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5131 [lbo-talk] Sistani, Elections, and Sectarianism (was Poll: They really don't want us there) -- rank: 72

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Doug Henwood wrote: >> Now, the media's portrayal of Iraq has changed, in accordance with the >> change in US strategy on the Middle East, and the main problem in Iraq is >> made out to be not Sunni guerrillas and terrorists but Shi'i militias. > > So was ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Wed Aug 30 18:44:19 PDT 2006

5132 [lbo-talk] Chinese Air marshals to get US training -- rank: 72

People's Daily Online http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/ China UPDATED: 10:10, August 30, 2006 Air marshals to get US training http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200608/30/eng20060830_298085.html The first batch of Chinese air marshal forces are expected to fly to the United States next month for ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Wed Aug 30 14:01:53 PDT 2006

5133 [lbo-talk] 38 Years ago today -- rank: 72

"Da Police is not here to create disorder. Da Police is here to presoive disorder." -- Hizzoner Da Mare, Richard I ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Mon Aug 28 13:09:56 PDT 2006

5134 [lbo-talk] NYTimes Editorial: Rise of Pessimism -- rank: 72

... any faith in the marketplace? ;-) >Further, the rise of a police state apparatus should cool- or at least >temper- whatever good ... confident this administration will be as inept at instituting a police state as it's been at managing disaster relief and ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Mon Aug 28 11:07:08 PDT 2006

5135 [lbo-talk] Japanese Right Wing Intimidation (Washington Post) -- rank: 72

... a piece of mine, "The Rise of >> Japan¹s >> Thought Police", about the impact of right-wing intimidation against >> Japanese moderates ...

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Author:	joanna
Date:	Sun Aug 27 16:59:19 PDT 2006

5136 [lbo-talk] Japanese Right Wing Intimidation (Washington Post) -- rank: 72

... a piece of mine, "The Rise > of Japan¹s > Thought Police", about the impact of right-wing intimidation against > Japanese moderates ... net Email > > Washington Post > > The Rise of Japan's Thought Police > > By Steven Clemons > Sunday, August 27, 2006; B02 > > Anywhere else ...

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Author:	Jean-Christophe Helary
Date:	Sun Aug 27 16:44:21 PDT 2006

5137 [lbo-talk] Pakistan rebel death sparks riots -- rank: 72

... state-run Balochistan university took to the streets in protest. Police had to fire into the air to disperse the rioters ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Sun Aug 27 09:33:20 PDT 2006

5138 [lbo-talk] Tony Cliff on the Muslim Brotherhood -- rank: 72

On Aug 25, 2006, at 1:32 PM, www.leninology. blogspot.com wrote: > No, we won't be "disavoying" him any time soon, or even > disinterring him for that matter - if you wanted a more > contemporary and fully worked out analysis of Political Islam that > was written while Cliff was still ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 25 11:01:53 PDT 2006

5139 [lbo-talk] Just Foreign Policy News, August 22, 2006 -- rank: 72

Just Foreign Policy News August 22, 2006 Summary: U.S. Politics President Bush Monday seized on Democratic calls for withdrawal from Iraq to make an election-year case that his political rivals did not properly understand the threats to the nation and would create a more dangerous world. Activists in New ...

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Author:	Robert Naiman
Date:	Tue Aug 22 12:19:01 PDT 2006

5140 [lbo-talk] 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists Attack McClatchey -- rank: 72

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06218/711239-85.stm Conspiracy theorists blog that Flight 93 photo is fake Sunday, August 06, 2006 By Caitlin Cleary, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette STOYSTOWN, Pa. -- It was a remarkable shot that produced a one-of-a-kind image: a green pasture, red barns in the ...

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Author:	Michael Givel
Date:	Tue Aug 22 08:51:23 PDT 2006

5141 [lbo-talk] Reuters: "US facing wave of murders and gun violence" -- rank: 72

... Explanations vary -- from softer gun laws to budget cuts, fewer police on the beat, more people in poverty and simple complacency ... had supported after-school programs. They had supported placing more police officers in crime hot spots in major cities

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Author:	B.
Date:	Mon Aug 21 02:18:03 PDT 2006

5142 [lbo-talk] Be skeptical -- rank: 72

Now here's where we could use a healthy slug of that skepticism about conspiracies, so prevalent on the left today. Charles ^^^^^ COMMENT Be skeptical ... be very skeptical By M K Bhadrakumar One of the significant contributions to the "war on terror" by Britain's home secretary David Blunkett before his ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Fri Aug 18 14:08:17 PDT 2006

5143 [lbo-talk] The Reg Shoots Down Terror Plot -- rank: 72

... the technical questions) and conclude that anyone is suggesting the police case has been faked in the way you suggest they ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Fri Aug 18 10:54:28 PDT 2006

5144 [lbo-talk] Juilo Huato on the threat of state violence against democracy activism in Mexico -- rank: 72

... Some of them are urgent, like the ominous threats of brutality the political establishment is sending to the Mexican people. (By ... of the armed forces and the PFP (which exhibited their brutality on May 4 in San

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Thu Aug 17 14:38:08 PDT 2006

5145 [lbo-talk] Just Foreign Policy News, August 15, 2006 -- rank: 72

Just Foreign Policy News August 15, 2006 In this issue: Contents: 1) Rewriting the Geneva Conventions Editorial, New York Times August 14, 2006 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/14/opinion/14mon1.html When creating the camp at Guantánamo for prisoners from Afghanistan, Bush said he would be "adhering to the ...

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Author:	Robert Naiman
Date:	Tue Aug 15 11:16:36 PDT 2006