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12106 Saving Private Havel [edited version] -- rank: 46

[Tudjman] [This is the most intelligent sustained piece of political theory I've seen so far this war. But, in its original form, it suffered from infelicities that commonly result from trying to render central European thinking into English, especially when done by someone who speaks English as a second ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Sun Apr 25 18:17:14 PDT 1999

12107 San Quentin slayings haunt the Bay Area (George Jackson) -- rank: 46

Hmm, ""Not only is Bingham a murdering communist, he is also a hypocrite..." I met Steve Bingham back in '88. The most soft-spoken lawyer I've ever talked to. Son of Old Left radical Alfred Bingham, who edited a thities lefty magazine, "Common Sense." See the Greenwood Press reprint series ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon Aug 13 11:32:02 PDT 2001

12108 Pilging up a storm -- rank: 46

Stirring stuff from one bloke who's always had a sense of the history he's in. Enjoy. Rob. Liberal elites have always disguised their innate conservatism By John Pilger At the Hay-on-Wye literary festival in May, leading members of the media and cultural elite assembled in the fine ...

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Author:	Rob Schaap
Date:	Sun Aug 12 23:36:49 PDT 2001

12109 The Klan goes to Washington -- rank: 46

... recruit new members. "I don't think there are many police officers who imagined during their career they'd be protecting ...

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Author:	Kevin Robert Dean
Date:	Sun Aug 12 13:55:38 PDT 2001

12110 Next WB meeting in an African nation? -- rank: 46

... is > crying to Bush for Federal money to pay for > police overtime etc. Maybe he wants to hire > some of his ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Fri Aug 10 22:35:31 PDT 2001

12111 [lbo-talk] Latvia - Economic crisis spawns mass protest -- rank: 46

... Johansson > Reuters > January 13, 2009 > > Riga - Hundreds of youths destroyed police vehicles, > smashed windows and > looted stores in Latvia's capital ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Jan 13 22:53:50 PST 2009

12112 [lbo-talk] Latvia - Economic crisis spawns mass protest -- rank: 46

... backlash would seem to depend on the efficacy of the police-state there--my impression was the lessons of the Soviet ...

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Author:	Peter Ward
Date:	Wed Jan 14 18:44:48 PST 2009

12113 [lbo-talk] rednecks disappearing! -- rank: 46

... other hand I've never heard of or observed prejudicial police harassment--'white trash' Latinos and Native Americans are more or ...

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Author:	Peter Ward
Date:	Wed Jan 14 19:12:56 PST 2009

12114 [lbo-talk] rednecks disappearing! -- rank: 46

... programs, while blind to "government" as represeted by the military, police, prisons, DHS, wiretapping, militaristic foreign policy, and the like. There ...

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Author:	B.
Date:	Wed Jan 14 21:17:54 PST 2009

12115 for nepal fans -- rank: 46

... in a byline), explains how the ceasefire between the government/police and the maoists has put the UML (right wing communists ...

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Author:	John Mage
Date:	Thu Aug 9 15:59:11 PDT 2001

12116 Palestinians and Kosovars (Re: lbo-talk-digest V1 #4706 -- rank: 46

[From _Dissent_, Summer 2000, pp. 89-91.] On the Facts Noam Chomsky Aryeh Neier's outrage over a "diatribe against NATO's military intervention" ("Inconvenient Facts," _Dissent_, Spring 2000) is understandable: the issues are too serious for that. His essay is presented as a review of my book _The New ...

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Author:	C. G. Estabrook
Date:	Thu Aug 9 14:54:33 PDT 2001

12117 Palestinians and Kosovars (Re: lbo-talk-digest V1 #4706 -- rank: 46

> The contention seems to be (a) that Israeli oppression of > Palestinians from 1948 to the present and Serbian oppression of > Kosovar Albanians before the 1999 war are essentially similar (or > that the latter is "at least equivalent" to the former), and (b) that > "some sections of the Left" who condemn ...

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Author:	Luke Weiger
Date:	Thu Aug 9 12:42:08 PDT 2001

12118 [lbo-talk] Latvia - Economic crisis spawns mass protest -- rank: 46

You can't really compare the Baltic states to Russia, given size differences. A proper comparison would not be e.g. Russia vs. Latvia, but Moscow oblast vs. Latvia. The Baltic State's economies are also kept afloat by their being transit countries between Russia and Western Europe -- in the 90s ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Jan 14 23:56:37 PST 2009

12119 Oh no, Kosovo Redux (was Re: lbo-talk-digest V1 #4718) -- rank: 46

At 07:02 PM 8/8/01 -0400, you wrote: >As far as cheap shots go, there are few cheaper than to say that >opponents of the U.S./NATO fly-by in Yugoslavia lack your exquisite >sensitivity to the plight of the Muslims of the region. > >Doug Cheap shot all ...

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Author:	Brad Mayer
Date:	Wed Aug 8 19:38:41 PDT 2001

12120 [lbo-talk] Gaza and anti-Semitism -- rank: 46

... Furedi pretends not to know that the Zionists and their police allies will do anything to smear anyone who dissents from ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Thu Jan 15 07:16:42 PST 2009