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40216 [Fwd: Social democracy betrayed -- Le Monde diplomatique] -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >> For social democracy, which holds undisputed sway in all the major >>countries of Europe, politics means economics, economics means finance, >>and finance means the markets. > >hasn't social democracy always implied this? hardly a betrayal I would >think. return to fundamental principles more like it, which means the >gasps every time social democracy turns out to be crap should be well and >truly redundant by now. how many times can this dis ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 12 20:15:57 PDT 1999

40217 thanx for nuthin' -- rank: 1000

I saw that forwarded to another list yesterday, but when I went to Yahoo to check their Reuters feed, the story wasn't there. Same with Lycos. Is this some clever forgery, or are the wires deleting embarrassing stuff? Doug rayrena wrote: >Hungry, but Not That Hungry > >REUTERS > > Kukes, Albania - Kosovo refugees are throwing away U.S.-donated >rations by the thousands and have even burned some to keep warm, >complaining that the food is inedible and has made people sick ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 12 20:01:59 PDT 1999

40218 genocide -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Similarly, we could have a Diallou Test. Should >the Ghouliani Regime prosecute the cops who shot (and hit) the African 19 >times? Uh, Max, the government of New York City is ultimately, though very imperfectly, responsible to the citizens and voters of New York City. How many votes did Bill Clinton or Tony Blair get in Belgrade or Pristina? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 12 19:55:26 PDT 1999

40219 genocide -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Wrong again, Dalai Henwood, prone to forgiveness of Serbian >anti-imperialists. Not me, comrade. Serbian nationalism sucks, though the region isn't without competitors in nationalism. Ethnic cleansing is a crime. I don't think B-52s with red, white, & blue insignia are the correct instruments to address the problem. They also obscure the fact that the U.S., Germany, and the IMF helped bring us today's disaster in the first place. But we're repeating ourselves, aren' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 12 19:53:23 PDT 1999

40220 our values -- rank: 1000

Clinton to AFSCME, March 23 <http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1999/3/23/2. text.1>: "And I supported the idea that the United States, Canada and our European allies had to take on the new security challenges of Europe of the 21st century, including all these ethnic upheavals on their border. Why? Because if this domestic policy is going to work, we have to be free to pursue it. And if we're going to have a strong economic relationship that includes ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 12 17:39:09 PDT 1999

40221 Marshall Plan for Balkans? -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >Maybe the IMF will bank roll it?? Without strings???? Chris, you continue to outdo yourself. Do you seriously believe there's any chance of this? If you do, I really wonder what planet you live on. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 12 15:33:20 PDT 1999

40222 weakened president -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> I like the idea of the chief executive >> of the world bourgeoisie operating with one hand tied behind his back. > >Why would you want to untie the second hand? I'm assuming he started with 0 tied hands; 1 is halfway to 2. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 12 14:51:42 PDT 1999

40223 genocide -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >I don't deny that the U.S. mistreats >Indians. You don't have to call it "genocidal" to make the point. Look, the U.S. isn't slaughtering Indians wholesale as it did in the good old days. No one is claiming that. The point was originally raised in the context of the Yugo war - that if the U.S. was claiming the right to violate Yugoslavian sovereignty on the basis of genocide, the claim could be made with equal legal justification about the U.S. itself. U.S. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 12 14:31:45 PDT 1999

40224 Chomsky Praises LBO -- rank: 1000

Maria Gilmore wrote: >Doug, any possibility >the mainstream is catching up to you? My experience has been the only time they call is when we're very close to a bottom in the financial markets. >Chomsky >maintains this kind of stuff >is getting mainstream ink because the >policy-makers are getting really really >scared of what's going to happen and who's going >to get hurt when it does. Which policy makers? I think the U.S. elite has made its irritation with Euro-austerity ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 12 14:26:58 PDT 1999

40225 AGF stuff -- rank: 1000

[Andre Gunder Frank just joined the list, but had a bit of trouble posting. He asked me to forward this. - Doug] Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 14:29:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Gunder Frank <agfrank at chass.utoronto.ca> To: agf <agfrank at chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: kosovo/nato web-sites and agf articles The following web-sites have wide-ranging daily updated news and analyse opposing the NATO war and Kosovo crisis, and the second one also has links to many other - including conservative - site ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 12 14:17:16 PDT 1999

40226 genocide -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Although Nazism was evil, it was only lower-case evil and derived >from the Supreme Evil -- U.S. capitalism/imperialism. Get a grip, Max. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 12 14:02:52 PDT 1999

40227 no Slavoj -- rank: 1000

Verso just told me that Zizek is coming to NYC in May, not April, so that reading *won't* happen this Thursday. Stay tuned for further announcements. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 12 14:01:08 PDT 1999

40228 genocide -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >This is the key passage: > ><<with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, >racial or religious group, as such>> And given U.S. policy towards Indians over the last few centuries, where do you think the presumption lies? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 12 13:59:29 PDT 1999

40229 genocide -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >"Transfering children of one group to another group through >adoptions" is not genocide. Neither is persuading people to be >"sterilized" -- whether through "deception" or not. You can treat people >very horribly without it being genocide. Nathan Newman said here recently: >By International law, genocide consists of: > >"In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts >committed with intent to de ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 12 12:53:22 PDT 1999

40230 war stox -- rank: 1000

[from the Lex column in today's Financial Times] FT - April 12 1999 DEFENCE: War dividends It may seem a little macabre to look for beneficiaries of the Kosovo conflict, but then the stock market is not sentimental. Since Nato started its bombing raids on March 24, shares in British Aerospace and Smiths Industries have climbed nearly 9 per cent, while GKN is up 8 per cent and Raytheon by 7 per cent. There is cold-blooded logic in this. Jane's, a military research group, estimates that Nato has s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 12 12:48:08 PDT 1999