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12916 [lbo-talk] changiness (cont.): deportation of "illegal immigrants" up from Bush years -- rank: 46

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/25/AR2010072501790_pf.html> Deportation of illegal immigrants increases under Obama administration By Peter Slevin Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, July 26, 2010; A01 In a bid to remake the enforcement of federal immigration laws, the Obama administration is deporting ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 26 09:03:55 PDT 2010

12917 [lbo-talk] Review: Red Plenty by Francis Spufford -- rank: 46

This has some discussion pertinent to recent threads on value, etc. Charles http://21stcenturysocialism.com/article/review_red_plenty_by_francis_spufford_01992.html Tuesday, 27th July 2010 by Paul Cockshott / May 23rd 2010 Review: Red Plenty by Francis Spufford This is a marvelous and unusual book. It sits in a ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Wed Jul 28 13:21:37 PDT 2010

12918 Where The 'New Age' Meets The Third Reich -- rank: 46

Relevant to recent discussion (although, of course, it doesn't make sense to argue that this is somehow the "natural" trajectory of green/eco thinking). But pretty wild stuff. > > Where The New Age Meets The Third Reich: > > DAVID ICKE AND THE POLITICS OF MADNESS > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > > > By Will Offley, willo at lynx.bc ...

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Author:	Chris Kromm
Date:	Wed Mar 8 19:55:11 PST 2000

12919 [lbo-talk] The Warrior -- rank: 46

(I am continuing the other posts, since they all get pretty long. Sorry I think while I am writing, and there's lots to think through.) Benvenisti is very brutal to his otherwise highly sympathetic audiance. It took me some time to figure him out and I thought of the ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Tue Jun 1 00:38:01 PDT 2010

12920 tree hugging nazis (was Peter Singer & Vegetarian Dogs) -- rank: 46

Gordon Fitch wrote: > In that sense, nothing has any bearing on one's politics -- > there can be racist Communists and kindly fascists and > intelligent Republicans. That is, people can exhibit > contradictory beliefs and behaviors. Political principles are always in part predictions of the right demands to make to mobilize a particular ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Wed Mar 8 07:33:53 PST 2000

12921 Trial by Torture -- rank: 46

... Over two decades, a single brutal unit of the Chicago Police Department allegedly tortured confessions out of dozens of suspects, including ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Mar 8 01:27:59 PST 2000

12922 Organizing and Union Democracy (RE: AFL-CIO strategy: "nonsense" -- rank: 46

>On Behalf Of Rakesh Bhandari > 1. I think you are missing the challenge here to the fetishization of > organizing--your fundamentalist commitment as you put it. Lynd for example > in same issue criticizes Sweeney's organizing commitment as simply > inclusive business unionism (a repeat of John Lewis' efforts). You act ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Tue Mar 7 19:03:30 PST 2000

12923 Fwd: A16 'Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Bloc' -- rank: 46

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: A16 'Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Bloc' Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 17:54:50 EST From: Mark Laskey <kronstadt at juno.com> Reply-To: aac at lists.tao.ca To: a-infos-en at lists.tao.ca, aac at lists.tao.ca, nefac at lists.tao.ca REVOLUTIONARY ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Tue Mar 7 15:18:29 PST 2000

12924 Organizing and Union Democracy (RE: AFL-CIO strategy: "nonsense" -- rank: 46

Nathan, 1. I think you are missing the challenge here to the fetishization of organizing--your fundamentalist commitment as you put it. Lynd for example in same issue criticizes Sweeney's organizing commitment as simply inclusive business unionism (a repeat of John Lewis' efforts). 2. You miss Slaughter's criticism that ...

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Author:	Rakesh Bhandari
Date:	Tue Mar 7 10:04:44 PST 2000

12925 [lbo-talk] FT on massacre -- rank: 46

... s chasteness before it met the Yankee Lothario explain the brutality of the Nakba and the immediate post-48 period? Undoubtedly ...

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Author:	Eric Beck
Date:	Wed Jun 2 06:47:56 PDT 2010

12926 Peter Singer & Vegetarian Dogs (was Re: The Heiress and theAnarchist) -- rank: 46

The canard about the Nazis being vegetarians and believers in animal rights was offered in a newsgroup a few months ago and thoroughly demolished, especially after the offerer failed to provide any evidence. It's just the usual sort of thing people with marginalized beliefs or positions have to put up ...

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Author:	Gordon Fitch
Date:	Mon Mar 6 20:10:30 PST 2000

12927 Peter Singer & Vegetarian Dogs (was Re: The Heiress and theAnarchist) -- rank: 46

... the meat > >packing plants, that depicts the (almost said dehumanization!) brutality to > >both the cattle, pigs and chickens, and the human ...

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Author:	Ken Hanly
Date:	Mon Mar 6 19:27:22 PST 2000

12928 Peter Singer & Vegetarian Dogs (was Re: The Heiress and theAnarchist) -- rank: 46

... the meat >packing plants, that depicts the (almost said dehumanization!) brutality to >both the cattle, pigs and chickens, and the human ...

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Author:	Dace
Date:	Mon Mar 6 17:49:33 PST 2000

12929 Peter Singer & Vegetarian Dogs (was Re: The Heiress and the Anarchist) -- rank: 46

... the meat packing plants, that depicts the (almost said dehumanization!) brutality to both the cattle, pigs and chickens, and the human ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon Mar 6 14:14:10 PST 2000

12930 [lbo-talk] FT on massacre -- rank: 46

The Americans enabled Israel to act out, essentially, where Israel's leadership wanted to take the country anyway, following the 1967 war. Without the Americans, obviously, the Occupation would not have lasted to the degree that it has. The US paid for it. However, Israel initiated it, and it ought to ...

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Author:	Joel Schalit
Date:	Wed Jun 2 07:06:13 PDT 2010