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496 [lbo-talk] WP: In backing change in Egypt, U.S. neoconservatives split with Israeli allies -- rank: 567

... 3, 2011; A09 The uprising in Egypt has resulted in a relatively muted debate between the political parties in the United ... registering minor disagreements. But the events in Cairo have exposed a schism between two longtime allies: neoconservative Republicans, who strongly advocate ... freedom agenda" around the globe, and Israelis, who fear that a popularly chosen Islamist regime could replace that of President Hosni Mubarak. Earlier this week, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ... Egypt to that of Iran, making the menacing prediction that a post-Mubarak Egypt could join other "repressive regimes

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Author:	SA
Date:	Thu Feb 3 01:26:13 PST 2011

497 [lbo-talk] Russia, ethnic violence -- rank: 567

... minority, as an aside.) Los Angeles Times February 19, 2004 A Tide of Hatred Swells in Russia Natives of Chechnya and neighboring republics face discrimination, harassment and attacks since a bombing blamed on Chechen separatists. By Kim Murphy, Times Staff ... they go get her young cousin, she said, and have a proper party? So they picked up 8-year-old Akobir, and were making their way back home when a group of youths rushed up behind them. Sultanov, a native of Tajikistan, was pounded senseless. Akobir was hit several times, but managed to crawl under a car. He was the one who heard Khursheda screami

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Author:	" Chris Doss "
Date:	Thu Feb 19 02:43:32 PST 2004

498 FYI: Half of nonprofit leaders earn more than $200,000 (fwd) -- rank: 567

... compensation packages for nonprofit >organizations. > >The $209,914 figure was a median, which >means that half of the executives earned more ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Mon Sep 21 10:14:25 PDT 1998

499 [lbo-talk] Just Foreign Policy News, September 26, 2006 -- rank: 567

... An EU panel has serious doubts about the legality of a Bush administration program that monitors international financial transactions, the group ... to prevent privacy abuses. The Bush administration successfully pressed for a less restrictive description of how it could designate civilians as ... fueled Islamic fundamentalism and created more enemies for the US, a retired U.S. Army general who served in the conflict said Monday. The Army's top officer withheld a required 2008 budget pla

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Author:	Robert Naiman
Date:	Tue Sep 26 11:18:00 PDT 2006

500 [lbo-talk] the most foolish war in 2,000 years -- rank: 567

... most foolish war in over 2,000 years, is there a way out of Iraq for President Bush, asks Brian Whitaker There is a remarkable article in the latest issue of the American Jewish weekly, Forward <http://www.forward.com/articles/6936>. It calls for President Bush to be impeached and put on trial "for misleading ... most foolish war of the last 2,014 years is a sweeping statement, but the writer is well qualified to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 29 10:11:23 PST 2005

501 [lbo-talk] the most foolish war in 2,000 years -- rank: 567

... most foolish war in over 2,000 > years, is there a way out of Iraq for President Bush, asks Brian Whitaker > > There is a remarkable article in the latest issue of the American > Jewish weekly, Forward <http://www.forward.com/articles/6936>. It > calls for President Bush to be impeached and put on trial "for > misleading ... most foolish war of the last 2,014 years is a > sweeping statement, but the writer is well qualified to ...

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Author:	joanna
Date:	Tue Nov 29 16:52:51 PST 2005

502 [lbo-talk] AP: "Angry atheists are hot authors" -- rank: 567

... faith and reaching the top of the best-seller list, a sign of widespread resentment over the influence of religion in ... clergy are drawing crowds at every stop. Sam Harris was a little-known graduate student until he wrote the phenomenally successful ... The End of Faith" and its follow-up, "Letter to a Christian Nation." Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion" and Daniel Dennett's "Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon" struck similar themes — and sold. "There is something like a change in the Zeitgeist," Hitchens said, noting that sales of ...

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Author:	B.
Date:	Thu May 24 22:51:06 PDT 2007

503 Fwd: MISREADING THE MIDDLE EAST -- rank: 564

... THE MIDDLE EAST Hercules' labors in the augean stables was a picnic compared to the task today of clearing away the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 13 14:06:13 PDT 2000

504 [lbo-talk] McLemee's Derrida obit -- rank: 564

... October 11, 2004 Jacques Derrida, Thinker Who Influenced and Infuriated a Range of Humanistic Fields, Dies at 74 By SCOTT MCLEMEE ... Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, Derrida also held a professorship at the University of California at Irvine, beginning in ... his students and admirers since the spring of 2003. In a statement from the office of Jacques Chirac, the French president announced the death "with sadness," calling Derrida "one of the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 11 06:27:57 PDT 2004

505 [lbo-talk] Anti-Semitism, right here at home (Israel) -- rank: 564

... il/Anti-Semitism/asw2001-2/russia.htm > ...   There has been a marked drop in the activity of extremist groups > such as ... states, and Islamic revivalism among Russian Muslims, have resulted in a sharp increase in r

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sat May 24 08:24:47 PDT 2003

506 [lbo-talk] Just Foreign Policy News, January 23, 2007 -- rank: 564

... and Representive Jones (R) have introduced resolutions re-affirming that President Bush cannot attack Iran without Congressional authorization. Ask your Representative ... his speech outlining the new U.S. strategy in Iraq, President Bush promised to "seek out and destroy" Iranian networks that ... in the Los Angeles Times. He is expected to strike a similar note in tonight's State of the Union spee

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Author:	Robert Naiman
Date:	Tue Jan 23 14:51:57 PST 2007

507 Buchanan's Bid Transforms the Reform Party (Neo-Nazis Go Electoral)-Washington Post -- rank: 564

... presidential bid has turned the once-centrist Reform Party into a magnet attracting leaders and activists of such extreme right organizations ... extreme right, including groups that are intensely anti-black, anti-Jewish and anti-immigrant, reflects the profound transformation of the Reform ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Jul 23 13:11:57 PDT 2000

508 Academic Freedom in Bush Country -- rank: 564

... It May Concern: My name is Shara Pradhan. I am a junior at Princeton University. I write this letter with a sense of great urgency, in the hope of saving my ... going to jail in less than two weeks. He was a tenured professor, world-renowned in computer science, at Texas A&M University. Within a period of three years he has been illegally searched, secretly ...

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Author:	kelley
Date:	Fri Mar 3 05:42:53 PST 2000

509 Saudi Arabia -- rank: 564

... Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, August 6, 2002; Page A01 A briefing given last month to a top Pentagon advisory board described Saudi Arabia as an enemy ... was presented on July 10 to the Defense Policy Board, a group of prominent intellectuals and former senior officials that advises ... attacks our allies," said the briefing prepared by Laurent Murawiec, a Rand Corporation analyst. A talking point attached to the last of 24 briefing slides ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Mon Aug 5 20:10:40 PDT 2002

510 why the US won't do this -- rank: 564

... without harming themselves. The Israelis were driven out of Lebanon - a defeat. Or merely a tactical retreat? But see where it lead: an emboldened Palestinian ... but as commonsensical as this sounds, it only demonstrates >what a poor basis for an argument common sense is. You could ... lack of >influence in the courts of international justice. Again, a few counter examples. Charges were brought against Sharon in Belgium ...

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Author:	Peter K.
Date:	Tue Apr 9 20:19:32 PDT 2002