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38626 embargo of Serbia -- rank: 1000

Still catching up, so I don't know if anyone answered Barkley's question about the embargo, but a quick glance at the subject headings looks like a no. Anyway, these two documents are from the White House web site. Doug ---- <http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1999/5/4/11. text.1> THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 17 09:03:20 PDT 1999

38627 Clark @ Waco -- rank: 1000

I've been away for a few days and I'm just catching up, so forgive me if someone's pointed to this already, but Ken McCarthy has a story of Gen Clark's involvement in the Waco massacre at <http://www.brasscheck.com/clarkatwaco.html>. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 17 07:36:07 PDT 1999

38628 katie roiphe -- rank: 1000

wendy lyon wrote: >Can someone actually give an example of anti-feminist material from >Katie Roiphe? She claimed to be one, for what that's worth. She denied being right wing, but happily accepted the antifeminist label. When I asked her what was wrong with feminism, she said it was humorless and anti-sex. When I asked her who her archetypal feminist is, she said Gloria Steinem. For what all that's worth. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 12 13:18:58 PDT 1999

38629 Clinton the Firm -- rank: 1000

[Thank god for our free, vigorous press!] New York Times - June 12, 1999 ABROAD AT HOME/ By ANTHONY LEWIS When Praise Is Due Bill Clinton held firm. That was a crucial fact in the Kosovo war, and it should be recognized. Under savage criticism at home and abroad, the President stuck to his policy. And it prevailed. Right up to the denouement, critics predicted that the President would weaken his demands on Yugoslavia. A writer in The Times of London, Ben Macintyre, wrote: "Clinton is seekin ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 12 11:28:32 PDT 1999

38630 US SECRET POLICE EPISODES -- rank: 1000

Peter Kilander wrote: >Why would the CIA have wanted to depose Nixon? Here's how Kevin Phillips made the case in his 1982 book, Post-Conservative America (an entity that hasn't arrived yet, despite Phillips' repeated promises). Connoisseurs of this thesis also point to Bob Woodward's background in Naval Intelligence. Doug ---- [from Kevin Phillips, Post-Conservative America, pp. 65-69] Question One is technical but essential. What are the mechanical underpinnings of the famous break-in and bu ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 12 09:52:16 PDT 1999

38631 US SECRET POLICE EPISODES -- rank: 1000

Sam Pawlett wrote: >Jim heartfield wrote: >> >> Doug is right on the Kennedy myth. >> >> Noam Chomsky blew this one out of the water in his book 'Rethinking >> Camelot' (?) which was published around the time of the Oliver Stone >> film on the assassination. Chomsky does his usual diligent job of >> mobilising every scrap of evidence to show, beyond doubt, that Kennedy >> was a hawk on Vietnam. As I remember it, Chomsky credits Arthur >> S ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 12 09:18:34 PDT 1999

38632 Russian views -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Communists 'Resolutely Condemn' Chernomyrdin Kosovo Role Sovetskaya Rossiya 10 June 1999 [translation for personal use only] Undated statement signed by G.A. Zyuganov, N.I. Ryzhkov, and N.M. Kharitonov: "Immeasurable Harm. Statement on Latest Betrayal of International Security Interests" The people and the leadership of the fraternal Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, despite two months of heroic resistance, are being compelled to capitulate. The NATO ultimatu ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 12 08:28:45 PDT 1999

38633 ancient history -- rank: 1000

For anyone inclined to think that recent financial crises are without precedent, or signs of that long-awaited death agony of capitalism... Doug ---- [from IMF, International Capital Markets: Developments, Prospects, and Key Policy Issues, November 1997] TABLE 70. SELECTED CRISES, 1870-1914 Turkey (1875) Debt default Fiscal deficits were funded by foreign borrowing that eventually could not be sustained. Peru (1876) Debt default Falling guano exports and stagnation of other revenue ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 12 08:25:10 PDT 1999

38634 virus paranoia -- rank: 1000

Inspired by the latest round of virus paranoia, I've reconfigured majordomo to bounce any posts with file attachments to me. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 12 07:40:28 PDT 1999

38635 katie roiphe -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >I can't speak to her allure, personally. But I happily insist that both >of Roiphe's books, The Morning After and Last Night in Paradise are >amongst the best written on sexual politics in the last decade. > >The hostility to Roiphe's work is a measure of the fact that she exposed >the shibboleth's of a one-time oppositional movement that is fast >becoming the establishment. > >The central point is that the feminist movement has become conservati ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 12 07:33:37 PDT 1999

38636 Fwd: U.S. bombshell re: WTO -- rank: 1000

[from Sid Shniad] Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 From: Ellen Gould <murrayg._dobbin at bc.sympatico.ca> Subject: U.S. bombshell re WTO The U.S. has just dropped a bombshell into discussions leading up to this fall's World Trade Organization negotiations in Seattle. U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky announced on June 1 that the U.S. wants a "top-down" approach in negotiations on eliminating barriers to trade in services - meaning that rather than countries negotiating on areas ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 11 17:25:25 PDT 1999

38637 [PEN-L:7925] Antidote -- rank: 1000

Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >The toilet is where it belongs, >together with the idiot who fired the first shot.. This is just completely unacceptable. One more of these from you or any party to this childishness and I'm getting out my moderator's boot. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 11 14:21:26 PDT 1999

38638 [PEN-L:7925] Antidote -- rank: 1000

Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >Virus alert! >Capitalist worm on the loose. > >Max Sawicky wrote: > >> After studying works of Mao Tse-Tung, >> report immediately to this web site: You gonna take this act on the road? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 11 13:45:12 PDT 1999

38639 Will NATO bomb in future? -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Now, the Europeans are strengthening their autonomous defense >identity. Electing Javier Solana as the new EU defense cheif was a >victory for the Americans. But the long-term effects are to split the >European away even more, I think. We'll see what they can put together, and how the U.S. responds. > Plus, the idea of Nato EVER acting out of area again is out of >the question. Not the U.S. acting out of area though. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 11 13:12:55 PDT 1999

38640 self-reliance -- rank: 1000

New ad on CNBC for Suretrade.com. Hip youngish types saying, "We're not relying on the government. We're not relying on the company. We're not relying on a fat inheritance. We trade online!" Where you're relying on several million other self-reliant mouse-clickers, but of course they're invisible, except as bids and asks. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 11 10:51:03 PDT 1999