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7126 [lbo-talk] NYTimes Reviews Chomsky's _Hegemony or Survival_ -- rank: 46

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/04/books/review/04POWERT.html It's not hard to spot the usual Times derision towards Chomsky: headlining the review "The Everything Explainer" tips readers to expect Chomsky's work to be just more conspiracy theory. But the review itself isn't nearly as scornful ...

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Author:	Brian Siano
Date:	Sat Jan 3 20:21:29 PST 2004

7127 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Hamas arrests planned weeks ago; G8: Move raises Concern, Ha'aretz] -- rank: 46

Ha'aretz - 16:24 29/06/2006 Hamas arrests planned weeks ago; G8: Move raises 'concerns' By Avi Issacharoff and Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondents and News Agencies The detention of dozens of Hamas lawmakers in the early hours of Thursday morning had been planned several weeks ago and received approval from ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 29 09:39:08 PDT 2006

7128 [lbo-talk] Re: sex across the color line -- rank: 46

Yoshie wrote: I don't think that it makes sense to make much of the "white privilege" of the Joneses, loving and grieving parents by all counts, as Wise does, since it is not at all clear that anything that they could have told Dixon would have helped him in this ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Sat Jan 3 17:35:47 PST 2004

7129 [lbo-talk] Bernard Baran finally free -- rank: 46

By Adam Gorlick, Associated Press Writer | June 30, 2006 PITTSFIELD, Mass. --Bernard Baran, who was convicted in 1985 of raping five children at a day care center, was freed from prison Friday pending a new trial. Baran, 42, posted $50,000 bail and was released at Berkshire Superior Court after being ...

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Author:	Stephen E Philion
Date:	Fri Jun 30 07:58:22 PDT 2006

7130 [lbo-talk] sex across the color line -- rank: 46

<http://www.blackcommentator.com/71/71_wise_sex.html> "Sex across the Color Line" by Tim Wise This is the story of a real American tragedy. The kind they make movies about. The victim - and let there be no mistake that is the only word that fits here - is Marcus ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 3 09:43:10 PST 2004

7131 [lbo-talk] Iraqi schools offer frustrating lesson -- rank: 46

Iraqi schools offer frustrating lesson Pace of rebuilding vexes U.S. military Advertisement By Christine Spolar Tribune foreign correspondent January 3, 2004 MOSUL, Iraq -- The bombed-out classrooms and teetering stairways of Mutzahbal High School serve as a cautionary tale about the U.S.-led effort to reconstruct Iraq. Mutzahbal once ...

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Author:	Stephen Philion
Date:	Sat Jan 3 09:00:32 PST 2004

7132 [lbo-talk] Re: Porn and Prostitution Question -- rank: 46

[Original question from Chris Doss] Stupid question: OK, prostitution is illegal in the States. Prostitution is being paid to have sex with a client. Now, porn actors/actresses are also paid to have sex with other porn actors/actresses. Why is being a porn actor legal and being a prostitute ...

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Author:	Anthony J. Kennerson
Date:	Fri Jun 30 10:38:40 PDT 2006

7133 [lbo-talk] Bush has thrown open Pandora's box in a paradise for international terrorists By David Hirst The Guardian, UK -- rank: 46

Bush has thrown open Pandora's box in a paradise for international terrorists 2003 has been a crucial year for the Middle East, with war in Iraq and the continuing intifada in Israel. The Guardian's acclaimed commentator on the region assesses what happened, what it means, and where it might ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Jan 2 22:23:49 PST 2004

7134 [lbo-talk] Cracks Appear in U.S.-Trained Iraq Corps -- rank: 46

Cracks Appear in U.S.-Trained Iraq Corps Fri Jan 2, 3:04 PM ET By JASON KEYSER, Associated Press Writer TIKRIT, Iraq - A foot patrol of U.S.-trained Iraqi civil defense officers emerges from an alley into the bustle of this city's main highway. Quickly, some of the ...

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Author:	Stephen Philion
Date:	Fri Jan 2 16:28:40 PST 2004

7135 "How Dare Those Serbs Defy Our Air Power!" -- rank: 46

>From the current New York Observer (best line, IMO: "The norm in modern warfare is killing civilians. It's killing soldiers that is accidental."): How Dare Those Serbs Defy Our Air Power! by Nicholas von Hoffman It's two months since Secretary of State Madeleine Halfbright's remark that a ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Wed May 19 11:47:27 PDT 1999

7136 News and notes today -- rank: 46

See today at http://come.to/luta Should anyone in this world be yellower than the author of this statement? ''If NATO succeeds, companies like General Motors and Ford will close production lines here and move capital to Yugoslavia in order to take over the industries that NATO destroyed????? ''If It ...

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Author:	Marko Ajdaric
Date:	Wed May 19 11:37:52 PDT 1999

7137 [lbo-talk] Dubya does Delhi: will the chimps make rude noises? -- rank: 46

http://www.guardian.co.uk/india/story/0,,1720429,00.html Baby Bush go home Arundhati Roy Wednesday March 1, 2006 The Guardian On his triumphalist tour of this part of the world, where he hopes to wave imperiously at people he considers potential subjects, President Bush's itinerary is getting ...

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Author:	Colin Brace
Date:	Wed Mar 1 01:40:43 PST 2006

7138 [lbo-talk] Dubya does Delhi: will the chimps make rude noises? -- rank: 46

... power to >protest it, and we will. The government, the police and the corporate >press will do everything they can to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 1 06:57:24 PST 2006

7139 Social movements (was Re: [lbo-talk] DIY abortions) -- rank: 46

Chuck Munson writes: > This is just illustrated by history. The 1964 Voting > Rights Act was apporved only after decades of illegal, > militant struggle by the civil rights movement. The Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964; the Voting Rights Act came in 1965. Chronology aside, though, Chuck's view of this ...

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Author:	John Lacny
Date:	Thu Mar 2 08:39:49 PST 2006

7140 [lbo-talk] BDL on Sweezy -- rank: 46

>Brad DeLong writes at: ><http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/Index.html/>: > >>Paul Sweezy, 1910-2004. >> >>I would like Paul Sweezy to be remembered for the following passage: >> >> >>"The publication in 1952 of Stalin's Economic Problems of Socialism >>in the USSR would make possible today a more ...

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Author:	Brad DeLong
Date:	Sun Feb 29 20:13:48 PST 2004