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841 [lbo-talk] the neo-South Africa -- rank: 475

... be exposed to the reality on the ground. There is a unique situation here which you cannot analyze from the outside ... delegation to come to the US very soon, hosted by a variety of Jewish organizati

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Author:	Joseph Wanzala
Date:	Fri May 27 15:47:38 PDT 2005

842 [lbo-talk] Scott McLemee rip of Houston Baker rip of Michael Eric Dyson -- rank: 475

... Culture," by Michael Eric Dyson, who at that point was a professor of communications at the University of North Carolina at ... and Gangsta arrived bearing glowing endorsements, including one by Houston A. Baker Jr., a former president of the Modern Language Association. (Two years ago, Baker left ...

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Author:	Auguste Blanqui
Date:	Thu Apr 10 10:36:47 PDT 2008

843 Just too funny not to post -- rank: 475

... 2003 The Observer <http://www.observer.co.uk> An obscure Jewish sect in New York has been gripped in awe by what it believes to be a mystical visitation by a 20lb carp that was heard shouting in Hebrew, in what many Jews worldwide are hailing as a modern miracle. Many of the 7,000-member Skver sect ... Many believe the carp was channelling the troubled soul of a revered community elder who recently died; others say it was ... The only witnesses to the mystical show were Zalmen Rosen, a 57-year-old Hasid with 11 children, and his ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Sun Mar 16 06:45:12 PST 2003

844 next chapter in US isolationism -- rank: 475

... if two contentious issues are included in the conference agenda, a senior State Department official said yesterday. Top State Department officials ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Fri Jul 27 17:03:38 PDT 2001

845 LEBANON: ISRAEL TO BE SUED FOR TORTURE/ -- rank: 472

... separate the articles. Allusion to train tracks to Auschwitz? F.A.Z. is the Frankfurter A. Zeitung. Michael Pugliese ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FINAL CONFLICT NewsEmail 10th August 2001 Issue ... ex-jailers. This move follows closely in the footsteps of a legal case being brought in Belgium against Prime Minister Ariel ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Aug 10 09:36:05 PDT 2001

846 [lbo-talk] New Anti-semitism as a trend in 'news' -- rank: 472

... newTemplate=NSArticle_NS&newDisplayURN=200206170018 Western society is infected by a powerful sense of self-loathing and a rejection of its political, social and economic achievements. It was ... sentiments are no more progressive when aimed against Israel as a symbol of the west than when they are directed in ... but it offers no solutions - especially when it ends with a demand for even more western intervention in the affairs of ...

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Author:	John Bizwas
Date:	Sat Nov 13 20:43:54 PST 2004

847 [lbo-talk] Re: The material basis of Nazism -- rank: 472

Re:The material basis of Nazism First, a response to CB, then WS, then MG. 1. To CB ... points. One might point out that, unlike Hitler or Mussolini, a Republican president in the current US doesn't really have to absorb any part of a socialist or communist social-political agenda in order to win ... most importantly defense-security-intelligence contractors. On the other hand, a presidential placation of a middle class, as you say, parallels how the Nazis ...

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Author:	John Bizwas
Date:	Thu May 19 18:06:28 PDT 2005

848 Hanan Ashrawi invitation draws protest -- rank: 472

... By MICHAEL JANOFSKY COLORADO SPRINGS, Aug. 29 — Eager to find a provocative keynote speaker for a three-day symposium next month on world events, Colorado College, a small liberal arts institution here, invited Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian moderate well-known in the West as a forceful and articulate spokeswoman for Palestinian causes. But the invitation and Ms. Ashrawi's acceptance have angered Jewish groups in Colorado and Jewish students at the school, ...

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Author:	Peter K.
Date:	Sat Aug 31 10:01:50 PDT 2002

849 [lbo-talk] Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV survived attacks -- rank: 472

... 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:	Michael Givel
Date:	Sun Aug 27 11:41:20 PDT 2006

850 NATO expands into irrelevance -- rank: 472

... management of international security. For NATO, what should have been a moment of greatest triumph, the creation of a Europe that is united and peaceful for the first time in centuries, is also an occasion to reflect on a bleak future that beckons it. Lord Ismay, the first Secretary ...

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Author:	Ulhas Joglekar
Date:	Wed May 15 18:39:56 PDT 2002

851 [lbo-talk] Does Al Qaeda Exist? -- rank: 472

... was, and as it is Two months ago I got a new internal passport, issued in Moscow. The old one had been issued in Grozny, a city that barely exists any longer. The rubble they show ... still stands. My father built it in 1977 to withstand a magnitude-nine earthquake. On Jan. 2, 1995, when federal troops ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Jan 17 09:27:08 PST 2005

852 [lbo-talk] The demise of Pakistan is inevitable -- rank: 472

... hatred for India and history of injustice means Pakistan is a victim of the divisive logic that created it Kapil Komireddi ... Taliban is an illusion. The world may view it as a battle for Pakistan's soul, but the generals in Rawalpindi ... the world by threatening imminent collapse is vintage Pakistan. Recently, President Asif Ali Zardari told Der Spiegel that the safety of ...

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Author:	Sujeet Bhatt
Date:	Sun Jun 21 06:03:18 PDT 2009

853 [lbo-talk] The demise of Pakistan is inevitable -- rank: 472

... hatred for India and history of > injustice > means Pakistan is a victim of the divisive logic that > created it > > Kapil Komireddi ... Taliban is an illusion. The > world may > view it as a battle for Pakistan's soul, but the g

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Author:	ken hanly
Date:	Sun Jun 21 12:13:37 PDT 2009

854 [lbo-talk] Israeli spies divided over Syria's peace overtures -- rank: 472

... overtures from Damascus. While the Mossad spy service said Syrian President Bashar Assad had no genuine interest in peace talks, Israel ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Fri Jan 19 19:51:27 PST 2007

855 Harvard re-invites poet -- rank: 472

... an invitation that it had rescinded just last week to a University of Oxford poet and professor who has harshly criticized ... had reinvited Tom Paulin -- despite reported opposition from Harvard's president -- in order to make a statement about free speech. Mr. Paulin, who grew up in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 21 10:01:01 PST 2002