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12931 AFL-CIO strategy: "nonsense" -- rank: 46

Patrick, I always respect what you have to say, but you seem to be basing your argument on the given that calling for abolition of the WTO, WB and IMF are the "radical positions" and calling for social clauses is the "reformist" strategy. By this given, all actions get analyzed on ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Sun Mar 5 12:38:28 PST 2000

12932 Burford's post re Yoshie -- rank: 46

I want to make some things clear. I do not support imperialist war. Of course not. Not in the sense of a war of oppression by an imperialist ruling class against an oppressed nation. Many will say, Oh yes you do, and it will be self-evidently so to them. I ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Tue Apr 6 12:58:00 PDT 1999

12933 AFL-CIO strategy: "nonsense" -- rank: 46

> From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan.newman at yale.edu> Comrade Nathan, at the end of your post you say this: > it seems incredibly destructive to > have the Left joining in with the capitalists to denigrate the labor > alliance made in Seattle. Have you been listening? >From the top, then... > Clinton's ...

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Author:	Patrick Bond
Date:	Sat Mar 4 21:15:45 PST 2000

12934 [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:	C. G. Estabrook
Date:	Wed Jun 2 11:16:10 PDT 2010

12935 [lbo-talk] the new official IDF line -- rank: 46

On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 12:45:32 -0400 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > In his interview with Russia Today, Norman said that Israel has > probably gone from acting like a lunatic state to being a lunatic > state. If we accept this way of describing the situation -- and I ...

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Author:	Michael Smith
Date:	Sat Jun 5 10:35:56 PDT 2010

12936 [lbo-talk] the new official IDF line -- rank: 46

Michael's point is probably valid. But there _have_ been cases of states deliberately appearing lunatic: Nixon wanted the SU to think the U.S. might be lunatic: it made the nuclear threat more realistic. And there are some lines from Macbeth relevant to this -- about having already waded so deep ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sat Jun 5 13:55:57 PDT 2010

12937 [lbo-talk] what are hipsters? -- rank: 46

At 05:45 AM 6/15/2010, Max B. Sawicky wrote: >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Negro And before that was Mezz Mezzrow: "Really the Blues, read at the counter of the counter of the Columbia U Bookstore in mid-forties, was for me the first signal into white ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Tue Jun 15 10:03:46 PDT 2010

12938 Sun Tzu and Seattle (RE: AFL-CIO president blasts globalization (kind of) -- rank: 46

... of the protest? > >I wasn't the one calling others police informants and part of the >imperialist project. I was questioning ...

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Author:	Dace
Date:	Fri Mar 3 22:52:27 PST 2000

12939 Sun Tzu and Seattle (RE: AFL-CIO president blasts globalization (kind of) -- rank: 46

... of the protest? I wasn't the one calling others police informants and part of the imperialist project. I was questioning ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Fri Mar 3 16:52:40 PST 2000

12940 AFL-CIO president blasts globalization (kind of) -- rank: 46

... blocking streets by SEIU members and supporters led to a police riot against >them (including a later $2.3 million payout ...

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Author:	Dace
Date:	Fri Mar 3 10:55:52 PST 2000

12941 AFL-CIO president blasts globalization (kind of) -- rank: 46

... blocking streets by SEIU members and supporters led to a police riot against them (including a later $2.3 million payout ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Fri Mar 3 06:04:01 PST 2000

12942 [lbo-talk] going galt -- rank: 46

... teachers, faculty, administrators, building and grounds maintenance), libraries and museums; police, fire, EMTs, public defense, judges, courts, jails, and parole officers ...

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Author:	Alan Rudy
Date:	Wed Jun 16 10:56:11 PDT 2010

12943 AFL-CIO president blasts globalization (kind of) -- rank: 46

... If so, then vandalism, along with street blockades that trigger police violence, are both eminently useful tactics. >Instead, the AFL-CIO ...

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Author:	Dace
Date:	Thu Mar 2 22:46:20 PST 2000

12944 [lbo-talk] going galt -- rank: 46

... teachers, >faculty, administrators, building and grounds maintenance), libraries and >museums; police, fire, EMTs, public defense, judges, courts, jails, and >parole officers ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Sat Jun 19 06:24:38 PDT 2010

12945 Un peu d'histoire: Serbs, Croats, etc. -- rank: 46

The Cambridge History on the Balkans, which ends around 1980, is a good place to learn a few things: 1) The severity of the Serbian repressive apparatus vis a vis the Albanians, way back when Tito was alive. 2) They myth of the Serbs "against" fascism. Yes, the left Serbs (and ...

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Author:	Greg Nowell
Date:	Tue Apr 6 12:52:20 PDT 1999