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5431 [lbo-talk] RE: Slavoj rounds bend, celebrates Bush's victory -- rank: 72

Well, I don't find very implausible comparations between fascist regimes and some current "advanced democracy" like the US or italian ones (see the article below for some corroboration). And now seems prevailing the ludicrous aspect of the thing as foreseen by Marx (history which repeats itself like a comedy after ...

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Author:	double bluff
Date:	Sat Nov 6 12:51:32 PST 2004

5432 [lbo-talk] iNCOMPARABLY SIMILARLY UNCIVILISED -- rank: 72

... children were partially decapitated, and the third was completely decapitated. Police say all were under the age of 10. Their mother ... discovered them in the apartment around 5:40 p.m. Police are talking to a man they call a "person of ...

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Author:	Gary?
Date:	Sun May 30 08:36:04 PDT 2004

5433 [lbo-talk] Mitchell: The risk of terror as merely an everday thing -- rank: 72

[Gets better as it goes on] URL: http://www.harpers.org/ARunOnTerror.html Harper's Magazine A Run on Terror The rising cost of fear itself Originally from Harper's Magazine, March 2004. By Luke Mitchell. Terror, like ecstasy, tends to magnify perceptions. Just as affection becomes adoration in the ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Sat May 29 16:52:57 PDT 2004

5434 [lbo-talk] Re: On a wider scale... -- rank: 72

... what places like Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib are > (straight up police state gulags), in the face of what appears to me ...

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Author:	Jon Johanning
Date:	Sat May 29 09:50:02 PDT 2004

5435 [lbo-talk] S Thailand -- rank: 72

Since there was a question, here's an editorial from The Nation (Bangkok). No doubt, still a centre-oriented perspective in many ways, but miles ahead of much other commentary. And importantly locates it within the context of Thai history and politics. A long history of solutions for the South Nation ...

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Author:	kjkhoo at softhome.net
Date:	Mon May 24 09:45:46 PDT 2004

5436 [lbo-talk] re: war, not warriors -- rank: 72

... these troops did was vicious, but compared to the normal brutality of war, it was light stuff. The present policy of ...

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Author:	frank scott
Date:	Mon May 24 14:05:29 PDT 2004

5437 [lbo-talk] WP: torture for the hell of it -- rank: 72

... The Washington Post. Several of the photographs taken by military police on the cellblock have become iconic, among them the naked ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 22 11:04:01 PDT 2004

5438 [lbo-talk] Thoughts on Iraq, was `...irrelevance of Abu Ghraib' -- rank: 72

``...One of the key features of US-backed throughout the third world was the institutionalisation of torture against perceived enemies with torture practised routinely and on a wide scale by US-backed counter-insurgency forces.6 The use of coercive techniques as part of the overall counter-insurgency effort were ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Tue May 18 12:53:49 PDT 2004

5439 [lbo-talk] Torture as a Means of Social Control -- rank: 72

Pace Alan M. Dershowitz and Richard A. Posner, torture does not work as a means of extracting "truthful information" that can save "many lives" (Dershowitz, qtd. in Michael Slackman, "What's Wrong With Torturing a Qaeda Higher-Up?" New York Times, May 16, 2004): Darius Rejali . . . said his studies show that ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue May 18 06:53:47 PDT 2004

5440 [lbo-talk] The Torturer's Art -- rank: 72

Darius Rejali -- an associate professor of political science at Reed College and the author of Torture and Modernity: Self, Society and State in Modern Iran (Westview, 1994) among many other publications -- shows that the technique of forced standing, which has proven valuable to torturers because it leaves few marks, has a ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon May 17 11:54:05 PDT 2004

5441 [lbo-talk] Hersh: How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib -- rank: 72

... been struck from the first how the advocates of the police >solution have absolutely no sense of how that might actually ... Week-of-Mon-20040517/010855.html> and other nations' own police and other security forces. How many high-profile individuals linked ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon May 17 10:34:09 PDT 2004

5442 [lbo-talk] Hersh: How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib -- rank: 72

... of Afghans and Iraqis? We've been talking about the "police" alternative to killing thousands of Afghans and Iraqis (and I ... been struck from the first how the advocates of the police solution have absolutely no sense of how that might actually ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 17 10:12:13 PDT 2004

5443 [lbo-talk] Hersh: How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib. -- rank: 72

... but its design: what is needed is 'patient operations of police and intelligence f

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Author:	C. G. Estabrook
Date:	Sun May 16 11:49:45 PDT 2004

5444 [lbo-talk] Saudi royal guard working with AQ? -- rank: 72

Independent (London) - May 16, 2004 Saudi royal guards 'aided al-Qa'ida' in Riyadh bombings that left 35 dead By Mark Hollingsworth 16 May 2004 Al-Qa'ida terrorists whose suicide bombs killed 35 people and injured 200 at a housing compound in Riyadh last May were secretly assisted by certain ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 16 08:09:12 PDT 2004

5445 [lbo-talk] Who was Nick Berg? -- rank: 72

[More on the Berg video: ] Aljazeera.Net - Bloggers doubt Berg execution video Bloggers doubt Berg execution video By Lawrence Smallman Friday 14 May 2004, 0:08 Makka Time, 21:08 GMT Was this really Nick Berg's last moment or was he killed earlier? Revolting millions around the world, the ...

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Author:	Grant Lee
Date:	Sat May 15 21:26:21 PDT 2004