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6121 Sparts weigh in -- rank: 72

[apparently the WV editorial team suffered some setbacks from the blast, because this just arrived yesterday - some of this is nutty, some brilliant, typical WV fare] Workers Vanguard - September 14, 2001 oppose domestic repression, imperialist "retaliation" THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ATTACK SEPTEMBER 12 - Yesterday's attack on the World Trade ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 25 14:24:09 PDT 2001

6122 So, whodunnit? -- rank: 72

< http://www.blonnet.com/businessline/2001/09/19/stories/14198505.htm > A flying terrorist US intelligence chose to ignore Praveen Swami NEW DELHI, Sept. 18 EVIDENCE that terrorist groups were recruiting pilots trained in the United States was available two years ago -- but seems to have been ignored by that ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Tue Sep 25 10:47:06 PDT 2001

6123 poll on civil liberties -- rank: 72

... cards one of the key signs of totalitarianism and a police state back when the USSR was the Evil Empire and ...

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Author:	Ken Hanly
Date:	Mon Sep 24 07:58:29 PDT 2001

6124 Homeland Security dot org -- rank: 72

... a single unnamed source supposedly close to the "Washington Metropolitan Police." Among the more dubious claims was that a signals intelligence ...

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Author:	Chip Berlet
Date:	Fri Sep 21 20:28:29 PDT 2001

6125 FW: <nettime> Agamben on Security & Terror -- rank: 72

i'm sure a lot of you read nettime, but here it is for those who don't. link to the FAZ essay in german: http://www.faz.de/IN/INtemplates/faznet/default.asp?tpl=faz/content.asp&rub= {2D82590A-A70E-4F9C-BABB-B2161EE25365}&doc={6A0F8425-2EF2-4B86-BB6B-4F54904A A6EF ...

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Author:	Jeffrey Fisher
Date:	Thu Sep 20 10:43:55 PDT 2001

6126 foreign students leave US -- rank: 72

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - September 20, 2001 After at Least 4 Assaults, Some Foreign Students Plan to Leave U.S.; More Protection Urged By RON SOUTHWICK At least four racially motivated assaults of Middle Eastern and Asian college students have been reported by law-enforcement officials following last week ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 20 06:40:44 PDT 2001

6127 so how do we know it was OBL? -- rank: 72

Wall Street Journal - September 19, 2001 Proof of bin Laden Link Still Isn't Firm As U.S. Attempts to Sway World Opinion By DAVID S. CLOUD NEIL KING JR., IAN JOHNSON and JAY SOLOMON Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- By the standards of the Old West, President ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 19 08:27:00 PDT 2001

6128 Fw:Rewriting Dissent to please Henwood, et al -- rank: 72

Well, whether or not Mitchell (two "l"'s not one, the other guy, Mitchel, I like to mock cuz of his overheated rhetoric on GMO) Cohen and Michael, "All wars are unjust except wars against the Palestinians, " Walzer (as the jibe goes, unfair to the book, "Just and Unjust Wars, " but ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Wed Sep 19 08:06:30 PDT 2001

6129 What is the moral course -- rank: 72

The problem generally with viewing the new reality through right/left spectacles is that on the one hand there really isn't a left to speak of and on the other hand the rhetorical hegemony of the right is largely based on its comic book vacuousness. The notion of a counter ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Mon Sep 17 14:53:54 PDT 2001

6130 Afghanistan, America, Suicide -- rank: 72

Surely it is quite a different tactic to use suicide as in hunger strikes and to commit suicide as a human bomber inflicting casualties on many innocent people. As for urban uprisings by leftists, some of them may be termed suicidal I suppose but most of the examples seem to be ...

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Author:	Ken Hanly
Date:	Mon Sep 17 12:17:23 PDT 2001

6131 Afghanistan, America, Suicide -- rank: 72

Ken Hanly asks, "Who are the leftist suicide groups?" The DHKC.Invoking Bobby Sands this time looks like a tactic of desperation against a semi-fascist state. (say semi because when I was discussing in person, this with Sabri Oncu, a Turkish lefty who lives in Berkeley, and called Turkey fascist ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon Sep 17 11:01:02 PDT 2001

6132 Fisk: Bush walking into trap -- rank: 72

Independent (London) - September 16, 2001 Robert Fisk: Bush is walking into a trap Retaliation is a trap. In a world that was supposed to have learnt that the rule of law comes above revenge, President Bush appears to be heading for the very disaster that Osama bin Laden has laid down ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 17 08:52:35 PDT 2001

6133 PROGRESSIVE NEWS OF INTEREST -- rank: 72

PROGRESSIVE NEWS OF INTEREST Following are two progressive news items of interest which were included the current issue of the biweekly Mid-Hudson (N.Y.) Action Newsletter/Calendar of Sept. 15, 2001--number 49. We have eliminated all the calendar items and other material. It is published in the town of ...

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Author:	jacdon at earthlink.net
Date:	Fri Sep 14 16:43:40 PDT 2001

6134 Hijacking Clues May Be Red Herrings -- rank: 72

Hijacking Clues May Be Red Herrings 2130 GMT, 010913 http://www.stratfor.com/home/0109132130.htm Summary The terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center and Pentagon Sept. 11 practiced near-perfect operational planning, coordination and execution before their mission but left behind obvious evidence leading to other operatives who may ...

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Author:	kelley
Date:	Fri Sep 14 08:53:03 PDT 2001

6135 pushing me rightward, Somerset crash puzzle -- rank: 72

Why should a bunch of fools shape anyone's politics? Maybe you are already there? This puts me to mind of those getting on camera saying they were 'liberals' but now they've hardened their views. Sure, and some of my friends are Arabs, etc. etc. BTW, does anyone think there ...

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Author:	Charles Jannuzi
Date:	Thu Sep 13 23:45:27 PDT 2001