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556 Strange Fruit -- rank: 549

... Page 1; Column 1; Arts and Leisure Desk HEADLINE: MUSIC; A Song That Reverberates in the American Soul BYLINE: By DAVID MARGOLICK; David Margolick, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, is the author of "Strange ... familiar to many blacks. As Mr. Wiggins sat chatting with a friend in front of a club in Oakland, Calif., not long ago, a policeman approached him and, without provocation, yanked him out of his car, placed him in a choke hold and ordered him to spit out whatever ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Jul 3 07:15:53 PDT 2000

557 [lbo-talk] Report says Hamas agrees to recognize Israel -- rank: 549

... in Jerusalem Thursday June 22, 2006 Guardian Hamas has made a major political climbdown by agreeing to sections of a document that recognise Israel's right to exist and a negotiated two-state solution, according to Palestinian leaders. In a bitter struggle for power, Hamas is bowing to an ultimatum from the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, to endorse the document drawn up by Palestinian security prisoners in Israeli jails, or face a national referendum on the issue that could see the ...

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Author:	Marvin Gandall
Date:	Thu Jun 22 05:52:58 PDT 2006

558 [lbo-talk] Al Fishman , presente -- rank: 549

... read at May 27 memorial meeting] WHEREAS, Al Fishman was a leading peace and justice

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Author:	c b
Date:	Fri May 27 09:23:20 PDT 2011

559 [lbo-talk] Uri Avnery: The Real Aim In Lebanon -- rank: 549

There's much to agree with here. Avnery is always a badly needed voice of reason - and memory - at times like ... what the Israeli response would be, or deliberately risked such a confrontation to force an inevitable showdown between Israel and Syria ... is to change the regime in Lebanon and to install a > puppet government. > > That was the aim of Ariel Sharon's ... It > failed. But Sharon and his pupils in the military a

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Author:	Joel Schalit
Date:	Sat Jul 15 21:53:21 PDT 2006

560 NYC to recognize gay marriage -- rank: 549

... to apply the word "marriage" to gay and lesbian unions, a move that would shatter a taboo in the legislation of homosexual relationships. The City Council is expected to vote to approve a bill Thursday that would give formal recognition to "members of a marriage that is not recognized by the state of New ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 13 16:02:25 PDT 2002

561 [lbo-talk] Venezuela's Jews Defend Leftist President in Flap Over Remarks -- rank: 549

... main/section.php?section=News> Venezuela's Jews Defend Leftist President in Flap Over Remarks By MARC PERELMAN January 13, 2006 The Venezuelan Jewish community leadership and several major American Jewish groups are accusing the Simon Wiesenthal Center of rushing to judgment by charging Venezuela's leftist president, Hugo Chavez, with making antisemitic remarks. Officials of the leading organization of Venezuelan Jewry were preparing a letter this week to the center, complaining that it had ... had failed to consult with them before attacking the Venezuelan president. "You have interfered in the political status, in the ...

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Author:	Seth Kulick
Date:	Thu Jan 12 12:01:53 PST 2006

562 Fwd: Memo: Imagine, No Nativity -- rank: 549

... the Angel assuring him that his wife was to have a virgin birth. He would have gone ahead with his plan to have a quiet divorce. Mary might have avoided the problem by going to the local abortion clinic -- and kept it a secret from Joseph. The two of them might have found ... probably would have found space if he didn’t see a nine-month pregnancy was part of the deal. Imagine, No ... calendar year would we be celebrating? Certainly not 2000. The Jewish New Year mig

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 5 09:30:47 PST 2000

563 'The Moral Courage to Call Us Equals' -- rank: 549

... By Mustafa Al-Barghouti * It is disturbing that Amos Oz, a well-known Israeli intellectual and veteran peace activist, should write that "Israel is offering the Palestinians a peace accord based on 1967 borders, with minor mutual amendments ... last July, and reiterated first in response to former US President Bill Clinton's December 2000 peace proposal and again before ... and not to divide Jerusalem, among other things. This constitutes a total negation of the Oslo accords and subsequent agreements on ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Feb 24 02:31:03 PST 2001

564 [lbo-talk] Zionists policing academic discourse -- rank: 549

This part is a hoot: they have severely disrupted academic > processes, the free > function ... Hmm. My memory is going but seems to me that a while back during the Cold War there was such a thing as McCarthyism and blacklisting. We had a Ph.D. from Oxford and expert in Soviet agriculture teaching ... our small university in the boondocks (Brandon University) because as a former communist party member he was blacklisted in the US ...

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Author:	ken hanly
Date:	Thu Oct 18 08:21:49 PDT 2007

565 [lbo-talk] State Department Bans Distinguished Muslim Scholar -- rank: 549

... Jade Sanchez-Ventura NEW YORK, Sep 21 (IPS) - Tariq Ramadan, a world-renowned Islamic scholar, sits in an empty apartment in ... the U..S. State Department. His visa was revoked under a section of the USA Patriot Act that bars entry to foreigners who have used a "position of prominence...to endorse or espouse terrorist activity", a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, Russ Knocke, told ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Sep 22 06:08:09 PDT 2004

566 [lbo-talk] The eXile on reaction to Politkovskaya's murder (Mark Ames) -- rank: 549

... for chrissakes. On one side of the Global Toilet was President Putin, normally an impressive politician, but who, at critical times ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Oct 23 06:46:33 PDT 2006

567 Moldova -- rank: 546

... 13, 2001 Communists Return to Power in Moldova: Hope for a Communist Democracy in the Former Soviet Union? by John Mage ... Foundation Director John Mage sees in recent events in Moldavia a glimmer of hope for the much-suffering people of the ... Moldovan Communist party marked the first return to power of a Communist party in any of the sovereign fragments of the ... FSU"). If you have left wing politics and can use a dose of optimism, this event is a positive portent for - at last - an end to the Mafia ... sovereign ministate, but what can be hoped to happen as a result in the rest of the FSU community. Bu

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 18 08:19:09 PST 2001

568 Prescription For Fascism: Alternative Medicine and Right-Wing Politics -- rank: 546

... alluded to here>that the Soviet Union never really collapsed a decade ago, but only pretended to do so in order ... an invasion!> is most likely, "New Lies for Old, " by A. Golitsyn http://www.google.com/search?q=New+Lies+for ... com/bkstore.html http://members.tripod.com/AmericanOpinion/Conspiracy.htm , a supposed former disinformation officer for the KGB. Michael Pugliese Prescription ... David Lethbridge Increasing numbers of Canadians have begun to embrace a variety of alternative medicines, and are spending more and more ... the vendors of these products appear to have tapped into a widespread and dangerous anti-science tendency. Propaganda adv

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sat May 19 16:03:07 PDT 2001

569 [lbo-talk] Great Essay from Adolph Reed Jr. -- rank: 546

... not just another shift in the eternal parliamentary struggle for a majority, with all the pragmatic calculations and manipulations that involves. It is a sign of something more. . . . Whatever our doubts, for that moment ... in the universal freedom of humanity. . . . Obama s victory is a sign of history in the triple Kantian sense of signum rememorativum, demonstrativum, prognosticum. A sign in which the memory of the long past of ... struggle for its abolition reverberates; an event which now demonstrates a change; a hope for future achievements." Here are some words from ...

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Author:	michael yates
Date:	Mon Feb 24 17:13:12 PST 2014

570 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [anti-allawi-group] The Chomsky vs. Dershowitz debate: both sides were awful! -- rank: 546

Must have been watching a different debate. Cause Chomsky was less than thrilled with the ... group at yahoogroups.com> > >Dear Friends, > >I just finished watching a TV broadcast of a Nov. 29, 2005 debate >between Noam Chomsky and Alan Dershowitz ... Ku Klux Klan idea of >racial separation. > >They both advocated a Jewish state, in which only Jews are the >sovereign authority, and in which Jews are made a permanent majority >by denying the right of return to ...

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Author:	Travis Fast
Date:	Sun Dec 4 19:00:28 PST 2005