World Socialist Web Site
US, NATO prepare public opinion for
ground war against Serbia
By the Editorial Board
30 March 1999
Less than one week ago, according to no less an
authority
From Eectronic Telegraph
Mass graves hold the secrets of
American race massacre
By James Langton in New York
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Yahoo! News
Thursday March 4 1:57 AM ET
U.S. Condemned For Sex Abuse Of Women Prisoners
By Astrid Zweynert
LONDON (Reuters) - Women prisoners in the United States are subjected to
serious sexual abuse, including
Yahoo! News
Top Stories Headlines
Tuesday March 9 12:11 AM ET
U.S. Jets Bomb Targets In Northern, Southern Iraq
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. fighter jets dropped
laser-guided bombs on Iraqi
Sunday March 14 8:05 AM ET
U.S. Jets Bomb Iraqi Artillery In North
ANKARA, Turkey (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes bombed Iraqi air defenses in the
no-fly zone over northern Iraq Sunday,
said a spokesman at the base in southern Turkey from which the jets
operate.
He told Reuters the planes
Top Stories Headlines
Tuesday March 16 6:27 AM ET
U.S. Jets Bomb North Iraqi Artillery Sites
ISTANBUL (Reuters) -
Barkley:
Thank you very much for that real life portrait of Lynn you
painted.
I've printed it out and am sending it to two of his very good friends
who do not have E-mail access.
Sincerely
Frank
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From World Socialist Web Site
WSWS : History
Account of McCarthy period slanders
socialist opponents of Stalinism
Review of Ellen Schrecker's Many are the Crimes:
McCarthyism in
It would, seem based on the multiplication of the number of news reporrts
comming over the line about Serb "atrocities" in Kosovo. that the ground
war is not far off.
Attached is the type of report I have been seeing quite a few of.
Frank
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Saturday March 27 1:52 PM ET
NATO Fears 'Dark
From Electronic Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk: April 7, 1999
$100bn Bill Gates richer than
most countries
By Robert Uhlig, Technology Correspondent
Here are two items from Russia Today"s (http://www.russiatoday.com/)review
of the Russian press for April 7
Russia Pressing Issues on Apr. 07,
1999
From IZVESTIYA
Russia Does Not Owe
Anything to Serbia
Summary
A deputy prime minister in the Serbian government has demanded that Russia
offer
Saturday April 10 8:08 PM ET
Cossacks Vow To Help Serbs Defeat The West
By Philippa Fletcher
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Russian Cossacks joined groups of Serbs trying to
shield Yugoslavia's bridges
from NATO bombing Saturday and promised to help them defeat the West.
``Russian love and Russian
Michael Perelman wrote
"I am very appreciative of all the intelligent analysis I am reading on
this list, although I am a loss to see how anyone in their right mind
could credit Clinton and company with some humanitarian concerns."
I too am very appreciative,. Were it not for the the
someone may have already posted this but just in case they have not the
following to sites
give news in English from the Serbian point of view
http://www.borba.co.yu/daily.html
http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
These are some items from the April 13 Russia Today's
(http://www.russiatoday.com/) review of the Russian press for April 12,
1999.
IZVESTIYA Lead Story
Yugoslavia Wants to Join
Russia to Itself
THIS IS BE THE PAY FOR DECLINE OF
IMPEACHMENT
Summary
President
ISSUE 1416
Sunday 11
April 1999
KLA recruits leave
Electronic Telegraph
ISSUE 1416
Sunday 11
April 1999
80 SAS men in Kosovo to target
death
From Russia Today http://www.russiatoday.com Updated Mon., Apr. 19, 1999
at: NY 9:17 a.m.
Lon 2:17 p.m. Pra 3:17 p.m. Mos 5:17 p.m.
Review of Russian Press
Apr. 19, 1999
WSWS : News Analysis : Europe : The Balkan Crisis
US military uses Yugoslavia as
testing ground for high-tech
weaponry
By Jerry White
27 March 1999
The US military has
Wojtek Sokolowski (PEN-l 4537 wrote on Martch 25th
If I recall correctly, Baran Sweezy (_Monopoly Capital_) counter that
argument by saying that all measures to revive the US economy through
peaceful demand stimulation (cf. auto industry + infrastructure) had
failed
- it was the 2nd
Louis:
Yesterday Pen-1 4499 you wrote the folloing description of people
behind the WSWS:
A word or two about the people behind this web site. They were founded
and
led by an Englishman Gerry Healy, who was thrown out of the organization
for forcing himself sexually on young women in
Charles:
Thank you for the excellent posting on Iraq.
I would be interested in knowing the Economist's source of the statement
that "Just prior to the Gulf War, Iraq's GDP was more than ten times
higher--around $60 billion."
US Statistical Abstract states that in 1990 it was
I am utterly baffled by William Lear's posting.
Bill, just what do you mean by "hand-picked" and "unwashed"?
You are touching a raw nerve here. I am very fortunate in having been able
to consider Lynn a friend. He was one hell of a nice guy, highly energetic,
highly personable, great sense of
Monday March 15 5:48 AM ET
U.S. Jets Fire At North Iraqi Air Defenses
ANKARA (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes attacked Iraqi sites in the no-fly zone
over northern Iraq Monday, a statement from the
jets' home base in southern Turkey said.
It said the warplanes ``responded in self-defense to Iraqi
Friday March 12 7:11 AM ET
U.S. Jets Fire At Iraqi Target In North No-Fly Zone
ANKARA (Reuters) - U.S. air force jets patrolling Iraq's northern no-fly
zone bombed at least one target Friday, a
WHY THE SILENCE?
The New York Times
March 7, 1999
Weeks of Bombing Leave Iraq's Power Structure
Unshaken
Los Angeles Times Wednesday, March 3, 1999
No End Is in Sight to U.S. Air Campaign Over Iraq
Military: Attacks in 'no-fly' zones continue in low-key fashion so as not
to stir criticism here and in Arab world.
By PAUL RICHTER, Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTONInitially envisioned as a simple
Top Stories Headlines
Monday May 31 7:18 AM ET
U.S. Says Jet Bombed Radar Site In North Iraq
ANKARA (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes attacked Iraqi air defenses near Mosul
Monday after being fired
I just got around to perusing the Rambouillet Agreeement that Michael
Eisenscher posted on April 15.
It may have been commented on before. If so I missed it. The first sentence
of Article 1 of Chapter 4 reads:
1. The economy of Kosovo shall function in accordance with free market
From World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org
WSWS : News Analysis : Europe : The Balkan Crisis
Milosevic indictment provides pretext for invasion
By the editorial board
28 May 1999
The indictment of Slobodan Milosevic by the International Criminal Tribunal
for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) is
What would it be if we counted the homeless? Unemployment count, like the
poverty count I think, is a household count. They are not counted in the
poverty count. There are millions of them
Frank
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Friday, May 28, 1999
MIDEAST
Overshadowed by Kosovo War, Action Against Iraq
Escalating
By JOHN DANISZEWSKI, Times Staff Writer
Sat. May 15, 15 9:53 AM ET
U.S. Says Jets Strike Air Defenses In North Iraq
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes bombed a range of
Iraqi air defense sites Saturday after being
tracked by radar in the no-fly zone above northern Iraq,
said a statement from the
Following is my nomination for the Best Post of the week.
It was posted on Johnson's Russian List #3273 of May 7, 199
From: Wayne Merry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: 3271-Cohen/Yugoslavia,
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999
Stephen F. Cohen has
Yahoo! News
Top Stories Headlines
Monday May 10 6:21 AM ET
U.S. Says Jets Attack North Iraqi Air Defenses
ANKARA (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes based in southern Turkey hit Iraqi
artillery and
USIA
10 May 1999
U.S. ENVOYS TO CASPIAN BASIN TOUT INVESTMENT PROSPECTS
(Say financial payoff requires long-term commitment) (900)
By Phillip Kurata
USIA Staff Writer
Washington -- U.S. ambassadors assigned to energy-rich countries
surrounding the Caspian Sea are offering "gold key" service
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WSWS : News Analysis : North America
Hunger and homelessness
plague US working families
By Debra
From World Soicialist Web Site
WSWS : Workers Struggles : North America
America's workplaces--among
the deadliest in the
industrialized world
By Jerry White
13 February 1999
"
Death toll mounts in blast at US
auto plant
By Helen Halyard
16 February 1999
On Sunday 44-year-old Ken Anderson of
Wyandotte, Michigan became the fourth worker to
die as a result of the
Violence Hits American Indians at Highest Rate Among Ethnic
Groups
By William Claiborne
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, February 15, 1999; Page A02
American Indians are victims of violent crimes at more than twice the rate
of all U.S. residents and in nearly three-quarters of the cases
In connection with Michael's excellent posting, it is interesting to note
that Time magazine (Feb. 8 1999) in an article devoted to the growing
numbers of homeless
wrote:
""A few minutes into his inaugural Address, on Jan 20, 1989, George Bush-
a Republican president often derided for his
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Iraq reports air attacks in
northern zone
Baghdad cites deaths from jet debris
By Reuters, 04/22/99
AGHDAD - Iraq said Western
warplanes attacked Iraqi civilian and
military sites in
AP Headlines
Monday April 19 12:48 PM ET
U.S. Jets Hit Iraqi Targets
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - U.S. fighter planes attacked Iraqi defense sites in
northern Iraq today after being targeted by Iraqi
radar, U.S. officials said.
It was the second confrontation in the northern no-fly zone in
Carol, Thanks for the response. I guess there are some people out there
screaming.
This is from the electronic telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
Following is Russia Today's http://www.russiatoday.com/ review of the
Russian Press for April 2.
I have deleted reviews of articles not dealing with Kosovo
Updated Fri., Apr. 02, 1999
Russia Pressing Issues on Apr. 02, 1999
BELGRADE, Apr. 05, 1999 -- (Agence France Presse) A first group of Russian
volunteers arrived Sunday in the northern Serbian town of Novi Sad to
defend
Yugoslavia, the official Tanjug news agency said.
P
"The Russian volunteers are waiting to be posted to defend Yugoslavia
against
the
Why is no one out there screaming to Clinton and and his NATO lackies,
"Get tents, blankets ,food, and medical assistance to the refugees, and
fast"?
I can not believe the horror which is unfolding there.
Frank
Jim
Mosow times is published by Independent Media.
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/im/indmed.htm
They also publish the St Petersburg Times.
http://www.times.spb.ru/about/index.htm
Here is what they say about themselves,
Take a peek sometime at the Global Eye column of
I got this off of Johnson's Russia List.
Moscow Times
April 1, 1999
DEFENSE DOSSIER: NATO Joins Balkan Sinners
By Pavel Felgenhauer
After a week of war in the Balkans, with thousands of people killed,
wounded or displaced, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the
Yugoslav military
Friday April 2 6:07 AM ET
Iraq Says Two Injured In Western Air Strike
BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq said two people were injured Friday when
Western warplanes bombed targets
in the Western-imposed no-fly zone in
It is agonizing for all of us here to watch the Kosovians flow into
Albania.
If the object of creating the inferno was the well being of the people
of Kosova,
why isn't NATO dropping tents, field kitchens, blankets, stocks of food ,
medical units
etc. into the refugee holding areas rather
Taken from RUSSIA TODAY russiatoday.com
Wednesday, September 02, 1998 at: NY 7:33 a.m. Lon 12:33 p.m. Pra 1:33 p.m.
Mos 3:33 p.m.
Lebed: Popular Uprising Against Yeltsin Possible
Picture: lebed17.gifMOSCOW -- (Agence France Presse) Kremlin hopeful
Aleksander Lebed (pictured) warned
Folloiwng are what I consider some very significant US Farm Statistics
Total number of farms in US in 1992: 1,925,000
The largest 16,000 (0.8% of all US farms) accounted for 33% of all farm
sales.
The largest 47,000 (2.4 % of all US farms) accounted for 45.9% of all farm
sales.
The largest
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Subject: Russia's long awaited change of course
Date: Saturday, September 05, 1998 1:22 PM
Chernomyrdin finally caught on! He now proposes to change course and
pay off the debts for government
I have absolutley no expertise what so ever regaarding the question of
indigenous peoples..
I recall, however, many years back someone referred me to Jackson's Third
(I think it was the Third) address to Congress.
A portion of that address was devoted to the Indian question. I recall
reading
I got this from "http://www.wsws.org/news/"
Regards
Frank
WSWS : News Analysis : Medicine Health
Two reports highlight the growth of global
poverty and ill-health
By Tania Kent
23 September
The following item was taken from Russia Today (www.russiatoday.com)
Aug. 31, 1998. It deals with, not just a Russia domestic matter, but rather
with the sword of Democles which has been hanging over the world for
sometime now, and on a thread which beomces weaker with each passing day.
As Lebed
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Date: Friday, September 04, 1998 11:44 AM
Lubyanka Was Disarmed
Summary
According to Segodnya, all members of the Federal Security Service's
(FSB's) Second Department, which is responsible for fighting terrorism,
were ordered to turn in their
The Folloiwng is taken from russia today (www.russiatoday.com) Thu., Oct.
01, 1998 at: NY 7:14 a.m.
3:14 p.m.
Churchill "Planned Third World War
This is a repeat of a message I sent some 20
minutes ago which for some reason came out
jagged and difficult to read.
Soory
Frank
Russia Today
Thu., Oct. 01, 1998 at: NY 7:14 a.m.
Lon 12:14 p.m.
Pra 1:14 p.m. Mos
3:14 p.m.
From Electronic Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk
Crashed airliner carried
chemical used in nerve gas
By Paul
WSWS : News Analysis : North America
US Department of Health and Human Services report
The prosperous live longer
By Debra Watson
2 October, 1998
Income inequality has created a
The last part of my message (pen 1-770 redefining poverty got cut off.
It shoud read
And to end on an ironic note, today's Portland Press Herald announced
a "new tool for easing poverty" It reported that Maine is part of a grant
program that encourages the poor to save. In the words of
James Devine Pen 1-707 October 27, provided us with a good explanation
of how poverty is derived in the US.
I'd like to carry his explanation a step further in order to demonstrate
just how draconian the definition is.
From Devine's message
At 04:44 PM 10/27/98 -0500, you wrote:
By the
WSWS : News Analysis : North America
Further criminalization of the poor in the US
Working class couple charged for the
accidental deaths of their children
By Paul Scherrer
28
Yeltsin is 'suffering senile
dementia'
By Marcus Warren in Moscow
Russia Today October 9, 1998 citing the
Eletronic Telegraph
Michael:
Speaking for my self, the reason I do not contribute answers to
questions is because I simply lack the expertise to answer them within the
Marxists framework as seems to be de riguer on this list.
The sum total of my knowledge about Marx came from having read and learned
I know its not gemane to the central issue of the debate (and is in
fact nit picking), but
in reading the exchanges (Yen vrs Pound etc0 I have seen the following
statement repeated uncritically
several times:
"the Bank of Japan reduces the supply of money
Michael:
Speaking for my self, the reason I do not contribute answers to
questions is because I simply lack the expertise to answer them within the
Marxists framework as seems to be de riguer on this list.
The sum total of my knowledge about Marx came from having read and learned
From World Socialist Web www.wsws.org
WSWS : News Analysis : North America
US cited for widespread human
rights abuses
First in a series of articles on Amnesty International
report
By Kate
I watched the Leher report last night. Lots of discussion about a lot
of things I can't remember now, but nothing about this.
My only prior awareness of it came from reading Tom Kruse's Pen-l554
message. The following report is from the English Electronic Telegraph
The New York Times
October 16, 1998
SEATTLE JOURNAL
60 Years After Spain, Lincoln Brigade Is
I thought the list members might get a chuckle or two out of this
Global Eye column of the St. Petersburg Times (Russia) #407,
Tuesday, October 13, 1998. It a publication for the expatriate
English speaking colony in St. Petersburg. It can be found at
http://www.time.spb.ru
GLOBAL EYE
#3
From: "Frank Durgin" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 10 Oct
Subject: Hunger in Russia
Anne Applebaum, in her Intellectual Capital piece (Vol 3, Issue 40
October8-14 "Don't forget
about the Real Russians" , wrote "It is
not true, for example, that people are starv
On October 7
Dennis Redmond wrote.
--
The Soviet Union sold a hell of a lot of oil and gas on world markets,
but that's
all it was able to sell.
In an attempt to show that gas and oil was not "all it was able to sell" on
world markets
Frank Durgin, On Th, 8 Oct 1
From russia today Oct. 8 1998 Mos 1:58 p.m.
Second Day of Protest Begins in Russian Far East
Picture: r100803.jpgMOSCOW -- (Agence France Presse) Communist
predictions that nationwide protests would continue were being borne out at
least in part on Thursday morning, as mass demonstrations
On october 7
Dennis Redmond wrote.
--
The Soviet
Union sold a hell of a lot of oil and gas on world markets, but that's
all
it was able to sell.
Here are some figures necessay to place that statement in context
Oil and gas accounted for between 40 and 50% of
From "Russia Today russiatoday.com.
Thu., Oct. 08, 1998 Mos 1:58 p.m.
Protesters in Moscow Say Yeltsin
Guilty of Treason
MOSCOW
In my posting "re redefining poverty "(PEN l 720 10/28/98), I attempted to
illustrate how miserly the official definition of poverty is. In the course
of explaining the Census Bureau's methodology, I mistakenly stated that the
Census Bureau uses the cost of the USDA's current year "emergency
Mon., Nov. 02, 1998 at: NY
7:05 a.m. Lon 12:05 p.m. Pra 1:05 p.m. Mos 3:05 p.m.
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Previous article
(Special Section:
worldlyinvestor.com )
The format of my previous posting of this article was difficult to read.
Hopefully this format will be easier.
Mon., Nov. 02, 1998 at: NY 7:05 a.m. Lon 12:05 p.m. Pra 1:05 p.m. Mos
3:05
p.m.
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WSWS : News Analysis : Middle East : Iraq
Washington presses ahead with war
plans against Iraq
By the Editorial Board
18 November 1998
Following the
WSWS : News Analysis : Middle East : Iraq
New Caspian oil interests fuel
US war drive against Iraq
By Barry Grey
16 November 1998
Iraq's decision to allow the resumption of UN
weapons
This Book Review from New York Times fits into the unemployed PhD thread I
think.
Without a Parachute
Date: May 18, 1997, Late Edition
Christian Science Monitor
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1998
Made in USA prisons
MARKETABLE SKILLS:
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Correctional Institution in
Bristol,
Ramsey Clark's Letter to the UN Regarding Latest Military Threats on Iraq
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Direct quotations and summary* information:
Health - increase of approximately 90,000 deaths yearly due to the
sanctions (more than 250 people die every day) (pg. 42)
"The increase
From World Socialist Web Site
WSWS : News Analysis : North America
The political issues raised by
the Detroit Living Wage
Ordinance
Comment by Jerry White
7 November 1998
International News Electronic Telegraph Monday 31 August 1998
Issue 1193
German envoy challenges Sudan arms plant claim
By Andrew Gimson in Berlin
Destroyed Sudanese factory produces only drugs: German Ambassador [30 Aug
'98] - Sudan Net
GERMANY'S ambassador to Sudan has challenged the
A summary by Russia Today of an article in today's Komsomolskaya Pravda
Monday, August 31, 1998 at: NY 1:11 p.m. Lon 6:11 p.m. Pra 7:11 p.m. Mos
9:11 p.m.
Lead story
Interior Ministry and the Army Are Prepared to Cut Short Massive Civil
Unrest
Summary
A highly positioned source at the
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Presidential delegation to Russia
EDGARTOWN, Massachusetts, Aug 29 (AFP) - The official delegation
accompanying US President Bill Clinton on his official visit to Russia
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From The St. Peterburg Times(www.times.spb.ru) #393, Tuesday, August 25,
1998 Global Eye section
Iron Curtain Call
One woman who, it is safe to say, has probably not committed hanky-panky
with Bill Clinton was also putting herself on display last week, flashing a
bit of flesh for big money in
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