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40231 Slavoj in NYC -- rank: 1000

Slavoj Zizek reads from his new Verso book, The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology at Posman Books One University Place (NE corner of Wash Sq Park) New York City Thursday Apr 15, 1:30 PM Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 12 12:38:10 PDT 1999

40232 weakened president -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: >Ugh, a weakened president.... And what's so terrible about that? I like the idea of the chief executive of the world bourgeoisie operating with one hand tied behind his back. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 12 12:21:17 PDT 1999

40233 genocide -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >These are all pretty terrible things -- they range from shabby to very >nasty treatment. But which of these is evidence that the U.S. is >attempting to exterminate Native Americans? I just finished an article >on how the media are advertising a spurious "genocide" in Kosovo. It's >pretty clear that the media are trying to pin the word genocide onto the >Serbs for propaganda purposes. It's an abuse of the term when the >mainstream media use it ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 12 12:19:11 PDT 1999

40234 reserves -- rank: 1000

Angela asked if the U.S. dollar's role as a reserve currency has been diminishing. The oldest IMF annual report, which has the reserve tables, I have is 1989. There was obviously some change in definitions and/or coverage between the two reports, given the two figures for 1988, but I don't know what it was. In general, the dollar is well down from the early 1980s, but up from its early 1990s lows. These percentages are affected by changes in exchange rates; no doubt the late 1980s decline was pa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 12 12:14:35 PDT 1999

40235 Russian liberals on the ropes -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - 12 April 1999 EAST-WEST: New cold war in the making New divide less than a decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall. By John Lloyd in Berlin A conference in Berlin which brought a group of liberal Russians face-to-face with German and other western officials, politicians and analysts has shown that a wide gulf had again developed between east and west less than a decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The embattled Russian liberals, whose pro-western attitudes have increasin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 12 11:42:45 PDT 1999

40236 Suck on war -- rank: 1000

[Today's Suck <http://www.suck.com>] War Stories War is understood to advance along the rails of some fictional narrative or other, and the current example isn't doing much more in that regard than following the old rules. What's remarkable, though, is how much <http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/article/0,1051,SAV-9904020227,00 .html> huffing and puffing it's taking to make the machine move. One of the strangest fictions is a lie of omission, repeated again and again as ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 12 11:24:25 PDT 1999

40237 Dalai Lama: forgive Pinochet -- rank: 1000

D.L. wrote: > What should the 13th re-incarnation of the Bodhisattva of Compassion >say? He demands that his own people forgive the Chinese for killing their >relatives and countrymen. That is his job, after all. Any Christian >religious leader who ever read the New Testament would say the same thing. >Are you trying to make a point? Yeah, that he's a pious fraud, the head of an oppressive feudal regime, and a loyal stooge of imperialism. I thought that was obvious. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 12 10:40:28 PDT 1999

40238 US troops openly in Kosovo now (fwd) -- rank: 1000

I just heard on CNBC that U.S. officials are now saying the bombing will go on for another 2 months. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 12 10:11:17 PDT 1999

40239 Li Peng fulminates -- rank: 1000

China's Li Peng warns against hegemonism 07:35 a.m. Apr 10, 1999 Eastern By Raja Asghar ISLAMABAD, April 10 (Reuters) - The number-two man in China's political hierarchy, Li Peng, said on Saturday many events of the past year had shown ``a new manifestation of hegemonism'' in the world and called for respect for all nations. In a speech to Pakistani dignitaries, the chairman of China's National People's Congress (parliament) complained of ``financial plunder'' by the West and called for a new in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 11 21:55:07 PDT 1999

40240 101 reasons NATO's war sucks -- rank: 1000

>the eXile (Moscow) >http://www.exile.ru >Issue #07/62, April 8 - 21, 1999 > >101 Reasons Why NATO's War Sucks

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Date:	Sun Apr 11 21:21:16 PDT 1999

40241 US blocks AIDS drugs -- rank: 1000

<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/sc/story.html?s=v/nm/19990411/sc/health_ai ds_1.html> Groups Say U.S. Hurts World Access To AIDS Drugs By Lisa Richwine WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government, on behalf of drug companies, is bullying developing countries into abandoning a trade remedy that could help them fight the escalating AIDS epidemic, health and consumer groups say. Organizations from the United States and abroad, including the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders, say ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 11 20:54:57 PDT 1999

40242 Fwd: "Quiet" and "Permissible" Genocide -- rank: 1000

Jim Craven asked me to forward this. - Doug >WHY THE U.S. MAY [SIC] OWE INDIANS UNTOLD BILLIONS >An angry judge demands an accounting >By David Whitman >US News and World Report, March 8, 1999 p. 24 > >Elouise Cobell may have won a $310,000 'genius grant' from the MacArthur >Foundation, but she still can't figure out how much money the federal >government owes her. That's because her land, passed on to Cobell by her >Blackfeet [sic] Indian ancestors, is held in trust b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 11 19:08:28 PDT 1999

40243 sign up! -- rank: 1000

Hey, all you warriors, here's your chance to leave the keyboard for the front! Americans Volunteer To Join KLA By VERENA DOBNIK Associated Press Writer YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) -- Hundreds of Americans in store-bought camouflage uniforms stood in the parking lot of a suburban New York hotel on Sunday, volunteering to fight the Serbs. The men and women were ready for guerrilla war: They pulled shiny new combat boots and army-green sacks from their Volvos, Chevys and Mercedes-Benzes. ``Albanians are wil ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 11 19:06:52 PDT 1999

40244 Dalai Lama: forgive Pinochet -- rank: 1000

[our old friend the Dalai Lama is a merciful sort...] Sunday April 11 8:35 PM ET Dalai Lama Suggests Chile's Pinochet Be Forgiven SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled leader, suggested Sunday that Chileans should forgive former dictator Augusto Pinochet for alleged human rights abuses during his 17-year regime because he is an old man. ``In the Pinochet case, as an individual, now old,'' it might be worth it to forgive him, the Dalai Lama told reporters in Santiago. The 83-year-ol ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 11 18:40:35 PDT 1999

40245 Fwd: Re: genocide -- rank: 1000

[Seth Ackerman asked for background on claims that the US & Canada still practice genocide against their native populations. Here's his answer (irrelevant bits snipped).] From: Nativejmc at aol.com Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 12:31:54 EDT Subject: Re: genocide To: dhenwood at panix.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: Nativejmc at aol.com Tell whomever questioned you to start with a definition of genocide and tel them to go to Article II of the 1948 Convention on Genocide which the US refused to sign ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 11 18:34:26 PDT 1999