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5866 Are Marches Pep-Rallies? (was Antiwar Protest Largest Since '60s) -- rank: 72

... The demonstration on Saturday in Washington drew 100,000 by police estimates and 200,000 by organizers', forming a two-mile ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 30 09:56:12 PST 2002

5867 Are Marches Pep-Rallies? (was Antiwar Protest Largest Since '60s) -- rank: 72

Thomas Seay wrote: > --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >>They disturb the bourgeoisie. T >>There's a quote in the famous early 1970s McCracken >>report on >>inflation done for the OECD > > > Well, I shall be interested in reading that quote, or > anything else that would provide evidence that > marches, where ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Tue Oct 29 10:40:34 PST 2002

5868 U.S. digging deep in Persian Gulf -- rank: 72

... against Iraq, fresh U.S. forces are being deployed to police a strategic arc covering the Indian Ocean, oil rich Persian ...

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Author:	Ulhas Joglekar
Date:	Tue Oct 29 06:47:14 PST 2002

5869 Clarifications -- rank: 72

... maintenance of > a front of "totalitarian" unity by the military-police regime. > > Among other things the defense of Iraq will probably ...

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Author:	Dennis Perrin
Date:	Thu Oct 24 13:11:05 PDT 2002

5870 no subject -- rank: 72

Steve: "What you seem to assume is that signing a petition calling for the freeing of Milo from the Hague prison is the equivalent of supporting whatever crimes he committed as a leader, in which case, by your logic, Kostunica becomes a supporter of Milo. I would also note that by ...

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Author:	Dennis Perrin
Date:	Wed Oct 23 20:38:50 PDT 2002

5871 Security Re: from the nation -- rank: 72

>Peace Gets a Chance > >by LIZA FEATHERSTONE > >[from the October 28, 2002 issue] <snip> >its [ANSWER's] rhetoric makes few concessions to Americans who may >be concerned about security as well as imperialism. What Americans need, though, is not rhetorical "concessions" to their real concern about security but concrete proposals ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Oct 20 13:23:38 PDT 2002

5872 Afghanistan forgotten already? -- rank: 72

In case this wasn't posted before. Chuck Grimes --------------------- Afghanistan Imperiled by Ahmed Rashid There are mounting fears in Afghanistan that President George W. Bush's war against Iraq will seriously compromise further attempts by the US-led Western alliance to stabilize Afghanistan--even as the US Defense Department appears to ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Sun Oct 20 11:46:59 PDT 2002

5873 release Milosevic! -- rank: 72

... you think "they" would > have gotten around to creating a police state by now? I was speaking _only_ of the response ... Kennedy and Johnson administration? It would not have created a "police state" (how in the hell did that concept get into ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Thu Oct 10 08:33:08 PDT 2002

5874 release Milosevic! -- rank: 72

... you think "they" would have gotten around to creating a police state by now? I know the prisons and slums are ... s holding "them" at bay? The nonexistent left? A "sinister" police state is more like Germany under Hitler or Russia under ...

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Author:	Peter K.
Date:	Wed Oct 9 19:34:31 PDT 2002

5875 Riot cops called in, in one ILWU incident -- rank: 72

>From the Los Angeles Times. Article is at http://www.ilwu.org/solidarityday/LATimes20021003.htm -- Union Agrees to Federal Mediation, but West Coast Ports Remain Closed Labor: Maritime group wants assurance that there will be no more work slowdowns before it agrees to allow offloading of ships. By DAN WEIKEL ...

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Author:	Brian O. Sheppard x349393
Date:	Sat Oct 5 20:32:44 PDT 2002

5876 working on the Cheney gang -- rank: 72

... t what you, Yoshie, >describe here be more accurately called police action? > "War" in this case is both a kind of ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Oct 4 20:29:48 PDT 2002

5877 California: Where Democrats Can be Democrats -- rank: 72

... have trial by jury. But by the same token the police are just as firmly convinced *they* should have a monopoly ... of bail pending trial, mandatory sentencing, etc essentially give the police prosecutors the power to determine who will be imprisoned and ...

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Author:	billbartlett at dodo.com.au
Date:	Sat Oct 5 09:46:30 PDT 2002

5878 TRAPPED, CUFFED & BUSSED -- rank: 72

... Surrounded by hundreds of protesters in Pershing Park, Washington Metropolitan Police circled and arrested the entire group. Jason Flanagan and Debra ...

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Author:	Tom Wheeler
Date:	Wed Oct 2 07:45:07 PDT 2002

5879 Norm Coleman Billboard Defaced With Swastikas -- rank: 72

... Nazi references, apparently sometime Wednesday night, according to St. Paul police. Senior Cmdr. Lisa McGinn said police are investigating the incident as property damage and possibly a ...

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Author:	/ dave /
Date:	Fri Nov 29 12:50:53 PST 2002

5880 Hitchens slams appointment of Kissinger to chair 9/11 inquiry -- rank: 72

... of the Saudi Arabian oligarchy and the Pakistani military and police elite. Henry Kissinger is now, and always has bee

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Author:	Peter K.
Date:	Thu Nov 28 06:43:11 PST 2002