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91 Hitchens on Amis -- rank: 562

... by reviews of your book on Stalinism. I wince on my own behalf a good deal as I wade through, but ...

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Author:	Liza Featherstone
Date:	Fri Sep 13 10:59:16 PDT 2002

92 On World Court, U.S. Focus Shifts to Shielding Officials -- rank: 220

[Pretty incredible stuff.] http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/07/international/europe/07COUR.html On World Court, U.S. Focus Shifts to Shielding Officials By ELIZABETH BECKER WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 — The Bush administration is shifting its emphasis in seeking exemptions for Americans from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court ...

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Author:	Peter K.
Date:	Sat Sep 7 09:58:42 PDT 2002

93 Hersh on the current crisis -- rank: 220

... and foremost for his Pulitzer Prize-winning expose of the My Lai massacre, did not disappoint. Though his talk was often rambling ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 3 14:13:40 PDT 2002

94 Herman on Hitchens -- rank: 284

This may surprise some of my detractors but, I still have considerable regard for the Vietnamese ... anti-war poster of the massacred in the ditch in My Lai with the Lt. Calley court martial testimony, "Q:And Women ...

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Author:	michael pugliese
Date:	Thu Dec 6 13:43:20 PST 2001

95 Markets Antiwar? -- rank: 220

... mothers with their baby strollers.) Ma Bell paid for for My Lai. Any truth to that? I'd imagine that this book ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Nov 30 10:22:28 PST 2001

96 International Criminal Court -- rank: 220

http://www.zmag.org/healywar.htm The Empire wants war, not justice By Sean Healy Among all the words the Bush administration has used to describe the September 11 terrorist attacks -- "atrocity", "outrage", "act of evil" -- one phrase has been conspicuously missing: "crime against humanity". It's an odd absence. International ...

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Author:	Mark Pavlick
Date:	Sat Oct 27 10:53:19 PDT 2001

97 John Pilger:Why weren't there similar outcries at earlier atrocities? -- rank: 220

John Pilger The world has been in ferment since September 11, but why weren't there similar outcries at earlier atrocities? John Pilger Thursday October 4, 2001 The Guardian This week saw the end of an exhibition I helped put on at the Barbican in London, devoted to photo-journalism that ...

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Author:	ppillai at sprint.ca
Date:	Fri Oct 5 21:13:56 PDT 2001

98 Terrorism Defined? -- rank: 284

TERRORISM DEFINED? In 1999, the federal government spent about $10 billion to combat terrorism with over 40 federal departments, agencies, and bureaus participating with a role in combating terrorism. (1) There is NO universal definition of terrorism. We once called them "freedom fighters" when the Taliban fought against the Soviets and ...

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Author:	Nisan
Date:	Fri Sep 21 17:15:00 PDT 2001

99 question about Milosevic (was RE: Bin Laden: The Story That Needs To Be Told) -- rank: 348

... This seems to me the significance of your point about My Lai, etc. When an organisation is punished by outside powers however ...

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Author:	Ken Hanly
Date:	Wed Sep 19 14:26:15 PDT 2001

100 question about Milosevic (was RE: Bin Laden: The Story That Needs To Be Told) -- rank: 220

... drop bombs? Are we back to blaming only Calley for My Lai, >and not the president who oversaw the policy? > >DP Naturally ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Sep 19 14:08:49 PDT 2001

101 question about Milosevic (was RE: Bin Laden: The Story That Needs To Be Told) -- rank: 220

> It is interesting to note the phraseology. It is Milosevic that is alleged > to have killed 200,000 in Bosnia. A power to kill is attributed to Milosevic > that would be the envy of Rambo or James Bond. In order to create a focus of > attention and personalise the killing ...

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Author:	Dennis
Date:	Wed Sep 19 13:12:29 PDT 2001

102 New Weather Underground Memoir -- rank: 284

Michael: > >Any more specific info on those two Weather books? > >DP I feel like the www.amazon.com marketing dept! Buy from unionized (ILWU) www.powells.com Michael Pugliese Editorial Reviews >From Publishers Weekly "Memory is a motherfucker," begins 1960s-era political activist and Weather Underground member Ayers, who went underground ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon Aug 20 21:34:07 PDT 2001

103 "Books not Bars" -- rank: 220

From: bonvibre <bonvibre at adelphia.net> Date: Thu Jul 26, 2001 11:52 pm Subject: Hip Hoppers Get Arrested Fighting Prisons To: Hip Hoppers Get Arrested Fighting Prisons http://www.daveyd.com/FullArticles\articleN838.asp Lots of folks on the Hip Hop front have been stepping up their political game, so ...

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Author:	Kevin Robert Dean
Date:	Wed Aug 1 08:55:21 PDT 2001

104 UNITE in NYC -- rank: 220

New York Daily News - July 10, 2001 Union's Best Years Have Come and Gone Garment factories routinely trample laws and contracts By BOB PORT Daily News Staff Writer The Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees, the labor advocate for exploited garment workers, has lost its bargaining power and is ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 13 20:22:57 PDT 2001

105 Jude & Slobo -- rank: 348

... for their complicity of the massacre of Vietnamese civilians at >My Lai, Nixon didn't get elected until eight months after My Lai happened, and it was full six years before Ford wandered ...

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Author:	Eric Beck
Date:	Tue Jul 3 11:43:32 PDT 2001