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46 [lbo-talk] Hersh talk at U of C -- rank: 504

[written up by Rick Perlstein] Seymour Hersh spoke tonight at the University of Chicago to a packed (and sweltering) hall at International House. I took some scattered notes. The remaks will be disjoined--as will be the notes--but chilling. He asserted several things that he says he didn't ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 10 07:46:07 PDT 2004

47 [lbo-talk] legalities of torture -- rank: 220

Wall Street Journal - June 7, 2004 Pentagon Report Set Framework For Use of Torture Security or Legal Factors Could Trump Restrictions, Memo to Rumsfeld Argued By JESS BRAVIN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Bush administration lawyers contended last year that the president wasn't bound by laws prohibiting torture ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 7 06:35:47 PDT 2004

48 [lbo-talk] RE: Murders investigated -- rank: 284

Yes, I'd tentatively gauge that the immediate danger is passing, assuming somewhat conspiratorially that Cheney doesn't have some nasty October suprise in store for us (who knows?). This immediate danger presented itself in the form of the _hegemony_ that this "hard core" (which I regard as protofascist) exercised over ...

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Author:	Bradley Mayer
Date:	Wed May 19 14:05:25 PDT 2004

49 [lbo-talk] Murders investigated -- rank: 220

... into the disaster. Hersh had a hard time selling the My Lai >story. Now you've got Hersh pumping out horror stories ...

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Author:	snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com
Date:	Wed May 19 10:54:44 PDT 2004

50 [lbo-talk] Murders investigated -- rank: 220

... into the disaster. Hersh had a hard time selling the My Lai story. Now you've got Hersh pumping out horror stories ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Wed May 19 10:22:11 PDT 2004

51 [lbo-talk] Murders investigated -- rank: 220

... into the disaster. Hersh had a hard time selling the My Lai story. Now you've got Hersh pumping out horror stories ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 19 09:33:50 PDT 2004

52 [lbo-talk] Darby's hometown -- rank: 587

Washington Post - May 17, 2004 When Joseph Comes Marching Home By Hanna Rosin Corriganville, Md. - On TV, Spec. Joseph Darby's neighbors here in the Allegheny Mountains have heard him called a hero, a brave soldier who tipped off superiors to the abuses at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison. And given ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 17 11:32:00 PDT 2004

53 [lbo-talk] Hersh's amazing career -- rank: 594

... article suggesting that Hersh was a CIA agent, I devoted my weekly National Post column to Hersh's career. You have ... Bob Woodward. Ever since he revealed the horrors of the My Lai massacre in 1969, Hersh has been steadily breaking important news ...

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Author:	Jeet Heer
Date:	Sun May 16 07:19:41 PDT 2004

54 [lbo-talk] Hersch [sic] an (unwitting) mouthpiece? -- rank: 284

Agree with Jeet - SH is probably the best journalist in America, and this conspiracy theorizing by Counterpunch is garbage. Their juvenile fondness for the lefter-than-thou game is tired, and it's sad that it finds so many acolytes. Also second the recommendation to read the in-depth Sherman piece ...

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Author:	Liza Featherstone
Date:	Mon May 10 06:53:48 PDT 2004

55 [lbo-talk] Hersch an (unwitting) mouthpiece? -- rank: 571

... 40 -0400, Jeet Heer <jeet at sturdynet.com> wrote: From My Lai to Abu Graib, he has constantly gotten > the goods. On My Lai though one shou;d not forget the role of Ron ... of U.S. policy in Vietnam, > rejected the argument that My Lai was in any way a normal event: "My Lai > ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon May 10 05:53:35 PDT 2004

56 [lbo-talk] Hersch an (unwitting) mouthpiece? -- rank: 284

... the Columbia Journalism Review: "I don't go around getting my stories from nice old Lefties o

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Author:	Jeet Heer
Date:	Sun May 9 18:31:40 PDT 2004

57 [lbo-talk] Billmon comments on Diary of an Interrogator -- rank: 220

Michael Pollak wrote: >However, I did get the impression that US TV coverage set new lows when >the story broke. But I can't say from personal experience. Ask me after >I've seen Monday's Daily Show :o) Here's a lovely apoologia. Wall Street Journal - May 3, 2004 COMMENTARY ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 3 06:40:42 PDT 2004

58 [lbo-talk] SF Chron reprints 33-yr old column -- rank: 552

... it, I realized the bitter truth: Now I root against my own country. This is how far we have come in ... is the nadir I have reached in this winter of my discontent. This is how close I border on treason: Now I root against my own country. How frighteningly sad this is. My generation was raised to love our country and we loved ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 27 06:51:55 PDT 2004

59 [lbo-talk] As'ad AbuKhalil's Angry Arab News Service -- rank: 220

***** When I see the rise of As-Sadr movement and the Sunni fundamentalist groups I can't but wonder about the prospects for secularism in Iraq. The Iraqi Communist Party could have provided the credible alternative but the idiots of the party have damaged their cause for years--if not ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Apr 5 15:07:56 PDT 2004

60 [lbo-talk] JAGs challenge tribunals -- rank: 329

Wall Street Journal - March 18, 2004 Critics of Tribunals Gain Unlikely Allies: Lawyers in Uniform JAGs Mount Spirited Attack On System for Trying Guantanamo Detainees Bin Laden Hires a Driver By JESS BRAVIN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL On Jan. 31, a military officer showed up at the cell ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 18 07:43:04 PST 2004