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5581 [lbo-talk] Wendell Steavenson: Stories from the road to Fallujah -- rank: 72

[She's not a leftwing girl, and Slate's not a left-wing mag. But it sounds remarkably similar to Rahul Mahajan's diary on www.empirenotes.com] http://slate.msn.com/id/2093154/entry/0/ From: Wendell Steavenson Subject: Fallujah Stories Monday, April 12, 2004, at 12:47 PM ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Fri Apr 16 18:29:50 PDT 2004

5582 [lbo-talk] mirroring the CIA -- rank: 72

... have been saying for a long time that the entire police force of mexico is connected to drug dealers. also, the ... returned fire. The uniformed men turned out to be Federal police. Can't remember all the various explanations and theories about ...

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Author:	Gregory Lipman
Date:	Wed Apr 14 00:53:07 PDT 2004

5583 [lbo-talk] Iraqi army refuses to fight -- rank: 72

Washington Post - April 11, 2004 Iraqi Battalion Refuses to 'Fight Iraqis' By Thomas E. Ricks Washington Post Staff Writer BAGHDAD, April 10 -- A battalion of the new Iraqi army refused to go to Fallujah earlier this week to support U.S. Marines battling for control of the city, senior U.S ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 11 10:08:10 PDT 2004

5584 [lbo-talk] The US unites Iraq -- rank: 72

[against us. Way to bridge those sectarian divides! One thing that always distinguished Sadr from other Shia clerics/militia leaders has been his emphasis on the Arab character of Iraq.] [Note: Khadamiya is a middle class neighborhood that was not previously known for its radicalism. This means Sadr's influence ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Wed Apr 7 06:44:25 PDT 2004

5585 [lbo-talk] If you liked Fallujah, you'll love Kufa -- rank: 72

[And we're now in the middle of the Shia high holy days, among which Thursday is extra special. Wonderful time to storm a mosque if you want to make the entire country into an stone throwing intifada.] http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/06/international/middleeast/06KUFA.html The ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Tue Apr 6 18:14:04 PDT 2004

5586 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 4, Issue 40 -- rank: 72

... that the U.S. doesn't need lessons in imperial brutality from anyone... --CGE On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Doug Henwood ... taste. > The U.S. doesn't need lessons in imperial brutality from anyone. >

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Author:	C. G. Estabrook
Date:	Mon Apr 5 13:08:34 PDT 2004

5587 [lbo-talk] Pakistan: Out of step, out of time -- rank: 72

DAWN - Mazdak 21 February 2004 Out of step, out of time By Irfan Husain Given Pakistan's recent track record of nuclear proliferation, its help for the Taliban, its active assistance to guerrillas in Kashmir, as well as its own home-grown terrorists engaged in killing anybody who does not conform ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Thu Apr 1 17:32:47 PST 2004

5588 [lbo-talk] good news! more job declines coming!! -- rank: 72

... 90's led to the deployment of too many overstressed police officers. Anybody who lives out here can tell you that those police officers put the Seattle protests on the map. Their over ...

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Author:	boddhisatva
Date:	Tue Sep 30 13:07:26 PDT 2003

5589 [lbo-talk] more on Iraqi opinion -- rank: 72

Financial Times - September 25, 2003 Smiles and shrugs speak volumes about nature of attacks on American troops By Charles Clover, Mark Huband and Roula Khalaf The question of who is behind the near-daily attacks on US soldiers patrolling their region provokes a certain type of facial expression in Falluja - a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 25 13:09:29 PDT 2003

5590 [lbo-talk] Australian opposition spotlights Indonesia's Islamic schools -- rank: 72

The Australian: Labor to replace rhetoric with action [ 24sep03 ] Labor to replace rhetoric with action 24sep03 Labor's shadow foreign minister Kevin Rudd has called for a more assertive Australian leadership role in South-East Asia as part of a comprehensive counter-terrorism strategy. Rudd's critique is that Australia is ...

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Author:	Grant Lee
Date:	Wed Sep 24 00:56:15 PDT 2003

5591 [lbo-talk] Kaplan: Iraq is all World.comedy's fault -- rank: 72

... Provisional Authority, wanted to know conditions at a hospital, a police station, a school, an oil field, a town down the ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Mon Sep 22 20:35:47 PDT 2003

5592 [lbo-talk] honolulu bus strike in 3rd wk, holds Rally -- rank: 72

... a crowd of about 800 people in attendance while Honolulu police estimated the crowd at between 700 and 1,000. The ...

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Author:	Stephen E Philion
Date:	Sun Sep 21 14:28:31 PDT 2003

5593 [lbo-talk] deterritorialization -- rank: 72

Liberian War One Without Borders Continuing Conflict Poses Threats To West Africa By Emily Wax Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, September 20, 2003; Page A26 MAGBURAKA, Sierra Leone -- One man walked across the border from Sierra Leone into Liberia to flee fighting and lack of food. The other went the opposite ...

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Author:	Eubulides
Date:	Fri Sep 19 20:51:59 PDT 2003

5594 [lbo-talk] anarchist/commie soccer results -- rank: 72

... Club (guess), ended up in a 2-2 tie when police arrived to break up the game. The match was reported to the police by a Piedmont resident, who complained of players shouting slogans ...

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Author:	joanna bujes
Date:	Fri Sep 19 19:04:13 PDT 2003

5595 [lbo-talk] Working Class against the Occupation (was No Evidence ...) -- rank: 72

At 8:15 AM -0400 9/19/03, Jose Rodriguez & Sally Everson wrote: > > Presumably, US Blacks and non-US citizens are also products of the >> same biological evolution as the fuzzy-minded (= the overwhelmingly >> Republican, disproportionately white, and largely male portion of US > > citizens). Why don't they believe in the ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Sep 19 13:01:31 PDT 2003