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166 [lbo-talk] Faith at Work -- rank: 691

... November 18, 2004; Page E01 > >The guest speakers appearing before a sold-out breakfast of 600 tech >executives usually hold forth ... the Ritz-Carlton at Tysons Corner, Gary >T. McCollum, vice president and general manager of Cox >Communications Northern Virginia, and April Young, senior vice >president of Comerica Bank, have a different topic: their spiritual >journeys. <snip> >The event is hosted by a 90-member who's who of players in the local ... M. Parsons;WebMethods founder Phillip Merrick; VeriSign's >executive vice president, Robert J. Korzeniewski; and venture >capitalists Hooks Johnston of ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Nov 19 14:43:58 PST 2004

167 [lbo-talk] Juan Cole on the Bomb Iran debate -- rank: 691

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060313_fishing_for_a_pretext_in_iran/ Truthdig Fishing for a Pretext to Squeeze Iran By Juan Cole <snip> Iran is a mid-size country of some 70 million, with a per capita income of only about $2,000 a year. It has no weapons of mass destruction, and its ... simply being unreasonably aggressive. Supreme Jurisprudent Ali Khamenei has given a fatwa or formal religious ruling against nuclear weapons, and ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Wed Mar 15 12:24:30 PST 2006

168 [lbo-talk] Danger! Legacy Ahead! -- rank: 688

http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9397 There's a reason the Middle East is heating up by Justin Raimondo The Israelis are conducting not only a shooting war but also a propaganda war: if there is a way to "spin" the deaths of Lebanese civilians, the smashing ... narrative of the conflict so that Israel is portrayed as a reluctant warrior. In America, this is easy: the "mainstream" media ... pictures that might upset the carefully nurtured image of the Jewish state as a heroic David up against an Arab- ...

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Author:	mike larkin
Date:	Sun Jul 23 21:20:23 PDT 2006

169 Jewish Collegians Prepare to Defend Israel on the Campuses -- rank: 688

New York Times 25 August 2001 Jewish Collegians Prepare to Defend Israel on the Campuses By JODI ... WILGOREN HONESDALE, Pa., Aug. 22 - As they do every summer, Jewish student leaders flocked to a mountain retreat here this week to trade ideas, hone leadership ... of the current Palestinian uprising approaches in September, leaders of Jewish organizations are anticipating a surge in campus protests over Middle East politics, part of a broader growth in student activism. After a year of ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Aug 28 17:24:24 PDT 2001

170 [lbo-talk] David Duke makes repeat visit to controversial Kyiv university -- rank: 688

... gaining attention by lecturing abroad and promoting his controversial book, "Jewish Supremacism: The Jewish Question from the Eye of an American," the Russian-language version of which has enjoyed a wide readership in Russia and Ukraine, according to Duke. http ... his books during his recent years in Europe By Martin A. Lee During his high-flying career as a professional white supremacist, David Duke made several trips to Europe ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Nov 17 07:30:35 PST 2006

171 [lbo-talk] BHO's foreign policy team -- rank: 688

... foreign affairs, Senator Obama's inner circle of advisers includes a Swahili-speaking Air Force general he met on a trip to Africa; a 30-year-old speechwriter who helped draft the final report from the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, and President Clinton's first national security adviser, who in 2005 converted ... to Judaism under the tutelage of the Navy's chief Jewish chaplain. Those advisers in order are Scott Gration, Ben Rhodes, and Anthony Lake. They are part of a nine-person team, in contact every day, often by ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 21 06:38:36 PST 2008

172 [lbo-talk] Chavez "Recalls Argentina Envoy" . . . over Iran? -- rank: 685

... 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:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Nov 26 12:31:40 PST 2006

173 [lbo-talk] Norman Solomon on Mearsheimer & Walt -- rank: 685

... of "Anti-Semitism" By Norman Solomon The extended controversy over a paper by two professors, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," is prying the lid off a debate that has been bottled up for decades. Routinely, the ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Mon May 8 22:38:11 PDT 2006

174 [lbo-talk] from FAIR -- rank: 685

from Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting: Editing Chavez to Manufacture a Slur Some outlets spread spurious charges of anti-Semitism 1/23/06 It began with a bulletin from the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles (1/4/06) accusing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of invoking an old anti-Semitic slur. In a Christmas Eve speech, the Center said, Chavez declared that "the ... right took up the issue. "On Christmas Eve, Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez's Christian-socialist cant drifted into anti-Semitism ...

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Author:	Jim Devine
Date:	Mon Jan 23 15:12:28 PST 2006

175 [lbo-talk] Philip Weiss: "AIPAC confronts its worst fear: daylight" -- rank: 685

... would like to believe that AIPAC will never recover from a brutal spring that has exposed its real interests to the American public. Even supporters of the Jewish state have criticized the American Israel Public Affairs Committee for ... cultivate "relationships" with the powerful. Yes, Sen. Chuck Schumer gave a bloodcurdling yowl, Am

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 6 05:48:41 PDT 2010

176 FW: The anti-imperialism of fools -- rank: 679

... neo-Nazis and Islamic >fundamentalists? By Mick Hume Once upon a time, a hundred years or so ago, >it was fashionable to attack something called "Jewish capitalism". August >Bebel, a German friend of Karl Marx, described this attempt to give >anti-Semitism a progressive spin as "the socialism of fools".Today's fashion >for Israel-bashing seems to me to represent a similar foolishness. It is not >old-fashioned anti-Semitism. ...

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Author:	michael pugliese
Date:	Mon Jun 17 11:49:47 PDT 2002

177 [lbo-talk] Cohen on Russia -- rank: 679

... interview with Stephen Cohen December 4, 2003 Stephen Cohen is a Professor of Russian studies at New York University, Professor Emeritus ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sat Dec 6 06:35:37 PST 2003

178 Yellow peril update -- rank: 679

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/04/27/MN199998.DTL Asian Americans seen negatively Results ... Americans, would feel uncomfortable voting for an Asian American for president of the United States, and would disapprove of a family member marrying someone of Asian descent, according to a landmark national survey. The results of the telephone poll conducted ... Henry Tang, chief executive officer of the Committee of 100, a Chinese American leadership organization that sponsored the survey -- the first ... we were startled at the magnitude," he said yesterday in a telephone interview. "These observations are results of many decades . . . ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Fri Apr 27 11:50:46 PDT 2001

179 Haacke Rudy=Hitler piece at Whitney -- rank: 679

i would f ly up, if i had a comfortable place to stay'''----- Original Message ----- only a 600% return, er, whatever... only From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at ... Hitler Goes Mainstream in Whitney Museum > by Robert Lederman > > In a phenomenally bold move for an institution whose board of > directors ... top contributors, > the Whitney Museum of American Art will show a work by > German born artist Hans Haacke directly equating Giuliani ... the most > important art shows in the world. > > "Sanitation" features a wall with a series of 8 to 12 garbage > cans, each containing ...

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Author:	Paula Smalarz
Date:	Thu Mar 9 18:04:51 PST 2000

180 [lbo-talk] Avnery on Obama's AIPAC Speech -- rank: 679

... Can't! Uri Avnery June 7, 2008 AFTER MONTHS of a tough and bitter race, a merciless struggle, Barack Obama has defeated his formidable opponent, Hillary Clinton. He has wrought a miracle: for the first time in history a black person has become a credible candidate for the presidency of the most powerful country ... to the conference of the Israel lobby, AIPAC, and made a speech that broke all records for obsequiousness and fawning. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 8 14:18:10 PDT 2008