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376 Zionists shut down mural in S.F. -- rank: 601

So, I thought I'd relax with a copy of the San Francisco Bay Guardian, with a quick perusal of the comics while on coffee break. Instead ... irony, of course, is that some of that artists are Jewish. And, of course, a member of an minority (Arabs) _officially_ persecuted by the US ... By Kezia Parsons and Camille T. Talara On June 26 a historic artwork calling for peace in Israel and the occupied ... territories was boarded up indefinitely. On the side wall of a corner store in the Mission, the work – San Francisco' ...

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Author:	Brad Mayer
Date:	Wed Jul 11 16:41:20 PDT 2001

377 [lbo-talk] Michael Lerner tattles: the state of the antiwar movement -- rank: 601

... at <http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/eavesdropping-on-a- phone-conference/>. The original transcript is at <http://www.spiritualprogressives ... By: Mike Allen September 10, 2007 07:32 PM EST A well-known anti-war leader has gone public with the transcript of a private conference call that shows peace activists are exasperated with the Democratic congressional leadership and at a loss for a long- term strategy. The Aug. 29 call highlights divisions in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 11 12:05:07 PDT 2007

378 [lbo-talk] Terrorists in Retirement/L'Affiche Rouge -- rank: 601

... 8 -- By his own admission, Mosco Boucault was looking for a heroic father figure in the early 1980's when he ... elderly foreign Jews who had joined the French Resistance. As a Bulgarian-born Jew whose father had died shortly before he ... at 10 in 1956, he felt drawn to these forgotten Jewish combatants. As an aspiring movie director, he was also well placed to tell their story, and a version of his own. The immediate result was a s

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Jan 27 20:07:09 PST 2004

379 Lies of Desperation:Answering Thomas Friedman -- rank: 601

... industry, the honorable Mr. Thomas Fried-man, has now struck a high note in this campaign with his "Suicidal Lies," in ... to raise the alarm for Americans. The Palestinians "are testing a whole new form of warfare, using suicide bombers," and if ...

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Author:	pradeep
Date:	Wed Apr 3 14:59:11 PST 2002

380 [lbo-talk] Vegas Casino King Makes Bid For Israeli Media Moguldom -- rank: 601

Anti-Zionist sites like Xymphora often mention the "Jewish billionaires" who fund AIPAC, and through it, control Congress. Can ... en.jsp?enPage=HomePage), > which > sponsors trips to Israel for Jewish youths who have > never visited the > country. Accompanying Adelson were ... 20 > congressmen from the > Republican Party, of which he is a staunch > supporter. He has been > organizing delegations of Republican congressmen ...

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Author:	Robert Wrubel
Date:	Thu Aug 16 10:40:37 PDT 2007

381 Roy Medvedev interview -- rank: 598

... was thrown out of the Soviet Union Communist Party. As a member of the intelligentsia with leftist tendencies, he kept a close eye on the disintegration of the Soviet Union and ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Sun Mar 31 04:53:01 PST 2002

382 'Very good reasons' for Marc Rich's pardon? -- rank: 598

... COWAN As part of his successful last- minute bid for a pardon from President Clinton, Marc Rich, the commodities trader who had evaded prosecution ... Mr. Rich in the last two months of 2000 is a virtual Who's Who of Israeli society and Jewish philanthropy. It includes Shabtai Shavit, a businessman who once headed Israel's

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 24 12:19:50 PST 2001

383 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [PEN-L] Kevin Phillips: declinist -- rank: 598

... Pulitzer Prize-winner Barbara Tuchman published "The March of Folly," a book about how, over and over again, great powers undermine ... it. Such recurrent self-deception, she wrote, "is epitomized in a historian's statement about Philip II of Spain, the surpassing ...

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Author:	Jim Devine
Date:	Thu Mar 16 09:00:31 PST 2006

384 [lbo-talk] George Soros and the Rise of the Neo-Centrics -- rank: 598

... WSheasby at cs.com> 2003 has seen the rise of a new current in US politics, best described as Neo-Centrics, or simply Neo-Cens, for ease of comparison with a better known defection of Socialists to the Conservative Right. Although ... by whether they accepted secret funding in bags from John A. McCone's office or Armand Hammer's office), the Neo ... are former radical critics of "lesser-evilism" who have decided a year before the 2004 election that the whiff of fascism is in the air. Funding for a some of the Neo-Centrics comes from George Soros, who gives away $400m a year through his Foundation and thus subsidizes many of ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Nov 15 12:56:52 PST 2003

385 [lbo-talk] More on Rapture Christians and the WH -- rank: 598

... Lipman wrote: >P.S.Kelley, I really have to lodge a complaint against your negative usage >of the mushroom. As you ... us sinners being devoured by frogs and locusts. OMG Cicadas! A sign of the End Ti

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Author:	snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com
Date:	Fri May 21 06:44:15 PDT 2004

386 [lbo-talk] Just Foreign Policy News, October 12, 2006 -- rank: 598

... you haven't already. Signing the petition takes less than a minute. To sign the petition, use this link: http://www ... The announcement was the latest acknowledgment by Pentagon officials that a significant withdrawal of troops from Iraq is not likely in ...

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Author:	Robert Naiman
Date:	Thu Oct 12 12:23:27 PDT 2006

387 [lbo-talk] Juan on Ahmadinejad's Lunatic Anti-Semitism -- rank: 598

... on 'Jerusalem Day' Juan Cole Note: Revised 9/21/09 President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave a sermon on Friday for "Jerusalem Day" that is full of ... crackpot anti-Semitism that can be imagined. Anti-Semitism as a form of bigotry typically ascribes the most abject motives and ... did not post extended Open Source Center translation. Here are a couple of paragraphs, below. But note that the the first ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Mon Sep 21 09:41:20 PDT 2009

388 Bush, Putin in celebratory mood as summit winds down and Bush hea ds for France -- rank: 598

... RAUM Associated Press Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) - Wrapping up a three-day tour of Russia, U.S. President George W. Bush attended Sunday services at a Russian Orthodox Church and visited a synagogue as he prepared to leave for France and meetings with President Jacques Chirac. Bush began his day at early morning services at Kazan Cathedral followed by a visit to the Chroal Synagogue, the second-largest synagogue ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Sun May 26 05:45:49 PDT 2002

389 [lbo-talk] Bipartisan Support for Twin Occupations -- rank: 598

... com, Tue Mar 8 21:32:26 PST 2005; >[Half a lung kaput and a heart encrusted with scar tissue, Clinton *still* >won't shut ... ever-jiving mouth.] >NEWS ANALYSIS >For Bush, No Boasts, but a Taste of Vindication >By TODD S. PURDUM Observe the contrast ... progress in an appearance at the White House. The first President Bush was restrained, pronouncing himself "very pleased," but cautioning that ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Mar 8 23:43:51 PST 2005

390 [lbo-talk] Obama rebuffs Soros on AIPAC -- rank: 595

... territories regardless of whether Hamas recognizes the right of the Jewish state to exist. Mr. Soros goes on to say that ... Public Affairs Committee. Yesterday, Mr. Obama's presidential campaign issued a dissent from the Hungarian-born billionaire's assessment. "Mr

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 24 09:28:51 PDT 2007