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38056 Bombing China Into A Player -- rank: 1000

Lisa & Ian Murray wrote: >Wouldn't the "sources" be talking off the top of their heads? Not if they're employed by, or are intimate with people who are employed by, the national security state. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 10 07:39:42 PDT 1999

38057 Interesting Econometrics Topics? -- rank: 1000

John DiNardo wrote: > The Journal of Economic Perspectives (from the American Economic >Association) is considering a symposium on recent developments in >econometrics. Part of my job is to get input from a subset of >*non--econometricians* on topics that they might actively choose to read >about if published in the JEP. That is, this is not intended to be >interesting to *econometricians* -- it is intended to be interesting and >accessible to JEP readers. Yeah, I'd like to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 10 07:30:57 PDT 1999

38058 Albright: diplomacy serves the military -- rank: 1000

<http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/pr/albright.html> For Immediate Release Sunday, May 9, 1999 Albright At War "Up until the start of the conflict, the military served to back up our diplomacy. Now, our diplomacy serves to back up our military," Albright Tells TIME New York, NY - "More than anyone else, [Secretary of State Madeleine Albright] embodies the foreign policy vision that pushed these men into this war," writes TIME's managing editor Walter Isaacson. "And sh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 10 07:09:30 PDT 1999

38059 Bombing China Into A Player -- rank: 1000

CounterPunch wrote: >The Stratfor Gang deconstructs the embassy bombing. This stuff is always interesting, but do these guys have sources, or are they just talking off the top of their heads? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 9 21:33:48 PDT 1999

38060 EU army "logical next step" -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - May 10, 1999 COMMON EU ARMY THE 'LOGICAL NEXT STEP' By Peter Norman in Brussels and Andrew Parker in London Romano Prodi, the next European Commission president, yesterday held out the prospect of a common army for the European Union and warned that countries which did not participate would be marginalised. In an interview with the BBC's On the Record programme, Mr Prodi said a common army would only come after "years and years and years". But he said it was a "l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 9 21:31:06 PDT 1999

38061 Nor all, that glisters, -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >pps. In the last couple of weeks, the Internet has thrown Capitalism into >a frenzy, down to the bone. CEO's realizing their hype, is not just hype. >Talk about a scramble. "The Internet will destroy more businesses than it creates." - Rupert Murdoch

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 9 19:36:30 PDT 1999

38062 "bombing Serbs not helping Albanians" -- rank: 1000

[Perhaps Milosevic has taken over the Times Mirror Corp.] Los Angeles Times - May 8, 1999 DISPATCH FROM KOSOVO Refugees Leave Lives Behind as They Flee By PAUL WATSON, Times Staff Writer Paul Watson is one of the few western correspondents reporting from Kosovo. RBNICA, Yugoslavia--The proof of Rrushe Delija's identity as a Kosovo Albanian citizen was lying Friday in the middle of the road out of Yugoslavia. Her black-and-white photo is a little faded, but it's still attached to the second page ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 9 08:07:20 PDT 1999

38063 more on cluster bombs -- rank: 1000

[A few more figures to work into the morbidity & mortality balance sheet.] Los Angeles Times - April 28, 1999 CRISIS IN YUGOSLAVIA; DISPATCH FROM KOSOVO; Unexploded Weapons Pose Deadly Threat on Ground; Arms: Cluster bombs turn parts of province into a no man's land. Number of amputations in capital skyrockets By: PAUL WATSON TIMES STAFF WRITER Even in the age of smart bombs guided to targets by laser beams, dumb weapons that fail to explode, or lie in wait to kill later, are turning parts o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 9 08:02:40 PDT 1999

38064 Greenspan sez.... -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >Yeah, but there's a qualitative difference here, doncha think? Now he's >talking about imminent inflation concerns Oh yes, and he's making those tight labor market noises again. But he's been doing that on & off for a couple of years, often in the same speech as some New Paradigm blather. >and hinting at an interest rate >hike in June or July. And he was then talking about 1987, 1996, with an implied parallel to Tokyo in 1989. >whereas now, >hundreds of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 9 07:56:13 PDT 1999

38065 cool it: Observer edit -- rank: 1000

[This is an interesting editorial retreat by a major outlet of the cruise-missile liberals.] Observer (London) - May 9, 1999 Leader: Take a step back in the Balkans The bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade on Friday night with four deaths and many more injured is not just 'a regrettable accident' as Nato said yesterday. It is a diplomatic calamity which exposes the increasingly insecure political direction of Nato's strategy and the divisions between the alliance's members. Embassies are s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 8 22:28:41 PDT 1999

38066 Observer: NATO credibility collapses -- rank: 1000

Observer (London) - May 9, 1999 'End the bombing calls after embassy fiasco' Chinese protests erupt after four die in Nato's 'tragic mistake' By Patrick Wintour, Ed Vulliamy in Washington, John Gittings in Hong Kong Sunday May 9, 1999 The credibility of the West's campaign against Slobodan Milosevic was close to collapse last night after Nato admitted it had dropped laser-guided missiles on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, killing four people and injuring more than 20 others. The bombing on Frid ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 8 22:26:55 PDT 1999

38067 NATO's "mistakes" - a list -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The above post is pure apologia for Milosevic Another slur, Nathan. Have you no shame? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 8 21:50:32 PDT 1999

38068 MASSACRE IN MEJA : murder by Serbs in Kosovo -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Here is one Human Rights Watch report (I know, I know, a much >less reliable source than Milosevic's puppet media By the way, I don't think anyone on this list has cited or forwarded anything from "Milosevic's puppet media." Most of the stuff I've forwarded in the last few days came from bourgeois British newspapers, though I have forwarded a couple of things from a fellow living in Belgrade, who as far as I know isn't operated by Milosevic. So can there be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 8 21:37:51 PDT 1999

38069 MASSACRE IN MEJA : murder by Serbs in Kosovo -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >No, terrible things are being done in Yugoslavia and Belgrade, since that is >where the orders for the terrible things happening in Kosovo are being >issued. Don't forget Washington, unless you think clusterbombing hospitals and open-air markets and firebombing embassies are just tolerable bits of collateral damage. Why clusterbombs, Nathan? They're designed for destroying light armor and killing human beings. There were no armored vehicles anywhere near the scene ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 8 21:29:12 PDT 1999

38070 CIA blamed for embassy bombing -- rank: 1000

Times (London) - May 9, 1999 WAR IN EUROPE Poor intelligence caused embassy attack CIA blamed for bomb blunder by Stephen Grey in Brussels, Matthew Campbell in Washington and Hugh McManners YESTERDAY Nato admitted it had bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade after mistaking it for a Yugoslav government office. At least three people were killed in the attack, which threw diplomatic efforts to end the war into turmoil. Alliance officials said they had believed the building was Yugoslavia's federa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 8 20:07:47 PDT 1999