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38071 MASSACRE IN MEJA : murder by Serbs in Kosovo -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Since there are no TV cameras in Kosovo, we have to settle for the stories >of refugees. Here is one Human Rights Watch report (I know, I know, a much >less reliable source than Milosevic's puppet media, but it's the best I >could find) Yes, terrible things have happened in Kosovo, so LET'S BOMB THE HELL OUT OF YUGOSLAVIA. Flawless logic indeed. Doug

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Date:	Sat May 8 20:02:11 PDT 1999

38072 NATO's "mistakes" - a list -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >220 killed. One person killed is a tragedy but this is an incredibly low >civilian death rate given how much bombing has been done. That is one-tenth >the number of Kosovars killed last year (by the lowest estimate available) >that many on the left have said was too insignificant to justify >intervention. Spoken like an accountant. Appealing to the spirit of accountancy, rather than a critique of imperialism, a couple of points: the 2000 dead in Kosovo incl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 8 15:44:55 PDT 1999

38073 NATO's "mistakes" - a list -- rank: 1000

Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 19:38:12 -0300 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Alexandre Fenelon <sfenelon at africanet.com.br> Subject: Re: At 17:14 08/05/99 -0400, you wrote: > >-----Original Message----- >From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> >>So far NATO blunders, which the Alliance claims are few in comparison to >>the number of raids its had carried out, have claimed at least 220 liv ...

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Date:	Sat May 8 15:43:16 PDT 1999

38074 about cluster bombs -- rank: 1000

<http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/dumb/cbu-87.htm> CBU-87/B Combined Effects Munitions (CEM) BLU-97/B Combined Effects Bomb (CEB) The CBU-87 is a 1,000-pound, Combined Effects Munition (CEM) for attacking soft target areas with detonating bomblets. The CBU-87 CEM, an all-purpose, air-delivered cluster weapons system, consists of a SW-65 Tactical Munitions Dispenser (TMD) with an optional FZU-39 proximity sensor. The BLU-97/B Combined Effects Bomb (CEB), effective against armor, personnel ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 8 13:21:39 PDT 1999

38075 NATO's "mistakes" - a list -- rank: 1000

<http://asia.yahoo.com/headlines/080599/world/926160000-90508104023.newsworld.ht ml> World 6:40 PM GMT+8, Saturday May 8 BRUSSELS, May 8 (AFP) - Two bombing errors Friday, a raid on a market and hospital in Nis in which 15 people were killed and a missile hit on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade that reportedly killed three, marked an escalation in the rate of NATO blunders in its air campaign against Yugoslavia. NATO admitted overnight to its seventh error since the airstrikes began on Marc ...

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Date:	Sat May 8 13:17:50 PDT 1999

38076 Rethinking Marxism 2000 conference -- rank: 1000

RETHINKING MARXISM announces its fourth International Gala Conference MARXISM 2000 21-24 September (Thursday-Sunday) 2000 University of Massachusetts at Amherst Call for Papers and Session Proposals PURPOSE: The editors of RETHINKING MARXISM announce the fourth in its series of international Gala conferences. The prior three conferences, each attended by well over one thousand persons from across the globe, brought together a variety of Marxian and other communities of struggle to discuss, debat ...

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Date:	Sat May 8 11:43:05 PDT 1999

38077 The Difficult 2nd Ammendment ... -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >When looking at the Swiss system, it's clear that the 2nd Ammendment is >probably the prototype for a typically American item: the unfunded >mandate. Sure, they wanted every "able bodied of age man" to be able >to defend the country against agressors both internal and external, but >here's the rub: ya gotta bring your own gun, and ya gotta get your own >training. > >Sound familiar? Beats having a professional army made up of cold-blooded ki ...

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Date:	Sat May 8 09:49:24 PDT 1999

38078 Friday Bloody Friday -- rank: 1000

[from Nettime] "I can't believe the news today I can't close my eyes and make it go away" -- U2, Sunday Bloody Sunday The city of Nish (south-eastern from Belgrade) was attacked Friday morning. NATO officials said that they targeted a military airstrip, but hit civilian targets by mistake. A BLOODY LIE! The very center of Nish, which is situated AT LEAST 7 kms from the airport, was bombed in the middle of the day, using cluster bombs. Bombs hit only civilian targets - city market and h ...

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Date:	Sat May 8 09:26:09 PDT 1999

38079 Lawyers charge NATO Leaders -- rank: 1000

PRESS RELEASE MAY 7, 1999 LAWYERS CHARGE NATO LEADERS BEFORE WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL A group of lawyers from several countries has laid a formal complaint with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia against all of the individual leaders of the NATO countries and officials of NATO itself. The group, lead by professors from Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in Toronto --where Tribunal prosecutor Louise Arbour was also a professor before becoming a judge -- have charged ...

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Date:	Sat May 8 09:16:43 PDT 1999

38080 Tomahawks for world domination -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Sergey Rogov on U.S. Kosovo Policy (srogov at glas.apc.org) Moskovskiy Komsomolets 6 May 1999 [translation for personal use only] Interview with Doctor of Historical Sciences Sergey Rogov, director of Institute of United States and Canada, by Anna Petrosova under the "Abroad" rubric; date, place not given: "Tomahawks for World Domination" Was the war in the Balkans the [United] States' cynical response to the introduction of the euro? Is it true t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 8 09:08:20 PDT 1999

38081 Nor all, that glisters, -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >If this beautiful, soft, heavy and malleable metal is not the only true >store of wealth for all humanity, what is? Chris, your fetish is showing. Recall Ferenczi's comment on gold - "odorless dehydrated filth that has been made to shine." Doug

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Date:	Sat May 8 08:45:05 PDT 1999

38082 clusterbombing hospitals -- rank: 1000

MSNBC <http://www.msnbc.com/news/230178.asp> NATO mistakenly hits hospital, market place killing 15 in Nis A man raises his arms and screams in despair in front of his house in Nis on Friday, after a NATO airstirke hit. MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS BELGRADE, May 7 - Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic said Friday that NATO first would have to stop its bombing before he talks about a Western-Russian plan to end the conflict. Even as he spoke, NBC News confirmed that NATO bombs hit a hos ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 7 14:45:54 PDT 1999

38083 Fwd: Petition to German Greens -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 16:00:38 -0400 From: Robert Naiman <naimanr at preamble.org> Subject: An Appeal from American Jews to the Green Party of Germany The following letter could make a difference in helping to stop the bombing of Yugoslavia. We have just 6 days to gather signatures and deliver it to the Green Party of Germany, which is meeting on Thursday, May 13. Many Green Party members are very angry about their party's support of bombing, and if the conference votes to oppose the bomb ...

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Date:	Fri May 7 14:19:23 PDT 1999

38084 Monica news -- rank: 1000

[Meanwhile, on another front...] New York Post - May 7, 1999 MONICA SPARKS MAYHEM IN DOWNTOWN BRAWL By JARED PAUL STERN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monica Lewinsky rehearsed yesterday for her appearance on "Saturday Night Live," hours after sparking a bar brawl at a downtown hotspot. About 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, the portly pepperpot was ensconced with TV actress Camryn Manheim in a corner booth at Joe's Pub, sipping Cosmopolitans and minding ...

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Date:	Fri May 7 13:45:34 PDT 1999

38085 latest LBO -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: > Well, I finally got my latest LBO. A few remarks, first >on the Hayden interview on Kosovo. > 1) Hayden labels Milosevic a "dictator." I think that >we have established on these lists that he was democratically >elected, however imperfectly. Hitler was elected, wasn't he? The anti-Milosevic folks in Yugo have been saying that the war turned his regime from an authoritarian one into a totalitarian one. > Congrats to Doug ...

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Date:	Fri May 7 10:33:36 PDT 1999