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14011 [lbo-talk] Stalking the Day Laborers -- rank: 46

Stalking the Day Laborers Border-patrolling Minutemen turn inland in their fight against illegal immigrants. What's the real goal? By TERRY MCCARTHY <http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1134748,00.html> Posted Monday, Nov. 28, 2005 The Minutemen could be heard before they were seen. First came ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Mon Nov 28 19:05:26 PST 2005

14012 Cockburn on Slavery -- rank: 46

Posting when I should be doing political work but... I think this topic shows how far neo-confederate propaganda has penetrated popular thought. it. 1) Why did the South leave in the first place? As is often pointed out as a pro-Southern argument Lincoln had no attention of immediately abolishing ...

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Author:	Gar Lipow
Date:	Tue Nov 10 19:09:14 PST 1998

14013 [lbo-talk] Realists Tighten Grip as Talks Open with Iran -- rank: 46

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31217 Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Nov 28 (IPS) - In a new indication that the balance of power within the administration of President George W. Bush has tilted strongly in favour of the realists, Washington's influential ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, has disclosed that Bush ...

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Author:	Ira Glazer
Date:	Tue Nov 29 03:55:01 PST 2005

14014 [lbo-talk] Riots in France display complexity -- rank: 46

Today i heard Amy Goodman interviewing people from France about what is going on. She is the first to address the fact that many Africans in France were fleeing the war in Algiers, that Chirac was a killer in that Colonization as well as Israel's Sharon. I cannot remember all ...

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Author:	peacenow at theofficenet.com
Date:	Wed Nov 9 15:35:30 PST 2005

14015 [lbo-talk] Russia's nationalist "Rodina" goes over the line -- rank: 46

(Wire service not mentioned due to IP reasons). Russians watching images of the events being played out in the streets of Paris have reacted with an odd mixture of smugness and alarm. Long irritated with Western criticism over the conflict in Chechnya, many Russians believe Parisians may now understand their ...

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Author:	Peter Lavelle
Date:	Wed Nov 9 13:28:18 PST 2005

14016 car-free Europe -- rank: 46

... alike through sales taxes and other surcharges), public services like police, health care, and traffic

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Author:	alex lantsberg
Date:	Mon Sep 20 23:48:27 PDT 1999

14017 [lbo-talk] Re: [anti-allawi-group] The anti-war movement and same-sex marriage -- rank: 46

Gimme that "Old Left" Homophobia for $500, Alex! Where all 'de woikers hate Queers. The Antiwar Movement Isn't Where You Think It Is By Dave Stratman, November 21, 2005 [newdemocracyworld.org] On October 29 of this year there was an antiwar rally on Boston Common. My wife and I and ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Tue Nov 29 09:36:35 PST 2005

14018 [lbo-talk] alas, no campus commies at harvard -- rank: 46

On 11/30/05, Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote: > >I am not saying that I truly want to go back to the days of boycotts and > >occupations, as they waste resources and class time. ... > > Wow, quite a firebrand is John Hastrup. > > Carl What exciting days, Carl! Wotjek, if you ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Wed Nov 30 08:51:13 PST 2005

14019 [lbo-talk] Churchill the charmer -- rank: 46

... against striking miners. Contemporary evidence shows that it was the police and not the army who were used at Tonypandy, but ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 30 17:12:33 PST 2005

14020 [lbo-talk] Churchill the charmer -- rank: 46

Well, he probably was a complete bastard; but he had some wit: "There are three kinds of people in the world: those who are worked to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death." ...opening of "Art as a Passtime." Quite a nice little book ...

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Author:	joanna
Date:	Wed Nov 30 18:31:30 PST 2005

14021 [lbo-talk] Big Pharma and a flu vaccine -- rank: 46

A report in today's Wall Street Journal blames private medicine for the US's unpreparedness to protect its population from the threat of avian flu and other public health hazards. Or, more accurately, it blames the lack of "incentives" - government subsidies and guarantees - for the reluctance of drug firms to ...

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Author:	Marvin Gandall
Date:	Tue Nov 8 15:51:20 PST 2005

14022 [lbo-talk] Adolph Reed Reconsidered -- rank: 46

Perhaps I should state again, as I have in the past, the principle at work in my examples. Racism does not cause Stop & Frisk; Stop and Frisk causes (generates and regenerates) racist ideology. In the last instance practice is always prior to and generative of theory as well as the pseudo ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Tue May 28 14:47:42 PDT 2013

14023 [lbo-talk] Re: DC -- rank: 46

Message: 2 Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 02:08:43 -0400 (EDT) From: moderator at portside.org Subject: The Relevance of Marching To: portside at lists.portside.org Message-ID: <200510010608.j9168huf008354 at village.people-link.com> The Relevance of Marching By David Swanson September 30, 2005 submitted to portside by ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sat Oct 1 12:08:58 PDT 2005

14024 [lbo-talk] Dollars Pour in for Alito Battle -- rank: 46

(The warnings from grassroot groups like People For The American Way about the dangers posed by prospect of Alito on the Supreme Court are in sharp contrast with the soft pedaling by the Dem Senators - including even Edward Kennedy- who find Alito a "nice guy." This one more sign of ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Mon Nov 7 19:14:57 PST 2005

14025 [lbo-talk] FTAA, NAFTA, CAFTA, AFTA - ECOCIDE,FEMICIDE,GENOCIDE -- rank: 46

Blessings IBO All I wrote this in December, 2004 in Tucson during the Andean Free Trade Agreement talks. As these talks were taking place, Women In Black in the U.S. received a request from the women of Ruta Pacifica in Colombia to speak out in their name as they have ...

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Author:	peacenow at theofficenet.com
Date:	Mon Nov 7 19:49:28 PST 2005