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391 Religion, Science, & a Freethinker in a Fire Station -- rank: 595

... Column 3; Magazine Desk HEADLINE: The Bush Years; Confessions of a Lonely Atheist BYLINE: By Natalie Angier; Natalie Angier writes about ... In an age when flamboyantly gay characters are sitcom staples, a Jew was but a few flutters of a butterfly wing away from being in line for the presidency and women account for a record-smiting 13 percent of the Senate, nothing seems as ... and again the polls proclaim the United States to be a profoundly and persistently religious nation, one in which faith ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Jan 15 09:37:29 PST 2001

392 [lbo-talk] 1994 Progressive Statement speaks to 2004 Election -- rank: 595

... time. It speaks to progressive concerns over the 2004 elections = = = A Call To Defend Democracy And Pluralism November 1994 The Blue ... Group http://www.publiceye.org/eyes/calldef.html We are a group of individuals interested in joining with others to rebuild a multi-issue movement for progressive social change that can assist ... anti-democratic religious and secular movements of the hard right. A wide range of individuals participated in the three-day meeting ...

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Author:	Chip Berlet
Date:	Tue Nov 9 10:58:38 PST 2004

393 [lbo-talk] Fwd: so much for the WMD's -- rank: 595

... in Iraq is winding down operations without finding >proof that President Saddam Hussein kept clandestine stocks of outlawed >arms, according to ... Iraqi weapons. The group's departure, >expected next month, marks a milestone in frustration for a major declared >objective of the war. > >Leaders of Task Force ...

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Author:	joanna bujes
Date:	Sun May 11 14:04:51 PDT 2003

394 [Mike's Message] SEND IN THE U.N. OBSERVERS AND JIMMY CARTER!! -- rank: 595

... fraud is taking place in an area that looks like a banana republic -- but is actually part of the United States ... our citizens were not counted or, worse, were given to a man who has a sister named "Bay." Further evidence also shows that hundreds of ...

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Author:	Gar Lipow
Date:	Sat Nov 11 17:11:10 PST 2000

395 [lbo-talk] Study finds U.S. Jews distance selves from Israel -- rank: 595

... lukewarm if not alienated in their support for Israel in a trend that is not likely to be reversed, according to a study released on Thursday. ADVERTISEMENT Blending into U.S. society, including marriage to non-Jews and a tendency to look on Judaism more in religious terms than ... is indeed, why should we regard Israel?" said Roger Bennett, a vice president of The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies, which sponsored the study. "Until people recognize that a healthy and animated dialogue about Israel is the first ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Thu Sep 6 21:14:05 PDT 2007

396 Al-Q Honcho Hit -- rank: 595

... such activity, > but, unless i'm mistaken, "targeted killings" is a > linguistic invention of the israelis, yet another > advance in the ... September 17, 2002 I speak with you today not as President of the University but as a concerned member of our community about something that I never ...

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Author:	budge
Date:	Tue Nov 5 11:50:44 PST 2002

397 10 steps we could take -- rank: 595

http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=71309&group=webcast Ten *Realistic* Steps U.S. Could Take (english) by the slave 1:47am Mon Oct 8 '01 keith_v at yahoo.com Ten realistic steps U.S. could take that DO NOT require 1)absolute drop of support for Israel ...

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Author:	kelley
Date:	Mon Oct 8 03:13:19 PDT 2001

398 Racial Voting Rights Violations (Re: President Gore -- rank: 595

... org> >Objectively speaking, I don't think the Dems have >a case re: people who punched the wrong hole. >Literal vote ... the results changed the election result, the courts would have a role. What remedy is called for has not been fully litigated, but this is a real issue, given that the ballot violated not one but two separate legal rules on how to construct a ballot. But more serious are the voting allegations of racial ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Fri Nov 10 09:55:26 PST 2000

399 [lbo-talk] Prominent Jews Call for Open Debate on Israel -- rank: 595

... representing community Julian Borger Monday February 5, 2007 The Guardian A group of prominent British Jews will today declare independence from the country's Jewish establishment, arguing that it puts support for Israel above the human rights of Palestinians. Independent Jewish Voices will publish an open letter on the Guardian's Comment is Free website calling for a freer debate about the Middle East within the Jewish community. Among the more than 130 signatories are Stephen Fry ... the belief that the broad spectrum of opinion among the Jewish population of this country is not reflected by those ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Feb 7 16:25:49 PST 2007

400 Clinton, peacemaker -- rank: 595

Independent (London) - October 18, 2000 Clinton: A marriage counsellor reading from a cereal packet By Robert Fisk Language is meant to liberate human beings. But President Bill Clinton's brief statement at Sharm el-Sheikh yesterday ... moving forward" -- and there were times when he sounded like a marriage guidance counsellor reading his script from the back of a cornflakes packet. He used the word "violence" or "violent" six times, the word "peace" just twice. "It will be a disappointment to some of you," he concluded -- and we ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 18 10:51:52 PDT 2000

401 Rashid on CA in real time -- rank: 595

... 11 attacks in New York and Washington, the world enters a new era dominated by a global fear of terrorism and the deepening divide between the ... devoured the Soviet Union, and if we lash out without a political and strategic plan for the region, they could be right," warns Barnett Rubin, a prominent Afgha

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Thu Sep 20 21:36:36 PDT 2001

402 [lbo-talk] for Submission: West Nile and 9/11 -- rank: 595

The following is the INTRODUCTION to a longer essay on West Nile and 9/11. I've ... the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a New World Order, a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations." - U.S. President George H.W. Bush September 11, 1990 Erased from consciousness ...

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Author:	Mitchel Cohen
Date:	Tue Sep 6 14:32:50 PDT 2011

403 [lbo-talk] Clinton, Edwards to work same AIPAC meeting -- rank: 595

... of the Sun Two of the leading Democratic candidates for president will compete head-to-head tonight for money and support ... Senator Clinton and John Edwards are scheduled to appear at a dinner for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee at the ... the crowd at the cocktail reception before she speaks, making a face-to-face encounter unlikely, but not impossible. "When it ... to important gatherings like this, there is going to be a lot of pressure on the major candidates to not let one of their competitors have the room to themselves," a Democratic strategist, Daniel Gerstein, said. Tonight's event is the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 1 09:30:49 PST 2007

404 Rabbi Lerner's Call for Civil Disobedience -- rank: 592

... CALLS FOR U.S. governement TO TAKE LEAD IN CREATING A UN INTERNATIONAL PEACE KEEPING FORCE TO INTERVENE, SEPARATE AND PROTECT ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Apr 8 12:16:36 PDT 2002

405 [lbo-talk] "We Do Not Need Attacks": TIME's Scott MacLeod Interviews Ahmadinejad -- rank: 592

The President of Iran is improving in rhetoric, though he's still ... on the Holocaust. I suspect Latin socialist leaders have had a positive influence on him that I thought they would. -- Yoshie ... We Do Not Need Attacks" Exclusive: On the eve of a visit to the U.S., Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks to TIME's Scott MacLeod about debating President Bush, pursuing nuclear energy and denying the Holocaust By SCOTT ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Sep 18 14:04:24 PDT 2006