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2866 Nice piece on revolutions and ideology -- rank: 156

This is ostensibly on Russian Independence Day (which is tomorrow), but really on the American Revolution and its effects on American thinking. Russian Indepence Day is the wierdest excuse for a holiday I have ever heard of. Not only was Russia declaring independence from itself, most Russians view the fall of ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Tue Jun 11 05:46:46 PDT 2002

2867 Summers dictates -- rank: 156

Washington Post Book World 9 June 2002 Brinksmanship Reviewed by Martin Malia Martin Malia is professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley and the author, most recently, of "Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum." THE RUSSIA HAND A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy By ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Sun Jun 9 06:29:51 PDT 2002

2868 Summers dictates -- rank: 156

Something else I should have mentioned in the context of corruption in Russia and "reform" is the ideology of the so-called "young reformers," Chubais, Gaidar, etc., which was explicitly and avowedly Social Darwinist and nihilistic. I already sent this to Michael Pollack, but this is a great account of the ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Fri Jun 7 04:15:23 PDT 2002

2869 Putin moves to reassure China over Russia's honeymoon with West -- rank: 156

Putin moves to reassure China over Russia's honeymoon with West By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press Writer MOSCOW (AP) - After moving to build closer ties with the United States and NATO, Russian President Vladimir Putin is turning to the East where Moscow's "strategic partner," China, has been jealously watching Russia ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Thu Jun 6 04:51:39 PDT 2002

2870 Kosovo remarks -- rank: 156

This will be my only message on this or anything today as I must take off to give a lecture out of town. 1) Erstwhile "intelligent internationalist" Kissinger has now oined John McCain in calling for the introduction of ground troops into Kosovo. For those not in the US,McCain is ...

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Author:	J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Date:	Fri Apr 2 07:28:36 PST 1999

2871 New lefts and gay rights -- rank: 156

... homosexuality were only enforced in cases of statutory rape (post-Stalin, anyway). Female homosexuality was never outlawed. Chris Doss The Russia ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Thu Jun 6 01:35:23 PDT 2002

2872 Russia breaking with oil export addiction -- rank: 156

... They refused to revise their estimates upward more than superficially. Stalin had people shot for doing things like this. I think ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Tue Jun 4 05:23:30 PDT 2002

2873 Dennis Miller endorses Larry Miller diatribe against Palestinians -- rank: 156

that's true, nathan. miller's politics has gotten more and more reprehensible, going back to his harping over and over about the OJ simpson verdict as though it was inconceivable that a black jury could ever return a jury nullification verdict when white folks have been doing much worse for ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 3 23:24:12 PDT 2002

2874 Dennis Miller endorses Larry Miller diatribe against Palestinians -- rank: 156

... Palestinians with the World Trade Center attackers, comparing him to Stalin, and all manner of offensive crap, with Dennis Miller just ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Mon Jun 3 21:38:59 PDT 2002

2875 Solzhenitsyn slams Putin -- rank: 156

Russian Writer Slams Putin May 31, 2002 MOSCOW (AP) - Renowned Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who issued rare words of praise for Vladimir Putin after he rose to the presidency, slammed the current state of the country Friday and said Putin had failed to live up to expectations. Solzhenitsyn, an 83-year ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Sun Jun 2 05:13:49 PDT 2002

2876 Kagarlitsky on US crash -- rank: 156

Moscow Times July 30, 2002 Twilight of Neo-Liberal God By Boris Kagarlitsky WorldCom's filing for bankruptcy last week sent a shock wave through world financial markets that has hit Russia, causing the Russian stock market to dip sharply. To most Russians, the stock market is still a very abstract ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Mon Jul 29 23:51:07 PDT 2002

2877 RIP Alexander Ginzburg -- rank: 156

The Times (UK) 23 July 2002 Obituaries Aleksandr Ginzburg Soviet dissident who spent 20 years in and out of labour camps, but who was none too pleased to be set free in America One of the most significant Soviet dissidents, and for 20 years a thorn in the side of the ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Tue Jul 23 05:42:07 PDT 2002

2878 [-|-] A Second Holocaust? -- rank: 156

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020527&s=wieseltier052702 AGAINST ETHNIC PANIC. Hitler Is Dead by Leon Wieseltier Post date: 05.16.02 Issue date: 05.27.02 Has history ever toyed so wantonly with a people as history toyed with the Jews in the 1940s? It was a decade ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Thu Jul 18 07:10:56 PDT 2002

2879 [-|-] A Second Holocaust? -- rank: 156

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Sub or Unsub to pnews-l (since 1982) --> mailto: shin at pnews.org "The Truth may not always win, but it is always right." (Eli Hertz) West Server -: http://pnews.org/ East Server -: http://g0lem.net/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= A SECOND HOLOCAUST Some, including a Jewish national leader, Ron Rosenbaum, believe the Jewish ...

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Author:	Chaim-Tevya
Date:	Thu Jul 18 02:15:53 PDT 2002

2880 [lbo-talk] Guardian: "I'm a fascist, says AC Milan star Christian Abbiati" -- rank: 156

... STALINIST Left-wing economist Michael Perelman says that he, like Stalin, appreciates Marx. --- On Sat, 9/27/08, Michael Perelman <michael ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sat Sep 27 19:18:09 PDT 2008