[PEN-L:9678] The Internet Anti-Fascist: Fri, 23 July 99 -- 3:47 (#298)

[Paul Kneisel]

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 The Internet Anti-Fascist: Friday, 23 July 99
   Vol. 3, Numbers 57 (#298)
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 SURVEY OF HOLOCAUST PROGRAMS AND COURSES IN HIGHER EDUCATION
  Kymberly Sargent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

"The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum is developing a preliminary directory of
Holocaust programs and courses being offered at institutions of higher
education within the United States. This project serves as part of the
Center's mission to promote the growth of the field of Holocaust
Studies, especially the dissemination of scholarly output in the field,
and to ensure the ongoing training of future generations of young
scholars specializing in the Holocaust. For more information about the
Museum and the Center, please visit our web site at
. The Center requests your assistance in
collecting the relevant data for this project. To obtain a copy of the
survey to fill out, please contact:"

Kymberly Sargent
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, DC 20024
Phone:  (202) 314-7835
Fax:  (202) 479-9726
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Thank you for your time and assistance with this project.

--

  UPCOMING WHITE-RIGHT EVENTS

[Anti-fascists may wish to explore special counter-actions -- whether
community education or something more direct -- for the following
events scheduled by the American Nationalist Union. --  tallpaul]

August 14 - Eastern Pennsylvania. Myers Restaurant, located on Rt. 309
between Allentown, PA and Quakertown, PA, from noon to 6:00 p.m.
Speakers: Jared Taylor, Tom Chittum, John L. Kucek, Kenneth J. Schmidt,
Michael W. Masters, Don Wassall. Admission: $20 at the door, $15 in
advance by sending to: ANU, P.O. Box 426, Allison Park, PA 15101.

September 25 - Cleveland, Ohio. The Radisson Hotel Cleveland Southwest.
Located at the junction of I-71 and Bagley Road, Exit 235. From 11:00
a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Speakers include: Kirk Lyons, Eustace Mullins, Don
Wassall. Admission: $20 at the door, $15 in advance by sending to ANU,
P.O. Box 426, Allison Park, PA 15101

October 30 - Southern California. The Irvine (Orange County) Marriott,
located next to John Wayne Airport, 18000 Von Karman Ave., Irvine, CA
92612. From 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Keynote speaker: Sam Francis;
other speakers include: Barbara Coe, Glenn Spencer, Jim Townsend, Barry
Hatch. Admission: $25 at the door, $20 in advance by sending to: ANU,
P.O. Box 426, Allison Park, PA 15101

--

   WOMAN FEELS HATE GROUP HARASSMENT
 Associated Press (no author)
   18 Jul 99

SEATTLE -- A year ago, Bonnie Jouhari was busily involved in her
community in Pennsylvania - working for fair housing and battling hate
groups.

Now the 42-year-old, single mother and her 17-year-old daughter, Dani,
are hiding in the Seattle area, trying to escape harassment by people
who consider her "a race traitor" to fellow whites.

She accuses the federal government of foot-dragging that she says has
left her without protection or assistance.

After getting TV and newspaper coverage last year in Pennsylvania,
Jouhari said she wanted to stay out of the public spotlight in
Washington for her daughter's sake. But she contacted the Seattle Post-
Intelligencer out of frustration after her harassers found their
temporary home in Silverdale, across Puget Sound from Seattle.

The problems started when Jouhari was a fair housing specialist for the
Reading-Berks County Human Relations Council in eastern Pennsylvania.

After she organized a workshop on how hate groups used the Internet to
recruit members and intimidate enemies, and appeared on a local TV
program about hate groups, her photograph appeared on the Web site of a
Philadelphia-based white supremacist group called Alpha HQ, according
to court documents.

Alpha HQ described itself as "the racial, political/paramilitary arm of
the Aryan people."

A caption next to Jouhari's picture on the Web site called her a race
traitor and warned that such traitors "will be hung from the neck from
the nearest tree or lamppost."

"Over the next eight months, we endured hell," Jouhari said. Fliers
branding her a race traitor were left at her door. Anonymous callers
told her to write a will. The head of the local Ku Klux Klan hung
around her office, taking her picture.

"It annoyed me but didn't scare me," she said.

But when members of the group learned that Jouhari's daughter is
biracial, "they had a field day," Jouhari said.

She said she decided to move when her daughter received a call warning
that "they could get t

[PEN-L:9677] More cyberspace clutter (was: Re: Re: Re: Virus warning)

[W. Kiernan]

Louis Proyect wrote:
> 
> At 05:00 PM 7/27/99 -0700, you wrote:
> > When I recevied this two days ago, I went to McAfee.com, a premier
> > virus protection software manufacturer, to check on it.  At that
> > time there was NO listing, advisory, or warning about this 
> > so-called virus.  Before you clutter cyberspace with this, check
> > for yourself.
> 
> For fucking christ's sake, this is the fourth time today this hoax
> has been exposed. Talk about clutter...

Hey Louis, thanks for the warning, even though it was a hoax.

I myself got a real early copy of the Explore.Worm virus (the one with
"zipped_files.exe") and the morning I got it there was as yet no
advisory whatsoever at either Symantec or McAfee. Explore.Worm walked
right past my anti-virus program; I didn't get an updated definition
file that could detect it until a day or two later.  Explore.Worm is
that bad-ass virus that recently ate the contents of at least a thousand
networked PCs at MacDill Air Force Base right down the road.  If it
weren't for the fact that I automatically distrust any and all possibly
virus-bearing files I get unsolicited off the Internet, it might have
been a thousand and one.  

My company, a small civil engineering firm with about 50 PCs in the main
office, sees a virus coming in through the eMail about every six weeks
these days.  (One came in last week, another damned Word macro thing, I
forget the name.  Say, you guys want a copy of Melissa?  I got one of
those too.)  

Better safe than sorry.  If you all hear a virus rumor, post it anyway. 
If I read ten hoaxes and one true one and I pay attention to all eleven
of them, then when I download the payload at home I save myself all the
trouble of fixing my personal system; and if I download the payload into
the office network, wow, I shudder to think of the office-wide hassles
I'd get to avoid by keeping that "paranoid" attitude.

Bandwidth is dirt cheap; reinstalling all your software is going to be
pretty expensive, and restoring all your unique data files might turn
out to be entirely impossible.  Michael, how would you like to have had
some joker's Visual Basic hack wipe your working copy of that book
you're finishing up, hey?  How's your backups, people; are you all
faithfully backing up your boxes regularly?  Yeah, sure you are!

Yours WDK - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:9676] Re: Re: Virus warning

[Louis Proyect]

At 05:00 PM 7/27/99 -0700, you wrote:
>When I recevied this two days ago, I went to McAfee.com, a premier virus 
>protection software manufacturer, to check on it.  At that time there was 
>NO listing, advisory, or warning about this so-called virus.  Before you 
>clutter cyberspace with this, check for yourself.
>
>Michael

For fucking christ's sake, this is the fourth time today this hoax has been
exposed. Talk about clutter...

Louis Proyect
(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:9672] BLS Daily Report

[Richardson_D]

BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1999:

An additional $200 a month or less in income would make it possible for 68
percent of the nation's working poor to meet their families' financial
needs, according to findings drawn from "The Work Trends Survey," performed
by the John L. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers
University and the Center for Survey Research and Analysis at the University
of Connecticut.  In order to obtain that $200, however, a worker paid the
federal minimum wage of $5.15 per hour would need to work an extra 5 days
per month -- one reason behind the study's recommendation that the minimum
wage be raised to $6.15.  The extra dollar would "significantly help" the
working poor, or those who earn less than double the 1997 federally set
poverty threshold, the study concludes.  The study also recommends that
government support increased access to child care and public transportation
for the nation's working poor. ...  The poll was compiled from a national
sample of 500 adults in households making no more than double the federal
poverty threshold of $25,640 for a family of three. ...  The poll revealed
that the typical working poor individual is a single white mother, 30 to 49
years old, who works one full-time job for 40 hours a week, and who earns
less than $25,000 a year.  She has a child under 18, has held her job for
more than a year, receives little or no paid vacation, and has not received
cash welfare. Seventy-one percent of the working poor are paid by the hour
and have held their jobs for more than a year, the poll found, and 42
percent have had their jobs for more than 3 years. ...  (Daily Labor Report,
page A-4).

Unions increasingly are seeking to negotiate contracts that reduce or
eliminate mandatory overtime, according to several labor and management
officials contacted by the Bureau of National Affairs. ...  Workers feel
that instead of hiring an adequate number of personnel, employers are
cutting costs by forcing them to work overtime. ...  (Daily Labor Report,
page C-1).

Home sales soared to a record rate in June as buyers rushed to take
advantage of low mortgage rates, the National Association of Realtors said.
Sales of existing homes rose 10.6 percent in June.  The industry group said
buyers moved into the market when they saw mortgage rates starting to rise
(Washington Post, page E13; New York Times, page C7; Wall Street Journal,
page A2).

Government workers are older, on average, than their private-sector
counterparts, says a new report by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of
Government in Albany, New York.  Workers 45 to 64 years old account for 42
percent of the labor force in state, federal, and local government, the
report says, compared with 28 percent in the private sector (Wall Street
Journal's "Work Week" feature, page A1).

After years of relatively flat health insurance rates, employers are
suffering sticker shock, says USA Today (page 1B). ...  It's the second
consecutive year of significant insurance increases for many employers, who
may have been able to shrug off the first time around but are now looking
for solutions.  The last time rates soared -- year after year of
double-digit increases in the late 1980s -- employers flocked to managed
care plans, which promised lower rates but also greater restrictions on
care.  Health inflation slowed for a while, but the dam burst last year.
Two years of average premium increases of  7 to 11 percent or more is a
signal to some that managed care has done much of what it can to trim costs.
  What are employers doing as premiums increase?  1.  Changing benefit
packages; 2.  Shopping around for a better deal with a different insurer; 3.
Increasing the amount employees pay toward their own or their dependents'
coverage; 4. Sitting tight and paying up. ...  

DUE OUT TOMORROW:  Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment:  June 1999


 application/ms-tnef

[PEN-L:9675] Re: Virus warning

[Michael Eisenscher]

When I recevied this two days ago, I went to McAfee.com, a premier virus 
protection software manufacturer, to check on it.  At that time there was 
NO listing, advisory, or warning about this so-called virus.  Before you 
clutter cyberspace with this, check for yourself.

Michael


At 12:45 PM 07/27/1999 -0400, you wrote:
> >From: Stavros Vanakaris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: NEW e-mail VIRUS 2!!!
> >Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:24:02 +0300
> >
> >ATTENTION !!
> >  =
> >
> >
> >IF YOU RECEIVE AN EMAIL WITH A FILE CALLED "CALIFORNIA," DO NOT OPEN
> >THE FILE.
> >THE FILE CONTAINS THE WOBBLER VIRUS.  THIS INFORMATION WAS ANNOUNCED
> >YESTERDAY MORNING FROM IBM; AOL STATES THAT THIS IS A VERY  DANGEROUS
> >VIRUS, MUCH WORSE THAN THE "MELISSA" VIRUS, AND THAT THERE IS NO REMEDY
> >FOR IT AT THIS TIME.
> >SOME VERY SICK INDIVIDUAL HAS SUCCEEDED IN USING THE REFORMAT FUNCTION
> >FROM NORTON UTILITIES CAUSING IT TO COMPLETELY ERASE ALL DOCUMENTS ON
> >THEHARD DRIVE. IT HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO  WORK WITH NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR AND
> >MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER.
> >IT DESTROYS MACINTOSH AND IBM COMPATIBLE COMPUTERS. THIS IS A NEW, VERY
> >MALICIOUS VIRUS AND NOT MANY PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT IT.
> >PASS THIS WARNING ALONG TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK AND PLEASE
> >SHARE IT WITH ALL YOUR
> >ONLINE FRIENDS ASAP SO THAT THIS THREAT MAY BE STOPPED.
>
>
>Louis Proyect
>
>(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:9649] Re: Minnesota Nuts

[Michael Keaney]

Doug Henwood wrote:

 Though of 
>course he denies being a racist, Pratt's speech topic at the 
>conference was reportedly the evils of the 14th amdendment, which is 
>seen by libertarian nutcases as Washington's quashing of states' 
>rights.
>
>Doug

It's an interesting conundrum, how so-called libertarians bang on about
states' rights, as opposed to individual rights, and would, via the
oppressive machinery of the otherwise evil state, deny individuals those
rights on the basis of skin colour. It's like conservatives who opposed
LBJ's civil rights legislation on the grounds that "you cannot legislate
morality", whilst maintaining laws prohibiting interracial marriage and
homosexual intercourse, to name just two examples. No doubt George Will (or
some such) would be able to put my mind at rest on these issues.

Michael

[PEN-L:9674] FW: Dalai Lama/Today's Tibet

[Craven, Jim]

This was forwarded to me for which I am grateful and I thought it might add
some information to the discussions.

Thanks to Macdonald Stainsby for taking the time to share this.

Jim Craven


-Original Message-
From: Macdonald Stainsby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 3:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Fwd: Dalai Lama




>TODAY'S TIBET
>by Macdonald Stainsby
>
>> The most screenplayed and least explained of the
>>national liberation movements currently spoken of in the mainstream
>>press is undoubtedly that of Tibet. We are treated to emotion evoking
>>images of terror and sorrow in such Hollywood offerings as "Seven Years
>>In Tibet" and "Kundun". Short of content and discussion, these movies
>>provide any decent person with ample righteousness in condemning
>>"atrocities" carried out by a heartless, power hungry and expansionist
>>Chinese Communist Party.
>>
>>   There are countless groups from all sorts of first
>>world (i.e.- Imperialist) countries pressing for a "Free Tibet!" using
>>the charming and seemingly humble Dalai Lama as their spokesman of
>>reference.
>>The Dalai himself has been awarded the Nobel peace prize, adding fuel to
>>a cause that, it would seem, only racists and Chinese bureaucrats and
>>Nationalists would dare oppose. Yet there are several things that do not
>>add up, and many secrets not spoken about all this that cry for
>>clarification. It does not seem that such information is forthcoming
>>from those who wished to be viewed as the bearers of expertise on this
>>"untouchable" issue. So let's "touch" the issues.
>>
>>
>> Some questions either omitted or refuted through gross
>>distortion are begged, such as: 1. What was Tibet like during the period
>>before People's Liberation Army intervention? 2. Who is the Dalai Lama
>>now and historically? What is the Chinese argument to maintain
>>jurisdiction? 3. Has Tibet ever been sovereign? Why do Bill Clinton and
>>other decidedly anti-liberation leaders and governments wish to embrace
>>"Tibetan Freedom"? 4. Aside from the one-sided stories of murder and
>>mayhem, what new policies have been implemented in Tibet since the
>>occupation? 5. For a poor, third world region what does "freedom" amount
>>to in practical terms, outside of the (newly raised) slogans of
>>"American style democracy"?
>>
>>  These questions, usually afforded dismissal when not
>>merely accorded ommission by the mainstream press, require real,
>>objective answers for all those seeking the best interests of Tibet and
>>her inhabitants.
>>
>>  Unlike the "Shangri-la" image of Tibet before 1959
>>usually portrayed by movies and Richard Gere types, Tibet was a lot more
>>complicated and unpleasant than what is spoken today. The reality seems
>>almost a matter of common sense. What region, dirt poor and neglected
>>has ever been the site of merely "religious and spiritual harmony"? The
>>Tibet of old was, in fact, a theocracy. Religious rites were law, and
>>public input was never sought. In the charter of law, women had no
>>rights, being only those who produced further Tibetans. Tibet may have
>>benn very much a land of spiritual wealth, but as is often the case,
>>this was dependant entirely on your material wealth. A country with only
>>land that was barely productive for cultivation of sparse crops and
>>little else, the wealth was almost non-existent. In order to achieve
>>some form of economy without damaging economic, religious and political
>>privelige, Tibet had only around 100 families who owned nearly all the
>>land in what was a de-facto serf-feudal economy. As was done in
>>establishing relations with the "Post-Communist" Russian Federation, any
>>so-called independant Tibet would be required to return "stolen" (i.e.
>>Nationalized) property to it's pre-'59 owners. Some estimates have gone
>>as high as 20 percent of the population being outright slaves, bought
>>and sold. These numbers are inconsistent with two facts: There were not
>>enough people in Tibet with resources to provide subsistence to slaves
>>for such a large figure, and the feudal slavery that was the lot of
>>ninety percent of Tibet was far more cost effective for the nobility
>>than the cloak of religion. Five percent is the number that most
>>objective non-partisan researchers agree on.
>>
>> Monks had to be male, and inherit the social status
>>of the previous generation in what was an inaccesible inner-ring of
>>power. Slaves and serfs who ventured to break free of their social
>>position were subjected to torture, such as live-skinning and tortuous
>>burns to keep them in place and serve as an unspoken warning to others
>>who might dare the same revolt. The image fostered of Tibetans studying
>>prayers and meditations is far more mis-leading than it is outright
>>false. As already mentioned, Tibet was spiritual for those with the
>>material to

[PEN-L:9669] Bill McKibben

[Louis Proyect]

>Lou, 
>
>I was surprised to see you uncritically post a piece by Bill
>McKibben. His bourgeois antiurban romanticism seems deeply at odds with
>Marxism, even your own somewhat peculiar romanticized preindustrial
>Marxist fantasia. Were I feeling less kind, I'd say your style of Marxism
>has a face that only a NYC cubicle dwelling computer geek could love. 
>
>Frances

Actually McKibben is fairly reactionary on the "population control" issue
and was one of the ideological leaders of the recently defeated
anti-immigration measure put forward in the Sierra Club in California. I
was more interested in the books being reviewed than I was in McKibben's
own politics. As far as my "preindustrial Marxist fantasia" is concerned, I
haven't heard this kind of idiotic garbage since Jim Heartfield stalked off
the Marxism list 6 months or so ago when I asked him to differentiate his
politics from JFK's "Alliance for Progress". Just to remind people what I
really believe, here's the concluding paragraph in my review of Jerry
Mander's "In the Absence of the Sacred":
===
In the chapter "Seven Negative Points About Computers," Mander takes
exception to the Canadian government's attempt to provide computer training
to Indians for the purpose of resource management. Mander challenges the
notion that trees, grizzly bears, water, etc., are "resources." They are
rather part of mother nature and Indians should use traditional methods of
keeping track of them, which is much more intuitive than a computer can
hope to achieve.

This is bad advice. The Indians of the United States are facing a
fundamental challenge with respect to resources like oil, coal, gas and
uranium. There is no "traditional" way of keeping track of them since
traditional society had no particular use for them. Meanwhile, there are
vicious, greedy corporations who want to avoid paying royalties to the
tribes, while polluting the water and soil on their land. How can one
prevent this? Clearly, this involves keeping accurate records of the
quantity of such resources and accounting exactly for royalties. There are
estimates that billions of dollars have been stolen from the Indian because
of shady bookkeeping practices by the government and the corporations. The
only way that this can be prevented is if Indians develop their own
expertise and know for sure what they own and how much it is worth.

Mander cites an article in the October 1984 issue of "Development Forum"
titled "Worshipping a False God," by Ken Darrow and Michael Saxenian. The
authors, who have been involved in developing small-scale technology in
third world countries, reject the use of computers. They do not think that
computers can provide low-cost communications and information processing
needs to primarily agrarian societies. This is "dangerous nonsense" and
Mander agrees with them. They say, "In a poor country, using a
microcomputer linked by satellite to an information system half-way round
the world...is absurd."

To the contrary, it is "dangerous nonsense" for indigenous peoples to avoid
using computers in this manner. Anybody who has been following the
Zapatista struggle for the past few years understands how crucial the
Internet has been. Not only has it served to educate people all around the
world about what these Mayan peoples are fighting for, it has also provided
an emergency response mechanism when the Mexican government has attempted
to repress the movement. Immediately after the massacre in Chiapas last
month that took the lives of 44 people, the Internet became a beehive of
activity as word circulated. Demonstrations, picket-lines and other forms
of protest forced the Mexican government to open up an investigation and
public awareness will surely make it more difficult to repress the movement
in the future.

Furthermore, the World Wide Web is replete with pages devoted to struggles
of land-based peoples all around the world, including the American Indian.
The information originates with the tribes themselves and provides an
accurate source of information in contrast to the misinformation contained
in the daily newspaper or television and radio. For somebody to tell
Indians not to use computers is not only arrogant, it is stupid. 
 


Louis Proyect

(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:9668] Re: Bill McKibben

[Michael Yates]

What do you mean by "romanticized preindustrial Marxist fantasia"?

michael yates

Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote:
> 
> Lou,
> 
> I was surprised to see you uncritically post a piece by Bill
> McKibben. His bourgeois antiurban romanticism seems deeply at odds with
> Marxism, even your own somewhat peculiar romanticized preindustrial
> Marxist fantasia. Were I feeling less kind, I'd say your style of Marxism
> has a face that only a NYC cubicle dwelling computer geek could love.
> 
> Frances

[PEN-L:9667] RE: Bill McKibben

[Max Sawicky]

For a "virtual" debate between Mr. McKibben and yours truly
that begin on 12/23/97, see "The Future of Consumption" at:

http://bsd.mojones.com/hellraiser_central/forum/index.html

mbs

---

Lou, 

I was surprised to see you uncritically post a piece by Bill
McKibben. His bourgeois antiurban romanticism seems deeply at odds with
Marxism, even your own somewhat peculiar romanticized preindustrial
Marxist fantasia. Were I feeling less kind, I'd say your style of Marxism
has a face that only a NYC cubicle dwelling computer geek could love. 

Frances

[PEN-L:9665] Bill McKibben

[Frances Bolton (PHI)]

Lou, 

I was surprised to see you uncritically post a piece by Bill
McKibben. His bourgeois antiurban romanticism seems deeply at odds with
Marxism, even your own somewhat peculiar romanticized preindustrial
Marxist fantasia. Were I feeling less kind, I'd say your style of Marxism
has a face that only a NYC cubicle dwelling computer geek could love. 

Frances

[PEN-L:9673] Re: Limitations

[Jim Devine]

Jim Craven writes: >This may seem to be a cop-out for some, but I tell you
honestly, on the question of ... the question alluded to by Jim Devine (the
supposed elitist nature and machinations of the government of China) I do
not have enough information and I for sure do not trust the accounts of the
bourgeois press--for almost anything.<

Like Jim C., I lack enough info, but I wasn't worrying about the "elitism"
of China's government, which makes it sound like Harvard or something.
Rather, my concern was with its authoritarianism, the unaccountability of
its "socialist" government, and its pro-capitalism. 

Concerning these and other questions, I would like to hear from someone
who's studied China a lot (preferably someone who speaks and reads Chinese). 

Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] &
http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/JDevine.html

[PEN-L:9664] FW: Glogovac

[Max Sawicky]

Date: 27 July 1999
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Kosovo Atrocities Recounted In Detail
(New York, July 27, 1999) -- Human Rights Watch today released a detailed
report on how Serbian and Yugoslav forces besieged and terrorized the
ethnic Albanian population of Glogovac town and the surrounding villages
in Kosovo.

Human Rights Watch urged the International Criminal Tribunal for the
Former Yugoslavia to locate and interview the police officer identified
in the report as "Lutka," who may have valuable information about the
identities of those who committed summary executions and other
atrocities in the area.

The twenty-five-page report describes summary executions, including a
massacre of twenty-three  children, arbitrary detentions, regular
beatings, widespread looting, and the destruction of schools, hospitals,
and other civilian objects during the Serbian government's three-month
campaign of "ethnic cleansing" from March - June 1999. As a stronghold
of the KLA and an area of constant fighting with government forces, the
Glogovac municipality was particularly hard-hit between March 19, when
international observers (the OSCE's Kosovo Verification Mission)
withdrew from Kosovo before the NATO bombing campaign, and June 15, when
Serbian and Yugoslav forces withdrew from the region.

The most serious atrocities documented in the report took place in two
villages near Glogovac: Staro Cikatovo and Stari Poklek, both places
where the KLA was active.  In Poklek, the police blocked a group of
ethnic Albanians -- mostly members of the extended Muqolli family -- from
fleeing their village and forced them into the house of a relative.
After a few hours, the owner of the house, Sinan Muqolli, and another
man were taken outside, executed and thrown into the family well.

Shortly thereafter, a grenade was thrown into the room holding at least
forty-seven persons, including twenty-three children under the age of
fifteen.  One man in uniform raked the room with automatic gunfire, a
survivor said, killing everyone inside except six people.  A member of
the Muqolli family is a local commander of the KLA.

A Human Rights Watch researcher visited Sinan Muqolli's largely burnt
house on June 25, 1999.  The room where the killing took place had
bullet marks along the walls and bullet casings from a large-caliber
weapon scattered on the floor.  The basement below the room
had dried blood stains dripping from the ceiling and walls and a large
pool of dried blood on the floor.  Surviving family members displayed a
cardboard box containing some of the bones allegedly collected from the
room and showed the nearby well where they claimed some of the bodies
had been dumped.

In Staro Cikatovo on April 17 the police attacked the village and
separated the men from the women and children.  By the end of the day,
twenty-three men from the Morina family had been killed.  Another four
were still missing as of June 25 and presumed dead by their families.
The survivors from Staro Cikatovo insist that none of the dead men were
involved in the KLA, although several members of the family are KLA
soldiers, including two who were wounded in the assault.  As in Poklek,
this may be one explanation for the executions.

Human Rights Watch visited Staro Cikatovo on June 25, 1999.  Between 40
and 50 percent of the approximately one hundred homes had been badly
damaged or destroyed. Most houses had been burned from the inside,
indicating that they were purposefully burned rather than damaged in
combat.  Several structures had also been demolished by bulldozers.

The actions in the Glogovac municipality were clearly coordinated
between the regular Serbian police, the Yugoslav Army, and
paramilitaries, whom witnesses identified as having long hair and
beards, with colored bandanas on their heads and sleeves.  While the
police were responsible for many of the beatings in Glogovac, as well as
the organized mass expulsion, it is the paramilitaries who are
implicated in most of the serious violence, such as in Poklek and Staro
Cikatovo.

The only person identifiable by witnesses was a deputy police chief from
Glogovac known as "Lutka," a known policeman in the town.  Residents
said that he did not behave brutally, unlike many of the paramilitaries,
although he was involved in thefts, and he was a principal organizer of
the forced depopulation in early May, telling Albanians that they should
"get on the buses or go to Albania by foot."

It should be noted that these abuses are hardly the first war crimes
committed by Serbian or Yugoslav forces in the Glogovac municipality.
Since February 1998, the Drenica region has been the sight of numerous
executions, arbitrary detentions, beatings, and the systematic
destruction of civilian objects, such as schools, medical clinics, and
mosques.

Human Rights Watch called on the international community to support the
work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
(ICTY) by guaranteeing ongoing financial 

[PEN-L:9663] RE: RE: Re: FW: reprint of Kennedy essay

[Max Sawicky]

what setbacks?

mbs

/
One of our former Chiefs, a Siksika Chief, was invited to speak to a group
in Canada. He was really taken with them as they appeared to "really listen"
as opposed to the Tories, Liberals and NDP. He later found out that they
were Reform Party, which is the most anti-Indian and anti-Treaty of the
lot. He suffered some real setbacks as a result of that presentation and not
knowing to whom he was speaking.

Jim C

[PEN-L:9661] Re: FW: reprint of Kennedy essay

[Gil Skillman]

Jim, Judging from the magazine's website, they're lefty and write
critically of Clinton, the Kosovo war, US poverty policy, etc.   Gil
>
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Editor, Albion Monitor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Monday, July 19, 1999 4:35 PM
>Subject: reprint of Kennedy essay
>
>
>Hello,
>
>One of our readers forwarded to us your essay, "JFK Jr and the Hubris of
>the Rich," which apparently appeared on a mailing list. Although it's quite
>unusual for us to solicit material like this, we'd like to reprint it in
>the Albion Monitor as a letter to the editor. While junior will likely be
>eulogized to the heavens this week, your essay gives a perspective that
>most won't see.
>
>Please let us know by Tuesday noon (Pacific time) whether we can reprint it
>in this manner.
>
>Thanks,
>Jeff Elliott
>-
> "Empty wagons make the most noise."  -- Farmer's Almanac, 1881
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Jeff Elliott   Editor, Albion Monitor
> (707) 823-0100 vhttp://www.monitor.net/monitor
>
>Anyone know about the content and perspectives of this magazine?
>
>Jim C
>

[PEN-L:9671] any comments on this claim

[Michael Perelman]

Strassmann, Paul A. 1997. The Squandered Computer: Evaluating the
 Business Alignment of Information Technologies (Information
 Economics Press).

75: "In 1992 I met with the statistical staff from the Department of
Commerce to gain an understanding of how they translated current IT
budgets into comparable 1987 dollars.  The analysts relied primarily on
the mainframe manufacturers' published claims about the declining costs
of dollars per Million Instructions per Second (MIPS) for their
adjustment calculations.  The statisticians did not make adequate
allowance for the eighty percent of IT budgets that were the salaries
which had inflated steadily.  The government projections about the
growth of computer budgets in the Federal government understated
historical costs.  Such abstract calculations made possible claims about
past cost containment. They made it possible to claim future expense
reductions against fictitious costs."
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:9659] Re: FW: reprint of Kennedy essay

[Louis Proyect]

Jim Craven:
>Anyone know about the content and perspectives of this magazine:
http://www.monitor.net/monitor

I just checked their webpage and it looks like a terrific publication, with
anti-KLA articles, a defense of the KPFA protests, etc. It is a 'zine that
is distributed free to customers of a "peoples" ISP called www.monitor.net.
They characterize the magazine as a West Coast version of the Nation.

Louis Proyect

(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:9658] RE: FW: reprint of Kennedy essay

[Max Sawicky]

Anyone know about the content and perspectives of this magazine?

Jim C
>>

Looks reliably left-progressive to me.  Only hinky part is they
run Alex Cockburn.  I wouldn't worry about it.

mbs

[PEN-L:9654] Another Virus Hoax

[Max Sawicky]

Title: WOBBLER Virus Hoax





  
  


  

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  VirusName:
  WOBBLER Virus Hoax

  Aliases:
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  Known Variants:
  Hoax

  Infection Length:
  Hoax

  Area of Infection:
  Hoax

  Likelihood:
  Hoax

  Region Reported:
  email

  Keys:
  HoaxDescription: 
  This information is a hoax and should be ignored.
  Sample of hoax message:
  
Dear All, 
For your reference, take necessary precautions. If you receive an 
email with a file called California, do not open the file. The file 
contains WOBBLER virus. 
WARNING 
This information was announced yesterday morning from IBM; AOL states 
that this is a very dangerous virus, much worse than "Melissa", and that 
there is NO remedy for it at this time. Some very sick individual has 
succeeded in using the reformat function from Norton Utilities causing 
it to completely erase all documents on the hard drive. It has been 
designed to work with Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet 
Explorer. It destroys Macintosh and IBM compatible computers. This is a 
new, very malicious virus and not many people know about it. 
  
  Please ignore any messages regarding this "hoax" and do not pass on any 
  messages regarding it. Passing on messages about this hoax serves only to 
  further propagate it.
  Write-up by: Motoaki YamamuraUpdated: 
  May 15, 1999Use the index files to locate virus information by 
  name: 
  


  

  
  
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[PEN-L:9653] Re: Virus warning

[Gil Skillman]

To corroborate Doug's hoax message:  there is no mention of this virus in
the "Virus Alert" section of IBM's web site.  Gil Skillman

>>From: Stavros Vanakaris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: NEW e-mail VIRUS 2!!!
>>Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:24:02 +0300
>>
>>ATTENTION !!
>>  =
>>
>>
>>IF YOU RECEIVE AN EMAIL WITH A FILE CALLED "CALIFORNIA," DO NOT OPEN
>>THE FILE.
>>THE FILE CONTAINS THE WOBBLER VIRUS.  THIS INFORMATION WAS ANNOUNCED
>>YESTERDAY MORNING FROM IBM; AOL STATES THAT THIS IS A VERY  DANGEROUS
>>VIRUS, MUCH WORSE THAN THE "MELISSA" VIRUS, AND THAT THERE IS NO REMEDY
>>FOR IT AT THIS TIME.
>>SOME VERY SICK INDIVIDUAL HAS SUCCEEDED IN USING THE REFORMAT FUNCTION
>>FROM NORTON UTILITIES CAUSING IT TO COMPLETELY ERASE ALL DOCUMENTS ON
>>THEHARD DRIVE. IT HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO  WORK WITH NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR AND
>>MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER.
>>IT DESTROYS MACINTOSH AND IBM COMPATIBLE COMPUTERS. THIS IS A NEW, VERY
>>MALICIOUS VIRUS AND NOT MANY PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT IT.
>>PASS THIS WARNING ALONG TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK AND PLEASE
>>SHARE IT WITH ALL YOUR
>>ONLINE FRIENDS ASAP SO THAT THIS THREAT MAY BE STOPPED.
>
>
>Louis Proyect
>
>(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
>

[PEN-L:9670] FW: threats to native sovereigntists (fwd)

[Craven, Jim]

To Tony and Arthur:

Let the Sea Racists also sue me for my article in "Dark Night Field Notes"
No. 14 "Chronicles of Ecoimperialism: Real Whales, Real People". Let them
try to show that we knowingly, with intent and malice, causing tangible
damages, told/wrote untruths we knew to be untrue and/or told/wrote untruths
with wreckless disregard for facts (that could easily be established as
facts and could easily reveal any untruths). The Discovery process alone
will be out of sight guaranteed.

BTW, at the Canadian/US border at Blaine the Sea Racists are out with some
very ugly racist signs and literature in my opinion and in the opinion of
several people with whom I spoke (right near the "Peace" Arch) and it would
be great to see counter-literature/demonstrations although they weren't
making many contacts as their representatives are self-impeaching.

Jim Craven


-Original Message-
From: Tony Tracy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 11:44 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: on the Sea Shepherd & the Makah -- and threats to native
sovereigntists (fwd)


Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:29:08 -0700
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:29:08 -0700
From: arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:  Another Open Letter to Sea Shepherd (on legal action threaten)

  Please post widely
Sea Shepherd Threatens Legal Action

AN OPEN LETTER TO SEA SHEPHERD (both in the U.S. and Europe)
AND THEIR SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS
  From Arthur J. Miller, NWLPSN/AREAN

  Sea Shepherd and it's supporting organizations continue to threaten
legal action as a means to suppress those that stand against their
racists actions. To that I say, talk is cheap! I have read the threats by
Sea Shepherd and it's supporting organizations for over a year now. The
threats of legal action, the threat to have me "taken care of", that I "will
be dealt with" and the anomymous phone calls threatening my life. All of
that has only caused me to increase my work. Upon receiving the
newest threat I sent out the Declaration Against Racism to over a
hundred new people.

  I will not only never me intimidated by Sea Shepherd and their
supporting organizations, but also I issue the following challenge to Sea
Shepherd and their supporting organizations. Go ahead and take me to
court over the Declaration Against Racism and other statements that I
have issued! As far as that goes, you Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd and
it's supporting organzations will lose much credibility by issuing legal
threats and never following through with them. People will begin to
wonder what it is that you are hiding? I will even give you some evidence
for your case. Yes, I have issued statements on the issue of racism and
Sea Shepherd for over a year now. Yes, I posted the Declaration Against
Racism all over the internet internationally. And after the SISIS member
who was working on the declaration was involved in a car accident they
turned over to me the job of distributing the declaration and I became the
contact address for it. So sue me if you dare!

  MY CHARGES AGAINST SEA SHEPHERD AND IT'S SUPPORTING
  ORGANIZATIONS.

  1. Sea Shepherd, and it's supporting organizations, knowingly joined
forces with the long standing, very active and well funded far rightwing
racist anti-tribal campaign here in the state of Washington. One of the
main spokespersons and activists for that campaign is Jack Metcalf.
Sea Shepherd and it's supporting organizations has used Metcalf as a
speaker at their events and press conferences.  Metcalf has a well
documented history of racism, anti-environmentalism, anti-tribalism and
strong connections to extreme rightwing organizations. This Sea
Shepherd knows for when I first got into this I sent them information on
Metcalf, thinking that they may not have known who they were joining
with. They not only did not seek to deny any of the information I gave
them, but they praised Metcalf for joining with them and stated that they
would continue to work with him.

  The reason that Metcalf was willing to join with Sea Shepherd against
the Makahs was that he saw in the issue of the whale hunt an
opportunity to further his cause of the elimination of all treaties between
the U.S. Government and the First Nations. In Metcalf's cause he has
been working in the interest of corporations and white property owners
who would profit greatly with the demise of the First Nations.

  2. Sea Shepherd and it's supporting organizations sought to arouse a
racist backlash against Native people in this state. They did this by
manipulating the issue of the whale hunt into an issue of Native vs Non-
Native. Watson stated that "if the Makahs take a whale, then all Indian
people will suffer". Sea Shepherd even stated to the Makahs that they
would be responsible for the negative affect the whale hunt would have
on Native People.

  3. After the racist backlash got going and all through it to this day, Sea
Shepherd and it's supporting organizations

[PEN-L:9652] Re: Virus warning

[Doug Henwood]

Louis Proyect wrote:

> >From: Stavros Vanakaris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: NEW e-mail VIRUS 2!!!
> >Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:24:02 +0300
> >
> >ATTENTION !!
> >  =
> >
> >
> >IF YOU RECEIVE AN EMAIL WITH A FILE CALLED "CALIFORNIA," DO NOT OPEN
> >THE FILE.
> >THE FILE CONTAINS THE WOBBLER VIRUS.  THIS INFORMATION WAS ANNOUNCED
> >YESTERDAY MORNING FROM IBM; AOL STATES THAT THIS IS A VERY  DANGEROUS
> >VIRUS, MUCH WORSE THAN THE "MELISSA" VIRUS, AND THAT THERE IS NO REMEDY
> >FOR IT AT THIS TIME.
> >SOME VERY SICK INDIVIDUAL HAS SUCCEEDED IN USING THE REFORMAT FUNCTION
> >FROM NORTON UTILITIES CAUSING IT TO COMPLETELY ERASE ALL DOCUMENTS ON
> >THEHARD DRIVE. IT HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO  WORK WITH NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR AND
> >MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER.
> >IT DESTROYS MACINTOSH AND IBM COMPATIBLE COMPUTERS. THIS IS A NEW, VERY
> >MALICIOUS VIRUS AND NOT MANY PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT IT.
> >PASS THIS WARNING ALONG TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK AND PLEASE
> >SHARE IT WITH ALL YOUR
> >ONLINE FRIENDS ASAP SO THAT THIS THREAT MAY BE STOPPED.

 From the Symantec Anti-Virus Research Center 
:

>VirusName: WOBBLER Virus Hoax
>Aliases:   none
>Known Variants:Hoax
>Infection Length:  Hoax
>Area of Infection: Hoax
>Likelihood:Hoax
>Region Reported:   email
>Keys:  Hoax
>
>Description:
>This information is a hoax and should be ignored.
>Sample of hoax message:
>
>Dear All,
>For your reference, take necessary precautions. If you receive an 
>email with a file called California, do not open the file. The file 
>contains WOBBLER virus.
>
>WARNING
>This information was announced yesterday morning from IBM; AOL 
>states that this is a very dangerous virus, much worse than 
>"Melissa", and that there is NO remedy for it at this time. Some 
>very sick individual has succeeded in using the reformat function 
>from Norton Utilities causing it to completely erase all documents 
>on the hard drive. It has been designed to work with Netscape 
>Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. It destroys Macintosh and 
>IBM compatible computers. This is a new, very malicious virus and 
>not many people know about it.
>Please ignore any messages regarding this "hoax" and do not pass on 
>any messages regarding it. Passing on messages about this hoax 
>serves only to further propagate it.
>Write-up by: Motoaki Yamamura
>Updated: May 15, 1999

[PEN-L:9666] Limitations

[Craven, Jim]

Response:

He was villified as a "traitor" by some and this caused some splits that the
powers-that-be in the Canadian Government, DIA and anti-Treaty/Indians were
able to capitalize on. Because Indians have been ignored for so long (note
the media when they refer to "minorities" always you hear African-Americans
or "Blacks", Hispanics, Women, Gays/Lesbians but almost never Indigenous
Peoples or Indians or First Nations)some come along and pretend to "listen"
but really they are gathering intelligence on our intentions and
capabilities.

I just had a reporter call me up to talk about "Indian Land Claims". After
speaking with him for awhile, I got his true focus: "The New Educated
Indians and Their New Tactics, Capabilities and Spheres of Influence".

The "Property Rights" and "Wise Use" types are worried about the "new
Indians" who are trained in Law, Economics, Politics, etc and are using
their own "property" concepts and laws to call into question and impeach the
very forms of bourgeois property they purport to protect. We do this not to
support bourgeois property concepts, but to use their own internal
contradictions, hubris and hypocrisy as fulcrums for leverage and to take
the struggles beyond that level.

BTW, here would be a good time to clear something up. Louis noted that among
Indians the US Government's hypocrisy--and that of allies like Canada-- in
supporting "Freedom for Tibet" or "Independence" for Tibet on the one hand
and yet denying the Sovereignty and Independence of Indigenous Nations
(Nations do not make Treaties with individuals, their own citizens or even
with groups of their own citizens--only sovereign nations) in the US, Canada
and elsewhere is frequently cited and attacked. This is true. But it should
be noted here that from the perspective of the US government and its allies
and their governing bourgeois paradigms, there is indeed a contradiction
between support for Tibetan Independence on the one hand and denial of
sovereignty and independence of Indigenous Nations on the other hand. But it
does not follow from that that my own position or that of other Indigenous
Peoples is the support of Tibetan Independence or indeed that even the
above-mentioned contradiction is a universal and inexorable contradiction
from the perspective of a radical paradigm.

This may seem to be a cop-out for some, but I tell you honestly, on the
question of so-called Tibetan Independence or on the question alluded to by
Jim Devine (the supposed elitist nature and machinations of the government
of China) I do not have enough information and I for sure do not trust the
accounts of the bourgeois press--for almost anything.

I certainly do not trust the Dahli Lama to build a free, independent and
socialist Tibet. At the time of the Chinese Revolution and before, there was
over 98% illiteracy in Tibet, brutal feudalism and slavery and the buddhist
monk parasites did nothing except self-indulgent and narcissistic praying
all day; they profited from the brutal feudalism and slavery in Tibet.
I know that at the time of liberation in China, when Tibetan elites
purporting to represent all Tibetans in a Tibet that had never known any
form of elections requested to join the UN as an independent Tibet, the
official position of the US Government and its allies was that Tibet was an
historical part of China.

I support the right of self-determination of oppressed nations and peoples
but I do not support the above mentioned concept when it is used merely and
cynically as a social systems engineering instrument to purport to promote
self-determination of one nation as an instrument for denial of wider
self-determination of other oppressed nations and groups.

I am just not so sure as some on some of the questions discussed on this
net. I am not sure of my own knowledge, I surely do not trust the
coventional sources and coverages, do not trust some of  the so-called
"leading scholars" of the West and elsewhere and I do not trust the motives
and lack of humility of some who purport to have "the truth" on some of
these questions. This is not a cop-out merely an attempt at an honest
statement about my own limitations and reasons for agnosticism on so many of
these questions.

Jim Craven

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 12:09 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:9663] RE: RE: Re: FW: reprint of Kennedy essay


what setbacks?

mbs

/
One of our former Chiefs, a Siksika Chief, was invited to speak to a group
in Canada. He was really taken with them as they appeared to "really listen"
as opposed to the Tories, Liberals and NDP. He later found out that they
were Reform Party, which is the most anti-Indian and anti-Treaty of the
lot. He suffered some real setbacks as a result of that presentation and not
knowing to whom he was speaking.

Jim C

[PEN-L:9651] Virus warning

[Louis Proyect]

>From: Stavros Vanakaris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: NEW e-mail VIRUS 2!!!
>Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:24:02 +0300
>
>ATTENTION !!
>  =
>
>
>IF YOU RECEIVE AN EMAIL WITH A FILE CALLED "CALIFORNIA," DO NOT OPEN
>THE FILE.
>THE FILE CONTAINS THE WOBBLER VIRUS.  THIS INFORMATION WAS ANNOUNCED
>YESTERDAY MORNING FROM IBM; AOL STATES THAT THIS IS A VERY  DANGEROUS
>VIRUS, MUCH WORSE THAN THE "MELISSA" VIRUS, AND THAT THERE IS NO REMEDY
>FOR IT AT THIS TIME.
>SOME VERY SICK INDIVIDUAL HAS SUCCEEDED IN USING THE REFORMAT FUNCTION
>FROM NORTON UTILITIES CAUSING IT TO COMPLETELY ERASE ALL DOCUMENTS ON
>THEHARD DRIVE. IT HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO  WORK WITH NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR AND
>MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER.
>IT DESTROYS MACINTOSH AND IBM COMPATIBLE COMPUTERS. THIS IS A NEW, VERY
>MALICIOUS VIRUS AND NOT MANY PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT IT.
>PASS THIS WARNING ALONG TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK AND PLEASE
>SHARE IT WITH ALL YOUR
>ONLINE FRIENDS ASAP SO THAT THIS THREAT MAY BE STOPPED.


Louis Proyect

(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:9650] Fw: Speakers and Topics for the Commission of Inquiry

[Frank Durgin]

--
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: Yugoslavia list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Speakers and Topics for the Commission of Inquiry
> Date: Monday, July 26, 1999 10:07 PM
> 
> Commission of Inquiry
> at the International Action Center
> 39 W. 14th St., #206  New York, NY  10011
> (212) 633-6646  fax: (212) 633-2889
> { HYPERLINK http://www.iacenter.org }http://www.iacenter.org   email:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> INDEPENDENT COMMISSION OF INQUIRY TO INVESTIGAE 
> U.S./NATO WAR CRIMES AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF YUGOSLAVIA
> 
> A more detailed program will be distributed later in the week.  
> Stay tuned…
> 
> PANELS AND TOPICS INCLUDE
> 
> Targeting civilians and environmental destruction
> Violations of international laws and conventions
> The Rambouillet Accords and the conspiracy to go to war
> Why the Chinese Embassy was bombed
> How the Pentagon used the war to further militarize the U.S. economy
> The war at home
> War propaganda and media lies
> How the U.S. and Germany enflamed ethnic conflicts in Yugoslavia
> U.S occupation—liberation or colonial enslavement?
> U.S. geopolitical strategy for Eastern Europe and the former USSR
> 
> SPEAKERS INCLUDE
> 
> Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general
> Felix Wilson, Cuban Interests Section
> Michael Parenti, author
> Maude Le Blanc, Haiti Progres
> Elombe Brath, Patrice Lumumba Coalition
> Dr. Sapphire Ahmed
> Shani Rifati, Roma activist
> David Jacobs, Canadian Lawyers Group
> King Downing, attorney
> John Kim, NY Veterans for Peace
> Monica Moorehead, Workers World newspaper
> Michel Chossudovsky, economist and author
> Gloria La Riva, Director, NATO Targets
> Heather Cottin, Serbian-Jewish Friendship Committee
> Barry Lituchy, CUNY
> Roland Keither, OSCE Monitor in Kosovo
> Sara Flounders, International Action Center
> Brian Becker, International Action Center
> 
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[PEN-L:9662] RE: Re: FW: reprint of Kennedy essay

[Craven, Jim]

Thanks to Louis and Max.

One of our former Chiefs, a Siksika Chief, was invited to speak to a group
in Canada. He was really taken with them as they appeared to "really listen"
as opposed to the Tories, Liberals and NDP. He later found out that they
were Reform Party, which is the most anti-Indian and anti-Treaty of the
lot. He suffered some real setbacks as a result of that presentation and not
knowing to whom he was speaking.

Jim C

-Original Message-
From: Louis Proyect [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 11:40 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [PEN-L:9659] Re: FW: reprint of Kennedy essay


Jim Craven:
>Anyone know about the content and perspectives of this magazine:
http://www.monitor.net/monitor

I just checked their webpage and it looks like a terrific publication, with
anti-KLA articles, a defense of the KPFA protests, etc. It is a 'zine that
is distributed free to customers of a "peoples" ISP called www.monitor.net.
They characterize the magazine as a West Coast version of the Nation.

Louis Proyect

(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:9660] Book Recommendations

[Craven, Jim]

For what it is worth, I recommend the following books for analysis,
criticism, support or whatever:

"Albert Speer: His Battle With the Truth" by Gitta Sereny, Alfred a Knopf,
NY, 1995
Highly recommended for all the neo-Speers and neo-Eichmanns working for the
IMF, World Bank, WTO, agencies of the US Goverment, "Think" Tanks etc.

"False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism" by John Gray, The New
Press, NY, 1995
(A polemic by a former neoliberal globalist, Prof of European Though at LSE
and former Thatcherite true believer now recanting his former self and
beliefs. The "Economist" notes:  "This book is teeming with arguments and
ideas...it is hard to put down, and economic liberals would do well to test
their ideas against it."

"The Globalisation of Poverty: Impacts of IMF and World Bank Reforms" by
Michel Chossudovsky, Zed Books (London and NY), Pluto Press (Australia),
Fernwood Publishers (Canada) and IPSR (South Africa), 1998. Explores the
perennial contradiction between search for/consolidation of sources of cheap
labor on the one hand versus the search for new and expanding markets
(purchasing power) on the other hand; goes beyond usual underconsumptionism
however to analysis of structural impacts, dynamics and contradictions
associated with neoliberal globalism.

Jim C

James Craven
Clark College, 1800 E. McLoughlin Blvd.
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[PEN-L:9648] Re: RE: Re: Minnesota Nuts

[Doug Henwood]

Max B. Sawicky wrote:

>Worse than that, he popped off that if there had been
>an armed security guard, the tragedy could have been
>averted.  Of course, there was an armed guard.

And Alexander Cockburn, in identical items running in New York Press 
and Counterpunch, gave an uncritical outlet to Larry Pratt in 
advocating - with no objection from Cockburn - that teachers be 
armed. Pratt approvingly cited the case of a teacher in South Africa 
who recently shot a "bellicose" student. Pratt, the head of Gun 
Owners of America, thinks Charlton Heston is a compromising sellout. 
He had to resign from Pat Buchanan's 1996 campaign when it was 
revealed that he spoke at a Christian Identity conference. Though of 
course he denies being a racist, Pratt's speech topic at the 
conference was reportedly the evils of the 14th amdendment, which is 
seen by libertarian nutcases as Washington's quashing of states' 
rights.

Doug

[PEN-L:9657] FW: reprint of Kennedy essay

[Craven, Jim]

-Original Message-
From: Editor, Albion Monitor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, July 19, 1999 4:35 PM
Subject: reprint of Kennedy essay


Hello,

One of our readers forwarded to us your essay, "JFK Jr and the Hubris of
the Rich," which apparently appeared on a mailing list. Although it's quite
unusual for us to solicit material like this, we'd like to reprint it in
the Albion Monitor as a letter to the editor. While junior will likely be
eulogized to the heavens this week, your essay gives a perspective that
most won't see.

Please let us know by Tuesday noon (Pacific time) whether we can reprint it
in this manner.

Thanks,
Jeff Elliott
-
 "Empty wagons make the most noise."  -- Farmer's Almanac, 1881
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Jeff Elliott   Editor, Albion Monitor
 (707) 823-0100 vhttp://www.monitor.net/monitor

Anyone know about the content and perspectives of this magazine?

Jim C

[PEN-L:9656] FW: WORKING GROUP ON INDIGNEOUS PEOPLES 1999 - GENEVA IN SESSION

[Craven, Jim]

-Original Message-
From: Boyle, Francis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 11:13 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'Indigenous Appeal';
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: WORKING GROUP ON INDIGNEOUS PEOPLES 1999 - GENEVA IN
SESSION
Importance: High


Concerning Indigenous Peoples and Their Lands, the starting point for any
analysis must be common  article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights:
Article 1.
1.  All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that
right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their
economic, social and cultural development.
2. All peoples may, for their own ends, freely dispose of their natural
wealth and resources without prejudice to any obligations arising out of
international economic co-operation, based upon the principle of mutual
benefit, and international law. In no case may a people be deprived of its
own means of subsistence.
3. The States Parties to the present Covenant... shall promote the
realization of the right of self-determination, and shall respect that
right, in conformity with the provisions of the Charter of the United
Nations.

For what it is worth, in my opinion,Indigenous Peoples should accept nothing
less from the States in Geneva, most of which are contracting parties to
these two UN Covenants. Even the United States is a party to the Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights. To accept anything less would fatally compromise
the rights that Indigenous Peoples already have under these two Covenants as
already recognized by most States of the world community.

Francis A. Boyle
Professor of International Law


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 12:12 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: WORKING GROUP ON INDIGNEOUS PEOPLES 1999 - GENEVA IN SESSION


NETWARRIORS FRONTLINE REPORT
17th WGIP 7/27/99


Indigenous Relatives and Supporters:

NetWarriors are frontline in Geneva once again for the Working Group on
Indigenous Peoples.  This is the 17th Session of Indigenous Peoples
Struggling in Geneva with Governments for the basic the MINIMAL Human
Rights of Indigenous Peoples to be acknowledged, respected, upheld and
considered.  This year there are over 1,000 delegates present at the
session.  We send our prayers and solidarity to them as they struggle to
eat, pay the bus fares and deal with the language barriers under oppressive
states conditions.

The session began Monday July 26, 1999 and will go on this week.  The 24-
25 there was a prepatory caucus meeting at the WCC as usual.  No reports
were sent out from this meeting. We do know the Indigenous Peoples in
Relationship to the Land is one of the key focus areas being discussed for
purpose of strategy and session progress.

The was a memorial for Ingrid Washinawatok and Andrew Grey held at the
beginning of the session.

(Andrew Grey suffered an untimely death enroute from Vanuatu this year and
was a solid support for Indigenous Peoples at the UN and in their
internatinal struggle for Human Rights as a member of IWGIA)

The morning of the 27th which will take place in approximately 15 hours
from now Geneva time will address the principle issue on the agenda this
week titled "Indigenous Peoples and their Relationship to Land"

Any Indigenous Peoples who would like to send over their own statements in
regards to this issue this week please forward to us and we will have them
printed and posted for all delegates and governments to read at the session.

I want to point out that indigenous delegates at the session do in fact
read the statements they can understand before and during breaks of
sessions.  They are able to gain understanding of how other indigenous
peoples are looking at the issues they are dealing with.  They are also
inspired.  And, you should also know that state diplomats also read the
reports and are affected by them.  Last WGDD I did get a picture of one of
the US representatives actually taking down one of your comments from the
board.  When I approached him (okay it was SW that's all I'm saying) he
said he had an international attorney at the State Department he wanted to
get to give his opinion on the statement he had pulled down.  It was the
end of the session and so I felt it was good he wanted to look into it.
The statement he took with him was from, Francis A Boyle, PhD.

Interventions and UNPO Monitor to come soon...

k






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[PEN-L:9655] RE: Fred and Henry

[Craven, Jim]

-Original Message-
From: Charles Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 9:49 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Fred and Henry


Regarding Henry Liu's work as a financier
and Marxist, Engels was a capitalist. Marx
was subsidized by Engels income. It would
seem that Engels' practical experience with
capital was an important corroboration of
Marx's theoretical understanding, even if
they don't discuss it that way. At any rate,
there is the Engels precedent in the Marxist
movement for capitalist-revolutionaries.


Charles Brown

Response:

If there is a problem with Henry's financial speculations then let me join
him and plead GUILTY too. I have a Mutual Fund for my retirement which I
hope grows and not diminishes (I will never retire from my non-college
activities). Further, as Chairman Mao pointed out to Dr. Li Zhisui: "I am
not a Saint, and I am not a monk." or as Chairman Mao also pointed out
allegedly: "Sometimes my deeds do not match my words." I too make all sorts
of what I like to think are "tactical compromises" in terms of language,
tone, content and basic survival in a sytem under which I live but prefer to
see radically "changed"--another "tactical compromise".

I have gain immeasurably from Henry's writings, passion and very deep and
substantive knowledge about many things about which I am very ignorant. If
his financial activities are giving him the time to conduct and spread his
research and thoughts then I hope his portfolios do well for him and his
colleagues. It is clear to me where his passions and commitments lie and the
true nature of those passions and commitments. 

Jim Craven

[PEN-L:9644] Re: Minnesota Nuts

[Michael Keaney]

If I recall correctly,Ventura was in the front line alongside Charlton
Heston defending the constitutional right to bear arms in the aftermath of
the Littleton, Colorado shootings.

Michael

Max wrote:
>
>For all his daffiness, by all accounts I've seen Jesse's
>performance as governor, by conventional standards, is
>firmly in the competent range.
>
>mbs
>
>

[PEN-L:9647] BLS Daily Report

[Richardson_D]

BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, JULY 26, 1999

The American labor movement has belatedly recognized that, if it is to
reverse the decades-long slide in the percentage of workers belonging to
unions, it must make some headway in high technology, the economy's
fastest-growing sector. ...  Persuading technology workers to join unions
will not be easy, though, because of all that is lavished upon them. ...  A
graph on union membership to attributed to BLS (New York Times, page C1).

An Economic Policy Institute study found no evidence that high performance
workplace practices have a negative effect on corporate financial outcomes,
but rather that they often lead to stronger financial results. ...  Although
the study does not conclude unequivocally that high performance work
practices cause good company performance, it found no evidence that
companies are likely to suffer from adopting well-planned practices.  In
addition to looking at high performance strategies, the analysis also
includes other workforce policies such as training, union representation on
corporate boards, downsizing, and environmental management. ...  (Daily
Labor Report, page A-10).

The Wall Street Journal's consensus forecast for the Employment Cost Index,
to be released on Thursday, is that an increase of 0.8 percent occurred from
the first to the second quarter. 


 application/ms-tnef

[PEN-L:9646] Minnesota Nuts

[Louis Proyect]

>Worse than that, he popped off that if there had been
>an armed security guard, the tragedy could have been
>averted.  Of course, there was an armed guard.
>
>mbs

Alexander Cockburn lavishes praise on Ventura in his latest column, seen
everywhere, for defending the right to own guns. It is the usual backwoods
spiel that we have gotten accustomed to, with one slightly sinister note:
he refers positively to a South African schoolteacher who keeps a gun in
his desk and who states that he has no compunctions about using it against
unruly students.

That's the big problem with Cockburn, he sees the whole issue in terms of
individual rights rather than in class terms. In his inexorable slide
toward libertarianism, the question of state domination in itself becomes
THE issue. So this allows him to make common cause with the NRA et al.

>From a Marxist standpoint, the issue really is one of the right of the
citizenry to own guns on a class basis, to defend their class interests.
The problem, however, is that this discussion has an abstract character
because the average worker seems more interested in trading securities on
the Internet rather than forming militias to defend strikes like they did
in the 1930s.

Louis Proyect

(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:9645] RE: Re: Minnesota Nuts

[Max B. Sawicky]

If I recall correctly,Ventura was in the front line alongside Charlton
Heston defending the constitutional right to bear arms in the aftermath of
the Littleton, Colorado shootings.

Michael

Max wrote:
>For all his daffiness, by all accounts I've seen Jesse's
>performance as governor, by conventional standards, is
>firmly in the competent range.
>mbs


Worse than that, he popped off that if there had been
an armed security guard, the tragedy could have been
averted.  Of course, there was an armed guard.

As Wills reports, Jesse's view of gun control is
scrambled.  That and his view of some social
services is more Republican than not.  Otherwise,
his super-macho image lets him put forward 
unusually liberal positions on some social
issues (i.e., gay rights).  In economics he
seems to be firmly centrist.

mbs