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1141 Hitchens explains -- rank: 629

... curious. I come away sickened by Hitchens. E.M. Forster, a novelist I like, once said if it came down to a choice of betraying his country or betraying his friends, he ... to jail before testifying against Sid. But the Post says a sworn affadavit is equivalent to testimony for prosecutorial purposes, so ... does any time for refusing to testify, I'll issue a qualified self-criticism and send him a beef and kidney pie in jail. My distaste for Clinton ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Mon Feb 8 18:08:07 PST 1999

1142 Mindspring censorship (Over-limit, but it's really important) -- rank: 620

... don't think >that defending reproductive rights puts us on a slippery slope towards >becoming the Khmer Rouge... Catholic anti-abortion ... chapter (about 11,000 words in all - this is about a third of the whole); email me privately if you want a copy. Doug ---- excerpts from chapter 2 of Kristin Luker, Abortion ... it may seem, the view that abortion is murder is a relatively recent belief in American history. To be sure, there has always been a school of thought, extending back at least to the Pythagoreans ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 7 08:50:07 PST 1999

1143 Jackson Pollock -- rank: 589

(Second in a series of posts on art and revolution) While Jackson Pollock ... Roy Pollock's favorite magazine was the Nation, which was a fairly radical publication at the turn of the century as ...

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Author:	Louis Proyect
Date:	Sun Jan 10 13:53:18 PST 1999

1144 Zionist Plot or Plain Old Capitalism?/ Dogs -- rank: 570

pms: You always make a lot of sense to me. May be we should all ... as well as in China, to observe US minimum wages, a form of "portable" minimum wage requirements. I am sure the ... requirement will also stop the predatory relocation of jobs overseas. A pair of jogging shoes that Chinese labor receives 55 cents ... economic imperialism slip > by. Are most Russian Big Cigars really Jewish, or is it a cheap vote > getter, or what? > Will this continuing development effect ...

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Author:	Henry C.K. Liu
Date:	Sat Dec 26 13:46:51 PST 1998

1145 Zionist Plot or Plain Old Capitalism?/ Dogs -- rank: 552

... economic imperialism slip by. Are most Russian Big Cigars really Jewish, or is it a cheap vote getter, or what? Will this continuing development effect the Israeli elections, in a bad way ? Also, I saw that show about the dogs ... policy, and capitalism in general, I think it was just a matter of who's going to take a camera and pose as a buyer. If it gave the public a clue that ...

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Author:	pms
Date:	Sat Dec 26 09:29:52 PST 1998

1146 Buddhism, Confucianism and Legalism (2) -- rank: 586

... sage rulers. The fact that the Zhou dynasty had been a feudal society based on slavery did not concern Confucius. To ... ideal state of high civilization. To Confucius, the lot of a slave in a good society is preferable to that of a lord in a society marked by chaos and uncivilized immorality. Violent social changes ...

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Author:	Henry C.K. Liu
Date:	Mon Nov 16 20:21:19 PST 1998

1147 Pwog Poll -- rank: 509

... poll of "progressive" organizations reports...] [The Nation, November 23, 1998] A RANK-AND-FILE POLL FINDS STRONG CONSENSUS ON PROBLEMS, LESS ON SOLUTIONS. Notes for a Progressive Agenda BY DAVID DYSSEGAARD KALLICK Most political strategists assume ... and what could galvanize them, the New World Foundation commissioned a poll of members of nine progressive organizations. The poll, conducted ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 6 06:39:56 PST 1998

1148 FYI: Half of nonprofit leaders earn more than $200,000 (fwd) -- rank: 567

... compensation packages for nonprofit >organizations. > >The $209,914 figure was a median, which >means that half of the executives earned more ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Mon Sep 21 10:14:25 PDT 1998

1149 Historical Perspective -- rank: 586

... another case whereby the ostensible > >"executive" or popular leader of a coutnry has been forced out of > >office over the details of a sexual relationship between consenting > >adults. > > David and Bathsheba. 2 Samuel ... with her, has her husband placed in the front of a battle where he is > killed, and marries her. God is ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Wed Sep 16 23:52:56 PDT 1998

1150 Cockburn on the news -- rank: 657

... 26-September 1, 1998] The Vicar of Christ is taking a keen interest in the Lewinsky affair. Returning from Italy, Lally ... precise nature of Bill and Monica's sexual embraces. As a veteran confessor, John Paul would naturally be taking a professional interest in whether seed had been wasted and a potential child lost to God. On this all-important topic ... up in Pakistan), Monica was disclosing further details of the President's more intimate targeting strategies to Ken Starr, in a reprise of the famous cross examination of Sharon S

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 26 17:57:26 PDT 1998

1151 Fascism -- rank: 410

... the means of social control. To my mind this is a bit too broad to be useful. We already have a word for repression ('repression'), so nothing is gained, but undue ... is telling > >To further illustrate: some time ago I took a friend to the Holocaust >Museum in DC. When we ventured ... the museum, >designed to show what it meant to be a Jewish kid after Hitler came to >power, my friend was visibly ... exhibit was that of an >essentially middle class home facing a few nasty restrictions. "What >message does it send" he ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Jun 13 03:42:02 PDT 1998

1152 More horse's mouth -- rank: 824

... supremacist since joining the listserve your statement, or part of a forwarded statement? It's hard to tell because there are ... be political and are confronted with their historical past on a weekly or daily basis, and most become neurotic moderates who support a broad social net as a result. Then when they are confronted with unemployment rates over ... and it would be highly unlikely for them to elect a far right, left or populist fringe candidate. The U.

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Author:	C. Petersen
Date:	Sun Jun 7 19:41:54 PDT 1998

1153 More horse's mouth -- rank: 814

... Perhaps you won't mind if today I just share a few thoughts with you about where our people are now ... our people are simply remaining as spectators, refusing to lift a hand against the enemies who certainly will destroy us if ...

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Author:	nurev at Kreative.net
Date:	Fri Jun 5 12:10:16 PDT 1998

1154 Endgame -- They're coming home -- rank: 617

... these elite scum and their intellectual prostitutes could produce even a fraction of the peace and prosperity they tell us they ... Free Trade * and Neo- Liberal Capitalism. But because it's a lie, it always falls apart in the latter stages. The ...

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Author:	nurev at Kreative.net
Date:	Wed Jun 3 09:00:45 PDT 1998

1155 pak nukes...Now. General Query on CFR -- rank: 663

... rogue states' -- but > > rather argues that the US should, as a statement of policy, not > > tolerate the development of an ICBM ... could be > valuable. > > Carrol Hi Carrol, How is this for a start? THE ROUND TABLE GROUPS -- After t

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Author:	nurev at Kreative.net
Date:	Thu May 28 10:36:13 PDT 1998