[PEN-L:6422] (Fwd) THREATENED BY SERBS, BOMBED BY NATO

1999-05-05 Thread ts99u-2.cc.umanitoba.ca [130.179.154.225]
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Tue, 04 May 1999 16:40:59 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Sid Shniad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:THREATENED BY SERBS, BOMBED BY NATO The New York Times

[PEN-L:6423] (Fwd) INTERNATIONAL APPEAL FOR HUMANITARIAN AID FROM YUGOSLAV

1999-05-05 Thread ts99u-2.cc.umanitoba.ca [130.179.154.225]
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[PEN-L:6429] KLA Linked To Enormous Heroin Trade/Police suspect drugs helped financerevolt

1999-05-05 Thread Tom Lehman
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/1999/05/05/MN40517.DTLtype=printable !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN" HTML HEAD TITLE KLA Linked To Enormous Heroin Trade/Police suspect drugs helped finance revolt /TITLE

[PEN-L:6430] Re: Death of 'Progress' (was Re: modernism)

1999-05-05 Thread Tom Walker
Mark Rickling concluded: Unfortunately these seemingly contradictory beliefs are easily reconciled as the internalized moral shortcoming of the individual, and/or the moral shortcomings of those in the same boat (e.g. Million Man March). Reconciling the contradictory beliefs is _not_ easy, as

[PEN-L:6431] NATO general: Milosevic may succeed

1999-05-05 Thread Henry C.K. Liu
01:32 AM ET 05/05/99 NATO General: Milosevic May Succeed NATO General: Milosevic May Succeed By JEFFREY ULBRICH= Associated Press Writer= BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) _ NATO's top general says Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic could achieve his objective of driving all ethnic

[PEN-L:6433] Tom Hayden on War

1999-05-05 Thread Jim Devine
html font face="Courier New, Courier" size=2Wednesday, May 5, 1999br br nbsp;As the Innocent Die, Where Are All the Voices of Protest?br nbsp;Balkans: The liberals' silence on the NATO bombing and itsbr br nbsp;'collateral damage' is keeping us from talking about alternatives.br br nbsp;By TOM

[PEN-L:6432] Re: NATO general: Milosevic may succeed

1999-05-05 Thread Tom Walker
General Naumann expostulated, ``Quite frankly and honestly, we did not succeed in our initial attempt to coerce Milosevic through air strikes to accept our demands,'' So much for the Ramboullet "accords". ``So you end up with some 15,000 or more pieces of ordnance being dropped, and six went

[PEN-L:6436] NATO to bomb France over Corsica?

1999-05-05 Thread Henry C.K. Liu
NATO to bomb France next? New York Times May 5, 1999 World Briefing EUROPE CORSICA: FRENCH OFFICIAL DISMISSED In a growing political scandal, Prime Minister Lionel Jospin dismissed Bernard Bonnet, the highest French administrative official on

[PEN-L:6440] Another job

1999-05-05 Thread Michael Perelman
The job offers keep pouring in: From: "Florence Gardner" [EMAIL PROTECTED] (by way of Michael Eisenscher [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Subject: Quick contract research job for AFL-CIO Mime-Version: 1.0 Dear friends: I am looking for a grad student-type we can hire ASAP for a month or so of quick and

[PEN-L:6441] job offer at EPI

1999-05-05 Thread Michael Perelman
Max asked me to forward this: EPI seeks a labor market economist to fill a one-year position (or perhaps two people to each work for half a year). The work will be empirical analysis of large data sets for projects that are already funded. The person would need to be ready to begin no later

[PEN-L:6442] Re: Re: Death of 'Progress' (was Re: modernism)

1999-05-05 Thread Mark Rickling
Tom Walker wrote: Reconciling the contradictory beliefs is _not_ easy, as attested by the totality of journalism, education, criminal justice, medicine, religion, marketing and non-auratic art dedicated to promoting this internalization. A rough estimate would be that _most_ of the U.S. economy

[PEN-L:6443] Re: Swift

1999-05-05 Thread Jim Devine
Doug writes: But Swift wrote that in response to intense class and colonial cruelty. Why was his tone appropriate to the 18th century and not the late 20th? Seems to me our depoliticization in the late 20th isn't unrelated to the lack of Swifts (or Menckens even) today. Today we're either numb,

[PEN-L:6444] Re: humane ethnic cleansing

1999-05-05 Thread Tom Lehman
Ok, there were something like 2.2 million people living in Kosovo prior to the NATO attack. Some where around 1.8 million of these people considered themselves to be Albanians. Between 400 thousand and 600 hundred thousand of these 2.2 million people have become war refugees. The question is,

[PEN-L:6446] Re: randomness and Yugo war

1999-05-05 Thread Jim Devine
There is always a role for randomness in real-world historical events. Capitalism, contrary to some Marxists like Paul Baran in his POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GROWTH (1956?), is not some sort of monolithic force. It always involves a dynamic competition of capitals, always striving for advantage in the

[PEN-L:6447] Re: Re: randomness and Yugo war

1999-05-05 Thread S Pawlett
Jim Devine wrote: There is always a role for randomness in real-world historical events. Capitalism, contrary to some Marxists like Paul Baran in his POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GROWTH (1956?), is not some sort of monolithic force. It always involves a dynamic competition of capitals, always

[PEN-L:6449] Re: randomness and Yugo war

1999-05-05 Thread Charles Brown
"J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/05/99 01:04PM Chas Brown rejects the idea that "randomness" could be a or the cause of the Yugoslav war. This reminds me of Einstein's complaint that "God does not play dice." Of course with respect to quantum mechanics we know that She

[PEN-L:6451] ACTION ALERT: CUT OFF FUNDING FOR THE WAR

1999-05-05 Thread Robert Naiman
Please forward to all anti-war networks. The emergency supplemental will be voted on tomorrow (Thursday). Rep. Rohrabacher, supported by Rep. Kucinich, will introduce an amendment to remove funding for the war in Yugoslavia. Based on the previous vote on the resolution in support of the air

[PEN-L:6452] Re: Re: Re: randomness and Yugo war

1999-05-05 Thread Jim Devine
At 10:42 AM 5/5/99 -0700, you wrote: One question. If the battle between capitals is so fierce how is capital as a whole able to maintain hegemony and how is the capitalist class able to unite to act in its long term self-interest (assuming it does) when the competitive short-term and hence

[PEN-L:6453] Lights Out in Belgrade / Testing the Waters / More...

1999-05-05 Thread Michael Eisenscher
M O J O U R N A L News from the MoJo Wire and Mother Jones magazine Week of May 4 - May 10, 1999 http://www.motherjones.com/ K O S O V O C O V E R A G E

[PEN-L:6454] RE: Balkans Drug Trade

1999-05-05 Thread Michael Eisenscher
Here's a story from Italy's top-selling weekly your readers might find interesting: Source-Date: 05/02/1999 Milan Paper Views Balkan Arms, Drugs Route MS2904142799 Milan Famiglia Cristiana in Italian 2 May 99 pp 31-32 [Guglielmo Sasinini report: "With the Money[0] From Drugs[0]."] [FBIS

[PEN-L:6455] #1 - Direct from Belgrade; Diplomat's Assessment Available

1999-05-05 Thread Michael Eisenscher
Dear Contacts, This from Belgrade. It's the first of several emails I'm sending today to this list, separately to make it easier to sort and select. Altho' any war has scenes of destruction, this is the US's war, so I think we need to look at these scenes. To quote the friend who

[PEN-L:6457] Re: Re: Re: Re: randomness and Yugo war

1999-05-05 Thread Jim Devine
Sam wrote:One question. If the battle between capitals is so fierce how is capital as a whole able to maintain hegemony and how is the capitalist class able to unite to act in its long term self-interest (assuming it does) when the competitive short-term and hence destructive behaviour between

[PEN-L:6459] If Jesus lived in DC

1999-05-05 Thread Robert Naiman
If Jesus lived in DC The Gospel According to St. Marty "I've gathered the disciples here today to discuss our approach to the issue of the moneychangers in the temple. Many of us are very concerned about this, and have been for a long time. Now, some of you have been calling for driving the

[PEN-L:6461] Re: Re: Death of 'Progress' (was Re: modernism)

1999-05-05 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Mark Rickling wrote: I disagree. I'm sure our experiences are different (plus I am unfamiliar with the pomo literature to which you refer), but I see an unexamined faith in the inevitability of Progress as pervasive as ever. Certainly when one considers the teaching and writing of American

[PEN-L:6458] Post story on Bulgaria incident

1999-05-05 Thread Robert Naiman
WASHINGTON POST December 11, 1999 ERRANT NATO MISSILES DESTROY BULGARIA President Regrets Accident, Vows to Intensify Bombing Steven Erlanger In the the latest of a series of accidents that has plagued NATO's 8-month air war against the forces of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic,

[PEN-L:6456] Alphabet Soup

1999-05-05 Thread Rod Hay
I have a request for all US subscribers on behalf of those outside of the US. Could you please give the full name of the numerous government agencies at least once per post. It is difficult to follow discussion about EPA, IPA, XYZ, etc. if you don't know what the initials mean. Rod Hay

[PEN-L:6450] The New Russia

1999-05-05 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Hi All, Any comments on the unraveling of the "new Russia" and its peacekeeping foray in the Balkans? Seth Sandronsky WSWS : News Analysis : Europe : Russia The state attorney general and the fate of the Russian president

[PEN-L:6448] [Fwd: Karl Marx]

1999-05-05 Thread Carrol Cox
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[PEN-L:6445] randomness and Yugo war

1999-05-05 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Chas Brown rejects the idea that "randomness" could be a or the cause of the Yugoslav war. This reminds me of Einstein's complaint that "God does not play dice." Of course with respect to quantum mechanics we know that She probably does. Actually I see this as an old question, one

[PEN-L:6439] Oskar Lafontaine speaks out against the war (fwd)

1999-05-05 Thread Michael Hoover
forwarded by Michael Hoover The Times May 4 1999 Roger Boyes Inside Germany 'Chancellor of war' faces tide of dissent The tide of German opinion is shifting rapidly against the Nato war in Yugoslavia. Popular opponents have found a voice in the form of Oskar Lafontaine, the former

[PEN-L:6437] Re: Swift

1999-05-05 Thread Henry C.K. Liu
Swift wrote in an era of intense and pervasive government and societal censorship which some of us hope has since progressed, which make TV shows like "Politically Incorrect" politcally incorrect. There is also a fundamental difference in using humor to move forward and using it to slide

[PEN-L:6435] humane ethnic cleansing

1999-05-05 Thread Michael Perelman
How does the US treatment of Haitian refugees compare with the Serbian style ethnic cleansing? If they had turned back the Albanians at the border, as the US did with the Haitians, might the Albanian population not have reached large enough proportions to make them less threatening in the eyes

[PEN-L:6428] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Ciao, Baby

1999-05-05 Thread Thomas Kruse
Henry wrote: Cultural and language imperialism is a serious issue, but more for non Westerners. I live somewhere in between "here" and "there", north/south. (Some pomos might want to argue we all do.) Daily I am directly involved in the the workaday (third) world, talking with people about how

[PEN-L:6426] Re: Re: questions on modest proposals

1999-05-05 Thread Patrick Bond
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Walker) It's hard to say for sure, but reading Summers' concluding section does make it seem to me he _was_ being ironic and provocative, but in a most cynical way. The memo slyly acknowledges the inherently evil logic of liberalization but does so in

[PEN-L:6424] (Fwd) Fear that NATO will bomb Yuglavian nuclear reactor

1999-05-05 Thread ts99u-2.cc.umanitoba.ca [130.179.154.225]
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Mon, 03 May 1999 17:01:15 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Sid Shniad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Fear that NATO will bomb Yuglavian nuclear reactor Dear friends, Something