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40036 severed heads in gardens -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - April 29, 1999 WAR IN THE BALKANS - FAMILIES BLASTED IN 'JUST ANOTHER MISTAKE' >From Robert Fisk in Surdulica, Serbia They had been torn apart. Blood was caked around what was left of Vojislav Milic's cellar, and there was the smell of meat. In the morgue, they had been unable to fit together the pieces of his son and daughter-in-law and his two grandchildren. Nato's bomb - one of two which struck the homes of Surdulica - had scored a direct hit on the house, killing at ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 29 09:26:09 PDT 1999

40037 IMF Special Drawing Rights. -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >It would be a revolutionary reform to demand that the IMF has a policy >greatly to expand the issuance of SDR's to reverse the increase in the >global circulation of dollars. Such a policy could have rules about how the >sums are released at times counter-cyclical to the capitalist trade cycle >and in such a way as to prioritise bids for humanitarian and environmental >causes on a global scale. Why do you think the issuance of a purely notional currency th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 29 08:58:47 PDT 1999

40038 il manifesto on the war and labour -- rank: 1000

Angela quoting Il Manifesto: >The Kosovo crisis has offered the United States such advantages for >making their presence felt as to prove irresistible. With the further >dismemberment of Yugoslavia, Washington can, with one blow: strengthen >Germany's privileged partner, anti-fundamentalist Islamic Turkey; humiliate >the Russians; seal the loyalty of the new NATO members Poland, Hungary and >the Czech Republic through a baptism of fire; and finally, teach a lesson >to the Eu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 29 08:23:39 PDT 1999

40039 Littleton -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >It looks to me like in the early 90's there was a dramatic surge in >homicide {victims,offenders} among young adults (but no one else); >similarly, since then, there has been a dramatic decrease in that same >group. Well the 1997 figure was still well above 1980's level, and higher than anything before that early 90's bulge. While we're talking about The Kids, what about that decline in the teen birth rate? Gutmacher says its 20% abstinence and 80% contraception. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 29 08:16:32 PDT 1999

40040 Kaplan on imperialism -- rank: 1000

rayrena wrote: >Michael, > >>Unfortunately a lexis search of the times for "kaplan" and "imperialism" >>turns up nothing for the last year (except for a chapter from his book, >>excerpted on the web). Can you think where else you might have read it? > >Though I am never absolutely positive about anything, I am *almost* >absolutely positive that it was in the New York Times that this Kaplan >article appeared. It could be that Hartung is quo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 29 07:15:33 PDT 1999

40041 Thatcher quote -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (and new Blair buddy) said >something to the effect, “there is no society, only individuals.” >Can anyone give me a citation for this statement (and or correct me if >I've got it off)? Not a Brit, but: "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves. It's our duty to look after ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 28 18:16:46 PDT 1999

40042 trade good for women, Fed sez -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Of course, an alternative explantion is that increased competition may hurt >men relative to women. Gender gap may be narrowed by either increasing the >wages of women or decreasing wages of men, I the authors do not indicate >that they accounted for which of these two led to the reduction of gender gap. > >I find it rather hard to belive that international competition created an >upward pressure on female wages - a more believable story is that it ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 28 13:50:31 PDT 1999

40043 I am not a racist -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >As to the nod towards Marx's formulation > >>Sort of like class society, which is the history of all hitherto existing >>societies, but which take many different forms. > >I always thought that this was a poor formulation on Marx's part, one >that tended to substitute Hegel's 'idea' with a dehistoricised essence >of 'class struggle'. But in any event, the idea that racism is something >that has existed in all societies just strikes me as wr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 28 12:40:01 PDT 1999

40044 Rubin v Europe -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - April 28 1999 RUBIN: Seeking to limit Europe's influence By Robert Chote, Economics Editor, in Washington Robert Rubin, US Treasury secretary, yesterday said it was time to consider realigning the constituencies within which countries were grouped at the International Monetary Fund, a move that would see Europe lose influence in the global economic watchdog. Speaking at the IMF's "interim committee" of finance ministers and central bankers, he also sounded a note of c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 28 12:11:58 PDT 1999

40045 more collateral damage... -- rank: 1000

[Shades of Malaysia...] Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 13:29:26 -0400 From: JAM'NG <Rainbowpuppies at PRODIGY.NET> Gays demonized by Serb war machine. Belgrade - Yugoslav television is demonizing Western leaders by accusing them of being gay, according a leading gay rights advocate in Belgrade. Dusan Maljkovic, a 23-year-old openly-gay student, journalist, and gay rights advocate living in the Yugoslav capital, said the Serbian media is now targeting gay people at unprecedented levels. &quo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 28 11:38:56 PDT 1999

40046 trade good for women, Fed sez -- rank: 1000

<http://www.ny.frb.org/rmaghome/staff_rp/sr74.html> Staff Reports April 1999 Number 74 Importing Equality? The Effects of Increased Competition on the Gender Wage Gap Sandra E. Black and Elizabeth Brainerd It is now well documented that the gender wage gap declined substantially in the 1980s, despite rising overall wage inequality. While Blau and Kahn (JoLE 1997) attribute much of this improvement to gains in women's relative labor market experience and other observable characteristics, a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 28 11:31:45 PDT 1999

40047 _Was_ there a Yugoslav ethnic cleansing plan? -- rank: 1000

P r e s s I n f o # 6 4 T H E W E S T I S I N M O R A L T R O U B L E I F T H E R E I S A N E T H N I C C L E A N S I N G P L A N - A N D I F T H E R E I S N ' T D o c u m e n t s S h o w t h a t N A T O I g n o r e d R i s k s April 27, 1999 "We are told there the West knew already last autumn that President Milosevic had a plan to ethnically cleanse all Albanians from the Kosovo province. However, while it is true that Yugoslav forces have exploited ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 27 16:34:43 PDT 1999

40048 Sillygism -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >Something that is true in all circumstances is immaterial. If racism >really were an ever-present, permanent condition of all things, then it >wouldn't make any sense to be against it. It takes different forms at different times & places. There's no pure racism apart from a given culture, class structure, etc. The racial aspects of bombing the Balkans are different from the racial aspects of bombing Hiroshima which are different from the racial aspects of shoo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 27 16:31:39 PDT 1999

40049 Race & Murder -- rank: 1000

Mark Rickling wrote: >I agree with all you have written above, especially that racism alone >cannot be the centerpiece of an explanation to the massacre, just as I >think that one cannot hope to explain the massacre fully without dealing >with race. Having said that, I find it somewhat problematic that you >consider racism only a preexisting channel through which separate and prior >grievances were expressed. Why? We're born into a racialized society; it's part of the landscape ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 27 16:21:29 PDT 1999

40050 Sillygism -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >That's absolutely true, Doug, and as it happens I agree with all Carrol's >premises as well. The problem is that at that level of generality, it >becomes a fairly banal pronouncement about Littleton specifically. Yeah, but it's always worth looking at is considered banal or obvious, since (as someone said) those are the most ideological things of all. I think Charles took the argument too far, but there is a tendency (among white people mostly) to play down racism ju ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 27 16:19:54 PDT 1999