[PEN-L:7978] Korea War renewed?

S. Korea Sinks N. Korean Ship By Paul Shin Associated Press Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korean warships sank a North Korean torpedo boat after an exchange of gunfire Tuesday, South Korea's Defense Ministry said, in an

[PEN-L:7982] Re: embargo of Serbia

Los Angeles Times, September 5, 1992, Saturday, Home Edition EAGLEBURGER OUTLINES NEW SERBIA ACTION; EMBARGO: AIM OF ECONOMIC MEASURES IS TO MAKE BELGRADE 'CRY UNCLE,' BUT HE WARNS THAT EVEN THAT MAY NOT BE ENOUGH. By DOYLE McMANUS, TIMES STAFF WRITER WASHINGTON Acting Secretary of State

[PEN-L:7984] Re: Calling All POMO's

The Daily Telegraph is a sensationalist rag that was adulatory toward the KLA only a month ago. What's interesting about the article is the alarm it reflects about the KLA in certain powerful media circles. It parallels the Times article on Albanian pogroms against Gypsies. Editors tell reporters

[PEN-L:7985] Spanish Fighter Pilots' Admissions

Spanish Fighter Pilots Admit NATO Purposely Attacks Civilian Targets June 14, 1999 Articulo 20 (Spain-weekly) By Jose Luis Morales (?) The pilots of Spanish planes who participated in bombing raids against Yugoslavia do not feel like "supermen" nor masters of aerospace. Quite

[PEN-L:7987] Japan and the Global economy.

Japan has sought to boost aggregate demand through traditional Keynesian measures. The commitment to restructure the economy and to a competition policy remain halfhearted. The decade-long recession continues. The restructuring of the US economy has a one and a half decade jump on the Japanese

[PEN-L:7989] Re: (Fwd) NATO SHOULD DISARM KLA BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE - A Soldier'

I strongly applaud this suggestion by MacKenzie of what the Russians should do in Kososo-Metohija. Sealing off the UCK/KLA from its camps in Albania is clearly key to long term peace in the area, as indeed it was prior to the beginning of this recent (current?) war. Barkley Rosser

[PEN-L:7992] Activism After US/NATO Attack

Yoshie and Pen-l, There will be a meeting to plan for a follow-up to the US/NATO assault on Yugoslavia set for Tuesday, June 22 at 7 p.m. in the Peace Action office in Sacramento, CA. For more info call (916) 448-7157. Seth Sandronsky Activists in Columbus, Ohio will continue our anti-NATO

[PEN-L:7993] embargo of Serbia

Hi Michael: June 1998, EU banned all new investment in Serbia by member countries and prohibited flights by Yugoslavian airlines between Yugoslavia and EU... May 1999, Clinton signed executive order imposing US trade embargo on Yugoslavia (actually Serbia because Montenegro was exempted)...

[PEN-L:7994] BLS Daily Report

BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1999 Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan tells the Congressional Joint Economic Committee that the growth of U.S. high-technology industries is threatened by low educational standards. The U.S. educational system at the college and post-graduate level is

[PEN-L:7995] Re: Japan and the Global economy.

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Henry C.K. Liu wrote: job insecurity prevents spending in favor of savings. Worse, Japan is falling victim to capital spending recession. No one is expecting the latest round of fiscal stimulus to revive sustainable growth in Japan. Well, the OECD says Japanese

[PEN-L:7998] Re: Re: Japan and the Global economy.

Social democratic governments are "slouching" toward Eurosocialism? What is that? What makes whatever it is a form of socialism? Cheers, Ken Hanly Dennis R Redmond wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Henry C.K. Liu wrote: job insecurity prevents spending in favor of savings. Worse, Japan is

[PEN-L:8000] LEFT-RIGHT BEDFELLOWS (The war in Kosovo) - The Nation

The Nation June 28, 1999 LEFT-RIGHT BEDFELLOWS "We are the evil empire. Our war in Kosovo is the latest chapter in a century of American imperialism that includes Vietnam, the Gulf War and our shameful, secret wars in Central

[PEN-L:8001] Peter Camejo's long wave

I don't know how many people have been following the various commentaries on Robert Brenner's NLR article "The Economics of Global Turbulence", which have appeared in Against the Current. John Bellamy Foster and David McNally have articles on Brenner in the latest Monthly Review . I recommend

[PEN-L:8003] China's Policy Delemma

China has indicated in recent days that more interest rate cuts are likely in order to stimulate economic growth. New statistics released showed slowing retail sales, sagging investment and a declining prices. China's retail sales last month grew by just 5.3 per cent to 236.4 billion yuan, the

[PEN-L:8005] TWILIGHT OF THE EUROPEAN PROJECT (1 of 2)

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 16:48:10 -0700 From: Sid Shniad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: THE TWILIGHT OF THE EUROPEAN PROJECT (long, but very important analysis) THE TWILIGHT OF THE EUROPEAN PROJECT By Peter Gowan in CounterPunch In the midst of the bombing campaign it is impossible for us

[PEN-L:8006] TWILIGHT OF THE EUROPEAN PROJECT (2 of 2)

Most people assume that the Serbian government refused to sign, because the 'Agreement' would lead to the independence of Kosovo. The 'Agreement' did involve a de facto NATO Protectorate (not, by the way, a democratic entity. The Chief of the Implementation Force could dictate to the Kosovo

[PEN-L:8004] Re: Law of Value Information

Ian Murray's ironization and questioning of the "'laws' of value?" is apt. The Economist article (that I cited earlier) obsessively repeats the word "value" as if invoking the metaphor over and over again could somehow conjure into being a tangible substance for the "intangible" assets. Another

[PEN-L:8002] The Internet Anti-Fascist: Fri, 11 June 99 -- 3:45 (#278)

__ The Internet Anti-Fascist: Friday, 11 June 99 Vol. 3, Numbers 45 (#278) __ ANTI-FASCIST ACTION ALERT #83: GAY

[PEN-L:7999] Kosovo, the Post Cold War World the Left

Kosovo, the Post Cold War World the Left By Carl Bloice The following is adapted and updated from a talk presented to the Center for Political Education in San Francisco, May 4, 1999. After my four-year stint as a correspondent in Moscow which coincided with the closing down of the Union of

[PEN-L:7997] Sachs denounces IMF and HIPC; calls for debt write-off, IMF toget out

Other testimony is on http://www.house.gov/banking/61599wit.htm. It is nothing short of criminal that while we have Jeff Sachs saying that the debt should be cancelled immediately and the IMF should abolish ESAF and get out of Africa we have NGOs which claims to speak on behalf of poor people

[PEN-L:7996] Fwd: Gore on Wall Street Thursday

X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 19:28:22 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (by way of Mitchel Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Subject: Gore on Wall Street Thursday X-RCPT-TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vice President Al Gore picked the right place to announce his

[PEN-L:7991] BLS Daily Report

BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1999 __BLS revises its estimates of nonfarm business productivity in the first quarter from a 4 percent gain to a 3.5 percent seasonally adjusted annual rate of increase. Manufacturing productivity proved even more robust in the first quarter than the

[PEN-L:7990] Re: Re: embargo of Serbia

June 1998, EU banned all new investment in Serbia by member countries and prohibited flights by Yugoslavian airlines between Yugoslavia and EU... May 1999, Clinton signed executive order imposing US trade embargo on Yugoslavia (actually Serbia because Montenegro was exempted)... apologies

[PEN-L:7988] BLS Daily Report

BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1999 RELEASED TODAY: The U.S. Import Price Index rose 0.7 percent in May. The increase, the third in a row, again was primarily attributable to increasing petroleum prices. The price index for U.S. exports was unchanged in May, after increasing 0.3 percent

[PEN-L:7986] Re: embargo of Serbia

1) When was the embargo put in place? Barkley Rosser there have been so many embargoes against Serbia in the 1990s that it is hard to keep track... May 1992, UN imposed sanctions that included trade embargo, travel transport ban, and freezing bank accounts abroad (suspended at time of

[PEN-L:7983] Calling All POMO's

"Swarthy"? Daily Telegraph, June 15, 1999 Liberation of Kosovo: We will execute Serb troops, says KLA By Boris Johnson .. . . Processions of children presented posies of roses and kissed the cheeks of the swarthy goons . . . .

[PEN-L:7981] The KLA asserts itself

Daily Telegraph, June 15, 1999 Liberation of Kosovo: We will execute Serb troops, says KLA By Boris Johnson THE red flag with the black eagle yesterday flew openly from the roof of the school. There were guards at the gate, Albanians with arm bands reading UCK (KLA) and the same initials

[PEN-L:7980] BLS Daily Report

BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1999 Finished producer prices rose a modest 0.2 percent in May, as energy prices stabilized after a sharp uptick in April, the Labor Department reports. Analysts say the May producer price index shows a mild inflation picture at the wholesale level.