
, no Dems. seem willing to take on Bush. Henry Waxman might be the only other voice and he is far from a leftist. What the Dems say is important because it could allow us to communicate a more critical message. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-18 Thread Carrol Cox
Frederick Emrich, Editor, info-commons.org wrote: So we're reduced to the old, If you don't know, then I'm certainly not going to tell you, are we? I've been telling and telling and telling from the very beginning of the LBO-talk list. I must have generated (along with Yoshie Furuhashi and

Re: some questions for Michael Moore

2004-01-18 Thread John Gulick
Michael Perelman wrote: I don't know about the rest of you, but I am finding this discussion very useful. My interest -- not necessarily support -- of Dean is that his style might open up a critical discussion of Bush, showing other Dems. that you can stand up to those bastards. John Gulick

Re: some questions for Michael Moore

2004-01-18 Thread Michael Perelman
Prestowitz. All of this reflects the paucity of US political culture. John Gulick Knoxville, TN _ Find high-speed ‘net deals — comparison-shop your local providers here. https://broadband.msn.com -- Michael Perelman Economics Department

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-18 Thread Mike Ballard
--- Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Ballard wrote: No you silly boy. I mean that we have to engage in the class struggle over the social product of labour until we're strong enough to take it all i.e. abolish the wages system. How does we get defined? I define we as

Re: some questions for Michael Moore

2004-01-18 Thread John Gulick
Perelman said: The Dean campaign might be more like the McCarthy campaign. Gulick sez: That's probably a better analogy. Both Dean and McCarthy are/were cut from the same Rockefeller Republican mold, a mold that resonates with the habitus of the liberal arts college-types who project all kinds

Re: some questions for Michael Moore

2004-01-18 Thread Carrol Cox
John Gulick wrote: Both of these groups are prepossesed with the most muddled of convictions -- willing on the one hand to entertain the most way-out single-note conspiracy theories about Iraq being about nothing other than enriching Halliburton and Bechtel, I don't know or claim to know the

Re: some questions for Michael Moore

2004-01-18 Thread Carrol Cox
John Gulick wrote: It doesn't necessarily mean that lesser-evilism is tactically or strategically wrong-headed (or right-headed for that matter). But some intellectual consistency would be nice. This is what I mean by saying leftists should give up the myths of DP cowardice or stupidity.

Re: Michael Moore et al

2004-01-18 Thread John Gulick
Lou Proyect said: Matt Gonzalez was a lifelong Democrat, but decided to run as a Green in SF. He got 47 percent of the vote, a very good indication of what is possible. John Gulick says: Regardless of what disposition Marxists, radicals, left-liberals, etc. take toward electoral politics in

Re: some questions for Michael Moore

2004-01-18 Thread John Gulick
Carrol Cox said: This is what I mean by saying leftists should give up the myths of DP cowardice or stupidity. Assume that DP leadership knows what it is doing and has as much courage as any given bunch of leaders from either party. Then if you still want to vote for Dean or Clark or whoever,

Re: some questions for Michael Moore

2004-01-18 Thread Mike Ballard
. Michael Moore is a liberal (conservator of the capitalist system), not a revolutionary. He is doing what he can to get the social conservatives and neo-cons out of direct State power. As I think Michael Perleman indicated, one very good thing that could come out of a DP victory over the RP would

Re: Michael Moore et al

2004-01-17 Thread Hari Kumar
Michael Moore with humour not as our left saviour. Cheers Hari

Re: Michael Moore et al

2004-01-17 Thread Louis Proyect
Hari: However, I cannot believe that some modification of this view does not allow mobilisation behind a non-SD-ic but liberal candidate - i.e. in the circus of all electoral circuses, those taking place in the USA [Oh sorry, I forgot India - they are the best cirucses I have seen]. But that's

Re: Michael Moore et al

2004-01-17 Thread michael
, concentrating personalities is dangerous. To me, the formerly AWOL Bush was as ridiculous in his military get up as Michael Dukakis grinning on the tank. The press treated one reverentially and the other with well-deserved ridicule. Look how quickly the process dismantled the Dean persona

Re: Michael Moore et al

2004-01-17 Thread Brian McKenna
It's off with Gramsci and on with Che. . . .l love them both, but as I re-read Jon Anderson's 1997 book on Che and the Cuban revolution. . .and as I read deeper into how Lenin made the Russian revolution. . .and as I reflect on how the IRA, Sandinistas and Vietnamese made their revolutions

Re: Michael Moore et al

2004-01-17 Thread Devine, James
Michael Perelman writes: What would have happened if Gore had been president on September 11? We have had to prove his manhood and to act more precipitously than Bush? we should remember that it was a Democrat (Truman) who started the Cold War and the McCarthyite loyalty checks. The the GOP

Re: [Marxism] Michael Moore and Wesley Clark

2004-01-17 Thread Craven, Jim
Jose writes: Jim presents a pretty straightforward lesser evil argument in defense of Michael Moore's position. Response (Jim C): This may appear to be equivocating but it isn't. Read what I said exactly: This will no doubt piss some people off, but I can understand why self-described

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-17 Thread Carrol Cox
Mike Ballard wrote: We have to take what we can get until we're class consciously organized and therefore powerful enough to take it ALL back. You mean that there will come a wonderful day when, having gone to bed voting for the DP, we awaken the next morning to a glorious dawn of class

Re: Michael Moore et al

2004-01-17 Thread Carrol Cox
Hari Kumar wrote: I trust this is not too old a thread to allow further comment. I know that PEN-ers may be allergic to the name, but still - I was surprised that the old Leninist adage of Support them (=social democracy) like a rope supports a hanged man - did not come up. Though the intent

Re: Michael Moore et al

2004-01-17 Thread Shane Mage
CC wrote: George Bush is NOT a fascist (he may be worse in some ways, but he is not remotely the leader of a fascist movement) So Ubu Potus is *worse* than a fascist! And who is it who is supposed not to care whether or not he consolidates and worsens yet further his *worse than fascist* regime?

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-16 Thread Mike Ballard
--- MICHAEL YATES [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is this the choice? ** The choice of which pre-selected candidate of the major parties to vote for, will be made outside *our* ability to influence said selection. If you're going to vote for one of the candidates of the two party system

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-16 Thread Devine, James
. Jim -Original Message- From: Michael Perelman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 1/15/2004 9:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Michael Moore and General Clark Clark may be smart and has

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-16 Thread Louis Proyect
--like Leslie Cagan and others. Basically, it miseducates the left when people like Michael Moore back a General Clark. But the same thing is true for a Dean endorsement. Let me qualify that. It is no big deal if a left-liberal endorses Dean. That is consistent with their philosophy

Michael Moore and Wesley Clark

2004-01-16 Thread Craven, Jim
d most horrible costs and pain with Bush's re-selection by the powers that be. I suspect that this may be the conclusion Michael Moore has come to and perhaps some of the reasons for coming to that conclusion. As for me, well I plan to revisit Georgi Dimitrov's speech to the Third Communist In

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-16 Thread ravi
k hanly wrote: PS sorry about the tabula rasa... no problem, we know your *nature* and given the position of each atom, its a trivial matter to compute what you intended to say! ;-) --ravi

Re: [Marxism] Michael Moore and Wesley Clark

2004-01-16 Thread Louis Proyect
to Chiang in these terms? General Clark told me that it's people like him who are truly anti-war because it's people like him who have to die if there is a war. That's what Michael Moore said. Clark is the same guy who used depleted uranium shells in Yugoslavia. Moore was respected by the left for his

Re: Michael Moore and Wesley Clark

2004-01-16 Thread Devine, James
://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine -Original Message-From: Craven, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 8:30 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [PEN-L] Michael Moore and Wesley Clark This will no doubt piss some people off, but I can understand why self

Re: [Marxism] Michael Moore and Wesley Clark

2004-01-16 Thread Craven, Jim
Louis wrote: But did Mao ever refer to Chiang in these terms? General Clark told me that it's people like him who are truly anti-war because it's people like him who have to die if there is a war. That's what Michael Moore said. Clark is the same guy who used depleted uranium shells in Yugoslavia

Fwd: [DK] CORRECTING MICHAEL MOORE

2004-01-16 Thread Louis Proyect
Louis, FYI, regarding the assertion by someone on the list that Kucinich had only abstained on the war resolution vote in October 2002. Thanks. Robb Chavez CORRECTING MICHAEL MOORE Michael Moore has sent out a misleading Email that has many people asking if Dennis voted for the war

Re: [Marxism] Fwd: [DK] CORRECTING MICHAEL MOORE

2004-01-16 Thread Louis Proyect
Counterpunch, January 16, 2004 The General's Henchman Michael Moore Smears Kucinich By DAVE LINDORFF Film producer and journalist Michael Moore, who has decided to endorse and actively campaign for retired Gen. Wesley Clark for the Democratic presidential nomination, has crossed the line

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-16 Thread Mike Ballard
like Michael Moore back a General Clark. But the same thing is true for a Dean endorsement. Let me qualify that. It is no big deal if a left-liberal endorses Dean. That is consistent with their philosophy. But to be mouthing phrases about revolution and socialism while jumping

Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-15 Thread Louis Proyect
Wednesday, January 14th, 2004 I’ll Be Voting For Wesley Clark / Good-Bye Mr. Bush — by Michael Moore Many of you have written to me in the past months asking, Who are you going to vote for this year? I have decided to cast my vote in the primary for Wesley Clark. That's right, a peacenik

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-15 Thread Mike Ballard
--- Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wednesday, January 14th, 2004 I’ll Be Voting For Wesley Clark / Good-Bye Mr. Bush — by Michael Moore Those of us who are impractical enough to oppose the two capitalist parties today will I'm sure be seen as the true heirs of the abolitionists

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-15 Thread Louis Proyect
Wanting to uproot a right-wing moron like Bush is one thing and a good thing at that. The social revolution is another, deeper project, which will probably go better with Shrub and his weeds out of State power. At least, that's my view. Regards, Mike B) Is this the anarchist party line? Louis

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-15 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
At 1:52 PM +1100 1/16/04, Mike Ballard wrote: Wanting to uproot a right-wing moron like Bush is one thing and a good thing at that. The social revolution is another, deeper project, which will probably go better with Shrub and his weeds out of State power. At least, that's my view. Even if your

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-15 Thread Mike Ballard
--- Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wanting to uproot a right-wing moron like Bush is one thing and a good thing at that. The social revolution is another, deeper project, which will probably go better with Shrub and his weeds out of State power. At least, that's my view. Is

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-15 Thread Mike Ballard
--- Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 1:52 PM +1100 1/16/04, Mike Ballard wrote: Wanting to uproot a right-wing moron like Bush is one thing and a good thing at that. The social revolution is another, deeper project, which will probably go better with Shrub and his weeds out

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-15 Thread k hanly
- Original Message - From: Mike Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 9:18 PM Subject: Re: Michael Moore and General Clark I sense stand-up comedy was never your forte. Mike B

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-15 Thread k hanly
I thought that Michael Moore was being a standup comic in suggesting he would vote for Wesley Clark. Clark is the guy who ordered a Brit commander to block Pristina airport with tanks so the Russians couldnt land but the Brit said that he did not want to start world war III and didnt go along

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-15 Thread Michael Perelman
Clark may be smart and has a military history, but I know not of a single progressive action that he has taken. On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:28:57PM -0600, k hanly wrote: I thought that Michael Moore was being a standup comic in suggesting he would vote for Wesley Clark. Clark is the guy who

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-15 Thread Mike Ballard
and the people who sub to this list ain't amongst THEM. Regards to all, Mike B) --- k hanly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought that Michael Moore was being a standup comic in suggesting he would vote for Wesley Clark. Clark is the guy who ordered a Brit commander to block Pristina airport with tanks

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-15 Thread MICHAEL YATES
Why is this the choice? Who would urge a vote for Bush? Why would a radical vote for either one? Remember when people said that we had to vote for LBJ because Goldwater was so bad? Michael Moore is risking becoming a kind of cottage industry, more commodity than person. How can a person

Re: a warning for Michael Perelman

2003-12-31 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Dec. 30, 2003, 1:34PM Man trapped for 2 days under pile of books, papers Associated Press NEW YORK- A man who says he sells books and magazines on the street was rescued after being trapped for two days under a mountain of reading material in his apartment. Patrice Moore, 43, had apparently been

Re: a warning for Michael Perelman

2003-12-31 Thread Doug Henwood
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: That's a New York Story, not a Chico story. Maybe, a warning to Doug Lou. :- Things are tight here, no doubt, but if Michael's office still looks like it did when I saw it, and if Chico were hit by even a mild earthquake, our esteemed moderator might not be heard from

a warning for Michael Perelman

2003-12-30 Thread Eubulides
Dec. 30, 2003, 1:34PM Man trapped for 2 days under pile of books, papers Associated Press NEW YORK- A man who says he sells books and magazines on the street was rescued after being trapped for two days under a mountain of reading material in his apartment. Patrice Moore, 43, had apparently been

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