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40201 sinister German plan -- rank: 1000
from MSNBC's website <http://www.msnbc.com/news/230178.asp>.... WASHINGTON, April 14 The United States and Britain on Wednesday tried to put the brakes on a new proposal from their German NATO ally that would offer a 24 hour suspension of airstrikes against Yugoslavia if Belgrade would begin withdrawing its troops from Kosovo. The German plan, which apparently caught some NATO nations off guard, would also reverse the alliance's insistence that NATO lead any post-war peacekeeping force in ...
Document Size: 5906
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Apr 14 09:34:42 PDT 1999
40202 Marshall Plan for Balkans? -- rank: 1000
Chris Burford wrote: >I actually think that Special Drawing Rights should be printed for the >Africa, but that suggestion was also met by a received left wing common >sense and worldy wisdom as quite impractical. Chris, for one you show a touching faith in the healing powers of funny money, e.g. SDRs. Africa desperately needs real human, financial, and physical resources, not a fresh issue of a notional currency. And for two, it's not "received left wing common sense" that dee ...
Document Size: 5361
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Apr 14 09:21:39 PDT 1999
40203 No subject -- rank: 1000
[from Nettime] From: Student Union of Yugoslavia <suserb at sezampro.yu> Subject: <nettime> Political assasination in Serbia Sender: owner-nettime-l at basis.Desk.nl Precedence: bulk Slavko Curuvija, owner of the Yugoslav opposition newspaper Dnevni Telegraf, was shot to death on Sunday. Witnesses reported that Curuvija and his wife were entering their apartment building in Belgrade when two unidentified gunmen approached them from behind. Curuvija was shot eleven times in the head ...
Document Size: 7016
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Apr 13 13:56:19 PDT 1999
40204 Israel-Serbia Comparisons- Scrambling ideologies -- rank: 1000
Nathan Newman quoted: >the incredibly uneven and pro-Arab media coverage in >Europe and the US Was this a fragment of a transmission from Planet Burford? Doug
Document Size: 4716
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Apr 13 11:43:11 PDT 1999
40205 war update -- rank: 1000
[today's Sam Smith excerpt - <http://prorev.com>] THE REVIEW LIST Collateral Damage Report [The following comes from data by Michel Chossudovsky, professor of economics at the University of Ottawa. While statistics are the first casualty of war and should be approached with extreme caution, neither the White House nor the media conglomerates appear interested in providing us any estimates on such matters.] --Number of jobless created by bombing: 500,000 [Yugoslav sources] --Value of proper ...
Document Size: 7491
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Apr 13 11:19:44 PDT 1999
40206 Europrospects -- rank: 1000
J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: > It is conventional to call the UK a lap dog, or whatever, >and there may be some truth to that. But it is more >complicated. I think that the British view themselves as >the better halves of the joint Ango-American imperium, That's very flattering to the British self-image, but I doubt that anyone in Washington considers the UK anything more than a junior partner - America's "Trojan horse in Europe," as Tariq Ali put it, if you prefer e ...
Document Size: 8385
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Apr 13 10:26:59 PDT 1999
40207 [Fwd: Social democracy betrayed -- Le Monde diplomatique] -- rank: 1000
rc-am wrote: >a more important distinction I think would be to note that social democracy >was always a set of strategies available only to a small set of countries >running either (or both) big trade surpluses or a 'labour shortage'; that >it presupposes a national framework that is no longer available. Australian >social democracy was built on the basis of the 'white australia policy', >which is perhaps where it is returning to: in the face of (the threat of) >capital fli ...
Document Size: 5693
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Apr 13 10:02:10 PDT 1999
40208 genocide -- rank: 1000
Max Sawicky wrote: >God bless bombs falling on the heads of Serb military, and god >damn the rest. Was God distracted when the bombs hit that train, or those residential neighborhoods, or...? Doug
Document Size: 4450
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Apr 13 09:52:28 PDT 1999
40209 genocide -- rank: 1000
Max Sawicky wrote: >Incidentally, notwithstanding my designation as laptop >bombadier/cruise missile liberal, if you thought my first >sentence was excessive I'd be happy to apologize. I'll take it as an apology credit, to be redeemed at an unspecified future date. Doug
Document Size: 4536
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Apr 13 09:46:23 PDT 1999
40210 Dalai Lama -- rank: 1000
Tavia wrote: >I am open to persuasion here--not being formally a Buddhist myself--but >what exactly is up with the matter-of-fact Dalai Lama bashing? His alleged >comment on forgiving Pinochet sounds weird (as many note, it is probably >taken out of context) but where are people getting the rest of this left >folk wisdom that the Dalai Lama a) supports slavery b) is against 'lust' c) >suports nuclear war d) is an imperialist-backed stooge leading a >reactionary peasant relig ...
Document Size: 47843
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Apr 13 09:38:31 PDT 1999
40211 [Fwd: Social democracy betrayed -- Le Monde diplomatique] -- rank: 1000
Michael Hoover wrote: >above was Claus Offe's argument before he went off into new social >movements, 'post-communist' transitions, and 'beyond employment'... > >"Under modern capitalist conditions, a supportive framework of non- >commodified institutions is necessary for an economic system that >utilizies labor power is if it were a commodity." (The Contradictions >of the Welfare State, p. 263) > >in other words, the capitalist system of commodified producti ...
Document Size: 6272
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Apr 13 08:38:25 PDT 1999
40212 Europrospects -- rank: 1000
Dennis R Redmond wrote: >The thing is, the EU just isn't following the >rules set by the Pax Americana; it's not interested in ruling via >laser-guided bombs and counterinsurgency campaigns. It prefers to trade >its neighbors into coexistence instead of bombing them into submission. Then why are the EU countries going along with the bombing, with German planes dropping ordnance for the first time since 1945? >Its central bank is reliquidizing the global credit >system in front ...
Document Size: 5170
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Apr 13 08:21:41 PDT 1999
40213 [Fwd: Social democracy betrayed -- Le Monde diplomatique] -- rank: 1000
rc-am wrote: >point taken, but what, if any, was the role of banking in this? Social democracy seems compatible only with regulated financial sectors, domestic and foreign. Once a financial structure moves towards a more (Anglo-)American model, all liberal hell breaks loose. Of course this isn't the only mechanism at work, but it's important. Doug
Document Size: 4998
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Apr 13 08:10:07 PDT 1999
40214 the war - another view -- rank: 1000
[From the mass Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot via Michael Eisenscher.] WHAT THE NEW "NATO WAR" IN EUROPE IS REALLY ALL ABOUT "US reasons for joining Germany and Nato on looting the territories of the Russian allies extend beyond the obvious military and economic control this provides over Europe. The condition was from the start that NATO gives the US a free hand in the Middle East." - Prof. Tanya Reinhart IN THE NAME OF THE VICTIMS By Professor Tanya Reinhart The public debat ...
Document Size: 13931
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Apr 12 22:24:32 PDT 1999
40215 Kagarlitsky on Yugo -- rank: 1000
[from Johnson's Russia List] Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 From: austgreen at glasnet.ru (Renfrey Clarke) Subject: Kagarlitsky: The Clinton Doctrine THE CLINTON DOCTRINE By Boris Kagarlitsky MOSCOW - In 1968, when Soviet forces invaded Czechoslovakia, Western journalists began speaking of a ``Brezhnev Doctrine''. Its essence was simple: the sovereignty of the Warsaw Pact states was limited. If something went amiss, the Soviet ``big brother'' would decide who would be punished and how. Since then, an en ...
Document Size: 12676
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Apr 12 22:08:14 PDT 1999
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