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40321 Meanwhile, back in the global economy ... -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >... of course this went to press before this week's spectacular rise >in AMZN to a closing price of 171 ... not so stupid afterall? Wow, that settles it! Holding my breath for 36,000, Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 3 10:05:34 PST 1999

40322 Fwd: MADRE's Talking Points on Yugoslav Crisis -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >I am very glad NATO has abandoned its appeasement role, (which was also >imperialist in character - even more so than its war role) but one of the >criticisms to be made of NATO is its condescending saviour approach. It >should have had a bottom up approach, and it should have insisted in >bargaining on fostering not international monitors but the structures of >civil society, of the sort that MADRE has worked with. Chris, your capacity for self-deception ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 3 09:58:50 PST 1999

40323 Opening Borders -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >I beg to differ. Yoshie cross-posted something called "Balkan Stats" Actually I posted that first, but perhaps she wasn't paying attention and she reposted it from another source. It came from Sam Smith's Progressive Review. >which >was a kind of bizzarro-Harpers List which justaposed the 2,000 figure to the >million in Iraq and to a million and a half in the Sudan. (who killed all >the Sudanese, I wonder, but I digress). The point of the numbers wa ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 3 09:26:57 PST 1999

40324 Zizek on the war -- rank: 1000

[My German just isn't up to this. Can anyone here summarize?] <http://www.ZEIT.de/tag/aktuell/199914.serbien_.html> Nr. 14/1999 Die doppelte Erpressung Krieg im Kosovo. Der Westen bekämpft mit Milocevic' Regime ein Monster, das er selbst erschaffen hat. Über den Beginn und das Ende einer neuen Weltordnung Von Slavoj Zizek Der Hauptgewinner im Wettbewerb um den größten Trottel des Jahres 1998 war ein lateinamerikanischer patriotischer Terrorist, der eine Briefbombe an das US-Konsulat schick ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 3 09:14:48 PST 1999

40325 Kosovo stuff -- rank: 1000

Margaret wrote: >Carrol wrote: > >> It isn't myth: >>back in February of 1968 a Colonel really did announce to a >>TV camera that they had to destroy the village to save it. > >But be fair, Carrol: that statement has become the >canonical example of mindless fanaticism, on par with >the canonical definition: redoubling one's efforts >after losing sight of the goal. Don't forget this paragraph from the WV history of U.S. terror bombing: <quote> Colon ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 3 08:59:31 PST 1999

40326 U.S. to Kosovans: go home! -- rank: 1000

Refugees reach U.S., but find no sure haven By Debra Lynn Vial The Record (Bergen, N.J.), April 2, 1999 Afrim Karaqica is a farmer from Kosovo who claims his home was bombed and he was beaten after he helped other refugees reach safety. The ethnic Albanian fled to America and says his wife and three children are counting on him to help them escape before they are slaughtered. But the U.S. government wants to send him back. He's not alone. In the past two weeks, immigration officials in Elizabeth ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 3 08:40:35 PST 1999

40327 Fwd: MADRE's Talking Points on Yugoslav Crisis -- rank: 1000

From: Madre1998 at aol.com Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 17:02:34 EST Subject: MADRE's Talking Points on Yugoslav Crisis To: madre at igc.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: Madre1998 at aol.com STOP THE BOMBING, STOP THE GENOCIDE MADRE'S NOTES ON THE 1999 YUGOSLAV CRISIS MADRE, an international women's human rights organization, strongly condemns the US war against Yugoslavia and calls for a halt to the NATO bombing. We abhor the extreme ethno- nationalism promulgated by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosev ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 2 15:16:57 PST 1999

40328 division -- rank: 1000

Yoshie's unsub'd. I haven't agreed with everything she said by any means, but I'm sorry to see her go. I don't want a list where everyone agrees with each other. The debate over the war has gotten nasty, but it's one that should be had, rather than having separate blocs of people nod in unison with each other. I hope this is one thing that the 300 or so remaining subscribers can agree on. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 2 13:28:56 PST 1999

40329 demographics -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Also, it's striking that I can get little info here about anti-war actions >elsewhere + discussions about how to build anti-war actions, in which I'm >most interested in. (Well, maybe it's good that the pro-bombers are staying >at home, doing nothing.) I think that someone so sensitive to the narcissistic uses of auto-critique might be a little more interested in the narcissistic uses of other-critique. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 2 13:09:50 PST 1999

40330 Cuba -- rank: 1000

[speaking of Cuba...] QUEERS IN CUBA by Shawna Hellenius. Vancouver Coordinator, International Feminist Brigade to Cuba I. HISTORY A. PRE-REVOLUTION CUBA In the 1950's, being lesbian or gay in Cuba meant a closeted life in the family and on the job. Cuba had a strong patriarchal culture, with an emphasis on marriage and family. Unemployment was high & had been steadily increasing throughout the decade. For all women, & especially for lesbians, there was continual sexual harassment at wor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 2 09:56:25 PST 1999

40331 refugee campaign -- rank: 1000

LIFT THE KOSOVA REFUGEES OUT The Rainbow Antiracist Organisation has started a campaign to get the refugees out of the Balkans into Norway. We ask all good people and organisations in Western Europe to start similar campaigns. The initiative from Rainbow Antiracist Organisation is called the "White busses", after the famous busses that saved prisoners from concentration camps in the end of the second world war from Germany. The idea is to transport refugees from Albania and Macedonia ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 2 09:15:46 PST 1999

40332 building the 'european community' -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >in thinking only of us domination, which I do not think is something >we should forget, I think we are in danger of thinking that us >hegemony is eternal or at least thinking of the us as the constant >hegemonic feature of capitalism. Not me. I've been looking for signs of an end to U.S. hegemony for as long as I can remember. Every time one seems to pop up, it fades a few years later. There was the war in Vietnam, which looked like a loss at the time, but, given the im ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 2 09:13:10 PST 1999

40333 war -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >> I'd say that has been the strangest aspect of this whole episode >> to me: war fever on the left. > >Yes, strange and disgusting. Ooops, sorry. That was forwarded to the wrong list. Good point, though, no? Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 2 08:57:27 PST 1999

40334 PC hardware cost trends towards zero -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >The new danger of of the Telescreen is not that they might be watching, >but that they are selling. ...and that the ads are so seamlessly part of our environment that we don't even notice we're being sold to anymore! Product placement directly into the brain. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 2 08:41:23 PST 1999

40335 bouncing ethnicity -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >As we speak, the Serbs are cleansing Kosovo. We know they are >deporting people en masse. There are reports of burning villages >and blowing up buildings to say NATO bombed them. And we suspect >worse. Some try to minimize this by saying "only 2,000" (in a >population of what, 2 million?) have been killed there this year. No, Max, that was last year. What was it you were saying about Tony Snow's inability to get a fact straight? No one that I take ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 2 08:34:31 PST 1999