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211 Empire expunged: Post-cold war US imperialism in the Middle East -- rank: 243

I've argued here that the Afghanistan war is a virtual copy of Bush Sr.'s Gulf War in its strategic aims, transposed to Central Asia. There's no way of convincing our LBO agnostics and get-ObL-right-or-wrong-ers, but here's an interesting piece on the theme ...

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Author:	Hakki Alacakaptan
Date:	Tue Nov 20 01:48:34 PST 2001

212 Workers' rights at stake at El Centro de la Raza -- rank: 243

... Special to The Times The dispute Ricardo Sanchez and Jocelyn Weiner refer to in a Times commentary on May 10 ("Lingering ...

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Author:	Kevin Robert Dean
Date:	Fri May 25 19:10:34 PDT 2001

213 Electroconvulsive Therapy (Re: coerced treatment) -- rank: 243

Marta: >The Village Voice reports: > >Electroshock, now known by the more benign terms >"Electroconvulsive Therapy" and "ECT," is making a comeback years >after being disgraced as a barbaric treatment that causes great >pain and turns people into zombies. Only two months ago, the >influential Journal of the American Medical Association >acknowledged ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Jun 12 22:29:35 PDT 2001

214 Fwd: Re: Katha Pollitt on Andrew Sullivan -- rank: 243

... i didn't weigh in until i was disgusted with weiner claims about how hypocrisy isn't an issue worthy of ...

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Author:	kelley
Date:	Fri Jun 1 10:18:02 PDT 2001

215 SDUSA, part 3 -- rank: 243

Sources: 1. Letter from Rita Freedman, exec dir, SD/USA, received July 1989. 2. Michael Massing, "Trotsky's Orphans: From Bolshevism to Reaganism," The New Republic, June 22, 1987. 3. "Social Deomcrats, USA: Standardbearers for Freedom," Democracy, and Economic Justice, SD/USA, received in 1989. 4. AIFLD in Central America: Agents ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Jul 6 16:10:23 PDT 2001

216 FW: If you have already received this, or are not -- rank: 243

If you have already received this, or are not interested, I apologize but hope you will read it and forward this on. In case you haven't already received it. Here we go, the new battles of the millenium.... Please copy and paste this message on to a new e-mail ...

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Author:	alex lantsberg
Date:	Fri Jan 26 06:44:46 PST 2001

217 Migration & Primitive Accumulation (was delinking does not equal autarchy) -- rank: 243

Peter van Heusden says: >Surely this migration - which tends to break down cultural and thus >national barriers - is a good thing, even if the reason behind it is >bad? It's neither good nor bad, neither revolutionary nor counter-revolutionary, in itself. Progress, for the Left, is what _we_ make; it ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Feb 8 17:36:25 PST 2001

218 Sara Pursley on "Unveiling the Bushes" -- rank: 243

Doug writes: >Michael Pollak wrote: > >>On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Doug Henwood wrote: >> >>> But the Taliban - many of whom were not Afghans, and of those who >>> were, were from an ethnic group representing well under half the >>> population - forced women to wear the damn things. It's not like they >>> were ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Dec 16 14:59:34 PST 2001

219 permissiveness: the cause of terrorism -- rank: 243

... Boxer to the Senate) was Michael Savage (real name, Michael Weiner), who is from the Bronx and has a NY accent ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Mon Dec 17 13:32:20 PST 2001

220 Allies and opponents of US fall silent -- rank: 243

... are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. Weiner) Shane Mage -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Tue Dec 11 20:31:02 PST 2001

221 Unlikely Story (was Re: postwar Afg) -- rank: 243

... are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. Weiner) Shane Mage

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Fri Dec 7 14:28:53 PST 2001

222 good news (was Re: women register at Kabul U -- rank: 243

... s Top Aide Is Dead By JOHN KIFNER and TIM WEINER TORA BORA, Afghanistan, Dec. 5 — A front-line anti-Taliban ...

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Author:	Peter K.
Date:	Thu Dec 6 09:04:05 PST 2001

223 Mexican trucks -- rank: 243

... Rebuttal, Mexicans Dispute Claim Their Trucks Are Unsafe >By TIM WEINER Use rail instead of trucks - safer, more efficient, less polluting ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Thu Aug 2 07:18:14 PDT 2001

224 Mexican trucks -- rank: 243

... Rebuttal, Mexicans Dispute Claim Their Trucks Are Unsafe By TIM WEINER NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico, Aug. 1 - About 1,500 miles from ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 2 05:07:14 PDT 2001

225 OTOH, the NYT at its worst -- rank: 243

... Latin America, Foes Aren't the Only Danger > >By Tim Weiner [Offsetting the creditable piece cited above, the NYT today also ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Sun Apr 29 14:02:52 PDT 2001