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541 [lbo-talk] Finkelstein tenure brouhaha -- rank: 555

... of Alan Dershowitz and other defenders of Israel in 2005, a huge uproar ensued with charges and countercharges about hypocrisy, tolerance ... University, Finkelstein has taught political science largely without controversy, gaining a reputation as a popular teacher. But the debate over Finkelstein is now hitting his home campus and in a way sure to create more national controversy. Finkelstein is up ... department has voted, 9-3, in favor of tenure and a collegewide faculty panel voted 5-0 to back the bid ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 3 08:54:53 PDT 2007

542 [lbo-talk] Dorothy Healey, RIP -- rank: 555

... Working People By Dennis McLellan Times Staff Writer Dorothy Healey, a onetime labor organizer, civil rights activist and Marxist radio commentator ... Washington Hebrew Home, said her son, Richard. She had been a resident of Washington, D.C., since 1983. The diminutive Healey ... who stood just under 5 feet tall and once wore a pendant that pictured a clenched fist raised as a symbol of solidarity and militancy, fought a lifelong battle against what she called the oppression of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 8 09:43:31 PDT 2006

543 [lbo-talk] Reps the seculars, Dems the pious -- rank: 555

... Politics/Vote2008/story?id=3695418&page=1> GOP Candidates Given a Run for Religious Voters Democratic '08ers Are Opening Up About ... KLEIN and JENNIFER PARKER Oct. 8, 2007 If religion is a top-tier issue for Republican voters, somebody forgot to tell ... early outreach to religious voters -- than Republicans are. It marks a major shift from 2000 and 2004, when George W. Bush ... as secularists," said David Kuo, who was deputy director of President Bush's faith-based office during Bush's first term ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 8 07:10:34 PDT 2007

544 [lbo-talk] Antifa Critique of German "Left Party" -- rank: 555

... have been > > > more precise. Just saying "chauvinistic" seems > too broad a term to me > > > unless it has some nuance i'm ... wrote the following interesting piece on nationalism in the fSU a few years ago. He doesn't discuss the CPs though ... UK) in Central Asia. An interesting paradox has emerged across a number of the former Soviet republics: an unexpected anti-Semitism ... often never even met any Jews. And along with this, a distorted sense of history is sometimes apparent

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sat Sep 24 04:20:26 PDT 2005

545 Fisk -- rank: 552

... Arab View By Robert Fisk, Middle East Correspondent This is a story about lies, bias, hatred and death. It's about our inability - after more than half a century - to understand the injustice of the Middle East. It's about a part of the world where it seems quite natural, after ... after being shot through the forehead by Israeli soldiers - for a crowd to kick two Israeli plainclothes agents to death. It's about a nation that claims "purity of arms" but fires missiles at ... people who are so enraged by the killing of almost a hundred Palestinians that they try to blow up an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 13 08:44:13 PDT 2000

546 [lbo-talk] Just Foreign Policy News, December 29, 2006 -- rank: 552

Just Foreign Policy News December 29, 2006 http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/newsroom/blog/ Support the Work of Just Foreign Policy Consider making an "end-of-year" donation. http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/donate.html Support the State Department! The State Department asked Israel not to build new Israeli settlements in the West ...

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Author:	Robert Naiman
Date:	Fri Dec 29 14:37:53 PST 2006

547 [lbo-talk] Re:Workingmen's Party -- rank: 552

... list! Re: Mods vs. Rockers To: Rawktrivia Q" Are You a Mod or a Rocker, Ringo? A: I'm a Mocker! M.P., last post for the day, so I ... out the jams this way... According to Tuesday's WSJ, a brother of Khalil Shikaki, was a founder of Islamic Jihad. M.P.   Palestinian intellectuals feeling ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Jul 18 10:00:42 PDT 2003

548 precedents? -- rank: 552

... PETER WALDMAN Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL As President Bush steers the U.S. toward war, history offers a sobering lesson. For two centuries, foreign powers have been conquering ... technologies. But in nearly every incursion, both sides have endured a raft of unintended consequences. From Napoleon's drive into Egypt ... many Arabs who revile Saddam Hussein view the prospect of a U.S.-led invasion of Iraq with trepidation. "Unless the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 19 07:00:44 PST 2003

549 Guns, Politics, and American Culture - Part 1 -- rank: 552

By Ken Lawrence My conservative father, a veteran of World War II in the Pacific, was not a hunter, but he owned a Colt Woodsman Match Target pistol and he taught me to shoot. Occasional trips to a Chicago south side target range began when I was about ... school, at the neighborhood YMCA. Dad regarded his gun as a prudent measure for self defense, and his Army marksman and ... readers unfamiliar with guns and shooting sports: The Woodsman is a large, heavy, long-barreled semiautomatic pistol with enormous walnut ...

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Author:	Apsken at aol.com
Date:	Sat Nov 20 20:15:26 PST 1999

550 [lbo-talk] 'Jerusalem Post' Launches Christian Edition -- rank: 552

... group's strong support for the state of Israel, has a lot to do with it. By Suzanne Rosenberg (February 07 ... Israel's oldest English language daily, The Jerusalem Post, has a new product. While across the world printed newspapers are declining ... Jerusalem Post Christian edition. The Jerusalem Post introduces itself as a widely recognized and trusted source for news on Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world," and suggests that now, it is "offering Israel's Christian friends a special edition published monthly dedicated to their unique interests." Evangelical ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Feb 9 11:22:48 PST 2007

551 [lbo-talk] W & God -- rank: 552

... ET By Tom Heneghan PARIS (Reuters) - The religious overtones in President Bush (news - web sites)'s speeches increasingly grate on many ... misusing faith for political purposes. No less than the German president, French prime minister and Belgian foreign minister have joined religious ... anti-war sentiment in Europe and the deeper gulf between a continent where faith is on the wane and an America where religious values probably play a more prominent p

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 4 15:53:00 PST 2003

552 [lbo-talk] Think your vote is worthless? -- rank: 552

... also: do the parties encourage it (or at least turn a blind eye to it)? My theory was that in Florida it is a Republican party, northern county strategy, but the Daily News article ... t mean that those registered Democrat vote strictly Democrat for president, of course. I would suspect that retirees with at least ... vote for Republican presidents. I'm not sure where the Jewish issue comes in exactly, but I have noticed that both ... the 'Israel's right to self-defense' language to get Jewish votes (I don't think the Dems are using to ...

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Author:	John Bizwas
Date:	Fri Oct 22 01:01:05 PDT 2004

553 [lbo-talk] Just Foreign Policy News, August 4, 2006 -- rank: 552

... Paralyses Lebanon Aid Pipeline 9) Op-Ed Contributor: Ground to a Halt 10) Israeli Soldier Incarcerated for Refusing to Fight 11 ... The Military: U.S. General Says Iraq Could Slide Into a Civil War 14) Intelligence: Senator Faults Bid to Classify Report ...

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Author:	Robert Naiman
Date:	Fri Aug 4 14:20:02 PDT 2006

554 Zionist Plot or Plain Old Capitalism?/ Dogs -- rank: 552

... 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 the Israeli elections, in a bad way ? Also, I saw that show about the dogs ... policy, and capitalism in general, I think it was just a matter of who's going to take a camera and pose as a buyer. If it gave the public a clue that ...

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Author:	pms
Date:	Sat Dec 26 09:29:52 PST 1998

555 Count the dead Russians/ Americans -- rank: 549

... Qayyum says over tea that his pupils are ready for a jihad against the U.S. Two of his acolytes, Taliban ... country and Afghanistan spend years memorizing the Koran in Arabic, a tongue foreign to their native Urdu or Pashto. That's ...

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Author:	Christian A. Gregory
Date:	Tue Oct 2 10:17:24 PDT 2001