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38701 NYT explains NATO's victory -- rank: 1000

Rkmickey at aol.com wrote: >Doug, do you by any chance have a link to the Pew center polls? The front pages is <http://www.people-press.org/>. The NY Times figures seem to be drawn from an April poll, reported at <http://www.people-press.org/kosovorpt.htm>. A more recent poll <http://www.people-press.org/may99rpt1.htm> shows a less callous U.S. public: <quote> Worries Change At the same time, public worries about the fate of U.S. troops in Kosovo have declined in recen ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 5 10:40:36 PDT 1999

38702 Fisk - so we've won? -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - June 5, 1999 THE PEACE THAT BETRAYS THE KOSOVAR CAUSE Robert Fisk So we've won the war, have we? That's what we are now being told by our leaders. Messrs Clinton, Blair, Cook and all the rest are telling us that Nato may shortly achieve its aim of returning 750,000 refugees to their homes, of installing a Nato-Russian force in Kosovo and ensuring the withdrawal of Serb police and troops. Nato, after its failure to crush a country of 10 million people in fewer than 70 days, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 5 10:22:45 PDT 1999

38703 Baumol on cooperation -- rank: 1000

[With shareholders insisting on profit maximization, I wonder what the effect on Baumol's social return story will be.] New York Times - June 5, 1999 Revising Capitalism: Coorperative Innovation Steals Competition's Thunder By MICHAEL M. WEINSTEIN Capitalism, every undergraduate student of economics learns, thrives on competition. The brilliant virtue of the invisible hand of competition is that it forces firms to reduce costs, cut prices and thereby enrich consumers. This engaging tale has butt ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 5 06:26:51 PDT 1999

38704 NYT explains NATO's victory -- rank: 1000

Here's how the U.S. newspaper of record, the New York Times, analyzes NATO's victory this morning: <quote> The alliance also increased the pressure on the Milosevic Government by stepping up strikes on electrical transmission systems and radio relay towers in the heart of Serbia. In doing so, it demonstrated that it would not be deterred by the public outcry over civilian casualties caused by a relative handful of mistaken attacks and errant bombs. And by holding down its own losses to the ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 5 06:22:15 PDT 1999

38705 Downturn in Pharmaceutical Stocks -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >This would seem to explain the downturn that Beth has inquired about. It >also seems that a capitalist economy left to itself cannot reproduce labor >power via the wage, direct and social. The drugs that capitalists find >profitable to sell at the prices they set are out of reach of too many >waged workers, exposing the proletariat to workless sickness. The state is >forced to dictate prices to a capitalist industry upon which the health of >the work ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 4 20:00:11 PDT 1999

38706 Kosovo compromise -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >All this supports the premise that projections of the conflict >as a plan for Nato dominion over Serbia in the interests of some >plan of greater conquest-cum-economic absorption were Marxoid >hogwash. In the same vein, there is no talk of forcing any >particular economic change in Serbia (not that there is much >that needs changing from a neo-liberal standpoint to begin with). Serbia has no economy anymore, Max. NATO blew it up. How do you think it will be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 4 19:39:53 PDT 1999

38707 Fwd: Cato conference on Global Capitalism -- rank: 1000

[Folks in Washington, mark your calendars!] >X-Sender: ivasquez$cato.org at cato-university.org (Unverified) >Mime-Version: 1.0 >To: alanp at cato.org, lmajor at cato.org >From: Ian Vasquez <ivasquez at cato.org> >Subject: Cato conference on Global Capitalism >Date: Fri, 4 Jun 99 20:04:52 EDT > >Dear Friend: > >I wanted to be sure you knew about next week's Cato Institute conference on >global capitalism, "The Crisis in Global Interventionism." ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 4 16:29:03 PDT 1999

38708 Invitation to join solidarity at onelist.com -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Charles: Specifically on the Michigan Militia, the former commander of it >( I forgot his name right now; it's not Mark of Michigan) was on talk >radio in Detroit regularly up until about a year ago. He said that there >are racist elements within the Michigan Militia's ranks. But , of course, >since it is an libertarian group , it is difficult to "govern" or have >strict membership requirements. He is not racist himself, but , he , who >ought ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 4 14:51:13 PDT 1999

38709 Fwd: LABELING SERBS AS NAZIS: THE ROLE OF U.S. PUBLIC RELATIONS FIRM RUDER FINN -- rank: 1000

[from Sid Shniad] LABELING SERBS AS NAZIS: THE ROLE OF U.S. PUBLIC RELATIONS FIRM RUDER FINN The following is an extract of an interview conducted by Mr. Jacques Merlino (Deputy Director of the network TV2, Paris, France) with James Harff (Director of Ruder Finn's Global Public affairs section), which took place in October 1993. HARFF: For eighteen months we have been working for the Republic of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, as well as for the opposition in Kosovo. Throughout this period, we h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 4 14:44:52 PDT 1999

38710 Invitation to join solidarity at onelist.com -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > From CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us Fri Jun 4 12:21:52 1999 > > There was a link to a "Michigan Militia" > >That's so racist! I don't think the MM is necessarily racist, but the American Front people are unambigously racist, though of a somewhat new, "multicultural" sort. As their manifesto says: "The People's of every Nation have an unalienable right to self-determination - to preserve their own culture and traditions and have co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 4 12:42:14 PDT 1999

38711 NYPress beats up on Baffler #12 -- rank: 1000

[From John Strausbaugh's publishing column in New York Press, June 2-8, 1999. Oh critique is just so old & boring, isn't it?] What year is this? Number 12 of The Baffler came last week, and that porky's looking awfully tired of turning that same trick by now. Nothing in here The Baffler hasn't said before, and, with more anger and energy. Like everyone else, I enjoyed the first couple-three issues of The Baffler I saw, back when Tom Frank was an angry young pisher first laying out his notion ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 4 12:37:34 PDT 1999

38712 Life in prison for stealing food -- rank: 1000

Josh Mason wrote: >Re the larger topic of this thread, doesn't the US incarceration boom >have more to do with larger numbers of people being cycled through short >sentences than with time actually served getting longer? I just ransacked the BJS site and found only minimal historical data on sentence length. One report showed an increase from 1992 to 1994, but that's hardly enough to draw conclusions from. I suspect it's both - more people being cycled through, and more serving longer s ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 4 11:52:49 PDT 1999

38713 Russians pissed -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Moscow Times June 4, 1999 Deal Seen As Russia's Capitulation By Andrei Zolotov Jr. Staff Writer The Kosovo peace plan accepted Thursday by Yugoslavia may have champagne corks popping in the West, but back in Russia special envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin faces a tough task defending the plan and his role in the negotiations. The Russian public and politicians have been frustrated by his failure to win substantial concessions from NATO, and the settlement plan announced Thu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 4 08:22:15 PDT 1999

38714 eBay -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >What I don't get is way I don't hear about law suits against these brokers. No doubt there will be lawsuits someday. Things haven't fallen apart yet, assuming of course they do. >Even with the disclaimers. Folks are constantly bringing suit against >companies for making them lose money. Everyones suing Compaq for leading >them down the primrose path preceding the real bad earnings report. Do any >of these suits succeed, do you know? >One of my greatest stock marke ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 4 08:21:14 PDT 1999

38715 50 Years is Enough conference, DC -- rank: 1000

NO DEBT, NO SWEAT: ORGANIZING FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE September 23 - 26, 1999 (Thursday - Sunday) Washington, DC, USA The 50 Years Is Enough Network Announces its Fourth Activists conference, which will be held the weekend prior to the gathering of the world's Finance Ministers in Washington for the annual meetings of the World Bank and IMF. We are planning a conference for both seasoned and beginning activists in the struggle for economic justice. The Opening Plenary will lay out the issues - in par ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 4 08:11:17 PDT 1999