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11776 Comments on Stoll versus Menchú -- rank: 46

Comments on Stoll versus Menchú By John Beverley In one of the most powerful sections of I, Rigoberta Menchú Menchú narrates the torture and execution of her brother by elements of the Guatemalan army in the town plaza of Chajul. Here is part of her description of the event: "After he ...

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Author:	Louis Proyect
Date:	Tue Dec 22 06:30:12 PST 1998

11777 Empire & Yugoslavia in Transition (was Re: The alleged "Racak Massacre") -- rank: 46

Yoshie wrote: > > Thanks to Johannes & Hinrich for posting articles on the alleged > "Racak Massacre." I think that this type of "questioning" of the > Kosovo War is going on now because the Empire has already succeeded > in replacing the Socialist Party of Serbia/the Yugoslav United Left > by Kostunica-led "Democraic Opposition ...

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Author:	Johannes Schneider
Date:	Wed Jan 24 02:52:34 PST 2001

11778 Risk-Based Surveillance (was Re: The truth about the aids panic) -- rank: 46

At 7:53 AM +0000 1/24/01, James Heartfield wrote: >Whatever the reasons, the empirical evidence has been mounting up >ever since AIDS was identified: some groups are more at risk than >others. ***** Surveillance and Criminal Statistics: Historical Foundations of Governmentality Mathieu Deflem Purdue University DeflemM at soc.purdue.edu ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Jan 24 02:12:20 PST 2001

11779 hacking the borderline & der spiegel article /angela/ -- rank: 46

Elena, > > in many countries, including the US and here in australia, there is little in the way of _any_ action that brings together the issues of border controls beyond this or that particular policy or this or that particular infringment of freemovement. the cross the border camp looks to me like ...

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Author:	rc-am
Date:	Wed Aug 11 18:11:02 PDT 1999

11780 [lbo-talk] The Blood of Capital: The dark side of Dubai -- rank: 46

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/the-dark-side-of-dubai-1664368.html ... There are three different Dubais, all swirling around each other. There are the expats, like Karen; there are the Emiratis, headed by Sheikh Mohammed; and then there is the foreign underclass who built the city ...

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Author:	Ira Glazer
Date:	Tue Apr 7 08:49:13 PDT 2009

11781 mummified life (was Re: Jazz) -- rank: 46

On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:48:38PM +1100, Rob Schaap wrote: > Mourns Carl, > > >I can't but lament what seems to me the > >tremendous loss of cultural vitality that has happened in this nation in the > >postwar period -- unquestionably, IMHO, because of the relentless > >commercialization, regimentation, homogenization and blanding ...

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Author:	Peter van Heusden
Date:	Mon Jan 22 23:51:15 PST 2001

11782 Once Ago There Was a Party... -- rank: 46

... opposing the transports of nuclear waste. Actually the agreed phase out of nuclear power in Germany is a guaratee for decades of continued usage. Now the Greens have gone a step further by even opposing protests again nuclear waste transports. Today's function of the German Green party can only ...

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Author:	Johannes Schneider
Date:	Mon Jan 22 23:17:05 PST 2001

11783 www.hellomrpresident.com -- rank: 46

... hold a protest on January 27. For their part, Swiss police are mounting a huge security operation for the January 25 ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Mon Jan 22 03:56:32 PST 2001

11784 Nike cares. Not. -- rank: 46

... and the right to establish an independent union. With riot police looking on, workers said they were barred from returning to ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Mon Jan 22 03:56:25 PST 2001

11785 On the important French Fry Question -- rank: 46

>By John's criteria, only the rich who can afford _not_ to eat fast >food, shop at Wal-Mart, etc. can live morally correct lives. What >the masses buy is cheap mass products of sweatshop labor; what the >truly rich buy, in contrast, is expensive products of relatively >well-paid ...

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Author:	Dennis Perrin/Nancy Bauer
Date:	Sun Jan 21 09:45:15 PST 2001

11786 [lbo-talk] Abolition of prisons (Was: Angela...) -- rank: 46

John Thornton tries again: > I'll ask if you would see no difference between someone > threatening to punch you in the face and someone actually > punching you in the face. ... which he thinks makes his point, but he's wrong. Somehow he's shifted from distinguishing between violent and not-violent ...

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Author:	Jordan Hayes
Date:	Tue Apr 7 12:21:32 PDT 2009

11787 Jazz -- rank: 46

Mourns Carl, >I can't but lament what seems to me the >tremendous loss of cultural vitality that has happened in this nation in the >postwar period -- unquestionably, IMHO, because of the relentless >commercialization, regimentation, homogenization and blanding down of >popular music and really all arts to different degrees. Much of ...

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Author:	Rob Schaap
Date:	Sun Jan 21 04:48:38 PST 2001

11788 [lbo-talk] "Doing History Backward" (Partial Draft) -- rank: 46

... schemata. It did not surprise the Tsarist government or secret police, which had been terrified of revolution since, oh, the Decembrists ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Apr 7 15:24:55 PDT 2009

11789 [lbo-talk] TIME ZONE -- rank: 46

At 11:07 PM -0400 7/4/09, ravi wrote: >On Apr 7, 2009, at 10:41 PM, Bill Bartlett wrote: >>At 9:50 PM -0400 7/4/09, ravi wrote: >> >>>So, new iMac => can I assume you are running Leopard? >> >>I suppose, if that's what was on it when ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Tue Apr 7 07:32:53 PDT 2009

11790 under arrest -- rank: 46

... out. The case was brought to the attention of the police last May when the 13-year-old boy told an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 20 12:21:51 PST 2001