- Original Message -
From: Rob Schaap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
G'day Lou,
This is an excellent publication, although I sharply disagree with
their
support of UN troops in East Timor and the Mideast.
-*What I can't come at* is damning the west for going in to prevent actual
-slaughter from
Nathan Newman:
Actually, what is amazing about the condemnation of support by the West for
the East Timorese is that for decades Chomsky and others have made the fact
that the West did nothing back in the 1970s to stop the initial invasion and
mass murder as proof that it had a double standard of
Let us suppose, for purposes of argument, that this little syllogism is
correct in its premises, and that one can reduce genocide to capitalism,
and capitalism to the USA. [I can't help but point out, however, if only in
passing, that the formulation has the effect of allowing one to elide all
Leo Casey wrote:
Let us suppose, for purposes of argument, that this little syllogism is
correct in its premises, and that one can reduce genocide to capitalism,
and capitalism to the USA. [I can't help but point out, however, if only in
passing, that the formulation has the effect of allowing
Leo is relatively new here, so he probably does not know that we have been
over this a number of times. I don't think that there is much need to
repeat it again.
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:25:09AM -0400, Louis Proyect wrote:
Leo Casey wrote:
Let us suppose, for purposes of argument, that this
I am sure that my history is unreliable, by the lights of the history of
former Yugoslavia according to Milosevic and his apologists. No doubt my
history of Rwanda is also unreliable, by the lights of the history of Hutu
Power and their apologists. And so on. I have yet to learn of the
