----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
> >Ed Vulliamy is an excellent investigative journalist on the Guardian
> >and Observer newsgroup.
> >
> >I am copying the URL of this Observer article to LBO-talk because
> >although a lot will be known in the US, it is possible that with US
> >newsmedia, this information may not be brought together in quite
> >this way before. Perhaps satirically but not so authoritatively and
> >systematically?
> >
> >http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,901066,00.html
>
> Much of this is known here, but it is good to have it in one place.
> And I think it's a useful counter to the FROP/overaccumulation
> explanations of the anti-Iraq campaign, since it shows the
> bellicosity emerging from a specific and relatively narrow set of
> ideological and even electoral interests, and not the guts of capital.
>
> Doug
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There's also a review of neo-populist Michael Lind's new book on how the US South took over the State that's worth a peek
http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=1257
>From Appomattox to Armageddon
Tracing the Metastasis of Texas' Values and Political Economy
BY LOU DUBOSE