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451 Fisk: Fear and Learning in America -- rank: 237

Read a Fisk story, and you realize why we shouldn't have to tolerate assholes like Friedman -- it's a profound lowering of expectations. CK * * * Robert Fisk: Fear and learning in America As an outspoken critic of US policy in the Middle East, Fisk expected a hostile reception when he paid ...

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Author:	Chris Kromm
Date:	Tue Apr 16 21:46:09 PDT 2002

452 [lbo-talk] IMF & Relative Autonomy -- rank: 237

Doug Henwood wrote: > How? They don't seem terribly active or coherent, You make fair points on the overwhelmingly political and somehow superficially non-economic orientation of these neocons. However, Wolfowitz has been extremely active injecting notions of 'governance' into Bank lending decisions, you have to admit; and they both were ...

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Author:	Patrick Bond
Date:	Fri Apr 13 14:12:45 PDT 2007

453 [lbo-talk] New working class facing struggles of old (Irish Times) -- rank: 237

... of old Protesters at the World Trade Organisation scurry from police in riot gear during the 'Battle of Seattle' in 1999 ...

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Author:	Jason
Date:	Mon Apr 23 09:07:44 PDT 2007

454 [lbo-talk] Bestseller exposes social powderkeg in rural China -- rank: 237

... life. The village chief ordered his arrest and the local police beat him up so badly that he died in a ...

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Author:	jjlassen at chinastudygroup.org
Date:	Sat Feb 21 14:48:27 PST 2004

455 [Fwd: Solidarity with the Argentinian workers] -- rank: 237

... gathering around the House of Parliament were brutalized by the Police. They were gassed, hit with sticks, and shot with both ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Wed Apr 19 20:18:16 PDT 2000

456 [lbo-talk] RE: San Jose cop... -- rank: 237

... This is a violent and armed society - >and this makes police work extremely difficult. When I was at SJSU one >of ... love to describe. >We had a few lively discussion of police brutality as the interest in >the subject was fed by a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 5 09:06:21 PST 2003

457 renouncing whiteness -- rank: 237

... race" ones. Race alone is not a good predictor of police brutality either. A better predictor is the victim acting inconsistently with ... trash" are more likely to be treated brutally by the police than "uppity whites" or "black trash." A more general p

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Mon Nov 27 12:42:58 PST 2000

458 Anti Isreal = Anti-Semetism? -- rank: 237

Nathan, I'll delurk and bite at your thread. > This is an odd ideological jag, at cross-purposes with itself. The point of > Collective Guilt was to blame the Germans for the Holocaust and justify > unique retribution against that country by the victors. How would someone justify the Israelis' opposition and ...

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Author:	seanno at ksu.edu
Date:	Sun Feb 14 22:00:05 PST 1999

459 [lbo-talk] Nation, State, and Modernity (was Religious parties) -- rank: 237

On 7/10/07, Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca> wrote: > At issue is how to view political parties directed by clerics - Christian, > Jewish, or Muslim - who want to use state power to impose their religious > values and laws on society. To understand the state of the world today, you have ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Jul 11 08:41:53 PDT 2007

460 Communism -- rank: 237

700 > >At 1:49 PM +0000 1/7/02, Justin Schwartz wrote: > > >So what is it that people decide democartically when they get together? >That machines should do thus and so? Machines,a las, won't do anything just >because you tell them. But if the people direct, democratically, that >people ...

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Author:	Justin Schwartz
Date:	Mon Jul 1 21:21:12 PDT 2002

461 Cockburn and Race -- rank: 237

... North Richmond interviewing victims of the drug war, victims of police brutality, victims of Clinton's dismantling of the social safety net ... about race, drugs, and the way the national security and police appartus of this country have exploited federal and state laws ...

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Author:	Jeffrey St. Clair
Date:	Sat Nov 13 10:46:34 PST 1999

462 Beeson & Singer/ prenatal diagnosis -- rank: 237

Marta says: >Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> >> >Eliminating impairment does nothing for our liberation. >> >> I agree. Only a social movement against the oppression of the >> disabled, in the context of a socialist movement, can bring about the >> kind of liberation we need to work for. >> >> By the same token, eliminating some impairments, via ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Aug 8 15:13:33 PDT 2001

463 Fw: [j30info] U2K A Great Success-Let's Continue! -- rank: 237

... privilege and injustice, and socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality." -- Mikhail Bakunin ----- Original Message ----- From: <MWMorrill at aol.com> To ... City officials estimated 20-25,000 people. Of course the police said only > 5,000, and the media bought it, but what can you expect. The police are the > ones who have intimidated us for months and ...

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Author:	Joe R. Golowka
Date:	Mon Jul 31 10:32:24 PDT 2000

464 [lbo-talk] Imus -- rank: 237

... we have cops. duh. >I thought that >the proscription of brutality applies to everyone, not >just government employees. Cute. Police are government employees with the particular assignment of "protecting and ... here in Los Angeles. The job description does not include brutality.

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Mon Apr 16 11:42:37 PDT 2007

465 forget trials - just shoot 'em! -- rank: 237

Los Angeles Times - November 9, 2001 COMMENTARY How a Powerful Image Can Shape a War By JAMES ZUMWALT, James Zumwalt is a retired Marine lieutenant colonel who served in the Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars The re is tremendous potential in a photograph to inflame emotions. The images of Sept. 11 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 9 10:44:37 PST 2001