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526 [lbo-talk] Arab-Americans: Kerry, 51%; Bush, 24%; Nader, 13% -- rank: 558

Financial Times - July 16, 2004 Arab-Americans turn against the president in key states By Alex Barker A growing number of Arab-American voters in four battleground states opposethe re-election of President George W. Bush, according to a poll released yesterday. The survey underscores the difficulties the president faces with a community that broadly supported his election campaign in 2000. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 14:08:56 PDT 2004

527 ace confesses -- rank: 558

... haven't ever heard >>anyone accuse Michael Lerner of being a self-hating Jew. >> >>- -- Luke I guess he's lying about ... Plenty. > >I have also met him and walked away with a very nasty taste in my mouth. >He struck me more ... Michael Lerner, LA Times, 18 May 2001 When I received a flurry of death threats in the past few weeks in ... to Israel's occupation of the West Bank, I remembered a lesson we had learned in the 1960s: If your people ...

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Author:	kelley at pulpculture.org
Date:	Thu Apr 11 16:35:35 PDT 2002

528 [lbo-talk] liberals hate the truth -- rank: 558

... Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular,' [Donohue] explained in a colloquy on the subject recently convened by Pat Buchanan on MSNBC. 'It's not a secret, O.K.?' Mr. Donohue continued. 'And I'm not ... s about truth." After the show's token (and conservative) Jewish panelist, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, pointed out that 'Michael Moore is certainly not a Jew' and that Scorsese, Coppola and Lucas are not 'Jewish names,' Mr. Donohue responded: 'I like Harvey Weinstein. How's ...

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Author:	snit snat
Date:	Fri Dec 17 13:41:28 PST 2004

529 [lbo-talk] Battlefield Earth -- rank: 558

"the secular or socialist has a limited resource mentality and views the world as a pie ... that needs to be cut up so everyone can get a piece." [pretty funny considering that most conservatives i know think ... 2004 http://www.alternet.org/story/20666/ <...> Remember James Watt, President Reagan's first secretary of the Interior? My favorite online ...

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Author:	snit snat
Date:	Mon Dec 13 18:02:14 PST 2004

530 Fwd: Wobbly greetings....... -- rank: 558

... Wobbly greetings, >Mike B) >******************************************************* > >Robert Fisk: The case against war: A conflict driven >by the self-interest of America >15 February ...

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Author:	billbartlett at dodo.com.au
Date:	Wed Feb 19 21:33:49 PST 2003

531 [lbo-talk] Ha'aretz: "Yes, but not now" -- rank: 558

An interesting thing about Israel is how it handles not having the kind of power the U.S. does -- so whereas Israel at least has to figure out how to evade peace initiatives, the U.S. generally just pretends that they don't exist. One partial exception to this was Syria ...

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Author:	Jonathan Schwarz
Date:	Sat May 17 09:00:24 PDT 2003

532 [lbo-talk] South African poet DENNIS BRUTUS, on Steal This Radio this week -- rank: 558

... Cohen wrote: > ...Tune in on your computer Thursday, at 11 a.m., to hear South > African poet and freedom fighter Dennis Brutus, in a wide-ranging > discussion with host Mitchel Cohen, on this week ... This Radio. > > Date and Time: Thursday, July 10, at 11 a.m., > and repeated on Tuesday, July 15th, at 6 pm ... apartheid profits be won in US courts? by Patrick Bond A telling remark about US imperialism's double standards was uttered by Clinton-era deputy treasury secretary Stuart Eizenstat, who a decade ago was the driver of reparations claims against pro ...

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Author:	Patrick Bond
Date:	Wed Jul 9 19:19:37 PDT 2008

533 Robert Fisk's case against war -- rank: 558

[From The Independent] Robert Fisk: The case against war: A conflict driven by the self-interest of America 15 February ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Fri Feb 14 21:35:48 PST 2003

534 Lenni Brenner's comments -- rank: 555

... Sharon snatches defeat from the belly of victory Sisters & brothers, A massive gap has opened between Bush & Sharon. The 9/21 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 22 13:31:28 PDT 2001

535 Bosnia's 1995 Massacres Still Cloaked in Denial -- rank: 555

www.tenc.net has a rant on General Radislav Krstic and the ICTY http://emperors ... Arianna Huffington too. Michael Pugliese Thursday, July 6, 2000, L.A. Times Bosnia's 1995 Massacres Still Cloaked in Denial Balkans ... Serbs' refusal to acknowledge the horrors has sparked calls for a truth panel. Muslim victims' kin plan to mark anniversary. By ... massacred in Europe's worst atrocity since World War II, a wall of Serbian denial still surrounds this town. Bosnian Serbs ... mostly widows and mothers of the victims, plan to hold a memorial service marking the anniversary of

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Thu Jul 6 22:46:18 PDT 2000

536 [lbo-talk] Selective MEMRI -- rank: 555

... some time now, I have been receiving small gifts from a generous institute in the United States. The gifts are high ... too and regularly forward their copies to me - sometimes with a note suggesting that I might like to check out the ... write about it. If the note happens to come from a more senior colleague, I'm left feeling that I really ...

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Author:	Joseph Wanzala
Date:	Sun Nov 9 13:35:27 PST 2003

537 [lbo-talk] Sam Smith on the motives behind school deform -- rank: 555

... the upper classes into the education system but primarily as a a marketing tool to bring the upper classes and corporations back ... to live here." [WS:] Yeah, right. And 9/11 was a Jewish conspiracy to provide a pretext for the war in Iraq. What this writer fails ... cities as well. What is more, middle class blacks are a major driving force behind the push for charter schools - ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Mon Oct 11 11:49:32 PDT 2010

538 "man of peace" -- rank: 555

... would suggest that Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel, is a 'Man of Peace'. But this is precisely how George W. Bush, President of the most powerful nation on earth, America, described the Israeli prime minister at a press conference, after their meeting at the White House in ... reports of the same that appeared in U.S. newspapers. President Bush managed to ignore all this evidence of Israeli ruthlessn

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Author:	pms
Date:	Mon May 27 08:03:25 PDT 2002

539 [lbo-talk] Israelis & Palestinians on the U.S. elections -- rank: 555

... Saperstein could decide the outcome of the U.S. election, President Bush (news - web sites) would beat Democratic challenger John Kerry (news - web sites) by a landslide. But Gaza shopkeeper Abu Gomaa hopes instead to see ... want to laugh ... at his humiliation," he says. Locked in a bloody conflict dragging into its fifth year, Israelis and Palestinians both have a big stake in who governs in Washington and holds sway ... can add one more thing they can't agree on," a U.S. diplomat said. Opinion polls show that Israelis stand ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 21 09:41:31 PDT 2004

540 [lbo-talk] Boycotting Myself? -- rank: 555

... Cultural Boycott of Israel"(Elia is Palestinian Citizen > of Israel- a Film Maker): http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/777220.html ... 22 October 2006 > > Juliano Mer Khamis is the son of a Jewish Mother and Palestinian father. > He is an actor and theater ... com_content&task=view&id=592&Itemid=88 <snip> > At a film festival in Sicily, the cultural representative of Egypt left ... in protest > against what she called the positive representation of a Jewish woman > who help

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Oct 23 09:03:36 PDT 2006