Left Business Observer

last updated: October 24, 2009

sorta NEW!

Just out: LBO #122
(the fourth issue in fourth months, on time! it’s a new regime in LBO-land!!):

pity suffering Wall Street! • Florida: felons can’t vote, but could sell mortgages • 2008: a year of less money and more poverty • more carnage as lunatics demand exit strategy • declining employment share • why the Senate sucks

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The reason for the new timeliness? Liza Featherstone is now LBO’s counseling editrix. In addition to lending her considerable intellectual and editorial skills to the publication, she will be imposing a scheduling discipline on the chronically procrastinating editor.

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Susan Marks on water • Walter Benn Michaels on race & class • Kari Lydersen on the Republic Doors & Windows takeover • Lee Badget on what happens when gay people marry • Max Blumenthal on the fundie nuts & the GOP • Michael Yates on the working class, etc. • Wallace Shawn on bourgeois guilt • Bruce Dixon on liberal delusions about Obama • Ned Sublette on New Orleans (and the radio premiere of a song) • Adolph Reed on the dismal state of the left and the waning usefulness of “race” • Tariq Ali on “AfPak” • Astra Taylor on talking with philosophers • Sandy Cioffi on her film about oil and resistance in Nigeria • Christian Parenti on Fixer, the documentary about his friend and colleague who was killed by the Taliban • Josh Bivens on the gloomy economy • Steve Early, embedded with organized labor • Ervand Abrahamian on Iran • Michael Thomas on love, money, and Goldman • Katha Pollitt on her new book of poems • Len Rodberg on health care “reform” • Matthew Lasar on Pacifica’s election • Sam Gindin on the crisis in auto • Matt Taibbi on Goldman Sachs....

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The limits of anti-racism: Adolph Reed Jr. on how being against racism isn’t really all that political

Overconsuming health: much of the boom in U.S. consumption over the last couple of decades has actually been caused by medical inflation, not profligacy

How American awfulness stacks up: a review of the OECD’s latest Social Indicators, which reveal us to be sick, poor, undereducated, overworked, smug

see Michael Yates’s piece on Chávez & the UFW, discussed in this interview, here

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