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38026 Fwd: Rise of the Kosovar freedom fighters -- rank: 1000

[Following Angela's caveats, forwarded without endorsement.] LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE - May 1999 WAR IN THE BALKANS Rise of the Kosovar freedom fighters ______________________________________________________________ Unheard of until four years ago, the KLA now dominates the scene in Kosovo. Radicalised by repression, it has won support away from the pacifist, Ibrahim Rugova. It owes its success largely to support from clan leaders, the diaspora and a variety of traffickers and intelligence services ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 12 10:34:54 PDT 1999

38027 clusterbombing playgrounds -- rank: 1000

<http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/REPORTS/YUGO/DISPATCH/t000042699.html> Los Angeles Times - May 12, 1999 DISPATCH FROM KOSOVO Despite NATO Rhetoric, Rebels May Be Ultimate Beneficiaries of Air War By PAUL WATSON, Times Staff Writer PRISTINA, Yugoslavia--Despite the bombings, killings and angry rhetoric, NATO and Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic officially agree on one thing: They oppose the drive of separatist rebels for Kosovo's independence. But to meet the Atlantic alliance's five ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 12 10:02:39 PDT 1999

38028 Fwd: Re: NATO bombs Chinese embassy -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >So why smear the guy? Goldhagen has a much stronger sense of how agency and >responsibility work than Tom Friedman. Have you read any of Norman Finkelstein's critiques of Goldhagen? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 12 09:54:52 PDT 1999

38029 Intellectual Conservatism and Class Bias against Soldiers -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >It is those who de facto ally with Milosevic by defending him who are >steeped in the gore of Kosovar deaths and ethnic clensing. Who the fuck is defending Milosevic, aside from Mark Jones? You just can't stop that slur, can you, Nathan? It's essential to the rest of your prowar stance, but it's crap. >Would anyone argue that killing some poor kid drafted into the army is more >moral than bombing the home of the Serbian legislator who voted to send him >to wa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 12 09:49:56 PDT 1999

38030 Human Rights Watch on cluster bombs -- rank: 1000

<http://www.hrw.org/press/1999/may/cluspress.htm> HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH List NATO's Use of Cluster Bombs Must Stop (New York, May 11, 1999)-Human Rights Watch today condemned NATO's use of cluster bombs in the air campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The submunitions inside cluster bombs have a high failure rate and can leave unexploded ordnance across wide areas, ready to detonate on contact. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 12 09:27:31 PDT 1999

38031 Gorby sez.... -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Gorbachev on NATO's war against Yugoslavia By Fred Weir MOSCOW (CP) -- Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev says NATO's war against Yugoslavia is a sign of collapsing global order, and it never would have been allowed to happen if the USSR still existed. ``Russia has lost its former position and ability to influence events, and therefore was unable to prevent this war from occurring in the first place,'' Gorbachev said at a signing ceremony for a joint Russian-C ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 12 09:17:00 PDT 1999

38032 Rubin out, Summers in -- rank: 1000

So the Asian crisis must really be over, now that Robert Rubin's resigning! I just heard that his nominated successor, the charming Larry Summers, called Oskar Lafontaine an "asshole" in front of several reporters on the occasion of his resignation as German finance minister. Apparently the reporters deemed this fine material for gossip, but not worthy material to share with their readers. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 12 08:30:48 PDT 1999

38033 Intellectual Conservatism and Class Bias against Soldiers -- rank: 1000

Margaret wrote: >I think we would do better, and be more honest, to >leave off complaining about the acts of NATO merely >because they are NATO's acts, and switch instead to >illuminating US and NATO hypocrisy. Hold them to the >ideals they claim. When they point to the Kosovari as >justification for bombing Beograd radio stations, then >we should point to the Kurds and ask loudly and >repeatedly 'where are the bombed radio stations in >Istanbul?'. Why should " ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 12 07:10:08 PDT 1999

38034 Baudrillard on debt -- rank: 1000

A hilarious article on debt by Jean Baudrillard is at <http://www.ctheory.com/e31-global_debt.html>. A sample paragraph: "The disappearance of the referential universe is a brand new phenomenon. When one looks at the billboard on Broadway, with its flying figures, one has the impression that the debt takes off to reach the stratosphere. This is simply the figure in light years of a galaxy that vanishes in the cosmos. The speed of liberation of the debt is just like one of earth's sate ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 11 20:45:13 PDT 1999

38035 Fwd: SA rightwingers back Milosevic -- rank: 1000

[Weird. Here's something Mark Jones & the Boers agree on.] Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 16:05:55 -0700 From: Green Left Parramatta <glparramatta at peg.apc.org> Reply-To: glparramatta at peg.apc.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: SA rightwingers back Milosevic Sender: owner-debate at sunsite.wits.ac.za Precedence: bulk SA RIGHT WINGERS OFFER TASK FORCE TO HELP DEFEND SERBIA JOHANNESBURG May 10 1999 Sapa South Africa's Boere Weerstand Beweging (Boer Resistance Movement) on Monday offered to send ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 11 17:54:44 PDT 1999

38036 Intellectual Conservatism and Class Bias against Soldiers -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >My frustration in these discussions is that basic arguments I make are >distorted, not because I think the anti-bombers are of bad faith, but >because there is a resistance to any argument that does not follow >traditional left orthodoxy. The lack of understanding (or >misrepresentation) of the argument is just the sign of that intellectual >conservatism. Nathan, this is the same trick that Camille Paglia and Hilton Kramer have deployed with depressing fr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 11 16:40:41 PDT 1999

38037 NATO bombs Chinese embassy -- rank: 1000

CounterPunch wrote: >But surely, Doug, that vicious hack AM Rosenthal has let loose with >"unmeasured" prose in the sleep room of the NYT editorial pages on many >occasions? Though I admit that that Laptop Bomber Friedman is now giving >him a run for his money. But he's laughable and stupid. Friedman's not stupid and kind of terrifying. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 11 12:03:19 PDT 1999

38038 Russia & China -- rank: 1000

ANALYSIS-NATO attack moves Russia, China closer By Adam Tanner MOSCOW, May 11 (Reuters) - NATO's fatal strike against the Chinese embassy in Belgrade could bring Russia and China closer in the long term and strengthen Moscow's hand as a mediator in the war in Yugoslavia, foreign policy experts said on Tuesday. ``China was not especially outspoken up until now, but now that it directly impacts them they should be stronger in their support of Russia,'' said Alexander Yakovlev, a foreign relations ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 11 11:13:12 PDT 1999

38039 NATO bombs Chinese embassy -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >At 11:53 AM 5/11/99 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote: >>[Thomas Friedman really outdid himself today, with one of the most >>repellently smug things I've read this month. For those of you deprived of >>the New York Times, here's a copy.] > > > >How is that different from the usual arrogant drivel of pundits and spin >doctors? They teach that at poli-sci, econ, or journalism departments, >don't they? The usual drivel is usually more " ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 11 11:11:42 PDT 1999

38040 Bombing and terrorism -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >There is an argument that >citizens voting for a brutal government are more responsible for actions of >that government than soldiers drafted to defend that state. So an Iraqi, or a Vietnamese, or a Serb who planted a bomb in the New Haven train station might be justified? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 11 11:03:11 PDT 1999