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40246 Max, Angela, Chris, DL -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >I realise that America has never been subjected to a bombing raid Except, of course, for the Tulsa and MOVE bombings, done by police against African-Americans. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 11 17:18:52 PDT 1999

40247 Fwd: {FP} Board member addresses -- rank: 1000

[Some folks asked what to do about the Pacifica purge. Here are some names.] From: "Lyn Gerry" <redlyn at loop.com> To: freepac at recordist.com Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 22:51:04 -0700 Subject: {FP} Board member addresses Sender: owner-freepac at recordist.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: freepacifica at recordist.com MEMBERS OF THE PACIFICA NATIONAL BOARD Mary Frances Berry - Chair and at-large member [DEEPLY IMPLICATED] Pacifica Foundation National Board 624 Ninth Street NW #700 Was ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 11 16:17:30 PDT 1999

40248 Pacifica update: Bensky fired -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >So what can one do about all this censorship?? Write or email the Pacifica bigwigs to start with. Call into call-in shows, if you can, and ask questions. >That is what it amounts to. >I've never gotten a response from Pacifica to my letter asking why they >haven't had Not Dead Yet on to talk about Kevorkian. Try contacting specific producers (like Utrice Leid at WBAI in NYC, now the interim program director too). Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 10 22:12:07 PDT 1999

40249 fighting ideology -- rank: 1000

William S. Lear wrote: >On Saturday, April 10, 1999 at 00:41:44 (-0400) Doug Henwood writes: >> >>In his New York Press column this week, Chris Caldwell quotes "French art >>scholar and political scientist Alain Besancon," in his book Le Malheur Du >>Siecle, as saying: >> >>"In battling ideological regimes, the main thing is to refuse - without >>discussion - the description of reality that it proposes. You have to stick >>to this ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 10 10:08:24 PDT 1999

40250 Max, Angela, Chris, DL -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >I reckon you two are overdoing your response to Boddhi. Rob, this is what he said: >The first problem is that the people of the Balkans are >uncivilized and cannot resist the temptation to use ethnicity as an excuse >for violence. This, I believe, is no insult but a clear representation of >the facts. After weeks and months of hearing claims and counter-claims of >atrocious behavior by Serbs, Croats, Albanians and all the rest, I have >simply added up t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 10 06:20:00 PDT 1999

40251 fighting ideology -- rank: 1000

In his New York Press column this week, Chris Caldwell quotes "French art scholar and political scientist Alain Besancon," in his book Le Malheur Du Siecle, as saying: "In battling ideological regimes, the main thing is to refuse - without discussion - the description of reality that it proposes. You have to stick to this line until the bitter end. Once you put your finger into the gearworks and grant that their description has an 'element of truth'...you're lost, and your politic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 9 21:41:44 PDT 1999

40252 prison moratorium meeting NYC -- rank: 1000

> > IN A SYSTEM OF INJUSTICE > THE ONLY WAY TO GET JUSTICE > IS TO MAKE JUSTICE FOR YOURSELF > > JOIN ACTIVISTS FROM THROUGHOUT NEW YORK CITY > AT THE PRISON MORATORIUM PROJECT'S MONTHLY MEETING > > FIND OUT WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING > -AND WHAT YOU CAN DO- > > TO STOP PRISON BUILDING, TO END THE WAR ON DRUGS, AND TO > PUT MONEY BACK INTO OUR COLLEGES AND OUR COMMUNITIES! ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 9 20:44:08 PDT 1999

40253 J. F. Dulles and Tito -- rank: 1000

Lisa & Ian Murray wrote: >On page 482 of "The Prize" by Daniel Yergin, it is stated that John Foster >Dulles and Eisenhower approved of foreign aid for Tito in the Summer of >1956. That same summer came the famous dispute with Nasser over the Aswan >damn, along with the manipulations of the Sterling by the US Government, to >stop the British-French "seizure' of the Suez. Does anyone have any >historical data on US aid to Yugoslavia during the 50's-60's whic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 9 19:18:21 PDT 1999

40254 Max, Angela, Chris, DL -- rank: 1000

D.L. wrote: >To say that the Balkans are filled with thugs and political opportunists >willing to incite ethnic prejudice is simply obvious There's usually a long history to "the obvious," isn't there? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 9 19:14:35 PDT 1999

40255 WSJ quotes Zizek -- rank: 1000

[today's quote on the editpage of the Wall Street Journal!!! you read it here first] Notable & Quotable Zlavoj Zizek in the London Review of Books, March 18: Even racism is now reflexive. Consider the Balkans. They are portrayed in the liberal Western media as a vortex of ethnic passion--a multiculturalist dream turned into a nightmare. The standard reaction of a Slovene (I am one myself) is to say: "yes, this is how it is in the Balkans, but Slovenia is not part of the Balkans; it is p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 9 19:13:43 PDT 1999

40256 Ruder Finn client list -- rank: 1000

The international clients of PR firm Ruder Finn, from the Ruder Finn website at <http://www.tumble.com/rf/>. Alitalia American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) Association of Croatian Travel Agencies ATLAS Travel Agency of Dubrovnik Australian Tourist Commission Barbados Tourism Authority Canadian Airlines Cathay Pacific Airways City of Cannes and Convention Center Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Public Library; Regional Transportation Authority Croatia National Tourist Board Johnstown, Pennsylv ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 9 18:08:45 PDT 1999

40257 US screws SA on AIDS drugs -- rank: 1000

[Further evidence of the deep humanitarianism of the U.S. government...] Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 17:18:22 -0400 Reply-To: love at cptech.org Originator: info-policy-notes at essential.org Sender: info-policy-notes at essential.org Precedence: bulk From: James Love <love at cptech.org> To: Multiple recipients of list INFO-POLICY-NOTES <info-policy-notes at essential.org> Subject: United States Department of State report on US efforts to negotiate the repeal, suspension or termination of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 9 15:19:39 PDT 1999

40258 Pacifica update: Bensky fired -- rank: 1000

This just in.... Pacifica has fired 30-year veteran Larry Bensky for breaking the network's gag rule, under which staffers are forbidden to discuss network and station internal struggles on the air. Bensky was going to devote his entire weekend show to the Pacifica purges. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 9 13:09:29 PDT 1999

40259 Kosovo-Metohija -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: > 2) Doug Henwood--- > Hmm. You don't seem to like my referring to the duly >elected President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, >Slobodan Milosevic, as "His Excellency." Well, for your >information, that is his correct title. I began to do so after >our dear Yoshie charged me with being a white male imperialist >for calling him "Milo" once. So, I'll stick with his correct title. I wasn't objecting to your ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 9 12:44:57 PDT 1999

40260 Cockburn on Pacifica -- rank: 1000

X-Authentication-Warning: basis.Desk.nl: listserv set sender to owner-nettime-l at basis.desk.nl using -f Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 17:09:06 -0100 From: "nettime's_roving_reporter" <nettime at Desk.nl> To: nettime-l at Desk.nl Subject: <nettime> Cockburn on Radio Pacifica Sender: owner-nettime-l at basis.Desk.nl Precedence: bulk <http://www.thenation.com/issue/990426/0426cockburn.shtml> April 26, 1999 ALEXANDER COCKBURN Rebellion at Pacifica One in five people in America ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 9 12:33:05 PDT 1999