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38011 body count -- rank: 1000

Barkley, I've seen you quote a figure of 200,000 killed by the Serbians. What's the background on this number? Doug

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Date:	Thu May 13 09:12:08 PDT 1999

38012 Stepashin = Pinochet? -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Moscow Times - May 13, 1999 EDITORIAL: Is Stepashin A Russian Pinochet? History will look kindly enough on Yevgeny Primakov. He had enough horse sense to print some money to pay wage arrears, and to ignore the textbooks and let the Central Bank restrict trade in the ruble. And he was enough of a negotiator that his government managed to wring a parsimonious deal out of the IMF - which was all any Russian government was going to get anyway these days. All the same it' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 13 08:47:54 PDT 1999

38013 Baseball -- rank: 1000

There's a good book on stadium subsidies by Joanna Cagan & Neil de Mause called Field of Schemes, published by Common Courage. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 13 07:49:46 PDT 1999

38014 OTOH take on Bob Rubin -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>From today's Salon: > >"But not everybody was mourning Rubin's departure. 'The dirty little >secret of the Clinton administration is that the United States has >increased its bond indebtedness by $2 trillion, and most of the policies >that led to this were backed by Rubin,' said Doug Henwood, founder of >the influential Left Business Observer.'" > >"Influential," no less! Yeah I laughed out loud when I read that. I didn't say ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 13 07:44:53 PDT 1999

38015 MI6 Internet list -- rank: 1000

DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com wrote: >Go on then, I'm dying to know. Does anyone have the address for Richard >Tomlinson's website with all the secret identities on it? I want to check >out a few chaps I suspect of being spooks. <http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/19620.html> Britain Shuts Down Spy Sites by Polly Sprenger 3:00 a.m. 12.May.99.PDT GeoCities has yanked the Web site of a former spy who has repeatedly threatened to expose the underbelly of British espiona ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 13 07:41:34 PDT 1999

38016 Rubin's all-clear -- rank: 1000

[From TheStreet.com. What they don't say is that you could read this consummate market guy's resignation as a sale at the top as easily as you could read it an all clear. What better time to leave than when you're smelling like a rose?] Rubin Retirement Sounds All-Clear for Global Economy By Justin Lahart Senior Writer Early last summer, at one of those smarmy Manhattan rooftop affairs where he does not belong, this reporter heard a currency trader spout on and on about how the yen was going to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 12 19:45:54 PDT 1999

38017 Sound Economics -- rank: 1000

/ dave / wrote: >A favor to ask - > >Could the person who posted the following (yesterday - sorry, can't >remember who it was...?) provide the URL or other source from which the >information originates? Much appreciated... > >> >"Is Sound Just Noise?" >> > >> > BY: JOSHUA D. COVAL >> > TYLER G. SHUMWAY >> > University of Michigan Business School >> > Department of Finance ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 12 15:17:39 PDT 1999

38018 Intellectual Conservatism and Class Bias against Soldiers -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >But this "clean hands" attitude of those opposing relief for the Kosovars This is utter horseshit. What relief for the Kosovars? Quoting Chris Caldwell in New York Press this week: "Clinton, Cohen and Albright began talking about ground troops as a hypothetical option for some later 'stage' of this operation. Transparent bluster, because strategically, the time for inserting ground troops was now. Right this minute! Load up the planes with paratroopers! Gi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 12 14:49:23 PDT 1999

38019 more Summers gossip -- rank: 1000

Gosh, the gossip lines have been buzzing today! I just heard that Larry Summers recently offered the following analysis in an off-the-record speech to a bunch of businesspersons: the world economy depends on the U.S.; the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending; consumer spending depends on the stock market; and the stock market depends on about 50 stocks. AOL at 283 times earnings isn't outlandish - it's a public service! Doug

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Date:	Wed May 12 14:30:38 PDT 1999

38020 Fwd: Confederation or explosion -- rank: 1000

LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE - May 1999 WAR IN THE BALKANS Confederation or explosion ______________________________________________________________ The upsurge of nationalism is threatening to reshape the whole Balkan peninsula. As the drive towards the establishment of ethnically homogeneous states gathers force, so does the risk of a chain reaction and the spread of conflict throughout the region. Is maintaining existing frontiers compatible with the right to self-determination? by CATHERINE SAMARY ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 12 10:54:46 PDT 1999

38021 Russian cohesion down 25! -- rank: 1000

EastWest Institute Russian Regional Report Vol. 4, No. 18, 12 May 1999 Russian Cohesion Index: -42 (down 25 this week) Disintegration............T.........L.......0..............Democratic Federalism (T = this week; L = last week; 0 = 17 March) *****See the RRR website (http://www.iews.org/rrrabout.nsf) for a graphic display of the Russian Cohesion Index since 17 March.***** ----- Yeltsin replaced Prime Minister Yevgenii Primakov with Minister of Internal Affairs Sergei Stepashin. That ministry ...

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Date:	Wed May 12 11:15:46 PDT 1999

38022 TSC's 41-60 -- rank: 1000

Welcome to Part 3 of Countdown: A Century of U.S. Business, featuring entries 60 through 41. TheStreet.com is counting down the top 100 U.S. business events of the 20th century, from least to beast (or something like that). For more about the weeklong series, see our introduction. Disagree with an entry? Shoot us an email using the form below. Or take it up with two of the authors, Senior Writers Alex Berenson and Jesse Eisinger, in a chat on Yahoo! at 3 p.m. EDT Friday. 60. The California asbes ...

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Date:	Wed May 12 11:14:41 PDT 1999

38023 US cutting Yugo net link? -- rank: 1000

[from nettime] From: aca at beonet.yu (A. Krstanovic) Subject: US shuts down Yugoslav Internet - For immediate release Dear sirs, We have reliable information that the US Government ordered Loral Orion company to shut down its satellite feeds for Internet customers in Yugoslavia. This action might be taken as soon as later tonight or tomorrow (May 12 or 13, 1999). This is a flagrant violation of commercial contracts with Yugoslav ISPs, as well as an attack on freedom of the Intern ...

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Date:	Wed May 12 11:09:53 PDT 1999

38024 Fwd: Nato, master of the world -- rank: 1000

LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE - May 1999 WAR IN THE BALKANS Nato, master of the world ______________________________________________________________ Meeting in Washington for the 50th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, the member states on 26 April ratified the New Strategic Concept proposed by the United States. This permits Nato to go beyond its defensive role and intervene militarily, without a mandate from the United Nations, against a sovereign state. The token reference to the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 12 10:47:27 PDT 1999

38025 Fwd: Behind the Rambouillet talks -- rank: 1000

LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE - May 1999 WAR IN THE BALKANS Behind the Rambouillet talks ______________________________________________________________ The (official) motive for the attack on Serbia was Belgrade's refusal to sign the Rambouillet agreement. Yet the Yugoslav leaders had accepted its main provisions. The only outstanding issue was the nature of the force to be deployed in Kosovo. And although the Serbs rejected any Nato presence, they had envisaged some other formula. by PAUL-MARIE DE LA G ...

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Date:	Wed May 12 10:45:09 PDT 1999