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886 why does the Taliban hate women? -- rank: 459

... been noticed. For years, the oppression of Afghan women was a topic for exotic list serves and the occasional forlorn Internet petition. As recently as May, for example, President Bush congratulated the ruling Taliban for banning opium production and handed them a check for $43 million--never mind that their regime accords women a status somewhat below that of livestock. In the weeks after ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 7 10:53:11 PST 2001

887 [lbo-talk] Fahrenheit 9/11 is AMAZING! -- rank: 459

... public-action.com/911/suit/mutual-link.html From: Carol A. Valentine <SkyWriter at erols.com> Date: Wed Dec 31, 2003 ... 03:09 PM, wrote: >Our pleasure Carol.. Please consider putting a link to >www.septembereleventh.org as we have provided organizing ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Jun 25 09:28:03 PDT 2004

888 [lbo-talk] "The Chosen" -- rank: 459

I've left Jim's comments for a flavor of the article: ----------------------------------------------------- Fascinating recent article in the New ... In short, the admissions essay was introduced by Harvard as a mechanism to control the number of Jews attending Harvard. There ... on the correlation between LSAT scores and future performance as a lawyer (but you'll have to read the entire article ... Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, that meritocratic spirit soon led to a crisis. The enrollment of Jews began to rise dramatically. By 1922, they made up more than a fifth of Harvard's freshman class. The administration and alumni ...

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Author:	Bitch
Date:	Thu Nov 3 05:37:48 PST 2005

889 [lbo-talk] backstory on UMich-Pluto -- rank: 459

... groups and questions from some regents over its distribution of a book called Overcoming Zionism, which argues that the creation of Israel was a mistake and urges adoption of the one state solution to ... Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which Israelis and Palestinians would form a new country, without a Jewish character. Michigan wasn t the publisher, but it distributed the book under a deal with Pluto Press, a leftist British publisher with ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 23 12:27:27 PDT 2008

890 [lbo-talk] Taibbi on US Khodorkovsky coverage -- rank: 459

... by their historic propaganda success -- the creation ex nihilo of a justification for the U.S. invasion of Iraq completely unsanctioned ... and the military-industrial complex, the dread Bushoviki, have identified a new "terrorist threat": President Vladimir Putin. The means they are now deploying are strikingly ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Nov 5 08:55:02 PST 2003

891 [lbo-talk] national call-in day for mideast cease-fire -- rank: 459

... Contact your Representative and ask them to sign on as a cosponsor to H.Con.Res.450, calling for an immediate ... all sides, the United States continues to provide Israel with a green light to destroy Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. Last ...

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Author:	Aaron Shuman
Date:	Tue Jul 25 06:51:43 PDT 2006

892 [lbo-talk] Chechnya, Darfur, and Jewish Activism -- rank: 459

... so pro-Putin. Good God, he pulled Russia out of a world-historical calamity, and people quibble (e.g. Kagarlitsky) about ... dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > >Meanwhile, Vice President Dick Cheney "delivered the Bush >administration's strongest rebuke of ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri May 5 13:33:16 PDT 2006

893 Sparts weigh in -- rank: 459

... act of criminal terror. While it may be viewed as a symbol of the wealth and global reach of U.S ... ethnicities and religions who were employed there. And at 9 a.m. on a workday morning, thousands of other workers - transit, construction, office and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 25 14:24:09 PDT 2001

894 Journal Axes Gene Research on Jews and Palestinians for Political Reasons -- rank: 459

... Palestinians for Political Reasons The London Observer November 25, 2001 A keynote research paper showing that Middle Eastern Jews and Palestinians are genetically almost identical has been pulled from a leading journal. Academics who have already received copies of Human ... rip out the offending pages and throw them away. Such a drastic act of self-censorship is unprecedented in research publishing ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Sun Nov 25 14:13:13 PST 2001

895 zionism (again) -- rank: 456

... and Muslim countries also have in place laws which preclude Jewish ownership of land and are specific to a Muslim identity. Israel came into being at a time when which really hasn't changed very much, except ... also allowed Arab participation in the government, provided Muslims with a democratic system of government which provides for every ideology to ... preservationist especially with 2000 years of flagrant and persistent anti-Jewish decrees and explusions, Inquisitions, Crusades and all the rest. In ...

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Author:	Iyyar
Date:	Sun Jul 29 03:08:57 PDT 2001

896 [lbo-talk] St.Thomas reverses on Tutu -- rank: 456

... rude] [Via Juan Cole's Informed Comment blog. It's a open letter to the St. Thomas University community by its president, Father Dennis Dease (it's a Catholic University)] http://www.juancole.com/2007/10/father-dease-president-of-university-of.html <quote> 'Dear members of the St. Thomas community, One of the strengths of a university is the opportunity that it provides to speak freely ... and to be open to other points of view on a wide variety of issues. And, I might add, to ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Tue Oct 16 20:47:19 PDT 2007

897 "Palestine" enters U.S. diplo lexicon -- rank: 456

... Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - ``Palestine'' entered the government's lexicon with President Bush (news - web sites)'s speech to the United Nations ... now, U.S. officials have referred to the possibility of a ``Palestinian state,'' but have never called it ``Palestine.'' Powell said ... and reflected administration policy ``If one is moving forward with a vision of two states side by side,'' Powell said on ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 11 10:14:54 PST 2001

898 [lbo-talk] Weiner unhid! -- rank: 453

... straddles both Queens and Brooklyn. It does, but Turner got a lot of votes from the Brooklyn side, which is heavily ... portions of the district - the Brooklyn parts are more heavily Jewish - implies that Israel-related issues may have played a role. ... [T]he [past] four special elections, taken as a whole, suggest that Democrats may still be locked in a 2010-type political environment. Democrats might not lose many more ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 14 10:31:55 PDT 2011

899 [lbo-talk] Homeless must wear yellow stars, I mean triangles, in FRANCE !, most progressive European country ! -- rank: 453

... 20141204/french-city-issues-yellow-triangles-to-identify-homeless Arnaud, a homeless man, wears the controversial symbol adorning the "carte de secours" during a demonstration in front of the City Hall of Marseille, southern ... homeless population by issuing them with ID cards, adorned with a yellow triangle. The cards detail their health issues and will ... steep rise in deaths of street children (27 Aug 14) A homeless person dies 'every 20 hours' in France (04 Mar ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Thu Dec 4 08:58:05 PST 2014

900 [lbo-talk] French Resistance hero calls for public to get angry, son of "Catherine" ("Jules and Jim") -- rank: 453

... political-conscience-hessel-indignez-vous-books "Behind an unlikely bestseller, a fierce political conscience" >Stéphane Hessel s wildly popular new book Indignez-vous ! is a rallying cry for French masses to combat social, political, and economic injustices. France24.com takes a look at the man behind this unlikely bestseller. >There s a new book topping the bestseller list in France, and it s not a Swedish thriller, a vampire novel, the tale of a teenage wizard, or ...

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Author:	Gar Lipow
Date:	Sat Jan 1 13:17:13 PST 2011