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511 [lbo-talk] Frum on Dworkin -- rank: 564

... and power would be part of the ground on which a generation or more of feminists would wage their battles, thanks ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 12 14:07:13 PDT 2005

512 Hitchens on Mencken -- rank: 564

... Hitchens: >Teachout opens his biography on Dec. 7, 1934, with a fascinating >incident. Every year in Washington there is a grisly evening known >as the Gridiron Club dinner. It rivals ... is the more painful and degrading spectacle, to >see the president fawning on the press or the press fawning on the >president? But on this occasion one of the opening ''roasts'' was ... Franklin Delano >Roosevelt. Teachout supplies the sole published account of a >Gridiron dinner that arouses in the reader an envious wish ... but would surely have seemed even then, by saying, ''Mr. President, >Mr. Wright and fellow subjects of the Reich.'' He ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 16 11:45:23 PST 2002

513 [lbo-talk] Bickering Saudis Struggle for an Answer to Iran s Rising Influence in the Middle East -- rank: 564

Absolutely fascinating. Rarely do we get a glimpse of faction fight in the Saudi power elite. Note ... By HASSAN M. FATTAH RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Dec. 21 At a late-night reading this week, a self-styled poet raised his hand for silence and began a riff on neighboring Iraq, in the old style of Bedouin storytellers. "Saddam Hussein was a real leader who deserved our support," he began, making up ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Dec 22 18:48:09 PST 2006

514 [lbo-talk] Jews and the CP (Was: Jobless Workers Look to Shift Elections) -- rank: 564

... calling the Enemy Ignorant was What is it? There is a "quotation" from Lenin that I can't confirm -- but he ... Two Patience and Three Patience." Passed on to me by a friend -- probably doubtful, but I like it. Carrol ^^^^^ CB; Dorothy ... the final lines of her autobiography that communists must cultivate a sense of patience and irony. Los Angeles Times Obituary Dorothy ... Dennis McLellan Los Angeles Times August 8, 2006 Dorothy Healey, a onetime labor organizer, civil rights activist and Marxist radio commentator ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Fri Jul 30 11:32:55 PDT 2010

515 Berube, Part Two -- rank: 564

... go back to those early days of hysteria and say a few words in defense of people I now disagree with ...

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Author:	michael pugliese
Date:	Fri Apr 12 23:16:05 PDT 2002

516 [lbo-talk] Barry Commoner, Pioneering Environmental Scientist and Activist, Dies at 95 -- rank: 564

... peter-dreier/barry-commoner-dead_b_1928377.html Barry Commoner, a pioneering environmental scientist and activist, died Sunday at age 95 ... most prominent modern environmentalist. He viewed the environmental crisis as a symptom of a fundamentally flawed economic and social system. A biologist and research scientist, he argued that corporate greed, misguided ... public debates that involved scientific questions. Citizens, he said, have a right to know the health hazards of the consumer products ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Mon Oct 1 08:26:37 PDT 2012

517 [lbo-talk] Soros adds voice to debate over Israel lobby -- rank: 564

... The billionaire investor George Soros has added his voice to a heated but little-noticed debate over the role of Israel's powerful lobby in shaping Washington policy in a way critics say hurts U.S. national interests and stifles ... Bush administration's close ties with Israel are obstacles to a peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians. Soros, who is Jewish but not often engaged in Israel affairs, echoed arguments that have fueled a passionate debate conducted largely in the rarefied world of academia ... foreign policy think tanks and parts of the U.S. Jewish comm

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Mon Jun 4 15:54:47 PDT 2007

518 [lbo-talk] Dean: down the toilet in search of votes -- rank: 561

... vote in American elections, but that's wrong. He's a registered Democrat. True, he's too modest to run for President, but he just endorsed his favorite disciple, Howard Dean. Or ... was born into an Episcopalian family, and even went to a Christian boarding school, but he ended up marrying a Jew. His kids were raised Jewish. He left the Episcopalians, in Vermont, over a subtle theological point: His pastor wouldn't give some ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Sat Jan 10 09:00:44 PST 2004

519 [lbo-talk] More on Weather Underground, Obama, McCain, Palin (Bill Weinberg) -- rank: 561

... right now my interrogator that tortured me and my friends a gook," [McCain] said in 2000. "You can quote me." Excellent ... defeated former Governor of Alaska John Stein through an anti-Jewish whispering campaign. (Stein is not even Jewish.) http://ww4report.com/node/6116 I'll just print, here, a section from Bill Weinberg's comments on the Weather Underground, comments that I think are very helpful: In a front-page story in the New York Times on the ... Ayers and his just-published memoir, Fugitive Days, opening with a quotation from the author: "I don't regret setting ...

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Author:	Mitchel Cohen
Date:	Mon Oct 6 08:43:11 PDT 2008

520 [lbo-talk] George Allen's racist past surfaces -- rank: 561

... came to Virginia because he wanted to play football in a place where 'blacks knew their place,'" said Dr. Ken Shelton, a white radiologist in North Carolina who played tight end for ... when Allen was quarterback. "He used the N-word on a regular basis back then." A second white teammate, who spoke on the condition of anonymity ... friends. This is the terminology he used," the teammate said. A third white teammate contacted separately, who also spoke

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Sun Sep 24 21:53:26 PDT 2006

521 [lbo-talk] Israel's unilateralist strategy -- rank: 561

... apartheid wall as its new border and to wait out a peace settlement with the Palestinians is spelled out in this ... eventually by resignation and pressures on the Palestinians to reach a final agreement because of trade, investment, and other commercial considerations ...

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Author:	Marvin Gandall
Date:	Mon Feb 13 05:18:02 PST 2006

522 Ollman on Iraq -- rank: 561

... And why the rush to do it now? War is a very serious business. So I am not going to insult ... half dozen changing reasons that our Government has offered as a justification for starting this war. As anyone who is not ... true, not exaggerated and relevant, this would still not justify a war if there were other ways of dealing with them and/or if a war would make Americans more liable to attack by ou

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 17 20:30:58 PST 2003

523 [lbo-talk] Drugs, the CIA and Faustian Alliances -- rank: 561

... Sibel Edmonds Taking Turkey as the focal point and with a start date of 1998, it is easy to speculate why Sibel Edmonds indicated that there was a convergence of US and foreign counter-narcotics, counter-terrorism and ... have believed drug runners operating in Central Asia? And besides, President Clinton was promoting Turkey, one of the world’s top drug transit points, as a model for Muslim-Western cooperation and a country necessary to reshape the Middle East. The FBI’s ...

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Author:	Joseph Wanzala
Date:	Mon Jun 28 22:41:10 PDT 2004

524 Fwd: The Left and the Democrats -- rank: 558

... 1996 Democratic convention, I argued that the Democrats ceased being a >majority party when they moved far to the Left, precisely ... Reagan Democrats away from their party in the >1980s, and a debate was taking place over how to deal with this ...

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Author:	radman
Date:	Fri Sep 8 21:10:06 PDT 2000

525 [lbo-talk] Ahmadinejad's letter -- rank: 558

... AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > If Ahmadinejad can try to build a good relation with Iranian Jews and > reach out to Jewish leftists in the diaspora, it will be even better. > That ... and given ammunition to imperialists: "The head > of Iran's Jewish community, Haroun Yashayaei, has sent a letter > complaining to President Mahmud Ahmadinejad over his Holocaust denial > comments" Ahmadinejad's letter to the US president contained the following. "After the war, they claimed that ...

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Author:	martin
Date:	Thu May 11 11:22:01 PDT 2006