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3976 [lbo-talk] Re: Reporter's death fuels fear for Russia media freedom -- rank: 92

On Oct 9, 2006, at 10:49 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > Jeeze, where were these people in the 1990s, when mob > hits against journalists, politicians and > businesspeople were a weekly occurrence in Russia? Hey, those were the Yeltsin years, and Yeltsin was our man. Birth pangs of a New Russia, they ...

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Author:	Michael Givel
Date:	Mon Oct 9 09:52:29 PDT 2006

3977 Zero Tolerance -- rank: 92

... dream I have ever >encountered in left literature. "Safeguards against police abuses" >is utterly incoherent: Police abuses are not a separate entity but >the shape state ... power takes in capitalist society. Right. To hell with the police, public institutions, and the state. Let's go to the ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Fri Apr 28 07:18:23 PDT 2000

3978 Forwarded mail -- rank: 92

>Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 19:53:11 -0600 (MDT) >From: stephen miller <stephen.miller at m.cc.utah.edu> >X-Sender: sm1968 at gos >To: DeNorris Bradley <denorris at orion.venturedata.com>, ahouse13 at juno.com, > david tucker <dave.tucker at m.cc.utah.edu>, eight4 at juno.com ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Wed Sep 9 09:39:20 PDT 1998

3979 Zero Tolerance -- rank: 92

... with > >community cooperation and control and with the safeguards against police > >abuses - This is the wildest, most bizarrely utopian day dream I have ever encountered in left literature. "Safeguards against police abuses" is utterly incoherent: Police abuses are not a separate entity but the shape state ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Thu Apr 27 19:11:17 PDT 2000

3980 [lbo-talk] This is what a workers uprising looks like -- rank: 92

This wasn't one union calling on members to turn out," said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka recently. "It wasn't the AFL-CIO making the call. It wasn't the Democratic Party, or the Obama organization. This was a bottom-up, grassroots movement, a true spontaneous outcry against our disastrous ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Thu Mar 24 11:04:42 PDT 2011

3981 Debtors' Cartel & Collective Debt Repudiation -- rank: 92

> From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> > Right. Then, the question is, *how* do we create such a world of > interdependence, instead of the current world market of international > debt servitude? I'd like to see folks discuss this question > seriously. The Seattle & A16 protests went fantastically, *as far ...

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Author:	Patrick Bond
Date:	Wed Apr 26 13:14:18 PDT 2000

3982 USA: More Repressive Than North Korea (was Re: RES: a trip to North Korea) -- rank: 92

Yoshie, in the message below makes the following claims, as I understand them. The US is more repressive than North Korea or Cuba because of the high jail population, because of high arrest numbers and tithing or confiscation of property from people of color due to fradulent and racist drug policy ...

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Author:	Jacob Segal
Date:	Tue Apr 25 12:37:07 PDT 2000

3983 USA: More Repressive Than North Korea (was Re: RES: a trip to North Korea) -- rank: 92

Jacob: > >CB: How about the slaves the Founding Fathers like Jefferson and > >Washington owned? Did they have any power to dissent? How about the > >Native Americans? Did the Founding Fathers allow them to dissent? How > >about the all of the white women who couldn't vote? > > > >How ridiculous to claim that ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Apr 25 09:45:30 PDT 2000

3984 [lbo-talk] The problem with the NSA -- rank: 92

Hello, new subscriber so apologies if this has been discussed already. But there was a coordinated national response that has turned in some ways into a national offensive. One example is the use of grand juries to harass and imprison activists in the Pacific Northwest last year and now in NYC ...

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Author:	Andrew Battle
Date:	Wed Jun 12 16:58:55 PDT 2013

3985 Saudi Arabia goes anti-American -- rank: 92

Well, I could go on at length about the internal politics of Saudi Arabia. I have no essential disagreement wiht this quote. The major politics of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is that between the factions of the royal family. The founder of KSA, Abdulaziz, known in the West as ...

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Author:	Rosser Jr, John Barkley
Date:	Wed Aug 19 10:47:52 PDT 1998

3986 [lbo-talk] Occupying History -- rank: 92

some comments from Berkeley, I think its an error to make historical precursors to Occupy Blah Blah a US story, its very largely also European and probably more UK activism that has spilled over - its the language that really unites, although its a global culture now. There has been the radical ...

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Author:	Nicholas Roberts
Date:	Tue Nov 1 21:24:19 PDT 2011

3987 [lbo-talk] Occupying History -- rank: 92

This is an important story. I wish somebody would do a book on it. Maybe somebody has. On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Nicholas Roberts < nicholas at themediasociety.org> wrote: > some comments from Berkeley, I think its an error to make historical > precursors to Occupy Blah Blah a ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Wed Nov 2 08:28:20 PDT 2011

3988 [lbo-talk] gangs and anti gangs -- rank: 92

looks like its going to be a battle tonight and I am guessing its going to be lots of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St1-WTc1kow On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Nicholas Roberts < nicholas at themediasociety.org> wrote: > some comments from Berkeley, I think its ...

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Author:	Nicholas Roberts
Date:	Wed Nov 2 23:47:42 PDT 2011

3989 [lbo-talk] What is the matter with India? -- rank: 92

... gangrape-of-swiss-tourist-in-india-appear-in-court-as-police-say-woman-must-share-blame-for-attack-8539233.html Yesterday, a spokesman for Madhya Pradesh police caused anger by suggesting that the Swiss woman and her ... place at the wrong time. They would have passed a police station on the way to the area they camped. They ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Tue Mar 19 04:38:15 PDT 2013

3990 [lbo-talk] Moral Subhumans Hassle Grieving Amish -- rank: 92

... Rendell also revealed a conspiracy to employ the State's police powers to

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Oct 5 08:54:35 PDT 2006