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571 [lbo-talk] A Hidden Swing Vote: Evangelicals -- rank: 546

... demographics.html> "Significantly, Christians, including Evangelicals, do not vote as a bloc, even within specific denominations. In the year 2000, when ... voting bloc in the Republican Party. However, Black Protestant voters, a majority of whom are Evangelical, voted 96 percent for Gore and only 4 percent for Bush. Contrast this with Jewish voters who voted 77 percent for Gore and 23 percent ...

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Author:	Chip Berlet
Date:	Sat Sep 4 12:51:52 PDT 2004

572 10/16: Friedman on Israel divestment -- rank: 546

... namely, that the U.S. provides them with $10 million a day, half of which is used to buy arms to ... It is clearly having an impact and changing the debate. A year ago, the notion of divesting from Israel was not considered worthy of mention and discussion. To a growing number of activists and scholars, it now makes sense ...

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Author:	Chris Kromm
Date:	Wed Oct 16 19:00:41 PDT 2002

573 [lbo-talk] Break Through 2004: A Refuser Solidarity Network Conference (3/13-14) -- rank: 546

... Refusers to strengthen your own efforts! Warm regards, Steven Feuerstein President, Board of Directors Refuser Solidarity Network www.refusersolidarity.net BREAK ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Jan 30 18:28:07 PST 2004

574 [lbo-talk] EU rejects U.S.-Israel move on Mideast borders -- rank: 546

... could be no unilateral change in Middle East borders after President George W. Bush said Israel could keep some Arab land ... the parties," the Irish foreign minister, Brian Cowen, said in a statement on behalf of the EU presidency. Cowen said the current international peace effort - in which the EU is a partner with the United States, Russia and the United Nations ...

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Author:	Diane Monaco
Date:	Thu Apr 15 08:39:46 PDT 2004

575 [lbo-talk] "Norma Rae" hated Bruce Raynor -- rank: 546

... the late labor hero fictionalized as "Norma Rae," bitterly criticized a prominent labor leader who made his name organizing her North Carolina textile mill, according to an interview in a new book on labor organizing. Sutton, who died last fall ... P. Stephens' Roanoke Rapids plant, and was fired for backing a union. Bruce Raynor, now the president of the SEIU affiliate Workers United, was then a top organizer at the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union ... the battle to organize the plant and hired Sutton as a full-time staffer. Sutton as "Norma Rae" and a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 1 12:58:37 PST 2010

576 [lbo-talk] Lerner + Carter (+ Soros?) = liberal alt.AIPAC? -- rank: 546

... some!] <http://www.forward.com/articles/lerner-reaches-out-to-president- carter/> Lerner Reaches Out to President Carter WEB EXCLUSIVE Gabriel Sanders | Wed. Dec 27, 2006 While leaders from across the Jewish spectrum have rushed to condemn former president Jimmy Carter and his new book "Palestine: Peace not Apartheid," at least one prominent Jewish figure has headed in the opposite direction. Michael Lerner, the ... process of exploring the possibility of working with the former president to build support for a left-wing alternative to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 28 19:21:45 PST 2006

577 [lbo-talk] The problem, Benny Morris, is Zionism -- rank: 546

[it's impossible to imagine this appearing in a US newspaper] Jerusalem Post - January 29, 2007 The problem, Benny ... had not been radical enough: The United States had done a better job in cleansing the country of its previous inhabitants. Recently he published a heart-rending prophecy of doom to the effect that the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 31 06:01:50 PST 2007

578 [lbo-talk] war times on the war (incl. juan cole on ethnic cleansing) -- rank: 546

... s continuing military offensives in Lebanon and Gaza are producing a human catastrophe, and have immense political consequences. First, the human ... roads, the Beirut airport, radio transmitters, pharmaceutical plants, and even a dairy farm - has been methodically destroyed. *at least 150 dead ...

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Author:	Aaron Shuman
Date:	Mon Jul 31 08:09:24 PDT 2006

579 Fw: [The Grip] Re: The Symbolic Snake of Judaism -- rank: 546

... scandal. You know the story line. Barney Frank and ex-President Bush engaging in orgies with underage kids in Kansas... Michael ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Tue Oct 24 16:36:27 PDT 2000

580 [lbo-talk] Re:Flirting with Fascism -- rank: 543

... blogspot.com/ http://worldwatchdaily.org//index.cfm/fuseaction/home.sa/a/9875 Veteran neo-con advisor moves on Iran By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON - When The Washington Post published a list of the people whom Karl Rove, President George W Bush's closest advisor, regularly consults for advice ... Ledeen about Rove's request that "any time you have a good idea, tell me". "More than once, Ledeen has seen ... then again, with this administration, it seemed frighteningly plausible." Michael A Ledeen, resident scholar in the Freedom Chair at the America

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Thu Jul 3 07:27:19 PDT 2003

581 Asymmetrical Warfare (Re: Anti-Terrorism Act to Cover Computer )"Crime" -- rank: 543

... conventional combatant in >asymmetrical warfare? >Chris there isn't really a monolithic voice, as far as i know. the stuff i ... suggest reading that. :) but here's something else: Preparing for a War on Terrorism Testimony before the Committee on Government Reform ... 20, 2001 Jessica Stern Kennedy School of Government Harvard University A war on terrorism must be fought

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Author:	kelley
Date:	Wed Sep 26 09:51:55 PDT 2001

582 [lbo-talk] Uri Avnery: The Real Aim In Lebanon -- rank: 543

... is to change the regime in Lebanon and to install a puppet government. That was the aim of Ariel Sharon's ... then, there is no doubt that it is coordinated with a part of the Lebanese elite. That's the main thing ... Sharon that, before starting it, it was necessary to have a "clear provocation", which would be accepted by the world. The ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 15 18:27:58 PDT 2006

583 [lbo-talk] Just Foreign Policy News, October 17, 2006 -- rank: 543

... involved/iranpetition.html Just Foreign Policy News daily podcast: Take a summary of today's foreign news with you. http://www ... Juan Cole, interviewed on the Lehrer news hour, called for a phased withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. This is significant because he had previously opposed such a move on the grounds that it would expose the civilian ...

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Author:	Robert Naiman
Date:	Tue Oct 17 11:49:44 PDT 2006

584 Brad weighs in -- rank: 543

... I'm >sorry, and I hope he signs up for a remedial reading class soon (didn't >Generalissmo Hitchens claim to ... HTTP servers know the IP address of the referring page a client >comes from, don't they? Yes, there's a way to do that. It's frightening to consider Dubya is president in the midst of a foreign policy crisis whilst the globe slips into recession. (Hamas ... Bush administration is confident in the coalition). As for Vice President Cheney, I strongly suspect the government is pulling a " ...

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Author:	Peter K.
Date:	Sat Nov 3 14:15:53 PST 2001

585 "guilty" and "innocent" (was Re: debates) -- rank: 543

... now appears, this was an act of terrorism it was a > >despicable and cowardly act. We will find out who was responsible and > >hold them accountable,'' President Clinton said.... ***** > >As opposed to firing cruise missiles at a pharamaceutical plant, bombing a >passanger train, downing a commercial airliner, slaughtering women and >children - not to mention countless ... been sufficiently addressed during the period of the "peace process," a neglect that I find absolutely astonishing, giv

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Oct 13 16:42:54 PDT 2000