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8446 Timothy Brennan on Hardt & Negri (_Critical Inquiry_) -- rank: 46

(I have never read anything by Timothy Brennan, so can give no background on him.) Carrol ----- The Empire's New Clothes by Timothy Brennan Critical Inquiry Volume 29, Number 2, Winter 2003, pp. 337-67 Critical Response I, pp. 368-73 The Rod of the Forest Warden: A Response to ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Wed Jan 1 17:31:44 PST 2003

8447 Criticism, Self-Criticism, and a few other things. -- rank: 46

Carrol: >> And how do you get from pronouncement to fact? It's not like god >> saying "Let there be light" and there was light. > >That's a matter for continuing discussion -- a discussion that is not >forwarded by asking vacuous questions anymore than it is forwarded by >wholly unanchored sweeping statements ...

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Author:	Peter K.
Date:	Wed Jan 1 10:01:10 PST 2003

8448 [lbo-talk] the virginina university massacre -- rank: 46

... shot by a gangster in front of his campaign office, police said." http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20070418p2a00m0na002000c ...

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Author:	Joseph Catron
Date:	Tue Apr 17 21:53:28 PDT 2007

8449 [lbo-talk] Collective idiocy.... -- rank: 46

On 2012-12-18, at 1:20 PM, Sean Andrews wrote: > If it is weird that SCOTUS allows > for right wing militias, it is absolutely loony that the army feels okay > basically arming and training paramilitaries who might eventually pose a > threat to their power. Unless, of course, they think those ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Tue Dec 18 14:05:22 PST 2012

8450 dilomats resignation letter -- rank: 46

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > >New York Times - February 27, 2003 > >February 27, 2003 > >U.S. Diplomat's Letter of Resignation Genuinely impressive. There is one other particularly lucid assessment of the current crisis that will, or should, go into the history books because of its eloquence and ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Fri Feb 28 08:20:38 PST 2003

8451 [lbo-talk] the virginina university massacre -- rank: 46

... lived on campus. By accounts now surfacing in the news, police came to speak with victims in one case (maybe more ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Wed Apr 18 07:04:51 PDT 2007

8452 [lbo-talk] Moktada's al-Sadr's timetable -- rank: 46

[evidently al-Sadr's partisans don't agree with the "Out Now!" platform - this is from an article by Edward Wong in yesterday's NYT] <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/world/middleeast/17iraq.html? _r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all> But the prime minister resisted Mr. Sadr s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 18 11:25:00 PDT 2007

8453 [lbo-talk] Australian Gun Control -- rank: 46

At 08:30 AM 4/18/2007, you wrote: >But the U.S. is an urban country too, if not quite as much as >Australia, but in our national imagination, we're still country or >small town. Is there nothing analogous in Australia? > >Doug the typical shotgun owner I've known ...

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Author:	bitch at pulpculture.org
Date:	Wed Apr 18 17:07:00 PDT 2007

8454 [lbo-talk] Australian Gun Control -- rank: 46

Long story short, bitch is right, as usual: 1) guns are pretty useless for self-defense; normally, then you need them, the bad guy has his out already. 2) this issue is a distraction for real issues. Like, anyone notice what the SCOTUS did about abortion today? 3) I'd add ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Wed Apr 18 19:11:15 PDT 2007

8455 $95b for war -- rank: 46

Wall Street Journal - February 26, 2003 Bush to Seek Up to $95 Billion To Cover Cost of War in Iraq By GREG JAFFE and JOHN D. MCKINNON Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is preparing supplemental spending requests totaling as much as $95 billion for a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 26 14:24:15 PST 2003

8456 In Praise of Doubt Re: aphorism -- rank: 46

Mark Bennett wrote: >> >Echoes of Yeats' "The best lack all conviction, while the worst/are >> >full of passionate intensity >>Though according to Harold Bloom, this is a fascist sentiment. >>Doug >Yes, well, that's probably true; but it remains an admirable sentiment. ***** Read history and see The headlong flight of invincible ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Feb 26 06:07:03 PST 2003

8457 poor white republicans -- rank: 46

``...We were all good buddies and did everything together, but when I walked in the back kitchen door to say hi, one of my best friends there looked at me and said, `Why are you here? You just think you're better than us now because you are in school ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Tue Feb 25 22:49:12 PST 2003

8458 Anti-imperialism of fools -- rank: 46

Searchlight February 2003 <URL: http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/stories/story_index.htm > Anti-imperialism of fools Antisemitism is enjoying a renaissance. In Britain, attacks on Jewish people or property have increased by 260% over a two-year period; in France, synagogues have been firebombed. The antisemitic upsurge is closely linked to ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Tue Feb 25 10:41:44 PST 2003

8459 Ramsey Clark Fights For Peace -- rank: 46

In a message dated 2/24/2003 9:04:07 PM Pacific Standard Time, dhenwood at panix.com writes: > I'm judging the relative evil-doing of a U.S. president and SH - > there's no question that the occupants of 1600 have killed far more > people than SH could dream ...

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Author:	DoreneFC at aol.com
Date:	Mon Feb 24 22:30:17 PST 2003

8460 [lbo-talk] The system did not work, after all -- rank: 46

... because an acquaintance reported he might be suicidal, authorities said. Police did not identify the acquaintance. On Dec. 13, 2005, a ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Thu Apr 19 06:18:17 PDT 2007