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6826 Symptoms? -- rank: 72

For some reason i've not fully analysed yet, this story disturbs me greatly. Not the hoax itself, but most of the responses to it, and finally the surface-y nature of this article. Margaret ------------------------------------- from the Phoenix Arizona USA 'New Times' countercultural(?) newspaper: ------------------------------------- [headline] Disarm the Clueless [subhead] Our April ...

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Author:	Margaret
Date:	Sun Apr 11 06:59:01 PDT 1999

6827 Max, Angela, Chris, DL -- rank: 72

C. Rob, I'm over-limit, but let me restate my opinion another way. I think all prejudice ultimately serves class prejudice, the class system. America basically discriminates and violates on the basis of class and for overt economic reasons. Americans make up the same ethnic fictions anybody else does but ...

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Author:	D.L.
Date:	Sun Apr 11 04:25:14 PDT 1999

6828 double blackmail (Zizek) -- rank: 72

[Here's the full English version of the Zizek piece that RKMickey translated for us from the abridged German.] AGAINST THE DOUBLE BLACKMAIL Slavoj Zizek The top winner in the contest for the greatest blunder of 1998 was a Latin-American patriotic terrorist who sent a bomb letter to a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 7 12:35:49 PDT 1999

6829 NYT on Kosovo 1987 -- rank: 72

We are at best trying to say how we should make history, in circumstances not of our choosing. I have made a number of criticisms of the imperialist nature of the intervention by the NATO powers. But I maintain that the Serb regime is fascist and the danger of fascism is ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Fri Apr 2 13:35:38 PST 1999

6830 Albania, 1987 -- rank: 72

[The full 1987 NYT article from which Nathan & I posted competing excerpts the other day.] from: http://www.fair.org/articles/memory-hole.html FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting 130 W. 25th Street New York, NY 10001 Rescued from the Memory Hole: Background of Serb/Albanian Conflict March 31, 1999 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 2 07:22:16 PST 1999

6831 more on Kosovo -- rank: 72

Barkley Rosser wrote: > 4) I would also urge those who wish to support Milosevic >out of some knee jerk reaction to "help him who is attacked by >the US/NATO imperialism" not to glorifiy this jerk or his >positions. I agree with Paul P. and Yoshie that the US and >Germany ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Apr 1 16:43:53 PST 1999

6832 UNDERNEWS: Scandal Stats -- rank: 72

[for connoisseurs of scandal...] Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 09:07:27 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: ssmith at pop.igc.org Mime-Version: 1.0 To: ssmith at igc.org From: The Progressive Review <ssmith at igc.org> Subject: UNDERNEWS: Scandal Stats THE UNDERNEWS SCANDAL STATS EDITION By Sam Smith ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 24 12:29:38 PDT 1998

6833 re Kautsky parle, baby steps -- rank: 72

... Shearer wrote: > In my neighborhood, which is predominately Hispanic, the police close > the streets at night whenever there is a Mexican ... When the Bulls were > playing in the championship, they had police out in full riot gear at > every corner along Fullerton ...

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Author:	John K. Taber
Date:	Thu Sep 17 04:05:15 PDT 1998

6834 re Kautsky parle, baby steps -- rank: 72

... some day. In my neighborhood, which is predominately Hispanic, the police close the streets at night whenever there is a Mexican ... When the Bulls were playing in the championship, they had police out in full riot gear at every corner a

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Author:	Juliana Shearer
Date:	Wed Sep 16 16:20:40 PDT 1998

6835 1/2 Pinochet, get back to HELL ! -- rank: 72

FIRST OF TWO PARTS A continent-wide dissension *********************************** The prison of Pinochet was received in Brazil with a lot of joy: friends and relatives rang to each other, the radio and TV interrupted transmissions several times to broadcast the good news and the Internet did the rest. In Argentina the same ...

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Author:	R.Magellan
Date:	Sat Oct 31 16:07:42 PST 1998

6836 SovArch I -- rank: 72

[this bounced for excessive length - it's Brad DeLong, speaking from the Soviet archives - can we trust these things? - Doug] http://cwihp.si.edu/ http://cwihp.si.edu/cwihplib.nsf/e7b8938c6eedaba4852564a7007a887a/577262b2024c7b d9852564bb006a024a?OpenDocument Ah, here they are. Stalin seems to have kept Kim Il Sung on a very, very ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 29 17:36:33 PST 1998

6837 Capital Controls Since Bretton Woods -- rank: 72

Brad De Long wrote: > It is an admission that > state structures and political controls in developing countries are such > that governments cannot perform the kinds of growth-promoting and > income-redistributing missions that we take for granted in the social > democracies of Europe, that attempts at social democracy tend to collapse ...

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Author:	Michael Cohen
Date:	Sun Oct 25 11:33:21 PST 1998

6838 FW: Some Report Of Interest Never Before Available -- rank: 72

FYI ------------ From: Michael Ravnitzky <mikerav at IX.NETCOM.COM> Subject: Some Report Of Interest Never Before Available Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 12:13:27 +0000 To: FOI-L at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU The following selected reports have never been released to the public but are available from DTIC. Please take ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Fri Oct 23 10:41:06 PDT 1998

6839 gay bashing and class -- rank: 72

... gays and Henry Ford's old thugs or Pinkerton's police. In this, the left truly reflects the working class, which ... people. Most of the deaths are usually caused by the police. It would not be surprising if there is a false ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Wed Oct 21 10:33:12 PDT 1998

6840 How to Solve the Economic Crisis in Russia? -- rank: 72

Dear Ariel Reinheimer, You wrote: > Mr. Hiatt doesn't know or pretends not to know that the Russian > population before 1991 had a very > high level of education. That was our main asset and our chance to > grow, assimilating modern > technologies. It is Russia that is now "exporting" its specialists > to ...

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Author:	chang
Date:	Wed Oct 21 01:30:23 PDT 1998