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76 antisocialism -- rank: 284

>>The group mind can't engage >> in self-reflection. That's why "the mob" is far more likely to engage in >> disturbed behavior than individuals, including the individuals who comprise >> the mob. This is what happened at MyLai. The soldiers of Task Force Barker >> were otherwise normal people who got ...

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Author:	Dace
Date:	Wed Feb 9 11:17:28 PST 2000

77 Vietnam: The Soldier's Revolt (Part 1) -- rank: 284

International Socialist Review Issue 9, August-September 2000 Vietnam: The Soldier's Revolt By Joel Geier ...A working-class army... >From 1964 to 1973, from the Gulf of Tonkin resolution to the final withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam, 27 million men came of draft age. A majority of them ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Dec 14 16:58:44 PST 2002

78 Tariq Ali on the History of the Nobel Peace Prize -- rank: 284

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,855502,00.html The ignoble Nobel Jimmy Carter gets his peace prize next week. Just don't mention Nicaragua, Korea or East Timor Tariq Ali Saturday December 7, 2002 The Guardian On Tuesday, former US president Jimmy Carter will fly to Oslo ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Sat Dec 7 12:11:55 PST 2002

79 Terrorism Defined? -- rank: 284

TERRORISM DEFINED? In 1999, the federal government spent about $10 billion to combat terrorism with over 40 federal departments, agencies, and bureaus participating with a role in combating terrorism. (1) There is NO universal definition of terrorism. We once called them "freedom fighters" when the Taliban fought against the Soviets and ...

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Author:	Nisan
Date:	Fri Sep 21 17:15:00 PDT 2001

80 Jude & Slobo -- rank: 284

... Jude Wanniski Re: Hurray for Ramsey Clark Quite apart from my belief that Slobodan Milosevic has been demonized to cover up ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 3 10:16:52 PDT 2001

81 [lbo-talk] MSFT exec: I'd buy a Mac -- rank: 284

... purposefully dramatic' in 2004 e-mail to Ballmer, Gates Eric Lai December 12, 2006 (Computerworld) -- Outgoing Windows development chief James Allchin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 12 13:40:41 PST 2006

82 Herman on Hitchens -- rank: 284

This may surprise some of my detractors but, I still have considerable regard for the Vietnamese ... anti-war poster of the massacred in the ditch in My Lai with the Lt. Calley court martial testimony, "Q:And Women ...

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Author:	michael pugliese
Date:	Thu Dec 6 13:43:20 PST 2001

83 New Weather Underground Memoir -- rank: 284

Michael: > >Any more specific info on those two Weather books? > >DP I feel like the www.amazon.com marketing dept! Buy from unionized (ILWU) www.powells.com Michael Pugliese Editorial Reviews >From Publishers Weekly "Memory is a motherfucker," begins 1960s-era political activist and Weather Underground member Ayers, who went underground ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon Aug 20 21:34:07 PDT 2001

84 Chinese left -- rank: 284

... Mandarin and have a long way to go, and regardless my work deals more with China-watchers and what I like ...

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Author:	Daniel F. Vukovich
Date:	Wed Dec 22 01:52:42 PST 1999

85 Chinese left -- rank: 284

... shu.edu.tw/ All in Big5 Jonathan Dennis Shih Hua Lai wrote: > Hi! This is my first posting on the list. > > This is the url for ... those chinese texts actually give me a lot of headache. > > My initial impression is that this website isn't too much ...

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Author:	Jonathan Lassen
Date:	Mon Dec 20 01:22:33 PST 1999

86 [lbo-talk] Fact-checking Anonymous Sources? -- rank: 284

... boy, i didn't even mention him in either of my posts about leaks to lbo... for the record: i've read hersh ever since my lai, have generally liked his stuff, he may be most important ...

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Author:	Michael Hoover
Date:	Thu Apr 13 12:19:29 PDT 2006

87 [lbo-talk] Lyndie England -- rank: 284

Ravi: > wojtek thinks doug and others (including me) are missing the point. but > i see a begging of the question in your (and wojtek's) argument: if you > wish to hold someone responsible for an action, when/where do you stop? > is it enough for you that you have a picture ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Thu Sep 29 07:31:45 PDT 2005

88 [lbo-talk] Who knew? John McCain on disability, gets checks -- rank: 284

Joseph, Even though you didn't answer my question whether folks involved in My Lai ought to "should receive the same [military] benefits as a ...

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Author:	B.
Date:	Fri Jun 13 18:29:43 PDT 2008

89 Colin Powell -- rank: 284

... them are from different times so I am not sure my experiences with the Gulf war issues give me any insight ...

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Author:	John Thornton
Date:	Tue Dec 19 05:49:08 PST 2000

90 GM for AA -- rank: 284

Michael Perelman wrote: >Doug, I believe that it is similar to Kalecki's political business >cycle. It has to >do with the specific stage of the economy. When there is a lot of >unemployment, fight >AA, cause dissention, and blame the minorities. When the job market >is tight, go for >AA ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Jul 19 10:39:30 PDT 2000