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40186 Fwd: IMF & Gold sales -- rank: 1000

[More from 50 Years Is Enough, even if they don't meet Chris Burford's test of militancy.] Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 10:45:41 -0400 From: Njoki Njoroge Njehu <wb50years at igc.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk Sender: owner-50-years at igc.apc.org Subject: IMF & Gold sales To: 50-years at igc.org X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by igce.igc.org id HAA25250 X-Sender: wb50years at pop2.igc.org 50 Years Is Enough Activists/Friends, Under the guise of providing debt r ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 15 09:11:05 PDT 1999

40187 US-EU relations -- rank: 1000

[From today's Financial Times. Barkley, this guy lives in Europe, or at least an island off the coast of Europe.] Financial Times - April 15 1999 William Wallace - Meeting of minds By William Wallace The US and its European allies are now militarily committed in south-eastern Europe and about to embark on the new "Millennium Round" of trade negotiations. Economic setbacks in East Asia and Latin America and political stalemate in Japan make transatlantic co-operation even more central t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 15 09:07:43 PDT 1999

40188 Asia Recovery? -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >At any rate, it strikes me as absurdly premature to think Southeast Asia >has exited this crisis as long as Japan remains in a slump. Japanese asset prices - stocks as well as golf club memberships - are behaving as if the slump is ending. We'll see if this is another false dawn, but one should be open to the possibility that this is the real thing. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 15 08:47:12 PDT 1999

40189 Marshall Plan for Balkans? -- rank: 1000

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 SDRs, and nothing else changes - no alterations in the structure of social labor - in Africa, then you've just printed money. No you haven't even done that, since SDRs are purely notional, and lack the substantiality of printed currency even. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 15 08:30:40 PDT 1999

40190 rebranding NATO -- rank: 1000

[from Nettime] From: Hari Kunzru <hari at dircon.co.uk Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 18:12:31 +0200 Rebranding NATO: A SpinMute consultation document Executive Summary: As a long-term PR strategy, the current NATO campaign in the Balkans(TM) has its drawbacks. As a brand, NATO's long term prospects look bleak unless a serious reappraisal of its mission and values is undertaken. Thus Mute's corporate presentation analysis wing (SpinMute) has produced the following strategy document, aimed at improvi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 14 14:29:02 PDT 1999

40191 Ian Murray's citation -- rank: 1000

Greg Nowell wrote: >This is related to my point about Yugoslavian >enterprises and subsidies, IMF, etc. Note that >"non-market criteria" in this context is a signifier >for heavily skewed investment policies following region >and ethnicity. The strong desire of most of the >member states to get out of the Yugoslav federation was >related to their belief 1) that economic development >was working against them (even in the prosperous >Croatia and Slovenia and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 14 13:58:41 PDT 1999

40192 radio -- rank: 1000

I normally refrain from promoting my radio show here, but tomorrow's an exception, since the lead guest will be lbo-talker James Heartfield, who will talk about the war, Britain's contribution to the war, and Blairism/Third Wayism in general. After James will be Robert Hayden, director of the Center for Russian & East European Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Hayden reduced Cap Weinberger and John Hockenberry to silence on MSNBC the other night when he delivered a long polemic agains ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 14 13:47:40 PDT 1999

40193 the free press -- rank: 1000

Ah, our free press! I just signed onto the MSNBC website for the latest war news, and was greeted by a big headline saying "Peace plan hits hurdles: objections raised to cease-fire; NATO denies it hit refugee convoy." Always lead with obstacles and denials when you're trying to nip something in the bud! Below it is an ad for CNBC's Equal Time, hosted by Oliver North, with the tagline, "It's hard to argue with a man who's not afraid to take sides. That won't stop his guests from tr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 14 13:15:51 PDT 1999

40194 Covering Up NATO's Balkan Bombing Blunder -- rank: 1000

[from Andre Gunder Frank] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 15:12:35 +0200 From: Transnational Foundation TFF <tff at transnational.org> To: TFF PressInfo # 61 <tff at transnational.org> Subject: Covering Up NATO's Balkan Bombing Blunder P r e s s I n f o # 6 1 C O V E R I N G U P N A T O ' S B A L K A N B O M B I N G B L U N D E R April 14, 1999 "Western leaders are busy re-writing history to justify their Balkan bombing blunder. The change ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 14 10:44:33 PDT 1999

40195 Dalai Lama -- rank: 1000

Tavia wrote: >Thanks Doug for thought-provoking historical background on Tibet, which I >read with interest. But it doesn't seem to answer my question: where can I >find quotes from the present-day Dalai Lama going around upholding feudal >or antidemocratic or imperialist or pro-slavery views? Why do they have to come from his mouth? Bill Clinton's never stood up and said "As the leader of a government that kills and exploits...." No, he always represents himself as a parag ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 14 10:32:01 PDT 1999

40196 Hough on Yugo -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 From: "Jerry F. Hough" <jhough at duke.edu> My main course at Duke in recent years has been the American presidency, with a focus on electoral strategy from Jefferson to the present. By coincidence, I finished Wilson last week. A true disaster. If he had used Amercian power to force a cease fire (and that was easily within American economic power at the time) instead of tilting to England in 1915, there never would have been ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 14 10:10:34 PDT 1999

40197 Fwd: "Debt Relief for Africa": Congressional Testimony -- rank: 1000

[Something from one of the good NGOs.] Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 12:34:36 -0400 From: Njoki Njoroge Njehu <wb50years at igc.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk Sender: owner-50-years at igc.apc.org Subject: "Debt Relief for Africa": Congressional Testimony To: 50-years at igc.org X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by igce.igc.org id JAA14314 X-Sender: wb50years at pop2.igc.org Africa Subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee Hearing on "De ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 14 10:06:24 PDT 1999

40198 NATO's corporate friends -- rank: 1000

The Washington Post - April 13, 1999 COUNT CORPORATE AMERICA AMONG NATO'S STAUNCHEST ALLIES By Tim Smart For many Washingtonians, the NATO military alliance's upcoming 50th-anniversary bash may end up being notable only for nightmare traffic tie-ups. For a few companies, though, the summit could be the ultimate marketing opportunity. A handful of top-drawer U.S. companies -- including heavyweights such as Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp. as well as upstarts such as Nextel Communications I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 14 09:58:55 PDT 1999

40199 NGO analysis by Salvadoran and James Petras (fwd) -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >1. The social fragmentation NGO critics talk about is caused by modern >capitalist development, not by NGOs. NGOs are but an expression of that >fragmentation. > >2. The mass "Left" movements in the 19th and early 20th centuries grew out >of social solidarity that had its roots in a peasant society. That society >was all but destryed by capitalism, and the type of solidarity it created >is for the most part gone. That means that thos ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 14 09:56:25 PDT 1999

40200 R&D -- rank: 1000

[The full report can be downloaded at <http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/budget2000/budget2000.pdf>.] Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - Wednesday, April 14, 1999 Inconsistencies in Science Budgets May Handicap Academic Research, Report Says By PAULETTE WALKER CAMPBELL Washington - The uneven distribution of budget increases among federal agencies that support science and technology could pose serious problems for academic research, according to a report released Tuesday by the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 14 09:41:07 PDT 1999