The article Tom Walker posted -
IMF warns Russia of "disaster" if reforms are rolled back
Fri, 28 Aug 1998 18:33:34 PDT
Copyright 1998 by Agence France-Presse
said
At the same briefing, US national security adviser Sandy Berger
said Washington and other Western nations will continue
Some "big names" familiar to this list appearing shortly ...
Bill
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Rob Schaap wrote
And a hearty g'day to Bill Rosenberg, whose All-Blacks have just
been trounced 3-0 in a three-match rugby series by our own wondrous
Wallabies. That's only ever happened once before. In 1929.
Yet another victim of commercialisation - Adidas and the Murdoch
press.
That
Nice cartoon in yesterday's Rusian press ...
Boris has been interred beside Lenin in the mausoleum, and slick Willy is
without, sombrely paying his respects.
'But I'm not dead,' screams poor Boris.
'Neither am I' intones the chap beside him.
Cheers,
Rob.
Doug Henwood wrote:
This is a senior security adviser talking, reinforcing the Deputy
Treasury Secretary (Summers) who would presumably be the normal
sender of such messages. Should this be taken as a threat that if
those economic policies are not followed, non-economic action (covert
or
Chernomyrdin Says He Will Form Government Without Parliament's Approval
By CELESTINE BOHLEN
MOSCOW -- While anxiety over Russia's deepening economic crisis spread,
Acting Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin said Tuesday he will form an
acting government without waiting for parliamentary
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
Rob Schaap wrote,
. . . From this spot on the periphery of the core (?),
I sense a generalised political-cultural recognition of the self-serving
nature of US foreign policy - military and economic (if I may pose a moot
distinction). Our pollies won't hear a word said against good ol' Uncle
This was a more or less frontal assault on Wal-Mart that didn't settle for a
jokey ending...and it appears on the Murdoch network. Interesting. But what
is downright bizarre is the voiceover that came on as credits rolled: "Stay
tuned for a `King of the Hill' update...brought to you by The Gap."
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FYI. I have the abstracts too if anyone wants them. You may be able to
find more on the NEA web site, soon if not presently. It's at:
http://www.neconasc.org/
The 25th
From: Fred Weir in Moscow
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 13:06:12 (MSK)
For the Hindustan Times
MOSCOW (HT Sept 2) -- Russia's political crisis sharpened
Wednesday as the opposition-led parliament scheduled an early
second vote on President Boris Yeltsin's prime minister -- a vote
most analysts say
On Louis Proyect's long missive in which I and others were quoted and
my background described, I would like to make one correction so that
there is no misrepresentation--due in no way to Louis.
I am a member of the Blackfoot Confederacy whose Blackfoot
blood-quantum has been acknowledged but
Correct me if I'm wrong, but six months ago, didn't Samuelson say on National
TV that deep depressions were history in the current advanced capitalist
markets? Or am I thinking of someone else?
maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Poor Louis,
See why he left this nizkor list. I just came on the list hoping to
get/share some information on the issues with which the Nizkor
project deals as I have been resarching in this area--among
others--for 30 years. So I shared some of my research notes,
particularly dealing with
Friends,
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the issue of whether public
funding to an artist can be linked with the idea of whether the art
is decent. After the Robert Mapplethorpe scandal not so long ago,
Congress passed a law that for an artist's art to receive public money
via the
Workforce Online, a generally management oriented "human resources"
online magazine is conducting a poll on labor unions. The poll is
cleverly entitled "Are labor unions dinosaurs?"
Interestingly enough, nearly half of the respondents (47.81%--don't you
love the two significant digits?) so far
Speaking of Fukuyama blushing I just read that he
thas decided that history has not ended after all,
after contemplating recent events in Asia and Russia.
Sounds like time for another book!
Barkley Rosser
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998 01:45:15 +1000 Rob Schaap
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tom
I am chairing a meeting for Ward Churchill at the Brecht Forum on Thursday,
Sept. 10th, 7:30pm (122 W. 21st St., 10th fl., 212-242-4201), where he will
be speaking about his new book "A Little Matter of Genocide." This book has
more than academic interest to me since I have had some exposure both
Dis Capital
WHEN ANDY COX (http://www.sirius.com/~andycox/hasta.htm) SPENT $798
DOLLARS ON AN AD-CAMPAIGN CRITICIZING OUR ECONOMIC SYSTEM, HE TRAMMELED
ONE OF THE LAST TABOOS OF OUR LOOSE-LIPPED ERA.
BY HEATHER CHAPLIN
Unless you've been in a coma, there's one very important lesson you
should
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BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1998
From the "Ask Marilyn" column in the
Jim Craven wrote:
Poor Louis,
See why he left this nizkor list. I just came on the list hoping to
get/share some information on the issues with which the Nizkor
project deals as I have been resarching in this area--among
others--for 30 years.
Heh-heh. They just went from the frying-pan into
On 2 Sep 98 at 15:33, Andrew Mathis wrote:
hey jerk,
all find and good, except you posted your friend louis' rant against
this list to the very list he was attacking in the first place. you
accused me of not reading your propaganda. i read it enough to catch
that, eh?
does that
Aside from the inappropriateness of the scriptural reference to
Russia's upcoming domestic woes I hardly know what critical comment
I can make. It all sounds thrilling, of course, but, according to
Comrade Mark's assessment or received intelligence, we would lose
our credentials by having a
On 2 Sep 98 at 23:29, Dene Bebbington wrote:
James Michael Craven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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On 2 Sep 98 at 18:30, Louis Proyect wrote:
Jim Craven wrote:
Poor Louis,
See why he left this nizkor list. I just came on the list hoping to
get/share some information on the issues with which the Nizkor
project deals as I have been resarching in this area--among
others--for 30
Hyperinflation spectre looms as prices leap
By James Meek in Moscow
The Guardian
Food imports into Russia are dropping sharply, traders have stopped
trading, and the price of a ride on the Moscow metro jumped by 50 per
cent yesterday as the dread spectre of hyperinflation returned to a
country
(Donald Worster, "Under Western Skies," pp. 72-78)
Among those who have gained considerable economic and social power through
controlling the Colorado River have been the agribusinessmen of Imperial
Valley. Even before Hoover and the other structures began to go up, they
were a force to be
Dear Marco,
Thanks for the note. I hope that you continue serious scholarship on
some of these vital questions. When I was a Tribal Judge at a recent
UN-sponsored Tribunal in Vancouver, B.C. we had some solid evidence
of torture techniques used on Indians that were employed by "religious
How to Confront Holocaust Deniers
1) Do not take them on on their own turf; do not go as the "token
opposition" to forums packed with their own kind, that are basically put on for
publicity and narcissism;
2) Serious research the organizational, political and funding
connections between
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