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21556 [lbo-talk] Query on Brezhnev -- rank: 1000

How is Brezhnev seen in Russia today? Was it the Golden Age of the Soviet working class? Doug

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Date:	Thu May 13 10:13:47 PDT 2004

21557 [lbo-talk] disputes within the One True Church -- rank: 1000

N.Y. pol blasts Vatican 'hypocricy' for Iraq abuse protest 'If there's anyone in the world who has no right to speak on sexual abuse, it's the Vatican' THE ASSOCIATED PRESS [May 13, 2004] WASHINGTON - Catholic lawmaker Peter King ripped Church leaders as hypocrites Thursday for the Vatican's foreign minister claim that the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal is worse for America than the Sept. 11 attacks. "If there's anyone in the world who has no right to speak on sexual abuse, it's the Vatican,& ...

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Date:	Thu May 13 10:10:18 PDT 2004

21558 [lbo-talk] HRW: abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan "systematic" -- rank: 1000

U.S. Abuse of Afghan Prisoners Systemic - Rights Group By Mike Collett-White KABUL (Reuters) - Mistreatment of prisoners by American forces in Afghanistan (news - web sites) is systemic, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday, a day after the U.S. army in Kabul launched a fresh inquiry into beating and sexual abuse at secret jails. The rights body demanded information on how two Afghans died in U.S. custody 18 months ago and called for wider access to detention centers where hundreds of al Qaeda an ...

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Date:	Thu May 13 10:07:50 PDT 2004

21559 [lbo-talk] ooops -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - May 13, 2004 LOWDOWN Lloyd Grove WSJ vs. 'Jersey Girls' Wall Street Journal pundit Dorothy Rabinowitz - who last month penned an acid assault on the "Jersey Girls," four 9/11 widows who've dared to criticize the Bush administration - received some payback yesterday at the hands of "Jersey Girl" Kristin Breitweiser. The 33-year-old widow of portfolio manager Ron Breitweiser, who died in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, gleefully shared with ...

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Date:	Thu May 13 09:52:24 PDT 2004

21560 [lbo-talk] Mariane Pearl: violence leads to violence -- rank: 1000

[not an original observation, but it's good she said this] Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Pearl mourns for Berg's family Slain reporter's widow tells crowd: 'Violence doesn't end violence' By MEG JONES As the video images of American civilian contractor Nick Berg being beheaded in Iraq were broadcast Tuesday, Mariane Pearl's thoughts were of Berg's family. Pearl knows what his mother is going through - Pearl's husband, Daniel, a journalist abducted in Pakistan in 2002, was slain in the same vivid, p ...

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Date:	Thu May 13 09:45:25 PDT 2004

21561 [lbo-talk] testosterone the antisocial hormone? -- rank: 1000

At 9:24 AM -0500 5/13/04, newsletter at newscientist.com wrote: The antisocial hormone <http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994981> Levels of testosterone in the womb may profoundly affect a person’s social development. The latest in a series of studies suggests that children exposed to high levels in the womb are less developed socially and may also explain why men are four times as likely as women to suffer from autism. Although too small to be conclusive, the study's findin ...

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Date:	Thu May 13 07:40:12 PDT 2004

21562 [lbo-talk] Kerry: Practicing Austerity Even Before Getting Elected -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Kerry: Practicing Austerity Even Before Getting Elected I think it's time to get past the simple equation that fiscal balance = austerity and fiscal deficit = nonausterity. The state of the bizcycle and the composition of revenues and expenditures are what matter. The Swedish social dems almost always balanced the budget during their heyday. Real wages fell during the red-ink-ridden Reagan days, and rose during the Clinton black-ink days. The working class is hardly t ...

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Date:	Thu May 13 07:10:35 PDT 2004

21563 [lbo-talk] Pat Buchanan on the war -- rank: 1000

May 12, 2004 A Time for Truth by Patrick J. Buchanan With pictures of the sadistic sexual abuse of Iraqis in Abu Ghraib prison still spilling out onto the front pages, it is not too early to draw some conclusions. The neoconservative hour is over. All the blather about "empire," our "unipolar moment," "Pax Americana" and "benevolent global hegemony" will be quietly put on a shelf and forgotten as infantile prattle. America is not going to fight a five- or ...

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Date:	Thu May 13 07:06:09 PDT 2004

21564 [lbo-talk] texas and nader -- rank: 1000

[Well, not Texas, but a few other states, via a conference call. Gotta love that grass-roots organization!] Nader Wins Endorsement From Reform Party By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: May 13, 2004 Filed at 12:41 a.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- Independent Ralph Nader, reviled by some Democrats for his presidential bid, was endorsed Wednesday by the national Reform Party, giving him ballot access in at least seven states, including the battlegrounds of Florida and Michigan. Nader spokesman Kevin Zeese ...

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Date:	Thu May 13 06:54:07 PDT 2004

21565 [lbo-talk] Berlusconi next? and John Kerry's options -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >The current talking points of the squatters in the White House claim >that Kerry is a "flip-flopper," and that he most certainly is -- >which makes him, as a banal and opportunistic politician, infinitely >preferable to the gang of fanatics around Bush whose entire purpose >in life is to cut our throats. People interested in actually ending >the war should continue to work to make it worth Kerry's while to >pursue the "Zapatero option." ...

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Date:	Thu May 13 06:47:48 PDT 2004

21566 [lbo-talk] Bush as the lesser imperialist evil -- rank: 1000

John Thornton wrote: >I still believe Clinton did to Welfare what Bush Sr. never could have done. One major difference: the welfare constituency was very small. The SS/Medicare constituency is very large. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 13 06:37:08 PDT 2004

21567 [lbo-talk] Bush as the lesser imperialist evil -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >As dangerous as it is, Bush's re-election may be a lesser evil So I guess neither you nor Kolko ever hoped to organize a union, or anticipated any need for Medicare. It's all about foreign policy, isn't it? Doug

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Date:	Wed May 12 18:01:28 PDT 2004

21568 [lbo-talk] Martin Wolf on the unilateral bully -- rank: 1000

[Wolf is pretty orthodox in economics, but a smart fellow.] Financial Times - May 12, 2004 The saviour of democracy is run by a unilateral bully By MARTIN WOLF I am a huge admirer of the US. Freedom and democracy survived the 20th century only because o f American actions and values. Without the US, Hitler or Stalin would have emerged as undisputed winners of the second world war. Thereafter, the US turned defeated enemies into allies and undertook the long - and ultimately successful - task of ...

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Date:	Wed May 12 16:10:26 PDT 2004

21569 [lbo-talk] there must be 27 ways to go to war... -- rank: 1000

Bush administration has used 27 rationales for war in Iraq, study says http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/04/0510war.html Andrea Lynn, Humanities Editor 217-333-2177; andreal at uiuc.edu 5/10/04 CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — If it seems that there have been quite a few rationales for going to war in Iraq, that's because there have been quite a few – 27, in fact, all floated between Sept. 12, 2001, and Oct. 11, 2002, according to a new study from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. All but four of the ...

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Date:	Wed May 12 14:59:17 PDT 2004

21570 [lbo-talk] Beheadings -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: <mitchelcohen at mindspring.com> > >> Do we actually know who killed Nick Berg? > >Get real. It may not have been Al Qaeda (though I believe they have claimed >credit), but it was certainly some group of terrorists. That's a broad word. It could include the U.S. and Israeli governments, couldn't it? Doug

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Date:	Wed May 12 14:54:15 PDT 2004