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38206 Why doesn't the Left have a real vision? -- rank: 1000

Jonathan Sterne wrote: >They have more guns than we do. Especially in the US, which is the >history I'm most familiar with, the government has this neat little trick >of killing off the opposition. It's amazing what few strategic murders and >intimidation will do. Or more than a few. In New Left Review #232, Dan Lazare (citing Michael Mann's Sources of Social Power, p. 635) writes: "Between 1872 and 1914, according to one count, seven workers were killed in labour disputes in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 29 07:02:35 PST 1999

38207 500,000 Kosovans now refugees -- rank: 1000

christian a. gregory wrote: >another good reason to be cautiously (un)dialectical about american military >activity: thomas l. friedman's cover story in the nyt magazine. blurb on >the cover: "for globalism to work, america can't be afraid to act like the >almighty superpower that it is." inside, he calls clinton a guardian of the >social safety net to justify our new global hegemony. ugh. Ugh indeed. For those of you who missed this delight - a timely example of the ne ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 29 06:49:53 PST 1999

38208 Why Don't You Enlist, Nathan? (was Re: 500,000 Kosovans nowrefugees) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >As many have already posted on this issue, Kosovo is part of Yugoslavia, >and what is to be objected is how U.S. imperialism has fragmented >Yugoslavia, using right-wing nationalists in Kosovo, Croatia, and Bosnia. Does anyone understand German interests here? I thought they recognized Croatia very quickly, thereby legitimating its secession and accelerating the breakup of Yugoslavia. This excited Serb memories of the Ustashe, etc. Have I been listening to too m ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 29 06:32:31 PST 1999

38209 SALON on Moral Blindness of Serb "liberals" -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >This is an interesting article by SALON, with a bit of ammunition for both >sides of the bombing debate, but it does make clear that even the most >liberal of Serbs have ultimately been apologists for Serbia's atrocities.-- Not unlike the way liberal Americans can be apologists for American atrocities? Doug

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Date:	Sun Mar 28 18:25:26 PST 1999

38210 Separatism and Secession -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >But this is not a rational foreign policy: it assumes that there is an >entity called "Serbia" which is identical with and bears responsibility for >the actions of Milosevic--and it assumes that punishment inflicted upon >"Serbia" is punishment inflicted upon Milosevic... But this is all perfectly consistent with U.S. bombing strategy, from Dresden through Hiroshima through Iraq, to terrorize civilian populations in order to undermine popular ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 28 16:06:48 PST 1999

38211 B92 -- rank: 1000

[from another list...] >from: helpb92 at xs4all.nl > >Dear All, > >As you will know, air strikes on Yugoslavia are now >underway. One of the outcomes of this war situation is the >closure of Yugoslavia's most important independent media >entity, radio station B92. > >A group of people from Europe and from around the world are >staging a campaign to help B92 continue to provide news >updates about the situation in Yugoslavia as it develops. >The campaign is ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 28 13:22:43 PST 1999

38212 Noam Chomksy on Kosovo (FWD) -- rank: 1000

Noam Chomsky wrote: >Apart from the UK (by now, about as much >of an independent actor as the Ukraine was in the pre-Gorbachev >years) Ha. How does this play in Britain? Is Britain's tagging along with the U.S. in these aerial riots seen as humiliating or evidence of imperial rebirth? Doug

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Date:	Sun Mar 28 10:58:55 PST 1999

38213 "the heroic anti-Communist left" -- rank: 1000

[The heroic anti-communist left, which just happened to end up with the CIA.] New York Times Book Review - March 28, 1999 Under the Beds of the Reds Of all the liberal anti-Communists, Jay Lovestone may have been the most feared. By PAUL BERMAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A COVERT LIFE Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster. By Ted Morgan. Illustrated. 402 pp. New York: Random House. $29.95. ------------------------------------------- ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 28 10:35:22 PST 1999

38214 Separatism and Secession -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >What I find compelling about the Kosovan odyssey is a dogged dedication to >nonviolent democratic action for over a decade - of people streaming to >secret polling places to register their desire for freedom from repression. >It was only with the brutal suppression of that movement and the more recent >creation of tens of thousands of refugees that the violent option turned >from an extreme position among the Kosovans into a broadly popular position. Natha ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 28 10:32:57 PST 1999

38215 Rightwing Pro-Serb Propaganda -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Since rightwing sites are all mirroring the anti-Albania, pro-Serb >propaganda Yoshie has been posting, I thought people would be interested in >this posting from the Rockford Institute - the folks who funded much of the >racist research Charles Murray used in THE BELL CURVE. There bias for the >Serbs is based on the Rockford Institute's anti-Islam, pro-Christianity view >of the conflict. > >Aside from engaging in blatant guilt-by-association in th ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 28 10:22:10 PST 1999

38216 censored -- rank: 1000

Enough, Kelley, I don't want to hear any more about it. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 27 20:20:25 PST 1999

38217 censored -- rank: 1000

digloria at mindspring.com wrote: >If you don't like the particular way Gary flamed at LBO, then i'd argue >that you should off list him and tell him to play nice. But to boot Gary >off the list completely goes against everything you've every said and done >regarding free speech and open dialogue and debate. Look, I don't enjoy Gary's failed preciousness on Bad Subjects, and I enjoyed it less coming from Bruno S here. Sorry. I never advertised this list as a common carrier. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 27 19:27:09 PST 1999

38218 Fwd: Giuliani Portraits by Robert Lederman/opening reception 4/1 -- rank: 1000

>From: ARTISTpres at aol.com >Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 17:11:14 EST >Subject: Giuliani Portraits by Robert Lederman/opening reception 4/1 > >Art As Politics >Giuliani Portraits by Robert Lederman, >President of A.R.T.I.S.T. >(Artists’ Response To Illegal State Tactics) >Opening reception Thursday, April 1st 7-10 P.M. >Clayton Gallery #161 Essex Street, Manhattan >Information: Robert Lederman (718) 369-2111 >Clayton Gallery (212) 477-1363 > >These are the p ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 27 17:10:25 PST 1999

38219 "Humanitarian Bombing" -- rank: 1000

Rkmickey at aol.com wrote: >Try Kipling: Yeah I know about Kipling, but I wonder how representative that was, and where it stood in the history of British colonial narratives. Surely that sort of stuff didn't emerge at the first imperial moment, did it? Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 27 15:36:44 PST 1999

38220 "Humanitarian Bombing" -- rank: 1000

Anyone know how British imperialism represented itself? Did it wear a "humanitarian" cloak, or is this a specifically American (moralizing) style? Was it more honest about "straight power concepts," as Kennan put it in that infamous memo? Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 27 13:12:35 PST 1999