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7516 [lbo-talk] Iraq: al Sistani Urges Calm, Sadr Calls For War, Judge Issues Arrest Warrant For al Sadr -- rank: 46

Clearly, the US and its allies have decided al Sadr is a threat who must be neutralized one way or the other. It seems the occupiers' options are severely limited: if al Sadr is arrested it's easy to predict more violence as his followers demand his release. If he's ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Mon Apr 5 10:25:02 PDT 2004

7517 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 4, Issue 40 -- rank: 46

... taste. The U.S. doesn't need lessons in imperial brutality from anyone. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 5 09:38:27 PDT 2004

7518 [lbo-talk] The country that wouldn't grow up -- rank: 46

He wrote a foreword to Said's From Oslo to Iraq (reprinted in The Nation <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040719/judt>. And he the piece I've appended below also appeared in The Nation. Doug Joel Schalit wrote: >I may be wrong here, and definitely stand corrected if so. > >On ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 10 10:44:02 PDT 2006

7519 [lbo-talk] More news from the retreat from Mosconia -- rank: 46

Gonzalez is to San Francisco what Nader is to the United States: "This shows the problem of trying to build a movement around an individual,'' he said. "There was hope after (Supervisor Tom) Ammiano (ran for mayor in 1999), but the movement fell apart. Now with Matt leaving, unless he re ...

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Author:	John Adams
Date:	Mon Apr 5 05:40:50 PDT 2004

7520 [lbo-talk] Recruiting Abuses Mount as Army Struggles to Meet Goals -- rank: 46

Recruiting Abuses Mount as Army Struggles to Meet Goals By Michelle Roberts 2006 Newhouse News Service \ PORTLAND, Ore. -- Jared Guinther is 18. Tall and lanky, he will graduate from high school in June. Girls think he's cute, until they try to talk to him and he stammers or just stands ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Wed May 10 22:37:57 PDT 2006

7521 [lbo-talk] Sadr City Explodes -- rank: 46

Anybody got time to take a playtime break here in this sandbox and pay some attention to Dwaynes' last post? A new front is opening in the struggle for the liberation of Iraq from the Christian-Judeo Crusader dictatorship (as they secretly style themselves) presently in occupation of that country, a ...

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Author:	Brad Mayer
Date:	Sun Apr 4 22:49:41 PDT 2004

7522 [lbo-talk] even more phone spying -- rank: 46

... stuff hampers real investigation, which boils down to old-fashioned police work. That's why Spain is better at finding and ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Thu May 11 10:45:51 PDT 2006

7523 RES: [lbo-talk] Prison populations, Russia vs. US ? -- rank: 46

... in the United States. This was explained by the large police presence, strict gun controls, and the relatively low incidence of ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Apr 4 07:26:05 PDT 2004

7524 [lbo-talk] NYT pans "Giuliani Time" -- rank: 46

... being rescued by the institution of Rudolph Giuliani's NYC police state -- takes a dim view of the documentary "Giuliani Time ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Thu May 11 21:55:18 PDT 2006

7525 [lbo-talk] meanwhile, in Asia -- rank: 46

The forces of darkness are ready, waiting in the wings In Asia's year of elections, Indonesian democracy is hanging by a thread Martin Jacques Saturday April 3, 2004 The Guardian This is Asia's great year of elections. Taiwan's has already taken place, throwing the country into the worst ...

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Author:	Eubulides
Date:	Fri Apr 2 22:04:58 PST 2004

7526 [lbo-talk] Martha juror's ex calls him a woman-hater -- rank: 46

New York Post - April 2, 2004 EX RIPS MARTHA JUROR By MARIANNE GARVEY and WILLIAM NEUMAN The ex-girlfriend of the Martha Stewart (news - web sites) juror who said her convicti on was "a victory for the little guy" says he's a woman hater who shouldn't be judging anybody ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 2 12:28:26 PST 2004

7527 [lbo-talk] Policing Pregnancy: the Unborn Victims of Violence Act -- rank: 46

***** Policing Pregnancy Lynn M. Paltrow is the executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women <http://www.advocatesforpregnantwomen.org/>. After the Senate passed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act last week, President George W. Bush -- the same man who supports relaxing rules for fetus-poisoning mercury -- wasted no time signing ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Apr 2 09:10:01 PST 2004

7528 Observer: NATO credibility collapses -- rank: 46

Observer (London) - May 9, 1999 'End the bombing calls after embassy fiasco' Chinese protests erupt after four die in Nato's 'tragic mistake' By Patrick Wintour, Ed Vulliamy in Washington, John Gittings in Hong Kong Sunday May 9, 1999 The credibility of the West's campaign against Slobodan Milosevic was close ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 8 22:26:55 PDT 1999

7529 [lbo-talk] Criminal stats question -- rank: 46

Luke writes: "People of low socio-economic status are vastly overrepresented in our prisons primarily due to the following two factors: (1) they commit more crimes, due to bad formative circumstantial luck (e.g. I don't have much incentive to beat someone up to steal his wallet, though I might ...

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Author:	dks
Date:	Thu Apr 1 15:30:28 PST 2004

7530 [lbo-talk] Khodorkovsky's mea cupla -- rank: 46

Cf. Bukharin, Escalante ("Microfaction, " alist, (see details on his self-criticism on pgs. 588-590 of Robert Quirk's bio of Castro) or Padilla. Also, Hope and Memory : Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Tzvetan Todorov (Author) "This is a very rich book, full of interesting--and often highly controversial--conversation ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Thu Apr 1 08:06:10 PST 2004