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1006 [lbo-talk] Chavez "Recalls Argentina Envoy" . . . over Iran? -- rank: 407

... November 2006, 18:27 GMT > Chavez 'Recalls Argentina Envoy' > > Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has recalled his ambassador to Buenos > Aires following a complaint by Argentina's leader, Argentine media > report. > > President Nestor Kirchner is said to have contacted Mr Chavez over ... warrants were issued over the ex-ministers' alleged involvement in > a bomb attack on a Jewish cultural centre in Buenos Aires in 1994, in > which ...

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Author:	Seth Ackerman
Date:	Sun Nov 26 12:00:07 PST 2006

1007 Financial pressure on Israel? -- rank: 407

... before history has been completed, what would an ethical US president do to bring Israel to heel financially? Chris Burford London ... US (except mine: Lee, and sometimes Boxer), let alone the president (not elected, not ethical), and second, more interesting still, is why such a proposal is impossible. The US empire is to the non ... and mostly european and the parallelism with US empire, as a neo-colonialist, neo-imperialist view toward the dusky masses of ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Tue Apr 9 11:03:24 PDT 2002

1008 an endorsement that says it all -- rank: 407

what are the dems giving their celebrity shills these days--a list of talking points and a vial of crack? _______ Rob Reiner likens Gore to Nixon, Johnson ... mate Dick Cheney drew laughter while Reiner and Gore headed a health care forum at a Cleveland hospital. But Reiner later raised eyebrows and prompted more ... that have as qualified as this man (Gore) to be president of the United States in our lifetime,'' Reiner said. ``One ... the others being Johnson and Gore himself, Reiner said. When a reporter

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Author:	Steve Perry
Date:	Mon Aug 14 07:42:04 PDT 2000

1009 [lbo-talk] BHL's plan for the French left -- rank: 404

... Jacques Derrida, held responsible for the widely publicised rediscovery... of a theoretician, driven by his hatred of free markets to espouse ... Nazism: Carl Schmitt. He is presented as the saviour of a left that has lost its bearings. *Slavoj Zizek and Peter Sloterdijk: A significant number of European intellectuals have wholeheartedly embraced this curious, indeed hallucinatory, notion that a Nazi thinker [Schmitt] could rescue the left from its current problems. Heidegger used to say that only a god could save us. Now, echoing the idea, this leftwing fringe repeats that only a Nazi can save us. *Emmanuel

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Author:	C. G. Estabrook
Date:	Sun Jun 15 10:49:20 PDT 2008

1010 Hate crimes -- rank: 404

... an AFL-CIO convention workshop on hate crimes, William Lucy, president of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, said the labor ... decent wage and benefit contracts. Hate crimes, he said, is a polite phrase for "lynching" and it is a menace to all democratic rights. His call comes just in ... second of two Wyoming men accused of lynching Matthew Shepard, a gay youth, is now underway. The second Klansman accused of ... Angeles, Buford Furrow, the neo-Nazi who opened fire in a Jewish community center wounding several children, and murdered Filipino-American ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Fri Oct 15 10:29:48 PDT 1999

1011 Progressives Jam Gay Rights Bills Through Congress- Religious Right furious -- rank: 404

... dampening of public debate is not all bad. It appears a number of hot button gay rights bills are being passed while the religious right is a bit on the defensive from its usual denouncing of opponents. Here's a press release from Concerned Women for America ----- Original Message ----- From ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Thu Sep 27 10:38:08 PDT 2001

1012 [lbo-talk] Blue Dog victory? No says Nathan -- rank: 404

... departed Nathan: >> >>>Let's be clear -- it wasn't just a good night for Democrats. It was a >>>good night for progressives, and no media spin that these ... s name is he talking about? They were elected in a vast >outpouring of moderation. [Bill Clinton, an expert on moderation ... was one, much agrees.] Thursday, Nov. 9, 2006 9:25 a.m. EST Bill Clinton: Election No Move to the Left by U.S. In Ottawa Canada last night, former president Bill Clinton told a crowded forum that the election results were "a rejecti

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Thu Nov 9 09:12:53 PST 2006

1013 Turkish peace forum -- rank: 404

... call of the international community to turn this key into a key for peace. The Turkish government has not yet given permission to the U.S.A for the use of its bases, and deployment of U.S forces on Turkish soil. A "NO" from Turkey would throw a wrench into the war machine. The Forum will voice the ... active role in preventing this war. Invited to Turkey by a broad coalition of peace and human rights groups, the international peace activists will participate in a major domestic peace forum, Assembly of the 100s, on ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 24 07:35:41 PST 2003

1014 [lbo-talk] AJC: "it does not help American Jews to appear to be stimulators of any action against Iran" -- rank: 398

... Max B. Sawicky wrote: > > >There is something off-putting about a member of one ethnic group > >classifying others according to positive ... which > you don't approve, do you have to be a member of social group X to > make that point, even ... chairman of the Republican Party was booed at an American Jewish Committee event over comments on Iraq. Ken Mehlman, who is Jewish, said Iraq posed less of a challenge now than under Saddam Hussein. Mehlman was otherwise politely ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed May 3 20:25:11 PDT 2006

1015 [lbo-talk] International campaign for the release of Tali Fahima -- rank: 395

... and unjust incarceration of the woman who represents hope for a future of friendship and commonality between Palestinians and Israelis will not pass unnoted. Tali Fahima, a Jewish Israeli woman, has been harassed by the Israeli General Security Services for over a year now, for defying the Apartheid logic set by the ... important it is for the International Solidarity Movement to emanate a different voice. Spending almost a year in jail now, Tali expresse

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Author:	Bryan
Date:	Mon Jun 13 11:27:20 PDT 2005

1016 75 professors who deserve your complete support -- rank: 395

... Harvard, MIT Faculties Urge Divestment in Israel by Jenna Russell A teach-in on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of ... of civilians and violated the international laws of war during a three-week siege. ''I look

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Author:	Chris Kromm
Date:	Tue May 7 06:10:20 PDT 2002

1017 Reparations Conference -- rank: 395

... are looking for more than money, one man contributing to a government study said Friday. ``Reparation is not necessarily the question ... Worrill, chairman of the National Black United Front, said at a conference at one of the nation's oldest historically black ... from across the country who came to Fisk University for a conference held by he Race Relations Institute. The institute hopes ...

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Author:	Lisa & Ian Murray
Date:	Sat Feb 24 21:53:02 PST 2001

1018 [lbo-talk] Unofficial de-Baathification process in Iraq Continues -- rank: 395

NeoCons... Why is everyone afraid to say they're JEWISH. http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/06/320052.shtml >...Jew ... distributed outside the Conyers hearings on June 16, and that a connection was cited in that pamphlet linking 9/11 to ... The session took an awkward turn when witness Ray McGovern, a former intelligence analyst, declared that the United States went to ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Aug 7 11:44:58 PDT 2005

1019 Jude W: hands off Iraq! -- rank: 395

... anywhere || they wish in Iran or Iraq, if they suspect a clandestine nuke || program, and they will be taken for a look-see. An IAEA team did such || an inspection in ...

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Author:	Hakki Alacakaptan
Date:	Wed Nov 28 16:10:59 PST 2001

1020 [lbo-talk] Obama: put the squeeze on Iran and shun Hamas -- rank: 395

... nuclear program. However, like its two predecessors, this resolution represents a lowest common denominator because Russia and China did not agree to tougher sanctions. Iran's nuclear ambitions pose a serious threat to the United States, to our ally Israel and to international security. We urgently need to pursue a strategy of aggressive diplomacy that includes direct discussions with Iran ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 9 17:40:27 PDT 2008