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976 "Nato bombing 'caused ethnic cleansing' says Carrington" -- rank: 1000

At 13:22 31/08/99 -0400, you wrote: >> Carrington has the languid civilised voice of the British Foreign Office >> through the decades. Very reasonable, quietly very calculating. It does >> not >> believe in the universal rights of man. >> > Remind me, Chris, which "wing of British imperialism" was it that >acts to uphold the universal rights of man and ignores British interests? I >assume that would be the Blair wing, but correct me if I'm wrong. ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Tue Aug 31 15:12:31 PDT 1999

977 New approach to debt called for -- rank: 1000

>From: Robert Weissman <rob at essential.org> >To: Multiple recipients of list STOP-IMF <stop-imf at essential.org> >Subject: New approach to debt called for > >Africa-at-Large > Botswana Wants New Approach Toward Africa's Debt > Panafrican News Agency August 30, 1999 > >NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) - The president of Botswana, Festus Mogae, has called >for a new approach toward debt alleviation in Africa, saying previous >attempts to solve the problem were ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Tue Aug 31 16:01:14 PDT 1999

978 "Nato bombing 'caused ethnic cleansing' says Carrington" -- rank: 1000

Factually Carrington is right that NATO bombing precipitated Operation Horseshoe in Kosovo and it was executed in the first few days with many atrocities that might not otherwise have occurred. But his aged reflections have a deeper significance. Carrington is the authoritative voice of that appeasement wing of British imperialism that was dominant in the early 90's and became involved in Bosnia only for the purposes of British interests. These were to appear to do something but to give compelli ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Tue Aug 31 00:24:05 PDT 1999

979 Street theatre and theatricality -- rank: 1000

I have been away for a week and only just picked up this comment from Jim H: __________________________________________ Jim heartfield (jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk) Fri, 20 Aug 1999 11:13:36 +0100 In message <3.0.2.32.19990819233211.00747cd8 at pop.gn.apc.org>, Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> writes >>> Have we forgotten that the City of London was stormed on June 18th? >>> Why do we forget this? >We can't always be there at the high moments, and I certa ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Aug 30 06:17:11 PDT 1999

980 Putin, not a Yeltsin tool? -- rank: 1000

At 22:53 19/08/99 -0400, you wrote: > >[Tea leaves for the Weimar Russia crowd from Stratfor. If Putin was >"forced upon Yeltsin" then, according to Stratfor's earlier analyses, it >was by the military and intelligence services] Wasn't Brezhnev, or his predecessor from this camp? Or was it Gorbochov who was specially pushed forward by the KGB? The argument being that the intelligence services were best informed about how dire the economic and social situation was. Chris Bu ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Aug 19 23:48:11 PDT 1999

981 Anarchism / Marxism debates -- rank: 1000

At 09:32 19/08/99 -0400, Carl wrote: >> >What in god's name would a "revolution" in the U.S. look like?... > >> Have we forgotten that the City of London was stormed on June 18th? >> Why do we forget this? > >I haven't forgotten, Chris. It presented Brits as an inspiring contrast >to the stupefied American public. > >> June 18 had a very high level of reforming planning behind it with >> sophisticated tactics about street publicity, thea ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 19 15:32:11 PDT 1999

982 Anarchism / Marxism debates -- rank: 1000

At 10:51 18/08/99 -0400, Doug wrote: >What in god's name would a "revolution" in the U.S. look like? The >masses storming the White House and the floor of the NYSE? My >scenario involves fairly classic political work by parties, unions, >and other organizations. I really don't know what yours does. Please >expand. Have we forgotten that the City of London was stormed on June 18th? Why do we forget this? Let me explain. I too think that revolutionaries make the best refor ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 18 23:07:54 PDT 1999

983 Central bank targets -- rank: 1000

At 11:47 17/08/99 -0400, Doug wrote: > appointments to >the Fed's board of governors "due regard to a fair representation of >the financial, agricultural, industrial, and commercial interests" of >the country and its regions. The Fed, according to law, is also >supposed to make policy "to promote effectively the goals of maximum >employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates." The Fed seems to have been rather successful. How much of that ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Tue Aug 17 15:52:42 PDT 1999

984 Central bank targets -- rank: 1000

With the headline inflation rate in Britain due to drop to a 35 year low today there is debate about central bank targets. Central bank targets are arguably the current way late capitalist economies try to keep a correspondence between the total supply of money, and the total amount of exchange value, to use marxist terminology. Gordon Brown's surprise move immediately after the Labour Party general election victory, to set up a monetary policy committee of experts to guide the Bank of England's ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 16 23:30:44 PDT 1999

985 Germany 1999 -- rank: 1000

At 12:51 16/08/99 +0200, Johannes Schneider wrote: >>From CNN: >TEL AVIV, Israel (CNN) -- German Jewish leader Ignatz Bubis was buried >Sunday not in his hometown of Frankfurt, but in Tel Aviv, where he hoped to >escape desecration of his grave by neo-Nazis. >Full text at: >http://cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9908/15/bubis.funeral/index.html It only requires 5% of a population to be able to behave with violence with impunity, to alter a whole society. I am not sure whether the implic ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Aug 16 15:38:00 PDT 1999

986 The economics of further drug legalisation -- rank: 1000

What do people think of the economics of this article? And the implications for social management of risk and pleasure? Presumably some drugs will remain illegal, the boundary will just shift. The timing of the article in the Observer, London, is probably prompted by the new leader of the Liberal Democrats in Britain, Charles Kennedy, has come out in favour of a royal commission on illicit drugs. Is this just an argument about liberalism? or about the social management of social production? Do r ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 15 13:05:55 PDT 1999

987 Mercedes substitute badges for ability -- rank: 1000

At 10:13 04/08/99 -0400, you wrote: > >-----Original Message----- >From: Carl Remick <cremick at rlmnet.com> >>Oh Lord, won't you burn me a Mercedes Benz? >>My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends. >>Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends, >>So Lord, won't you burn me a Mercedes Benz? > > >Speaking of which, when Mercedes Benz got the rights to that song, it really >took rock-n-roll commercial hell to a whole new level. ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Aug 5 13:21:40 PDT 1999

988 Faking what democracy? -- rank: 1000

>>By denouncing the "faking" of democracy in Bosnia, Jim Heartfield here, and >>Mick Hume in the pages of the "anti-imperialist"(?) Times, are covertly >>promoting illusions in bourgeois democracy instead of analysing the state >>as a means for managing conflict. > >So, let's get this right. Me and Mick Hume are sowing illusions in >bourgeois democracy because we both pointed out that the officials in >Bosnia are appointed, not elected. > ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 4 15:38:41 PDT 1999

989 Faking what democracy? -- rank: 1000

At 18:41 03/08/99 -0400, you wrote: >> > Chris Burford wrote: > >> In the USA no politician dare take on tobacco capital or gun capital >> lightly, ... >> > This is plain wrong. Most of the Democrats in the House and Senate >do these things every day... Thanks for comments. I wonder if these are more than gestures. I am responding to the President's obvious caution about point scoring after each and every massacre. I also believe, and believe others believe, ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Aug 4 00:08:54 PDT 1999

990 Faking what democracy? -- rank: 1000

At 13:21 03/08/99 +0100, Jim H wrote: >>What democracy is being faked? What is the idealist concept of democracy by >>which we can see Bosnia is a fake? >> >>Is Democracy in the UK not also a fake?? > >Chris ignores the obvious difference that people in Britain, however >deluded, elect their political leaders, while people in Bosnia have >their High Representative appointed by officials of the EU. (Read David >Chandler's Bosnia: Faking Democracy After Dayto ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 3 15:15:21 PDT 1999