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7561 Our Man in Kosovo -- rank: 46

The eXile boys are at it again. This time with a devastating portrait of Our Man in Kosovo, William Walker, who gained his expertise in "war crimes" the old-fashioned way: by overseeing them in Honduras and El Salvador. Jeffrey St. Clair CounterPunch Folks, A long message but one worth reading ...

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Author:	CounterPunch
Date:	Thu May 6 13:30:21 PDT 1999

7562 [lbo-talk] Russia's Forests... -- rank: 46

It looks like the privatization of Russia's forests (the lungs of Europe) is beginning. Brought to mind the following from "Uncle Vanya." "SONYA: Every year Mikhail Lvovich plants new forests...He makes great efforts to prevent the old forests from being laid waste. If you listen to him, you'll ...

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Author:	joanna bujes
Date:	Fri Sep 19 11:33:59 PDT 2003

7563 da law, anti-racist links and pashukanis -- rank: 46

>>> "rc-am" <rcollins at netlink.com.au> 05/05/99 01:23PM >>> >I dare say any legal remedies the left proposes can be perverted by the right wing. "Right to work" in the U.S means the opposite of its international sense. It means the right to keep unions out ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Thu May 6 11:24:51 PDT 1999

7564 [lbo-talk] Women in Iraq -- rank: 46

from http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/ (Joanna) ....... At night I focused enough to watch "For Females Only", a weekly program on Al-Jazeera. It left me feeling enraged and depressed. The subject was, as usual, Iraq. The program was hosting three Iraqi females: Dr. Shatha Jaffar, Yanar Mohammed and Iman Abdul Jabar ...

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Author:	joanna bujes
Date:	Tue Sep 16 16:05:51 PDT 2003

7565 [lbo-talk] Re: USA 2003 -- rank: 46

BklynMagus wrote: >Brian Siano wrote: > > >Sounds like literary theory to me. Frightens students, keeps'em compliant, and directs their attention to literary malfeasances and the condemnation of writers rather than the elites. > > > >Is there something wrong with literary theory? I have found that it empowers the young people I mentor. They ...

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Author:	Brian Siano
Date:	Tue Sep 16 09:43:42 PDT 2003

7566 [lbo-talk] Amanpour on self-censorship -- rank: 46

... do when coming into a town was shoot all the police, then go into the girls' schools and slit the throats ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Sep 16 02:15:10 PDT 2003

7567 [lbo-talk] Ahmadinejad on fashion -- rank: 46

On 5/21/06, Colin Brace <cb at lim.nl> wrote: > Via Juan Cole: > > Alireza Doostdar writes: Alireza Doostdar -- I shall look him up. > Thank you for debunking the lies about Iran requiring religious > minorities to be "color-coded." I just wanted to make a small comment > about the actual national ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun May 21 15:21:19 PDT 2006

7568 guns prevent violence! -- rank: 46

At 07:09 AM 5/6/99 -0400, Margaret wrote: >I'm always stunned and dismayed that _hugely_ educated >people, big intellectual credentials, committed >leftists, able and willing to go into the most >searching analysis of geopolitical economics...these >very smart people seem so often to get a short circuit >in ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Thu May 6 08:19:35 PDT 1999

7569 [lbo-talk] Troy Davis executed -- rank: 46

... sentenced to death for the 1989 slaying of a Savannah police officer, was executed by lethal injection at a state prison ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Wed Sep 21 20:48:35 PDT 2011

7570 [lbo-talk] Ahmadinejad on fashion -- rank: 46

... outspoken critic of moves to regulate hijab, > including the recent police moves to station policewomen in Tehran to > instruct women with ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun May 21 15:50:22 PDT 2006

7571 [lbo-talk] USA 2003 -- rank: 46

... at the situation with Sherman Austin. The no-fly lists. Police harassment of activists. I'm more optimistic this week than ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Mon Sep 15 11:58:52 PDT 2003

7572 randomness and Yugo war -- rank: 46

At 14:04 05/05/99 -0400, CB wrote: >In general, a Marxist understanding doesn't deny that "big men" have ideas (intelligence, stupidity, incompetence, etc.) in world events, but that underlying these BIG IDEAS are political economic ultimate factors. Clinton , Albright and Blair are BIG PEOPLE, like the kings and ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed May 5 15:56:19 PDT 1999

7573 [lbo-talk] Book Review: The Guest, by Hwang Sok-Yong -- rank: 46

>From Political Affairs http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/3481/1/186/ Book Review: The Guest, by Hwang Sok-Yong By Martha Kramer The Guest Hwang Sok-Yong Translated by Kyung-Ja Chun and Maya West New York, Seven Stories Press, 2005 In October 1950, US military forces, during their ...

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Author:	Joel Wendland
Date:	Mon May 22 07:32:35 PDT 2006

7574 [lbo-talk] France: One-Third Identify With Neo-Fascist Right In New Poll -- rank: 46

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=10154 France: One-Third Identify With Neo-Fascist Right In New Poll by Doug Ireland April 25, 2006 DIRELAND Four years after neo-fascist Jean-Marie Le Pen created a political earthquake in France when he beat the French Socialists' candidate for place ...

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Author:	Michael Givel
Date:	Tue May 23 05:53:43 PDT 2006

7575 [lbo-talk] Noam Chomsky is losing it -- rank: 46

... I would guess: ongoing measurement of statistical disparity, training of police and other arms of the law, changes to law and ...

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Author:	// ravi
Date:	Wed Sep 28 07:14:08 PDT 2011