Thanks to Doug Ohmans for his idea of substituting Marx's notion of 'average
constant capital' with that of 'marginal constant capital'. A terrific read
as I try to square the apparent profit engine that is information with the
law of value.
Does information proffer 'gratuitous service' such as
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How is it possible that at least THREE missiles should hit the same place by
accident? Of course NATO is still looking into the incident. Maybe NATO will
claim the Serbs did it to make trouble for NATO! Or maybe it will take a few
days to review the matter and they will explain that they thought
Chinese Press reports that the Chinese Ambassador to Yugoslavia said that
the NATO attacked was intentional, as the embassy was not near any
military target.
UN Security Council in emergency session starting midnight EST.
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Michael Perelman
from SLATE, 5/8/99, copyright 1999, Microsoft:
today's papers
Bombs Astray!
By Eve Gerber
Everybody leads with the bombing of China's Belgrade embassy. The Los
Angeles Times late edition relays a report that two people were killed in
the incident and more than 20 were injured. A statement from
The explanation so far is that there is a TV studio belonging to a friend of
Milosevic 500 metres away but that still doesn't explain three hits as far I
can see. Nor does it explain how NATO can continue to treat journalists as
military targets. Interesting that they also
bombed a hotel where
China Outraged Over Embassy Bombing
..c The Associated Press
By JOHN LEICESTER
BEIJING (AP) -- Several thousand students marched in front of the U.S.
Embassy in Beijing today to protest the bombing of the Chinese Embassy
in
Yugoslavia, while the government accused NATO of a ``barbarian
China Protesters Attack US Embassy
..c The Associated Press
By JOHN LEICESTER
BEIJING (AP) -- More than a thousand demonstrators attacked the U.S.
Embassy in Beijing with rocks, smashed up embassy cars and scuffled with
hundreds of police officers today in a protest over the accidental
RETHINKING MARXISM announces its fourth
International Gala Conference
MARXISM 2000
21-24 September (Thursday-Sunday) 2000
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Call for Papers and Session Proposals
PURPOSE: The editors of RETHINKING MARXISM announce the fourth in its
series of international
Everybody leads with the bombing of China's Belgrade embassy.
Not quite. The front page headline in this morning's The Olympian
(muscle-bound Olympia, WA) reads "Serbs Abused Captive Soldiers",
referring to the three released GIs. The bombing of the Chinese embassy
was relegated to p. 2.
Hi All,
I just forwarded the info below to Sacramento's weekly alternative paper.
Seth Sandronsky
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Jim Devine quotes someone:
Look, the clown has already hit Pakistan, Iran, and Bulgaria by
mistake. What President can match this performance?
Didn't both Johnson and Nixon hit Cambodia by mistake?
Some years ago some comic swore that he would not, with the
new (and unpromising)
Meet Mr. Massacre
Posted By: Anonymously
Date: Friday, 4/30/99, at 9:35 a.m.
by Mark Ames and Matt Taibbi
Years from now, when the war in Serbia is over and the dust has settled,
historians will point to January 15, 1999 as the day the American Death
Star became fully operational.
That was
China's opposition to NATO bombing of Yugoslavia up to now had been
based on abstract principles of the sanctity of national sovereignty and
the invilolability of terratorial integrity and non-interference of
national internal affairs.
The bombing of the Chinese embassy brought the NATO agression
1210 GMT, 990508 - A bomb has exploded outside the Dutch embassy in
Athens.
The bomb was fitted with a timing device and exploded at the entrance to
the
building's car parking area. No one was injured. Police in Athens said
they
believed the blast was linked to the Kosovo conflict.
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it almost makes me nostalgic for the Bush years.
Ken asked how Clinton could have hit the Chinese Embassy by accident. [and
with three missiles!]
Look, the clown has already hit Pakistan, Iran, and Bulgaria by
mistake. What President can match this performance?
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