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15196 David Korn: "Making Kosovo Safe for Gangsters" -- rank: 46

[New York Press, Nov. 24-30, last item in column] Making Kosovo Safe for Gangsters As President Clinton was preparing for his trip to Kosovo last week, I came across an e-mail from an acquaintance who works in the Pentagon and who was recently in Kosovo. His note was ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Fri Nov 26 19:26:02 PST 1999

15197 Sundry; Ultra-imperialism ? -- rank: 46

Greetings James ! >>> James Devine writes: At 10:07 a.m. 5/20/98 -0400, Charles wrote: ... >Might the below be a defining characteristic of superimperialism or ultraimperialism. as in the debate between Lenin and Karl Kautsky? Lenin's difference with Kautsky was not that ultra-imperialism could not occur, but that ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Wed May 20 11:11:53 PDT 1998

15198 [lbo-talk] It's getting a little hot under the "blue collar" -- rank: 46

... trying to keep the door open, and had to call police before they would leave. In Ohio, an office worker at ...

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Author:	Leigh Meyers
Date:	Sun Oct 10 16:30:52 PDT 2004

15199 Seattle authorities get ready for WTO -- rank: 46

... you have any flu symptoms > and report them immediately! The police meanwhile are > spreading the word that the Eugene anarchists are ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Nov 26 13:37:29 PST 1999

15200 [lbo-talk] Afghan vote chaos -- rank: 46

the BBC announced the vote boycott is collapsing but offers no details as of yet. R Oct. 10, 2004. 01:00 AM Afghan vote chaos 15 presidential hopefuls boycott ballot Say washable ink opens door to fraud JARED FERRIE AND CAROL HARRINGTON SPECIAL TO THE STAR http://www.thestar.com/NASApp ...

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Author:	R
Date:	Sun Oct 10 02:16:03 PDT 2004

15201 [Fwd: The power of the Internet] -- rank: 46

[bounced bec stuff attaches to Carrol's forwards] Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 13:07:49 -0600 From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> I can't remember whether the Emperors-clothes web site has been mentioned on lbo or not. It is a magnificent source for news on Yugoslavia ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 25 20:03:56 PST 1999

15202 [lbo-talk] Sopranos -- rank: 46

Aren't gangster shows the cinematic equivalent of the lottery? Tales of individual working-class escape through wiliness and cheating the system? And I don't think people feel any remorse over collective arrangements and how "we" benefit from violence, at least not in connection with watching "The Sopranos." Hell, most ...

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Author:	Michael Dawson
Date:	Fri Oct 8 16:08:40 PDT 2004

15203 [lbo-talk] Sopranos -- rank: 46

>From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> > >One of the episodes he wrote was the one in which Carmella went to >see a shrink on her own. The shrink, instead of taking the neutral >line, tells her she's not merely an enabler, but is complicit in >Tony's crimes ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Fri Oct 8 15:56:55 PDT 2004

15204 [lbo-talk] FBI Seizes Indymedia Servers in the UK -- rank: 46

... by the FBI to remove a story about Swiss undercover police from one of the websites hosted at Rackspace. It is ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Oct 8 13:32:37 PDT 2004

15205 [lbo-talk] Can you rub your belly and pat your head at the same time? -- rank: 46

... his left arm from the handlebars to wave to the police officers present while shouting 'thanks, you guys, for coming'. "As ...

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Author:	Kevin Robert Dean
Date:	Sun Feb 26 14:41:05 PST 2006

15206 [lbo-talk] Re: Patrick Cockburn on Samarra: "A Bloody, Useless, Gesture" -- rank: 46

on counterpunch this morning: ____________________________________ Elections Will Not End the Fighting in Iraq Against a Countrywide Rebellion, the Capture of Samarra is a Bloody, But Useless, Gesture By PATRICK COCKBURN American generals in Iraq triumphantly announced at the weekend that they had successfully taken over Samarra and killed 125 insurgents. They failed ...

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Author:	jimi ayler
Date:	Thu Oct 7 07:56:33 PDT 2004

15207 Seattle newspaper sabotaged by WTO foes -- rank: 46

... this?] <snip> > The newspaper reported the guerrilla publishing effort to police. > > The P-I has not yet determined how many papers ...

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Author:	rc-am
Date:	Thu Nov 25 07:08:10 PST 1999

15208 [lbo-talk] in which lbo-talk defends 'the sopranos' -- rank: 46

Wojtek: ...many folks use the "understanding society" framework to simply engage in low brow entertainment without losing their high brow reputation as intellectuals. =================== I remember listening to film critic Roger Ebert, years ago, describing why he admired his (departed) colleague Gene Siskel despite numerous disagreements and fundamental differences in temperament and ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Wed Oct 6 11:09:58 PDT 2004

15209 [lbo-talk] in which lbo-talk defends 'the sopranos' -- rank: 46

... bad effects. Take the Illiad --a celebration of violence, hierarchy, brutality, lust for revenge and renoun, macho physical bravado, denigration of ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Wed Oct 6 08:38:50 PDT 2004

15210 [lbo-talk] Re: in which lbo-talk defends 'the sopranos' -- rank: 46

... of his crew inevitably commits some depraved act of sickening brutality. The viewer is starkly confronted with evil of almost unbearable ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Tue Oct 5 17:42:44 PDT 2004