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5281 Gathering: McReynolds on Palestine No. 2 -- rank: 149

[Note: The issue is the Israeli oppression of the Palestininan people and the relation of the U.S. left to that. I believe Halle and Stannard are, perhaps unintentionally, quite obscurantist in dragging in what some people might say in some other electoral campaign, but I will reserve my response ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Jun 10 14:25:39 PDT 2001

5282 "the prick McReynolds"-like crabs in a bucket . . . -- rank: 149

... who gleefully (pace NN) imposed a similar purity test on Nader. You have a lot to be ashamed about. >> Amen. stannard

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Author:	Stannard67 at aol.com
Date:	Sun Jun 10 12:38:20 PDT 2001

5283 "the prick McReynolds"-like crabs in a bucket . . . -- rank: 149

> > > > >Is this prick the same David McReynolds who ran as the Socialist > > >Party canditate for > > >pres. in the last US election by any chance? > > > > > >hmm if so maybe that whole 'social fascist' label thing wasnt such a > > >bad idea after > > >all > > > > Huh? What's your beef with David McR? He ...

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Author:	John Halle
Date:	Sun Jun 10 11:17:12 PDT 2001

5284 BdL on BE -- rank: 149

At 7:07 PM +0000 6/5/01, delong at econ.berkeley.edu wrote: >Why, then, did I look at this book after I finished it like I might >look at a dangerous insect? Because of its politics--or, rather, its >antipolitics. In this book the government does not appear (save ...

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Author:	brettk at unicacorp.com
Date:	Tue Jun 5 15:37:00 PDT 2001

5285 BdL on BE -- rank: 149

Brad DeLong writes (in his review of Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed), apparently forgetting that Ehrenreich's field work was entirely carried out under a Democratic presidency, and that the Dems failed to pass a minwage increase when they controlled Congress: At 7:07 PM +0000 6/5/01, delong ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 5 12:19:39 PDT 2001

5286 RES: RES: British Election [was Question to Chris ] -- rank: 149

- > >-Hmmmm.....seems to be very similar to the dilemma faced by the US left. >-Support the lesser evil (Democrats) or engaging in third parties building >-while risking to help the right to win the elections. However, from what >-I know from relatively limited sources, the New Labour and the Democratic ...

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Author:	Alexandre Fenelon
Date:	Sun Jun 3 18:38:54 PDT 2001

5287 RES: British Election [was Question to Chris ] -- rank: 149

At 02/06/01 22:48 -0300, Alexandre wrote: first quoting me: >I personally am in favour of pluralist democracy and not being tied to any >one political party. > >I agree with your friend that the Liberal Democrats are to the left of >Labour. More important than making voting gestures which ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Jun 3 13:36:32 PDT 2001

5288 FW: [ASDnet] Are the Black Bloc police agents? -- rank: 149

>--- Original Message --- >From: Jason Schulman <jschulman at world.oberlin.edu> >To: asdnet at igc.topica.com >Date: 7/25/01 12:46:36 PM > >----- Forwarded Message ----- > >From: George (Giorgio) Torrieri <torrieri at sbars.physics.arizona.edu> >To: <sass at listserv.arizona.edu> >Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 7:47 AM ...

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Author:	michael pugliese
Date:	Wed Jul 25 13:02:51 PDT 2001

5289 Union Avoids Neutrality Agreements Fight- Fears Bush NLRB Attack -- rank: 149

... joeG at ieee.org> >The Democrats screwed Labor long before Nader ran. They've had the >opportunity to modify labor laws ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Wed Jul 18 18:30:15 PDT 2001

5290 Union Avoids Neutrality Agreements Fight- Fears Bush NLRB Attack -- rank: 149

... are from the day-to-day reality of union organizing. Nader screwed the union movement. All the rationalizations won't change ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Wed Jul 18 04:08:28 PDT 2001

5291 (US) zionism -- rank: 149

----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad Mayer" <bradley.mayer at ebay.sun.com> >Because the central aim is to attack the US state, not "Israel", which is >_nothing but_ an appendage. Which is why I have such disdain for folks coming from this approach, since it really cares very little about the ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Thu Jul 12 19:47:37 PDT 2001

5292 The Beam in the Eye of the Empire (was Re: Kosova Redux) -- rank: 149

... the USA -- from Pat Buchanan to Bill Clinton to Ralph Nader to >garden-variety liberals & social democrats here; but American leftists ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Jan 31 16:50:48 PST 2001

5293 labor/media -- rank: 149

> > From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> >> >> >> Nathan Newman wrote: >> >The UAW monthly >> >magazine is actually not too bad >> >> - -Really? You mean Solidarity? Aside from the financial statements, >> - -with their mysterious $1 billion in assets, I find it mainly a >> - -snooze. Maybe I'm spoiled by Vanity Fair. >> >> And neither ...

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Author:	J Cullen
Date:	Wed Jan 31 16:16:41 PST 2001

5294 The Beam in the Eye of the Empire (was Re: Kosova Redux)/RE: Kosova Redux -- rank: 149

I seem to recall the estatic (precisely "estatic") description in the mainstream press of NATO's wonderful tactic of dropping conductive material upon Serbian electrical power transmission stations. Such "dual-purpose military targets" were to be found aplenty atop the Oakland Hills, as I never tired to point out to locals ...

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Author:	Brad Mayer
Date:	Sat Jan 27 18:37:05 PST 2001

5295 The Beam in the Eye of the Empire -- rank: 149

>> >a large spectrum from neo-fascists like the Radicals in Seselj's >> >party (Yoshie, you missed the almost permanent presence of these >> >thugs in one of your posts on the SSP/JUL), "moderate" nationalists >> >like that clown Draskovic, social democrats and liberals like Vesna >> >Pesic, the "Red Bourgeoisie" in the ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Jan 29 23:48:13 PST 2001