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12166 [lbo-talk] The great burqa debate -- rank: 46

On Jul 2, 2009, at 3:59 AM, sujeet.bhatt at gmail.com wrote: > http://67.222.134.214/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/columnists/irfan-husain-the-great-burqa-debate-179 > One aspect of this not mentioned below is that the burka makes its wearer absolutely ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Thu Jul 2 07:33:28 PDT 2009

12167 [lbo-talk] Telegraph columnist: now comes the social crisis -- rank: 46

The unemployment timebomb is quietly ticking By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Telegraph July 4 2009 One dog has yet to bark in this long winding crisis. Beyond riots in Athens and a Baltic bust-up, we have not seen evidence of bitter political protest as the slump eats away at the legitimacy ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Sat Jul 4 14:43:05 PDT 2009

12168 race & murder -- rank: 46

>But the anomie expressed in contemporary youth culture, and parroted by >our two killers, is a long way from organised racism. The appeal of >racist epithets in this context seems closer to their shock value than >it does to an identification with a militarised society like Nazi >Germany. Jim, fuck ...

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Author:	Rakesh Bhandari
Date:	Sun Apr 25 11:50:55 PDT 1999

12169 [lbo-talk] Q & A on the Iran Crisis from Campaign for Peace and Democracy -- rank: 46

For immediate release Contact: Joanne Landy, Co-Director, Campaign for Peace and Democracy, jlandy at igc.org NEW YORK, July 8, 2009 - Today the New York-based Campaign for Peace and Democracy circulated a Question and Answer on the Iran Crisis. The text is below. For more information about CPD, see ...

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Author:	Joanne Landy
Date:	Tue Jul 7 14:08:42 PDT 2009

12170 Gotta love those Free Traders -- rank: 46

Anyone want to pie these folks? We (as protestors and NGOs) apparently don't represent anyone at all...Damn! IMF And World Bank Spring Meetings WorldNews.com, Thu 26 Apr 2001 World Bank News Roundup. http://www.worldnews.com/?t=print.txt&action=display&article=6905743 The Financial Times (p.16 ...

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Author:	Kevin Robert Dean
Date:	Fri Apr 27 12:47:54 PDT 2001

12171 [lbo-talk] Obama goes Area 51 -- rank: 46

``WASHINGTON (AP) - As CIA director in 2004, George Tenet terminated a secret program to develop hit teams to kill al-Qaida leaders, but his successors resurrected the plan, according to former intelligence officials. Tenet ended the program because the agency could not work out its practical details, the officials told ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Wed Jul 15 19:04:53 PDT 2009

12172 [lbo-talk] zimmerman not guilty -- rank: 46

>From Marv's post: ". All mass movements necessarily begin as localized actions which draw attention to their grievances and recruits to their cause, and it's only in retrospect that the outcome is known, never in advance." Absolutely. In understanding this one perhaps minor, perhaps crucial, historical point: Lenin NEVER ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Mon Jul 15 12:47:38 PDT 2013

12173 [lbo-talk] Obama, take your choice. War criminal or cover-up? -- rank: 46

I've been obcessed with the slowly unravelling series of news stories about Cheney, JSOC, CIA death squads, massive domestic surveillance, resprisals against journalists, secret prison systems, torture, and now some leaked details out of the CIA Inspector Generals report that AG Holder read. It involves a review of Abu Ghraib ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Fri Jul 17 15:45:12 PDT 2009

12174 [lbo-talk] Leszek Kolakowski dies -- rank: 46

Left-Wing Wacko wrote: >> Not true. Kolakowski wrote that Stalinism was the logical conclusion of >> *Leninism*. He held that Leninism, in turn, was one *possible* and >> legitimate interpretation of Marxism (among many others). By leaving that >> interpretation open, he believed that Marx could be blamed, in an >> intellectual-history sense, for ...

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Author:	SA
Date:	Sun Jul 19 14:30:18 PDT 2009

12175 Missing In Action, part 2 -- rank: 46

Kelley Walker wrote: > > there was some talk of > pow/mia's as a myth. Perhaps there was a reference to a very great work of cultural history, Bruce Franklin's _M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America_. As usual I can't find a book when I want it or I ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Thu Apr 26 19:38:10 PDT 2001

12176 Solidarity Summer School 2001--Pittsburgh -- rank: 46

>From: Sawnhuber at aol.com >To: <serj at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu> >Subject: Fwd: [cgp-osu] Solidarity Summer School 2001--Pittsburgh >From: Solidarity <solidarity at IGC.ORG> >Subject: [SLDRTY-L]: Solidarity Summer School 2001 > >Solidarity Summer School 2001 > >IN THE STREETS, AT THE WORKPLACE, & AROUND THE GLOBE: THE FIGHT ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Apr 26 19:06:14 PDT 2001

12177 Berkeley Students Demand Divestment from Israel -- rank: 46

From: "MER" <MERL at MiddleEast.Org> Subject: Berkeley students demand divestment from Israel Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:02:26 -00 MID-EAST REALITIES c - www.MiddleEast.Org - STUDENTS FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE, UC BERKELEY, OCCUPY UNIV BUILDING Group Demands Divestment from Israel By Will Youmans BERKELEY, CA - 24 April ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Apr 26 18:29:58 PDT 2001

12178 Missing in Action -- rank: 46

>My sense of this issue was that it was directly >exploited to attack Jimmy Carter and elevate >Ronald Reagan. The noise about MIA's very much >died down in precisely the period when conservatives >controlling the Executive Branch of the Gov were in >a position to deal with the issue ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Apr 26 17:07:55 PDT 2001

12179 QUEBEC CRACKPOTS -- rank: 46

... but not to get -arrested or tear gassed. Unfortuantly the police didn't -recognise that division. Of course they didn't ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Thu Apr 26 10:16:52 PDT 2001

12180 QUEBEC CRACKPOTS -- rank: 46

>From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan at newman.org> >Subject: Re: QUEBEC CRACKPOTS >I think you can say the point stronger-- there is no inherent difference in >expressing your support through wearing a pin versus fighting with cops on a >barricade, except how the state and others respond to your particular >protest ...

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Author:	Andrew Flood
Date:	Thu Apr 26 08:58:05 PDT 2001