As I indicated to Doug offlist, I - the person using the pseudonym Nelson Goodman - am not Rakesh or any other former poster on the list. I just joined the list and use the pseudonym b/c I'm a pretenure academic. Guess it's my bad luck that the first substantive post I sent was in a thread involving someone ("Lakshmi Rhone") you all suspect of either being Rakesh or some other foul play. Hope this doesn't cast a permanent shadow on me!
> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:03:43 -0500
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> From: shag at cleandraws.com
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] What Would Have to Happen First
>
> plus, the nelson goodman handle and reference to "grue"
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Goodman
>
> RB: you are awesome with the pseuds!
>
> At 05:40 PM 2/17/2010, Dennis Claxton wrote:
> >At 08:56 AM 2/17/2010, Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Rakesh. QED.
> >
> >
> >We weren't the only ones visited by Mr. Rhone. I got curious and found
> >this from last month at 3 Quarks Daily. One good thing that came of this
> >for me is I'd never heard of 3 Quarks Daily before. It looks interesting.
> >
> >This is a response to Mr. Ali, as in Tariq:
> >
> >
> >http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/12/the-winners-of-the-3-quarks-daily-2009-prize-in-politics.html
> >
> >
> >
> >Dear Mr. Ali,
> >
> >I remember well how you told the world that India should look to its own
> >Muslims rather than Pakistani outfits after the Mumbai attack. I did not
> >appreciate that. You seem to me to be overly apologetic for what the ISI
> >props up in the name of security interests. Moreover, you and the left put
> >much too much faith in regional negotiations as a panacea. The forces that
> >ISI has backed are intent on disrupting any such process because its
> >outcome can't be trusted to meet Pakistan's so called legitimate security
> >interests; these forces have to be met with force. And it's better that it
> >be NATO's force rather than India's that wields the counter-force. Your
> >track record is not so good, either. You were one of the suckers who
> >bought the utterly corrupt, retrograde and demonic Milosevic's story that
> >he was protecting the principles of socialism and public ownership against
> >the IMF; of course no one was benefitting from the privatization of
> >property more than he was.
> >I do not understand what your standing among Western leftists is based on.
> >
> >Posted by: Lakshmi Rhone | Dec 20, 2009 2:52:40 PM
> >
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