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38191 Noam Chomksy on Kosovo (FWD) -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >the moral center of the case. Max, I think the nub of the controversy is that other folks don't find the moral center quite as unambiguous as you do. And a lot of overheated rhetoric about saving the world, or a part of it, from some new Little Hitler doesn't help clarify the situation at all. I remember when Saddam was Hitler for a day, but it's clear the U.S. didn't want to depose him, only shorten his leash a bit. And if it took killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqis - ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 30 08:55:12 PST 1999

38192 Noam Chomksy on Kosovo (FWD) -- rank: 1000

Apsken at aol.com wrote: >Max Sawicky wrote, > >"(Of course, our "revolutionary defeatists" would have nothing but contempt >for any pretension of international capitalist law. They have no business >invoking Chomsky for support.)" [...] >I haven't seen Max protest when Doug Henwood gives thumbs up to his work, so >the hypocrisy of his (Max's) latest attack on Marxists is evident. Don't know if it's hypocrisy, but it's pretty hard to understand. Chomsky ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 30 07:18:15 PST 1999

38193 corporate science -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - daily update - Tuesday, March 30, 1999 Researchers Tell of Battling for the Right to Publish Negative Findings By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK Cambridge, Mass.Two professors who found themselves battling their corporate patrons -- and their own universities -- for the right to publish controversial research findings called on institutions and scholars to take a stronger stand if companies try to quash negative results. The calls came Monday as part of a wide-ranging conferen ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 30 07:05:15 PST 1999

38194 Fisk on Kosovo -- rank: 1000

INDEPENDENT (London) March 30 ROBERT FISK - Lies, deceit and betrayal Once upon a time - last week, in fact - we went to war to save the Kosovo Albanians. After months of negotiating and a thousand broken promises, Nato's patience was exhausted. It was time to teach the Serbs a lesson and - dare we suggest it - revenge ourselves on Slobodan Milosovic, not just for Kosovo, but for the years of Western humiliation in Bosnia. But it was for the Kosovars, the 90-per-cent Muslim population of Serbia' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 30 06:56:03 PST 1999

38195 Russia news - loans & war -- rank: 1000

Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >Clinton poll rating dropped from 69% to 55% yesterday. Very interesting. Impeachment may have been his best friend. Now that he's no longer beleagured by scary lunatics, and his fly-by in Yugoslavia isn't going so well, Bill may find himself with declining political fortunes. Couldn't happen to a more deserving guy, either. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 30 06:46:29 PST 1999

38196 Russia news - loans & war -- rank: 1000

michael at ecst.csuchico.edu wrote: >If Russia really wanted the US to stop bombing, couldn't they have >threatened to default? But then they couldn't steal another $4-5 billion from the IMF! I love the assurances that this time the money will go to repay the IMF and the EBRD and not be, um, diverted to other purposes. Really confidence-inspiring, no? Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 30 06:33:56 PST 1999

38197 Russia news - loans & war -- rank: 1000

[two items from Johnson's Russia List] #1 Camdessus agrees fresh billions to pull Russia from default brink MOSCOW, March 29 (AFP) - IMF chief Michel Camdessus rode to Russia's fiscal rescue Monday, agreeing billions of dollars in fresh loans to help Moscow stave off all-out default on its foreign debt and avoid financial pariah status. The deal, the second multi-billion-dollar IMF bailout for Russia in a year, was struck after three hours of talks in the Russian capital between Camdessus and Pr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 29 21:16:11 PST 1999

38198 Drudge: smelly Kubrick mean to cat -- rank: 1000

[more Drudge...] HOUSEKEEPER FREAK-OUT: KUBRICK ONLY HAD TWO OUTFITS; PUNISHED CAT FOR BEING BAD Reclusive film director Stanley Kubrick only had two sets of clothes, according to his former housekeeper Betty Crompton. And the master director once locked a cat in a room for three months for punishment, according to reports hitting London. The housekeeper breaks her silence just weeks after Kubrick's death. Crompton claims in the four years she worked for the SPACE ODYSSEY: 2001 director, she onl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 29 20:33:03 PST 1999

38199 Drudge: secret bomb -- rank: 1000

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1999 23:09:55 UTC XXXXX RUSSIAN MILITARY ACCUSES USA OF TESTING NEW SECRET BOMB IN YUGOSLAVIA Russian military officials late on Monday night accused the United States of testing a new secret weapon in Yugoslavia -- a weapon that is somewhere between conventional and nuclear! "The United States is using Yugoslavia as a test range for its latest secret means of destruction," representatives of the Russian Defense ministry told reporters late M ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 29 20:32:26 PST 1999

38200 The National Question. (redux) -- rank: 1000

Greg Nowell wrote: >What I object to are >knee-jerk leftist reactions that come flying to the >defense of one so objectionable (Milosovic). And how do you feel about a bunch of humanitarian pap? This idea of a bourgeois Europe is compelling, Greg, but the eastern half of the continent is to be absorbed in a distinctly subordinate mode, no? So basically you're arguing for the long-term civilizing power of imperial conquest. While that's against the grain in a world where Columbus has bec ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 29 16:53:28 PST 1999

38201 Why doesn't the Left have a real vision? -- rank: 1000

[this bounced for some reason] From: jonathan edward sterne <j-stern1 at students.uiuc.edu> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Thanks for writing, Margaret. On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Margaret wrote: > Okay, murderous repression could certainly be a > problem(!), though i'd reckon moreso when/if (a) we get > to the point of being a serious threat or (b) we do > something that can be plausibly used as justification. We have been a serious threat in the past, that's precisely the point. T ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 29 14:08:27 PST 1999

38202 US terror bombing -- rank: 1000

This is marred by Trot boilerplate, but it's still a fine example of why Workers Vanguard used to be worth reading when Jan Norden was editing it. Yeah, yeah, NATO is just bombing military targets, not civilians, though there are 500,000 refugees and hundreds of thousands of others who are feeling mighty inconvenienced. But who would trust an entity with a history like this to bomb humanely? "Liberals have often sought to distance themselves from the policy of strategic bombing...." So ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 29 13:56:04 PST 1999

38203 Monsanto etc -- rank: 1000

A query from another list... >Does anyone know where I could find information about what % of food grown >in the US from seed stock is from corporations such as Monsanto? Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 29 09:16:06 PST 1999

38204 new life at 32B-32J -- rank: 1000

[The lead item from this week's City Limits email update.] From: CitLim at aol.com Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:06:58 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: City Limits Weekly #169 CITY LIMITS WEEKLY March 29, 1999 Number 169 Kathleen McGowan, editor. Kim Nauer, executive director. City Limits Weekly is a free news and resource guide for New Yorkers. The fax and e-mail weekly is published every Monday by City Limits magazine. To be added to our distribution list or to subscribe to our monthly magazine ($25 ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 29 09:14:04 PST 1999

38205 classes? what classes? -- rank: 1000

>From today's Chronicle of Higher Education daily update: * MINNESOTA GOV. JESSE VENTURA asserted on a television show Friday night that college athletes should not have to enroll in classes. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 29 07:13:01 PST 1999