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[Punk Planet staffer Joel Schalit asked me to forward this.] Hey NY Area Folks, Punk Planet presents a benefit for Voices in The Wilderness Saturday, July 10th 7:30 pm @ Tramps (10$ adv/12$door) Grls Against Boys Catpower JOAN OF ARC Ted Leo (chisel) Also, Jeff Guntzel, drummer for Amphetamine Reptile artists The Freedom Fighters, will be speaking at the benefit. Jeff works with Voices, defying US/UN sanctions and smuggling medicine (and toys and books etc.) into Iraq. Unicef verified statistics ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 11 10:13:08 PDT 1999

38642 New Paper Tiger TV Show on the G8 Available! -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:06:16 -0400 From: Michael Eisenmenger <eisenmen at rci.rutgers.edu> Reclaim the Streets NYC - http://reclaimthestreetsnyc.tao.ca *NEW PAPER TIGER TV SHOW * NYC Cablecast date: Tuesday, June 15th, 8:00pm on Channel 34, MNN CRASH THE G8 PARTY: Reclaiming Our Streets from the Neoliberals A look at the upcoming G8 Summit in Köln Germany and how people are mobilizing around issues of global economics and increased privatization at home. Doug Henwood, Left Business Obse ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 11 10:07:36 PDT 1999

38643 Will NATO bomb in future? -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >But they could do that since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, no? They did it in >Vietnam and Cambodia, no? There were no lossess resulting from high >altitude strategic bombing - but th eissue was not losses but effectiveness >as these air raids did not produce the desired tactical impact. Oh there were more than a few losses to anti-aircraft fire then. A couple of points. One, while the snazzy smart weapons obviously don't spare civilians as advertised, they can ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 11 09:30:44 PDT 1999

38644 US SECRET POLICE EPISODES -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >More specifically, this thread is on secret police in the U.S. and the >idea is that it was elite U.S.secret police operations that assassinated >the Kennedys It was a coup d'etat by one part of the ruling class against >another Far from proved, to put it mildly. Have you been watching a lot of Oliver Stone movies? This whole scenario depends on the belief that JFK was somehow not a good imperialist. But he was a rabid anti-Communist who campaigned on the frau ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 11 09:17:46 PDT 1999

38645 Friends of CUNY Reponse to Schmidt Report -- rank: 1000

Jacob Segal wrote: >For those who might be interested, this is a response to a mayoral >commission in New York that attacked the City University of New York. The >commission was lead by Benno Schmidt, former president of Yale. ...an institution he left in disgrace, villified for his frequent absences (his wife, a New York-based artist/filmmaker, understandably never wanted to move to New Haven, though the president's house is pretty nice), and hated by the faculty for his imperious mann ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 11 09:12:00 PDT 1999

38646 Clinton - giving imperialism a bad name -- rank: 1000

Boston Globe - June 11, 1999 THE WINNERS AND LOSERS IN THE BALKAN WAR By Bernard E. Trainor ho are the winners and losers in the Kosovo conflict? A clear winner is Russia, whose envoy, Viktor Chernomyrdin, adroitly played the role of friend of the Slavs, honest broker, and finally endorser of NATO. In this last role, he sealed Serbian fate when he withdrew Russian support from Belgrade and joined Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari in presenting what amounted to NATO's ultimatum for peace. Slobod ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 11 09:03:21 PDT 1999

38647 Will NATO bomb in future? -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford quoted: >Milosevic caved in not because the air strikes were working, but because he >realised that this bombardment became the lowest common denominator around >which NATO countries maintained their consensus, and could therefore be >continued indefinitely at a negligible human cost to the west. This, >coupled with serious preparations for a ground offensive, forced Belgrade >to accept the deal. The technique of just spraying people with bombs from >the air ha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 11 08:46:55 PDT 1999

38648 Russian cohesion -2 -- rank: 1000

EastWest Institute Russian Regional Report Vol. 4, No. 22, 10 June 1999 Russian Cohesion Index: -29 (down 2 this week) Disintegration.............T.L..............0..............Democratic Federalism (T = this week; L = last week; 0 = 17 March) ***** For a graphic display of the Russian Cohesion Index since 17 March, see: http://www.iews.org/RRRabout.nsf/pages/Russian+Cohesion+Index ***** ----- Despite a few bright spots, foreign investment in Russia was way off during the first quarter of this ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 11 08:14:08 PDT 1999

38649 Fwd: 1999-06-07 Report from Elie Wiesel on Visits with Kosovar Refugees -- rank: 1000

[from the master of highly selective sympathy....] Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:57 -0400 From: The White House <Publications-Admin at Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.Gov> To: Public-Distribution at Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.Gov Subject: 1999-06-07 Report from Elie Wiesel on Visits with Kosovar Refugees Keywords: Eastern-Europe, Foreign, Former-Ussr, International-Security, Report, Security, Staff-Report, World-Order Document-ID: pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1999/6/10/8.text.1 URL: http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 11 08:03:34 PDT 1999

38650 racism's WASP patron -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - June 11, 1999 How the South's Fight to Uphold Segregation Was Funded by North By DOUGLAS A. BLACKMON Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL JACKSON, Miss. -- On the afternoon of Sept. 12, 1963, a vice president of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. sent a telegram to the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, the agency created by local politicians to fight the civil-rights movement and preserve racial segregation. A Morgan client, the telegram said, was "setting aside as ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 11 07:53:14 PDT 1999

38651 the war continues... -- rank: 1000

Telegraph (London) - June 11, 1999 BRITAIN BEHIND IN SEARCH FOR CONTRACTS By Ben Rooney As countries begin to seek reconstruction projects in Kosovo, lack of preparation in Whitehall is hampering British efforts to win contracts. Until three weeks ago, the Department of Trade and Industry had done nothing following Britain's experience in the 1991 Gulf war, when America snapped up most of the contracts, despite Britain's sizeable military contribution. It was only at the urging of Colin Adams, c ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 11 07:03:35 PDT 1999

38652 Comparing the Clinton regime to the Stalin regime -- rank: 1000

Fabian Balardini wrote: >I rather live in a society where I don't have 100% "freedom of speech" but >my family and I are guaranteed a job, a source of income, health coverage >and even food, like in Cuba ( this is a bad example because freedom of >press is relatively higher in Cuba than in many other Latin countries). I'd rather this not be an either/or choice. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 10 13:15:17 PDT 1999

38653 Japan vs Korea -- rank: 1000

Greg Nowell wrote: >Actually if you follow James Fallow's argument, which I think is sound, the >Koreans really aren't catching up tot he Japanese > >a) because the keiretsu model is less effective in a country with a small >domestic demand base than a larger country like Japan. >b) because the Japanese own a lot of the potential competition in Korea. >c) because the Japanese refuse to license to the Koreans lotsa their hot stuff >in whatever field you should choose to na ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 10 12:30:07 PDT 1999

38654 Comparing the Clinton regime to the Stalin regime -- rank: 1000

Brett Knowlton wrote: >The thrust of Jabob's post was not to say that Kerensky would have brought >utopia to Russia, but that the communist regimes in Russia and China should >not be viewed as examples of the type of society we are trying to achieve - No argument from me on that. But we - you & I & most of the people on this list, though not all - live in rich countries with long histories of bourgeois democracy. It's kind of pointless to talk about Russia in 1917 as a model for ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 10 12:19:04 PDT 1999

38655 Comparing the Clinton regime to the Stalin regime -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Charles: Interesting your mention of the concept of "secret police" . I >was thinking recently about this standard concept from the Cold War era. >Communist countries have secret police and capitalist countries don't , is >the notion one gets from U.S. big brother. Here are two common sense >criticisms of that mindset. > >Do people really think the plainclothes police in the socialist countries >are unknown or SECRET to the people in those ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 10 12:08:55 PDT 1999