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Quoth Gregory Schwartz:
Hers is a response typical of the spineless Russian intelligentsia. A good
film illustrating this spinelessness is Mikhalkov's "Burnt by the Sun."
Though he himself is no friend of socialism, the film offers what would be
an apt socialist-humanist critique of both
Charles Bautiste wrote on LBO-Talk:
What about the Aztecs, Incas and Mayans? Conquest was not unknown to the
Native Americans. There were some civilizations in the southern part of the
continent, around the Mississippi, which I am unfamiliar with, that practiced
conquest. Slavery was also known
Hers is a response typical of the spineless Russian intelligentsia. A good film
illustrating this spinelessness is Mikhalkov's "Burnt by the Sun." Though he
himself is no friend of socialism, the film offers what would be an apt
socialist-humanist critique of both Stalinism and the persistence of
Potiomkin!
valis wrote:
From Frank Durgin:
1)The Baltic Fleet Is on the Brink of a Riot (Summary of an article in
Komsomolskaya Pravda taken from Russia Today
({www.russiatoday.com)}Friday, August 28, 1998
Officers and ensigns of the Baltic Fleet on Wednesday sent a letter to the
Here are some highlights of today's news from Russia.
In Sol,
Greg.
RUSSIA
KREMLIN PREPARING FOR YELTSIN'S DEPARTURE? "Kommersant-
Daily" on 27 August argued that the presidential staff
no longer pretends that "everything is fine." They
expect acting Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin
Quoth Jim D:
My prediction (if it's worth anything, coming from a total non-specialist
on Russian questions) is that there will be a "progressive" military coup,
of the sort that hit Peru in 1968. It will be "in the name of the people,"
nominally against the big-money boys and the gangsters,
Barkley writes:
There have been some rumblings about the Baltic Fleet
becoming rebellious, so maybe there is a figure waiting to
emerge from there. But I think that for the near term one
must think about people who are already well known. After
all, Hitler may not have been very well
Gary,
There have been some rumblings about the Baltic Fleet
becoming rebellious, so maybe there is a figure waiting to
emerge from there. But I think that for the near term one
must think about people who are already well known. After
all, Hitler may not have been very well known in
... In any case welcome back, Max.
Thanks. .. I do remember what you said about PINE or
one of those second-wave mail clients.
I'm working up to installing Linux and
jumping into a whole new paradigm.
Yes, I've yet to find a mail program as nimble as Pine, and it's
part of
I would like to thank all the people who have written to me about the
new FreedomTrain web site. http://www.freetrain.org/. One thing I
gather I did not make clear in my original anouncement. If you are
running an electronic petition campaign, and want a petition added to
the site let me know;
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
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date sent:Thu, 27 Aug 1998 18:14:53 -0400
Subject: RRR-Internet Edition (27 August 1998)
IEWS Russian Regional Report
**Internet Edition**
snippets from SLATE magazine's survey of the front pages of major US
newspapers:
Everybody leads with yesterday's bad day in the financial markets. The
headlines speak of a world crisis, and USAT, the WP, and the LAT headers
refer to the Dow's drop of 357 points. The NYT headline opts instead to
From Frank Durgin:
1)The Baltic Fleet Is on the Brink of a Riot (Summary of an article in
Komsomolskaya Pravda taken from Russia Today
({www.russiatoday.com)}Friday, August 28, 1998
Officers and ensigns of the Baltic Fleet on Wednesday sent a letter to the
president, who is also
Correction/Addendum:
Actually the harassment against my family continued right up to July
23, 1991 the day my father died--and even after, with notes
celebrating my father's death.
The night before my father decided he was going to cross the line he
and I sat up late to talk about it. My
Louis reports, via Harper's and a Salt Lake City daily:
Two college students who were smoking cigarettes on a Salt Lake City street
Saturday were confronted by a gang of twenty bleach-haired teenagers
wielding chains, bricks, and a giant spray can of pepper gas.
Louis Proyect wrote:
Is this any different than somebody loaning me 75% of the
money I need to buy a thousand shares of Hyundai stock?
Or 95% of the value of a house to buy it? I've heard, though I haven't
confirmed, that there's been a lot of 0-5% down mortgages in the U.S.,
promoted by the
Today's Wall Street Journal has a front-page article that takes an
interesting tack. It describes what is happening as a "global margin call."
David Berry, a bank analyst at Keefe, Bruyette Woods Inc. in New York,
says, "Everyone in the world wants their money back. It's like there has
been a
From a report by Tom Zoellner in the April 29 issue of the Salt Lake
Tribune, a daily newspaper in Salt Lake City:
Two college students who were smoking cigarettes on a Salt Lake City street
Saturday were confronted by a gang of twenty bleach-haired teenagers
wielding chains, bricks, and a giant
On the eve of the possible Northwest Airlines Strike tonight, I
thought I would re-issue this letter to Dateline sent June 29, 1995.
There are some lessons here. I have added some comments [in brackets]
to the original letter for clarification based on iquiries I received
at the time. I must
1)The Baltic Fleet Is on the Brink of a Riot (Summary of an article in
Komsomolskaya Pravda taken from Russia Today
({www.russiatoday.com)}Friday, August 28, 1998
Officers and ensigns of the Baltic Fleet on Wednesday sent a letter to the
president, who is also commander-in-chief, in which
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-- =_NextPart_000_01BDD287.89CB9B00
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1998
New orders for durable goods rose 2.4 percent in July, fueled by
increased
August 28, 1998
NEWS ANALYSIS
Bedfellows In Russia: Old Guard and Moguls
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
MOSCOW -- In his drive to consolidate his power, Viktor Chernomyrdin has
embarked on the first attempt since the fall of the Soviet Union to
negotiate a sharing of power between the remains of the
--64551A35A4E3CC61912DB82D
The post-Yeltsin era begins
(Russia-watchers should not expect blood on the streets of Moscow, but
the country's political elite is facing up to the agony of real change)
The Guardian
28 August 1998
By James Meek in Moscow
Well before the August
--C69BADB7BC7D55CD20533521
The day capitalism died in Russia
Rouble crisis: As analysts predict Russia will turn away from market
forces, an army veteran offers survival tips.
The Independent
August 28, 1998
By Rupert Cornwell
ENFEEBLED he may be, but Bill Clinton none the less
--5FB481B02706F0DDCFE67C2B
Duma leader urges monetary emission and rejects IMF "diktat"
Fri 28 Aug 98 - 04:27 GMT
MOSCOW, Aug 28 (AFP) - The president of the Russian parliament, the
communist Gennady Seleznev, called in an interview Friday for the
government to print more money and
--98192D791E1A8E9D20D194B5
Muscovites' faith in capitalism is crushed
By Chrystia Freeland and Charles Clover in Moscow
"The state stole our money," said Roman, a 32-year-old Moscow
marketing director, who has helplessly watched $30,000 drain
out of his savings
--B60F4DD656CFDE5EDD127237
Friday August 28, 1998
The Guardian
Yeltsin lies low as panic grips markets
BY:Larry Elliott, Mark Atkinson and James Meek in Moscow
Hundreds of billions of pounds were wiped off the value of share prices
around the world yesterday as the shock waves
Dear pen-l'rs,
See my comments below.
Louis Proyect wrote:
(posted originally on Mark Jones's Leninist-International list. Nestor is
in Argentina, where he has been politically active for several decades)
El 26 Aug 98 a las 9:03, Chris Burford nos dice(n):
[snip]
If I do not recall
G'day Penners,
Got this off-list:
You didn't mention the China devaluation. Looks unavoidable and when it
comes the 'world economy' will wish it could remember why it ever thought
disparagingly of 'banana republics' (or is it just that I'm talking about
1929 in my lectures at present?) G.
G'day Penners,
I see the 1/1/00, but what's wrong with flying on 12/30/99? The computers
should know what they're doing in any case until the stroke of midnight on
12/31.
One of the chaoplexity dimensions we should consider in this is that it
ain't the same date everywhere. Electricity plant,
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