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14056 [lbo-talk] "Stay the Course" -- rank: 46

Yoshie makes some good points. We can all agree, I think, that empires always prefer peace and stability - but only on their terms, and where necessary after provoking conflict and disorder. In addition to the factors enumerated by Yoshie affecting the US's imperial reach - military and financial resources, strength of ...

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Author:	Marvin Gandall
Date:	Sat May 28 07:24:14 PDT 2005

14057 [lbo-talk] "Stay the Course" -- rank: 46

... Washington Iraqi regime, protected by pro-Washington Iraqi >>military and police forces, whose economic and geopolitical >>interests would more or less ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat May 28 04:11:11 PDT 2005

14058 [lbo-talk] "Stay the Course" (Empires' Development Economics) -- rank: 46

... Washington Iraqi regime, protected by pro-Washington Iraqi military and police forces, whose economic and geopolitical interests would more or less ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sat May 28 03:51:05 PDT 2005

14059 [lbo-talk] "Stay the Course" (Empires' Development Economics) -- rank: 46

... Washington Iraqi regime, protected by pro-Washington Iraqi military and police forces, whose economic and geopolitical interests would more or less ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat May 28 03:33:57 PDT 2005

14060 [lbo-talk] Coming Around to His Father's Thinking -- rank: 46

>[lbo-talk] Galloway and Gandall >Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu >Fri May 27 13:16:18 PDT 2005 <snip> >To revisit a line I've given voice to in the past: surely the >Japanese had no right to militarily resist the allied occupation >after WWII--what relevant differences would ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri May 27 15:50:58 PDT 2005

14061 [lbo-talk] Verdict in Drug Case Could Affect Australia-Indonesia Relations -- rank: 46

Let's see now, deaths from marijuana, Zero. State imposed deaths for and slow deaths for possession, 8 (on its side). As for "recently improved relations", it won't take long before Corby is forgotten. In the meantime, Howard or even the Labor opposition, not to mention the Indonesian ruling class ...

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Author:	Mike Ballard
Date:	Fri May 27 14:44:03 PDT 2005

14062 [lbo-talk] New School occupation -- rank: 46

... time, as an instance where, in the past, they accepted police behavior as justified and that they do so against people ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Sat Nov 19 08:42:10 PST 2011

14063 [lbo-talk] response to interviews with labor activists posted on blog and mrzine -- rank: 46

Michael --- to your friend, below. he's right that most of the analyses aren't radical. but, we all know that you can hardly expect a radical analysis to emerge fully formed - as your friend rightly recognizes. so what to do? Well, I think it's a little premature to infuse ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Sat Nov 19 09:27:19 PST 2011

14064 [lbo-talk] Poppy crop -- rank: 46

At 9:15 PM -0400 7/10/05, Michael Pollak wrote: >Total US spending on poppy eradication and other antidrug efforts in >Afghanistan last year: $780,000,000 > >Amount it would have cost to purchase the country's entire 2004 >poppy crop: $600,000,000 > >[Sources: US State Dept., UN Office ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Sat Oct 8 07:31:37 PDT 2005

14065 [lbo-talk] Watching the Border Watchers -- rank: 46

... an Arizona group that has taken it upon itself to police the border -- caused controversy locally. The reaction south of the ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Thu May 26 18:54:11 PDT 2005

14066 [lbo-talk] London bombings -- rank: 46

... com Jul 8 09:53:08 PDT 2005 > > My Call? Police state within 90 days... pass the word. Ah, technology.

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Author:	Jordan Hayes
Date:	Sat Oct 8 09:50:35 PDT 2005

14067 [lbo-talk] Spread tha Trizzuth ta Prepare fo` Revolizzle! -- rank: 46

Heh, recommended by a great Norwegian post-Maoist who met Enver Hoxha once. Rock Me Amadeus was asking about "anti-revisionism." http://sites.gizoogle.com/?url=http://rwor.org/a/1238/rweditorial.htm Truth in Preparizzle fo` Revolizzle To Those Who Dream of a World Witout Oppression: Build a Vibrant Movement ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Thu May 26 07:50:24 PDT 2005

14068 [lbo-talk] Burmese seafarers... -- rank: 46

25 May 2005, ITF outrage over Burma murder The ITF is coordinating a worldwide campaign of protest after a trade union organiser was murdered in Burma. Ko Moe Naung, an organiser for the Seafarers' Union of Burma (SUB), was arrested on 19 May and was dead three hours later, after being ...

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Author:	Mike Ballard
Date:	Wed May 25 11:30:16 PDT 2005

14069 [lbo-talk] A new turn in US military strategy in Iraq? -- rank: 46

Michael Pugliese > On 5/24/05, Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers at gmail.com> wrote:Tailwind was > looking for NLF and US deserters in the more remote villages > along the Cambodian, Laotian and Thai borders. > > Oh Leigh. > Jerry Lembcke, CNN's Tailwind Tale: Inside Vietnam's Last Great Myth. > Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield ...

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Author:	Leigh Meyers
Date:	Wed May 25 10:01:55 PDT 2005

14070 [lbo-talk] U.S. to pull out of Iraqi cities? -- rank: 46

The Hindu Wednesday, May 25, 2005 U.S. to pull out of cities Michael Howard Redeployment planned in four giant bases as a prelude to withdrawal BAGHDAD: U.S. military commanders are planning to pull back their troops from Iraq's towns and cities and redeploy them in four giant bases ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Wed May 25 08:44:34 PDT 2005