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181 [lbo-talk] Juan Cole: Emmanuel Rahm deserves some slack on Israel -- rank: 1000

Yesterday, Ynet (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3619559,00.html ) published a quote from senior foreign policy adviser to Obama, Denis McDonough, which puts Obama's positioning towards Hamas on par with the current administration's stand: "...Obama said throughout the campaign that he will only talk with Hamas if it renounces terrorism, recognizes Israel's right to exist and agrees to abide by past agreements." This, when Hamas leader Ismail Haniyah, once again reiterated to ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 10 12:50:00 PST 2008

182 [lbo-talk] Time to take off the beer-goggles...Honeymoon is over...Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff... -- rank: 1000

Rahm Emanuel as White House Chief of Staff Is our honeymoon with Obama over yet.can we now begin the divorce proceedings?

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Date:	Thu Nov 6 00:02:37 PST 2008

183 [lbo-talk] A new Israel-Syria peace push? -- rank: 1000

I don't think there is much of a chance that it will go anywhere. Olmert is likely to be indicted for corruption, Netanyahu has stated that if he gains office, he wouldn't recognize any peace agreement made by the present administration, Barak is the idiot who even according to Clinton sabotaged the Syrian/Israeli peace negotiations back when he was PM, plus, the there is a push in the Knesset for a bill "that would require holding a referendum or elections before ceding any territory under ...

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Date:	Fri May 23 10:19:33 PDT 2008

184 [lbo-talk] Palestine Investment Conference Opens in Bethlehem -- rank: 1000

*Palestine Investment Conference Opens in Bethlehem */ Written by The Alternative Information Center (AIC) /To read the rest and see many pictures of the conference, click here <http://www.alternativenews.org/news/english/palestine-investment-conference-opens-in-bethlehem-20080522.html>. The first-ever Palestine Investment Conference opened Wednesday afternoon, 21 May, in Bethlehem, amongst great international support and fanfare. With an estimated 1000 participants, including Palestinian ...

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Date:	Thu May 22 04:11:08 PDT 2008

185 [lbo-talk] Israeli real estate cutthroats unite in New York-based business -- rank: 1000

http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/985044.html Israeli real estate cutthroats unite in New York-based business By Raz Smolsky, TheMarker Ilan Bracha and Lenny Sporn are laying down arms in their war over New York City, and more than that, they're joining hands. The two young Israeli real estate salesmen are among the top five team leaders at Douglas Elliman Prudential Real Estate. "There isn't a property deal in New York that doesn't pass over our desk," say the two, who instead of compet ...

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Date:	Mon May 19 22:24:15 PDT 2008

186 [lbo-talk] "The Gaza Bombshell" from Vanity Fair -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: > > > Was this a surprise to anyone in the Middle East? As I recall, > Gilbert Achcar said this was Bush strategy when I interviewed him > last January <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#070104>. > > Doug > The question is, a surprise to whom? This fits well with what we have been hearing, and from Palestinian sources in Gaza and such. You can get smatterings of information from the media on it if you know how to read between the li ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 4 12:55:28 PST 2008

187 [lbo-talk] "The Gaza Bombshell" from Vanity Fair -- rank: 1000

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/04/gaza200804 This is a long article, so I only have below the first section: --------------- The Middle East The Gaza Bombshell After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs. With confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and current U.S. officials, David Rose ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 4 10:20:16 PST 2008

188 [lbo-talk] New AIC Podcast: Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" in the Israeli Context -- rank: 1000

Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" in the Israeli Context On Thursday, the 26th of June, 2008, Shir Hever, economist with the Alternative Information Center (AIC) spoke with Canadian journalist, author and activist, Naomi Klein. Naomi is the author of No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies and Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate and a frequent contributor to The Nation, In These Times, The Globe and Mail, and The Guardian. Her most recent w ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 30 11:08:45 PDT 2008

189 [lbo-talk] UN: Israel violated truce 7 times in one week (and first) -- rank: 1000

As one would expect, the Israeli press has been unified (in congruence with the Israeli government and military), in maintaining that the Palestinians were the first to break the Hamas/Israel Gaza-only truce on 24 June, when 3 Qassam rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel. In fact, the media/government/military has been arguing that the Palestinians were not only the first, but the only party to break the ceasefire, because Israel has "only" been making arrests and extra-juridical as ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 27 00:38:14 PDT 2008

190 [lbo-talk] Really Mr. Icahn??? Corporate Democracy is a Myth??? What a Revelation.......!!!! -- rank: 1000

An interesting form of democracy he is promoting there, where more money literally buys you more votes... I know this logic is nothing new, it just amazes me anew every time that someone tries to promote it with a straight face. I train myself to remain willfully naïve. It takes a lot of effort, believe me. -----Original Message----- From: On Behalf Of B. Of course, Icahn has been saying this for a long time. In July, 2002, he basically quoted Alex Brady (_Business as a System of Power_) and sta ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 24 09:38:22 PDT 2008

191 [lbo-talk] Really Mr. Icahn??? Corporate Democracy is a Myth??? What a Revelation.......!!!! -- rank: 1000

Carl is just an average guy trying to use the his free vote of "shareholder democracy" to rid "a company of a fruitless board." Power to the people...power to Icahn! Corporate Democracy is a Myth http://www.icahnreport.com/ Posted by Carl Icahn June 18, 2008 : 1:00 PM Recently, there has been a great deal of outrage concerning the huge pay and severance packages awarded to a number of CEOs. There has been much criticism of the fact that CEOs earn 520 times that of the average ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 24 08:11:32 PDT 2008

192 [lbo-talk] News from Within Podcast: American, Israeli and Iranian Strategies in the Middle East Conflict (interview with Gilbert Achcar) -- rank: 1000

News from Within Podcast: American, Israeli and Iranian Strategies in the Middle East Conflict On 29 May, 2008, Michael Warschawski, co-founder of the Alternative Information Center, spoke with Gilbert Achcar at his office in London, England. Gilbert lived in Lebanon for many years before moving to France, where he taught politics and international relations at the University of Paris. Since 2007, he has been a professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Orienta ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 16 08:54:41 PDT 2008

193 [lbo-talk] East Jerusalem man in bulldozer drives over cars and pedestrians on Jaffa St. in Jerusaelm -- rank: 1000

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/02/israel.bulldozer/index.html#cn nSTCVideo Well, not much to say except, I am happy that I decided to work from home today and not go to the office in Jerusalem. Because this is exactly on the route I walk to my office.

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Date:	Wed Jul 2 03:54:39 PDT 2008

194 [lbo-talk] Gentrification: Not Ousting the Poor? -- rank: 1000

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1818255,00.html Gentrification: Not Ousting the Poor? By Barbara Kiviat People tend to think gentrification goes like this: rich, educated white people move into a low-income minority neighborhood and drive out its original residents, who can no longer afford to live there. As it turns out, that's not typically true. A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Pittsburgh and Duke University, examined Census data from ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 2 03:23:04 PDT 2008

195 [lbo-talk] Thousands of Palestinian and Israelis Demonstrate on Both Sides of the Gaza Border Against Blockade -- rank: 1000

Thousands of Palestinian and Israelis Demonstrate on Both Sides of the Gaza Border Against Blockade Written by Bryan Atinsky, Alternative Information Center (AIC) To see many pictures from the demonstration, click here http://www.alternativenews.org/news/english/thousands-of-palestinian-and-israelis-demonstrate-on-both-sides-of-the-gaza-border-against-blockade-20080127.html On Saturday, 26 January, some 1,500 Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel from all around the country, including severa ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 27 11:56:40 PST 2008