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826 Blair, WTC, economy, Israel -- rank: 478

... Blair set out to underpin the Coalition Against Terror in a speech to his own Labour Party conference on Wednesday. Blair ... project lacked moral purpose. But in his enthusiasm to provide a vision, Blair merely substituted wishful thinking for a real programme of action. Though Blair's speech drew the ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Oct 7 03:47:55 PDT 2001

827 [lbo-talk] The New Saddam -- rank: 478

... Issandr El Amrani January 25, 2007 Issandr El Amrani is a Moroccan-American independent journalist based in Cairo. His work about ... politics regularly appears in American and British magazines and newspapers. A former editor of two independent liberal weeklies in Egypt, he also publishes a collaborative weblog on the Arab world, www.arabist.net. Making a renewed appearance in the State of the Union address this ... set out an agenda that puts the U.S. on a path of confrontation with Iran the latest installment in the ... as Middle East policy in Washington these days. Having made a mess of Iraq, continuing to refuse to play a ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Feb 1 02:40:05 PST 2007

828 Russian loans -- rank: 478

... 22 - Former Central Bank director Sergei Dubinin said today that a secret offshore firm now under investigation was used to manage ... no laws had been broken, but his explanation differed from a previous one and raised new questions on the eve of Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov's trip to Washington on a mission to win renewed IMF lending -- which was suspended after ... how previous Western aid was used, as well as by a host of other issues, including looming conflict in the Balkans ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 23 16:35:39 PST 1999

829 [lbo-talk] Nazi popular support -- rank: 478

... you go further on, it makes clear that this was a non-secret ballot with threats for disobedience explicit; plus all ... than counted as nos, which is absurd when it's a two-box ballot and the spoiling consisted of things like ... And adding insult to injury, Hitler got the majority of Jewish votes and 99.99% of all votes in Dachau. So ... vote whether they approved the consolidation of the offices of President and Chancellor in a single Leader-Chancellor personified by Adolf Hitler. By every appeal ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Mon Jan 14 07:01:16 PST 2008

830 [lbo-talk] Israel goes even more bonkers -- rank: 478

... AITA SHAAB, Lebanon (AFP) - Israel has invaded southern Lebanon in a ground and air assault to retrieve two soldiers snatched by Hezbollah, the first such assault into the country since a 2000 pullout. The capture, in an attack on an army outpost on the volatile Lebanese border, opened a new front in the Middle East after the capture of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 12 07:04:42 PDT 2006

831 [lbo-talk] Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV survived attacks -- rank: 478

I hear tell from various sources that Al-Manar had a backup studio operating out of the Iranian embassy in Beirut ... TV.html > > Friday, August 25, 2006 · Last updated 11:35 a.m. PT > > Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV survived attacks > > By ... Israeli military power from studios in secret bunkers. > > How is a mystery. For security reasons, Al-Manar officials won't say ...

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Author:	Joel Schalit
Date:	Sun Aug 27 12:04:19 PDT 2006

832 Daily Mail&Guardian Govt Aids nut linked to Ku Klux Klan. -- rank: 478

... to upset plans for an alien invasion of earth. As a result they were targeted with Aids, according to the health ... Aids. PAUL KIRK reports. William Cooper, the author of Behold a Pale Horse - the book on Aids that Minister of Health ... Cooper is often seen at Klan rallies, but denies being a member of the Klan himself, claiming he simply supports the ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Sep 17 09:53:19 PDT 2000

833 december column -- rank: 478

... excess, as the nation’s businesses pray for relief in a suffering economy. Consumers are the only economic hope, as they ...

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Author:	frank scott
Date:	Thu Nov 21 08:02:14 PST 2002

834 [lbo-talk] Blowing Up an Assumption -- rank: 478

... there. But the point is that even if it is a recent national identity it could be a real one. --- See, this is the typically confusion between place ... like "90% of Chechens voted for independence in 1992" (itself a very dubious statement) I have to laugh. What that means ... have no reason to disbelieve, Dudaev become the "democratically elected president of Chechnya" by means of a truck driving through the Grozny announcing "Dudaev is the democratically ... of Chechnya/Ingushetia was 58%. The rest were Ingush, Russian, Jewish, Cossack, Ukrainian, Armenian and others. It is now close ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Jun 10 06:56:59 PDT 2005

835 Tom the Exterminator on the Middle East -- rank: 478

... who, Israel or the US. Chris Doss The Russia Journal ------------------ A power that outstrips even U.S. in region Tuesday, April ... 2002 BY DAVID WOOD NEWHOUSE NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON -- There was a time, in the tortured history of Israel and the Arab ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Wed Apr 10 05:21:26 PDT 2002

836 [lbo-talk] something's changing re: Israel -- rank: 475

... March 26, 2009 'Eyeless in Gaza': An Exchange By David A. Harris, Reply by Roger Cohen In response to Eyeless in ... financial, logistical, and military support of Iran, Hamas would be a shadow of its current self. Instead, it has benefi

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 9 18:16:40 PDT 2009

837 [lbo-talk] Why Were The Hussein Boys Killed? -- rank: 475

... as David Duke." Duke, for those outside the USA, is a prominent neo-Nazi. The below is from Meredith Tax, who wrote a history of the intersection between the early 20th century feminist ... Michael Hoffman II, also mentioned below, was recently included as a cc recipient on a mailing by John Kaminsky, a 9-11 conspiranoid, along with, Michael Collins Piper of, "The ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Jul 25 13:45:13 PDT 2003

838 The Pope meets Aerosmith -- rank: 475

... unlikely: Aerosmith's bad-boy lead singer Steve Tyler reciting a prayer written by the Pope, or a credit card stamped with the Vatican's ``brand name.'' Both ... about spirituality,'' said Garson, who was brought up in the Jewish faith. ``This Pope knows no spiritual boundaries.'' In the brave new world of ``spiritual marketing,'' a veteran rocker like Steve Tyler finds common g

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Author:	/ dave /
Date:	Thu Jul 6 21:00:24 PDT 2000

839 CEO of Timberland says "Israeli message is not reaching US" -- rank: 475

... message is not reaching US >>>>"Did I come here as a Jew and as the CEO of Timberland? Yes."<<<< Dear friends, I'm appalled at how a US CEO of a publicly traded company can make such remarks! See full story ... upon his return to the US he be greeted with a few thousand letters and a few peaceful demonstrations at Timberland retail store outlets around the ... Here is some info to get you started: First, issue a press release/statement to get this issue in your ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Fri Apr 26 09:58:33 PDT 2002

840 Reparations Conference -- rank: 475

... just stupider than the neos' university-audience stuff. Jacoby is a skillful enough propagandist, though, to catch the tones and the ... the properly-placed qualifying example or the judicious quote from a supporting "authority." He *was* suspended once, though, for plagiarizing one ... e-mail make-the-rounders (duh). This was followed by a nation-wide letter-writing campaign from right-wingers blaming his ... access to the Globe archives, I'd link you to a piece he once wrote on Edwar

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Author:	Gregory Geboski
Date:	Wed Feb 28 20:32:49 PST 2001