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466 Argentine scandals -- rank: 577

[via nettime] Headline: Bankers accused of dirty tricks in Argentina Source: euromoney.com Date: January 28 2002 Author: Jules Evans <http://www.euromoney.com/public/markets/banking/news/30jan02-1.html> Some of the most senior members of Argentina's financial community, as well as several foreign investment banks, are ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 5 17:23:53 PST 2002

467 FDR & Churchill -- rank: 577

... it is particularly worthwhile to note how anti-Semitism was a key component of racial politics in Britain and America, too. Churchill himself was a Jew-baiter. After the First World War, he wrote to ... problem of appointing three Jews as cabinet ministers. 'There is a point about the Jews which occurs to me', said Churchill ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Dec 10 09:28:49 PST 1999

468 [lbo-talk] Re: Rise of anti-democratic liberalism -- rank: 577

a conflation of a Straussian and a liberal discourse that is really, really troubling. And both of ... makes it so antithetical to how I understand democracy is a lot more difficult than it seems at first glance. Sure ... them. Strauss wasn't an idiot and didn't craft a Machiavellian plot the way Shadia Drury seems to think. Straussians ... it. But Strauss at least in his writing was at a different game. He was interested in re-defining what ` ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Tue Jun 15 17:24:47 PDT 2004

469 [lbo-talk] LRB Editor hits back -- rank: 577

... accused of promoting anti- Semitism. The argument has erupted over a cover article in the latest issue of the LRB by ... the US. The article, which argues that the lobby holds a disproportionate and damaging sway over American foreign policy, prompted a bitter and growing controversy, particularly in the US, where rival ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 3 10:19:06 PDT 2006

470 Robert Bin Fisk: US & UK war criminals. Mary Robinson joins the terrorists too. -- rank: 577

... Don "kill 'em all" Rumsfeld be the next to get a subpoena from Belgium? Hakki --------------------------------- Robert Fisk: We are the war ... the First and Second World Wars, we the "West" grew a forest of legislation to prevent further war crimes. The very ... their agents who are implicated in such massacres". After the Jewish Holocaust and the collapse of Germany in 1945, article 6 ...

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Author:	Hakki Alacakaptan
Date:	Thu Nov 29 07:20:34 PST 2001

471 [lbo-talk] Bartley on the Straussians -- rank: 577

... article under the byline Jeffrey Steinberg on Executive > Intelligence Review, a Web site devoted to the perennial presidential > campaign of Lyndon ... LaRouche Jr. This time around, Mr. LaRouche is > running on a platform equating the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade ...

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Author:	Jeffrey Fisher
Date:	Mon Jun 9 06:25:13 PDT 2003

472 Israel -- rank: 577

... are no such grounds in >reality, they are trapped in a metaphysical swamp in which it makes >sense to punish Arabs ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Sep 8 12:35:16 PDT 2001

473 [lbo-talk] Jews and the CP (Was: Jobless Workers Look to Shift Elections) -- rank: 577

... of attaining enlightenment: attention, attention, attention. I met Dorothy at a wedding reception in L.A. in the seventies. She seemed a decent and quite cheerful woman. I don't know about cultivating irony. It always struck me that "irony" is a mood for those who have a choice about collaboration. The vast quantity of the working class ... irony" is for the "middle" class, those who do have a choice. Much of agitational literature is suffused with irony. ...

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Author:	123hop at comcast.net
Date:	Fri Jul 30 11:51:27 PDT 2010

474 [lbo-talk] Being Ayatollah Khamenei -- rank: 574

HERE in Iran I have been finding it hard to make sense of all the strident utterances about the Islamic Republic emanating from America s capital this week. Being Supreme Leader, I need to understand what my enemy is thinking. Being an ayatollah, I can modestly say that I am something ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Mon Mar 19 16:21:30 PDT 2012

475 [lbo-talk] David Duke makes repeat visit to controversial Kyiv university -- rank: 574

... Critics say that the visits of Duke, whom many consider a White supremacist and anti-Semite, could fan the flames of ... from Ukraine's interregional Academy for Personnel Management after receiving a doctorate degree from the controversial university. In a move that some critics say could fan the flames of ...

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Author:	Michael Givel
Date:	Fri Nov 17 06:39:58 PST 2006

476 [lbo-talk] COSATU Open Letter in Support of CUPE Resolution on Israel (was Re: CUPE Resolution with Respect to Israel) -- rank: 574

On 6/7/06, tfast <tfast at yorku.ca> posted a note from Elleni Centime Zeleke : > My problem with the motion ... state policy has come to affect Palestinians. What's in a name? To me, it doesn't matter whether or not CUPE calls Israel an apartheid state. Calling Israel a Jewish state is damning in itself, just as calling the United States a WASP state, calling Iran a Persian state (btw Ali Khamenei is an Azeri), calling ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Jun 8 08:13:03 PDT 2006

477 [lbo-talk] Hats Off to Mahmoud Al-Safadi, -- rank: 574

... html> > Other Victims of Denial > by Mahmoud Al-Safadi > > Mr. President, I write to you following the announcement of your > intention to organize a conference on the Holocaust in Teheran on > 11-12 December ... of all, allow me to introduce myself: Mahmoud Al-Safadi, a > former prisoner from occupied Jerusalem. I was released less than ... had been locked up > for eighteen years for having been a member of the Popular Front for > the Liberation of Palestine ...

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Author:	Evergreen Readers and Writers
Date:	Fri Dec 15 06:52:36 PST 2006

478 [lbo-talk] BHO alarming Zionists -- rank: 574

... Ben Smith June 1, 2009 08:05 PM EST As President Barack Obama prepares to depart for his first trip to ... we were pressuring the Iranians to eliminate the potential of a nuclear threat from Iran, and less time pressuring our allies ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 1 17:44:06 PDT 2009

479 US electorate "moving steadily left" -- rank: 574

Washington Post - July 8, 2001 Census a Clarion Call for Democrats, GOP As Nation Changes, Parties Are ... spectrum is growing. Our side is shrinking," said Alex Castellanos, a GOP media consultant. "The Reagan coalition is not enough to win anymore. Reagan is a god. . . . But he's not enough. There is a post-Reagan demographic change." Across th

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 9 10:37:03 PDT 2001

480 Moses didn't exist -- rank: 574

... Facts, Bible Tales Are Wilting By MICHAEL MASSING Abraham, the Jewish patriarch, probably never existed. Nor did Moses. The entire Exodus ... far from being the fearless king who built Jerusalem into a mighty capital, was more likely a provincial leader whose reputation was later magnified to provide a rallying point for a fledgling nation. Such startling propositions — the product of findings by ... million Conservative Jews in the United States, has just issued a new Torah and commentary,

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Author:	Kevin Robert Dean
Date:	Sun Mar 10 19:33:57 PST 2002