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3091 [lbo-talk] THE MYTH OF THE 'GOOD' CARTER -- rank: 235

> > Jimmy Carter = Afghanistan + Paul Volcker > > It was "July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive > for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul" So, what's your point here? That principled Marxists should have known that Carter was bad because he gave aid ...

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Author:	Christian Gregory
Date:	Tue Mar 2 19:39:36 PST 2004

3092 Bush-GOP to Wipe Out Ergonomic Protections for Workers -- rank: 235

... by another poster, a lot of people who voted for >Nader were well aware that their votes might throw the election ... to come running in the arms of the left or Nader or a leftish third party, yer all nuttier than a ...

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Author:	kelley
Date:	Wed Mar 7 14:48:39 PST 2001

3093 [lbo-talk] A Day without a Mexican -- rank: 235

Here's a new disaster film -- A Day without a Mexican/Un Día sin Mexicanos (Dir. Sergio Arau, 2004): [Image: a Poster of A Day without a Mexican] Watch the film's trailer at its official website. The film envisions a mysterious cloud that envelops California and magically removes all the ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Jun 24 15:00:23 PDT 2004

3094 Cipla & cheap AIDS drugs -- rank: 235

Wall Street Journal - March 12, 2001 Altruism, Politics and Bottom Line Intersect at Indian Generics Firm By DANIEL PEARL and ALIX FREEDMAN Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL BOMBAY, India -- Yusuf K. Hamied is a man with impressive humanitarian credentials. His pharmaceuticals company, Cipla Ltd., runs a free cancer-care ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 12 07:36:45 PST 2001

3095 [lbo-talk] Re: Powerless Religious Right? -- rank: 235

... they are supposedly trying to cultivate. Take the advocacy for Nader as an example. Most Real Worlders see a campaign as ... to win an election. There are leftists, however, who say Nader's campaign is about sending a message (use Western Union ...

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Author:	BklynMagus
Date:	Wed Sep 15 08:44:12 PDT 2004

3096 [lbo-talk] cruise update: the Ralph angle -- rank: 235

... be President of the United States. In the case of Nader, we don't know how much of his presidential run ...

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Author:	Chuck
Date:	Sat Aug 4 18:58:24 PDT 2007

3097 Fwd: What if the Republicans were ousted from control of Congress -- rank: 235

... remember that polling back in 1996 showed in California that Nader's >support came overwhelmingly from more educated and whiter parts ... the Democratic Party, I have the same misgiving about the Nader campaign, in that it is not likely to fire up ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Jul 12 08:16:02 PDT 2000

3098 Anti-Semitism and Anti-Globalization -- rank: 235

... from the march). And right/left links deep within the Nader camp - even if Nader is not a radical, he and the people around him ...

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Author:	Peter van Heusden
Date:	Mon Mar 19 03:06:25 PST 2001

3099 [lbo-talk] Ohioans Who Earned Less Than $50,000 (48%) -- rank: 235

kjkhoo at softhome.net kjkhoo at softhome.net, Thu Nov 4 21:30:22 PST 2004: >At 10:53 pm -0600 4/11/04, Stephen E Philion wrote: >>>The income correlation with voting for Bush holds across all >>>regions. But NY distinguishes itself in that you have to reach >>>right up ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Nov 5 02:27:49 PST 2004

3100 Imperial decline?: Judis on K.Phillips -- rank: 235

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/12/books/review/12JUDIST.html Although it's a thought-provoking review of Kevin Phillips's "Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich," I don't agree with either John B. Judis's conclusions or even some of his premises. A few ...

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Author:	Peter K.
Date:	Tue May 14 19:44:27 PDT 2002

3101 Imperial decline?: Judis on K.Phillips -- rank: 235

Holland prospered, in part, because it had a monopoly of knowledge about the Baltic trade. Over time, this knowledge became less exclusive. Most economic historians I have read take that line. "Peter K." wrote: > http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/12/books/review/12JUDIST.html > > Although it's a thought-provoking ...

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Author:	Michael Perelman
Date:	Tue May 14 19:56:01 PDT 2002

3102 Gore Joins Max in Spending the Surplus -- rank: 235

... Aug 2000, Doug Henwood wrote: > Nathan Newman wrote: > > >And if Nader if elected would be any more successful in passing the ... conservative Dem opposition, I would be more likely to > >take Nader more seriously. > > What about the possibility that Gore will be ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Fri Aug 25 14:02:59 PDT 2000

3103 [lbo-talk] so much for the new coalition... -- rank: 235

... some of > Zogby's) giving the choices of McCain-Obama-Nader or McCain-Clinton- > Nader can possibly have any validity. Hey, how many votes did ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 9 18:20:41 PDT 2008

3104 Fwd: What if the Republicans were ousted from control of Congress -- rank: 235

On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Gordon Fitch wrote: > The effect of a single vote in a national election is vanishingly > small -- so small as to have, obviously, _no_ practical value. > The only way you can make a vote "count" at all > is to vote for highly marginal candidates and run their ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Wed Jul 12 06:47:41 PDT 2000

3105 [lbo-talk] Bush takes beating in polls -- rank: 235

... to ABC/Washington Post, if Bush, Kerry and independent Ralph Nader (news - web sites) contest the November 2 election,

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Author:	B.
Date:	Mon May 24 16:56:46 PDT 2004