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121 [lbo-talk] Bad news from the ranting hate-filled village fascist -- rank: 638

>From a report on current Russian and FSU antisemitism (and official avaowals ... htm It was cofounded by Judge Marvin Frankl, who as a lawyer drafted the brief for The New York Times (the ... limits on libel suits brought by public figures. He was a founder of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now renamed ... today are an increasing feature of the public statements of a wide range of public figures, nationalist political parties, and ext

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Wed Aug 6 13:26:39 PDT 2008

122 [lbo-talk] Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89 (NY Times) -- rank: 753

... said early Monday in Moscow. He said the cause was a heart condition. He was 89. He outlived by nearly 17 ... an obscure, middle-aged, unpublished high school science teacher in a provincial Russian town when he burst onto the literary stage in 1962 with “A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.” The book, a mold-breaking novel about a prison camp inmate, was a sensation. Suddenly, he was being compared to giants of ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Sun Aug 3 17:25:54 PDT 2008

123 [lbo-talk] teaching the pampered rich at Harvard -- rank: 385

... the institution in question for more than forty years in a variety of capacities -- impressionable undergrad from the provinces, avid grad ... until recently it was quite possible to give C grades: a neocon faculty member in the government department -- treated as a joke for most of his career -- was known as "Harvey ... background of the typical undergraduate changed markedly in less than a generation. I remember attending commencement in the fraught summer

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Author:	C. G. Estabrook
Date:	Wed Jul 23 14:03:26 PDT 2008

124 [lbo-talk] Krugman: Follow the Malek -- rank: 354

... 12/follow-the-malek/ Follow the Malek It's just a glancing mention in this Times piece on how Fannie Mae ... influenced people: Fannie's board once included Frederic V. Malek, a longtime friend of the Bush family and a former business partner of the current President Bush. There's a bit more to who Malek is: He was Nixon's ... at his boss's behest -- you see, Nixon believed that a "Jewish cabal" was distorting the economic statistics to make ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Sun Jul 13 07:42:43 PDT 2008

125 [lbo-talk] South African poet DENNIS BRUTUS, on Steal This Radio this week -- rank: 558

... Cohen wrote: > ...Tune in on your computer Thursday, at 11 a.m., to hear South > African poet and freedom fighter Dennis Brutus, in a wide-ranging > discussion with host Mitchel Cohen, on this week ... This Radio. > > Date and Time: Thursday, July 10, at 11 a.m., > and repeated on Tuesday, July 15th, at 6 pm ... apartheid profits be won in US courts? by Patrick Bond A telling remark about US imperialism's double standards was uttered by Clinton-era deputy treasury secretary Stuart Eizenstat, who a decade ago was the driver of reparations claims against pro ...

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Author:	Patrick Bond
Date:	Wed Jul 9 19:19:37 PDT 2008

126 [lbo-talk] Heidegger -- rank: 416

... sound like the producers of "Cocaine Fiends" when discussing the President's youthful indulgence in coke. In other words, CHEAP SHOT ...

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Author:	Tahir Wood
Date:	Tue Jul 8 01:45:35 PDT 2008

127 [lbo-talk] sprinting rightwards -- rank: 280

... busting feminists, mincing gays, >> selfish >> trade unionists, tree huggers, rich Jewish eggheads and other >> "elitists", >> illegal immigrants, athiests, gun control freaks ...

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Author:	Marvin Gandall
Date:	Sat Jun 28 12:00:19 PDT 2008

128 [lbo-talk] backstory on UMich-Pluto -- rank: 459

... groups and questions from some regents over its distribution of a book called Overcoming Zionism, which argues that the creation of Israel was a mistake and urges adoption of the one state solution to ... Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which Israelis and Palestinians would form a new country, without a Jewish character. Michigan wasn t the publisher, but it distributed the book under a deal with Pluto Press, a leftist British publisher with ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 23 12:27:27 PDT 2008

129 [lbo-talk] cleansing reality of its content -- rank: 802

... you render his argument: > On the other hand, we have a new class of political elites who have > little contact with ... farm. They traffic in ideas and see the world as a vast > landscape of intellectual projection. Unconstrained by even the > most ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 23 08:35:41 PDT 2008

130 [lbo-talk] BHL's plan for the French left -- rank: 404

... Jacques Derrida, held responsible for the widely publicised rediscovery... of a theoretician, driven by his hatred of free markets to espouse ... Nazism: Carl Schmitt. He is presented as the saviour of a left that has lost its bearings. *Slavoj Zizek and Peter Sloterdijk: A significant number of European intellectuals have wholeheartedly embraced this curious, indeed hallucinatory, notion that a Nazi thinker [Schmitt] could rescue the left from its current problems. Heidegger used to say that only a god could save us. Now, echoing the idea, this leftwing fringe repeats that only a Nazi can save us. *Emmanuel

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Author:	C. G. Estabrook
Date:	Sun Jun 15 10:49:20 PDT 2008

131 [lbo-talk] Avnery on Obama's AIPAC Speech -- rank: 679

... Can't! Uri Avnery June 7, 2008 AFTER MONTHS of a tough and bitter race, a merciless struggle, Barack Obama has defeated his formidable opponent, Hillary Clinton. He has wrought a miracle: for the first time in history a black person has become a credible candidate for the presidency of the most powerful country ... to the conference of the Israel lobby, AIPAC, and made a speech that broke all records for obsequiousness and fawning. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 8 14:18:10 PDT 2008

132 [lbo-talk] The Note on Obama @ AIPAC -- rank: 478

[It seems like less a "move to the right" than a successful effort at convincing the skeptics that he's fundamentally ... convention distract from the substance here: His speech Wednesday was a rather significant move to the right on Middle East policy ... our adversaries just for the sake of talking. But as president of the United States, I would be willing to lead ... tough and principled diplomacy with the appropriate Iranian leaders at a time and place of my choosing if and only if ... I want to be absolutely clear." "Now Obama has put a major condition on his willingness to meet

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 5 06:16:20 PDT 2008

133 [lbo-talk] Obama to AIPAC: luv ya! -- rank: 858

... to congratulate Howard Friedman, David Victor and Howard Kohr on a successful conference, and on the completion of a new headquarters just a few blocks away. Before I begin, I want to say ... that I know some provocative emails have been circulating throughout Jewish communities across the country. A few of you may have gotten them. They re filled with tall tales and dire warnings about a certain candidate for President. And all I want to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 4 12:38:36 PDT 2008

134 [lbo-talk] LAT does Sal Rosselli -- rank: 712

Los Angeles Times - June 1, 2008 A nasty rift in a powerful union Local head Sal Rosselli is fighting national leader ... tears as he huddled with supporters in his Oakland headquarters, a sooty-windowed, bunker-like building strewn with leaflets and picket signs, a place suddenly under siege. Rosselli was describing his latest battle, his toughest ever: a face- off against a comrade in struggle, Andrew Stern, whom many view as ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 1 14:19:15 PDT 2008

135 [lbo-talk] Will AIPAC Join Senator McCain in Renouncing Ties to John Hagee? -- rank: 651

... Nah. What people forget is that extreme right wing religious Jewish zionists believe exactly the same thing within a different framework. They think that Israel is god's will ... their members and that he's just the victim of a gotcha attack. Below is a pretty good outline of their line of defense. Note the ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Tue May 27 11:54:34 PDT 2008