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6586 Surviving Assassination Attempt- Wellstone Denounces Militarization of Columbian Aid -- rank: 72

Having almost been assassinated on his visit to Columbia, Wellstone came back publicly denouncing the militarization of aid to Columbia. While I know Wellstone is unique in a lot of ways, especially in the Senate, the point is that he is hardly alone in opposing the war on drugs and the ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Fri Dec 1 13:46:22 PST 2000

6587 Factory Closings in China Arouse Workers' Fury -- rank: 72

What is fascinating to me about the case of China is both the extent of conflicts betweeen workers and managers/ministries over the terms of SOE reorganization and the almost complete lack of any active reaction on the part of the left faction of the CCP. There is missing any strategy ...

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Author:	Stephen E Philion
Date:	Wed Aug 30 22:08:37 PDT 2000

6588 OZ Army: Shoot to Kill -- rank: 72

G'day Tom'n'Catherine, Just wrote this to Lindsay Tanner (as the Upper House looks set to pass the bill with the necessary ALP support) ... __________________________________________ Hope you were listening to the Delroy programme, Lindsay! The poor bloke's switchboard was still lit up like a salvo at a demo at ...

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Author:	Rob Schaap
Date:	Mon Aug 28 08:34:37 PDT 2000

6589 OZ Army: Shoot to Kill -- rank: 72

... a terrifying proposition, also made worse by complaints from the police that the army shouldn't be allowed this 'right' because ... ones. If in fact they are much worse than the police in this regard we can only imagine it must off ...

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Author:	Catherine Driscoll
Date:	Wed Aug 23 19:50:21 PDT 2000

6590 straightedge -- rank: 72

Popular Music, Oct 1999 v18 i3 p397 Rules of rebellion: slamdancing, and the American alternative scene. William Tsitsos. Abstract: The history of punk rock music in the US is detailed and the ideologies and conflicts within punk rock culture are examined. The dance styles associated with apolitical punk are differentiated from ...

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Author:	Jonathon Louth
Date:	Wed Aug 23 13:33:40 PDT 2000

6591 Three Neo-Nazis Face Murder Charges -- rank: 72

Hey, all you death penalty opponents - any comments? I say: death penalty is a solution; after all, the possibility of a judicial error is a small price to pay for the ability to fry the nazi scum. wojtek Three Neo-Nazis Face Murder Charges Tuesday August 22, 20004:40 pm HALLE ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Tue Aug 22 09:26:50 PDT 2000

6592 Hannah Arendt thread -- rank: 72

... of Mayor Daley, during the Chicago riots, angrily protesting "The police aren't here to create disorder. The police are here to preserve disorder." John K. Taber -------- The Daily ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Mon Aug 21 23:57:08 PDT 2000

6593 Hannah Arendt thread -- rank: 72

Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at tsoft.com> wrote: < [snipped passages on market system becoming totalitarian] What Arendt found in other essays on totalitarianism (Mankind and Terror) was the key to the effectiveness of mass terror was that the recipients be absolutely innocent of any objective crime. Thus even this concept applies perfectly ...

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Author:	John K. Taber
Date:	Mon Aug 21 17:09:29 PDT 2000

6594 Robert Rubin, do gooder -- rank: 72

Robert Rubin’s Urban Crusade The ex-Treasury Secretary is turning his talents to the inner city. He’s heading one of America’s least-known but most powerful urban organizations. http://www.governing.com/8rubin.htm BY CHRISTOPHER SWOPE One spring day five years ago, when Robert Rubin was still ...

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Author:	Lisa & Ian Murray
Date:	Mon Aug 21 08:44:41 PDT 2000

6595 Hannah Arendt thread -- rank: 72

Beyond the Conceivable These two new books from UC Press, look like good reads. (Michael Pugliese) ``Dan Diner Beyond the Conceivable Studies on Germany, Nazism, and the Holocaust Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism, 20 ...The major essays of Dan Diner, who is widely read and quoted in Germany and Israel ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Mon Aug 21 02:11:04 PDT 2000

6596 Goldhagen, Finkelstein -- rank: 72

Weekly Worker 321 Thursday February 3 2000 http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/321/beyond.html Weekly Worker 321 Thursday February 3 2000 Beyond the pale Do socialists and communists support the banning or suppression of 'offensive' views - especially far right and fascistic ones? Is it a hopeless manifestation of libertarianism ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Thu Aug 17 08:14:29 PDT 2000

6597 good news from Morocco -- rank: 72

... stop it. "Year-in-year out, at harvest time the police would sweep through our farms, rounding up peasants," said one ...

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Author:	Lisa & Ian Murray
Date:	Wed Aug 16 10:36:14 PDT 2000

6598 Anarchists Gather--and It's Orderly -- rank: 72

... no alcohol, drugs, weapons or anything that would give the police a pretext to close things down). Finally, you're in ...

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Author:	Tom Wheeler
Date:	Sat Aug 12 14:47:48 PDT 2000

6599 It's all Marcuse's fault! -- rank: 72

John Leo August 1, 2000 Double standards are now respectable on campus I made a mistake of sorts in my recent column on double standards: I ran out of space before I could bring up the name of Herbert Marcuse. If a National Museum of Double Standards is ever built, we ...

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Author:	Jacob Segal
Date:	Sat Aug 12 11:35:28 PDT 2000

6600 CLINTON STAT UPDATE -- rank: 72

CLINTON STAT UPDATE As the Democratic torch (as well as its contributor lists and FBI files) are passed to Al Gore, we thought we'd bring you up to date on our Clinton scandal statistics. Please note that, much as with the Census, the collection of such data is a daunting ...

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Author:	radman
Date:	Thu Aug 10 14:30:37 PDT 2000