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31 [lbo-talk] [Pen-l] Gar Lipow: Local action in protest of Israeli occupation is crucial -- rank: 280

... at gmail.com> wrote: > Kudos to our own Gar on a nice introduction: > > "As former President Jimmy Carter and South African anti-apartheid leader Archbishop Desmond ... are well-documented by such groups as Amnesty International and Jewish Voices for Peace. > >

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Author:	Gar Lipow
Date:	Thu May 10 10:17:06 PDT 2012

32 [lbo-talk] Gar Lipow: Local action in protest of Israeli occupation is crucial -- rank: 253

Kudos to our own Gar on a nice introduction: "As former President Jimmy Carter and South African anti-apartheid leader Archbishop Desmond ... are well-documented by such groups as Amnesty International and Jewish Voices for Peace. "In response to a universal call from Palestinian civil society, the international commun

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Author:	Joseph Catron
Date:	Thu May 10 00:50:56 PDT 2012

33 [lbo-talk] Being Ayatollah Khamenei -- rank: 574

HERE in Iran I have been finding it hard to make sense of all the strident utterances about the Islamic Republic emanating from America s capital this week. Being Supreme Leader, I need to understand what my enemy is thinking. Being an ayatollah, I can modestly say that I am something ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Mon Mar 19 16:21:30 PDT 2012

34 [lbo-talk] Jewish american paper urges assassination of president -- rank: 570

... effort is being made to diminish Obama's allure to Jewish voters, from every quarter. It's typical of the poisonous ... too hard (and he drew some incorrect conclusions about American Jewish animus against Obama,) but a lot can be made of that comparison. Certainly, rightwing Israelis, and their foreign allies, would prefer if US Jewish politics were the same as Israeli Jewish politics. It would allow Bibi's government all kinds of ... communities are vastly different, despite what idiots like the US Jewish newspaper editor said. Joel On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 ...

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Author:	joel schalit
Date:	Sun Jan 22 22:54:20 PST 2012

35 [lbo-talk] WSWS: From Tunisia to Occupy Wall Street : Who is the AFL-CIO s Stuart Appelbaum? -- rank: 663

... s Stuart Appelbaum? By David Walsh 8 October 2011 In a widely reproduced article October 5 ( Seeking Energy, Unions Join Protest ... pointed prominently to the attitude and role of Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), in ... month, advising the fledgling labor movement there, when he received a flurry of phone calls and e-mails alerting him to ... Thus alerted to the spreading protests, Mr. Appelbaum recalled asking a colleague over the phone to find out who was behind Occupy Wall Street a bunch of hippies or perhaps troublemakers? and whether the movement ...

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Author:	Joseph Catron
Date:	Tue Oct 11 01:30:29 PDT 2011

36 [lbo-talk] Weiner unhid! -- rank: 453

... straddles both Queens and Brooklyn. It does, but Turner got a lot of votes from the Brooklyn side, which is heavily ... portions of the district - the Brooklyn parts are more heavily Jewish - implies that Israel-related issues may have played a role. ... [T]he [past] four special elections, taken as a whole, suggest that Democrats may still be locked in a 2010-type political environment. Democrats might not lose many more ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 14 10:31:55 PDT 2011

37 [lbo-talk] for Submission: West Nile and 9/11 -- rank: 595

The following is the INTRODUCTION to a longer essay on West Nile and 9/11. I've ... the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a New World Order, a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations." - U.S. President George H.W. Bush September 11, 1990 Erased from consciousness ...

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Author:	Mitchel Cohen
Date:	Tue Sep 6 14:32:50 PDT 2011

38 [lbo-talk] Are Conservatives Racist? -- rank: 395

... Call Chris Christie Fat? >> Is It Racist to Call Obama a 'Kenyan'? >> Is This Dove Ad Racist? >> Is It Racist to Want a Jewish Spouse? >> Is it Racist to Criticize Islam? >> Is it racist ... Angle ad: Is it racist? >> Is it racist to stereotype a language? >> Is It Racist To Suggest Obama Is Stupid? >> Is It Racist to Call a Certain Group Racist? But why stop there? > > Is It Racist ... say she tastes like edamame > Is it Racist to Criticize President Obama for tapping the SPR > Is it racist to ...

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Author:	SA
Date:	Sat Aug 20 22:50:30 PDT 2011

39 [lbo-talk] Andy Stern: I wasn't right-wing enough -- rank: 395

http://forward.com/articles/139289/ Former Union President Andy Stern Says He Was Too Tough on Banks at SEIU By Josh Nathan-Kazis Andy Stern has had a change of heart. Once the president of the most politically influential of America s progressive labor organizations, and the most prominent Jewish leader in the labor movement, Stern now thinks he was ... hard on private equity and banks. Stern is also backing a proposed tax break for American companies keeping revenues abroad, a pro-business initiative that his former union calls a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 18 06:09:57 PDT 2011

40 [lbo-talk] Bad Times and the Left -- rank: 395

... party. Even, say, > the free speech movement in Berkeley gets a lot of organizing power from the > CP or from former ... thoughts in > order: > > Two [types of] analyses have been suggested: (a) the presence of the Soviet > Union acted provided an example ...

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Author:	Victor Friedlander
Date:	Wed Jul 13 09:49:24 PDT 2011

41 [lbo-talk] Al Fishman , presente -- rank: 549

... read at May 27 memorial meeting] WHEREAS, Al Fishman was a leading peace and justice

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Author:	c b
Date:	Fri May 27 09:23:20 PDT 2011

42 [lbo-talk] Netanyahu was okay with '67 borders with swaps 6 months ago -- rank: 305

[So much for that fake controversy. A case study in "working the ref."] http://blogs.jta.org ... article/2011/05/26/3087894/obamas-call-for-67-borders-a-repeat-of-clinton-remark-in-nov-10 Obama s call ... Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at first reacted harshly last week after President Obama used his May 19 Mideast policy speech to call ... little problem with it. In fact, he and Clinton issued a joint communique. Here's the key piece of their joint ...

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Author:	SA
Date:	Thu May 26 14:24:07 PDT 2011

43 [lbo-talk] Obama's peace plan too much for party -- rank: 324

... Steny H. Hoyer and other Democrats appeared to reject the president's reference to the 1967 lines By this week, White ... House aides were reaching out to Israel supporters in the Jewish community to try to ease concerns, according to people familiar with the effort. The White House has arranged a conference call with Jewish leaders and contacted others for advice on repairing ties. Obama ... international diplomacy while retaining the party's traditional support among Jewish campaign donors and voters, particularly in competitive states such as Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Republicans increasingly consider Israel a core issue that can unify sometimes disparate party factions. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 25 10:08:43 PDT 2011

44 [lbo-talk] Politico: Mubarak splits Israel from neocons -- rank: 669

... This goes out to those who think ideology is just a cover for "hard material facts"..... Steve Rosen of AIPAC: "It ... We don t stand for freedom. The freedom agenda is a compelling idea. It s hard to defend Mubarak s police ... usually their most reliable American advocates are cheering for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak s fall. The Egyptian autocrat has kept his side of a chilly peace agreement with Israel for thirty years, permitting an ...

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Author:	SA
Date:	Thu Feb 3 15:37:05 PST 2011

45 [lbo-talk] WP: In backing change in Egypt, U.S. neoconservatives split with Israeli allies -- rank: 567

... 3, 2011; A09 The uprising in Egypt has resulted in a relatively muted debate between the political parties in the United ... registering minor disagreements. But the events in Cairo have exposed a schism between two longtime allies: neoconservative Republicans, who strongly advocate ... freedom agenda" around the globe, and Israelis, who fear that a popularly chosen Islamist regime could replace that of President Hosni Mubarak. Earlier this week, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ... Egypt to that of Iran, making the menacing prediction that a post-Mubarak Egypt could join other "repressive regimes

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Author:	SA
Date:	Thu Feb 3 01:26:13 PST 2011