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37801 KLA -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - May 31, 1999 SCENT OF VICTORY STOKES KLA RIVALRY KLA leader Hashim Thaci puts views across to western politicians in an attempt to outmanoeuvre Rugova Jonathan Steele While it struggles on the battlefield to widen its pockets of resistance to Serbian rule, the Kosovo Liberation Army is also launching a diplomatic drive in the west to supplant the role of Ibrahim Rugova, the unofficial "president" of Kosovo. Hashim Thaci, the KLA's 31-year-old political leader, slipp ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 31 09:12:03 PDT 1999

37802 Hardt responds to responses -- rank: 1000

Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 18:54:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Hardt <hardt at duke.edu> Subject: Re: Life under Empire by Michael Hardt Dear Doug and Angela, thanks for your messages and we certainly do share the desire to conceive of some internationalist opposition to the war. It is difficult to develop both a position with respect to this war and an understanding of the larger developments of which it is part. I want briefly to respond to only a few of the complex questions you bring up, o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 30 22:37:10 PDT 1999

37803 Domitila Chungara -- rank: 1000

[a friend writes...] From: Thomas Kruse <tkruse at albatros.cnb.net> Dear Friends: We are writing to request your help with a solidarity fund established for Domitila Barrios de Chungara, author of the significant Latin American testimonial "Let Me Speak" (published by Monthly Review Press) and key mining union leader in Bolivia. Domitila is facing surgery to remove a large growth in her breast -- she does not yet know if it is malignant. Domitila has played a crucial role in Bol ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 30 14:57:12 PDT 1999

37804 Donors Plan Central America's 'Transformation' -- rank: 1000

[from STOP-IMF] Donors Plan Central America's 'Transformation' By Abid Aslam WASHINGTON, May 24 (IPS) - Donors and creditors are holding talks this week on Central America's 'reconstruction and transformation' following the devastation of Hurricane Mitch. More than 9,000 people were killed and millions were rendered homeless when the storm struck last October. Entire crops were wiped out and towns remain without basic services such as water and electricity. Roads, bridges and ports were destroye ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 30 12:14:14 PDT 1999

37805 la frontera -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >more territorialised: border controls being a prime example? Mike Davis has an interesting riff on the Mexico-US border in his NLR piece. Doug ---- [from Mike Davis, "Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US Big City," New Left Review 234, March/Aprill 1999, pp. 15-16] La Linea and the Border Patrol The Mexican-USs border may not be the epochal marriage of cultures that Valladao actually has in mind, but it is nonetheless a lusty bastard offspring of its two parents. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 30 11:17:07 PDT 1999

37806 gun control -- rank: 1000

Margaret wrote: >Doug responded to me: > >>Oh Alinskyism has spawned lots of organizations, for sure. But what have >>they accomplished politically? > >er, lots of housing units, Where, exactly? And how many? >a requirement in Baltimore >and NYC that more than minimum wage be paid,.... Churches and unions had at least as much to do with this as ACORN. >Plus a general increase in the feeling that city hall >can be fought, itself an important outcome. This is th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 30 10:03:54 PDT 1999

37807 Gowan on Yugo -- rank: 1000

[Here's about half of Gowan's article. This issue of NLR also has an excellent article by Mike Davis on the Latinization of U.S. big cities, especially NYC and LA. Lots about NYC, which is interesting in the light of Davis' rumored eastern move.] [from Peter Gowan, "The NATO Powers and the Balkan Tragedy," New Left Review 234 (March/April 1999), pp. 86-89, 96-105] These manoeuvres by Austria and Hungary to break up Yugoslavia were, of course, then overshadowed by the German government' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 30 09:48:08 PDT 1999

37808 gun control -- rank: 1000

William S. Lear wrote: >On Saturday, May 29, 1999 at 12:50:56 (-0400) Doug Henwood writes: >>... >>Aside from the lack of constituency (other than foundation program officers >>and dispensers of government contracts), most of the community organizers >>I've talked wtih have no big picture analysis at all - they only care about >>their particular neighborhood, or issue, or demographic group. That doesn't >>make them bad people, but it does help explain why t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 30 08:56:39 PDT 1999

37809 "secret" invasion plans -- rank: 1000

[If this was so secret how come we know about it? Same thing with the Pentagon's alleged order for 9,000 Purple Hearts reported by the New York Post, of all papers, last week. Maybe this is public opinion management or war strategy at work - like the "leak" during the run-up to the Gulf War about body bag orders. Who knows?] Observer (London) - May 30, 1999 SECRET PLAN FOR INVASION FORCE By Patrick Wintour, Political Editor A secret meeting last week between the five senior Nato Defenc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 30 07:31:31 PDT 1999

37810 gun control -- rank: 1000

W. Kiernan wrote: >Which reminds me, if I've seemed rude or testy in this post, sorry, >there's a reason, I guess; God damn am I jealous. You K-nux have >national health care and Moosehead, while we Merkins put up with >Budweiser and Humana. Hey, we've got plenty of good beers here in the USA now. Sierra Nevada, from Michael Perelman's hometown of Chico, to name just one. And better wine than the Canadians, too. Our health care finance system sucks, though, no question about that. D ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 29 19:38:13 PDT 1999

37811 to hell with poverty, let's smoke crack -- rank: 1000

t byfield wrote: >look, sharp, kids: the _washington post_ has a nice first chapter up, >for paul krugman's _the return of depression economics_. but the text >is, i'm told, from will self's new novel about crack. heh. That's hilarious. What's the story? I'm saving this one as a web archive for posterity. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 29 16:59:36 PDT 1999

37812 perma-temps -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Doug, please let me know how your article on temps fits in with your take on >job stability. Thanks. It's not just my take, I think it's pretty much the consensus. The exception is Steve Rose's but that's been criticized on methodological grounds. I've only read a review of the lit, not the original papers. I owe Columbia University's library about $300 in fines and so my library access has been compromised. The LAT article claims 2.9 million temps on a typical da ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 29 13:58:54 PDT 1999

37813 Class structure in the Balkans -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >It alone should answer the sectarian objection that LBO-talk should be >ignored because it does not close its lists to "right wingers" who may be >influenced by the Guardian. In my world, Guardian types aren't right-wingers. Maybe in some other worlds. Ok, right social democrats perhaps. But if the modal Guardian reader is right-wing, then what is the modal Telegraph reader? >But I wanted here to highlight the class observation below which seems to > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 29 13:47:02 PDT 1999

37814 "Strobe" Talbott -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >Doug, on your part this is like the pot calling the kettle black. :o) Well, not really. I can be harsh with people who disagree with me, I'll admit/ But I don't make a habit of making light of people's disabilities or ethnicities or any other such things, or of attributing sinister agendas to Jews, and I don't like it when other people do. It's ugly, divisive, and just plain wrong. Doug

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Date:	Sat May 29 13:38:22 PDT 1999

37815 perma-temps -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >Kirsten Nielsen Neilsen, sorry again. Not my morning. Doug

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Date:	Sat May 29 10:17:51 PDT 1999