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211 [lbo-talk] Evangelical Pop Culture -- rank: 663

... 2001, about six weeks after the events of September 11, a novel called Desecration was released. The book was part of ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Dec 28 13:07:57 PST 2003

212 pak nukes...Now. General Query on CFR -- rank: 663

... rogue states' -- but > > rather argues that the US should, as a statement of policy, not > > tolerate the development of an ICBM ... could be > valuable. > > Carrol Hi Carrol, How is this for a start? THE ROUND TABLE GROUPS -- After t

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Author:	nurev at Kreative.net
Date:	Thu May 28 10:36:13 PDT 1998

213 "the heroic anti-Communist left" -- rank: 663

... has no credibility in revolutionary politics. I have posted in a short history on it on LBO a while back. I take the liberty of reposting excerpts of it below: Labor solidarity, lacking a strong tradition due to American heritage of individualism, was impeded ... William H. Sylvis organized the National Labor Union which claimed a membership of 600,000 by 1868, but disbanded within 4 ...

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Author:	Henry C.K. Liu
Date:	Sun Mar 28 11:41:09 PST 1999

214 [lbo-talk] Chemerinsky and Irvine: What Happened? -- rank: 663

... at UC Irvine; UCI Chancellor Michael Drake withdrew the offer a week after the contract had been signed; the firing was ... was rehired six days later, on Sept. 16. Chemerinsky is a prominent legal scholar and liberal advocate who has argued for ... by the Bush White House. He’s also something of a legal celebrity in southern California, where he taught at the ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Mon Sep 24 12:41:56 PDT 2007

215 [lbo-talk] WSWS: From Tunisia to Occupy Wall Street : Who is the AFL-CIO s Stuart Appelbaum? -- rank: 663

... s Stuart Appelbaum? By David Walsh 8 October 2011 In a widely reproduced article October 5 ( Seeking Energy, Unions Join Protest ... pointed prominently to the attitude and role of Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), in ... month, advising the fledgling labor movement there, when he received a flurry of phone calls and e-mails alerting him to ... Thus alerted to the spreading protests, Mr. Appelbaum recalled asking a colleague over the phone to find out who was behind Occupy Wall Street a bunch of hippies or perhaps troublemakers? and whether the movement ...

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Author:	Joseph Catron
Date:	Tue Oct 11 01:30:29 PDT 2011

216 [lbo-talk] Benny Strikes Again: "This Holocaust will be different" -- rank: 663

Essay: This Holocaust will be different Benny Morris, THE JERUSALEM POST Jan. 18, 2007 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467762531&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter The second holocaust will not be like the first. The Nazis, of course, industrialized mass murder. But still, the perpetrators had one-on-one contact ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Fri Jan 19 09:56:12 PST 2007

217 [lbo-talk] Benny Morris: the next Holocaust (from Iran) -- rank: 663

Jerusalem Post - January 18, 2007 <http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite? cid=1167467762531&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull> Essay: This Holocaust will be different Benny Morris, THE JERUSALEM POST The second holocaust will not be like the first. The Nazis, of course, industrialized mass murder. But still, the perpetrators had one-on ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 19 08:19:42 PST 2007

218 [lbo-talk] At least 100 dead in India terror attacks -- rank: 660

... on Thursday as standoffs continued against heavily armed militants who a day earlier had swept into Mumbai, India's commercial capital, in a shocking series of coordinated and bloody attacks. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in a televised address that the attackers probably had "external linkages" - the ... least two luxury hotels, the city's largest train station, a Jewish center, a movie theater and a hospital. The Mumbai police said ...

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Author:	Sujeet Bhatt
Date:	Thu Nov 27 07:41:04 PST 2008

219 [lbo-talk] Adolph Reed's latest -- rank: 660

... PM, shag wrote: > Ta-Nehisi Coates (who's father was a Panther) He's got a piece in The Nation. I'll post it without any ... May 19, 2008 <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080519/coates. A Deeper Black by TA-NEHISI COATES To say that Barack ... When Obama greets his political allies, he does not give a simple, firm, businesslike handshake. Instead he offers the sort of dap--a little English in the wrist and a one-armed hug--that black males spend much of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 8 10:17:39 PDT 2008

220 [lbo-talk] Bush Rips up the Road Map -- rank: 660

... Record: 15 April 2004, Thursday. The Guardian By Suzanne Goldenberg President George Bush swept aside decades of diplomatic tradition in the Middle East yesterday, saying it was "unrealistic" to expect a full Israeli withdrawal from lands occupied during the 1967 war or the right of return for Palestinian refugees. In a significant policy shift, Mr Bush relaxed Washington's objections to Jewish settlements in the West Bank, and attempts by Israel to dictate the terms of a final settlement with the Palestinians. He told a joint press conference with the Israeli prime minister, Ariel ...

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Author:	Diane Monaco
Date:	Thu Apr 15 08:41:03 PDT 2004

221 [lbo-talk] one American Conservative contributor endorses Kerry -- rank: 660

... could tell you all about it.) But Kerry is plainly a conventional liberal and no candidate for a future edition of Profiles in Courag

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 21 16:29:11 PDT 2004

222 [lbo-talk] Err America -- rank: 657

... on Air America, the new liberal radio network, I heard a commentator arguing that Republicans did not initiate impeachment proceedings against President Clinton because of Monica Lewinsky, Whitewater, lying or obstruction of ... committed no impeachable offenses, but they pursued impeachment anyway, in a diabolically clever ploy designed specifically to make the general public ... that they would not tolerate impeachment against the next (Republican) president - who, of course, deserves to be impeached immediately. OK. That ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 20 11:13:18 PDT 2004

223 [lbo-talk] something's changing re: Israel -- rank: 657

... the LAT? This is way beyond the normal pale for a newspaper of record. Have they done this before and I ... Angeles Times Zionism is the Problem The Zionist ideal of a Jewish state is keeping Israelis and Palestinians from living in peace ... but in 1944, six years after Kristallnacht, Lessing J. Rosenwald, president of the American Council for Judaism, felt comfortab

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Mon Mar 16 17:04:02 PDT 2009

224 [lbo-talk] Re: Mr. Churchill -- rank: 657

... the interpretations have been. Doug ---- POCKETS of RESISTANCE no. 11 A supplement of Dark Night field notes -- September 2001 "Some People ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 2 16:21:56 PST 2005

225 Fw: [ASDnet] What Went Wrong for Ralph ? -- rank: 657

... pointing to the past instead of the future. he wants a liberal social democracy when all indications are that it is ... amount of time. nader seems to think we live in a democracy, hence all that rhetoric about "reclaiming our democracy." but ... conception of democracy and the second which is rendered almost a mere formality by the first. of course, nader would not ... israel is...well, shameful. i was gonna say "especially as a palestinian" but ralph is pretty much a white guy. i mean, there is no indication from his ...

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Author:	Christopher B. Hajib-Niles
Date:	Thu Nov 30 03:20:57 PST 2000