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4306 [lbo-talk] Re: Sadrism, in qualified defence of -- rank: 92

On 8/31/06, BklynMagus <magcomm at ix.netcom.com> wrote: > Dear List: > > Daniel Davies wrote: > > > He's not very fond of gays and he advocates an entirely > > illiberal penal code and few civil liberties. But both those > > things are also true of Fidel Castro and being a Fidelista > > isn't ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Aug 31 09:53:40 PDT 2006

4307 [lbo-talk] Juan Cole on trouble brewing in the Kurdish north -- rank: 92

... strolled through an Arab quarter of the city, according to Police Chief Gen. Turhan Youssef. Az-Zaman reported that Shirku Shakir, a high police official in Kirkuk, said that an Arab protest was held ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Sun Jan 4 00:58:32 PST 2004

4308 [lbo-talk] Sadrism, in qualified defence of -- rank: 92

On 8/31/06, Michael J. Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:This observation got me scratching my head a bit. Is it conceivable that _anybody_ could re-"unify" Iraq? Is that a possible scenario at all? If so, how would it work? And moreover, is it imperative that "unification" should ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Thu Aug 31 11:57:48 PDT 2006

4309 [lbo-talk] nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu arrested... again -- rank: 92

... 3746004 Nuclear Whistle-blower Held in Church Raid Heavily armed police commandos stormed a Jerusalem church compound and arrested nuclear whistle ... after he completed an 18 year prison sentence for treason. Police spokesman Gil Kleiman said Vanunu had allegedly revealed classified information ... the southern town of Dimona in the 1980s. About 20 police commandos wearing bullet proof vests and wielding machine guns burst ...

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Author:	Tommy Kelly
Date:	Thu Nov 11 09:39:22 PST 2004

4310 [lbo-talk] Assassins Plague Basra -- rank: 92

... Sunni professors in the history department that he chaired. > > A police van was

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Author:	Leigh Meyers
Date:	Sun Aug 28 14:17:35 PDT 2005

4311 [lbo-talk] Shadid's Night Draws Near -- rank: 92

Interesting that this is by a TNR guy in The American Prospect. -----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Marvin Gandall Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 8:38 AM To: LBO-Talk Subject: [lbo-talk] Shadid's ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Fri Aug 26 08:42:17 PDT 2005

4312 [lbo-talk] couple with 5 children offed in Fallujah attack -- rank: 92

... married couple, said the dead man's brother and local police. Fallujah residents and the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division ...

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Author:	Stephen Philion
Date:	Wed Jan 7 08:01:35 PST 2004

4313 [lbo-talk] The new chicago seven -- rank: 92

... but also of the tactics used by the Czarist secret police in Russia. They used to send out agents to student ... prime minister, Stolypin, was in the pay of the secret police. --- What was the name of the guy who infilitrated the ... his father had the greatest respect of the tsarist secret police. He als

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Jun 25 10:03:55 PDT 2006

4314 [lbo-talk] LAT: How sectarian logic leads to mass irrationality -- rank: 92

[Sectarian civil war isn't nihilism. It's a mass prisoner's dilemma gone mad.] http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-militias28nov28,0,4297101,print.story?coll=la-home-headlines November 28, 2006 Los Angeles Times Rising violence swells ranks of Iraq's militias Men with no ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Fri Dec 1 02:26:06 PST 2006

4315 [lbo-talk] madness in Oakland -- rank: 92

And in the case of Oakland, the Police Department is now thoroughly under the control of Mayor Quan. The Police Chief, with whom she had been at odds, recently quit ... the right. Oh, and since Seattle and 9/11, most police departments have stocked up on the heavy armaments and have ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Wed Oct 26 14:10:18 PDT 2011

4316 [lbo-talk] another day in baghdad, another family liberated from tyranny -- rank: 92

... after a roadside bomb went off nearby, said witnesses, a police official and relatives of the family in the car. The ... beside the driver, said family members, a neighbor and a police officer. Mustafa's mother and two of his siblings and ...

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Author:	Stephen Philion
Date:	Mon Jan 12 20:58:18 PST 2004

4317 Spineless Max S. and Reactionary Slander (was RE: Russian Israelis) -- rank: 92

Please. "Cop" here appears to mean, metaphorically, "ideological police", surely this usage has been seen before? But it fits ... same by pretending to have been charged with being actual police agents. And then, demanding the "expulsion" of individuals. These two ... debasement of political debate without the redundancy of actually being "police agents". -Brad Mayer At 05:02 PM 3/25/02 ...

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Author:	Brad Mayer
Date:	Wed Mar 27 15:21:20 PST 2002

4318 [lbo-talk] The eXile weighs in on Radioactive L -- rank: 92

The eXile 01 Dec 06 Toxic Avenger? By Kirill Pankratov ( pkirill88 at hotmail.com ) ACTON, MA -- This is big. No, scratch that -- it's huge. Not since the heyday of the Cold War have we seen such a hot story of espionage, intrigue, and a bizarre murder through poisoning, with a ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sat Dec 2 07:59:38 PST 2006

4319 [lbo-talk] Musharraf tells media to "Stop abusing freedom" -- rank: 92

Stop abusing freedom: Gen tells media Press Trust Of India Saturday, June 16, 2007 Islamabad: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Friday asked the media to stop "abusing freedom" and not to create a sense of "despondency" among the masses. Musharraf had to recently withdraw a controversial ordinance, which had imposed sweeping ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Fri Jun 15 22:12:19 PDT 2007

4320 Creepy, cont'd -- rank: 92

... react negatively to 'serious criticism of Israel' or seek to 'police the bounds of acceptable debate,' or whether you stigmatize Finkelstein ...

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Author:	Max B. Sawicky
Date:	Sun Mar 24 11:21:50 PST 2002