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40261 "Matrix" movie -- rank: 1000

Tavia wrote: >I just saw it with a friend last night: it was his second time. I find it >amusing that we leftists always find ourselves arguing over whether >cultural products like this are 'more' subversive or 'more' hegemonic, when >the answer, as Eve Sedgwick points out, is almost always: "kinda >subversive, kinda hegemonic." When I met Slavoj Zizek at a party a few weeks ago, he said something like: "All this cultural stuff is a dead end. We look at some film no ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 9 11:03:19 PDT 1999

40262 No subject -- rank: 1000

WEST DESTROYS PRISTINA TO SAVE IT The Irish Times 4/9/99 Serb tanks shrouded in straw, ragged refugees clutching their belongings walking a railway line - the wickedness of bombing a residential area. . . Lara Marlowe reports from the Kosovan capital, Pristina. It takes a journey to the heart of darkness, through the depopulated land of Kosovo and its desolate, bombed capital, to grasp the reality of the war in Yugoslavia. US and European leaders loved Kosovo so much that they are now destroyin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 9 10:28:47 PDT 1999

40263 Russia vs. NATO -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Moscow Times April 9, 1999 NATO Troops Could Defeat Yeltsin By Natalya Shulyakovskaya Staff Writer If NATO deploys ground troops in Yugoslavia - an increasingly likely possibility - President Boris Yeltsin could have trouble holding back the groundswell of calls for Russia to help the Serbs. Although Yeltsin on Thursday repeated his firm assertion that Moscow has no intention of getting militarily involved in the conflict or arming the Serbs, he is under pressure to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 9 10:02:25 PDT 1999

40264 Debtors and Creditors -- rank: 1000

Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >Asian solution will come from creating Asian institutions to supplant >the unresponsive global institutions within which Asian economies are >increasingly put at a competitive disadvantage. Grass root resistance to >American demands for trade liberalization will force Asian leaders to >seek Asian regional solutions, perhaps a yen based currency regime with >an Asian Monetary Fund. I've been reading stuff lately, mostly in the FT, suggesting that the Asian ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 9 09:54:17 PDT 1999

40265 Max, Angela, Chris, DL -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote, responding to The Enlightened One: >> 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 the instances of atrocio ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 9 09:48:53 PDT 1999

40266 genocide -- rank: 1000

All you folks deploying the words "fascism" and "genocide" might want to contemplate this. Doug ---- New York Times - April 9, 1999 CRISIS IN THE BALKANS: ECHOES Auschwitz Survivor in Belgrade Now Fears NATO By STEVEN ERLANGER ELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- Aca Singer, who lost 65 members of his family in the Holocaust, says he didn't survive Auschwitz to die from an American bomb. "When the Americans bombed the death camps at the end of World War II, I was very happy," he ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 9 09:43:28 PDT 1999

40267 Real Progress: Reebok and American Center for International Labor... -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Do folks find the collaboration >between the AFL-CIO and Reebok problematic or a useful new model? Leaving aside the long, sordid history of AFL-CIO cooperation with the CIA, every time I hear about the AFL-CIO offering advice to foreign workers I think of the comment by a Federation advisor in South Korea during the intense labor rebellions of 1987. The problem with Korean unions, he was quoted in the Wall Street Journal as saying, is that they don't know how to cont ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 9 09:29:07 PDT 1999

40268 triangulating welfare -- rank: 1000

It's good the impeachment nonsense is over so one can go back to hating Clinton and admiring Christopher Hitchens' talents again. Here's an excerpt from his excellent new book, No One Left To Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton (Verso, 1999), pp. 27-31. Doug ---- Let me give respective examples of the practice and theory of triangulation. The practice was captured vividly in a 1999 essay by Robert Reich, Clinton's first-term secretary of labor and one of the small core of lib ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 9 09:16:20 PDT 1999

40269 Kosovo-Metohija, say what? -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: >His Excellency Ok, we use "Clinton" as a synecdoche for the executive committee of the U.S. bourgeoisie, and I suppose we can use Milosevic in a similar way, but surely Milosevic doesn't rule on his own. It makes nice propaganda to demonize the target, but it's not very illuminating. Who are his colleagues, and what is the social base of his rule? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 9 08:56:40 PDT 1999

40270 Counterpunch on Pacifica -- rank: 1000

There's a new story on Pacifica on the Counterpunch website, at <http://www.counterpunch.org/pacifica3.html>. Things are heating up. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 8 20:25:34 PDT 1999

40271 Opening Borders -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >tolerating Serb fascism. Change the tape, Chris. You've made your position tediously clear. A letter in today's FT has some interesting quotes from the leaders of Croatia and Bosnia. I don't think the FT fact-checks letters, so perhaps the quotes are invented or taken out of context; I welcome any corrections from the desktop bombardiers. But here they are: "Genocide is a natural phenomenon; it is not only permitted it is recommended by the Almighty." - Franjo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 8 08:47:50 PDT 1999

40272 Slogans -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >All I can ask is, in your vision of the >world, is there any relief from routine outbreaks of barbarism and mass >slaughter? Ok, Max - where should NATO intervene next? And why the lack of urgency about the rest of this list? <http://www.unhcr.ch/un&ref/numbers/table3.htm> UNHCR by numbers Table 3 Origin of major refugee populations (10 largest groups)(1) Country of origin (2) Main countries of asylum Refugees --------------------- ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 8 08:25:32 PDT 1999

40273 cluster bombs -- rank: 1000

[There was a question about cluster bombs, no?] <http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/04/07/timfgnkos03016.html?19967 6> April 7 1999 BALKANS WAR: NATO TARGETS Aircrews elated at successful mission, writes John Phillips in Gioia del Colle Cluster-bombing ends frustration of Harrier pilots RAF HARRIER pilots used cluster-bombs for the first time against Serbia yesterday, hitting a variety of mobile targets in Kosovo in a daylight blitz hours after scoring "good hits" on ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 8 08:15:27 PDT 1999

40274 Irish Times on US hypocrisy -- rank: 1000

THE IRISH TIMES 2 April 1999 Opinion: HYPOCRISY OF U.S. POSITION ON RIGHTS IS EXPOSED In 1978, when Vietnam invaded Cambodia to stop the atrocities of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, it was condemned for outrageous violation of international law. Harsh sanctions were imposed on its people. The US, Britain and most other western powers continued to recognise the Khmer Rouge as the legitimate government of Cambodia. by Fintan O'Toole Less than five years ago, Bill Clinton delivered a televised addres ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 8 08:15:27 PDT 1999

40275 Fwd: Reclaim the Streets!!! this Sunday -- rank: 1000

[folks in NYC...] >Hey folks please come and please forward this invite to all your e-friends, >it's shaping up to be quite a party: > >This Sunday Reclaim the Streets/New York City is throwing a street party/ >protest to support the more than 100 community gardens being auctioned off >by the Giuliani administration. Please come, protest this latest perversity >of the Mayor's "Quality of Life" campaign...and come dance, party, protest >and create our own qualit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 8 08:15:27 PDT 1999