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706 [lbo-talk] growing "Americanisation" of British foreign policy -- rank: 509

... 0,,1731851,00.html Britain's standing is now at a nadir in the Middle East By colluding with the Israeli ... Arab and Muslim worlds to its lowest point for half a century. By withdrawing British monitors from a Palestinian jail in Jericho on Tuesday, the government as good ... of an elected political leader regarded by many Palestinians as a national hero. As the ruins of the British Council building ...

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Author:	Colin Brace
Date:	Thu Mar 16 02:50:34 PST 2006

707 [lbo-talk] Another poll registering US working class discontent and confusion -- rank: 509

... offers everyone an equal chance to get ahead, according to a Bloomberg National Poll. And some say the government isn t doing much to help. There s a lot of policies that make it easier for the rich ... and the poor to go nowhere, says Ryan Sekac, 26, a mechanical engineer in Westerly, Rhode Island. The Dec. 6-9 poll follows public statements by leaders, from President Barack Obama to Pope Francis, expressing alarm about growing income ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Thu Dec 12 04:02:11 PST 2013

708 [lbo-talk] Once Upon a time -- rank: 509

... for the sustainability of the democratic rule, but also > makes a big difference between the types of democracy that are possible ... distinguish between different types of democratic regime that > fall on a continuum of what he calls "the Westminster model" (fundamentally, > the ... I don't disagree with you that institutional arrangements make a difference, but we are talking about the Middle East here ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Aug 23 09:33:35 PDT 2006

709 Hitchens war escalates -- rank: 509

Ha, I can easily picture Eddie J., being a twitty bore, and Hitchens, especially a drunk Hitchens, having this very conversation with him, much to ... amusement of himself, and anyone else in earshot who brought a clue to the party. moving back to the admiration mode ... of the most emotionally >charged accusations one can level at a political foe in the United States: >Holocaust denial. > >Recalling conversation ...

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Author:	pms
Date:	Wed Feb 17 20:04:04 PST 1999

710 [lbo-talk] Unpopular President -- rank: 509

... Guard station along with dozens of large dump > trucks forming a ring around the block where he is staying. This > too ... during his last visit nor during > the VP's visit a few months ago. Has he become more worried about > being ... Warner Center itself is surrounded with bomb barriers. Ditto that Jewish Community Center featured in the article about sexless marriages that ... Hoover posted yesterday. The memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising - a flat stone in the sidewalk, essentially - in Riverside Park is ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 3 12:40:27 PST 2006

711 Antisemitism in Austria -- rank: 509

>From today's www.faz.com Resist the Beginnings By Eva Menasse VIENNA. Question: Would it be possible for one of Germany's big daily newspapers to give pride of place to the following poem on April 20: "Fürwahr, ein großer Tag ist heut!_Ich hab mich lang auf ihn ...

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Author:	Johannes Schneider
Date:	Fri Apr 27 02:56:48 PDT 2001

712 [lbo-talk] When New York City Was the Capital of American Communism -- rank: 509

... aside Mr. Abel s taste for the mordant, he had a point. For a few decades from the 1930s until Communism s demise as ... where American communists came close to enjoying the status of a mass movement. Party members could live in a milieu where co-workers, neighbors and the family dentist were ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Sat Oct 21 08:12:20 PDT 2017

713 [lbo-talk] "Left" Believers In Warren Report -- rank: 506

... are my friend," which has led America into cooperation with a whole range of tyrannical, military-backed dictatorships. But we should ... side. Indeed, they may have an entirely different agenda, of a decidedly fascist bent. Despite the fact that they may make ... their real enemy is liberal democracy, which they hate with a greater passion than even the most de

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon Nov 24 17:29:07 PST 2003

714 Ace on The Jews -- rank: 506

... Henwood wrote: > Don't you find the tone of this a little weird? [...] > And the point of this is? Sure, I ... you Jude-lover? But Ace was at least aiming in a vague way to make a point that deserves to be made. If some Internet conspiracy ... too. Then the question arises - to what extent is this a justified response to the reality of anti-Semitism, a

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Author:	Seth Ackerman
Date:	Tue Mar 12 18:44:47 PST 2002

715 [lbo-talk] Anti-war Tel Aviv rally draws Jewish, Israeli Arab crowd -- rank: 506

... Lily Galili More than 2,500 people on Saturday attended a mass demonstration against the war in Lebanon, marching from Tel Aviv's Rabin Square to a rally at the Cinemateque plaza. The rally was the first ... Wall, Coalition of Women for Peace, Taayush and others. These Jewish and Arab groups ordinarily shy away from joint activity. They couldn't come up with a unifying slogan this time either, except for the call to ...

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Author:	Ira Glazer
Date:	Sun Jul 23 03:29:46 PDT 2006

716 ... lbo-talk] Essay Linking Liberal Jews and Anti-Semitism Sparks a Furor -- rank: 503

... 2007, at 8:04 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > > > The American Jewish Committee's foolish attack on the liberal > Jewish > > Americans whose genuine concern for Israelis as well as > Palestinians ... has led them to criticize Tel Aviv's policy is a good sign, a sign > > that dogmatic Zionism no longer enjoys unchallenged hegemony in ... Yoshie > > Thanks. Meant to post this & forgot. They're sounding a little > panick- > y, no? And in a similar vein is the article, "Fighting Jewish anti-Semitism," ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Wed Jan 31 17:59:12 PST 2007

717 [lbo-talk] A Liberal Blogger Watches the Antiwar Rally on C-SPAN -- rank: 503

... all of them. They are set up to alienate. Personally, a rally against the Iraq war should be just that a single issue event. jim Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail ...

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Author:	jrdavis
Date:	Sat Jan 27 12:34:46 PST 2007

718 [lbo-talk] that Holocaust conference -- rank: 503

... AFP) - Iran has defied an international outcry as it held a conference that questioned the truth of the Holocaust and was ... revisionist" historians. Iran says the conference is aimed at providing a forum for historians to air any view about the Holocaust ... Manouchehr Mottaki, in his opening address, styled the conference as a scientific forum that would seek to find answers to the questioning of the Holocaust by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad has repeatedly questioned the truth of the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 11 06:10:08 PST 2006

719 Canadian intelligence on The Movement -- rank: 503

... Remember the July 4th rampage in Illinois of Benjamin Smith a few yrs. ago?) That bit is from the LaRoucheites, so ... of hatred. Dunphy's story also alleged that Bristow directed a Heritage Front harassment campaign to incite violence between the Front ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Thu Aug 24 11:06:09 PDT 2000

720 [lbo-talk] ITT: A magnificent short obit of the still living Gore Vidal -- rank: 503

... eschewing Harvard to embark on his writing career. Enlisting as a teenager toward the close of World War II, the precocious ... novel when he was only 17, the finely chiseled Williwaw -- a tale whose cynicism about war was compared to that of ... and which thrust Vidal immediately into the public eye. After a stint as an editor at Dutton (where he championed the ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Tue Nov 29 23:36:10 PST 2005