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40291 backgrounder -- rank: 1000

[Angela sent the whole of this, but at 67k, it ran up against majordomo's 35k limit setting. Here's the first section. The full text is at <http://www.geocities.com/Paris/6368/Communism/yugowar.htm>; I'll forward it to anyone who can't do www.] From: "rc-am" <rcollins at netlink.com.au> To: "lbo" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: backgrounder Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 03:32:34 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 6 11:39:16 PDT 1999

40292 M-U: Workers Aid to Kosovo -- rank: 1000

Sam Pawlett wrote: >Chris, repeating your position over and over does nothing to strengthen >it. Lets >try and move the discussion forward a bit. Yeah. It's not just Chris who's repeating himself either. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 6 11:36:00 PDT 1999

40293 California real estate ... -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >But he also called the last three crashes that didn't happen :) Jordan, that just isn't true. I've taken some heat, in fact, from connoisseurs of catastrophe for being too sanguine in my analysis. Last year, I got an email from a guy who'd just read Wall Street asking if I thought I'd go down in history like some minor Irving "Stocks Have Reached A Permanently High Plateau" Fisher - as the Marxist who claimed that things weren't on the verge of collapse even as ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 6 08:28:54 PDT 1999

40294 EuroReservations -- rank: 1000

Growing Anxiety Across Europe Analysis - By Ramesh Jaura BONN, Apr 2 (IPS) - There is a growing anxiety across Europe as NATO extends its air assaults on Yugoslavia and the number of refugees from Kosovo swells, reviving memories of World War II. The disquiet, which analysts expect to grow the longer the war -with its unforeseen consequences- drags on, has already been manifested in protests held, among others, in Greece, Italy, Spain and Germany. In Italy, a wide alliance of unions, non-gove ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 6 08:20:38 PDT 1999

40295 Pax Europa -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >I hear the Greek PM has just made a public speech criticising the bombing. >I'm also told he has been warned to shut the hell up by some US aparatchik. >Can anyone fill me in on this? It sounds promising ... [from the April 6 Financial Times] ORTHODOX EASTER: Athens urges bombing halt By Kerin Hope and agencies Greece, a member of Nato, yesterday asked the alliance to stop bombing Yugoslavia next Sunday - Orthodox Easter Sunday, an important religious holiday for Ser ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 6 08:17:26 PDT 1999

40296 Fwd: a belgrade ecologist cries out for peace -- rank: 1000

Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: dbacon at pop2.igc.org (Unverified) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 15:39:07 -0800 From: David Bacon <dbacon at igc.org> Subject: a belgrade ecologist cries out for peace A BELGRADE ECOLOGIST CRIES OUT FOR PEACE By David Bacon SAN FRANCISCO, CA (4/4/99) -- NATO bombs rained down on her city, beginning in its suburbs and then moving into the heart of Belgrade. First the planes and cruise missiles came just at night. But then their aerial assault seemed to know no set tim ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 5 16:00:56 PDT 1999

40297 Burford's post re Yoshie -- rank: 1000

Greg Nowell wrote: >Yoshie is supporting social fascism. >Chris Burford > >GN: Looks that way to me, but I hadn't wanted to post it. Really now, guys, that's ridiculous and offensive. It doesn't surprise me coming from Chris Burford - he's made himself tediously clear - but it does from you, Greg. There's nothing fascist about Yoshie, and it's a smear to say so. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 5 15:48:58 PDT 1999

40298 more stats -- rank: 1000

[More from Sam Smith...] Exactly when and why did the KLA cease being a terrorist organization in the mind of the Department of State? CHOICES If you want to count bodies, the incontrovertible fact is that the US embargo policy towards Iraq has been infinitely more gratuitously deadly than any actions of the Serbian regime. Even in the Balkans, brutalities have been committed by a number of parties: Serbs, Croats, Albanians, and now the US and its NATO partners. Refugees? According to the United ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 5 15:36:38 PDT 1999

40299 Genocide -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Carrol, my question was a lot less pointed than you apparently thought >it was. I apologize if it's an obvious question. I'm not ignoring it. I've got an email into Jim Craven, who can report in great detail. He recounted all the details when I interviewed him on the radio, but I don't trust my memory anymore. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 5 11:47:51 PDT 1999

40300 California real estate ... -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >California real estate, I maintain, is not (yet) a bubble. There are ways to value real estate - against, say, local incomes. I'm guessing those numbers are high in California now, but not off-the-charts high; maybe someone with good stats can correct me. The U.S. stock market is off-the-charts high. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 5 11:46:28 PDT 1999

40301 Intelectural Restructuring -- rank: 1000

Henry C.K. Liu quoted: >Microsoft Skims Off Academia's Best for Research Center ...meanwhile, the New York Times reports on where the innovative research really is - in government-subsidized research labs. Doug ---- New York Times - April 5, 1999 Project Aims to Unhitch Computing From PC Harness By JOHN MARKOFF AMBRIDGE, Mass. -- For David Clark, an MIT computer scientist, research is like "an expedition into the future." With the faculty and students at the Laboratory of Computer S ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 5 11:43:57 PDT 1999

40302 Powell's -- rank: 1000

for those so inclined.... >A union election at Powell's Books, the largest independent bookstore in the >country, is scheduled for April 22nd. > >We are trying to send a message to Powell's that union members buy books and >would love to shop at an online union bookstore. We are urging union members >and supporters to buy a used or new book from www.powells.com between now >and April 22nd, and when you do mention that you support a union at Powell's >in the comment sectio ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 5 10:43:22 PDT 1999

40303 G Frank on NATO HYPOCRISY IN YUGOSLAVIA -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >This is merely describing the shift from an imperialist policy of >appeasement of fascism to an imperialist policy of confronting fascism. This is one of the more ridiculous things I've read all week, and you've given yourself lots of competition for the title. It neglects the role of imperialism in creating what you call "fascism" - the U.S., Germany, and the IMF have done everything they could to promote the breakup of Yugoslavia along ethnic lines, consci ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 5 10:39:17 PDT 1999

40304 Violation of Vienna Convention -- rank: 1000

Sam Pawlett wrote: >> , 2) as a principle, it'd be nice if >> negotiation and truly multilateral bodies played a larger role in >> international relations, and B-52s a smaller one. > >Yes, but why obey international law when all you have to do is pick up the >batphone when third world dictators (usually put into power and supported >by the >U.S.) start getting a little uppity? I was talking about what should be, not what is. I realize I'm dreaming with my eyes op ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 5 09:47:09 PDT 1999

40305 Opening Borders -- rank: 1000

Margaret wrote: >Doug wrote: > >>I think the best thing the U.S. left could do for the rest of the world >>would be somehow, magically, to weaken the imperial might of the United >>States. > >Would that be such a hot idea, really? We got (and >get) all the murderous wars when some regional warlord >decides to try it on because, who knows, he might win >and besides, it's other people doing the dying. With >a single hegemon around, he can't win (tho th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 5 09:04:51 PDT 1999