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3931 The battle starts in Nice -- rank: 92

... broken out between the protesters in Nice and the riot police guarding the European Summit. The British Guardian reports that "As ... filled the streets leading to the Acropolis convention centre and police fought battles with groups of protesters trying to scale steel ...

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Author:	Joe Black
Date:	Thu Dec 7 04:50:33 PST 2000

3932 [lbo-talk] Iraq: hit 'em upside the head, quick! -- rank: 92

[the pretenses are slipping away rapidly] <http://slate.msn.com/id/2082292/> Law and Order: Special Iraq Unit Six new ideas for bringing real security to Iraq. By David Plotz Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2003, at 9:54 AM PT Read the introduction to Iraq's Progress, and the first ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 3 12:50:23 PDT 2003

3933 The enemy is at home -- rank: 92

... Sawicky wrote: > And the left supports the indictment of the >police in NYC who felled an innocent man with a hail of bullets, >notwithstanding the links between prosecutors and police in NYC. Max, do you see any difference between the people of the U.S. demanding that the police of the U.S. be prosecuted under the laws of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 15 20:42:21 PDT 1999

3934 The Color of Money -- rank: 92

Gordon: >So we come back to the question of what praxis is suggested by the >analysis produced thus far, given that we, the Left, seem unlikely to >exert a political force equal to World War II or the Russian revolution >any time in the near future. I've been making an ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Dec 3 08:16:50 PST 2000

3935 [lbo-talk] Awww...soo sad.... -- rank: 92

What I don't understand is this "urban myth," as I call it, which seems so widespread in the left today -- which equates 2003 U.S. with Nazi Germany, Bush with Hitler, etc. The only way I can understand how people can conflate such dissimilar societies is if these folks have ...

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Author:	Jon Johanning
Date:	Mon May 5 22:27:21 PDT 2003

3936 Fishhead -- rank: 92

[Hey Rob, what's up with the cod?] 'Wholly intact' human head discovered inside belly of cod By Michael McCarthy, Environment Correspondent 30 August 2000 Stay in the water everybody – somehow, this is not quite Jaws. Whichever way you look at a cod, to see it as a ruthless killer ...

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Author:	Lisa & Ian Murray
Date:	Wed Aug 30 16:31:43 PDT 2000

3937 [lbo-talk] Comment on F-9/11 -- rank: 92

you're being very tactful, charles. i feel like i'm looking at the tip of the iceberg. since it's your iceberg, show as much or as little as you like. but let me ask: how do you think us white folks are doing? do you think the white folks ...

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Author:	R
Date:	Mon Jun 28 11:46:18 PDT 2004

3938 [lbo-talk] Clueless commentariat's Egyptian coverage -- rank: 92

... Americans could not have picked Hosni Mubarak out of a police lineup. American foreign policy, even in Afghanistan, was all but ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Sun Feb 6 07:57:33 PST 2011

3939 [lbo-talk] Argentina's 'Dirty War' rears its ugly head -- rank: 92

Argentina's 'Dirty War' rears its ugly head By Daniel Schweimler BBC News, Buenos Aires There have been demonstrations in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires over the disappearance of Julio Lopez , a bricklayer who went missing after testifying in court that he had been tortured during the country's military dictatorship ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Thu Oct 19 23:05:30 PDT 2006

3940 [PEN-L:5345] The Nation on Kosovo - Pro-intervention -- rank: 92

... to the above, D and W refer to the Serbian police and military as "being far from home" and without air ...

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Author:	J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Date:	Thu Apr 15 14:54:30 PDT 1999

3941 [lbo-talk] From the WSJ: Crackdown in Egypt Fans U.S. Fears -- rank: 92

(The Obama administration is anxious that repression will exclude and alienate the Muslim Brotherhood and its mass following from electoral politics, but not anxious enough to cut ties with its main strategic ally, the Egyptian high command. Instead, it is trying directly and through Egypt's acting vice president, Mohamed ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Mon Jul 29 09:27:10 PDT 2013

3942 [lbo-talk] Meet Egypt's Future Leaders, Esam Al-Amin -- rank: 92

``The Egyptian people's movement is currently only at a bourgeois-democratic stage with bourgeois-democratic demands - keep the national/military clique in power while removing the croney-capitalist clique..'' Peter Jay ------ The union strikes, the protests expansion, the question of the army, the involvement of lawyers, judges, journalists, medical ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Wed Feb 9 19:38:34 PST 2011

3943 [lbo-talk] See! -- rank: 92

... the one who questioned the use of Orwell, the anticommunist police spy, to instruct us on the true meaning of 'totalitarianism ...

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Author:	Peter Fay
Date:	Fri Feb 11 11:42:55 PST 2011

3944 Covering Up NATO's Balkan Bombing Blunder -- rank: 92

[from Andre Gunder Frank] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 15:12:35 +0200 From: Transnational Foundation TFF <tff at transnational.org> To: TFF PressInfo # 61 <tff at transnational.org> Subject: Covering Up NATO's Balkan Bombing Blunder P r e s s I n f o # 6 1 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 14 10:44:33 PDT 1999

3945 [lbo-talk] Fidel drops in -- rank: 92

... m not saying that there weren't excesses by European police forces -- I was in England during the '81 Hunger Strike ... of relentless, sustained, systematic, and really scary move towards a police state anywhere in nonfascist Europe that I know of -- no ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Tue May 13 10:45:22 PDT 2003