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15451 [lbo-talk] Danish editor apologises to Muslims over cartoons -- rank: 46

THE TIMES OF INDIA http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ WORLD: REST OF WORLD Danish editor apologises to Muslims over cartoons Tuesday, January 31, 2006 IANS COPENHAGEN: After weeks of brewing controversy, the chief editor of a Danish newspaper on Monday apologised for publishing caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed that have triggered a ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Tue Jan 31 07:25:18 PST 2006

15452 [lbo-talk] pull quote of the month -- rank: 46

... 0,14467,1193997,00.html ....If ever you doubted the brutality of this period, then Zhensheng's photographs are the ocular ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Wed May 5 07:19:55 PDT 2004

15453 [lbo-talk] The Stanford Prison Experiment -- rank: 46

For those trying to figure out "why" this happened--how these paper pushers as England was described--could brutalize the prisoners, this should be enlightening. We've never managed to replicate this research because it generated so much controversy over the ethical issues involved in research on human subjects: these social ...

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Author:	snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com
Date:	Wed May 5 04:09:37 PDT 2004

15454 Henwood vs. Cockburn -- rank: 46

Do you know who the 'Kevin Keating' who wrote this article is? He is this guy in the Mission District of San Francisco who got briefly famous last year as Nestor Makhno of the Mission Yuppie Eradification Project, which wheatpasted a lot of posters threatening to scratch the expensive cars and ...

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Author:	Christine Peterson
Date:	Sat Nov 13 13:20:31 PST 1999

15455 [lbo-talk] Was the USSR a "good try" and valuable counterweight? -- rank: 46

... in the sense that the pervasive menace of the secret police tended to create dissonance and disrupti

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Author:	www.leninology. blogspot.com
Date:	Tue May 4 13:31:51 PDT 2004

15456 [lbo-talk] Iraqi Shia party leader speaks -- rank: 46

Foreign Correspondent - 04/05/2004: Interview with Abdul Aziz al Hakim [Note, in particular, Hakim's comments about merging militias and his backing away from a previous call for an immediate US withdrawal.] Interview with Abdul Aziz al Hakim Broadcast: 04/05/2004 Reporter: Peter Cave Transcript CAVE: [...] As the leader ...

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Author:	Grant Lee
Date:	Tue May 4 07:20:44 PDT 2004

15457 [lbo-talk] Cultural Change? -- rank: 46

Luke Weiger wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> > >> We'll have to disagree on this one. There was a lot wrong with the >> USSR, but it was a good try, especially at the beginning, and it kept >> the U.S. in check. The world is, on balance ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 06:33:34 PDT 2004

15458 [lbo-talk] Bix: Mesopotamian Manchukuo -- rank: 46

One can go even further with specific comparisions with old Imperial Japan, especially with the combination of a nuanced integration of fascistic/protofascistic elements deployed at the imperialist "fringe", with a seemingly immovable and "tranquil" status quo in the metropole, the latter in reality a highly unstable political regime forced to ...

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Author:	Brad Mayer
Date:	Mon May 3 11:36:32 PDT 2004

15459 [lbo-talk] Billmon comments on Diary of an Interrogator -- rank: 46

... By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON SELMA, Calif. -- Pictures of American military police humiliating and, in some cases, allegedly torturing Iraqi prisoners in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 3 06:40:42 PDT 2004

15460 Henwood vs. Cockburn -- rank: 46

Charles Brown wrote: > >>> "Jeffrey St. Clair" <sitka at home.com> 11/11/99 03:42PM >>> > > How about Russ Bellant and the Center for Democratic Renewal ? They are quite sober, like me. What have the militas done good ? You avoid that. How come Michigan is so rightwing coincident with militia strength ? I ...

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Author:	Jeffrey St. Clair
Date:	Sat Nov 13 11:33:37 PST 1999

15461 [lbo-talk] madness in Oakland -- rank: 46

... s staggering. Tear gas, riot gear, flashbombs. Hundreds of armored police descended on the peaceful encampment." Joanna

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Author:	123hop at comcast.net
Date:	Wed Oct 26 10:54:27 PDT 2011

15462 [lbo-talk] Tom Engelhardt on the US gulag -- rank: 46

[HTML version has links to sources] This post can be found at http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=1416 When you incarcerate large numbers of people beyond the reach of any court and under conditions lacking legality or oversight, it's hardly surprising that an attitude of impunity develops ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Sun May 2 16:19:22 PDT 2004

15463 [lbo-talk] "Cheer the Fuck Up" -- rank: 46

Doug wrote: >the point of the point eludes me. The point is that the American men and women who had themselves photographed while torturing Iraqis, grinning and giving thumbs up, are not "cynics," contrary to Ian's suggestion: <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20040426/009359 ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun May 2 11:27:55 PDT 2004

15464 [lbo-talk] eXile very annoyed over Frey -- rank: 46

[lbo-talk] eXile very annoyed over Frey Doug: Ames said he plans to publish letters from Frey's outraged fans that poured in after last year's eXile editorial. "People were writing us, saying, 'How dare you call him a liar! James has been through real suffering.' So it's ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Jan 31 09:30:37 PST 2006

15465 Populism as Masquerade (was Re: Henwood vs. Cockburn) -- rank: 46

Max Sawicky wrote (in response to Yoshie): > mbs: farmers were the primary force in the movement, but labor > was prominent as well. The populists weren't fettered by marxian > classification in the sense that they understood their farmers and > workers were of the same class. They made explicit alliance with > labor ...

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Author:	JW Mason
Date:	Fri Nov 12 10:13:06 PST 1999