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1 [lbo-talk] The economic origins of the Hong Kong democracy movement -- rank: 220

Democratic movements have customarily viewed the acquisition of political rights not as an end in itself, but as a means to improve living standards and redress inequality. A report in this morning s Financial Times indicates these underlying economic and social objectives are also a central feature of the Hong Kong ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Tue Oct 21 07:26:03 PDT 2014

2 [lbo-talk] My Recent Encounters with Chinese Capitalism -- rank: 491

My experience was not particularly Chinese & maybe not particularly characteristic of ... beforehand. Emperors would come to power by killing their relatives. My experience is that over 5 years, the hotel, which has a picture of Zhou En Lai in the lobby has changed as management has passed in ...

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Author:	michael perelman
Date:	Sun Oct 16 15:54:50 PDT 2011

3 [lbo-talk] NYT does WBAI -- rank: 220

[All too true, I'm sorry to say.] New York Times - January 15, 2010 <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/16/nyregion/16wbai.html?pagewanted=all> 99.5 FM, Where the Board Meetings Make the Broadcasts Seem Tame By MICHAEL POWELL Comrades, comrades. WBAI, 50 years old and still innovative ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 16 05:01:05 PST 2010

4 [lbo-talk] Early notes on Cusset -- rank: 284

`Tansey lays down a layer of monochrome pigment on canvas that can be alte`red easily only before it dries..'' ------- I think I understand. I'll have to see the work. You apply the paint, probably using rounds, then wipe with rags or sponges back into canvas. The choice of ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Sat Nov 14 17:02:53 PST 2009

5 [lbo-talk] Calley apologizes -- rank: 737

... enquirer.com/news/story/813820.html> William Calley apologizes for My Lai massacre By Dick McMichael - Special to the Ledger-Enquirer William ... lieutenant convicted on 22 counts of murder in the infamous My Lai Massacre in Vietnam, publicly apologized for the first time this ... do not feel remorse for what happened that day in My Lai," Calley told members of the Kiwanis Club of Greater ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 21 18:32:22 PDT 2009

6 [lbo-talk] O'brian and war -- rank: 329

``Nuclear tests are almost always presented and received as spectacles of transcendent nature - sometimes divine, sometimes malign, sometimes benign - rather than as planned social events that include scientific evaluations of manufactured weapons produced by human engineering. The desire for transcendence is, it seems to me, consistent with the American representation ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Sun Aug 24 18:34:34 PDT 2008

7 [lbo-talk] Who knew? John McCain on disability, gets checks -- rank: 440

... com> wrote: > How about "regardless of whether they were in My Lai," > etc.? I'd like to revisit this question with a ... days. B., you essentially propose that we treat events like My Lai as individual crimes, rather than institutional ones. I see two ... the least bit better for all the public uproar over My Lai, and later Abu Ghraib. That's because the institutions ...

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Author:	Joseph Catron
Date:	Sun Jun 15 11:27:06 PDT 2008

8 [lbo-talk] Who knew? John McCain on disability, gets checks -- rank: 396

... at yahoo.com> wrote: > Even though you didn't answer my question whether > folks involved in My Lai ought to "should receive the > same [military] benefits as a five-star general at 30 > years," I apologize for my oversight. Yes, absolutely. Or can you propose a reason we ... without addressing the question of underlying assumptions. This is probably my fault for not clarifying what I meant. Please allow me to correct my error. Do you believe that it is the responsibility ...

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Author:	Joseph Catron
Date:	Fri Jun 13 19:00:47 PDT 2008

9 [lbo-talk] Who knew? John McCain on disability, gets checks -- rank: 284

Joseph, Even though you didn't answer my question whether folks involved in My Lai ought to "should receive the same [military] benefits as a ...

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Author:	B.
Date:	Fri Jun 13 18:29:43 PDT 2008

10 [lbo-talk] Who knew? John McCain on disability, gets checks -- rank: 329

... I say: How about "regardless of whether they were in My Lai," etc.? Te Nuremberg Principles said soldiers had not a right ... pedestals that now seem reserved for folks in uniform. In my GOVT clas

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Author:	B.
Date:	Thu Jun 12 23:23:11 PDT 2008

11 [lbo-talk] Constructive Criticism vs. Opposition Criticism(wasTargeting Empire?) -- rank: 220

>From: ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> > >The point is not all this stuff about "aid and comfort to the >enemy" (has anyone written this sort of nonsense on LBO?), but that >this sort of thing (even if correct) is "intellectual honesty" for >its own sake. A constant reminder to me ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Tue Sep 11 10:34:31 PDT 2007

12 [lbo-talk] MSFT exec: I'd buy a Mac -- rank: 284

... purposefully dramatic' in 2004 e-mail to Ballmer, Gates Eric Lai December 12, 2006 (Computerworld) -- Outgoing Windows development chief James Allchin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 12 13:40:41 PST 2006

13 [lbo-talk] Seymour Hersh: There has never been an American army as violent and murderous as the one in Iraq -- rank: 220

Support the Troops!!! Remember, they're doing it for your sake. Bryan ------------------------------------------------------------- There has never been an American army as violent and murderous as the one in Iraq Pulitzer-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh slams Bush at McGill address By Martin Lukacs The McGill Daily http://www.mcgilldaily.com/view.php ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Thu Nov 2 06:35:49 PST 2006

14 [lbo-talk] Michael Turner picks apart Cooper's "Rorschach" analogy -- rank: 220

... precocious mofo) I was radicalized by seeing photos of the My Lai massacre in Life magazine. (Famous New Left poster, btw, http ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon Oct 16 13:25:57 PDT 2006

15 [lbo-talk] Extraordinary LA Times War Crimes Series -- rank: 428

... The argument of the diss/series is that incidents like My Lai and Tiger Force were far more systematic and regular than the writing on My Lai/Tiger Force suggests. He stumbled upon the govt documents used ...

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Author:	Auguste Blanqui
Date:	Sun Aug 6 13:04:14 PDT 2006