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12886 [lbo-talk] How to make the Senate a majority rule institutioninone day -- rank: 46

... their job to fight hard for immiseration, war, and the police state. There's no need for the Democrats to do ...

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Author:	Michael Smith
Date:	Fri Jan 22 10:24:22 PST 2010

12887 Wobblies -- rank: 46

> Has anything shaped the culture of "the insurgent U.S. proletariat since > the 1920s?" ChuckO's question reveals the ignorance/arrogance of many of today's Wobblies and anarchists about which I wrote previously. The failure to acknowledge what the insurgent North American proletariat has accomplished demeans the true contribution ...

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Author:	Apsken at aol.com
Date:	Sat Mar 18 06:13:26 PST 2000

12888 Fwd: "global corporate liberalism" -- rank: 46

[John Gulick asked me to post this. By the way, I think I'm responsible for feeding Pat B the "Marx was for free trade" line. I was on an obscure cable network with his sister Bay discussing NAFTA a few years ago, along with John Cavanagh of IPS and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 17 15:55:19 PST 2000

12889 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 46

... They all believe that government's role is primarily a police authority, while it encourages business to do `the right thing ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Sat Jan 23 15:35:04 PST 2010

12890 Rebuttal to Nathan -- rank: 46

Nathan, The main point is not whether or not NATO officially estimated 100,000 dead Albanians or not. The point is NATO, or at least the US which was running the show, encouraged wild speculation on the POSSIBLE crimes of Milo. I remember reading articles about all the missing Albanian men ...

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Author:	Brett Knowlton
Date:	Fri Mar 17 08:39:06 PST 2000

12891 [fla-left] [labor] Migrants' landlord is deputy for county (fwd) -- rank: 46

forwarded by Michael Hoover > Sheriff's Deputy William D. Maye runs a migrant camp in Wimauma, in an area > he patrols. > > By DAVID PEDREIRA > > =A9 St. Petersburg Times, published March 10, 2000 > > WIMAUMA -- The seven migrant workers live in a battered > single-wide mobile home in a dusty labor camp. > > Two ...

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Author:	Michael Hoover
Date:	Fri Mar 17 08:31:17 PST 2000

12892 Kosova's long struggle for independence -- rank: 46

The following article, "Kosova's long struggle for independence", By Doug Lorimer, is scheduled to appear in the April 14 issue of Green Left Weekly. It is tied to the Australian Democratic Socialist Party. A very interesting historical review of the claims of the Albanians Kosovars. ---Nathan Newman _______________________________________ Kosova's long ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Fri Apr 9 09:28:56 PDT 1999

12893 Rebuttal to Nathan -- rank: 46

Seth Ackerman wrote: >(WSJ 12/31/99: "We were all hamstrung," a NATO official >says. As the war dragged on, he says, NATO saw a fatigued press corps >drifting toward the contrarian story: civilians killed by NATO's >bombs. NATO stepped up its claims about Serb "killing fields.") > >And it worked ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 16 15:47:21 PST 2000

12894 Rebuttal to Nathan -- rank: 46

Nathan, hold on a second. I admire Ed Vulliamy and I liked his Guardian piece, even though I'm against libel suits on principle and I find his position on Bosnia mad. But Doug is right: Your arguments turn everyone into a pro-Serb or a pro-NATO lackey. Invidiousness lies ...

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Author:	Seth Ackerman
Date:	Thu Mar 16 15:15:48 PST 2000

12895 Pro-ITN Libel Suit Post (re: THE TEARS OF THE MIGHTY -- rank: 46

>On Behalf Of Doug Henwood > > Nathan Newman wrote: > > >LM's apology for Serb murder > > Whoa, Nathan. Isn't this a little overheated? I haven't seen LM > taking an overtly pro-Serb line; it struck me more as a critique of > NATO demonization of the Serbs. If what was called ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Thu Mar 16 11:40:11 PST 2000

12896 On tactics of stopping racist speech -- rank: 46

>>> Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> 03/16/00 03:53PM >>> Charles Brown wrote: > > This has nothing to do with outlawing fascitic racist speech as a narrow exception to freedom of speech. > Charles, I think I have a new way of articulating my disagreement with you on this. Let's ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Thu Mar 16 13:16:30 PST 2000

12897 Pro-ITN Libel Suit Post (re: THE TEARS OF THE MIGHTY -- rank: 46

Charles Brown wrote: > > This has nothing to do with outlawing fascitic racist speech as a narrow exception to freedom of speech. > Charles, I think I have a new way of articulating my disagreement with you on this. Let's see if this makes sense. (I am taking for granted what I ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Thu Mar 16 12:53:11 PST 2000

12898 [lbo-talk] Cole: one cheer for Obama on Iraq -- rank: 46

[To put this in context: Cole thinks this is basically Obama's sole foreign policy victory, to be weighed against things getting palapably worse in Israel/Palestine & Afghanistan. But he thinks some credit is due here.] http://www.juancole.com/2010/01/one-year-later-did-obama-win-iraq-war ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Sun Jan 24 07:18:58 PST 2010

12899 [lbo-talk] Regarding the Left's Fixaction on Massachusetts Election -- rank: 46

... layed rocks in the highway while being fired upon by police, come to mind. *They just haven't figured out there ...

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Author:	Peter Ward
Date:	Mon Jan 25 15:46:13 PST 2010

12900 [lbo-talk] McLemee: short sweet intellectual history of Western Marxism in France -- rank: 46

[This is a review of a collection of posthumous writings by Castoriadis. But the part I really enjoyed is this first half, before he mentions the book.] http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/016_05/5033 Feb/Mar 2010 Bookforum Barbarians at the Gate The annals of an antinomian socialist Scott ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Wed Jan 27 01:29:39 PST 2010