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11056 Said weighs in -- rank: 46

CounterPunch online (<http://www.counterpunch.org>) September 28, 2001 The Necessity of Skepticism: Backlash and Backtrack By Edward Said For the seven million Americans who are Muslims (only two million of them Arab) and have lived through the catastrophe and backlash of 11 September, it's been a harrowing, especially unpleasant ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 1 09:42:50 PDT 2001

11057 US Nazis praise the suicide hijackers -- rank: 46

... will further convince these groups that the US is a police state and the enemy of Freedom. I just wonder if ...

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Author:	Ken Hanly
Date:	Mon Oct 1 08:37:17 PDT 2001

11058 Impeach dictators? -- rank: 46

... about BrookNam, but for > > Manning Marable to compare the NYC police to the death > > squads is just embarassing rhetoric.(mina) > >Sorry ...

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Author:	Kelley
Date:	Fri Nov 30 20:31:46 PST 2001

11059 [lbo-talk] "Finally Got the News" -- rank: 46

I.W.W. Black History Event: DETROIT'S REVOLUTIONARY UNIONS OF THE 60'S & 70'S A talk by Dr. Luke Tripp - a former leader of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and a screening of the rare 1970 documentary film "FINALLY GOT THE NEWS" Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 * 1 PM ...

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Author:	Mike Ballard
Date:	Fri Feb 15 10:32:50 PST 2008

11060 Today's NYT pulls Afghan story from front page -- rank: 46

Bizarre sneakiness since it's still on their web site front as their third top highlighted story of the day. The press may be slavishly pro-war but they have been following the humanitarian crisis pretty closely. -- Nathan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad Mayer" <bradley.mayer at ebay.sun.com> To: <lbo ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Fri Nov 30 11:07:25 PST 2001

11061 Today's NYT pulls Afghan story from front page -- rank: 46

Note: The NYT bastards did this for certain today, see below: The responsibility for this lies with Washington and its "war", of course, especially as Bush announced his opposition to any international force "until the war is over", whenever that is, thereby, once again deciding in favor of war rather than ...

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Author:	Brad Mayer
Date:	Fri Nov 30 10:40:38 PST 2001

11062 Terrorism and Globalization -- rank: 46

|| Terrorism and Globalization || || by Doug Henwood || <http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=special&s=henwood20011121> || || -clip- || || But the biggest absence of all was the recognition that there's || something different about this war as compared to recent || military interventions over Kosovo and Kuwait. Just to reiterate: The record shows ...

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Author:	Hakki Alacakaptan
Date:	Fri Nov 30 06:45:01 PST 2001

11063 On Selective Pacifism & other Oddities -- rank: 46

>I remember hearing at the time from >peaceniks not that the NA was a bunch >of savage brutes, but that they were a >ragtag army who couldn't >win. They are both. Win what? Anyone who knew about what they did in the mid 90s wouldn't forget the savage ...

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Author:	Charles Jannuzi
Date:	Fri Nov 30 00:54:46 PST 2001

11064 Ghosts of Attica Re: Selective -- rank: 46

> >>Those who are captured and take them up again, they are >combatants. The absolutely logical response is to hit them back hard, so >others don't get the same idea. Or, does the Geneva convention serve to >calibrate the day-to-day operational decisions conducted during a war?<< > >Right. So ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Nov 29 21:33:26 PST 2001

11065 On Selective Pacifism & other Oddities -- rank: 46

>Not much new in yesterday's installment - haven't gotten to today's >yet - but it repeats the claim that 70,000 alums of al Q training >camps are scattered across 50 countries. Maybe this is a complete >crock, though the FT isn't exactly USA Today, and it doesn ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Thu Nov 29 17:35:51 PST 2001

11066 Neon Genesis of the Global Left -- rank: 46

... Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Kevin Robert Dean wrote: > The Poster Police > http://www.indyweek.com/durham/current/triangles.html > A Durham ...

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Author:	Dennis Robert Redmond
Date:	Wed Nov 28 14:35:05 PST 2001

11067 THE BUSH DOCTRINE: 2,3 MANY WARS -- rank: 46

The following article will appear in the Dec. 1 issue of the email Mid-Hudson (N.Y.) Activist Newsletter & Calendar. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- THE BUSH DOCTRINE: 2, 3, MANY MORE WARS By Jack A. Smith The Bush administration appears to be near completion in its process of transforming the Sept. 11 terror attacks into ...

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Author:	jacdon at earthlink.net
Date:	Wed Nov 28 13:35:04 PST 2001

11068 Rieff on humanitarian imperialism -- rank: 46

[So is there any correct socialist/internationalist position on this?] Wall Street Journal - November 28, 2001 Nation-Building: Too Important To Be Left to U.N. By David Rieff. Mr. Rieff is writing a book on humanitarian aid. The decision by the Northern Alliance to send a delegation to the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 28 09:13:27 PST 2001

11069 [lbo-talk] Ecuador hunts for for victims of massacre -- rank: 46

Ecuador hunts for 'massacre' bodies Al Jazeera February 15, 2008 The Ecuadorean authorities have carried out a search for victims of a reported massacre of an indigenous Amazonian tribe by loggers as part of a battle over land. Local media and indigenous leaders said the loggers shot dead 15 members of ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Fri Feb 15 22:34:42 PST 2008

11070 [lbo-talk] at least he's black! -- rank: 46

Dwayne Monroe wrote: > BHO is a run-of-the-mill neolib politician. > > And yet, over the past few weeks he has been described - by list > members, not just the heavy breathers of the NYT and other official > lib organs we've snarkily quoted - as measurably more progressive than > HRC, as a ...

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Author:	Julio Huato
Date:	Mon Feb 18 14:19:24 PST 2008