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8101 [lbo-talk] Watching Bush on tv tonight... -- rank: 46

At 11:44 PM -0700 7/9/06, Chuck Grimes wrote: >All day, I've been thinking about the basic idea that there is no war >on terrorism, because there are no terrorists and no terrorism. Yes, >it's true, Islamic nutcases captured four flights and managed to fly >three of ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Fri Sep 8 16:05:00 PDT 2006

8102 [lbo-talk] A different take on Pussy Riot -- rank: 46

... protester died from wounds received in a clash with security police but the event is barely mentioned in the west. http ...

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Author:	ken hanly
Date:	Tue Aug 21 20:44:56 PDT 2012

8103 [lbo-talk] Kees van der Pijl -- rank: 46

At 2:19 PM -0400 6/26/03, Doug Henwood wrote: >>http://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/press/212vanderpijl.htm > >In which he writes: > >>Today, the missionary ideology constructed around the >>civilisation/barbarity dichotomy must satisfy the tastes of a >>Western public which has developed a specific set of sensibilities >>under conditions ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Jun 27 06:08:37 PDT 2003

8104 [lbo-talk] Alan Wolfe, military groupie -- rank: 46

[From Alan Wolfe's current NY Times review of "What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?" by Michael Bérubé. I agree with Wolfe that it's not right to "treat students who venerate the military ... as misguided" -- they should be treated as insane.] ... Since right-wing critics like Horowitz focus ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Sat Sep 9 08:13:58 PDT 2006

8105 [lbo-talk] FT: Saddamism w/out Saddam -- rank: 46

[The law and order problem can't be solved without a legitimate government. But at the hobbesian level at which that statement is true, "legitimate" doesn't mean chosen or living up to a moral standard. It simply means accepted by the people, integrated into society and effective. And since ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Thu Jun 26 11:45:23 PDT 2003

8106 Kazan Follow-up -- rank: 46

Thanks to Alan for going to the demonstration. I think that the reaction from the audience and the compostion of the protest showed that this was not just an event for a bunch of whiners. I would hope that all the professors and teachers in our organization will take part in ...

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Author:	billy elgin
Date:	Wed Mar 24 16:48:29 PST 1999

8107 [lbo-talk] Mark Ames on Pussy Riot -- rank: 46

Doug: "Terrific piece by Mark Ames on Pussy Riot:" [WS:] I would not call it exactly "terrific" but he is definitely into something when he writes: "Part of the hostility to Pussy Riot is that they ve become a cause-célèbre in the West. Russians have not had a very good ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Wed Aug 22 05:03:11 PDT 2012

8108 [lbo-talk] the ruling class speaks -- rank: 46

My Grandfather use to say, “even if you’re going to do something evil, do it well” which, in a nutshell, sums up the message these recommendations send (without the admission of wrongdoing of course). Despite the advice to ‘get it right’ and the implied realpolitik wisdom, there are still unproven ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Wed Jun 25 17:07:12 PDT 2003

8109 [lbo-talk] the ruling class speaks -- rank: 46

NEWS RELEASE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS U.S. Should Provide Iraqis and Americans With a More Coherent and Compelling Vision for Iraq's Political Future Experts Urge President to Deliver Major Address to the Nation on Importance of Getting the Job Done Right in Post-War Iraq June 25, 2003 - With ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 25 16:29:02 PDT 2003

8110 [lbo-talk] Alan Wolfe, military groupie -- rank: 46

... Horowitz not in fact intent on replacing left-wing > thought police

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 9 13:06:49 PDT 2006

8111 [lbo-talk] Balochistan shut over Bugti's killing -- rank: 46

Dawn http://www.dawn.com/ September 07, 2006 Thursday Balochistan shut over Bugti's killing http://www.dawn.com/2006/09/07/top2.htm By Amanullah Kasi QUETTA, Sept 6: A wheel-jam and shutter-down strike was observed throughout Balochistan on Wednesday on the call of All Parties Conference in ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Sat Sep 9 14:36:58 PDT 2006

8112 [lbo-talk] WSJ on mounting troop deaths -- rank: 46

[We all know that WSJ reporters are much more liberal than the editorial board. But still it seems to me that these first half dozen paragraphs appearing on the front page are a minor news event in themselves, not so much for their news as for the extent to which ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Wed Jun 25 04:39:16 PDT 2003

8113 [lbo-talk] volume -- rank: 46

BB>...Who can blame him for using his natural abilities to get ahead in life?  You aren't qualified to judge him unless you can say for certain that in the same situation you would have behaved in a more saintly and selfless way. When I lived in Oakland, the big ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Tue Jun 24 21:49:28 PDT 2003

8114 [lbo-talk] Zizek on Pussy Riot -- rank: 46

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_true_blasphemy_slavoj_zhizhek_on_pussy_riot The True Blasphemy: Slavoj i ek on Pussy Riot Pussy Riot members accused of blasphemy and hatred of religion? The answer is easy: the true blasphemy is the state accusation itself, formulating as a crime of religious hatred something ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Thu Aug 23 12:51:32 PDT 2012

8115 [lbo-talk] 62,006 - the number killed in the 'war on terror' -- rank: 46

62,006 - the number killed in the 'war on terror' By David Randall & Emily Gosden The Independant - UK Published: 10 September 2006 The "war on terror" - and by terrorists - has directly killed a minimum of 62,006 people, created 4.5 million refugees and cost the US more than the sum ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Sat Sep 9 22:13:24 PDT 2006