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151 [lbo-talk] Just Foreign Policy News, July 18, 2006 -- rank: 700

... N.Korea Tests, Backs Russia Atom Fuel Plan 12) Editorial: A War With Extremists 13) Calderon Readies New Mexico Government Summary ... Times and Washington Post editorials on the Lebanon crisis present a study in contrasts. The New York Times says it's ...

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Author:	Robert Naiman
Date:	Tue Jul 18 09:45:50 PDT 2006

152 from left to right -- rank: 700

The Swastika & the Crescent by Martin A. Lee In the wake of Sept. 11, new light is ... Speer, in his prison writings, recounts an episode in which a maniacal Hitler "pictured for himself and for us the destruction of New York in a hurricane of fire." The Nazi fuehrer described skyscrapers turning into ...

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Author:	debsian
Date:	Mon Jan 27 16:49:05 PST 2003

153 [lbo-talk] Halliday on the left & Islamists -- rank: 700

... noxious, but there's some useful history here. There's a response to Halliday at <http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest ... piece last year (posted on the Opendemocracy.net site). Also a bit of a stretch but it rewards the read. Go here http://www ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 11 09:16:22 PDT 2007

154 Fwd: sweeney & wolfowitz comments yesterday at pro-israel rally -- rank: 700

... 15 Apr 2002 22:22:58 -0400 Apparently Wolfowitz was a little too sympathetic to the Palestinians for this crowd (note the boos). But not Sweeney, who couldn't utter a single word about the Palestinians and their suffering. TS JOHN ... in this moment of grave crisis and pain. Please welcome a champion of working men and women and a true friend of Israel and the Jewish community, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney. (Applause.) MR. SWEENEY: Thank you very much, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 16 08:21:21 PDT 2002

155 gay-bashing Serb nationalists -- rank: 697

... Third Position lists I lurk on mentions one. I have a hunch that those BBC pix, had some cadre of the Serbian Radical Party of V. Seselj, a coalition partner and para-military adjunct of Milosevic, Mladic and ... 2001 San Francisco Chronicle Belgrade, Yugoslavia -- Despite its reputation as a hotbed of nationalism, Serbia has not been known for racism ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Jul 1 11:00:51 PDT 2001

156 [lbo-talk] ZOG ate my brains, Chip in New Internationalist on Judeophobia -- rank: 697

... Centre to stay home on 11 September 2001; or that a handful of Jewish lobbyists control US foreign policy; or the world is run ... patently false, yet they have devoted defenders. The idea that a secret group of powerful people is conspiring to control world events is centuries old, and it is seeing a troubling resurgence on the political Left. Unlike most progressive theories ... that stress systemic, institutional or structural analyses, conspiracy theories claim a handful of sinister plotters are mucking things up. This often ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Nov 12 08:30:11 PST 2004

157 [lbo-talk] Just Foreign Policy News, August 23, 2006 -- rank: 697

... Lebanese soldiers die clearing Israeli shells 8) What's in a Name? Not, It Seems, a Leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon 9) Israel accused over 'war ... Response to the P5+1 Proposal Iraq 17) Poll Shows a Shift in Opinion on Iraq War 18) Marine Reservists Facing ...

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Author:	Robert Naiman
Date:	Wed Aug 23 12:18:15 PDT 2006

158 [lbo-talk] Celebrating the Death of Jerry Falwell -- rank: 697

... listened to his speeches, I watched his interviews, and got a real sense for who this man was and what he ... repelled and appalled. But is it not callous to bash a man just hours after his death? I have another idea ... for itself. March 1980: Falwell tells an Anchorage rally about a conversation with President Carter at the White House. Commenting on a January breakfast meeting, Falwell claimed to have as

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 16 05:33:05 PDT 2007

159 [lbo-talk] A Day When Mahdi Army Showed Its Other Side -- rank: 697

... capitalism cum US > interventionism (this includes Israeli expansionism too!) offers a much > better chance of achieving socialism in the future than Islamism does. US interventionism can't build a stable state in Iraq, without which no social and economic ... as the Iranian > > Revolution, for it has no competition from a sizable organized Marxist > > left in Iraq, unlike religious revolutionaries in ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Nov 28 09:10:33 PST 2006

160 zionism (again) -- rank: 694

... the thesis that zionism and/or Israel was founded on a racial identity. I do not dispute that many zionists practice ... are embodied in Israeli law. "Max Nordau: "The Jew posseses a greater enterprising spirit and greater abilities than the average European ... reference to others, but not an affirmation that Jews are a race. Vladamir Jabotinsky: "Palestine should belong to the Jews. The ... suitable methods aimed at the creation of an ethnically pure Jewish state will always be necessary and topical. The Arabs know ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Fri Jul 27 16:49:09 PDT 2001

161 [lbo-talk] Mike Wallace Interviews Ahmadinejad -- rank: 694

... To Mike Wallace NEW YORK, Aug. 9, 2006(CBS) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sat down with Mike Wallace in Tehran on Tuesday in a rare, exclusive interview with a Western reporter. In the wide-ranging interview, the Iranian leader comments on President Bush's foreign policy, the lack of relations between Iran ... and the United States, Hezbollah, Lebanon and Iraq. Speaking about President Bush's failure to answer his 18-page letter that ... Ahmadinejad said, "Well, (with the letter) I wanted to open a window towards the light for the president so that ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Aug 11 05:26:36 PDT 2006

162 [lbo-talk] CHB -- rank: 694

... and leaders of five religious faiths joined prayers Friday in a tribute to Ronald Reagan's starring role in the 20th ... the world. Washington National Cathedral became an international stage for a mid

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Author:	R
Date:	Sat Jun 12 19:23:17 PDT 2004

163 Deconstructing the Supremes -- rank: 694

... amusement of all you legal types . . . Q: I'm not a lawyer and I don't understand the recent Supreme Court ... in Bush v. Gore. Can you explain it to me? A: Sure. I'm a lawyer. I read it. It says Bush wins, even if Gore got the most votes. Q: But wait a second. The US Supreme Court has to give a reason, right? A: Right. Q: So Bush wins because hand-counts are ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Fri Dec 15 06:48:23 PST 2000

164 [lbo-talk] Israel's Roaring Economy -- rank: 691

... shown in your graph > > Not sure if there's really a cause-effect here, but if there is, it > would undermine ... turn out to be good for the ruling class of a nation, while others turn out to be disastrous. The 1947 ... and the Six Day War, short and sweet, expanded the Jewish state from the sea to the river, while convincing Washington ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Jun 21 16:42:40 PDT 2007

165 [lbo-talk] dumb & dumber -- rank: 691

>Stephen Klass, vice president and >dean of students, says that one of the things ... common they are. Couple of months ago I was in a custom shop in San Francisco and a guy walks in and says that he's going to a "pimp and ho" party. The guy behind the counter's ... left > minority students (and many others) angry. In > recent weeks: > > * A group of students at the University of > Chic

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Author:	Adam Souzis
Date:	Thu Oct 27 14:08:04 PDT 2005