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46 [lbo-talk] French Resistance hero calls for public to get angry, son of "Catherine" ("Jules and Jim") -- rank: 453

... political-conscience-hessel-indignez-vous-books "Behind an unlikely bestseller, a fierce political conscience" >Stéphane Hessel s wildly popular new book Indignez-vous ! is a rallying cry for French masses to combat social, political, and economic injustices. France24.com takes a look at the man behind this unlikely bestseller. >There s a new book topping the bestseller list in France, and it s not a Swedish thriller, a vampire novel, the tale of a teenage wizard, or ...

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Author:	Gar Lipow
Date:	Sat Jan 1 13:17:13 PST 2011

47 [lbo-talk] Sam Smith on the motives behind school deform -- rank: 555

... the upper classes into the education system but primarily as a a marketing tool to bring the upper classes and corporations back ... to live here." [WS:] Yeah, right. And 9/11 was a Jewish conspiracy to provide a pretext for the war in Iraq. What this writer fails ... cities as well. What is more, middle class blacks are a major driving force behind the push for charter schools - ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Mon Oct 11 11:49:32 PDT 2010

48 [lbo-talk] Barbara Boxer the hawk -- rank: 395

... Chronicle October 7, 2010 This just in from the Forward, a Jewish weekly, which posted Democratic incumbent Sen. Barbara Boxer's responses ... of Guantanamo bay and transfer of its remaining residents to a U.S. prison facility; warrantless wiretapping; the use on suspected ... of water-boarding and other treatments that were described by President Bush as "enhanced interrogation techniques" but which critics have labeled ... or practiced these techniques. Boxer: I would like to see a more detailed plan from the administration regarding exactly where prisoners ...

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Author:	Steven Robinson
Date:	Thu Oct 7 22:21:07 PDT 2010

49 [lbo-talk] `The Manchurian President -- rank: 743

... best strategy (he can defend himself quite eloquently.) I think a better strategy is to put the heat on the fascist ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Fri Sep 10 11:01:47 PDT 2010

50 [lbo-talk] `The Manchurian President -- rank: 743

How about the Mau Mau Candidate ? CBrown `The Manchurian President': Chicago's Commie Liberal Puppet The paranoid style of American ... September 8, 2010 http://inthesetimes.com/article/6336/the_manchurian_president_chicagos_commie_liberal_puppet America is in the midst of a 21st-century witch hunt. A loose-knit network of right-wing ideological strategists, Republican Party ... administration's policy initiatives, capture Congress in November and unseat President Barack Obama in 2012. This propagandizing echoes the scapegoating of ... also mimics 1960s slurs dubbing Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. a dupe of a communist conspiracy - claims circulated by groups ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Fri Sep 10 06:37:50 PDT 2010

51 [lbo-talk] The Banality of anti-Israel Lobby Doctrine -- rank: 496

... the worldwide campaign to reverse 1948. It is, he says, a campaign to "put the Jew back to the status of a being that couldn't defend himself -- a perfect victim." Advertisement Today's Middle East, he says, reflects ... is the multiplying threat of missile warfare. Now Israel faces a third threat, the campaign to delegitimize i

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Author:	c b
Date:	Mon Aug 16 09:49:54 PDT 2010

52 [lbo-talk] The Banality of anti-Israel Lobby Doctrine -- rank: 882

... Zionist side, which Truman was part of, probably countered that a failure to support partition would increase Soviet influence within the ... sole source of diplmatic and military support for the nascent Jewish state. > > There was no pro-Zionist faction in the State ... other side. The main influence on Truman's decision was a Jewish political aide named David Niles. > > If you search "Truman and Israel" on Amazon.com, something like a dozen books on this question

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Wed Aug 11 15:38:53 PDT 2010

53 [lbo-talk] The Banality of anti-Israel Lobby Doctrine -- rank: 478

... in reference to your previous question (I believe), here's a couple of characteristic quotes from Blankfort: http://mondoweiss.net/2010 ... opinion to the contrary not withstanding, has been to find a way to end the Israeli occupation of the land it ... whose land Israel occupied or for the Palestinians but because a regional settlement would produce stability in a area that is crucial to what is perceived in Washington ...

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Author:	David Green
Date:	Tue Aug 10 19:46:39 PDT 2010

54 [lbo-talk] The Banality of anti-Israel Lobby Doctrine -- rank: 651

... ll try to address some of these points. Here goes a very long post. > I think your confusion about what the US can or cannot do regarding a peace settlement stems from a more general one, which is the real point at issue ... if not explicit, in the argument of those who see a sinister fifth column at work in the US that were ... own devices, unencumbered by the lobby, they would have conducted a substantially different bipartisan foreign policy in regards to the Middle ... influence is real and that its existence and development go a long way

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Author:	SA
Date:	Tue Aug 10 13:57:40 PDT 2010

55 [lbo-talk] The Banality of anti-Israel Lobby Doctrine -- rank: 527

... view of US military and political leaders that Israel is a strategic asset. But the rise of radical Islam has been ... that the influence of the Israel Lobby - based essentially on a convergence of Israeli power and US interest, rather than on Jewish American money and connections - would not decline sharply if Israel came to be viewed as a strategic liability rather than an asset, a view which now enjoys greater currency within the US defence ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Sat Aug 7 07:26:50 PDT 2010

56 [lbo-talk] Something to brighten your Friday afternoon -- rank: 484

... Services for eight years under Clinton and is currently the president of the University of Miami, was held for two-and-a-half hours at Ben Gurion Airport during which she underwent a humiliating security debriefing because of her Arab last name all ... hosts notified the airport ahead of time that she is a VIP. The fact that Shalala arrived in Israel as part ... heads of universities fighting against the academic boycott against the Jewish State also seemed not to help her. Shalala, 69, was ...

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Author:	Joseph Catron
Date:	Fri Aug 6 13:30:43 PDT 2010

57 [lbo-talk] Jews and the CP (Was: Jobless Workers Look to Shift Elections) -- rank: 577

... of attaining enlightenment: attention, attention, attention. I met Dorothy at a wedding reception in L.A. in the seventies. She seemed a decent and quite cheerful woman. I don't know about cultivating irony. It always struck me that "irony" is a mood for those who have a choice about collaboration. The vast quantity of the working class ... irony" is for the "middle" class, those who do have a choice. Much of agitational literature is suffused with irony. ...

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Author:	123hop at comcast.net
Date:	Fri Jul 30 11:51:27 PDT 2010

58 [lbo-talk] Jews and the CP (Was: Jobless Workers Look to Shift Elections) -- rank: 564

... calling the Enemy Ignorant was What is it? There is a "quotation" from Lenin that I can't confirm -- but he ... Two Patience and Three Patience." Passed on to me by a friend -- probably doubtful, but I like it. Carrol ^^^^^ CB; Dorothy ... the final lines of her autobiography that communists must cultivate a sense of patience and irony. Los Angeles Times Obituary Dorothy ... Dennis McLellan Los Angeles Times August 8, 2006 Dorothy Healey, a onetime labor organizer, civil rights activist and Marxist radio commentator ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Fri Jul 30 11:32:55 PDT 2010

59 [lbo-talk] new right-wing pro-Israel group -- rank: 608

... 12, 2010 03:54 PM EDT Leading conservatives will launch a new pro-Israel group this week with a scathing attack on Rep. Joe Sestak, the Democratic Senate candidate ... Pennsylvania, the first shot in what they say will be a confrontational campaign against the Obama administration s Mideast policy and ... s leadership unites two major strands of support for the Jewish state: The hawkish, neoconservative wing of the Republican Party, many of whom are Jewish; and conservative Evangelical Christians who have become increasingly outspoken in ... leads the group American Values, as well as Rachel Abrams, a conservative writer and activist. Former McCain aide Michael Gold

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 12 13:27:04 PDT 2010

60 [lbo-talk] American Jews Who Reject Zionism Say Events Aid Cause - NY Times -- rank: 641

... Naman was preparing to help the rabbi of his Reform Jewish temple in South Carolina move the congregation into a new building. Mr. Naman had just one request: Could the ... altar? “We don’t go to synagogue to pray to a flag,” Mr. Naman, 63, recalled having said in a recent telephone interview. That rabbi acceded to the request. So, after being transferred to North Carolina and joining a temple there six or seven years later, Mr. Naman asked ... The rabbi said that would be terrible,” recounted Mr. Naman, a retired paper company executive who now lives outside Jacksonville, ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Sat Jun 26 05:44:00 PDT 2010