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676 Chechnya: response to Russian invasion? -- rank: 1000

At 16:50 01/10/99 -0700, you wrote: >> >> > >> >Why should we want to support Islamic militants? Look what happened in >> >Afghanistan after Russian pullot - women being denied the most basic human >> >rights, public executions. >> >> >>That sounds terrible to me. Surely it is a touchstone of the >>internationalism of people living in western "Christian" countries that >>they should be able to recognise the right ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sat Oct 2 00:22:06 PDT 1999

677 Chechnya: response to Russian invasion? -- rank: 1000

At 14:42 01/10/99 -0400, you wrote: >At 02:07 PM 10/1/99 +0100, Peter van Heusden wrote: >>I was wondering what listers' feelings about the impending Russian >>offensive in Chechnya are. It seems clear to me that Russian actions >>should be opposed. Does anyone know of any movement to protest against >>Yeltsin's ambitions? >> > > >Why should we want to support Islamic militants? Look what happened in >Afghanistan after Russian pullot - women being de ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 1 15:52:39 PDT 1999

678 Three Kings -- rank: 1000

Is it true that this film is unusual in being so openly critical of US foreign policy so soon after the events of the Iraq war? Is it a sign of an insidious attack on the ideological heights of the US imperial system? By Gramscians or fellow travellers? Why did Time Warner risk it? Is it too controversial to be popular? Predictions or informed comments solicited. Chris Burford London

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Date:	Fri Oct 1 00:13:58 PDT 1999

679 Marx Thinker of Millenium -- rank: 1000

BBC News Online web page has announced the result of its poll for Greatest (male) Thinker of All as part of its millenium preparations. Ahead of Darwin, Newton, and Einstein came Marx in first place. Now this possibly says more about the sample. Apparently thousands voted but we do not know if they were specially slanted towards Open University sociology students, or whether there was a secret campaign by the UK Socialist Workers Party (perhaps unlikely since the SWP controls its members partici ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 1 00:07:08 PDT 1999

680 Observer on Chinese embassy bombing -- rank: 1000

At 19:40 28/11/99 -0500, Doug wrote: >Chris Burford wrote: > >>Enough skeletons have come to light about NATO's war for the west to be >>more prudent next time. > >The west? What in god's name do you mean? Since when are imperialist >warriors prudent? Closeted skeletons are their stock in trade. Do you >really mean that people like you should be more prudent next time? No I don't. As my post of 8th May shows I was quite prudent enough at the time, contrary to the wa ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 28 23:52:14 PST 1999

681 Observer on Chinese embassy bombing -- rank: 1000

At 13:34 28/11/99 >Observer (London) - November 28, 1999 > >The Chinese embassy bombing >Truth behind America's raid on Belgrade > >The US claimed it was a tragic blunder. But the pinpoint accuracy of >the attack was in fact a deadly signal to Milosevic: seek outside >help in Kosovo at your peril This would appear to confirm that NATO's strategy was to hit the military and economic infrastructure of Serbian Yugoslavia, rather than to help the Kosovans on the ground. Extra ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 28 16:22:01 PST 1999

682 E Asia works towards a common market -- rank: 1000

At 06:17 27/11/99 +0530, you wrote: >Friday, November 26, 1999 > > E Asia works towards a common market >Raju Gopalakrishnan > >Manila, Nov 25: East Asia is working on plansfor a common market and later a >regional currency to form what could become the most powerful economic >grouping in the world, regional officials said on Thursday. >The first steps will be taken at the weekend summit inManila of the >10-member Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), whe ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 28 13:10:18 PST 1999

683 post-capitalist society emerging? -- rank: 1000

At 15:38 26/11/99 -0500, you wrote: >[Anyone know anything about Adler?] > >"Market, Hierarchy, and Trust: The Knowledge Economy and the > Future of Capitalism" > > BY: PAUL S. ADLER > Marshall School of Business, University of Southern > California > >Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: > http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=186930 > > Contact: PAUL S. ADLER > ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 28 13:31:39 PST 1999

684 Stephen Jay Gould on Biological & Cultural Determinisms -- rank: 1000

Good quote. I am copying it to marxism-thaxis. Chris Burford London At 14:10 25/11/99 -0500, you wrote: >Stephen Jay Gould writes in "Nurturing Nature," _An Urchin in the Storm: >Essays about Books and Ideas_ (NY: Norton, 1987): > >***** ..._Not in Our Genes_ [by R.C. Lewontine, Steven Rose, and Leon J. >Kamin] is an important and timely book, for it not only exposes the >fallacies of biological determinism...but also presents a positive view of >human behavior t ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 26 00:04:14 PST 1999

685 Afghanistan -- rank: 1000

correction: >(The emergence of the unusual Taliban regime has only occurred in the >course of 20 years of inter-hegemonistic fighting over their country, and I >suggest is a primitive communist reaction, albeit not scientific and of >course not to our cultural tastes. It is a powerful argument against [delete 'non'] >interference, as will be the emergence of a similar regime from the ashes >of Chechnya. It is no argument for leftists to be motivated by an unstated >prejudice ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 25 13:12:31 PST 1999

686 Afghanistan -- rank: 1000

At 18:51 23/11/99 -0500, you wrote: >>Russell Grinker wrote: >>>>. . . Vanguard is hilarious. A typical headline is CHINESE >>>>STALINISTS BLOODY HANDS OFF FALUN GONG! >>>> >>>How about this on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: >>> >>>"Hail the Red Army!" >> >>The headline is only moderately hilarious if one considers the relative >>conditions in Afghanistan under Soviet occupation and under the &g ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 25 00:10:51 PST 1999

687 Camdessus: "I have a sense of having been associated with great things" -- rank: 1000

At 23:57 22/11/99 -0500, you wrote: >[From the resignation press conference of IMF managing director >Michel Camdessus in the November 22 IMF Survey ><http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/1999/112299.pdf>. The >publication's cover story informs us that "From the beginning of his >tenure, Camdessus gave a strong emphasis to the social aspects of >economic adjustment and growth." People will say anything.] Of course he has to create a narrative about his lif ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 22 23:51:58 PST 1999

688 Butler on Spivak (was SZ) -- rank: 1000

At 12:37 22/11/99 -0500, you wrote: >Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > >>That said, Butler doesn't sound too interested in Marxism, practically or >>theoretically. Generally speaking, late modernists define their politics >>_against_ Marxism. > >True. She's much too uninterested in Marxism - and issues of class & >economic power - for my taste. But just because writers are non- or >anti-Marxist doesn't mean that Marxist and Marxish readers and >writers should ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 22 15:11:41 PST 1999

689 Natural Capitalism -- rank: 1000

At 13:59 21/11/99 -0800, you wrote: >I don't recall seeing any entry in the index of Natural Capitalism regarding >property rights/ownership when I thumbed through it in a bookstore the other >day. Lovins et al have no beef whatsoever with markets per se. They're >Whole Earth Catalogue gurus who just want engineers to take the lead in >driving business projects that have heavy environmental impacts. >http://www.rmi.org has the Harvard Business Review article that synopsizes & ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 21 15:29:55 PST 1999

690 'Natural Capitalism' praised by Clinton -- rank: 1000

In Florence at the conference of Centre Left parties today, Clinton has just plugged this book again. It is already number 387 in the Amazon book list. >From the Amazon reviews below it looks as if it shows a number of ways capitalism can be reformed to reduce the explotation of the environment. The reference to neighbourhood land use *might* imply some sort of socialisation of land short of outright public ownership (as called for in the Communist Manifesto) But it will create illusions that ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 21 12:54:56 PST 1999