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40066 Marshall Aid for Balkans, Africa -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >1) I copied an Albanian call for a Marshall Aid plan for the Balkans to >this list. It was greeted with ridicule by the great and the good, which >they have not been able to sustain. You mean we're supposed to sustain ridicule of ridiculous statements? >Within the last few days the term has been used a number of times in the >context of the NATO discussions, including by the Brits and particularly >the Germans. >From the April 26 Financial Times: <qu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 26 08:52:08 PDT 1999

40067 welfare coverage -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >FSP and Medicaid are uncoupled from AFDC, so losing TANF has no >bearing on their eligibility for the other two. Not legally, no, but certainly in practice. People kicked off AFDC often assume they've lost eligibility for Food Stamps & Medicaid, and no one is telling them anything to the contrary. I know this is happening in NYC - where the welfare offices have been renamed job centers - and assume it's happening elsewhere as well. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 26 07:33:48 PDT 1999

40068 US buying Russian reporters -- rank: 1000

[From Johnson's Russia List. Two, three, many CNNs!] The official press release from the US Embassy regarding the emergency aid to Russian media. DRAFT: Press Release: Assistance to the Independent Media On January 25, 1999, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announced in Moscow that the United States will commit USD 10 million to fund training and support for Russia's independent media. This commitment builds on more than five years of assistance programs to promote the professionalism and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 26 07:21:19 PDT 1999

40069 crisis over -- rank: 1000

[Camdessus joins George Soros...] Financial Times - April 26 1999 Camdessus says crisis 'seems to be over' By Gerard Baker and Robert Chote in Washington The financial crisis that hit most of the world's emerging market economies and prompted the leading industrial countries into emergency interest rate cuts over the past year "seems to be over", Michel Camdessus, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, said yesterday. The painful social consequences of the crisis in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 25 21:03:49 PDT 1999

40070 welfare coverage -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >A little while >ago, somebody mentioned Clinton 'throwing people off welfare and Medicaid.' >Spending on Medicaid is higher than ever, by any metric. The chief area of >cuts is means-tested cash assistance, which was not large to begin with. First, the removal of the entitlement to AFDC, and the imposition of time limits, is no minor cut. Sure the effects aren't glaring right now, with the economy relatively strong and the time limits only beginning to kick in, b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 25 17:54:44 PDT 1999

40071 race & murder -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >I remember Sid Vicious wearing a Swastika T-Shirt - which had tremendous >shock value in Britain - but in no sense meant that he was Nazi or even >racist (he wasn't). Yeah but Sid Vicious killed only himself. And he was in a great band and did a wonderful cover of "My Way." Sure, real Nazis would hate the kids' indiscipline, and their racism may not have been worked out and systematized to a properly Aryan degree, but there's got to be something to the u ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 25 12:17:50 PDT 1999

40072 Video Killed the Radio Star -- rank: 1000

digloria at mindspring.com wrote: >i keep finding that folks with left leanings have a hard time >seeing them as disenfranchised and dispossessed. That they weren't but what's wrong with an analysis showing that American capitalist society fucks up even its privileged (or the lumpenbourgeoisie) too - that we've got a country so atomized, bored, and competitive, with intense hostility lurking under our well-practiced sunniness that it regularly produces explosions like this. If you're not h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 25 11:58:36 PDT 1999

40073 anti-Zizek -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >do you know who dejan krsic is, or what this is a reply to of krsic's? Nope. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 25 11:42:46 PDT 1999

40074 Fisk on TV bombing -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) [no date given] 'Once you kill people because you don't like what they say, you change the rules of war' Hanging upside-down from the wreckage was a dead man, in his fifties perhaps, although a benevolent grey dust had covered his face. Not far away, also upside-down - his legs trapped between tons of concrete and steel - was a younger man in a pullover, face grey, blood dribbling from his head on to the rubble beneath. ROBERT FISK IN BELGRADE Deep inside the tangle of cemen ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 25 11:31:04 PDT 1999

40075 Russian mood -- rank: 1000

[from JRL] THE JAMESTOWN FOUNDATION PRISM A BI-WEEKLY ON THE POST-SOVIET STATES 4/23/99 No.8 Part 2 WAR OR PEACE? THE REASONS FOR AND POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES OF ANTI-WESTERN FEELING IN RUSSIA By Tatyana Matsuk Tatyana Matsuk is senior researcher at the Institute for Employment Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. "Every strike on Yugoslavia is a blow to the prospects of maintaining democracy in Russia," said former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar. Despite my staun ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 25 11:26:32 PDT 1999

40076 Russia capital flight -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Russian Ministries Estimate Illegal Transfers To West Moscow, 22 Apr (Interfax) -- In the estimate of experts from the Russian interior and economics ministries, between $50 billion and $250 billion has been illegally transferred from Russia to Western banks over the past five years. Offshore zones, particularly in Cyprus, have become "money- laundering centers" for criminal Russian capital, representatives of the Russian Interior Ministry told Interfax Thu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 25 11:21:32 PDT 1999

40077 Military Spending and Growth -- rank: 1000

JayHecht at aol.com wrote: >Well, for one, a degraded society - I think Baran and Sweezy called it >"wasting the surplus." But for Shaikh and Tonak, defense expenditures are >not productive of capital (though they might be necessary for both domestic >and international control). Look at it this way - cranking up GDP by >increasing gov't expenditures to fight a war, build prisons, etc., may pulse >the economy for a few years (even several?), but running a garrison ec ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 25 11:12:09 PDT 1999

40078 anti-Zizek -- rank: 1000

[some people seem not to like Slavoj] Svetlana Slapsak Zizek's Lads In all of the many violent crises we have lived through over the past ten years in former Yugoslavia, voices like that of Dejan Krsic would come to the surface: voices strident with sudden zeal for taking profit, with no risk involved, by forgetting intellectual honesty and self-examination, while others dither, because in doubt or simply because they are ashamed. The past has been brutally erased by new ideological intervention ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 24 11:08:50 PDT 1999

40079 Germans on the war -- rank: 1000

[these are beyond my German skills, but no doubt not those of others] Friedrich Kittler: Der Schleier des Luftkriegs http://www4.zeit.de/zeit/nacht/aktuell/199916.medien_.html Klaus Theweleit: Very Important Grown-Ups http://www.taz.de/tpl/1999/04/23.fr/ibox?Ueber=&re=ku&amp;name=a0058 Klaus Theweleit: Logical, radical, criminal http://www.infolinks.de/konkret/1999/05/telew.htm Hermann L. Gremliza: Nie wieder Frieden! http://www.infolinks.de/konkret/1999/05/greml.htm Michael Scharang: Kr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 24 10:07:50 PDT 1999

40080 fwd query on productivity, stats, etc. -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Doug gave excellent examples for this conclusion: " in that sense a >monetary unit is a better measure than a physical unit." > >There are of course problems with measuring productivity only in value or >money terms. I was dutifully obeying the laws of capitalism in my analysis. In my heart of hearts, I think measuring social product with money is hideous and demented. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 24 09:55:49 PDT 1999