Re: Chris Doss's sources

2004-06-21 Thread Chris Doss
on the money. A little smokestack lightning from the Detroit brother. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 12:03 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Chris Doss's sources In a message dated 6/20/2004 12:51:51 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Chris Doss's sources

2004-06-21 Thread Chris Doss
Of course. The Chechen conflict has nothing to do with radical Islam. How silly of me. Once again, in an apparently futile attempt to make people live in the real world: http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/4546.html Current History October 2000 Through a Distorted Lens: Chechnya and the Western

Re: Chris Doss's sources

2004-06-21 Thread Chris Doss
Melvin, I think you hit the nail on the head. I sometimes get the feeling that what some people want to see is the dismantling of the Russian Federation into a dozen or so quasi-feudal failed "states" with deeply impoverished populations, which is what would happen in at least the North Caucasus

Re: Chris Doss's sources

2004-06-21 Thread Grant Lee
Chris said: Anybody saying the war in Chechnya is about goddamn oil would get laughed out the fucking door in Russia. I believe you, but just because an idea is not popular it doesn't make it untrue. I doubt if many Americans believe that the war in Iraq is about oil and yet that idea is

Re: Chris Doss's sources

2004-06-21 Thread Chris Doss
. -Original Message- From: Grant Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:59:17 +0800 Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Chris Doss's sources Chris said: Anybody saying the war in Chechnya is about goddamn oil would get laughed out the fucking door in Russia.

Re: Chris Doss's sources

2004-06-21 Thread Chris Doss
Grant: IMO, the real issue in such cases --- and one which is more difficult to resolve amid the crossfires of both bullets and propaganda --- is the extent to which the local populations, _at_any_particular_point_in_time_, oppose or support the imperialists. This often has little or nothing to

Re: Chris Doss's sources

2004-06-21 Thread Michael Perelman
I only had a few minutes to glance at this thread. It seems like it is getting close to nasty again. Please, do not denounce others on the list. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Re: Chris Doss's sources

2004-06-21 Thread Michael Perelman
He is 93. Cancer of the intestines. On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 07:43:35PM +0400, Chris Doss wrote: I hope he's OK. -Original Message- From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 06:43:33 -0700 Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Chris Doss's sources

Re: Chris Doss's sources

2004-06-21 Thread Chris Doss
Hey, I'm nice as long as people are nice to me. My vituperance is strictly reactive. :)Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I only had a few minutes to glance at this thread. It seems like it is getting closeto nasty again. Please, do not "denounce" others on the list.--Michael

Re: Chris Doss's sources

2004-06-21 Thread Louis Proyect
Chris Doss wrote: Hey, I'm nice as long as people are nice to me. My vituperance is strictly reactive. :) I don't mind the vituperation. I would only object to the number of times you are posting. I counted 9 posts, all on Chechnya, so far today: 3:58am, 4:15am, 5:39am, 6:01am, 6:30am, 6:46am,

Re: Chris Doss's sources

2004-06-21 Thread Michael Perelman
But everyone must stop reacting! Everyone. On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 06:55:44AM -0700, Chris Doss wrote: Hey, I'm nice as long as people are nice to me. My vituperance is strictly reactive. :) Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I only had a few minutes to glance at this thread. It

Re: Chris Doss's sources

2004-06-21 Thread Chris Doss
Message received! I am now on mellow mode.Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But everyone must stop reacting! Everyone.On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 06:55:44AM -0700, Chris Doss wrote: Hey, I'm nice as long as people are nice to me. My vituperance is strictly reactive. :) Michael Perelman <[EMAIL

Re: Chris Doss's sources

2004-06-21 Thread Chris Doss
I, for one, need much more information on the sources of the conflict. Myrelatively uninformed feeling has me aligning with the Russians again forseveral reasons, first of which is that dissolution of the Soviet Union,Balkanization on the grand scale, is itself and has been accompanied by agiant

Chris Doss's sources

2004-06-20 Thread Louis Proyect
Yesterday, Chris Doss told PEN-L that there was ethnic cleansing in Chechnya, including Jews. Since demagogic charges of anti-Semitism has surfaced to such an extreme degree in recent years, I was particularly interested to see if there was hard evidence of this. So, instead of producing articles

Re: Chris Doss's sources

2004-06-20 Thread Michael Perelman
Lou Chris. I am leaving now. Please. Stop getter personal. I need to get to Pittsburgh to see me father in the hospital. I don't want to have to worry about the list. Thanks. On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 09:19:42AM -0400, Louis Proyect wrote: Yesterday, Chris Doss told PEN-L that there was

Re: Chris Doss's sources

2004-06-20 Thread sartesian
Don't worry, Mike, I'll handle it for you. I'm really good at this. - Original Message - From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 6:43 AM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Chris Doss's sources Lou Chris. I am leaving now. Please. Stop getter

Re: Chris Doss's sources

2004-06-20 Thread sartesian
: Sunday, June 20, 2004 6:19 AM Subject: [PEN-L] Chris Doss's sources Yesterday, Chris Doss told PEN-L that there was ethnic cleansing in Chechnya, including Jews. Since demagogic charges of anti-Semitism has surfaced to such an extreme degree in recent years, I was particularly interested

Re: Chris Doss's sources

2004-06-20 Thread Louis Proyect
sartesian wrote: I'm sure, with the vast resources at his command, Mr. Proyect will be able to provide such demonstration. I thought we already established that the White House and the Kremlin are past masters at lying. === Russia Gave U.S. Intel on Iraq, Putin Says THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, June 19,

Re: Chris Doss's sources

2004-06-20 Thread Chris Doss
So while Yastrazhembsky's position in the Russian government obviously speaks to his lack of uninterest, it still must be demonstrated that he is a liar, distorting fact in the service of his class interest. -- Behold the use of logic! :)

Re: Chris Doss's sources

2004-06-20 Thread Chris Doss
I hope he's OK. -Original Message- From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 06:43:33 -0700 Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Chris Doss's sources Lou Chris. I am leaving now. Please. Stop getter personal. I need to get to Pittsburgh to see me

Re: Chris Doss's sources

2004-06-20 Thread Chris Doss
Is the Chechen diaspora good enough for you? Rosbalt April 24, 2003 Chechens Call on Russians to Return Leading representatives of the Chechen diaspora in Moscow attended a press conference recently and then a round-table discussion devoted to the situation of the Russian-speaking population of

Re: Chris Doss's sources

2004-06-20 Thread Chris Doss
Or the highly respected Russian newspaper Trud? Russian original: http://www.infocentre.ru/win/user/index.cfm?page=12date=2000-02-17startrow=1msg_id=6430 17.02.2000 16:00 Newspaper Trud OUTCASTS IN OWN LAND. Documentary testimonies of Russian genocide in Maskhadov Ichkeriya From the

Re: Chris Doss's sources

2004-06-20 Thread sartesian
the separatists. - Original Message - From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 7:57 AM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Chris Doss's sources sartesian wrote: I'm sure, with the vast resources at his command, Mr. Proyect will be able to provide

Re: Chris Doss's sources

2004-06-20 Thread Chris Doss
I, for one, need much more information on the sources of the conflict. Myrelatively uninformed feeling has me aligning with the Russians again forseveral reasons, first of which is that dissolution of the Soviet Union,Balkanization on the grand scale, is itself and has been accompanied by agiant

Re: Chris Doss's sources

2004-06-20 Thread Louis Proyect
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, sartesian wrote: One mo' time: Looking for that thing called specificity, Mr. Proyect. And that would be a social specificity, analyzing the material forces at work driving the contending forces. The same thing that is driving Putin is driving Bush: control over oil.

Re: Chris Doss's sources

2004-06-20 Thread sartesian
: Sunday, June 20, 2004 10:51 AM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Chris Doss's sources On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, sartesian wrote: One mo' time: Looking for that thing called specificity, Mr. Proyect. And that would be a social specificity, analyzing the material forces at work driving the contending

Re: Chris Doss's sources

2004-06-20 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 6/20/2004 12:51:51 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, sartesian wrote: One mo' time: Looking for that thing called specificity, Mr. Proyect. And that would be a social specificity, analyzing the material forces at work

Re: Chris Doss's sources

2004-06-20 Thread sartesian
Right on the money. A little smokestack lightning from the Detroit brother. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 12:03 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Chris Doss's "sources" In a message dated 6/

Re: Chris Doss's sources

2004-06-20 Thread Waistline2
This thing about oil has reach the level of the absurd in my opinion. Putin represents bourgeois property in Russia but not as an abstraction. He also represents distinct national interest and geopolitical considerations . . . Comment What is actually meant is not a denial of the