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7411 [lbo-talk] NYT: Marines' alternative approach was doomed from the start -- rank: 46

[The NYT article attached below fills in a lot of little holes, and one big one: it explains in one sentence why the Marines, who supposedly trained for months to introduce a gentler kinder counterinsurgency strategy, were so ready within a week to scrap it all and go back to ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Thu Apr 29 09:37:19 PDT 2004

7412 [lbo-talk] cuffing granny -- rank: 46

... CONSTITUTIONAL AMERICA > http://www.local6.com/news/3245574/detail.html > Police said they have a no-exceptions policy. Everyone gets treated ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Thu Apr 29 05:27:03 PDT 2004

7413 [lbo-talk] ruling class -- rank: 46

... state power depends on economic power - militaries and bureaucracies and police, etc, require substantial finance. State finance is dependent on the ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Wed Mar 29 20:56:14 PST 2006

7414 [lbo-talk] The origin of the neocon fable: Maloof and Wurmser -- rank: 46

This long article URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/28/politics/28INTE.html is very worth reading if you're an Office of Special Plans fan. It's very good. It turns out the Office of Special Plans came later. These guys were the real beginning. The article has a ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Wed Apr 28 20:22:38 PDT 2004

7415 [lbo-talk] NYT on French unions -- rank: 46

On 2006/03/30, at 23:05, Doug Henwood wrote: > JC Helary wrote: > >> But the general labor situation in Japan does not seem to me like >> it is getting better especially on the low end of things. > > Japan is just coming out of 15 years of a near-zero-growth economy ...

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Author:	JC Helary
Date:	Thu Mar 30 06:37:37 PST 2006

7416 [lbo-talk] in Geras' black and white world, is this guy a terrorist? -- rank: 46

... the same could be said of your knee. You constantly police sources for being suspiciously rightwing or stalinist or whatever. To ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 28 11:52:31 PDT 2004

7417 [lbo-talk] Norman Geras on the morality of the just war. -- rank: 46

... planted by resistance fighters in Iraq and aimed at a police station blows up a bus full of children, Outrage! Terrorism ...

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Author:	Stephen E Philion
Date:	Wed Apr 28 11:46:04 PDT 2004

7418 [lbo-talk] Norman Geras on the morality of the just war. -- rank: 46

It's quite obvious that unless you are an absolute pacificist, which Charles is not, I don't believe, that this position is a vast oversimplification. First, if you accept that some war is just -- say the war against Hitler, or the Vietnamese resistance to the various invasions of their country ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Wed Apr 28 11:35:22 PDT 2004

7419 [lbo-talk] Casualization of Youth Labor in Japan (was NYT on French unions) -- rank: 46

> On 2006/03/30, at 23:05, Doug Henwood wrote: > > > JC Helary wrote: > > > >> But the general labor situation in Japan does not seem to me like > >> it is getting better especially on the low end of things. > > > > Japan is just coming out of 15 years of a near-zero-growth ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Mar 30 06:44:29 PST 2006

7420 [lbo-talk] ruling class -- rank: 46

In my opinion, your analysis is not sufficiently in terms of class relations, the relative power of classes and the government/state. The theory of an economic ruling class only has to apply to political or government or state power with respect to _conflicts_ between the material interests of the material ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Thu Mar 30 08:01:44 PST 2006

7421 [lbo-talk] great moments in legal prose -- rank: 46

... Waiting for Lefty, " Odets, drunk, being hauled in to the police station, asked for her profession, "Cocksucker." Clifford's son, Walt ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Tue Apr 27 14:56:37 PDT 2004

7422 [lbo-talk] Muslims, Christians clash in Indonesia; 2 killed -- rank: 46

HindustanTimes.com Sunday, April 25, 2004 Muslims, Christians clash in Indonesia; 2 killed Associated Press Ambon, April 25 Muslim and Christian gangs hurled rocks at each other, and several buildings were torched in fresh violence on Sunday in Indonesia's religiously divided Maluku islands. At least two people were killed, witnesses ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Mon Apr 26 17:44:17 PDT 2004

7423 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: Useful scapegoats - WAS [Marxism] James Petras: The Tyranny Of IsraelOver America] -- rank: 46

... purveyor of Okhrana lies (The Okhrana was the Czarist secret police that forged the Protocols.) For what it's worth I ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Thu Mar 30 17:34:28 PST 2006

7424 [lbo-talk] Lockdown NYC -- rank: 46

... which unilaterally decided in Miami to make agreements with the police >over the objections of other activists. Labor has been criticized ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Mon Apr 26 09:26:56 PDT 2004

7425 [lbo-talk] Lockdown NYC -- rank: 46

Nathan Newman wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chuck0" <chuck at mutualaid.org> > > >>And your comment about hoping that the Teamsters beat up my friends is >>truly despicable. Blaming protesters for Bush getting elected is about >>as ignorant as blaming Nader for Bush getting elected. >>Thanks for confirming for me why radicals can ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Mon Apr 26 08:28:35 PDT 2004