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7036 [lbo-talk] This is WAR, sons! -- rank: 46

At 03:06 PM 7/6/2004, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >Jon wrote: >>However, my layperson's opinion is that it is not a very good idea to >>refer to "Muslim terrorists," because I don't think the Islamic component >>of their actions is terribly important, > >it's certainly an important part ...

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Author:	snit snat
Date:	Tue Jul 6 14:23:57 PDT 2004

7037 [lbo-talk] violent crime up -- rank: 46

Miles wrote: >Archer's argument is that the legitimate >violence conducted by the state provides a >ubiquitous role model for aggression >in everyday life. He also says it's this plus access to firearms that explains America's high homicide rate. (cue Jordan). >After viewing America's experience compared to >that ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Tue Jun 13 10:43:34 PDT 2006

7038 [lbo-talk] violent crime up -- rank: 46

jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com wrote: > > Why do you say 'probably' ...? Most murder in the US happens during the comission of a violent crime. By violent criminals. People make the mistake of hearing that many murderers know their victim and think it must be two drunk idiots ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Wed Jun 14 02:52:43 PDT 2006

7039 [lbo-talk] Rumsfeld gave go-ahead says Karpinski -- rank: 46

... tactics. Brig-Gen Janis Karpinski, who commanded the 800th Military Police Brigade, which is at the centre of the Abu Ghraib ...

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Author:	snit snat
Date:	Mon Jul 5 18:55:20 PDT 2004

7040 A reply to Solidarity/ATC on Nato's war -- rank: 46

... recent history of Kosovo is marked by exaggeration of Serb brutality. For example, in the "massacre" at Racak in January, which ...

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Author:	Louis Proyect
Date:	Sat May 22 05:25:08 PDT 1999

7041 [lbo-talk] This is WAR, sons! -- rank: 46

making the rounds... you know, for the sake of examining the conservative mind. Sorry Simon! THE WORLD SITUATION * A LETTER TO MY SONS This was written by a retired attorney, to his sons, May 19, 2004. Dear Tom, Kevin, Kirby and Ted, As your father, I believe I owe it to ...

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Author:	snit snat
Date:	Mon Jul 5 14:07:55 PDT 2004

7042 [lbo-talk] Why do they hate Moore? -- rank: 46

I think you're doing a bit of gnat-straining here. It seems clear that Osama & co. were responsible for the 9/11 attacks, primarily because they said so. But the US showed itself rather uninterested in the matter: it had another agenda, as we know from Clarke et al. After ...

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Author:	C. G. Estabrook
Date:	Mon Jul 5 08:49:28 PDT 2004

7043 [lbo-talk] violent crime up -- rank: 46

Australian Broadcasting Corporation TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT LOCATION: http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2006/s1662218.htm Broadcast: 13/06/2006 Hicks 'severely damaged', says CIA expert Reporter: Tony Jones TONY JONES: Well, Alfred McCoy is Professor of history at the University of Wisconsin. In 1972 he wrote The Politics of ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Tue Jun 13 18:35:08 PDT 2006

7044 [lbo-talk] violent crime up -- rank: 46

--- jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com wrote: > > To what do you attribute the high firearm-driven > > murder rate in this country, then? > > Oh, so I'm the Sociologist now? :) Well, you have a theory. It's that the explanation for the high US murder rate is that ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Wed Jun 14 12:04:06 PDT 2006

7045 [lbo-talk] 90 Gay/Lesbian books burned in Chicago Library -- rank: 46

... about 10 books destroyed in the African American literature section. Police say they are investigating but are not calling it a ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Wed Jun 14 22:32:16 PDT 2006

7046 [lbo-talk] "Islamicisation" of the Iraqi insurgency -- rank: 46

... know, professional military officers from the Republican Guards, the secret police, these men are in the military for a career. They ...

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Author:	Grant Lee
Date:	Fri Jul 2 21:14:55 PDT 2004

7047 [lbo-talk] political art -- rank: 46

... painting from view for safety, as advised by San Francisco police. She has been called "un-American" and was spat at ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Jul 2 18:14:36 PDT 2004

7048 [lbo-talk] Why do they hate Moore? -- rank: 46

... supporting the most murderous and fanatical thugs the US secret police > > could find (with significant blowback results)--after a US refusal ...

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Author:	C. G. Estabrook
Date:	Fri Jul 2 17:04:04 PDT 2004

7049 [lbo-talk] Why do they hate Moore? -- rank: 46

... supporting the most murderous and fanatical thugs the US secret police > could find (with significant blowback results)--after a US refusal ...

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Author:	Luke Weiger
Date:	Fri Jul 2 11:40:46 PDT 2004

7050 [lbo-talk] Why do they hate Moore? -- rank: 46

... supporting the most murderous and fanatical thugs the US secret police could find (with significant blowback results) -- after a US refusal ...

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Author:	C. G. Estabrook
Date:	Fri Jul 2 11:28:38 PDT 2004