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181 Suicide Bombers -- rank: 679

... new series), whole no. 31, Summer 2001] ALAN JOHNSON is a reader in the Center for Studies in the Social Sciences, Edge Hill of Higher Education, England. He is writing a biography of Hal Draper and is a member of the NEW POLITICS editorial board. I got hold ... you say if in certain circumstances you were imprisoned in a city where there was a Communist government, and I, knowing you were innocent, started a campaign against the communists on your account?" "Ah," said ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sat May 11 18:43:34 PDT 2002

182 [lbo-talk] Developments in the world economy and the concept offoreign ownership -- rank: 675

... White House from using military > > methods, then? > > Stopping them is a different thing from starting them. I think a lot > of business types defer to the state except on ... instances are historical > fact. The third is based only on a lack of evidence - but do you know > of anything to the contrary? A lot of politicians, especially those who capture the highest offices ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun May 27 19:34:08 PDT 2007

183 Haacke Rudy=Hitler piece at Whitney -- rank: 675

... 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 a speaker which will play an audiotape of Nazi troops marching. Above the garbage cans will be displayed a copy of the First Amendment surrounded by quotes written ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 9 11:36:31 PST 2000

184 zionism (again) -- rank: 675

... to my neck in deadlines, etc., I did stumble onto a few tidbits in the meanwhile that I think are relevant ... Jews, zionist collaboration with antisemites and fascists, "the land without a people for a people without a land", etc. Max Nordau: "The Jew posseses a greater enterprising spirit and greater abilities than the average European ...

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Author:	Forstater, Mathew
Date:	Fri Jul 27 16:44:35 PDT 2001

185 Election Crisis and Electoral Reform -- rank: 675

... electoral reforms seem to be about nothing more than creating a system whereby americans might better manage their priviledge over the ... t think that any reforms--abolishing the electoral college, introducing a parlimentary system, publically funded elections, whatever--will make much of a difference in so far as assaulting entrenched "economic" power is concerned. i think voting in a society (like ours) where choice is both severly constricted, and (when it is even somewhat meaningful) a means by which authoritarian tendencies are reinforced, is a form of social control. i ha

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Author:	Christopher B. Hajib-Niles
Date:	Sun Nov 19 11:15:48 PST 2000

186 [lbo-talk] Just Foreign Policy News, July 28, 2006 -- rank: 675

... 17th Day as Rice Vows to Return 3) Bush Sees a Chance for Change to Sweep Mideast 4) Israel Approves Call ...

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Author:	Robert Naiman
Date:	Fri Jul 28 13:48:06 PDT 2006

187 [lbo-talk] Rabbi Michael Lerner using the Antisemitism card against the US Green Party -- rank: 672

... er Visner, Chairman of the Israeli Greens, little more than a one man party with little connection to the environmental movement in Israel, wrote a hysterical letter in critique of the US Greens call for ... the US Green Party: I think the Greens have made a big strategic as well as moral mistake. What Israel is doing is a violation of human rights and a big sin. But it is not in the same league ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Sat Feb 11 01:29:35 PST 2006

188 Boston Globe: Plan to Reshape Entire Middle East -- rank: 672

... s so much more efficient than peaceful political change. What a mindset.] Published on Tuesday, September 10, 2002 in the Boston ... to war against Iraq, its most hawkish members are pushing a sweeping vision for the Middle East that sees the overthrow of President Saddam Hussein of Iraq as merely a first step in the region's transformation. The argument for ... and in hawkish circles. It is now being considered as a possible US policy with the ascent of key hard-liners ... Pentagon to John Hannah and Lewis Libby on the vice president's staf

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Wed Sep 11 14:01:46 PDT 2002

189 [lbo-talk] how Israel spawned Hamas -- rank: 672

... By ANDREW HIGGINS Moshav Tekuma, Israel Surveying the wreckage of a neighbor's bungalow hit by a Palestinian rocket, retired Israeli official Avner Cohen traces the missile ... my great regret, is Israel's creation," says Mr. Cohen, a Tunisian-born Jew who worked in Gaza for more than ... Palestinian rivals and then morph into what is today Hamas, a militant group that is sworn to Israel's destruction. Instead ... for years tolerated and, in some cases, encouraged them as a counterweight to the secular nationalists of the Palestine Liberation Organization ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 26 19:19:56 PST 2009

190 Why the U.S. Supports Israel, cont'd -- rank: 672

VIEWPOINT "Exploring The Powerful Issues & Emotions of The Middle East" Thursday, May 16, 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------ Editor's Note: Today we bring an analysis of why the US supports Israel by professor Stephen Zunes. When dealing with the Middle East, is it often difficult to sift through fact and fiction to get to ...

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Author:	Max B. Sawicky
Date:	Sun May 19 08:55:06 PDT 2002

191 [lbo-talk] Clancy Sigal: How a dead dog came back to bite Richard Nixon's Watergate ... -- rank: 672

... comes off in the media re: Watergate as something of a hero for exposing the fact that Nixon had installed secret ... TV in Yaphank prison that summer, where I was serving a 4-month sentence for my participation in antiwar activities on ...

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Author:	Mitchel Cohen
Date:	Mon Jun 18 23:26:24 PDT 2012

192 Repug Sharonistas open yet another anti-Arab front -- rank: 672

... AlterNet March 12, 2002 Viewed on March 13, 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------------- At a Tuesday gathering of the National Press Club, members of the ... we are facing." The newly-formed organization is headed by a half a dozen right-wing luminaries, including its chairman, the former Secretary of Education and drug czar William Bennett. AVOT is a "project" of Empower America, which Bennett co-directs with former ... candidate Jack Kemp, and former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, a major architect of the Reagan administration s more violent escapades ...

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Author:	Hakki Alacakaptan
Date:	Wed Mar 13 10:44:32 PST 2002

193 [lbo-talk] dumb & dumber -- rank: 672

... left minority students (and many others) angry. In recent weeks: * A group of students at the University of Chicago held a "ghetto" party in which some students dressed in stereotypical clothing ... circulated on the Internet, and the university is now organizing a town hall meeting and other discussions about racial insensitivity. * At Colorado State University, a student group trying to protest a state referendum did so with an image of a lynching. After the use of lynching imagery angered minority ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 27 12:29:21 PDT 2005

194 [lbo-talk] Obama Calls Iran Threat to U.S., Israel -- rank: 672

... he is doing because he is "[s]eeking to woo Jewish votes and contributions," as if AIPAC represented the mainstream of Jewish voters and as if Obama wouldn't be taking the position he is but for Jewish voters? -- Yoshie <http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-070302obama ... March 2, 2007, 6:01 PM CST Seeking to woo Jewish votes and contributions, Sen. Barack Obama told an audience in ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Mar 2 22:54:55 PST 2007

195 [lbo-talk] Bush frames Israel/Lebanon conflict as struggleagainst "Islamo-fascism" -- rank: 669

Schwartz, a red-diaper baby (CPUSA, later a Trotskyist), converted to Hanafi Islam while reporting from Kosova/o ... bios.htm Executive Director Stephen Suleyman Schwartz Kosovo: Background to a War, Anthem Press, London, 2000, introduction by Christopher Hitchens What Is 'Islamofascism'? A history of the word from the first Westerner to use ... article originally appeared on TCS Daily. "Islamic fascists"--used by President George W. Bush for the conspirators in the alleged trans ... it, have become relevant--perhaps urgently so. I admit to a lack of modesty or neutrality about this discussion, since ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Aug 18 23:15:42 PDT 2006