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10486 Kosovo: "intimate acts of barbarity rather than mass murder" -- rank: 46

Wall Street Journal - December 31, 1999 DESPITE TALES, THE WAR IN KOSOVO WAS SAVAGE, BUT WASN'T GENOCIDE By Daniel Pearl and Robert Block Staff Reporters of the Wall Street Journal TREPCA, Yugoslavia -- When the blanket-covered trucks rolled toward the mining complex near this northern Kosovo town in April, Bexhet ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 31 10:22:39 PST 1999

10487 [lbo-talk] Third Greek coalition bid fails -- rank: 46

On 5/11/2012 11:33 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Jesus Fucking Christ!!! > > Talk about false consciousness and toxic verbiage. > > Joanna heh. I posted that to show that medieval studies is nothing if not lively these days. My suggestion is to read the people the author of that book ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Sat May 12 00:01:53 PDT 2012

10488 [lbo-talk] Targeting Empire? -- rank: 46

On 9/8/07, Russell Grinker <grinker at mweb.co.za> wrote: > On Behalf Of Carl Remick > > > Well I must say Yoshie has a singularly uncongenial > > base of operations from which to present her case. > > Her fellow Ohioans surely lead the nation in making > > a heroic contribution to Iran-bashing. I ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Sep 9 08:27:53 PDT 2007

10489 Must capitalism be racist? -- rank: 46

Charles is right that domination of the woerking class by the state is an historical condition of capitalism, as well as at the point of production. By the latter I refer to intensive supervision, what Marx called the real as opposaed to the formal division of labor. But domination by the ...

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Author:	JKSCHW at aol.com
Date:	Tue Dec 28 21:23:33 PST 1999

10490 US-Russia relations and "war on terror" -- rank: 46

"Extremists and Bandits" How Russia Views the War against Terrorism PONARS Policy Memo No. 246 Fiona Hill (fhill at brookings.edu) Brookings Institution April 2002 Program on New Approaches to Russian Security Center for Strategic and International Studies http://www.csis.org/ruseura/ponars/index.htm When President Vladimir Putin ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Thu Apr 18 01:42:41 PDT 2002

10491 Chechnya -- rank: 46

This is part 2 of the piece I forwarded a minute ago. Chris Doss The Russia Journal ------------------ ORIGINS OF THE SECOND RUSSO-CHECHEN WAR 5. KIDNAPPING AND THE ORIGINS OF THE SECOND WAR MAIN SOURCE. Tishkov 2001 (see item 4), chapter 13. New information uncovered during the present war gives us ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Wed Apr 17 23:28:21 PDT 2002

10492 IMF urges calm protests -- rank: 46

The Onion would add "Protesters ignore IMF". Anyone catch the final installment of the Commanding Heights on PBS? Not that bad. Mexico's foreign minister was pretty good. Cheney was horrendous and spouted platitudes. Larry "Sharon of higher-ed" Summers whined that "free trade" has an image problem. Former IMF heavy ...

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Author:	Peter K.
Date:	Wed Apr 17 22:11:03 PDT 2002

10493 Things are looking good, but... -- rank: 46

"Among other changes, Pacific Command, based in Hawaii, will add Antarctica to its area of responsibility, although Army Lt. Gen. George Casey, the director of strategy and plans on the Joint Staff, told reporters that the Pentagon had "no intention to militarize Antarctica." (see news article at end of post ...

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Author:	Bradley Mayer
Date:	Wed Apr 17 19:11:46 PDT 2002

10494 [lbo-talk] Targeting Empire? -- rank: 46

On Sep 9, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Oddly, the same dichotomy surfaces even in the far left rhetoric: > e.g., "Under increasing pressure from the US government, which has > classified Iran as part of its 'axis of evil', there has been a recent > escalation of conflicts within ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 9 11:55:02 PDT 2007

10495 [lbo-talk] Why Are So Many Americans in Prison? -- rank: 46

Jordan wrote: >what makes you think that up to half of who is in there probably >"shouldn't be" ...? I don't know about half but it is true that large sectors of the prison population come from groups that weren't there in the past. For example, many more women ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Sun Sep 9 20:09:57 PDT 2007

10496 [lbo-talk] Why Are So Many Americans in Prison? -- rank: 46

... up on that. > > /jordan > I love the place, but the police/legal corruption problem is enormous. Although to be more accurate ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Sep 10 08:53:56 PDT 2007

10497 Initiation, or, "To Separate the Analysand from the Herd" -- rank: 46

Both marxism and psychoanalysis arose within a culture that made much of the dangerous slogan, "The Truth Will Make You Free," and any world view or ideology holding to that premise is (a) a religion and (b) a potentially threatening religion. It leads to the generation of Doctrines of the Trinity ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Tue Dec 28 18:14:48 PST 1999

10498 [lbo-talk] Targeting Empire? -- rank: 46

On 9/9/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > > Just where does Zunes, or do you, think $75 million has gone? Not at > > all to any of the "certain Western nongovernmental organizations" and > > their Iranian associates? What are those "Western nongovernmental > > organizations" whose work in Iran Zunes and you ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Sep 10 09:01:33 PDT 2007

10499 [lbo-talk] The eXile on the world's sleaziest magazine -- rank: 46

Hmmm, here's the first part of the article, finally on the exile's website. Feature Story September 11, 2007 The World’s Sleaziest Magazine By Mark Ames Here's a real-life superhero dilemma: What do you do when you're the world's most powerful news and opinion magazine ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Sep 11 03:47:31 PDT 2007

10500 April 20th demo: where to meet -- rank: 46

... an activist where canvas flight pants or something? Suppose the police go ballistics with techniques for crowd control and you have ...

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Author:	Diane Monaco
Date:	Tue Apr 16 11:30:11 PDT 2002