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301 Crisis for American Jews -- rank: 626

Crisis for American Jews by Edward Said A few weeks ago, a vociferous pro-Israel demonstration was held in Washington at roughly ... were prominent public figures, including several senators, leaders of major Jewish organisations, and other celebrities, each of whom expressed unfailing solidarity ... countries like Iraq ever since last September. Also known as a rigorous hard- line supporter of Israel, in his speech he ... was unable to continue his speech, leaving the platform in a kind of

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue May 21 06:33:58 PDT 2002

302 [lbo-talk] Just Foreign Policy News, November 22, 2006 -- rank: 626

... Foreign Policy petition. In the new Congress there will be a bipartisan effort to push the Bush Administration towards direct negotiations ... org/podcasts/podcast_howto.html Summary: U.S./Top News President Bush could choose military action over diplomacy and bo

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Author:	Robert Naiman
Date:	Wed Nov 22 13:33:49 PST 2006

303 [lbo-talk] Putin -- I'm "ashamed" of anti-Semitism in Russia -- rank: 626

... 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, President Vladimir Putin acknowledged Thursday that anti-Semitism and xenophobia had ... not revise its view that the Soviet Union was solely a victim of World War II -- refusing to accept arguments that ... some responsibility for the conflict, due to the signing of a secret Soviet-Nazi pact that divided up Eastern Europe. "Even ... the victory over fascism, which did most to save the Jewish people, even in our country we sometimes unfortunately see manifestations ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sat Jan 29 08:35:57 PST 2005

304 Iraq -- rank: 623

... myth and the reality As the drumbeat grows louder for a possible attack on Baghdad, we ask arms inspectors and military ... Hussein stands or falls on this apparently simple factual question. President George Bush and his deputy, Dick Cheney, backed by Tony ... world. What is not in doubt is that Saddam has a record of aggres

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Thu Mar 14 19:00:11 PST 2002

305 [lbo-talk] SorosLoser.com -- rank: 623

... is investing $15 million in an obsessed drive to oust President George W. Bush. You probably know he's sore about ... frightening as it sounds, that's just the tip of a menacing Soros iceberg that threatens to sink America as we ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 8 12:16:36 PDT 2004

306 [lbo-talk] Danny Schechter - a prince of the American Left (Heather Gray & Ronnie Kasrils) -- rank: 623

... of the Pacifica National Board Heather Gray, and Ronnie Kasrils, a member of South Africa's ANC government and anti-apartheid ... Danny Schechter died on March 19, 2015. I had received a call that day from a mutual friend, Prexy Nesbitt from Chicago, asking if I'd ...

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Author:	Mitchel Cohen
Date:	Mon Apr 6 00:43:15 PDT 2015

307 Lieberman speaks up for G-d -- rank: 623

... transforming power of faith, about the country's thirst for a religious revival. But after the flap over his speech at ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 29 09:49:46 PDT 2000

308 Dubya's domestic policy -- rank: 623

... Pushes Ahead With Faith-Based Initiative Move is part of a broader effort to prod Congress to change tax code to ... Wire Services December 12 2002, 10:35 AM PST PHILADELPHIA -- President Bush signed executive orders today he said will "stop unfair ... ills, Bush signed executive orders aimed at giving those groups a leg up in the competition for federal money. He announced the changes in a speech to religious and charitable leaders meeting here. "If a charity is helping the needy, it should not matter if there is a rabbi on the board or a cross or a ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Thu Dec 12 11:28:57 PST 2002

309 war demographics -- rank: 623

... public have been the strongest and most consistently supportive of a pre-emptive attack? Just as Democrats and liberals were more hawkish in support of President Bill Clinton's attack on Serbian-led Yugoslavia in 1999, the core of President George W. Bush's support on Iraq are Republicans and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 21 09:16:46 PST 2003

310 sweeney is speaking monday at the pro-israel rally with netanyahu -- rank: 623

Sweeney's 'progressive' foreign policy at work. What a disgrace. He doesn't speak for me, that's for ... 13, 2002; Page B04 Tens of thousands of people from Jewish groups across the country plan to rally at the Capitol ...

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Author:	Tim Shorrock
Date:	Sat Apr 13 09:05:03 PDT 2002

311 [lbo-talk] Class Unconsciousness -- rank: 623

... Trumka to the activists of Occupy Wall Street--has made a hash of the way we name the most crucial features of our society. Exhibit A is the suffocating pervasiveness with which we use the phrase ... that used to be identified as working class. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka proclaims "it was the labor movement that built ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Mon Jun 4 07:32:29 PDT 2012

312 Fwd: Fw: Seattle '99, marriage party of the Left and the Ri ght? -- rank: 620

... Millennium Round in Seattle. The North American town will see a whole series of demonstrations, actions and discussion meetings. By now a very diverse mixture of activists, lobbyists and politicians are gathering ... are joining and seem to have put their quarrels aside. "A historic change is under way at the very heart of ... is in my view the main one. There is even a chance of winning this fight."2 George is one of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 23 15:53:14 PST 1999

313 [lbo-talk] Wanted: Revolution in the Gulf States (was U.S. threatened to bomb Pakistan after 9/11 - Musharraf) -- rank: 620

... 22, 2006 3 > > By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss > > NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan said that after > the Sept. 11 ... to the Stone Age,'" Musharraf said. "I think > it was a very rude remark." > > Armitage was not immediately ava

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Sep 21 18:20:11 PDT 2006

314 Mindspring censorship (Over-limit, but it's really important) -- rank: 620

... don't think >that defending reproductive rights puts us on a slippery slope towards >becoming the Khmer Rouge... Catholic anti-abortion ... chapter (about 11,000 words in all - this is about a third of the whole); email me privately if you want a copy. Doug ---- excerpts from chapter 2 of Kristin Luker, Abortion ... it may seem, the view that abortion is murder is a relatively recent belief in American history. To be sure, there has always been a school of thought, extending back at least to the Pythagoreans ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 7 08:50:07 PST 1999

315 [lbo-talk] Post-secondary education, neoliberal style -- rank: 620

... www.insidehighered.com/views/2010/05/11/brown Confessions of a Tenured Professor May 11, 2010 By Peter D.G. Brown ... I must confess right off that I did not become a contingent labor activist until I turned 60, a mere six years ago. Until then, I was a fairly typical senior professor, passionately involved in teaching my students and interacting with my tenured colleagues on a variety of faculty governance committees. I have also pursued a fairly active research agenda. In addition to publishing my ...

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Author:	123hop at comcast.net
Date:	Tue May 11 16:14:35 PDT 2010