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7201 [lbo-talk] Courageous Ba'ath Insurgents Strike Another Blow ForFreedom and Democracy! -- rank: 46

... guts to mow down a bunch of > desperately poor Iraqi police and then turn hardened > criminals loose on the population! Hopefully ...

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Author:	Luke Weiger
Date:	Sat Feb 14 13:55:55 PST 2004

7202 [lbo-talk] Courageous Ba'ath Insurgents Strike Another Blow For Freedom and Democracy! -- rank: 46

... guts to mow down a bunch of desperately poor Iraqi police and then turn hardened criminals loose on the population! Hopefully ...

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Author:	mike larkin
Date:	Sat Feb 14 13:47:42 PST 2004

7203 [lbo-talk] the much despised Tariq Ali on war's aftermath -- rank: 46

... a car bomb ripped through Iraqis queuing to join the police force. The US military blamed al- Qaida loyalists and foreign ...

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Author:	Stephen E Philion
Date:	Sat Feb 14 12:31:05 PST 2004

7204 [lbo-talk] Afghanistan: a very temporary victory -- rank: 46

... tried in a third > country. > > > > Since this would have resembled police work (as > opposed to a good > > stiffdicked war), their sincerity ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Mar 8 05:36:23 PST 2006

7205 [lbo-talk] Iraqi communists on "resistance" -- rank: 46

Grant Lee grantlee at iinet.net.au, Thu Feb 12 19:44:25 PST 2004: >In the final analysis, they provide pretexts for prolonging the >occupation!" Central Committee of the Iraqi Communist Party, >23-12-2003, "Towards the Broadest Political Alliance to End the >Occupation and Consolidate the Democratic Process", Iraqi ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Feb 13 08:02:55 PST 2004

7206 [lbo-talk] Iraq, the left and the 'resistance' (Geras blog) -- rank: 46

> (It is difficult for me to believe that you, or anyone, could actually > be serious when you write this kind of thing. That is why usually I do > not answer them.) Ha, ha, very funny stuff! > "Let them duke it out?" Yes. That is exactly what the First > International proposed ...

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Author:	Michael Dawson -PSU
Date:	Thu Feb 12 11:03:00 PST 2004

7207 Saskia Sassen - A NEW GEOGRAPHY OF POWER? -- rank: 46

Hi Angela and lbosters- Sassen has a guest professorship at the Humboldt Uni this semester. She and Richard Sennett are speaking at the HdKdW (House of world cultures, aka the pregnant oyster, in the tiergarten) on Sunday evening. So I'm also curious... Funny - I had read this text last week ...

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Author:	Anita Mage
Date:	Tue May 18 07:00:00 PDT 1999

7208 [lbo-talk] Solzhenitsyn and Putin -- rank: 46

Most of this piece was blathering hagiographic idiocy, but this snippet is interesting: New Times January 2004 THE MESSIAH WE HAVE LOST Solzhenitsin s dream has come true: the authorities seek his advice By Ilya Milstein Soon Alexander Solzhenitsin will turn 85. It is the age of a patriarch time to ...

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Author:	" Chris Doss "
Date:	Thu Feb 12 02:14:28 PST 2004

7209 China should apologize to the US -- rank: 46

Wojtek, Well, the hard truth is that there are hard line factions in both the US and China that would love to have the two countries at each others' throats in utter hostility. Safire and Buckley are certainly part of that faction in the US. Buckley, of course, has always been ...

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Author:	J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Date:	Mon May 17 15:30:16 PDT 1999

7210 [lbo-talk] Activism -- rank: 46

On Tuesday, February 10, 2004, at 06:03 PM, kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: > no, it was a reaction to your claim that we do nothing and lack of > political participation is, apparently, solely the result of the > individual's selfish, apathetic decision-making. i'm actually the kind > of person ...

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Author:	Jon Johanning
Date:	Wed Feb 11 09:23:50 PST 2004

7211 [lbo-talk] Terror in the South (Activism) -- rank: 46

>Ulhas writes: >"Why the US doesn't have a strong Left or social-democratic tradition?" >The long answer is very long; the short answer is "because of racism." >Joanna One of the decisive turning points in US history was the failure of the Civil War and Reconstruction to do away ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Feb 11 07:12:59 PST 2004

7212 [lbo-talk] Iraq, the left and the 'resistance' (Geras blog) -- rank: 46

LNP3 would cite LDT on Ethiopa and Italy. http://kenmacleod.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_kenmacleod_archive.html Monday, February 02, 2004 Posted 2:06 PM by Ken Empires and the Modern Prince The delegates brandish their weapons. (Note, possibly apocryphal, from the record of the Baku Congress of the Peoples ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Tue Feb 10 20:49:50 PST 2004

7213 [lbo-talk] Iraq, the left and the 'resistance' (Geras blog) -- rank: 46

Seth wrote: >>Perhaps, Pilger has a different understanding of what "winning" >>means than mine. In my view, resistance fighters themselves cannot >>win as long as they have no political wing that can command >>allegiance of sizable sectors of all critical constituencies in >>Iraq. > >Not true. Armed groups win power all the ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Feb 10 19:37:37 PST 2004

7214 [lbo-talk] Feds go after records, NLG -- rank: 46

<http://www.theiowachannel.com/education/2833197/detail.html> Feds Drop All Subpoenas Against Peace Protesters, University Advocates Rally At Federal Courthouse Tuesday DES MOINES, Iowa -- After almost a week of controversy, the U.S. attorney in Des Moines dropped four subpoenas against local peace protesters and one subpoena against Drake ...

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Author:	John Mage
Date:	Tue Feb 10 15:14:24 PST 2004

7215 [lbo-talk] Activism -- rank: 46

At 03:09 PM 2/10/2004, John Halle wrote: >Very revealing post this one: the usual apathy about "licking envelopes", >forming alliances among disparate groups (some of whom might not-God >forbid-be intimately familiar with the works of Gramsci!), participating >in governance etc. is replaced by contempt and ridicule ...

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Author:	kelley at pulpculture.org
Date:	Tue Feb 10 15:03:12 PST 2004