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10591 Is the Taliban America's Frankenstein? -- rank: 46

Financial Times - September 27, 2001 The folly of quick action in Afghanistan It would be a mistake for the US to undertake a military strike before establishing plans for a transitional Afganistan By ASHRAF GHANI The battle of Afghanistan is the Bush administration's to lose. The Afghan population is ready ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 27 18:26:28 PDT 2001

10592 Sociology and Explanations (Re: Hitchens responds to critics -- rank: 46

Hi, Ah, Wojtek, the sole reliance on resource mobilization theory is yesteday's sociology (but at least not the totally outdated 1960's classical theory). So that while you are right about how people are recruited into specific social movement organizations (cohort groups--face-to-face recruiting by friends, family, or ...

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Author:	Chip Berlet
Date:	Thu Sep 27 09:46:49 PDT 2001

10593 Hitchens At War -- rank: 46

... In the short term, obviously we need heightened security, aggresive police work to round up any remaining terrorists in this country ...

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Author:	James Baird
Date:	Thu Sep 27 09:47:11 PDT 2001

10594 [lbo-talk] liberalism -- rank: 46

Sorry for rushed, rambling and dated reply... A very long time ago Andie defined liberalism as elections, 'pluralism', civil rights, neutrality of the state vis a vis private goods?? Basically state should confine itself to protecting individual rights and interests. But then elections are thrown in as if they could not ...

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Author:	bhandari at berkeley.edu
Date:	Thu Sep 27 09:39:19 PDT 2007

10595 Giuliani Coup? -- rank: 46

... study of that television program in which "Coach" plays a police commish or something and he's really Mr. Wonderful, has ...

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Author:	pms
Date:	Thu Sep 27 01:58:46 PDT 2001

10596 All praise the autonomists.......... -- rank: 46

... forms of protest, and provoked an over-reaction from the police: they shot a man armed with a fire extinguisher and ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Wed Sep 26 19:53:06 PDT 2001

10597 Brilliant and Nutty -- rank: 46

Randy Steindorf wrote: >You described a recent WV editorial (dated Sept 12) on the WTC >terrorism as both nutty and brilliant. Which parts do you find >brilliant and which nutty? I am a recent subscriber to WV so I am >interested in what you and your list members consider valid or ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 26 13:56:15 PDT 2001

10598 ECAAR letter -- rank: 46

September 20, 2001 The Honorable Joseph Biden, Chairman Senate Foreign Relations Committee United States Senate Dear Senator Biden: In the wake of the terrible events of September 11 in New York and Washington and rapid moves toward war since then, we write to ask that you hold immediate public hearings on ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 26 10:40:51 PDT 2001

10599 anarchists and anticapitalist demonstrators -- rank: 46

September 26, 2001 2 Leaders Tell of Plot to Kill Bush in Genoa By DAVID E. SANGER ASHINGTON, Sept. 25 - The president of Egypt and the deputy prime minister of Italy say that Osama bin Laden's network of Islamic terrorists threatened to kill President Bush and other leaders of the ...

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Author:	pms
Date:	Wed Sep 26 08:45:58 PDT 2001

10600 Terror in Venezuela -- rank: 46

___Here's a Statfor alert I meant to post this summer. Just going through my old drafts. Seems more relevant now. S T R A T F O R THE GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE COMPANY http://www.stratfor.com ___________________________________________________________________ 20 June 2001 THE GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE REPORT - FULL TEXT FOR MEMBERS ONLY -> ON ...

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Author:	pms
Date:	Wed Sep 26 08:04:27 PDT 2001

10601 Somewhat heartening -- rank: 46

T O W N H A L L . C O M C O N S E R V A T I V E A L E R T http://www.townhall.com ********************* Terrorism Conservative Alert- Civil Liberties in a New Environment ********************* As was best said by Benjamin Franklin (see "Civil Liberties ...

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Author:	pms
Date:	Tue Sep 25 23:51:39 PDT 2001

10602 ok Lbo-ers, rip this to shreds =) -- rank: 46

from salon.com There is no alternative to war By David Rieff Sept. 25, 2001 | We will resume our normal lives, but the fear will not go away. The airliner as bomb, the bomb in the stadium, the sarin gas in the subway: These are the prospects that will haunt us ...

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Author:	Noam A
Date:	Tue Sep 25 21:48:00 PDT 2001

10603 Sociology and Explanations (Re: Hitchens responds to critics -- rank: 46

Wojtek wrote: > Any rationally thinking >person could easily see that the attack on the WTC would result in a net >political loss for the Arab/Islamic world - so no rational calculus can >explain that act. I now write: Wojtek, despite the fact that you are a soul brother on the relatively ...

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Author:	John Gulick
Date:	Tue Sep 25 16:59:50 PDT 2001

10604 Brad on IMF -- rank: 46

Final round of rebuts. On 21 Dec 99, at 18:37, Brad De Long wrote: > >Patrick: > >Institutionally, JP Morgan > >was the IMF and Fed rolled into one for a long time, early on this > >century, but even he couldn't hold the line from 1929-33. So it's not > >the ...

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Author:	Patrick Bond
Date:	Tue Dec 21 21:36:04 PST 1999

10605 Sociology and Explanations (Re: Hitchens responds to critics -- rank: 46

... bomb? What about the KLA terrorists who blew up Serbian police stations? I'm going on memory here, but I haven ...

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Author:	brettk at unicacorp.com
Date:	Tue Sep 25 13:35:32 PDT 2001