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15001 [lbo-talk] Slogans Demands etc -- rank: 46

" Bashar al-Assad is the leader of the revolution, one young Damascene told me. Every time he kills someone, every time he tortures, he creates 10 more men determined to destroy him. At first the regime s resort to the security solution made me think I had overestimated its intelligence ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Mon Jan 25 10:19:05 PST 2016

15002 Harvard's Communist archive goof -- rank: 46

Harvard acquires bogus Communist archives Copyright © 1999 Nando Media Copyright © 1999 Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (October 6, 1999 7:01 a.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - Harvard University has been one-upped by Stanford in an embarrassing episode involving Communist Party documents from the former Soviet Union. Harvard on Tuesday ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Thu Oct 7 00:18:56 PDT 1999

15003 [lbo-talk] sick perversions -- rank: 46

Michael Dawson MDawson at pdx.edu, Mon Sep 27 13:50:54 PDT 2004: >Yes, but, Doug, he's right you know. It's all health and balance in the >kinship societies: > >"The Yanomamo are historically a tribe of "endocannibals" (which >means that they eat their own people). This rare form ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Sep 27 16:08:39 PDT 2004

15004 [lbo-talk] sick perversions -- rank: 46

... as by the rest >>of society.) >> >> > >Right...like when the police come to the door of a domestic violence >call and ...

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Author:	double bluff
Date:	Mon Sep 27 13:11:38 PDT 2004

15005 [lbo-talk] sick perversions -- rank: 46

... as by the rest > of society.) Right...like when the police come to the door of a domestic violence call and ...

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Author:	Lance Murdoch
Date:	Mon Sep 27 12:43:56 PDT 2004

15006 [lbo-talk] Juan Cole: What if America looked like Iraq? -- rank: 46

None of this is effective as an anti-war argument. Who doesn't know this kind of stuff is part and parcel of the situation? And who can't easily make such projections? Meanwhile: The invasion was illegal and unpopular in its epicenter. What the hell do you expect to result ...

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Author:	Michael Dawson
Date:	Sun Sep 26 23:18:08 PDT 2004

15007 [lbo-talk] Juan Cole: What if America looked like Iraq? -- rank: 46

http://www.juancole.com/2004_09_01_juancole_archive.html#109582366638394688 Wednesday, September 22, 2004 President Bush said Tuesday that the Iraqis are refuting the pessimists and implied that things are improving in that country. What would America look like if it were in Iraq's current situation? The population of ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Sun Sep 26 18:51:21 PDT 2004

15008 [lbo-talk] political background on the Danish paper -- rank: 46

Salon has an article about that Danish paper, which is apparently aligned with the current government (which, as I recall, is one of the few openly supporting the Iraq thing). Short ad to get through, sorry. Rotten judgment in the state of Denmark The Danish paper that printed the cartoons wanted ...

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Author:	Andy F
Date:	Wed Feb 8 12:51:04 PST 2006

15009 [lbo-talk] The eXile on Western press coverage of Beslan -- rank: 46

I notice that Taibbi old Press Review column, judging by the byline, is now being written by a Russian (Caucasian, actually, going by the name). He needs to discover the paragraph break. Neverthless he's not bad. Nobody can be better than Taibbi though. Hackworld Hacks Expose "But" Fetish By Marat ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Sep 26 09:24:03 PDT 2004

15010 [lbo-talk] Re: Anti-Muslim Sentiment Affects PSU Students (US Campaign| Defend Academic Freedom) -- rank: 46

http://lists.topica.com/lists/asdnet@igc.topica.com/read/message.html?mid=1704755837&sort=d&start=1353 -----Original Message----- From: Al Aqsa [mailto:quds- at u...] Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 7:15 AM To: North Korean News Agency North Korea; Peoples Korea North Korean Government; Antara News Agency; Jawa ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sat Sep 25 14:41:46 PDT 2004

15011 [lbo-talk] Dropping the Pretense of Rebuilding Iraq -- rank: 46

>When the problem of turning on the water was first discussed on LBO >those who thought the u.s. should "fix" the damage it had done >scoffed at those of us who claimed that citizen action could have >only "long range" effects. Someone in fact queried of either Yoshie >or ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Sep 25 14:08:01 PDT 2004

15012 debating libertarians -- rank: 46

... are >more important than black lives." Rather somehow instances of >police violence against blacks are simply not remembered as vividly. I ...

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Author:	David Jennings [MSAI]
Date:	Wed Oct 6 14:34:27 PDT 1999

15013 [lbo-talk] RE: "Wahhabism" (was: Re: Beslan...) -- rank: 46

This is a big topic and I'm short of time (and don't have the info to comment on some of it), so I'm just going to quickly comment on a couple of points. --- John Bizwas <bizwas at lycos.com> wrote: First, I'm just not very interested in ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Sep 24 05:54:27 PDT 2004

15014 [lbo-talk] Pakistan's mild reaction to cartoons -- rank: 46

... Saudi Arabia. Ten years later, seven protestors were killed in police firing as they demonstrated against Salman Rushdie, the author of ...

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Author:	Sujeet Bhatt
Date:	Thu Feb 9 08:56:08 PST 2006

15015 [lbo-talk] Neumann gets it -- rank: 46

Guess that's why he's in Canada. > America's weakness is not a problem; the problem is that it acts as if it were strong. > This is pretty well understood; it is no news that the US has overreached itself, or > that it needs allies. There is another problem, less ...

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Author:	Bradley Mayer
Date:	Thu Sep 23 16:37:01 PDT 2004