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871 [lbo-talk] Re: freedom, double standards, etc. -- rank: 466

... to prosecute several former Soviet functionaries for Communist crimes, not a single Nazi collaborator has been tried since the country became ... at least forty-one Latvian members of the Arajs Kommando, a notorious Latvian security unit implicated in the shootings of thousands ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Feb 5 10:41:28 PST 2006

872 More on those crazy, whacky Russian fascists -- rank: 466

This is from a privatized Soviet paper. The name means "Communist Youth League Truth." It's a semi-serious tabloid. Chris Doss The Russia Journal --------------------------- Komsomolskaya Pravda ... YEARS, ALONG WITH OTHER YOUTH GANGS. HOWEVER, THERE IS NOW A PUBLIC OUTCRY OVER THEM. IN ALL LIKELIHOOD, THIS CAMPAIGN HAS SOME POLITICAL BACKGROUND. HOWEVER, RUSSIA MAY PAY TOO HIGH A PRICE FOR SUCH POLITICAL PRANKS. Neo-nazi skinhead gangs have ... with other youth gangs. However, now the public has recognized a danger in them and raised an outcry over the skinheads. Even the president devoted an entire passage in his annual address to ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Mon Apr 22 05:53:26 PDT 2002

873 Sharon jumps on "War against terrorism" bandwagon - at last -- rank: 466

... see how sharon can convince shrub or ashcroft that one jewish life equals one US life. i'd say he'd be lucky to get 10 to one. or maybe a constitutional 3/5ths of a person, at the very best -- and that's only when ... ROLAND WATSON IN WASHINGTON > >WHEN Ariel Sharon sat down with President Bush in the Oval Office for a >hastily arranged meeting on Sunday, he had one devastating fact ...

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Author:	rhisiart at earthlink.net
Date:	Tue Dec 4 00:11:08 PST 2001

874 blowing up churches -- rank: 466

This reminded me of a local (San Francisco) tv news story re Kosovo from a few weeks back; it was reported that NATO troops were ... and burned... Sort of like when the Nazis made the Jewish citizens wear the Star of David on their garments; so ... Doug Henwood wrote: > Independent (London) - November 20, 1999 > > Nato turns a blind eye as scores of ancient Christian churches are > reduced to rubble > > By Robert Fisk in Djakovica > > A DAY after Nato forces entered Kosovo in June, I discovered an > abandoned Serb Orthodox church in a field 10 miles north of Prizren. > It was a ...

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Author:	Gary Bramstedt
Date:	Sat Nov 20 20:45:22 PST 1999

875 [lbo-talk] Iran before Ahmadinejad (was capital punishment in Iran) -- rank: 466

... logic that "any nail in the coffin of imperialism is a good nail" > > or some > > bullshit like that. > > It is not ... repeat such criticisms. > Especially so, since liberal delicacies require such a preface before > any criticism of our action. > > The analogy seems ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat May 5 07:42:09 PDT 2007

876 [lbo-talk] Jeffrey Sachs sounds more reasonable all the time -- rank: 466

... sealed Gaza s borders, making life even more unbearable in a place wracked by violence, poverty and despair. It is important ... can lead to peace on their terms, rather than accepting a compromise on terms that the Middle East, the rest of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 27 12:41:50 PDT 2007

877 [lbo-talk] Re: Dixor -- rank: 462

... confused. So much e-mail, I still have not had a chance to read all the thread, including Miles posts. In ... and Afro-American history.") for rummagaging through the past, in a ahistorical way, to present sentimentalized, romantic narratives of past struggles ... with an eye towards agitprop. I read last week about a gay subculture in 17th Century > Venice. While not the Castro or Fire Island, it does appear to be a > group > of men who joined together on the basis of sharing a desire for > homosexual > sex. I get that homosexual identity is unstable, but homosex has seemed > to > provide a basis for m

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Wed Oct 8 18:21:11 PDT 2003

878 [lbo-talk] I gotchyer other conspiracy right here -- rank: 462

... survive, says analyst LAURENT MURAWIEC By LAURENT MURAWIEC Less than a month ago, American engineer Paul Johnson was kidnapped in Riyadh ... his half-brother, the ailing King Fahd. Prince Abdullah offered a limited amnesty to the al-Qaeda terrorist offenders. "In a crisis, if the al-Saud dynasty has to choose between ... The Crown Prince's appearance and his proposed deal are a sure sign of the panic that has taken hold of the enfeebled, divided House of Saud. It is also a sign of weakness, and will be read as such by the Saudi population. A self-assured regime

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Author:	snit snat
Date:	Wed Jul 7 19:58:59 PDT 2004

879 Barghouti on the occupation -- rank: 462

... Despite Israel's having killed more than 18 Palestinians since President Yasser Arafat's call for a cease-fire on Dec. 18, there have been no Israeli ... That, according to world governments and the international press, constituted a "lull in the violence." But a lull in the violence is exactly what Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon cannot afford. He was elected in a time of crisis and knows that his rule is sustainable only in a time of crisis. For his own political survival, he ...

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Author:	joanna bujes
Date:	Wed Jan 16 11:06:10 PST 2002

880 ... lbo-talk] Re: People Who Attend Church More Than Once A Week -- rank: 462

... Pollak wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 Yoshie Furuhashi quoted a Jim Wallis NYT op-ed that > said: > > > "[A]ccording to the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, > > people who attend church more than once a week vote Republican by 63 > > percent to 37 percent; people ... people who attend church an *average* of *more* than once a > week is very small -- and the number of people who ... http://pewforum.org/docs/index.php?DocID=26) does have a few interesting tidbits, though. "[S]ignificant numbers of Am

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Author:	Timothy Francis-Wright
Date:	Sun Dec 28 19:10:24 PST 2003

881 [lbo-talk] Israel Transfers $100 Million to Abbas -- rank: 462

... million in tax revenues to the office of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas as part of a plan to bolster him and keep money out of the ... workers, according to Israeli officials. The money was transferred "to a special account to ensure the money does not reach the ... cannot be used for perpetrating terror against Israel," according to a statement from the office of Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert. Israel collects more than $50 million a month in taxes and customs revenues on behalf of the ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Jan 19 07:30:30 PST 2007

882 [lbo-talk] The Indy on Red Ken -- rank: 462

... will be allowed free travel on public transport 24 hours a day. He has had his first head-to-head debate ... main rival, Boris Johnson. He is also being targeted by a sustained media campaign, led by London's main newspaper, the Evening Standard; it is a rare day when it does not devote two or three ... s reputation. On Monday, Channel 4 will join in, with a Dispatches programme which is expected to be filled with old ...

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Author:	Colin Brace
Date:	Fri Jan 18 02:24:25 PST 2008

883 'Blacks Split on Disclosing Multiracial Roots' -- rank: 462

... his two sons, Jacob and David. Mr. Heard, who owns a women's apparel and cosmetics store here, is black. His ... Mr. Heard, who is 76. More than 550 miles and a cultural world away in Lawton, Okla., in the shadow of ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Sat Mar 31 14:37:20 PST 2001

884 Capitalist support for fascism.... -- rank: 459

... Greeley Schacht by John Weitz Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht was a genius--but like his name, eccentric and highly enigmatic. Now ... gained worldwide fame as Germany's commissioner of currency and president of the Reichsbank in the 1920s. Single-handedly, he halted Germany's runaway inflation and, as a tough negotiator, freed Germany from the crippling reparation debts imposed ...

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Author:	Henry C.K. Liu
Date:	Sat Feb 13 00:48:26 PST 1999

885 Fwd: [lbo-talk] Juan Cole: PKK Spin-Off Behind Istanbul Bombings -- rank: 459

... re missing my point. Thx. I had no idea. Assumed a link. From a neo-con think tank, http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/watch/Policywatch ... Sounds like some sort of Deep Laid Plot , maybe even a Dire > Conspiracy . What do you think? A large part of the Turkish people is still insisting on searching among the remnants of the two Jewish synagogues and the British Council about another se

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Nov 23 08:00:42 PST 2003