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40156 Query on 'irrational' US foreign policy -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >Chomsky recently wrote in a Z Magazine forum > >"... I think it is also useful to bear in mind the Clinton strategic >document called "Essentials of Post-Cold War Deterrence" that's quoted in >an article of mine in Z a year ago on "Rogue States," the same one Steve >Shalom reviewed in more detail in a recent post. It advocates that the US >portray itself as "irrational and vindictive if its vital interests are >attack ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 18 14:28:43 PDT 1999

40157 Query on 'irrational' US foreign policy -- rank: 1000

Tavia wrote: >Someone posted comments from Noam Chomsky (from ZNet I think) in which he >mentioned an official Clinton foreign policy document arguing that US >strategy should appear to be as vindictive and irrational as possible in >order to scare other countries into doing our bidding. Does anyone have the >full text of this document, or relevant parts? To me, it is sort of a >smoking gun, at least when it comes to arguing with my lefty friends who >say that, since Serbia ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 18 14:19:51 PDT 1999

40158 Hear Other voices from Serbia -- rank: 1000

[from nettime] Q: Who are you? A: We are a group of young prodemocratily oriented people (students mostly) who have spent the best years of their lives trying to change some things in Serbia, to create a more democratic society were people would be able to have freedom of speech without being afraid of getting arrested, beaten, tortured, etc. In the last ten years of bloodshed on Balkan, we've condemned and protested against any form of violence, ethnical cleansing and crimes against humanity, n ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 18 13:53:03 PDT 1999

40159 Fwd: New Issue of _Cultural Logic_ (Fall, 1998) -- rank: 1000

[The first two names should be familiar to lbo-listers. The attack on Rick Wolff by Deb Kelsh is a fine example of Orange Marxist madness.] X-Sender: dsiar at feist.com (Unverified) Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 08:37:01 -0500 To: mlg-ics+ at andrew.cmu.edu From: David Siar <dsiar at feist.com> Subject: New Issue of _Cultural Logic_ (Fall, 1998) Dear MLG, The new issue of _Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice_ is now on line at Carnegie Mellon's E ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 18 13:46:32 PDT 1999

40160 Marx and the American Civil War (was Re: Realism in Eastern Europe) -- rank: 1000

James Farmelant wrote: >Chris' position on >self-determination seems closer to Proudhon than to Marx Just like his position on SDRs is reminiscent of Proudhon's credit gratuit fantasies. Amazing how these correlations persist over time. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 18 13:37:18 PDT 1999

40161 France blocks "total war" -- rank: 1000

The Electronic Telegraph (UK) - 18 April 1999 FRANCE FEARS AERIAL ONSLAUGHT COULD PROVOKE MOSCOW INTO WAR SENIOR officials in Paris are claiming that the French government has vetoed plans by the Western allies to intensify the war against President Milosevic with an all-out aerial onslaught. According to the Elysée Palace, President Chirac blocked a move to begin a new offensive that would involve unlimited attacks on Serbian "centres of power" for fear of provoking Russia. In detaile ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 18 13:33:56 PDT 1999

40162 neither/nor -- rank: 1000

[This bounced because some stray html coding pushed it over regulation length.] From: "rc-am" <rcollins at netlink.com.au> To: "lbo" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: neither/nor Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 17:05:52 +1000 from znet: (http://www.zmag.org) A Letter about some of the Complexities of Opposition BEING ABLE TO SAY NEITHER / NOR By Cynthia Cockburn A group of us in London co-ordinate occasional actions as 'Women in Black' (footnote). Although I am active ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 18 13:30:40 PDT 1999

40163 [Fwd: Social democracy betrayed -- Le Monde diplomatique] -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >The Nordic countries are dependent on imperialism? How do you mean? They're an integral part of a global hierarchy that gives the rich/OECD/northern/First World/imperialist countries (choose your favorite term) incomes ten to 40 times the incomes of the poor/southern/Third World/colonized countries. This system is ultimately maintained by Nathan's friends in the Pentagon. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 18 13:13:23 PDT 1999

40164 Fisk reports.... -- rank: 1000

[More reports from the humanitarian bombing front.] This Atrocity is Still a Mystery to NATO. Perhaps I Can Help... The Independent (London) 4/17/99 By Robert Fisk When you stand at the site of a massacre, two things happen. First, you wonder about the depths of the human spirit. And then you ask yourself how many lies can be told about it. The highway of death between Prizren and Djakovica - on which the Serbs say Nato slaughtered 74 Kosovo Albanian refugees in a series of bombing raids - is no ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 18 12:53:23 PDT 1999

40165 renewable oil -- rank: 1000

Anderson, Bob wrote: >Well, maybe they should complain. After all we spent a lof of bucks and a >lot of time with that big war in the Persian Gulf so we could have >cheap gas and now they have the gall to cut production and riase our >prices. What gratidue is there among thieves. Not sure who the thieves are here. But a brief history of the price of gasoline in the U.S., according to the gasoline subindex of the CPI: Between the war fevered peak in December 1990 and the trough in F ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 18 12:39:57 PDT 1999

40166 ground troops -- rank: 1000

Speaking of ground troops, I have a question for our resident warriors, Field Marshal Burford and Brigadier General Newman: if humanitarian concerns were really at the forefront, wouldn't the "right" thing to do be to deploy a large contingent of soldiers rather than bomb empty police HQ, oil refineries, bridges, and refugee convoys? Don't you find something deeply cowardly and hypocritical about this whole approach, in which hundreds of immediate and thousands of long-term civilian de ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 18 11:58:01 PDT 1999

40167 No subject -- rank: 1000

[this bounced because of an address oddity] From: Hans Ehrbar <ehrbar at econ.utah.edu> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Marshall Plan for Balkans? >>>>> Doug Henwood wrote, responding to Chris Burford: > Chris Burford wrote: >> All money is funny. It has fetishistic power. Whatever its units, its >> exchange value is a proportion of the total social labour of the economy, >> in this case the global economy. > So if there's only an issuance of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 18 11:54:33 PDT 1999

40168 What's the Alternative to NATO? -- rank: 1000

Hey Nathan, missed you at the SAWSJ conference at Yale. Just catching up here.... Nathan Newman wrote: >But at the moment, that isn't an alternative. The alternative seems to be >either a world of ethnic hatred and killing in disintegrating nation-states >(fed by global capital and great powers) versus imperial hegemony by the US >and its allies (supported by other parts of global capital and great >powers). So does that mean bombing of Indonesia (for East Timor) should start onc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 18 11:23:08 PDT 1999

40169 Konrad on nationalism -- rank: 1000

[from this week's Nation] The Nation - May 3, 1999 NATIONALISM UNLEASHED We Hungarians entered NATO on March 12. Less than two weeks later, as NATO members, we provided free air lanes for military planes to Yugoslavia, and now we must identify ourselves with a war against a neighboring country. To make my position clear: I was in favor of Hungary joining NATO, and I'm glad NATO will protect us against external enemies, though as far as I know, no one intended to attack my country. Two years ago, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 18 09:27:41 PDT 1999

40170 renewable oil -- rank: 1000

Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >Typical WSJ story on a Friday, especially after tax date. >The fact is, regardless whether oil wells are self replenishable, which is >different than renewable as the environmentalists define the term, there is no >shortage of oil for the foreseeable future in terms of the technological life >span of the oil based economy. >What we have is in oil is a pricing problem. >Instead of a fixed price, oil should be priced indexed to GDP. >Would that be a M ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 16 11:11:24 PDT 1999