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12496 [lbo-talk] who? -- rank: 46

Doug Henwood wrote: > Are the most oppressed and marginalized groups going to be a great > source of political activism, really? Isn't part of being oppressed > and marginalized being disengaged? Zizek's answer to the first question is yes isn't it? For example, http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/1090/ > in ...

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Author:	Ted Winslow
Date:	Tue Oct 27 05:49:50 PDT 2009

12497 Edward Said on the Palestinian uprising -- rank: 46

>From todays Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung www.faz.com Nothing Left to Offer By Edward W. Said NEW YORK. Misreported and hopelessly flawed from the start, the Oslo peace process has entered its terminal phase -- one of violent confrontation, disproportionate Israeli repression, widespread Palestinian rebellion and great loss of life, the ...

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Author:	Johannes Schneider
Date:	Thu Oct 12 02:15:25 PDT 2000

12498 Memory and History: Power and Identity -- rank: 46

Leo Casey wrote: >One of the facets of Morrison's work which is so relevant here is that she >understands, in a way that Yoshie clearly fails to understand, how much >African-American memories and history are woven into the very weft and woof >of the fabric of American memories and ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Oct 11 20:37:54 PDT 2000

12499 [lbo-talk] 5 Charged with torturing foreclosure consultants -- rank: 46

... armed men placed above society and alienating themselves from it (police and a standing army), the West-European and Russian philistines ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Wed Oct 28 04:39:53 PDT 2009

12500 Zolo Azania (fwd) -- rank: 46

forwarded by Michael Hoover > > Common Courage Political Literacy Course - > http://www.commoncouragepress.com > > > > Dear friend, > > > > Several months ago, we at Common Courage corresponded with an Indiana > > death-row prisoner named Zolo Agona Azania. Currently working on a > > manuscript, he is a talented artist and writer who has been active in > > the ...

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Author:	Michael Hoover
Date:	Tue Oct 10 09:23:57 PDT 2000

12501 [lbo-talk] 5 Charged with torturing foreclosure consultants -- rank: 46

... armed men placed above society and alienating themselves from it (police and a standing army), the West-European and

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Oct 28 04:59:40 PDT 2009

12502 more from Fisk -- rank: 46

Independent (London) - April 19, 1999 Serbs stirred by memory of their Kosovo exodus By Robert Fisk in Belgrade THERE ARE no files in Nebojsa Vujovic's bookcases, no computers in the ante-rooms of the Yugoslav ministry of foreign affairs. If Nato bombs this most elegant of Belgrade buildings, there will ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 19 10:46:02 PDT 1999

12503 East Timor -- rank: 46

... those in favour of independence > from Indonesia. > > The weekend of brutality left at least 30 people dead, although the army > maintained ...

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Author:	Henry C.K. Liu
Date:	Mon Apr 19 10:14:10 PDT 1999

12504 Zizek & Machiavelli, Not Hegel (was Re: Montesinos) -- rank: 46

>In a message dated 10/8/00 12:08:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >peterk at enteract.com writes: > ><< I tend towards the beautiful soul position, but at least I admit it. >> > >Once upon at time,w hen there was a movement inw hich they were important, >Marxists had to ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Oct 8 18:15:18 PDT 2000

12505 Montesinos [was: Re: Yugoslavia: what the media is hiding (The Guardian) -- rank: 46

Yoshie: >>Many leftists in the West, however, would >>rather say a "pox on both houses," so as to maintain the beautiful >>soul: the beautiful soul "lives in dread of besmirching the splendour >>of its inner being by action and an existence," as Hegel criticized >>in the _Phenomenology of the Spirit_. Imperialists ...

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Author:	Peter K.
Date:	Sun Oct 8 09:06:58 PDT 2000

12506 [lbo-talk] 5 Charged with torturing foreclosure consultants -- rank: 46

... actually the KKK was in cahoots with county sheriffs and police, i.e. it is part of the special bodies of ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Wed Oct 28 08:45:02 PDT 2009

12507 Slobbo, Rwanda and the Surreal -- rank: 46

Leo Casey wrote: >If I had to write a script for a more perverse, insane position, for a better >way to completely bury any notion of socialism among people of genuinely >progressive convictions and open minds, I couldn't have done any better. The >Stalinists used to say that "Trotskyists support ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Oct 7 10:58:34 PDT 2000

12508 American Arab Anti Discrimination Committee -- rank: 46

>Building Protests in Support of The Palestinians- > >This forward is to the Action Alert page for the AAADC,, which is >beginning to list the demonstrations being built around the United >States. In addition, one should feel free to contact the mosques >in your community, to find out if other protests ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Oct 7 08:22:12 PDT 2000

12509 Fwd: Niiice kitty.... -- rank: 46

The James A. Donald entity is at it again, rather like a broken record. He's come up with a quote and a source that appear, to my untrained eye, to be legit, so; is anyone able to verify the quote below? Did Chomsky et al. say this? Is there further ...

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Author:	Reese
Date:	Fri Oct 6 18:44:08 PDT 2000

12510 [lbo-talk] Cole in Salon: Obama's foreign policy report card -- rank: 46

[I post this for its contrarian value. To my great surprise, Cole gives him a good one. Granted, it rests on the professor being very generous with his incompletes, and not making clear that they will automatically become fails at a certain point in the near future. And he judges ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Thu Oct 29 00:31:24 PDT 2009