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481 [lbo-talk] Mahmoud Al-Safadi, "Other Victims of Denial" -- 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 ... the occupation during the first Intifada. Since you were elected president, I have followed your declarations with great interest -- in particular ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Dec 13 23:58:31 PST 2006

482 [lbo-talk] Jewish american paper urges assassination of president -- rank: 570

... effort is being made to diminish Obama's allure to Jewish voters, from every quarter. It's typical of the poisonous ... too hard (and he drew some incorrect conclusions about American Jewish animus against Obama,) but a lot can be made of that comparison. Certainly, rightwing Israelis, and their foreign allies, would prefer if US Jewish politics were the same as Israeli Jewish politics. It would allow Bibi's government all kinds of ... communities are vastly different, despite what idiots like the US Jewish newspaper editor said. Joel On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 ...

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Author:	joel schalit
Date:	Sun Jan 22 22:54:20 PST 2012

483 [lbo-talk] FrontPage mourns Tom Lantos -- rank: 570

... denounced both Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroeder -- calling the latter a "political prostitute" and quipping that "the sex workers in my ... assembled crowd, gathered to witness this summer's dedication of a memorial to the victims of Communism, had expected from a Democrat representing California's deep-blue 12th congressional district, just south of San Francisco. "That guy is a Democrat?" a man in the audience asked incredulously. Tom Lantos, who died yesterday at the age of 80 after losing a struggle with cancer, was indeed a Democrat. It is a

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Sun Feb 17 19:07:48 PST 2008

484 [lbo-talk] Nawal El Saadawi: Women, Islam, and Democratization -- rank: 570

In case you have a false impression, Nawal El Saadawi is neither anti-religion nor ... She in fact goes so far as to say that "A fair comparison [with other holy books] will help us to ... Quran, and comparing it with the other two divine books. A Muslim is expected to believe in the three monotheistic religions ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Mar 19 12:07:21 PDT 2007

485 [lbo-talk] 'Conspiracy Theories' and Clandestine Politics -- rank: 570

... much intellectual resistance, hostility, and derision within academic circles as a belief in the historical importance or efficacy of political conspiracies. Even when this belief is expressed in a very cautious manner, limited to specific and restricted contexts, supported ... of action, and that some of these plans actually exert a significant influence on particular historical developments, is typically rejected out of hand and assumed to be the figment of a paranoid imagination. The mere mention of the word 'conspiracy' seems ...

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Author:	M W
Date:	Fri Feb 23 07:46:23 PST 2007

486 [lbo-talk] Chicago Tribune on Finkelstein -- rank: 570

... 1437195.story> DePaul pulls plug on controversial professor Course cancelled a week before class By Ron Grossman The required reading was ... have been Norman Finkelstein's final year at the school. A controversial scholar -- accused by critics of fomenting anti- Semitism and lauded by supporters as a forthright critic of Israel -- Finkelstein attracted wide attention across the ... the DePaul bookstore's shelves, while his case was restarting a firestorm of protest. The American Association of University Professors was preparing a letter to the university, protesting Finkelst

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 30 19:20:46 PDT 2007

487 [lbo-talk] Darfur: The Right and Proper Tale -- rank: 570

A significant problem with the Save-Darfur-or-not debate is ... the plight of people in the Congo, Northern Uganda (where President Museveni has been waging a counterinsurgency war for over a decade against the Acholi people) or the people in the ...

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Author:	Joseph Wanzala
Date:	Sat Apr 29 10:10:19 PDT 2006

488 [lbo-talk] april column -- rank: 570

... analyze and forecast market conditions, and other aspects of life. A researcher at Website University says detailed photo and film analysis ...

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Author:	frank scott
Date:	Wed Mar 23 12:10:21 PST 2005

489 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [anti-allawi-group] The Chomsky vs. Dershowitz debate: both sides were awful! -- rank: 570

Joanna: What exactly do you support? The ideal of a unitary secular state or the reality of a Middle Eastern peace? If I thought for a moment that a secular bi-or multi-national state were possible in Palestine, I'd jettison any support for a two-state solution. It cannot happen. Not in our lifetimes ... Palestinians who deserve an ancestral homeland? Chomsky hasn't become a Zionist cats paw and it's a dumb, self- ...

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Author:	Michael Hirsch
Date:	Sun Dec 4 21:36:47 PST 2005

490 [lbo-talk] Can Cindy Sheehan End the War? -- rank: 570

... camped outside Bush's home in Crawford, reproaching the vacationing President for sending her son to a pointless death in Iraq has got the hellhounds of the ... unison. Christopher Hitchens attacked Cindy Sheehan, of course. Called her a LaRouchie! Why? No reason given. He obviously reckons "LaRouchie" is ... probably remember that in 1999 Edward Jay Epstein publicly recalled a dinner in the Royalton Hotel in New York where Epstein ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Sat Aug 20 19:05:56 PDT 2005

491 [lbo-talk] Israel across the Political Spectrum -- rank: 570

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, _Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975_, San Francisco: City ... inside the gates of what the Oklahoma red-hunters called a "hotbed of communists." Right away, I found the few leftist ... The first was my dormitory housemother, who had come from a Wobbly family and was a lesbian. Then I met Jimmy, my future husband, an engineering ... for being gay. One of Jimmy's best friends was a Palestinian refugee. A number of engineering students at Oklahoma University were from ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Dec 8 18:22:01 PST 2003

492 placing the palestinian struggle -- rank: 570

On the book cited by a loon last week on a march by Jewish Voices For Peace to the S.F. Federal Bldg. Michael ... widely encountered in Arab countries. References to the Holocaust as a “Zionist myth” are continuously expressed in public discourse, coming to a height in 1996 when numerous articles were published about Roger ...

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Author:	michael pugliese
Date:	Wed Apr 3 15:06:21 PST 2002

493 Jude W: hands off Iraq! -- rank: 570

... vigorously argued, but replete with evidence that you have read a great deal about the politics of the Middle East in ... make about nuclear proliferation -- about Saddam's attempts to build a nuclear arsenal in the past and the likel

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 28 11:57:14 PST 2001

494 Zionist Plot or Plain Old Capitalism?/ Dogs -- rank: 570

pms: You always make a lot of sense to me. May be we should all ... as well as in China, to observe US minimum wages, a form of "portable" minimum wage requirements. I am sure the ... requirement will also stop the predatory relocation of jobs overseas. A pair of jogging shoes that Chinese labor receives 55 cents ... economic imperialism slip > by. Are most Russian Big Cigars really Jewish, or is it a cheap vote > getter, or what? > Will this continuing development effect ...

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Author:	Henry C.K. Liu
Date:	Sat Dec 26 13:46:51 PST 1998

495 [lbo-talk] Chris Hedges: Bush's Nuclear Apocalypse -- rank: 570

... AP Photo/Vahid Salemi Accompanied by armed forces commanders, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reviews Iran's Shahab-3 missile, a weapon capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and reaching Europe, Israel and U.S. forces ... New York Times and author of the bestseller "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" reports on Bush's plan for Iran, and how a callous war, conceived by zealots, will lead to a disaster of biblical proportions. The aircraft carrier Eisenhower, accompanied ...

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Author:	Michael Givel
Date:	Sun Oct 22 10:16:58 PDT 2006