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12091 race & murder -- rank: 46

I agree with Rakesh's message (printed below) and Charles Brown's comments on the issue of race. All the victims could have been white, that is not what mattered. And it also doesn't matter that 'real' nazis would see the shooters as spoiled and inadequate. The shooting took place ...

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Author:	MScoleman at aol.com
Date:	Sun Apr 25 19:44:31 PDT 1999

12092 boomer bashing -- rank: 46

Chuck, I agree pretty completely with your overall argument, but your arithmetic is a little off here. I met very few people my own age (I was born in 1930) in movement activity. Most were younger, and quite a few were older, but few from among those who came of age ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Tue Aug 14 20:09:19 PDT 2001

12093 Outlook on Baburam Bhattarai -- rank: 46

>From the Indian magazine Outlook: A Che Guevara Breaks Out Of T-Shirts Baburam Bhattarai, Nepal's romantic revolutionary icon, has it in him to trade the gun for peace YUBARAJ GHIMIRE Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) leader Baburam Bhattarai is a man of several parts-a savant and a ...

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Author:	Johannes Schneider
Date:	Tue Aug 14 14:50:35 PDT 2001

12094 Palestinians and Kosovars -- rank: 46

Luke Weiger wrote of W's support for the Kosovo war: > Notice that Bush's reasoning basically seems to rest on the fact that, > since other NATO countries wanted to intervene, we ought to go along for > the ride. . That's not exactly what Bush said. He said he supported the ...

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Author:	Seth Ackerman
Date:	Tue Aug 14 11:35:06 PDT 2001

12095 [lbo-talk] Lynndie England -- rank: 46

Guardian (London) - January 3, 2009 <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/03/abu-ghraib-lynndie-england-interview > 'What happens in war happens' In 2004, photographs of abuses at Abu Ghraib shocked the world. Seven people were charged, but the face of the scandal will always be Lynndie England, the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 3 18:17:21 PST 2009

12096 [lbo-talk] Gaza -- rank: 46

Can anybody post links to news stories coming from inside Gaza? I noticed there were almost none. What seems to come out are home videos with media supplied voice overs. It took about two and a half hours of web news searching this morning just to find what is posted below ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Sun Jan 4 13:10:49 PST 2009

12097 [lbo-talk] they're shelling hospitals -- rank: 46

... at the moment report it was two shells at a police post next to the hospital, one hospital worker getting shrapnel ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 5 08:45:10 PST 2009

12098 [lbo-talk] Discussing Israeli Aggression: Then and Now -- rank: 46

American workplaces usually aren't fertile ground for serious political discussion. It's alright to debate the quarterback's poor leadership skills and the pitcher's bad arm. It's alright to talk about the meandering script of Jennifer Aniston's new movie. It's even alright to burn time indulging ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Mon Jan 5 13:38:19 PST 2009

12099 Saving Private Havel [PROPERLY edited version] -- rank: 46

[Sorry, that last one squirted out before I justified and proofed it. Please read this instead] [This is the most intelligent sustained piece of political theory on the war I've read so far. But, in its original form, it suffered from the usual infelicities that result from trying to ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Sun Apr 25 19:03:41 PDT 1999

12100 Israel takes over Palestinian Telecom -- rank: 46

... approval for the opening on Monday of an additional Israeli police station in east Jerusalem." ------------- The most worrisome aspect to this ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Mon Aug 13 23:46:50 PDT 2001

12101 Palestinians and Kosovars -- rank: 46

Seth wrote: > This isn't quite right. George Bush supported the Kosovo > bombing. From the transcript of the second Presidential debate... > BUSH: I think it's a triumph; I thought the president made the right > decision in joining NATO in bombing Serbia. I supported them > when they did so. I called ...

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Author:	Luke Weiger
Date:	Tue Aug 14 00:47:10 PDT 2001

12102 [lbo-talk] Israeli strategy -- rank: 46

... conclusions * Avi Shlaim * The Guardian, Wednesday 7 January 2009 ...The brutality of Israel's soldiers is fully matched by the mendacity ...

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Author:	C. G. Estabrook
Date:	Wed Jan 7 21:21:50 PST 2009

12103 [lbo-talk] The Nation: Gaza seen through a short biography -- rank: 46

[Graceful and concise] http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090112/al_arian January 2, 2009 The Nation To Live and Die in Gaza By Laila Al-Arian On Sunday morning, I found out through a note my friend wrote on Facebook, that the Israeli Air Force was attacking my grandfather's ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Fri Jan 9 19:34:45 PST 2009

12104 Israel takes over Palestinian Telecom -- rank: 46

... approval for the opening on Monday of an additional Israeli police station in east Jerusalem." "He was quoted in the Yedioth ...

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Author:	Brad Mayer
Date:	Mon Aug 13 13:54:06 PDT 2001

12105 [lbo-talk] The Nation: Gaza seen through a short biography -- rank: 46

[Graceful and concise] http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090112/al_arian January 2, 2009 The Nation To Live and Die in Gaza By Laila Al-Arian On Sunday morning, I found out through a note my friend wrote on Facebook, that the Israeli Air Force was attacking my grandfather's ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Fri Jan 9 19:37:53 PST 2009