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5221 [lbo-talk] Rekindling the cold war -- rank: 72

[Since the war on Islam has proved such a whale of a fiasco, the US establishment seems keen to ID a new national nemesis pronto. I guess that explains this weird quasi-editorial in the NY Times, with all its heavy breathing about sinister Russians. Looks like our exit plan ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Sun Nov 20 18:56:33 PST 2005

5222 [lbo-talk] A History of Violence -- rank: 72

... little power, other times a lot of power -- money power, police power, media power, etc.): having it and wanting to hold ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Nov 16 17:15:01 PST 2005

5223 [lbo-talk] 2 Algerians held for attempt on Musharraf's life -- rank: 72

... bail cancellation applications from the Criminal Investigation Department of the police that they were wanted for interrogation in an assassination attempt ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Wed Nov 16 07:07:39 PST 2005

5224 [lbo-talk] Last Tango In Paris -- rank: 72

uvj at vsnl.com posted an article from the "Times of India" which contained the views, including this one of a professor of history: For the next elections, the two major candidates today are the swaggering Sarkozy, who has borrowed the rhetoric of the extreme right (and Jean-Marie Le Pen ...

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Author:	Mike Ballard
Date:	Tue Nov 15 15:39:05 PST 2005

5225 [lbo-talk] Marseille and the riots -- rank: 72

[perhaps the most surprising thing in this story is that in normal times, there are 5-10 car burnings a night] Financial Times - November 12, 2005 Geography that helped Marseilles escape the riots There is no room for banlieues in France's southern gateway - one reason it did not share ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 13 19:31:32 PST 2005

5226 [lbo-talk] Abortion, not a women's issue. How about femicide? -- rank: 72

Doug said that abortion wasn't a women's issue, meaning that it is everyone's issue? So this must be true of rape, sex slavery, battering, etc. Unfortuantely, addressing these latter issues do not seem to be on the radar screen of most men, activist or not. In the many ...

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Author:	peacenow at theofficenet.com
Date:	Sun Nov 13 09:48:39 PST 2005

5227 [lbo-talk] The Woman Behind Arnold's Defeat -- rank: 72

The Woman Behind Arnold's Defeat Analysis/Commentary, Kathleen Sharp, New America Media, Nov 09, 2005 <http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=2b2fda7241241 ba88cab43b821c1e251> Editor's Note: Forget sexist language or charges of groping -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's biggest "woman problem" is the head of the ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Wed Nov 9 19:25:27 PST 2005

5228 [lbo-talk] Christian Parenti from Kurdistan -- rank: 72

The Nation - November 14, 2005 <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051114/parenti> The Question of Kurdistan by CHRISTIAN PARENTI Outside the violent city of Mosul lies the last checkpoint of the Kurdish militia, or peshmerga. The gunmen control a bridge where the dusty rolling land of the northern Mesopotamian plain tucks ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 9 12:27:56 PST 2005

5229 [lbo-talk] Why do English speaking folk have penchant for feudal theocracies? -- rank: 72

http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR26401.shtml TONY WOOD THE CASE FOR CHECHNYA Editorial What happened was what always happens when a state possessing great military strength enters into relations with primitive, small peoples living their independent lives. Either on the pretext of self-defence, even though any attacks are always provoked ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Tue Nov 8 10:22:19 PST 2005

5230 [lbo-talk] Why are the US-ers such assholes? -- rank: 72

On 11/5/05, Chuck0 <chuck at mutualaid.org> wrote:> One anti-left trope that you will see in their books involves calling Franken, Chomsky and so on for having money. Michael Moore has 2,000 shares in Halliburton according to Schweizer. http://www.postchronicle.com/news/entertainment/article_2121115.shtml ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sat Nov 5 11:00:34 PST 2005

5231 [lbo-talk] Diwali celebrations defy Delhi bombers -- rank: 72

... was tight as investigators continued their hunt for the bombers. Police sifted through millions of mobile telephone call records, trying to ...

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Author:	Sujeet Bhatt
Date:	Tue Nov 1 10:46:41 PST 2005

5232 [lbo-talk] Re: Iraqi resistance (was: something else) -- rank: 72

... I wish the US had >perpetrated fewer acts of pointless brutality But brutality of the American sort isn't pointless - there's nothing ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 28 13:47:12 PDT 2005

5233 [lbo-talk] pot trial -- rank: 72

I'm not sure she would have gotten off more lightly if she had been tried in the US of A. [http://www.nationalledger.com/scribe/archives/2005/05/aussie_surfer_c.shtml] May 27, 2005 Aussie Surfer Corby Sentenced To 20 Years Australians worldwide are angered by the 20-year ...

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Author:	Jim Devine
Date:	Fri May 27 13:03:25 PDT 2005

5234 [lbo-talk] How's the weather in Baghdad? -- rank: 72

... attacks in Baghdad included a car bomb which targeted a police patrol, killing three Iraqis and injuring two. In another attack ...

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Author:	Leigh Meyers
Date:	Fri May 27 10:19:49 PDT 2005

5235 [lbo-talk] The STFU left -- rank: 72

Michael Pugliese wrote: > I was telling a friend how amazing it is that even > with all the Bush debacles in Iraq, the anti-war > movement is actually far weaker today than it was > before the war when groups like ANSWER were at their > height. It's the virtual opposite of the ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Mon May 23 21:48:45 PDT 2005