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10501 AFL-CIO Position on Middle East -- rank: 46

This was a rally with a toxic political message, and there was no excuse for any support of it, but it should be realized that all parties to the affair were being opportunistic. There was less underlying unity in the gathering than was apparent. mbs I don't know what Sweeney ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Tue Apr 16 07:22:21 PDT 2002

10502 AFL-CIO Position on Middle East -- rank: 46

I don't know what Sweeney said at Monday's pro-Israel rally, but I think list members and other progressives should at least read the AFL-CIO statement on the Middle East before condemning the labor federation and its elected leaders. It seems to me to be a pretty good ...

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Author:	Stuart323 at aol.com
Date:	Tue Apr 16 07:18:54 PDT 2002

10503 Russia's Oil Barons Say Era of Wildcatter Capitalism Is Finished -- rank: 46

NYT December 28, 1999 Russia's Oil Barons Say Era of Wildcatter Capitalism Is Finished ______________________________________________________________ By MICHAEL WINES M OSCOW, Dec. 26 -- On its face, it is no great shakes that Russia's sixth-biggest oil company, Sibneft, unveiled a spiffy new green-and-blue logo in April. What makes it ...

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Author:	Stephen E Philion
Date:	Tue Dec 28 10:51:39 PST 1999

10504 [lbo-talk] Constructive Criticism vs. Opposition Criticism(wasTargeting Empire?) -- rank: 46

>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

10505 newman on china -- rank: 46

> >Sounds to me like a > >left-wing justification for old-fashioned economic chauvinism. > >An example of the union movement making common cause with its own ruling > >class to fight off the yellow peril's 'unfair' imports. > > Except to repeat for the Nth time- THE RULING CLASS IN THE US SUPPORTED ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Mon Apr 15 15:16:37 PDT 2002

10506 [lbo-talk] Michael Lerner tattles: the state of the -- rank: 46

... the things you regularly call on others to do, the police and/or marines would shoot at you and any fami

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Author:	Jim Straub
Date:	Wed Sep 12 11:06:47 PDT 2007

10507 [lbo-talk] Fidel: Cuba saved Ronald Reagan's life -- rank: 46

I know that was a catchy subject line -- and apparently factually true. That's not the only reason why this article is interesting though. * * * Reflections of President Fidel Castro The Empire and Its Lies It was Reagan who created the Cuban American National Foundation, whose sinister involvement in the blockade and ...

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Author:	Julio Huato
Date:	Wed Sep 12 14:59:53 PDT 2007

10508 [lbo-talk] The Shocking Truth About the Nation-State -- rank: 46

I submit as evidence of the totalitarian bent of the left the fact many manifestly obvious truths cannot be uttered. One such truth is that the primary function of a nation-sate is as a unit in game of power-struggle. States have formed to better to conquer, for protection from ...

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Author:	Peter Hart Ward
Date:	Thu Sep 13 20:46:27 PDT 2007

10509 Ending the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict -- rank: 46

The following article was publixhed in the April 15, 2002, issue of the Mid-Hudson (NY) Activist Newsletter. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ENDING THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT By Jack A. Smith There is a way for the Palestinian and Israeli people to live in peace and security, but the policies of the governments of Israel ...

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Author:	jacdon at earthlink.net
Date:	Mon Apr 15 05:58:31 PDT 2002

10510 [lbo-talk] Militants behead two Pakistani women "prostitutes" -- rank: 46

... two women in Pakistan after accusing them of being prostitutes, police said on Friday. http://in.reuters.com/article/southAsiaNews/idINIndia ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Fri Sep 14 06:30:43 PDT 2007

10511 [lbo-talk] The eXile on the world's sleaziest magazine -- rank: 46

So Putin's behavior isn't worrying because some allegedly pimply journalists at a business magazine say it is? On 9/11/07, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote: > Hmmm, here's the first part of the article, finally on > the exile's website. > > Feature Story September 11, 2007 > > The ...

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Author:	boddi satva
Date:	Fri Sep 14 07:15:49 PDT 2007

10512 Brad De Long doesn't belong on a left discussion list -- rank: 46

At 08:16 AM 7/21/98 -0700, Brad deLong wrote: >Look at the Asian Communist regimes: Pol Pot, Mao Zedong, Kim Il Sung, Ho >Chi Minh. Of these, the first three are unspeakable. The best of the The problem is not with the ethical qualifications of what happened in backward ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Tue Jul 21 10:34:20 PDT 1998

10513 The rhetoric of Nazification -- rank: 46

[semiosis...help...] < http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline > for full piece... The Nazification of Israel By brazenly resorting to Nazi-style rhetoric and methods of persecution in Palestine, Israel, with the consent of the majority of its own people and the unlimited support of the United States, perpetrates the kind of ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Fri Apr 12 23:34:10 PDT 2002

10514 Class base of Falun Gong -- rank: 46

Religion, in marxist theory, can be an indirect expression of class interests. The Falun Gong movement in China is a strange phenomenon. It is not clear how much it is the result of the lack of bourgeois democratic norms there, how much it is an expression of mystical movements that are ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Dec 27 11:28:33 PST 1999

10515 [lbo-talk] prefect leftists building a left by example? -- rank: 46

... guess. Did someone here write that peaceful protest would forestall police violence? Did someone here suggest that individuals not expressing personal ...

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Author:	Alan P. Rudy
Date:	Mon May 14 07:36:13 PDT 2012