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2326 Foreign Affairs on KLA -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.2.32.19990516235115.01115974 at pop.gn.apc.org>, Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> writes > >Of course for marxists the way to avoid the Kosovans become influenced by >sectarian muslim politics is by supporting and respecting their right to >self-determination. I'm not sure that Lenin meant the right of nations to self-determination to be a Kantian categorical imperative, outside of history. Rather he saw that it was a right that took on special signi ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun May 16 16:13:48 PDT 1999

2327 NATO kills again -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.2.32.19990514230813.00b67c48 at pop.gn.apc.org>, Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> writes >This reinforces the Salon article that Nathan quoted. The discussion on the >BBC is about the inevitably of continued mistakes if the sole method of the >war is high level air attacks. No. The deaths are not due to mistaken tactics, but to malevolent war aims. A ground war would be more bloody and more indiscriminate. In effect this panic measure is an escalation - ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri May 14 16:36:06 PDT 1999

2328 A plea -- rank: 1000

The British government has been going into fits over the posting of the names of 1000 of their secret agents on the web by one disgruntled employee. But nobody here is allowed to report the address (still less the list). Can any responsible cyber-netizen out there enlighten us blacked-out Brits? -- Jim heartfield

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Date:	Fri May 14 01:04:25 PDT 1999

2329 body count -- rank: 1000

I am still unclear on the numbers killed by the Yugoslav Army in Kosovo, which seems pretty speculative (though Barkley has a point, there is clearly some relation between the numbers that move and the numbers killed). On the other hand we do know, I think, how many Yugoslavs have been killed in Nato's bombing as they are individually named in the action brought by the Milosevic regime against the intervention in the Hague. According to press reports they number 1000, which is thankfully much fe ...

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Date:	Fri May 14 01:01:05 PDT 1999

2330 Against Nato's Ideals -- rank: 1000

In message <37396210.1985441023 at mail.mindspring.com>, Margaret <mairead at mindspring.com> writes >I think we would do better, and be more honest, to >leave off complaining about the acts of NATO merely >because they are NATO's acts, and switch instead to >illuminating US and NATO hypocrisy. Hold them to the >ideals they claim. My criticism would be of those ideals themselves. The presumption that Nato, an unelected military alliance, has the right to determine th ...

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Date:	Wed May 12 11:30:35 PDT 1999

2331 Intellectual Conservatism and Class Bias against Soldiers -- rank: 1000

Nathan takes refuge in a spurious moral equivalence. After all a life is a life is a life, so what does it matter if you kill civilians instead of soldiers. Like Macbeth, he is so steeped in gore that it is as easy to go on as back. But if there is no difference between killing civilians and soldiers, what is the complaint against the Milosevic regime, exactly? Isn't the very point of Serbia's wrongdoing that the use of the army against the Kosovars is disproportionate to any complaint over the ...

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Date:	Wed May 12 00:33:26 PDT 1999

2332 Desert Storm question -- rank: 1000

In message <2.2.32.19990510213418.006b92e8 at uclink4.berkeley.edu>, Adam Stevens <a_ste at uclink4.berkeley.edu> writes > Can anyone reccomend a good book on the Persian Gulf war? Not a comprehensive account, but this pamphlet on the aftermath was prescient: 'In endorsing British involvement in the Gulf War and in the subsequent Kurdish crisis, and in demanding more British military interference in the former Yugoslavia, the New Statesman reflects the view of a substantial ...

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Date:	Mon May 10 17:57:40 PDT 1999

2333 Charles' support for THESE laws -- rank: 1000

In message <s72ed92e.096 at mail.ci.detroit.mi.us>, Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> writes >I haven't read Pashukanis. I read an analysis of him, but I didn't get it. What >is Pashukanis's thesis ? His basic thesis is that the basic structure of the law is derived from the _form_ of value, and is not therefore reducible to the class content of social domination. Rather, legal rights and the legal subject are a real, not merely fictitious expression of social r ...

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Date:	Tue May 4 15:09:17 PDT 1999

2334 The Great Panjandrum of Bosnia -- rank: 1000

Bosnia: Faking Democracy After Dayton, David Chandler, Pluto Press, £14.99 pbk, £45.00 hbk 'As High Representative, I have to take decisions now and in the future with your best interests in mind, should your leaders fail to take them' (p157). Under the Dayton accords Carlos Westerdorp is the United Nations' own Governor General of Bosnia: 'If you read carefully Annex 10 gives me the possibility to interpret my own authorities and powers' (p52). Westerdorp is a figure of grotesque self-parody li ...

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Date:	Mon May 3 14:36:41 PDT 1999

2335 Brits on war -- rank: 1000

In message <v0401171cb3538fa85601@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >And, returning the favor, the U.S. is letting NATO do most of the talking, >specifically in the person of the British flack Jamie Shea. One of the more gruesome aspects of British militarism is the impotent strutting about at the Yanks. There is a myth here that the British won the Second World War, and the Americans only joined in when we had turned Hitler back (which involves some ...

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Date:	Mon May 3 14:33:12 PDT 1999

2336 CIA/OSS/FBI Socialists -- rank: 1000

In message <v04011744b30e508e36a5@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >In a talk at the Brecht Forum in NYC a year or two ago, Joel Kovel said >that the CIA funded the re-establishment of the Frankfurt Institute after >WW II and kept it going. He didn't say what his source was, but I've heard >others say this too. Any cites? Istvan Meszaros, The Power of Ideology, Harvester Wheatsheaf, London/NY, 1989, p118 on The OSS was a branch of the FBI that ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 12 01:25:22 PST 1999

2337 technology (Re: Horowitz's center) -- rank: 1000

In message <2.2.16.19990310213251.47bfba4a at pop.igc.org>, Roger Odisio <rodisio at igc.org> writes >At 05:10 AM 3/11/1999 +1100, rc-am wrote: > >> the shortening of necessary >>labour time is a good thing isn't it? the problem consists in whether >>or not this is attached to a limitless lengthening of surplus labour, >>as it is now. > >Good for whom, Angela? Not for labor. > Not immediately for labour, maybe. But labour gains by the increase ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 11 17:28:05 PST 1999

2338 CIA Socialists -- rank: 1000

Herbert Marcuse managed a rare double acting as an agent both of the FBI (OSS), and an agent of the newly formed CIA. His CIA reports are among the papers published in the recent first volume of his collected papers. The Frankfurt School was working for the US intelligence services throughout the war, and after, according to Istvan Meszaros. -- Jim heartfield

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Date:	Thu Mar 11 17:20:17 PST 1999

2339 Death Penalty: Report From Canada -- rank: 1000

In message <36E42D1E.4396DF37 at uniserve.com>, Sam Pawlett <epawlett at uniserve.com> writes > The determinism argument is not new. I was thinking of Arthur Koestler and >Clarence Darrow who both used it to argue against capital puishment. Darrow >used it to argue against all forms of punishment. Lenin by contrast, pleaded with the bolsheviks not to abolish the death penalty - but then Lenin was no determinist, but a firm believer in the importance of the subjective facto ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 11 17:17:25 PST 1999

2340 culture economy -- rank: 1000

>From the Guardian Newspaper, London http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/The_Paper/Daily/Story/0,3604,28381,00.htm l Smith's task force for a spot of creative accounting As in ancient Rome, cultural rebirth is funded by beggaring the empire By James Heartfield Monday March 8, 1999 In every city, from Birmingham to Glasgow, the old industrial centres, canals and railways are being renovated to make way for cafés, bars and galleries. This is the creative economy celebrated by Chris Smith's Creative ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 8 15:56:48 PST 1999