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15421 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Exporting American Values -- rank: 46

Mistreatment of Prisoners Is Called Routine in U.S. By Fox Butterfield [in case we forgot... Doug] -------- Butterfield of the New York Times doesn't get it. He needs to read the Taguba report. (List lawyers, help me out.) On reflection, I think even Seymour Hersh did quite see the forest ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Sun May 9 10:10:49 PDT 2004

15422 [lbo-talk] Improvement, not Progress -- rank: 46

... that people treat each other better. The opposite of Hobbesian brutality. Clearly that's a good thing. (NC wasn't embracing ...

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Author:	Liza Featherstone
Date:	Sun May 9 09:24:15 PDT 2004

15423 [lbo-talk] Camp Bucca and beyond -- rank: 46

on another list, I've taken to calling the people that voice these kinds of attitudes "mushrooms" They have the self-reflective capacity of a 'shroom: they grow in the dark and stand on a pile of shit. This is what one recently said about an Iraqi falsely imprisoned--though apparently ...

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Author:	snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com
Date:	Sun May 9 08:00:26 PDT 2004

15424 [lbo-talk] poor, dirt people and more -- rank: 46

17 Letters to congress. A letter to O'rilly (tm). Letters to the Red Cross. Lawson was ignored until he contacted Hackworth who got him in touch with 60 Minutes and the rest is history. Lawson: "But the Army decided to prosecute those six G.I.'s because they thought me ...

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Author:	snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com
Date:	Sun May 9 07:23:37 PDT 2004

15425 [lbo-talk] Sounds familiar? Yes, but this was Brooklyn not Abu Ghraib -- rank: 46

>...Last week, before the full impact of Abu Ghraib had been felt, there was a story in the New York Times about two of the post-9/11 detainees. Javaid Iqbal, a Pakistani who was married and American, and an Egyptian resident named Ehab Elmaghraby were both arrested without charges ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun May 9 06:32:49 PDT 2004

15426 [lbo-talk] FEMA & creeping fascism -- rank: 46

>From : Butler Crittenden, Ph.D. <butlerc at pacbell.net> Sent : Saturday, January 28, 2006 5:11 PM To : "Richard K. Moore" <richard at cyberjournal.org> Subject : Fw: Patriot Act......NOT A little more grist for the mill on both fascism and FEMA. My sociologist colleague is still teaching and has ...

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Author:	Joseph Wanzala
Date:	Sat Jan 28 17:19:51 PST 2006

15427 populism vs. Marxism (was RE: Frank Sinatra) -- rank: 46

... living in territories that Chiang Kai-Shek's army and police controlled killed by his regime is too high? Brad DeLong

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Author:	Brad De Long
Date:	Tue May 19 08:16:12 PDT 1998

15428 [lbo-talk] Pakistan holds key militant wanted for Musharraf bid -- rank: 46

Reuters.com Pakistan holds key militant wanted for Musharraf bid Wed Jan 4, 2006 LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani security forces have arrested a leading Sunni Muslim militant accused of involvement in two failed assassination attempts on President Pervez Musharraf, a security official said on Wednesday. Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum, of the outlawed ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Sun Jan 29 04:26:41 PST 2006

15429 [lbo-talk] miscellaneous notes -- rank: 46

... fell off of his bicycle over the weekend. . . When the police arrived, Kerry was well enough to give conflicting reports to ...

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Author:	Joseph Wanzala
Date:	Fri May 7 13:48:56 PDT 2004

15430 "White Trash" -- A Spurious Category (was Re: Populism as Masquerade) -- rank: 46

... he can against the powers that >be: hatred of local police, diatribes against

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Nov 14 20:56:44 PST 1999

15431 [lbo-talk] Re: Anybody But Kerry the Dole of 2004? -- rank: 46

At 03:09 PM 5/7/2004, Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Kelley wrote: > >If some terrorist outfit is holed up in the >inaccessible mountains of Afghanistan, how do you get >inside Afghanistan if Afghanistan doesn't want >you in? Before 911 Clinton shot 66 missiles at the >mountins trying to al Qaeda ...

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Author:	snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com
Date:	Fri May 7 12:40:06 PDT 2004

15432 [lbo-talk] Cultural Change? ( Marxist democracy) -- rank: 46

Todd Archer wrote: > Charles Brown seemingly gave two different, but related, general > examples of the acts carried out by a proletarian dictatorship. > > This one: > >> What I am trying to say is that a likely interpretation of Marx's use >> of the term "dictatorship" is that he meant that masses and >> majorities ...

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Author:	Ted Winslow
Date:	Fri May 7 11:53:49 PDT 2004

15433 [lbo-talk] Michael Moore plays with the truth -- rank: 46

At 01:06 PM 5/7/2004, Daniel G. Skinner wrote: >Kelley, >Can you please be more specific with your claim? Otherwise it is just ad >homonym fluff and a waste of band-width. >Dan I'm devastated. He spends a bunch of time portraying himself as gun owner and NRA ...

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Author:	snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com
Date:	Fri May 7 11:04:29 PDT 2004

15434 [lbo-talk] Re: Anybody But Kerry the Dole of 2004? -- rank: 46

[Chomsky on Afghanistan.] The major issues scarcely even arose, beginning with the obvious one: What is the justification for bombing Afghanistan? The official reason, announced when the bombing began, was that Afghanistan was refusing to turn over Osama bin Laden to the US (overthrowing the Taliban regime was an afterthought ...

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Author:	C. G. Estabrook
Date:	Fri May 7 10:43:10 PDT 2004

15435 taxi driver solidarity -- rank: 46

... Limousine Commission], garage owners, brokers, and the NYPD [New York Police Department]." It is the group which organized the taxi strike ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 18 12:12:04 PDT 1998