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16 [lbo-talk] A reluctant hero passes... -- rank: 571

... http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2006/01/06/my-lai-pilot.html?print Hugh Thompson Jr., a helicopter pilot who ... crew chief Glenn Andreotta. In and around the village of My Lai, they saw piles of bodies and realized that U.S ... civilians - about 500 that day, it was later estimated. INDEPTH: My Lai http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/iraq/abughraib_mylai. ...

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Author:	Leigh Meyers
Date:	Sat Jan 7 18:24:17 PST 2006

17 Crushing the Colin Powell Myth -- rank: 565

... the most horrible attrocities of the Vietnam War, the Mai Lai massacre. This frenzied killing of unarmed civilians was eventually exposed ... carnage. But there also were American heroes that day in My Lai. Some soldiers refused to obey the direct orders to kill ...

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Author:	Chris Kromm
Date:	Mon Dec 18 09:52:49 PST 2000

18 Hitchens on Amis -- rank: 562

... by reviews of your book on Stalinism. I wince on my own behalf a good deal as I wade through, but ...

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Author:	Liza Featherstone
Date:	Fri Sep 13 10:59:16 PDT 2002

19 'I Was a Coward. I Went to the War.' -- rank: 555

Los Angeles Times May 13, 2001 Sunday Home Edition SECTION: Book Review; Page 3; Book Review Desk HEADLINE: 'I Was a Coward. I Went to the War.'; VIETNAM AND OTHER AMERICAN FANTASIES By H. Bruce Franklin; University of Massachusetts Press: 256 pp., $28.95; NORTHERN PASSAGE American Vietnam War Resisters in ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun May 20 06:16:57 PDT 2001

20 [lbo-talk] SF Chron reprints 33-yr old column -- rank: 552

... it, I realized the bitter truth: Now I root against my own country. This is how far we have come in ... is the nadir I have reached in this winter of my discontent. This is how close I border on treason: Now I root against my own country. How frighteningly sad this is. My generation was raised to love our country and we loved ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 27 06:51:55 PDT 2004

21 [lbo-talk] Bohemian Grove -- rank: 539

Charles asked for a substantive argument. This isn't an argument at all. What were you like on the high school debating team? Did you just get up on the podium, write some bibliographic references on the chalkboard, declare victory and go home? --- Michael Pugliese <michael098762001 at earthlink.net> wrote: > On ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Jul 22 03:26:41 PDT 2004

22 [lbo-talk] Bohemian Grove -- rank: 539

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16:48:12 -0400, Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> goes clippitty cloppin': > CB: You are gonna have to bring the substantive arguments here, not > citations. Then we'll see whose musty. There have been plenty of failed > attempts to critique Comrade Dimitrov. What makes you ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Wed Jul 21 17:41:56 PDT 2004

23 [lbo-talk] North Americans' falsification of history( PUG) -- rank: 523

... Public > Schools from '85-'90, US history and civics was my fave to be sent to > cover. In the Vietnam War section, the textbooks mentioned the My Lai > massacre. Other events like Wobblies being killed, lynchings, the > battles ...

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Author:	jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net
Date:	Mon May 23 13:48:08 PDT 2005

24 [lbo-talk] Query -- rank: 511

... has a detailed article about CP's involvement in the My Lai cover-up. TNR subscribers can access the story at: http ... lane041795.html Bilton's and Sims' classic "Four Hours in My Lai" also details Powell's role Also worth a look is "My Lai: A Brief History With Documents" by James Olson -----Original ...

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Author:	Mark Bennett
Date:	Thu Apr 3 14:33:10 PST 2003

25 Yellow peril update -- rank: 504

Ian Murray posted the following article: >Asian Americans seen negatively >Results of landmark survey called startling, disheartening I sez: Institutional racism of any kind is obviously abhorrent, but bogus studies and crappy articles such as this simply reflect the aspirations of actual and would-be upwardly-mobile Asian Americans (and their ...

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Author:	John Gulick
Date:	Fri Apr 27 17:19:44 PDT 2001

26 [lbo-talk] Hersh talk at U of C -- rank: 504

[written up by Rick Perlstein] Seymour Hersh spoke tonight at the University of Chicago to a packed (and sweltering) hall at International House. I took some scattered notes. The remaks will be disjoined--as will be the notes--but chilling. He asserted several things that he says he didn't ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 10 07:46:07 PDT 2004

27 [lbo-talk] My Recent Encounters with Chinese Capitalism -- rank: 491

My experience was not particularly Chinese & maybe not particularly characteristic of ... beforehand. Emperors would come to power by killing their relatives. My experience is that over 5 years, the hotel, which has a picture of Zhou En Lai in the lobby has changed as management has passed in ...

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Author:	michael perelman
Date:	Sun Oct 16 15:54:50 PDT 2011

28 Missing in Action -- rank: 476

... chat about books, careers, memories of war. I ask about My Lai. Mr. [Pham Van] Duong [a Vietnamese journalist] looks at the ... joined the 48th Vietcong Battalion. He was killed in 1972. "My mother fainted when she heard this. She was told that ... in the same attack. This made it much worse for my mother -- no good burial. After liberation

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Apr 25 23:50:49 PDT 2001

29 Yellow peril update -- rank: 460

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/04/27/MN199998.DTL Asian Americans seen negatively Results of landmark survey called startling, disheartening Matthew Yi and Ryan Kim, Chronicle Staff Writers Friday, April 27, 2001 One in four Americans has "strong negative attitudes" toward Chinese Americans, would ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Fri Apr 27 11:50:46 PDT 2001

30 [lbo-talk] George Orwell -- rank: 460

... Chiang Ching and had a drinking competition with Chou En Lai. It may seem that the book missed its mark on ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun May 11 22:06:11 PDT 2003