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7066 [lbo-talk] 20 years since the Miners' Strike -- rank: 46

The WEEK ending 25 January 2004 'STRIKE: WHEN BRITAIN WENT TO WAR' Channel Four's documentary marking twenty years since the start of the year-long miners' strike was a ghoulish exercise in nostalgia. Told largely from the point of view of student 'sympathisers' at the time, the documentary ended up ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jan 25 03:43:10 PST 2004

7067 [lbo-talk] RE: activism -- rank: 46

... Bush has not expanded the "government"; he has expanded the police, the army, and those who supply them. This distinction needs ...

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Author:	joanna bujes
Date:	Sat Jan 24 23:53:31 PST 2004

7068 [lbo-talk] Israeli Military disallowed from using human shields, shifts tactics to bringing down house on suspect's head along with their family -- rank: 46

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/727296.html Huge rise recorded in number of houses IDF razes in arrest raids By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent A Haaretz inquiry reveals that the Israel Defense Forces has increased its use of home demolitions during West Bank arrest raids since a ban on the ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Thu Jun 15 13:14:11 PDT 2006

7069 [lbo-talk] Top court allows evidence in illegal home entry -- rank: 46

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060615/pl_nm/court_police_dc_4 Wojtek

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Thu Jun 15 13:14:34 PDT 2006

7070 [lbo-talk] Re: Undecided Until the Last Minute Re: Dean's Self-Demolition -- rank: 46

Curtiss Leung curtiss_leung at ibi.com, Thu Jan 22 11:54:04 PST 2004 >Yoshie on movements vs. swing-voters: > >>The reason why grassroots organizing's capacity to mobilize and >>politicize people is central to social-movement building _but >>matters little in an election_ is that elections (especially >>money-and ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Jan 22 13:13:15 PST 2004

7071 RES: [lbo-talk] Is India Exploited by imperialism? -- rank: 46

I beg to differ. The Portuguese wine industry is still there, alive and kicking (been there last year, excellent porto, itself a British invention as I was told by local wine makers). But where is the British textile industry today? In the same place as the British Empire, I suppose, on ...

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Author:	Alexandre Fenelon
Date:	Thu Jan 22 08:54:06 PST 2004

7072 [lbo-talk] february column -- rank: 46

COASTAL POST (415)868 1600 FAX (415) 868 0502 P.O. Box 31 Bolinas CA 94924 http://www.coastalpost.com email: editor at coastalpost.com February, 2004 Capital Punishment by Frank Scott The primitive American welfare state that followed the great depression of the 1930s, and was extended by the great ...

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Author:	frank scott
Date:	Wed Jan 21 14:00:33 PST 2004

7073 [lbo-talk] Randall Terry pied -- rank: 46

... and slow witted 'community affairs' officer of the New York Police Department. In a diverse and open-minded city like NYC ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 21 13:06:21 PST 2004

7074 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1, Issue 2237 -- rank: 46

This certainly captures the zeitgeist, but I think the psychosis derives from the total mismatch between the (now) official ideology of "Empire" and the complete impossibility of any such real Empire now and in the future. Empire is simply not a possibility for America, ever. Hence, Empire is the leading metaphor ...

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Author:	Brad Mayer
Date:	Wed Jan 21 12:38:37 PST 2004

7075 [lbo-talk] Re: Perle snaps.... -- rank: 46

... long list of righwing national security measures, including the domestic police state Patriot Act. Since we are at war, anything is ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Wed Jan 21 09:59:45 PST 2004

7076 Conviction -- rank: 46

Today in London someone was sentenced to 22 years in prison for conspiracy to cause explosions together with 2 others. In April 1998 he had posted three times on marxism-general. His first post showed his despair at the political prospects in Ireland. It illustrates the marxist critique of the opportunist ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Fri May 21 15:46:19 PDT 1999

7077 The weakness of the anti-war movement -- rank: 46

At 04:16 PM 5/20/99 -0400, Nathan Newman wrote: >Honestly, I would no doubt be more suspicious, precisely because I know >labor and progressive forces have little influence over GOP Presidents. >(Which is the link to the debate over Kosovo to the debate over the Dems). >But precisely because ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Fri May 21 08:26:13 PDT 1999

7078 [lbo-talk] WSJ:South Korea's Credit Card Meltdown -- rank: 46

Although there are several uniquely S. Korean elements to this story, how different is the US's household debt problem from the one described? DRM ============================================================ After Credit Binge In South Korea, Big Bill Comes Due Government Pushed Plastic To Juice Up the Economy; Banks, Borrowers Suffer By HAE WON CHOI and ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Tue Jan 20 13:46:31 PST 2004

7079 [lbo-talk] squeaky clean biopower in the panopticon -- rank: 46

New Kinds of Drug Tests Weighed for Federal Workers Bush Administration Considers Sampling Hair, Saliva, Sweat By Christopher Lee Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, January 20, 2004; Page A17 Federal workers who submit to drug screening soon may have their saliva, sweat or hair tested as the Bush administration increases efforts ...

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Author:	Eubulides
Date:	Mon Jan 19 22:10:20 PST 2004

7080 [lbo-talk] Indology: Vandalism and preservation -- rank: 46

A certain sort of elite post-nationalism has been recently dissected by the most excellent Ashok Mitra in "Calcutta Diary" in the December 6, 2003 EPW (can't post the URL since access requires registration - i'm pasting in below only the conclusion of a longer piece). john mage ...This shift ...

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Author:	John Mage
Date:	Sun Jan 18 14:16:28 PST 2004