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14041 [lbo-talk] Poll of Top 5 Public Intellectuals! Vote For Chomsky! -- rank: 46

... mmh at pipeline.com> > >Oh, did I offend the thought police? My bad. When did Hitchens become a >"jive-ass piece ...

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Author:	Michael Hirsch
Date:	Mon Oct 3 10:26:57 PDT 2005

14042 [lbo-talk] Poll of Top 5 Public Intellectuals! Vote For Chomsky! -- rank: 46

Michael Hirsch wrote: > > Oh, did I offend the thought police? My bad. When did Hitchens become a "jive-ass piece ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Mon Oct 3 10:50:08 PDT 2005

14043 [lbo-talk] Paris / WCW -- rank: 46

>The really odd thing, to me, was that officials like cops and parking >inspectors were encouraged to make civil claims against anyone who gave >them cheek. Or even called the cop a liar, which you would think was >sometimes necessary if you wanted to deny what the cop was accusing ...

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Author:	Celi Ben
Date:	Wed Nov 2 20:29:32 PST 2005

14044 [lbo-talk] Judy returning to NYT? -- rank: 46

New York Observer - November 7, 2005 Judy, Come Home! Miller's Return On Times' Table By: Gabriel Sherman, Anna Schneider-Mayerson Reporter Judith Miller may be returning to the New York Times newsroom this month. According to sources familiar with Ms. Miller's negotiations, she has signaled that her potential homecoming ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 2 09:10:56 PST 2005

14045 [lbo-talk] Poll of Top 5 Public Intellectuals! Vote For Chomsky! -- rank: 46

Charles Brown wrote: > > > CB: Of course ! rightwing is ultimately dumb for us. No matter how fancy the > thoughts leading to being rightwing, they are at bottom , poor use of the > intellect. Good writing form does not save bad content of ideas. Evil > literary geniuses get no vote. This can't be ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Mon Oct 3 13:57:24 PDT 2005

14046 [lbo-talk] Fearing for their safety, Sizzlean Pepper Spray Students -- rank: 46

... really amazing: http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/11/19/police-pepper-spray-ows-student-protestors-directly-in-their-faces-at ...

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Author:	Andy
Date:	Sat Nov 19 06:06:28 PST 2011

14047 [lbo-talk] Poll of Top 5 Public Intellectuals! Vote For Chomsky! -- rank: 46

Carrol Cox : > CB: Of course ! rightwing is ultimately dumb for us. No matter how fancy the > thoughts leading to being rightwing, they are at bottom , poor use of the > intellect. Good writing form does not save bad content of ideas. Evil > literary geniuses get no vote. . Carrol: This can't be ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue Oct 4 07:21:07 PDT 2005

14048 [lbo-talk] (no subject) -- rank: 46

"....The rise of such sentiments is a stark warning to ruling elites. That racist language is used to back the "non" by the left should be an even starker warning, it says that the tide of illiberalism is spreading beyond its natural home on the right, and farther and farther ...

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Author:	Mike Ballard
Date:	Tue May 31 04:37:03 PDT 2005

14049 [lbo-talk] Re: On Staying the course -- rank: 46

Yes, fuck these guys, but turn your attention elsewhere to working out how we can get people involved in opposing the Occupation of Iraq; later on they will be glad to hear what we have to say about Vietnam. Carrol --------- Well, it's Memorial Day weekend. We are supposed to remember ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Sun May 29 20:02:07 PDT 2005

14050 [lbo-talk] On Staying the course -- rank: 46

``Washington's goal is to pacify Iraq so as to set up a new pro-Washington Iraqi regime... That's an unattainable goal, but America is run by men and women who think that Washington could and should have won the Vietnam War...'' Yoshie The focus of this reinterpretation centered ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Sun May 29 14:37:41 PDT 2005

14051 [lbo-talk] Afghan editor arrested for 'unIslamic' articles -- rank: 46

... by Ali Mohaqiq Nasab, that were critical of Islamic law. Police arrested Nasab on Saturday. Late last week, the clerics approached ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Wed Oct 5 09:23:30 PDT 2005

14052 [lbo-talk] Mexico's Lula -- rank: 46

International investors and policymakers are responding to Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico's likely next president, the same way they responded to Lula's accession to Brazil's presidency in 2001 - with cautious confidence, reports the Financial Times. The optimism of the masses is more unbridled; the populist Mexico City mayor ...

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Author:	Marvin Gandall
Date:	Sun May 29 09:02:56 PDT 2005

14053 [lbo-talk] pot trial -- rank: 46

... Canberra has been bombarded with hate phone > calls, and federal police upgraded the security there and at > Indonesian missions nationally. > > JD ...

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Author:	Leigh Meyers
Date:	Sat May 28 15:02:32 PDT 2005

14054 [lbo-talk] Tamas on Fascism -- rank: 46

... foundation of a health society. But the growth of the police state seems to be a needed parallel. Noted this today ...

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Author:	JOANNA A.
Date:	Tue Nov 12 09:55:04 PST 2013

14055 [lbo-talk] Re: Iraqi resistance (was: something else) -- rank: 46

... I wish the US had perpetrated fewer acts of pointless brutality, but that's an utterly vacuous statement--the only folks ...

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Author:	Luke Weiger
Date:	Sat May 28 12:02:01 PDT 2005