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226 Cockburn on the news -- rank: 657

... 26-September 1, 1998] The Vicar of Christ is taking a keen interest in the Lewinsky affair. Returning from Italy, Lally ... precise nature of Bill and Monica's sexual embraces. As a veteran confessor, John Paul would naturally be taking a professional interest in whether seed had been wasted and a potential child lost to God. On this all-important topic ... up in Pakistan), Monica was disclosing further details of the President's more intimate targeting strategies to Ken Starr, in a reprise of the famous cross examination of Sharon S

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 26 17:57:26 PDT 1998

227 Election Crisis and Electoral Reform -- rank: 657

... have killed in the past 8 years. That would be a start. I can imagine that most Greens are laughing hard ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Sun Nov 19 12:49:05 PST 2000

228 [lbo-talk] Iraq War Was about Israel, Bush Insider Suggests] -- rank: 657

... sites) under Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) did not pose a threat to the United States but it did to Israel ... one reason why Washington invaded the Arab country, according to a speech made by a member of a top-level White House intelligence group. IPS uncovered the remarks ... September 2001--the 9/11 commission--in which he suggests a prime motive for the invasion just over one year ago was to eliminate a threat to Israel, a staunch U.S. a

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Author:	joanna bujes
Date:	Tue Mar 30 18:26:07 PST 2004

229 [lbo-talk] Middle East: Cradle Or Graveyard Of The Empire? -- rank: 657

... one's own powerlessness."] I think Adorno's statement is a good guiding principle for these times of our (we = friends ...

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Author:	syaavashaan syaavashaan
Date:	Sun Jul 30 05:09:27 PDT 2006

230 Tunisia beckons India's tourists and investors -- rank: 657

... India's tourists and investors By DILEEP PADGAONKAR Tunisia is a mere blip on the radar screen of India's tourists ... modern, moderate and tolerant Islam gives it the status of a privileged interlocutor for nations engaged in the struggle against terrorism ... in awe. Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru are household names. A street in Tunis is named after the former. One of ...

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Author:	Ulhas Joglekar
Date:	Thu Nov 25 05:08:16 PST 1999

231 Jude on Israel and the U.S. right -- rank: 654

... Re: April 15 Client Letter You'll almost never see a Polyconomics client letter in this public space, but this one, which went out a week ago, is purely political and already a bit obsolete. It did get such a positive reaction, though, that I think the insights are worth ... various publications about how Christian conservative Republicans are sticking with Jewish neo-conservatives in backing the Israeli government, no matter what! What you will see here is a little history of how the cons and neo-cons ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 24 13:34:28 PDT 2002

232 [lbo-talk] A Life of Unrest -- rank: 654

... 2007/07/15/magazine/15HAMAS-t.html> July 15, 2007 A Life of Unrest By STEVEN ERLANGER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Khaled Abu Hilal, a thin, grizzled chain-smoker who sucks in tobacco smoke the ... oxygen, is at the center of the revolution. He is a hated figure among many in the secular, nationalist Fatah; they think he is a heretic who helped set off the Gaza implosion. But his ... successor as chairman of the P.L.O. and now president of the Palestinian Authority and with what he considers the endless, futile and demeaning effort of a corrupt Fatah to please the Israelis, is shared among ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Jul 15 16:04:37 PDT 2007

233 [lbo-talk] Cohen: A serious peace plan from a serious fraction of the RC -- rank: 654

... The Fierce Urgency of Peace By ROGER COHEN Pressure on President Obama to recast the failed American approach to Israel-Palestine ... former senior officials whose counsel he respects. Following up on a letter dated Nov. 6, 2008, that was handed to Obama late last year by Paul Volcker, now a senior economic adviser to the president, these foreign policy mandarins have concluded a "Bipartisan Statement on U.S. Middle East Peacemaking" that should ... administration, they call for intense American mediation in pursuit of a two-state solution, "a more pragmatic approach toward Hamas," ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Thu Mar 26 02:59:37 PDT 2009

234 [lbo-talk] what Zionist lobby? -- rank: 654

... away from holding events with the authors. John J. Mearsheimer, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, and Stephen M. Walt, a professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at ... in the London Review of Books outlining their argument that a powerful pro-Israel lobby has a pernicious influence on American policy set off a firestorm as charges of anti-Semitism, shoddy scholarship and censorship ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 16 09:48:25 PDT 2007

235 SUPPORT FOR PALESTINE IS GROWING -- rank: 654

... s Campaign/IAC. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUPPORT FOR PALESTINE IS GROWING By Jack A. Smith Judging by news coverage in the corporate mass media, the attitude of a huge majority in Congress, and the actions of the U ... Palestinian people. But it simply isn’t true. In Israel a few days ago, between 60,000 and 100,000 people demonstrated for peace in Tel Aviv, a magnificent turnout under the present conditions. And a public opinion poll commissioned by peace groups showed that “the ...

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Author:	jacdon at earthlink.net
Date:	Thu May 16 07:34:30 PDT 2002

236 [lbo-talk] Uri Avnery on Lieberman -- rank: 654

... of its existence, Israeli democracy has never been at such a low point as it is today. By Uri Avnery PalestineChronicle ... the name means "lovable man". It is hard to imagine a name less appropriate for the new Deputy Prime Minister of ... the fact that he was once arrested for beating up a boy who had quarreled with his son. This week, the ... the center of the political system marks the start of a new chapter in the annals of the State of Israel ... of its existence, Israeli democracy has never been at such a low point as it is today. In the elections half a year ago, almost

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Author:	Colin Brace
Date:	Fri Nov 3 11:24:20 PST 2006

237 Baraka, pt. 2 -- rank: 651

In the US our constitution makes clear that this is a secular nation and by law theoretically enforces separation of church ... have demonstrated they disagree, and Israel outright says it is a "Jewish State" but if that is so then that explains why ... class citizens, in much the same way that South Africa, a close friend did under Apartheid. (See "The Crisis of Black Jewish Relations", Brenner & Bloom; "Israel and South Africa", Stevens & Ellmessi; The ... Semitic attacker of their absolutely false depictions of Israel as a victim of Palestinian Terrorism. This is absolutely in tune ...

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Author:	Alec Ramsdell
Date:	Mon Oct 7 17:06:46 PDT 2002

238 [lbo-talk] The Banality of anti-Israel Lobby Doctrine -- rank: 651

... ll try to address some of these points. Here goes a very long post. > I think your confusion about what the US can or cannot do regarding a peace settlement stems from a more general one, which is the real point at issue ... if not explicit, in the argument of those who see a sinister fifth column at work in the US that were ... own devices, unencumbered by the lobby, they would have conducted a substantially different bipartisan foreign policy in regards to the Middle ... influence is real and that its existence and development go a long way

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Author:	SA
Date:	Tue Aug 10 13:57:40 PDT 2010

239 [lbo-talk] Chechnya, Darfur, and Jewish Activism -- rank: 651

... non-Chechens, which used to be 200,000 people, and a > large number of Chechens). True, but facts are irrelevant to genocide-mongers. Kosovo is a good example, and so is Darfur. On 5/5/06 ... at panix.com> wrote: > Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > > >"Chechnya, Darfur, and Jewish Activism" > ><http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/furuhashi050506.html>. > > > >Hey, MP, you ... that matter. Spread the word! > > Where you say: > > >Meanwhile, Vice President Dick Cheney "delivered the Bush > >administration's strongest rebuke of ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat May 6 08:49:07 PDT 2006

240 Election Crisis and Electoral Reform -- rank: 651

... lead them to bury the hatchet. This crazy election makes a most powerful case for electoral reform. That might just provide common ground where mortal combat gives way to a truce on the political left. Of many questions about electoral ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Sun Nov 19 10:36:56 PST 2000