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22006 [lbo-talk] life in Camp X-Ray (1) -- rank: 1000

John Adams wrote: >On Monday, March 15, 2004, at 07:33 AM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > >> >>--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >>>andie nachgeborenen wrote: >>> >>>>But this particular >>>>complaint is unlike any "torture" I ever heard of, >>>far >>>>too imaginative for Americans >>> >>>John Waters & Thomas Pynchon are Americans. >>> >>>Doug >& ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 15 07:08:44 PST 2004

22007 [lbo-talk] the rightwing Ramone -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - March 15, 2004 RAMONE'S A RIGHT-THINKING ROCKER RIGHT-wing rocker Johnny Ramone scolded his friend Eddie Vedder after the Pearl Jam singer impaled a mask of President Bush and slammed it to the stage at a Denver concert last April. "I got serious with him and told him that he was alienating people," Johnny tells the Washington Times. "And I got him to see the point." The guitarist for the legendary Ramones has always been an ideological outcast in t ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 15 07:00:49 PST 2004

22008 [lbo-talk] deserter challenges Iraq war -- rank: 1000

Chicago Tribune - March 14, 2004 Deserter aims to be first veteran to challenge Iraq war's morality BY MICHAEL MARTINEZ NEW YORK - In Iraq last April, freshly promoted Staff Sgt. Camilo Mejia led squads of Florida National Guard soldiers in the fight against insurgents in the deadly Sunni triangle. But Mejia became increasingly pained by his war experiences, and when he went on leave last fall, he decided not to come back. The staff sergeant - one of about 600 soldiers counted as AWOL by the Arm ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 15 06:50:30 PST 2004

22009 [lbo-talk] life in Camp X-Ray (1) -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >But this particular >complaint is unlike any "torture" I ever heard of, far >too imaginative for Americans John Waters & Thomas Pynchon are Americans. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 14 21:13:14 PST 2004

22010 [lbo-talk] Coulter: Muslim's smell bad -- rank: 1000

Apologies for the apostrophe in the subject heading. I don't know where it came from. I'm going to say a Hail Mary and an Act of Contrition now. Doug

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Date:	Sun Mar 14 17:45:27 PST 2004

22011 [lbo-talk] life in Camp X-Ray (1) -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Why do these ex-captives hate and fear women so much? That's a good question, but it's not the first one that occurred to me. More urgently, why is our government treating people like this, and what can we do to stop it? Doug

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Date:	Sun Mar 14 17:27:43 PST 2004

22012 [lbo-talk] Coulter: Muslim's smell bad -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher Online - March 11, 2004 Coulter Column Criticized NEW YORK The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today asked newspapers to consider dropping Ann Coulter after her March 3 column that implied Muslims "smell bad." None of Coulter's approximately 50 clients have complained about the column so far, according to Universal Press Syndicate Director of Communications Kathie Kerr. In the column, Coulter wrote: "Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 14 16:28:39 PST 2004

22013 [lbo-talk] El Salvador Elections emergency -- rank: 1000

[Gar Lipow asked me to forward this.] ============= In the upcoming El Salvador elections Salvadoran immigration officials are detaining and in some case deporting foreign election observers. (This is contrary to clauses in the constitution of El Salvador.) There is no reason for this unless the current right wing government plans on massive fraud. (The left is expected to win there.) Given El Salvador's dependence on international trade and aid, there is no way they would do this without at l ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 14 16:14:54 PST 2004

22014 [lbo-talk] the usual suspects? -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >The attacks appear to be closer to a 'strategy of terror', where >groups associated with those in power use terrorism threats against >civilians to put political pressure on the politicians - in this >case, welcome political pressure - to lead the politicians to enact >right-wing legislation banning dissent and increasing the power of >the police state, all justified by the necessity to fight the 'war >on terrorism'. Hmm, didn't work out too good, did ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 14 16:04:35 PST 2004

22015 [lbo-talk] life in Camp X-Ray (2) -- rank: 1000

Daily Mirror (London) - March 12, 2004 TERROR OF TORTURE IN CUBA CAMP WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Jamal says: 'I was beaten by special squad in show of force. Guards chant while kicking and punching" By Gary Jones and Rosa Prince JAMAL al-Harith told last night how he suffered a brutal attack by US military police because he refused to have a mystery injection. A squad of five men used batons, fists, feet and knees in an assault that left him with severe bruising. During the beating the officers barke ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 14 16:00:17 PST 2004

22016 [lbo-talk] life in Camp X-Ray (1) -- rank: 1000

Daily Mirror (London) - March 12, 2004 MY HELL IN CAMP X-RAY By Rosa Prince and Gary Jones A BRITISH captive freed from Guantanamo Bay today tells the world of its full horror - and reveals how prostitutes were taken into the camp to degrade Muslim inmates. Jamal al-Harith, 37, who arrived home three days ago after two years of confinement, is the first detainee to lift the lid on the US regime in Cuba's Camp X-Ray and Camp Delta. The father-of-three, from Manchester, told how he was assaulted w ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 14 15:55:32 PST 2004

22017 [lbo-talk] S. Brian Willson on John Kerry's Obsession -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >Which means that if Kerry wins we have to keep fighting his >administration as we have fought every administration since -- how >far back do you want to go, Washington? I would still much rather be >fighting a Kerry administration than a Bush one. At the Socialist Scholars Conference this morning, Michael Lighty of the California Nurses Association reported on a bill that the CNA lobbied for that prescribed minimum nurse-to-patient staffing ratios for hospitals. ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 14 15:46:07 PST 2004

22018 [lbo-talk] coalition of the shrinking -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >Spain's Socialists Appear Poised to Win This is splendid news. It was also splendid how the rallies went from mourning the dead to damning the war, and Aznar as murderer and liar. I can't imagine the Bush White House is happy with the news. Things just aren't breaking W's way these days, are they? Doug

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Date:	Sun Mar 14 15:14:51 PST 2004

22019 [lbo-talk] Spanish vote -- rank: 1000

<heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: >The peace movement in Spain - and the vigils are a continuation - is >a defeatist movement. It wants Spain to withdraw from involvement in >Iraq. It sees the railway bombings as the price paid for supporting >the war. > >But it has no positive alternative to the ruling elite. What should it have advocated, James? Doug

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Date:	Sun Mar 14 14:43:06 PST 2004

22020 [lbo-talk] one in nine Americans have seen The Passion -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/content/?ci=10963> March 12, 2004 Passion Viewers Passionate About the Movie Three in four Americans have seen or expect to see it by David W. Moore GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- If the latest Gallup Poll is any indication, Mel Gibson's movie, The Passion of the Christ, is likely to be among the highest grossing films of all time, perhaps even competing with Titanic for the title. As of last weekend, the movie had grossed more than $200 million, with -- accord ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 14 11:00:18 PST 2004