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286 [lbo-talk] Discontent among Egypt's Workers -- rank: 632

A story that Lenin's Tomb, Hossam el-Hamalawy, Joel Beinin ... Rarely do workers en masse rebel against corporatist "trade unions" (a common problem from post-socialist to post-nationalist states) as ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Oct 30 06:07:35 PDT 2007

287 [lbo-talk] movie news: Spike & dykes -- rank: 629

... themselves. In that annual ritual known as "Coming Out Day," a swirl of festivities covers campuses in a wash of pink triangles, Indigo Girls posters, and AIDS-awareness ... Bisexual Until Graduation) mingle with the newly declared lifers, in a weeklong series of events that have become as commonplace as fraternity hazing and a post-graduation jump in the fountain. This year's Coming ... latest movie. For most campus lesbians -- at least those without a counterintuitive sense of humor -- it will hardly be greeted as a love letter. There's a certain masochism that goes ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 4 11:26:38 PDT 2004

288 [lbo-talk] Such times as this.... -- rank: 629

... the Sentimental Affinities of George W. Bush By Omri Elisha President / Queen I don't have a television. I don't follow the blogs. I have an ...

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Author:	snit snat
Date:	Mon Nov 8 08:50:40 PST 2004

289 [lbo-talk] Among Religious Groups, Jewish Americans Most Strongly Oppose War -- rank: 629

... Default.aspx?ci=26677 > > February 23, 2007 > > Among Religious Groups, Jewish Americans Most Strongly Oppose War > Opposition goes beyond Jewish Americans' political affiliations > > by Jeffrey M. Jones > > GALLUP NEWS SERVICE ... that among the major religious groups in the > United States, Jewish Americans are the most strongly opposed to the > Iraq war ... oppose the war, but not to the same > extent that Jewish people do. United States Made a Mistake in Sending Troops to Iraq, by Religious Affiliation, 2005-2007 Gallup Polls Religious War War Preference a mistake not a mistake Black 78

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Feb 25 06:42:56 PST 2007

290 [lbo-talk] Latvian SS marchers thing -- rank: 629

I got a lot of interest offlist in my translation of the interview ... just post it here. Voila: Argumenty i Fakty Interview: The President of Estonia Arnold Ruutel. Do We Really Celebrate Nazism? The ... while despising May 9 and honoring Nazi collaborators FOR DAYS President of Estonia (and former secretary of the CC of the ... to Moscow for May 9. An AiF correspondent met with A. Ruutel in Tallinn in order to find out why May ... 9 is banned in Estonia. The discussion took place through a translator, but when the president became agitated we switched to Russian. Mr. President, my ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sat Apr 2 11:05:12 PST 2005

291 Thr richest man in Russia -- Khodorkovsky the oligarch -- rank: 629

... billion By Mark McDonald MOSCOW - The wealthiest man in Russia, a 39-year-old oil baron with a net worth of $7 billion, started out as a red-blooded Communist Party flunky, a whiz-kid chemistry major whose wildest dream was to become, get this, the manager of a factory. Instead, he became one of the fine young cannibals ... of industry are known. Some analysts think he's leading a tentative but promising new move toward adopting Western-style ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Sep 4 07:46:47 PDT 2002

292 Fwd: Pravda Propaganda On The NRA, GOA and Militias -- rank: 629

... Waco. Concern about bad publicity was there, but there was a more serious concern just under the surface - the Southern Indiana Regional Militia, a 250-man "unorganized" citizen's militia unit, had pledged to ...

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Author:	Kelley
Date:	Fri Oct 26 22:03:07 PDT 2001

293 [lbo-talk] Ali Reza Asgari Spied on Iran for Years -- rank: 629

Ali Reza Asgari, a mole for Mossad and Western intelligence agencies, "served in the Iranian government until early 2005 under then-President Mohammad Khatami." Reformists ought to read less Habermas and perhaps ... deputy defence minister, is understood to be undergoing debriefing at a Nato base in Germany after he escaped from Iran, followed by his family. A daring getaway via Damascus was organised by western intelligence agencies ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Mar 11 03:43:32 PDT 2007

294 Baraka, pt. 1 -- rank: 629

[It looks like this didn't make it through the first time, so here it is in two posts.] The ADL Smear Campaign Against Me I Will Not Resign, I Will Not Apologize by AMIRI BARAKA The recent dishonest, consciously distorted and insulting non-interpretation of my poem, "Somebody Blew ...

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Author:	Alec Ramsdell
Date:	Mon Oct 7 17:05:54 PDT 2002

295 Hitchens explains -- rank: 629

... curious. I come away sickened by Hitchens. E.M. Forster, a novelist I like, once said if it came down to a choice of betraying his country or betraying his friends, he ... to jail before testifying against Sid. But the Post says a sworn affadavit is equivalent to testimony for prosecutorial purposes, so ... does any time for refusing to testify, I'll issue a qualified self-criticism and send him a beef and kidney pie in jail. My distaste for Clinton ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Mon Feb 8 18:08:07 PST 1999

296 Conventional wisdom: 'Left is Dead' -- rank: 626

... not accidental) that this is aimed at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival - it is aimed at all of us on ... in recent months around here: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALEXANDRA J. WALL of the Jewish Bulletin of Northern California reports that The Consulate General of Israel has withdrawn a grant of $2,000 -- as well as its sponsorship -- from the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival because the festival is "one-sided and unbalanced" print article The Consulate General of Israel has withdrawn a grant of $2,000 -- as well as its sponsorship -- from the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival in a dispute over a panel of ...

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Author:	Brad Mayer
Date:	Mon Aug 6 11:08:35 PDT 2001

297 Saudi Arabia getting scared? -- rank: 626

... to the United States today for his first meeting with President Bush, bearing a swell of Arab indignation over the fate of the Palestinians ... States' Arab allies that their friendship with Washington is becoming a liability at home. Disturbed by the continuing loss of life ... over the past month that the situation is more than a matter of right and wrong. The Bush administration's identification ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Wed Apr 24 09:18:29 PDT 2002

298 Observing the Recount; Analyzing the Ballot -- rank: 626

From RedrockEater: a report from a Dem observer of the Palm Co recount and a Press Release from Don A. Dillman, American Association for Public Opinion Research, on Palm Beach ... Beach County Supervisor of Elections. Also present were lawyers and a staffer representing GWB, several lawyers representing Gore, representatives of the ... his Dem. challenger Elaine Bloom (this race is still contested), a Dem. State Senator and a Dem. State Representative from ...

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Author:	kelley
Date:	Fri Nov 10 08:41:22 PST 2000

299 Democracy as a four-letter word. Again. -- rank: 626

... he warmed to his subject. "It may be excusable as a fantasy of some Israelis reacting to the trauma of the ... crosses the line between neo-conservative and neo-crazy.'' Cordesman, a Mideast specialist at the conservative Center for Strategic and International ... with increasing insistence by forces both within the administration of President George W. Bush and outside it for invading Iraq: the notion that ousting President Saddam Hussein would result in a flourishing of democracy, not just in Iraq but through the ...

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Author:	pms
Date:	Mon Sep 30 10:11:02 PDT 2002

300 ... talk] Chad and Sudan (was "Save Darfur": Evangelicals and Official "Jewish Leaders") -- rank: 626

... sort of > action in Darfur. Have we not already taken a good look at the pros and cons in Clinton's Somalia interventions and found a HUGE CON? Anyhow, here's what Americans ought to know ... since Chad gained independence 46 years ago, it has been a world-class model of political dysfunction. In the 1970s, Chad's president, François Tombalbaye, compelled civil servants to renounce Western customs, undergo a tribal initiation rite known as yondo and profess belief in a nationalist creed he called Chaditude. He was executed in ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Apr 28 13:07:09 PDT 2006