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27271 [lbo-talk] Re: Right Wing Antiwar Sites -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >Bookchin, I believe considers himself to be an >anarcho-communist. Municipal socialism is his thing. If it's larger than face-to-face, it's too big. Doug

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27272 [lbo-talk] Schroeder comes crawling -- rank: 1000

Schroeder Regrets Words That Hit U.S.-German Ties By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said on Saturday he deeply regretted "exaggerated remarks" critical of U.S. moves against Iraq (news - web sites) that soured his relations with President Bush (news - web sites). In a further attempt to repair U.S.-German relations strained by his outspoken criticism, Schroeder said he was confident the dispute over Iraq would not cause long-term problems between ...

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27273 [lbo-talk] Re: Right Wing Antiwar Sites -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >There is no wing of the Republican Party that is truly >libertarian. Ron Paul & Bob Barr? Doug

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27274 [lbo-talk] Re: Right Wing Antiwar Sites -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >One of my libt friends who has a highly-regarded blog >tells me all true libertarians opposed the Vietnam War >too. I think he mentioned Murray Bookchin as an example. Bookchin or Rothbard? Doug

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27275 [lbo-talk] Re: Right Wing Antiwar Sites -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >mike larkin wrote: >> >> >> I'm no expert on these guys, but everything by them I've read at >> antiwar.com, where they congregate, indicates that they are sincere in >> advocating "republic, not empire." > >By "Republic" they mean primarily the Roman Republic, an extremely >oppressive and aggressive regime. And implicitly they also mean a >republic which embodies as completely as possible under capitalism a & ...

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27276 [lbo-talk] Fitful warmongering at The Nation -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >[Letters to the Editor, New York Times] > >Opposing This War, but Not All Wars How is that warmongering? Is every nonpacifist a warmonger? Doug

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27277 [lbo-talk] Gott mit uns -- rank: 1000

Bush Marks Holy Season by Reflecting on Iraq War By Patricia Wilson CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites), whose public expressions of faith have raised eyebrows in Europe, on Saturday mourned the loss of American lives in Iraq (news - web sites), saying God's purposes were "not always clear." Marking the religious holidays of Easter and Passover in his weekly radio address, Bush said the holy season had "special meaning" this year and welcomed the rel ...

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27278 [lbo-talk] Re: know your enemy -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Size doesn't matter. Really? I'm getting about 15 emails a day asserting the contrary. Doug

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27279 [lbo-talk] excess -- rank: 1000

A number of people - you know who you are - have been egregiously overposting. I haven't been counting, but I'm about to start. No more than three a day, please. The new mailing software makes it easy to block posts from specific addresses. Doug

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27280 [lbo-talk] cleansing research -- rank: 1000

<http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/300/5618/403?etoc> Studies of Gay Men, Prostitutes Come Under Scrutiny Jocelyn Kaiser Last month, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) conducted a site visit of an investigator at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), whose studies of sex workers have been the target of a recent inquiry by Congress. Although there is no hard evidence that the inquiry and the site visit are linked, the events have concerned researchers a ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 18 12:47:23 PDT 2003

27281 [lbo-talk] neoconservatism.com -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >wow. this is the whole ball of wax. >not shy at all, these folks. Oh, but don't believe everything you hear! Just ask Poddy the Younger. Doug ---- New York Post - April 18, 2003 I CONFESS By JOHN PODHORETZ OK, I'll admit it. I'm part of a vast conspiracy to control American foreign policy. Yes, we neoconservatives have succeeded in brainwashing the leaders of the United States and Britain, using nefarious mind-controlling techniques. Those techniques include: Writin ...

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27282 [lbo-talk] Iraq's Price Controls -- rank: 1000

LouPaulsen wrote: >On the CIA thing: how much of what you are referring to is based on that >one long article from UPI about SH being involved in all these assassination >plots? I have my doubts about how far you can take that as gospel. I heard it first years ago, during GW I - that the CIA provided him with a list of commies to kill.

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27283 [lbo-talk] VITW banned -- rank: 1000

Institute for Public Accuracy 915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa at accuracy.org ___________________________________________________ Friday, April 18, 2003 On Thursday, less than 24 hours after issuing a press release highlighting the apparent failures of the U.S. military's humanitarian operations in Iraq, the international group Voices in the Wilderness was banned from meeting with the U.S. Civil Military Operations Center or with ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 18 10:57:34 PDT 2003

27284 [lbo-talk] Fwd: The Pew Research Center for The People and The Press Update -- rank: 1000

>The final leg of the Pew Research Center's war opinion tracking >survey finds that President Bush's overall job approval rating has >risen only slightly in recent days, even as increasing numbers >believe that the war in Iraq has been won. At 72%, his approval mark >has not yet come close to matching President George H.W. Bush's peak >approval score of 89% after the successful conclusion of the Persian >Gulf War in 1991. > >The new poll also finds no indications to da ...

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27285 [lbo-talk] Iraq's Price Controls -- rank: 1000

LouPaulsen quoted Workers World: >But revolutionary Iraq didn't have a moment's peace. The country went >through years of upheaval and several coups as U.S. and British covert >operations, sabotage, intrigue and constant military efforts attempted to >restore the status quo ante. By 1972, however, the oil had been nationalized >and the biggest landowners expropriated. With Iraq's vast oil resources in >the hands of the state, a spectacular social transformation happened within ...

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