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11326 RES: Palestine (May 10, Columbus, OH) -- rank: 46

... the magnitude of the repression. What we saw was unimaginable brutality, but also a level of resistance by the entire Palestinian ...

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Author:	Alexandre Fenelon
Date:	Thu May 10 17:39:05 PDT 2001

11327 [lbo-talk] Saudi anti-Semitism -- rank: 46

... Judaism, Except that "Early Christianity," as designed by the Roman police agent Paul, arose in Greek/Roman, not Jewish, society, in ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Thu Jul 17 06:34:05 PDT 2008

11328 FW: Reclaim Downtown -- rank: 46

I apologize if it was not clear but I merely forwarded an e-mail that I received in a roundabout fashion (from a former head of the Downtown Business Association) to give a hint what was going on in the hearts and minds of the powers that be in Seattle. I ...

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Author:	Lee Cassutt
Date:	Fri Dec 3 11:57:56 PST 1999

11329 Palestine (May 10, Columbus, OH) -- rank: 46

Progressive Peace Coalition Presents PALESTINE FREEDOM, JUSTICE, EQUALITY SARA FLOUNDERS, CO-DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER (IAC) Sara Flounders visited PALESTINE in November 2000 as a part of a delegation that delivered much-needed medicine to Palestinian hospitals and clinics. They were able to witness firsthand the aggression and repression against Palestinian ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu May 10 03:42:44 PDT 2001

11330 Lou Reed Dead/Albright -- rank: 46

At 09:48 PM 5/8/01 -0500, Peter asked: >introduced Reed to Albright. (Why was the '89 revolution in >Czechoslovakia called the Velvet Revolution?) Because of the outfit (velvet pants + sweaters) preferred by its main proponents - industrial managers. To understand that, a little background is necessary. Under the central planning ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Wed May 9 07:35:09 PDT 2001

11331 Hitchens on Kerry -- rank: 46

... as a guy sensitive to the hypertrophy of state military-police power. And the revolutionary rhetoric against the unthinking sanction of ...

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Author:	christian11 at mindspring.com
Date:	Wed May 9 06:39:07 PDT 2001

11332 [lbo-talk] Saudi anti-Semitism -- rank: 46

My recollection of this is dim and my knowledge is exceedingly thin, but many years ago I read a book by Elaine Pagels, then a prof of religion at Princeton, that impressed me as good deal. It was short, for one thing, and accessible to a nonspecialist. Called something like, The ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Thu Jul 17 10:58:37 PDT 2008

11333 FC: Timothy McVeigh, muzzled by U.S. government, speaks via the Net -- rank: 46

On Tue, 8 May 2001, Maureen Anderson wrote: > >Are we sure this is really McVeigh's writing? It seems terribly, > >uncharacteristically lucid compared to the stuff I have actually heard or > >read. > > That was my impression,too (re lucidity), though I had nothing to > compare it to. Maybe Gore Vidal proofread ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Tue May 8 20:56:25 PDT 2001

11334 [lbo-talk] Sign this letter!! -- rank: 46

40 years later, some things never change. I was in Chicago's streets then, and I guess I have to go to Denver now. The established antiwar groups have refused to call a united march against the Wars on Iraq and Afghanistan (Iran? Venezuela?), the massive housing evictions, the ongoing bailouts ...

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Author:	Mitchel Cohen
Date:	Thu Jul 17 14:44:12 PDT 2008

11335 Militia movement diminished by McVeigh -- rank: 46

The Execution of Timothy McVeigh McVeigh's bomb shattered militia movement, too Passionate patriots fell victim to fear, boredom Dale Young / The Detroit News/ May 6,,2001 "What this country needs is a good old-fashioned Waco ... That would put fear back in society," said Norm Olson. Coming in The News ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue May 8 06:02:54 PDT 2001

11336 [lbo-talk] teaching the pampered rich at Harvard -- rank: 46

don't have this coded into data ready at hand but i can tell you this based on my experience teaching 3-4 courses a semester, fall/spring/summer, at elite liberal arts campuses v. state colleges and extensions campuses. the children at well-to-do campuses really do believe you ...

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Author:	shag
Date:	Tue Jul 22 16:13:32 PDT 2008

11337 [lbo-talk] Juan Cole/Salon: Obama saying the wrong things about Afghanistan -- rank: 46

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/07/23/obama/index.html July 23, 2008 Salon.com Obama is saying the wrong things about Afghanistan He hit the right notes during his swing through Iraq, but his plans for that other war could mean trouble. By Juan Cole <snip> Less forgiving ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Wed Jul 23 08:22:20 PDT 2008

11338 [lbo-talk] Juan Cole: A History and Evaluation of the Surge -- rank: 46

http://www.juancole.com/2008/07/social-history-of-surge.html Thursday, July 24, 2008 A Social History of the Surge <snip> The only evidence presented for the thesis that the "surge" "worked" is that Iraqi deaths from political violence have declined in recent months from all-time highs in the ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Thu Jul 24 10:31:28 PDT 2008

11339 [lbo-talk] We like Phil for this -- rank: 46

``It is almost bizarre to try to pin a single name as the criminal in such instances. And it does distort the nature of capitalist politics.'' Carrol ``In a bottom line sense you're right. Like Gore Vidal said, `there is no conspiracy, they all think alike.' '' Dennis Claxton -------------------- I ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Sat Jul 26 20:19:59 PDT 2008

11340 [lbo-talk] a poe moe and da poe moes -- rank: 46

Miles Jackson wrote: > > Yes. For me, that's Foucault's most important political point: power > relations create subjects. As long as we cling to the pernicious myth > that power is always and simply the domination of pre-existing > autonomous agents, effective political action will be difficult. > > A few weeks ago, CB ...

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Author:	Seth Ackerman
Date:	Sun Jul 27 13:06:51 PDT 2008