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271 [lbo-talk] Darfur Advocacy Group Undergoes a Shake-Up -- rank: 635

... LOVE this. Some of the dumbo liberals FINALLY wise up a little! Spare Darfur! -- Yoshie <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06 ... africa/02darfur.html> June 2, 2007 Darfur Advocacy Group Undergoes a Shake-Up By STEPHANIE STROM and LYDIA POLGREEN Even as advocacy groups attained the seeming triumph of President Bush's new sanctions against Sudan, the organization that helped ... director of the organization, the Save Darfur Coalition, wisely used a sudden influx of money from a few anonymous donors in an advertising blitz to push for ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Jun 2 09:15:53 PDT 2007

272 [lbo-talk] Jewish "nation"? (Was Armenian genocide?) -- rank: 635

... SOUTH, BUT LINCOLN SAID NO STEVE AFTERGOOD, SECRECY NEWS - In a remarkable episode from the Civil War that is not as ... Mississippi, where his forces had taken the field. Equally remarkable, President Lincoln did not say he would "stand by" his generals ... needs" to accomplish its mission. Instead, he rescinded the order. A century-old account of General Grant's short-lived ban ... Jews has recently been published online. During the Civil War, President Lincoln repeatedly suspended habeas corpus and authorized other serious infringements ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Thu Oct 18 15:32:44 PDT 2007

273 'The Asbestos President' -- rank: 635

[The establishmentarian NY Times certainly has great limitations as a source of news and commentary, but the paper is in a rare feisty mood today with a number of good articles on the triumphal, lunatic conservatism that ... ruthless man he knew, all global despots included."] The Asbestos President By Maureen Dowd Washington -- Being witty about poisoned drinking water isn't easy. It requires a certain obtuse savoir-faire. Our president gave it a go Thursday night at a press ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Sun Apr 1 20:26:42 PDT 2001

274 NATO is a racket -- rank: 635

... UK) November 22, 2002 The Prague racket Nato is now a device to exert control and extract cash. Those who resist ... like Belarus, are punished By John Laughland John Laughland is a trustee of the British Helsinki Human Rights Group At the ... week, one man is notable by his absence. Last Friday, President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus was refused a visa on instructions from Washington, an unprecedented diplomatic snub. After a six-year propaganda campaign waged against Lukashenko by the west ... he now stands isolated. The EU is about to slap a travel ban on him and his ministers, like the ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Fri Nov 22 05:51:33 PST 2002

275 The more a ruling class is able to assimilate... -- rank: 635

The circumstance that a man without fortune but possessing energy, solidity, ability and business acumen is able to become a leading figure of the bourgeois republic is a valid indicator of the state of the society. "In a similar way, the circumstance that the Catholic Church in the ... of consolidating ecclesiastical rule and suppressing the laity. The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the foremost minds of a ruled class, the more stable and dangerous becomes its ...

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Author:	Hinrich Kuhls
Date:	Fri Jan 19 12:50:45 PST 2001

276 Mossad, friend of Rich -- rank: 635

... pardon for Rich By Jodi Enda, Inquirer Washington Bureau Washington - President Bill Clinton granted his pardon to fugitive financier Marc Rich ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 16 14:12:01 PST 2001

277 Patriotism's Secret History Re: Why not emigrate? -- rank: 632

>Now, why nation rather than race? A priori, there's no reason. But >we don't face the matter a priori. We face it in a particular >context. In practice, it's because racial identifications have a >particularly ugly history, at least from the side of the ... it is more >complex. It can be an attachment to a place and a people without any >assumption of superiority--like family. Lincoln' ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Jun 3 23:03:55 PDT 2002

278 [lbo-talk] Israel demographics? -- rank: 632

... more and more Israelis. El Al just started three times a week non-stops between Los Angeles and Tel Aviv. This ... story notes the "bad timing" and quotes Meyer L. Bodoff, president and chief executive of the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas, who says southern Nevada has the fastest growing Jewish community in North America. http://www.inbusinesslasvegas.com/2006/07 ... 2002, little did company executives know that SARS would put a damper on tourism from Asia and that the outbreak of ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Wed Aug 2 20:15:12 PDT 2006

279 [lbo-talk] The end of Palestine -- rank: 632

... His aim, it has been widely reported, is to reach a "framework agreement" as a prelude to a final settlement of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Norman Finkelstein is ... significance of the negotiations, as we enter what may be a decisive phase in the Palestinians' long struggle for self-determination ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Sat Jan 11 09:56:27 PST 2014

280 [lbo-talk] Hillary steps away from Israel Lobby -- rank: 632

[wow, is this the pressure of running in a Dem primary? would she rejoin the fold in the general ... Away From Pro-Israel Lobby on Measure to Rein in President The Forward, www.forward.com Nathan Guttman | Wed. Oct 10, 2007 Washington - Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has built a reputation for strictly adhering to the pro-Israel line, but ... proposed by Virginia Democrat Jim Webb, that would require the president to seek congressional approval before taking military action against Iran ... afflicted U.S. policy in Iraq," Senator Clinton said in a statement explaining her decision to co-sponsor the amendment. "We ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 13 09:46:10 PDT 2007

281 [lbo-talk] Terror blasts in Istanbul :atrocities aid Bush's war on terror -- rank: 632

... violent explosions for the second time within the space of a few days. Bombs exploded in front of the British consulate in the Istanbul district of Beyoglu and before a branch of the major Anglo-Asian bank HSBC, situated in ...

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Author:	Brad Mayer
Date:	Sat Nov 22 09:47:56 PST 2003

282 Fwd: [lbo-talk] Juan Cole: PKK Spin-Off Behind Istanbul Bombings -- rank: 632

... violent explosions for the second time within the space of a few days. Bombs exploded in front of the British consulate in the Istanbul district of Beyoglu and before a branch of the major Anglo-Asian bank HSBC, situated in ... British Consul General in Istanbul, Roger Short. Witnesses spoke of a bl

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Nov 21 17:22:45 PST 2003

283 [lbo-talk] Just Foreign Policy News, August 7, 2006 -- rank: 632

... Lebanese Premier Seeking Changes to U.N. Proposal 4) Editorial: A Truce for Lebanon 5) Israel threatens to expand Lebanon ground ... See Lives Caught Up in Long War 7) The Militia: A Disciplined Hezbollah Surprises Israel With Its Training, Tactics and Weapons ... 10) Reuters drops Lebanese photographer over doctored image 11) L.A. Mayor Apologizes to Muslim Leaders 12) Iran Says It Will ...

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Author:	Robert Naiman
Date:	Mon Aug 7 10:42:55 PDT 2006

284 Anti-Jewish Friends of Israel Re: Ace on The Jews -- rank: 632

... Jews." "That's right," agrees Graham, >who later concurs with a Nixon assertion that a "powerful bloc" of >Jews confronts Nixon in the media. "And ... out >the pornographic stuff," Graham adds. Later Graham says that "a lot >of the Jews are great friends of mine. They ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Mar 13 06:57:02 PST 2002

285 [lbo-talk] BHO's seduction of right far more extensive than thought -- rank: 632

[via Lou Proyect - Jonathan "J. Mart" Martin covered the Reps during the recent campaign] <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17532.html> Obama tries to seduce Republicans By: Jonathan Martin January 17, 2009 10:25 AM EST It's no secret Barack Obama is trying to seduce Republicans these ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 18 18:42:37 PST 2009