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361 [lbo-talk] The Secular Experiment -- rank: 608

... s freethought got to do with it? Susan Jacoby, Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (Metropolitan Books, 2004) Reviewed by Brendan ... state is absolute where no Catholic prelate would tell the President, should he be Catholic, how to act and no Protestant ...

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Author:	snit snat
Date:	Fri Dec 17 13:24:16 PST 2004

362 [lbo-talk] LaRouche: world monetary system collapse by Sept '06 -- rank: 608

... 06, joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: > > National Geographic is a right-wing publication. I would not trust their > > representation of ... Errors CAMERA has twice sent to John M. Fahey, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer of National Geographic Society, a detailed enumeration of the errors, distortions and omissions in "Lines ... of the magazine, Geographic states: The West Bank article generated a torrent of letters (the most received in response to any ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Wed Apr 26 09:57:11 PDT 2006

363 [lbo-talk] Stephen Zunes: Kerry's Foreign Policy Record Suggests Few Differences with Bush -- rank: 608

... dissidentvoice.org March 6, 2004 Those who had hoped that a possible defeat of President George W. Bush in November would mean real changes in ... of Iraq and lied about former dictator Saddam Hussein possessing a sizable arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in order to ... Unexplained" <http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0301-01.htm>) However, a look at his record shows that Kerry's overall foreign policy agenda has also been a lot closer to the Republicans than to the rank-and ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Mar 10 06:12:32 PST 2004

364 Lacanians -- rank: 608

... the terrorist attack. Interesting, though I always have to take a breath at the pomo vocabulary. Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema [from lacan ... LPA) -Eric Laurent, psychoanalyst at Saint-Roch St. in Paris, President of the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne (AMP), sent to ... forever as one of the names of horror, it was a commonplace to say that the Towers were « symbols ». The Twin

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Author:	Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema
Date:	Sat Oct 13 12:03:20 PDT 2001

365 [lbo-talk] what Zionist lobby? -- rank: 604

... 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:	joyce brothers
Date:	Thu Aug 16 11:53:04 PDT 2007

366 Palestine report -- rank: 604

... In cabinet the Sharon government declared the PA to be a terrorist organisation, widely interpreted as meaning that they would seek to overthrow Arafat, rather than tie him into a peace deal. According to Israel's spokesmen, the latest bombing ... days, means that Arafat can no longer be trusted as a 'partner for peace'. The Israeli dispossession and oppression of Palestine ... Israelis' inability to deal in anything other than force. Yet Jewish nationalism has also taken its toll on the Israelis themselves. The Jewish state feels increasingly terrorised, insecure and out of plac

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Dec 11 11:58:19 PST 2001

367 Robert Fisk: There is a solution to this filthy war - foreign occupation -- rank: 604

... in this digest: 1. International Occupation? (Was Re: Who is a Jew?) From: "lev_lafayette" <lev_lafayette at yahoo.com.au ... yahoo.com.au> Subject: International Occupation? (Was Re: Who is a Jew?) --- In workersl

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sat May 11 07:10:43 PDT 2002

368 [lbo-talk] Shatz: Nasrallah's Game -- rank: 604

... Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, presided over a major prisoner exchange with Israel, in which the Lebanese guerrilla ... three Lebanese detainees, one of whom, Samir Kuntar, had killed a family of three in the Israeli town of Nahariya in ... Hezbollah's leader: the capture of two Israeli soldiers in a raid that left eight o

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 24 13:56:21 PDT 2006

369 Jude on war -- rank: 604

[for all you Jude W fans out there!] A War Scenario Feb 27 2003 Memo: To Website Fans, Browsers ... letters with greater detail and nuance, but this still represents a fundamental view of what we expect if the United States ... economists I know are now saying the reason Iraq is a drag on the financial markets is because of the uncertainty ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 27 12:37:34 PST 2003

370 "the heroic anti-Communist left" -- rank: 604

... Lovestone may have been the most feared. By PAUL BERMAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A COVERT LIFE Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster. By ... leftists and radical trade unionists who recognized that Communism was a catastrophic byproduct of their own movement, and who mobilized themselves ... And in that great untold tale, surely no one played a stranger or more dramatic role than the slightly

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 28 10:35:22 PST 1999

371 Fw: David Corn: troubling origins of the anti-war movement -- rank: 604

... www.laweekly.com/ink/02/50/news-corn.php ------ L.A. Weekly | NOVEMBER 1 - 7, 2002 Behind the Placards The odd ... Brown, the former Black Panther convicted in March of killing a sheriff’s deputy in 2000). And free Leonard Peltier. Also ... re at it, let’s bring the capitalist system to a halt. When tens of thousands of people gathered near the ...

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Author:	Peter K.
Date:	Thu Oct 31 16:33:09 PST 2002

372 A Hundred Peace Movements Bloom -- rank: 601

... http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030106&s=kaplan > > A Hundred Peace Movements Bloom > by ESTHER KAPLAN > [from the January ... not its unity, > but its diversity. Here, for example, is a snapshot of the New York City > antiwar movement in the ... black and Latino > youth activists and tenant organizers huddle in a back room, discussing > how to turn out bodega owners and ... in Harlem "for schools and jobs, not war"; while downtown, a > collection of apron-clad activists, from such global justice outfits as > Reclaim the Streets, hold a "bake sale for the military," a propaganda > stunt to promote an antiwar listserv. Some 2, ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Fri Dec 20 18:57:17 PST 2002

373 Arabs punishing Gore? -- rank: 601

... As our staff puts together this magazine's issues over a year's time, we receive quite a few unsolicited tidbits of "intelligence." Many turn out to be ... Arabic oil-producing nations are enraged that U.S. Vice President / Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore has selected Jewish Sen. Joseph Lieberman (Democrat-Connecticut) to be his running mate for vice president, and they vow to defeat his campaign. How they plan ... to add oil production to the world market (to keep a lid on prices) but actually back output down from ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 27 16:28:26 PDT 2000

374 [lbo-talk] Department of Prevariganda -- rank: 601

The new Pentagon papers By Karen Kwiatkowski March 10, 2004 A high-ranking military officer reveals how Defense Department extremists suppressed ... after just over 20 years of service, I retired as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force. I had served as a communications officer in the field and in acquisition programs, as a speechwriter for the National Security Agency director, and on the ... My career started in 1978 with the smooth seduction of a full four-year ROTC scholarship. It ended with 10 months of duty in a strange new country, observing

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Author:	Dick N. Viers
Date:	Wed Mar 10 14:36:49 PST 2004

375 [lbo-talk] Mike Davis Talks about the "Heroes of Hell" -- rank: 601

... ve heard through the grapevine that you are working on a book about terrorism._ Mike Davis: My day job currently is a grassroots history of Los Angeles in the sixties ["Setting the ... have also been busy on an extracurricular project entitled, after a poem in Mother Earth, "Heroes of Hell." It aims to be a world history of revolutionary terrorism from 1878 to 1932. _Why ... nationalities and their cousins, the Russian Narodniki, embraced assassination as a potent, if last-ditch weapon in the struggle against autocracy ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Nov 26 10:38:32 PST 2003