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946 Missing in Action -- rank: 312

>Gordon writes: > >>Yoshie Furuhashi: >>> The POW/MIA propaganda that the U.S. government & corporate media >>> have promulgated is ideologically similar to the propaganda put out >>> by their Japanese counterparts that North Korea abducted Japanese >>> individuals -- especially young girls -- for espionage & other >>> purposes. ... >> >>As I pointed out quite awhile back, the ...

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Author:	Brad DeLong
Date:	Thu May 10 13:20:02 PDT 2001

947 Bush to World: Fuck Off -- rank: 312

[This lead editorial in today's The Independent is a joy to read. I hope it is representative of the dominant global view of Mr. Compassionate Conservatism at this time.] --------- Well, this what they're saying about him here in Russia. Bad translation, though. Nezavisimaya Gazeta March 27, 2001 THE ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sat Mar 31 05:02:07 PST 2001

948 [lbo-talk] more noxious crap -- rank: 312

SA writes: 'Do you mean Stalin would have permitted the eastern countries to accept the Marshall ... the US had already withdrawn economic support. During the war Stalin readily accepted military and economic aid (recently highlighted in the published correspondence between Stalin and Roosevelt - who would have thought that the Red Army ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Oct 3 04:34:14 PDT 2009

949 Alessandro Portelli -- rank: 312

New York Times 10 March 2001 Prospecting for Truth Amid the Distortions of Oral History By ALEXANDER STILLE ROME -- When Alessandro Portelli was doing an oral history of a small working-class Italian city in the 1970's, he became puzzled when his subjects repeatedly made factual errors or even related ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Mar 12 12:45:15 PST 2001

950 [lbo-talk] Fascist Trotskyites -- rank: 312

... fact Pravda said it, we all read it--before the Stalin-Hitler pact O my darling, etc.... Once a Nazi would ... you said it, >Then we read it >In the Hitler-Stalin pact > >-- from "Oh My Stalin, Party Line" (sung to the tune of Clementine) > > >> >> http://www ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Sun Aug 28 20:04:44 PDT 2005

951 [Fwd: Ceremonies of Innocence, or, a Secret Affinity with theLynchers] -- rank: 312

... and all of >>Lenin's other close associates attest that Stalin is number 2. >>To work to give the #2 bad ... think USA monopoly would be better to mankind? In fact Stalin's USSR was not a "rogue state" in search for ...

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Author:	Alexandre Fenelon
Date:	Thu Dec 9 20:05:10 PST 1999

952 Anti-Zionism Is Racism -- rank: 312

The recognition of Israel by the fSU was crucial in '48 but, methinks from what I heard at a marathon talkathon I had this Sunday with two Trots and an ex-Maoist, when this briefly came up, that it was more complicated http://www.google.com/search?q=Soviet+recognition+of ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Tue Jul 31 09:06:02 PDT 2001

953 Ethical foundations of the left -- rank: 312

More Rorty trivia from the lbo-talk left/right K-DISH DJ, Michael Pugliese. Richard' Dad was James Rorty, one of the signers of the famous 1932 statement of the "left-leaning" (I hate it when newspapers use that phrase to I.D. lefties that do more than lean in our ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sat Jul 28 09:24:43 PDT 2001

954 Should we celebrate the fall of the Soviet Union -- rank: 312

... that after the war the USSR pillaged the East until Stalin died while the West was showered with Marshall Plan aid ... do understand that the GDR was a special case. After Stalin's death the GDR became a major industrial center, indeed ...

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Author:	Rosser Jr, John Barkley
Date:	Tue Jul 14 09:40:35 PDT 1998

955 [lbo-talk] On Witchcraft -- rank: 312

... no existential claims about the object of consciousness that is Stalin or his activities. (Stalin is pretty popular here as you know.) ----- Original Message ---- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> Stalin can always do in a pinch as a stand-in ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Apr 16 06:21:08 PDT 2010

956 Ivins on FDR on defining fascism -- rank: 312

Chip Berlet wrote: > > Hi, > [clip] > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan at newman.org> > FDR appears to have suffered > the same malady, > > but then he didn't have the advantages of social science > hindsight :) > And why should we not take advantage of social science hindsight? I always thought taking advanage of ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Wed Jul 4 12:37:41 PDT 2001

957 [lbo-talk] great moments in the history of liberalism -- rank: 312

... time. They were the ones carrying out the Terror. Were Stalin and Kaganovich and Yezhov not Bolsheviks? I think it is ... interpretation of history. ;) Khrushchev's too. "I, Khrushchev, am good. Stalin was bad. It was all the fault of the Georgian ... at pipeline.com> wrote: > Like a true liberal, "andie" presents Stalin's > pogrom against the > bolsheviks as "bad communism"--instead of ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Jul 8 14:32:41 PDT 2007

958 Rebuttal of anti-Communism -- rank: 312

... indicate political terrorism, typically by focusing on the crimes >of Stalin - remember, for these ideologues all of Soviet history and all ... of what the manufactured facts say about the evil of >Stalin). Ummm... First of all, many of the "manufactured facts" about ...

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Author:	Brad De Long
Date:	Thu Oct 15 07:43:31 PDT 1998

959 [lbo-talk] great moments in the history of liberalism -- rank: 312

... 70th annniversary of the Yezhovshchina, the terrible year 1937 in Stalin's Russia. Anna Akhmatova Requiem 1935-1940 Not under foreign ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Sun Jul 8 13:20:18 PDT 2007

960 [lbo-talk] Thoughts on the Tea Party (and why the Left is Dead) -- rank: 312

At 10:40 AM 4/22/2010, Doug Henwood wrote: >I remember that time - it was a sad thing. But my question about >post-1937 was real - what did happen? Anyone know? > >Doug Dislocation and oppression, including violence and arrest? In those years tens of thousands of poor farmers left Oklahoma ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Thu Apr 22 12:07:26 PDT 2010