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14671 [lbo-talk] egads -- rank: 46

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=redux&s=wildman031901 [This morning President Bush nominated John Negroponte to be national intelligence director. Four years ago Sarah Wildman wrote in TNR that Negroponte "has a reputation for doggedly defending U.S. interests overseas" and "at least as strong a reputation for making ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Feb 18 13:25:25 PST 2005

14672 [lbo-talk] oilworkers to occupiers: get out -- rank: 46

... tortured, raped and killed in our homes. Saddam's secret police used to creep over the roofs into our homes at ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 18 10:57:37 PST 2005

14673 [lbo-talk] Re: O'Reilly vs Churchill: treason? sedition? -- rank: 46

At 11:34 PM 2/17/2005, Brian Charles Dauth wrote: >Dear List: > >Thomas writes: > >>Keep in mind that Churchill came onto the radar screen >recently not so much for his political analysis, but for >insulting the dead. That is not worth going to bat for. > >Why? Would the instance have ...

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Author:	snit snat
Date:	Fri Feb 18 09:54:53 PST 2005

14674 [lbo-talk] Just Foreign Policy News, August 18, 2006 -- rank: 46

Just Foreign Policy News August 18, 2006 In this issue: 1) Marines May Have Excised Evidence on 24 Iraqi Deaths 2) 7 Killed as Full-Scale Sectarian Fighting Rages in Baghdad 3) U.S. tries to counter Hezbollah rebuilding efforts in s. Lebanon 4) With a cease-fire in place between ...

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Author:	Robert Naiman
Date:	Fri Aug 18 10:46:23 PDT 2006

14675 [lbo-talk] The Anatomy of a Petititon -- rank: 46

Folks, A day or two ago, I forwarded a petiton to PSN and LBO-Talk about the human rights situtaion in Bangladesh. A few people from both lists signed the petition. We profoundly appreciate that sign of solidarity. What follows is a personal note that I wrote to Doug Henwood. In ...

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Author:	Manjur Karim
Date:	Wed Feb 16 20:45:07 PST 2005

14676 [lbo-talk] Klein at OWS -- rank: 46

Regarding point 3, judging from her recent NYT interview, I'm pretty sure she's referring to the early anti-globalization movement. Will pull up the quotes as soon as I get home. On Oct 8, 2011, at 3:29 AM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > FYI (sorry about the line ...

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Author:	Bhaskar Sunkara
Date:	Sat Oct 8 07:57:10 PDT 2011

14677 [lbo-talk] Innocent Civilians and State Terrorism (Re: SPIEGEL on Dresden) -- rank: 46

Wojtek wrote: >On the one hand, the RAF & USAF "show" in Dresden was merely a >re-enactment of similar shows courtesy of the Luftwaffe. On the >other hand, however, it was the civilian population that suffered >the consequences. On the third hand (if there is such a thing) or >rather paw ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Feb 16 07:00:32 PST 2005

14678 [lbo-talk] Churchill's Complaint -- rank: 46

> arash at riseup.net wrote: > > >In the first few days following 9-11, weren't there a number of reprisals > >against Sikhs in NYC? From the accounts I recall, some people in the city > >quite vividly exercised their revenge against anything taliban-looking. > >Kind of xenophobic, don't you think ...

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Author:	jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net
Date:	Tue Feb 15 15:17:33 PST 2005

14679 [lbo-talk] another $87b for war -- rank: 46

Washington Post - February 15, 2005 President Requests More War Funding Money for Iraqi Forces Rises Sharply By Jonathan Weisman Washington Post Staff Writer President Bush asked Congress yesterday for $82 billion in emergency spending for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and for the Indian Ocean tsunami, making good on a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 15 11:55:12 PST 2005

14680 [lbo-talk] NATO agrees to expand Afghan mission -- rank: 46

HindustanTimes.com NATO agrees to expand Afghan mission Associated Press Nice, France, February 11, 2005, 2005 NATO defence ministers agreed on a major expansion of the alliance's peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan by sending troops to the west of the country, a key step in a plan to extend NATO's ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Sat Feb 12 06:58:25 PST 2005

14681 freedom of speech and reading kant -- rank: 46

>>> "rc-am" <rcollins at netlink.com.au> 10/19/99 11:29AM >>> Chaz wrote: >My thing would be get a synopsis of Kant from some Marxists philosophers.< and that presupposes that marxist philosophers felt the urge to read kant, right? why read only secondary texts, or rather texts mediated by ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue Oct 19 10:01:24 PDT 1999

14682 [lbo-talk] The Reg Shoots Down Terror Plot -- rank: 46

... explosives is a bunch of horse manure. Terrorism is a police issue, period. What the Brits did was classic terror-baiting ...

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Author:	Dennis Redmond
Date:	Fri Aug 18 10:55:15 PDT 2006

14683 freedom of speech and reading kant -- rank: 46

Chaz wrote: >My thing would be get a synopsis of Kant from some Marxists philosophers.< and that presupposes that marxist philosophers felt the urge to read kant, right? why read only secondary texts, or rather texts mediated by the conjunctural concerns of others? this whole 'debate' is a non-starter. surely ...

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Author:	rc-am
Date:	Tue Oct 19 08:29:42 PDT 1999

14684 [lbo-talk] Mexican election finale: Sept 6 -- rank: 46

http://www.coha.org/2006/08/18/update-mexico-the-battle-continues/ Mexico, the Electoral Battle Continues Disgruntled PRD presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador continues to pursue his campaign against the TEPJF's refusal to order a full recount of the July 2 election, most recently calling for a large ...

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Author:	Colin Brace
Date:	Fri Aug 18 12:12:03 PDT 2006

14685 [lbo-talk] Rami G. Khouri in Ammon News: The resumption of Arab history -- rank: 46

The resumption of Arab history 2011-10-08 By Rami G. Khouri The momentous nature of several events in the Middle East has prompted many analysts or commentators to focus on a few issues and give them primacy in shaping the transformation of the region. These include the Arab citizen revolts ...

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Author:	Joseph Catron
Date:	Sun Oct 9 00:15:41 PDT 2011