Tag: politics
member name: Charlie D.
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June 06, 2007 02:51 PM EDT --
a new book by Robert Kennedy Junior. I suspect
that some will dismiss the book immediately
because it was written by a Kennedy, others
would because of the sub-title "How George
Bush and His Corporate . . .
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June 17, 2007 06:17 PM EDT --
This is a vexing question to me, perhaps
because of the enormous hostility a sizable
number of Americans seem to have about
immigrants (again) despite the *fact* that
everyone in the Western hemisphere . . .
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June 06, 2007 03:38 PM EDT --
Subject: Muqtada al-Sadr, Threats and Possibilities ...
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:31:36 -0800
The day before yesterday, Muqtada al-Sadr ordered
his Mahdi army to fight America's . . .
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June 10, 2007 06:19 PM EDT --
As the President moves to veto only his second piece
of legislation in six years because it doesn't give him
(and presumably the generals in Baghdad) a free hand
in the Iraq situation, it would . . .
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June 05, 2007 06:45 PM EDT --
Reading a little book by Zbigniew Brzezinski yesterday
called Second Chance, Three Presidents and the Crisis
of American Superpower and then having a conversation
today with a dear friend who is half Russian . . .
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June 06, 2007 06:25 PM EDT --
Reports in the past couple hours indicate that
"several thousand" Turkish soldiers have
invaded Kurdish Iraq today. An anonymous
Turkish source stated that it wasn't the "tens
of thousands" . . .
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June 06, 2007 11:24 PM EDT --
The book is called What Terrorists Want: Understanding
the Enemy, Containing the Threat by Louise Richardson of
Harvard (2006). The excerpt is from Chapter 8 of that book,
entitled "What is . . .
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June 13, 2007 12:19 AM EDT --
A front page story in the New York Times
today by Michael Gordon from Baghdad
addresses some questions raised in the piece
I wrote earlier today and the idea that we are
not coasting on US military . . .
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June 20, 2007 08:47 PM EDT --
Now, here, in actuality, is the proposal on term limits I thought
Congress and the states would agree to back in December of
last year, with one modification (I left the Presidency alone in
this version, . . .
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June 08, 2007 06:16 PM EDT --
Vladimir Putin followed up on George Bush's "invitation"
to "share" in Europe's missile defense by offering an
alternate location - Azerbaijan - to the proposed locations . . .
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June 10, 2007 06:53 PM EDT --
A fascinating little book is Children of
the Sun, A History of Humanity's
Unappeasable Appetite for Energy,
192 pages, . . .
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June 19, 2007 11:54 PM EDT --
I joined this list eighteen years ago this July, back
when the list contained such luminaries as Tim
Johnson, Bill Sklar, Linda Saboe, Kerry Kilburn,
"Other Andy," Steve, Bill Dickson, Laura . . .
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June 09, 2007 02:30 AM EDT --
These excerpts appeared in a book by Terry Glavin
called The Sixth Extinction, Journeys Among the Lost
and Left Behind (2007), a book about what Glavin
calls "the Holocene extinction" . . .
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June 09, 2007 11:15 AM EDT --
Akhil Amar's America's Constitution, a Biography, (the best
book on the US Constitution I've ever seen) is really a detailed
examination of the US' most underpinning document, . . .
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January 02, 2008 02:22 PM EST --
Pakistan's "democracy" took a severe blow today with
the killing by suicide bomber (or a shooter AND a suicide
bomber, reports are sketchy still) that brought her DOA
. . .
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January 02, 2008 02:34 PM EST --
Banazir Bhutto's demise at the hands of assassins
can only tip the balance in Pakistan dangerously
away from democracy - the military may well
dispense with both elections (or perhaps . . .
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January 02, 2008 02:44 PM EST --
The confusion that seems to be emanating
from the accounts of Banazir Bhutto's death
does not make President General Musharraf's
government come out looking very solid.
The . . .
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June 05, 2007 06:14 PM EDT --
The AP, in the person of Charles Hanley, reported
yesterday that Turkish troops are massing on the
Iraqi border across from the Iraqi Kurdish area,
and that insurgents/"saboteurs" have blown . . .
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June 05, 2007 11:04 PM EDT --
The POLITICS list is having a fairly vigorous
debate about hatred, with some posters going
at the difference between hatred and anger or
hatred and dislike. I always am uncomfortable
when someone says . . .
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June 07, 2007 10:57 PM EDT --
I'm a child of the nuclear age, born two years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki; nuclear weapons have always been around in my lifetime. My generation is the first to ever been able to say this about the . . .
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