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14701 [lbo-talk] Early results from Iraq election -- rank: 46

Oh goodie. The fun begins. Joanna ____________________________________ http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/04/MNGSMB5MDT1.DTL --------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, February 4, 2005 (SF Chronicle) U.S. 'in for a shock'/In early election results, Shiite cleric's alliance trouncing Washington's favorite Borzou Daragahi, Chronicle Foreign Service ...

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Author:	joanna bujes
Date:	Fri Feb 4 20:53:35 PST 2005

14702 [lbo-talk] Mr. Churchill -- rank: 46

>Carrol Cox wrote: > >>As Yoshie has argued, that makes pretty bad politics -- but not I think >>as bad politics as the somewhat sticky moralism or almost-Victorian >>purism of those on this list who are hastening to prove their purity by >>damning Churchill as "crap" or "as bad as the ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Feb 4 18:32:46 PST 2005

14703 NLR, Branka Magas, & Against the Current (was RE: Gitlin's 'Yes' Echoed Among Leftists) -- rank: 46

from Seth Ackerman to Jim Heartfield: >> Others who were as wrong-footed as Said included the New Left Review >> (who ended up having a big split over the issue) >> > Could you elaborate, please? I thought NLR was pretty firmly against >NATO's actions in the Balkans, even in Bosnia. I don ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Oct 17 16:20:16 PDT 1999

14704 Prison Legal News, was Re: prison class -- rank: 46

... the current (Oct. issue) by Dan Pens is entitled "Insanity, Brutality and Fatality: Florida's X-Wing Marks the End of ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Oct 17 14:35:22 PDT 1999

14705 Gitlin's 'Yes' Echoed Among Leftists -- rank: 46

Hi Doug: >I don't see how a call to lift the arms embargo equates with or >implies support for NATO. While there are some unpleasant names on >the list - Toady the Git prominent among them - Joanne Landy and the >Jacobsons are no friends of U.S. imperialism. Perhaps Yoshie can ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Oct 17 12:52:33 PDT 1999

14706 [lbo-talk] Is Olmert a dead man walking? -- rank: 46

... with him. Katsav has denied the woman's allegations, which police are investigating. The scandal is unlikely to have any significant ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Sun Aug 20 20:43:36 PDT 2006

14707 [lbo-talk] Re: an economist in the realm of fiction -- rank: 46

-----Original Message----- From: Steven Were Omamo [mailto:omamo at utlonline.co.ug] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 12:06 PM To: Were+Omamo Subject: review of the men do not eat wings... Greetings, Hope this finds you well. This is just a short one to pass along the attached review ...

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Author:	Joseph Wanzala
Date:	Wed Feb 2 09:36:15 PST 2005

14708 [lbo-talk] Any comments/links re Iraq elections? -- rank: 46

----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Henwood To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 6:44 AM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Any comments/links re Iraq elections? Charles Brown wrote: >Worse case scenario might be like Korea. Some 50 years ago the United >Snakes invaded there and ...

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Author:	Leigh Meyers
Date:	Wed Feb 2 08:28:10 PST 2005

14709 [lbo-talk] more on the WSF, agendas, and "celebrities" -- rank: 46

'GROUP OF 19' : THE CONSENSUS OF PORTO ALEGRE? Debra Anthony and José Antônio Silva In a bold break with the concept of the WSF as horizontal, open space, a group of personalities draft a programme and urge participants to approve it It might have been out of frustration, or perhaps ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 2 06:48:07 PST 2005

14710 [lbo-talk] Thai troops get sacred flags to avert south attacks -- rank: 46

Reuters.com Thai troops get sacred flags to avert south attacks Thu 22 Dec 2005 BANGKOK, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Thailand, struggling to end nearly two years of separatist violence in its Muslim south, issued thousands of "sacred flags" to soldiers and civil servants on Thursday to protect them from daily bomb ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Sat Dec 31 09:36:01 PST 2005

14711 Detention centers--whatever "cleaning up the streets" -- rank: 46

... the whole > context of these street sweeps. > > Step 1. The Police sweep a given area, arresting everyone on the street at ...

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Author:	Michael Perelman
Date:	Wed May 27 14:31:55 PDT 1998

14712 [lbo-talk] India's "Sholay" takes checkered flag from Iran's TV audience: poll -- rank: 46

... The 1975 hit "Sholay" tells the story of a retired police officer, Thakur, who hires two convicts, Veeru and Jai, to ...

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Author:	Sujeet Bhatt
Date:	Sun Aug 20 23:01:47 PDT 2006

14713 [lbo-talk] Teamsters Hoffa Faces Tough Re-election Drive -- rank: 46

Hoffa faces tough re-election drive Teamster chief's failure to end government control of union looms as key campaign issue. <http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051225/BIZ/512250304/10 01> WASHINGTON -- Teamsters President James P. Hoffa is resigned to continued government supervision of his union for ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Thu Dec 29 19:10:03 PST 2005

14714 [lbo-talk] Clinton started renditions -- rank: 46

<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200512/s1539284.htm> December 29, 2005. 12:35pm (AEDT) CIA renditions began under Clinton: agent The US Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) controversial "rendition" program was launched under US president Bill Clinton, a former US counter-terrorism agent has told a German newspaper ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 29 12:51:36 PST 2005

14715 [lbo-talk] KR: Kurds actively preparing for military takeover of Kirkuk -- rank: 46

[A Follow up on that last article] [Juan Cole says today that the Shiites sound like they are getting ready to allow the secession of Kirkuk so long as they can do virtually the same thing in the South, not in name but in fact, hoarding all the oil wealth ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Thu Dec 29 10:58:13 PST 2005