[PEN-L:7151] KLA Hit by Bombs, but Whose?; KLA Wants Seat at Table; Makeupof Peace Force at Issue

1999-05-22 Thread Michael Eisenscher
IN THIS MESSAGE: KLA Hit by Bombs, but Whose?; KLA Wants Seat at Table; Makeup of Peace Force at Issue Kosovo Rebels Bombed NATO Error Possible By R. Jeffrey Smith Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, May 22, 1999; Page A15 KUKES, Albania, May 21Three bombs were dropped with high preci

[PEN-L:7149] Re: NATO's Unintended Targets List Grows LaborConference

1999-05-22 Thread Rob Schaap
> May 21 -- State media say NATO bombs a Kosovo jail, killing at > least 19 people and injuring scores. May 22 -- BBC say NATO bombs same jail again, twice. Rob.

[PEN-L:7144] Re: Re: Balkan confusion

1999-05-22 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day Barkley, You write: > The Gang That Can't Bomb Straight has not only >hit the Swedish embassy, but also the residences of >the Norwegian and Spanish ambassadors (NATO >members vigorously supporting the war effort, last time >I checked). They also hit a hospital, ugh, but not the >Swi

[PEN-L:7142] Re: Re: imperialism and Imperialism

1999-05-22 Thread Rob Schaap
Hi again, Jim, >BTW2, I don't see my goal as a socialist to promote "state ownership of the >means of production" (Barkley's definition of socialism) unless it also >involves popular-democratic control of the state. In fact, I would >emphasize the latter over the former: state control of the mean

[PEN-L:7141] Re: Re: Re: Creative Destruction

1999-05-22 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day Jim, I'd written: >>Historical dialectics and an invocation of central planning - all from the >>pen of a seminal econometrician. Strange stuff, economics ... and you responded: >Schumpeter was neither an econometrician nor a mathematical economist. He >_was_ a conservative but open-min

[PEN-L:7150] A reply to Peter Drucker on Nato's war

1999-05-22 Thread Louis Proyect
(My post on Kosovar nationalism found its way to a think tank tied to the Fourth International in Europe, where Peter Drucker--frequent contributor to Against the Current and author of a biography of Max Shachtman--offered this reply.) >Louis Proyect's article contains some interesting and useful

[PEN-L:7103] Re: Creative Destruction

1999-05-22 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day Seth, Perhaps you don't define 'creative destruction' quite as Schumpeter might have liked (I think Doug O's sadly unremarked-upon post of last week on innovation and value takes it more literally), but I take your point with gusto. Which reminds me of this delightful Schumpeterism (*CS&D*

[PEN-L:7147] War Criminal, Ally, or Both?

1999-05-22 Thread Ken Hanly
There are ethnic cleansers and then there are allies of NATO. Cheers, Ken Hanly http://www.motherjones.com/total_coverage/kosovo/ceku.html War Criminal, Ally, or Both? mailto:http://www.e-scrub.com/cgi-bin/wpoison/wpoison.cgi"> http://ads.premiumnetwork.com/RealMe