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40336 war -- rank: 1000

[address bounce] Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 09:24:32 -0500 To: static at lists.panix.com From: Ken Strayhorn <ken at dukecomm.duke.edu> Subject: Re: kilgore, unis Doug, to Ben: >ben schwartz wrote: > >>What are you saying here? That we're inconsistent for not stopping every >>act of barbarism? > >I'm saying that humanitarian concern has nothing to do with the bombing. >It's about turning NATO into a US-dominated "zapping force," as Tariq Ali >put it, sid ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 2 08:20:04 PST 1999

40337 bouncing ethnicity -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >It really would be something if Oskar quit because he did not want to >become a NATO apologist with Schroeder. Do you still entertain this as a >possibility, Wojtek? Tariq Ali stated this as a fact when I interviewed him yesterday, though he didn't say how he knew this. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 2 08:16:58 PST 1999

40338 More on Greece -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >I think that there *was* good reason back at the end of the 1950s to hope >that Castro would be different and better than the rest of >really-existing-socialism (though he has turned out not to be). Compared to what, Brad? Cuba may not be as democratic as you'd like, but considering that they've been the targets of unrelenting U.S. hostility for almost 40 years, it's really not much of a surprise. And the development record is pretty hard to match? What other small, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 2 08:13:01 PST 1999

40339 demographics -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I simply note here that this "Pro-Serb-Nationalism"/"Pro-Milosevic" Baiting >has happened less often on three other left-political-elists I'm subbed to. >The difference does say something about this list's subscriber demographics. Oh really? What does it say? It probably also says something about the demographics of the other lists too. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 2 07:28:41 PST 1999

40340 Albania, 1987 -- rank: 1000

[The full 1987 NYT article from which Nathan & I posted competing excerpts the other day.] from: http://www.fair.org/articles/memory-hole.html FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting 130 W. 25th Street New York, NY 10001 Rescued from the Memory Hole: Background of Serb/Albanian Conflict March 31, 1999 There is always intense pressure in wartime for media outlets to serve as propagandists rather than journalists. While the role of the journalist is to present the world in all its com ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 2 07:22:16 PST 1999

40341 [PEN-L:4731] Saving lives in Kosovo -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >it is not a joke to focus on the contradictions of NATO countries and >those who now use the refugees as little more than ammunition for >escalating this war. from today's Wall Street Journal... Doug ---- Wall Street Journal - April 2, 1999 U.S. Quotas, Restrictions Are Obstacle for Kosovar Refugees By MARJORIE VALBRUN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- While much of the world is focused on the hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanians fleeing the war- ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 2 07:13:36 PST 1999

40342 postpolitical humanitarianism -- rank: 1000

[from Slavoj Zizek, "A Leftist Plea for 'Eurocentrism,'" Critical Inquiry, Summer 1998] Today, however, we are dealing with another form of the denegation of the political, postmodern postpolitics, which no longer merely represses the political, trying to contain it and to pacify the returns of the repressed, but much more effectively forecloses it, so that the postmodern forms of ethnic violence, with their irrational, excessive character, are no longer simple returns of the repressed ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 1 18:50:47 PST 1999

40343 virtual lifestyle services -- rank: 1000

How about this? >INVITATION TO JOIN NOMADIC LIFE PROFESSIONAL NETWORK SERVICES >------------------------------------------------------------- >I am seeking members to participate in the startup of a new virtual >organization, Nomadic Life Professional Network Services. If you are >interested, then read on. > >Do you want the flexibility to work the hours you want to, on the >projects you want to, and the mobility to work from anywhere around the >world ? > >Do y ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 1 17:33:25 PST 1999

40344 more on Kosovo -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: >George Melloan in the WSJ this morning criticized >George W. Bush for being totally mealy-mouthed, "support >the troops but do what's best for America." You're for this >drivel, Doug? Not for it. Seriously entertaining the notion that we'd be marginally better off with a Republican president though. Haven't you heard the drivel Clinton has been speaking for the last few days? Is it any more appealing or coherent than Shrub's drivel? Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 1 11:23:15 PST 1999

40345 US Leftist census? -- rank: 1000

Margaret wrote: >Anyone have any plausible numbers for how many people >there are in the US who are at least somewhat Leftist. >More than 'parlor pinks', i mean. To the level, say, >of the Labor Party membership, i.e., actual social >democrats or better -- not 'liberals' or Republicrat >apologists. > >Doug? Max? Anyone? Hard to say, since pollsters never ask questions like that, and the U.S. public is so politically demobilized that most people don't even think in term ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 1 11:06:05 PST 1999

40346 humanitarian bombing diary -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 16:55:08 +0100 From: insomnia <insomnia at EUnet.yu> To: nettime-l at Desk.nl Subject: <nettime> insomnia x3 Sender: owner-nettime-l at basis.Desk.nl Precedence: bulk Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 06:37:30 -0800 From: insomnia <insomnia at EUnet.yu> Subject: thursday, april 1 dear everybody, the main novi sad bridge has been taken down completely. we are cut off from belgrade. no water today. shortage of bread and milk. if you do not hear from me anything more, t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 1 10:22:35 PST 1999

40347 Tariq Ali on the radio -- rank: 1000

Folks in the NYC area - I just recorded an interview with Tariq Ali on the war madness, which I'll run on my show tonight. WBAI, 99.5 FM, 5 PM. Basically, his analysis is that the war is part of the US effort to recast NATO as a world-wide "zapping" force to keep everyone under a nice orderly hierarchy topped by the U.S. He sees it not as a sign of EU strength, but of EU failure to come to any real political union. The "cruise missile liberals" he sees as a sign of desperatio ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 1 10:14:46 PST 1999

40348 building the 'european community'; was Re: The National Question. (redux) -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >perhaps we need to shift our attention, as Dennis and some others have >been advising, from the US and 'the Balkans' to Europe and, following >Balibar, to think of the ways in which this war is that which will >finally provide Europe (an idealised and hence racialised Europe) with >its millennial and violent birth. > >what better way to enact this idealised community than through a >shared sacrifice on the battlefield and a shared racism. But the war is bein ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 1 09:39:20 PST 1999

40349 cost/benefit arithmetic -- rank: 1000

[Chris Caldwell in this week's New York Press] Cheerleaders for the operation say Clinton Is lucky the public Is behind him. But the perfunctory support that Americans always show when "our boys are In harm's way" should not deceive us. There is no deep American support for this mission - none. This is most apparent In the poll ABC took on the day of the bombing, in which the network asked whether "it would be worth the loss, of some American soldiers' lives if the United States c ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 1 06:13:45 PST 1999

40350 liquidity -- rank: 1000

[Here's a post-Keynesian view on liquidity...] LIQUIDITY PREFERENCE by Carlo Panico [from the New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance] The notion of 'liquidity preference' has become generally used in the literature on monetary issues (particularly that concerned with the interest rate) following Keynes's contributions in the 1930s. It concerns the motives for demanding monetary instruments or other close substitutes. Earlier, the analysis of the demand for monetary instruments was based on ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 30 11:33:15 PDT 1998