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5716 The Grinch that stole the elction -- rank: 149

[Chuck0, they wrote a poem about you :o)] But Whatever the reason, Lack of trust, lack of goals, The Grinch dreaded that day when Chads went to the polls. He just hated those speeches and negative ads, And when push came to shove, he just hated the Chads. He just ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Tue Dec 5 07:50:39 PST 2000

5717 needs -- rank: 149

I find agreeable Mr Henwood's skepticism of critiques of putatively artificial needs. It does seem that I misread his earlier rant against the high technology economy as a rant against technology as such. Among so called leftists however there does seem to be the sense that the technology which man ...

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Author:	jan carowan
Date:	Sat Dec 2 18:58:48 PST 2000

5718 FW: Racial Blind Spot Continues to Afflict Greens -- rank: 149

Published in the December 25, 2000 issue of In These Times A Silver Lining by Laura Flanders You know who didn't win the election. Do you want to know who won? The winners were the folks in the streets all year who called for "no more business as usual." As ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Sat Dec 2 08:19:16 PST 2000

5719 BRC Statement on the Post-Election Crisis -- rank: 149

----------------------------------------------------------------- This is a Press Release/Statement from the Black Radical Congress ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Black Radical Congress" <blackradicalcongress at email.com> The Black Radical Congress (BRC) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 1, 2000 CONTACT: Bill Fletcher Jr., bfletcher4 at compuserve.com, 202-637-5143 Statement on the Post-Election Crisis by the National ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Sat Dec 2 08:10:14 PST 2000

5720 FW: Racial Blind Spot Continues to Afflict Greens -- rank: 149

... went off on an article in which Fran Beal criticized Nader but didn't criticize Gore on criticizing this racist discrimination ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Fri Dec 1 14:12:55 PST 2000

5721 FW: Racial Blind Spot Continues to Afflict Greens -- rank: 149

... horrendous, a thing totally apart from routine incompetence and fraud. Nader's silence is a disgrace, too. Loud & clear enough? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 1 13:43:19 PST 2000

5722 FW: [PEN-L:5216] FW: Racial Blind Spot Continues to Afflict Greens -- rank: 149

What rubbish. There seems to be no rock the less-left won't try to heave in RN's direction. Beal acknowledges that RN's proposals "would ensure that the winner-take-all schemes prevalent in each state could enhance the voices of Black America, particularly in the South." But this ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Fri Dec 1 09:23:38 PST 2000

5723 Drug War & Conservatives (Re: Charlatans Left & Right -- rank: 149

>Dennis, both the comments on Columbia and on Nicaragua seem like a statement >that if progressives did not win everything wanted, nothing was acomplished. >In the case of Nicaragua, the Boland Amendment was hardly "minor", since it >forced the Reagan Administration into the whole back channel and illegal >Iran-Contra ...

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Author:	Nancy Bauer/Dennis Perrin
Date:	Fri Dec 1 04:07:55 PST 2000

5724 Fw: [ASDnet] What Went Wrong for Ralph? -- rank: 149

nader failures 1. too quick to embrace numerous small issues of ...

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Author:	John Kawakami
Date:	Fri Dec 1 01:31:10 PST 2000

5725 Drug War & Conservatives (Re: Charlatans Left & Right -- rank: 149

----- Original Message ----- From: "Nancy Bauer/Dennis Perrin" <bauerperrin at mindspring.com> >As for Colombia, it will take more than offering minor amendments to stop -- >or even slow -- the killing machine down there. It reminds me of the pitiful >Dem efforts (such as they were) during the Central American wars in ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Sat Dec 30 18:06:21 PST 2000

5726 Fw: [ASDnet] What Went Wrong for Ralph? -- rank: 149

... might" is even used is the best explanation for why Nader and the Greens failed, since they treat other progressives as ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Sat Dec 30 09:14:49 PST 2000

5727 SZAMUELY'S FOLLY: SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL -- rank: 149

Behind the Headlines September 29, 2000 http://www.antiwar.com/justin/justincol.html SZAMUELY'S FOLLY: SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL The very first line of George's Szamuely's piece, "NATO Game-Plan: Destabilize Yugoslavia" - yesterday's spotlight article on this site - gives us a clue that something is seriously wrong ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sat Dec 30 21:10:09 PST 2000

5728 New York State AFL-CIO -- rank: 149

Apropos of the announcement of the AFL-CIO's "virtual" Labor Day celebration, I thought LBO-ers might be interested in some altogether discouraging news about the state of what can only be called virtual labor in New York-- I just spent the past two days as an AFSCME delegate to ...

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Author:	christine karatnytsky
Date:	Wed Aug 30 11:01:09 PDT 2000

5729 Greenberg: is he or isn't he (DLC)? -- rank: 149

> > Greenberg is not a policy guy. The basic thrust of his > polling is that in order to win, Dems should stress bread- > and-butter class issues. He is not DLC. Penn is DLC and > preaches the suburban/soccer mom/quality of life (i.e., > crime, values) stuff. > You can get ...

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Author:	John Halle
Date:	Tue Aug 29 13:42:27 PDT 2000

5730 Lesser-evilism and third parties -- rank: 149

... that Gore is the pits, and who say they >prefer Nader - but for the chance of electing Bush. A policy like ...

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Author:	Brett Knowlton
Date:	Tue Aug 29 06:56:55 PDT 2000