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Week of May 4 - May 10, 1999
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K O S O V O C O V E R A G E _____________________________________________
*Dispatches from Belgrade* - The bombs make life basic: We cook with the
sun and listen to the music of anti-aircraft fire. MoJo's newest Kosovo
feature, updated daily.
http://www.motherjones.com/total_coverage/kosovo/alex/
*Reality Check* - How many civilians has NATO killed? The MoJo Wire
weighs the various reports.
http://www.motherjones.com/total_coverage/kosovo/reality.html
*Alternative News and Analysis* - The MoJo Wire's picks of insightful
analysis and news from non-traditional media on the Kosovo crisis.
http://www.motherjones.com/total_coverage/kosovo/altnews.html
TODAY'S PICKS:
*German documents show flip-flop*
Z MAGAZINE unearths documents from Germany's Foreign Office that
illustrate the conditions in Kosovo before the NATO bombing began. While
Germany has supported NATO's bombings as an appropriate response to what
it termed a "humanitarian catastrophe," it spent much of the previous
year denying that such conditions existed. The intelligence reports
repeatedly downplay the cases of ethnic cleansing, presumably to head off
the wave of Albanian Kosovar refugees Germany feared it would face. The
documents repeatedly indicate that, while killings were witnessed, the
atrocities did not match the international definition of genocide. The
obvious question is, why the sudden change of heart?
http://zmag.org/germandocs.htm
*Target Yugoslavia*
THE CONSORTIUM, an independent news agency, reports that the U.S./NATO
battleplan may be moving into a new phase aimed at short-circuiting and
otherwise hobbling Yugoslavia's information infrastructure. Using
techniques borrowed from hackers, the military can take down electrical
utilities and telephone networks without bombs, using viruses and other
malicious changes to code on the Yugoslavian government's computer networks.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/050499a.html
T O P S T O R I E S _____________________________________________________
*Testing the Waters* - The Navy is about to release an Environmental
Impact Report on its new high-tech sonar system. Activists say the
technology can injure and even kill marine mammals. The controversy is
just heating up.
http://www.motherjones.com/news_wire/sonar.html
M U S T R E A D S _______________________________________________________
MoJo Wire editors' picks from around the Web, uncovering the stories and
viewpoints you haven't heard. Updated daily.
NEW THIS WEEK:
The Sudan bombing: Whoops! You're not a terrorist after all! * Russia to
develop more nukes * U.S. cagey on depleted-uranium weapons
http://www.motherjones.com/mustreads/
Last week's Must Reads:
http://www.motherjones.com/mustreads/042699.html
S N A P P O L L _________________________________________________________
THIS WEEK: Which of the following regions has the U.S. not bombed in the
past 60 days?
a) Iraq
b) Montenegro
c) Puerto Rico
d) Afghanistan
e) Bulgaria
Vote at:
http://www.motherjones.com/
LAST WEEK: The most recent wave of violence in East Timor erupted after:
The guesses:
35% Indonesian President B.J. Habibie announced East Timorese could
decide their own fate by plebiscite
35% The Indonesian military decided to crack down on separatists
23% Police moved in to break up a massive strike at the Nike shoe factory
7% Leftist guerrillas stepped up their campaign for independence from
Portugal
The answer: Indonesian President B.J. Habibie announced East Timorese
could decide their own fate by plebiscite.
http://www.motherjones.com/poll/results.html
M O T H E R J O N E S ___________________________________________________
We are now posting articles from the May/June 1999 issue.
http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/MJ99/
NEW THIS WEEK:
*Color Coding* - By shutting black authors out of its literature section,
is Borders really giving people what they want?
http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/MJ99/umansky.html
*Backtalk* - Phelps family reunion; are Bart and Homer scabs?; stop
arming the Ottomans
http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/MJ99/backtalk.html
*Updates* - The politics of pieing; MoJo scoops "60 Minutes"; reparation
fund runs dry
http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/MJ99/barrios.html
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