1999-10-01 Jan Slakov Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:29:21 -0400 From: Eric Fawcett <•••@••.•••> Subject: sfp-68: How the USA and UK trained the butchers of East Timor The shocking feature of this report from the Observer (UK) is not so much that the USA trained the butchers of East Timor, since it is well known … Read more
1999-10-01 Jan Slakov Dear RN, Oct. 1 What are we to make of the news, below, that the Clinton administration is proposing to offer debt relief to the world’s poorest countries and that the money saved must be used for social programs? Great news, but I can’t help but be sceptical… After all, US Treasury … Read more
1999-09-29 Jan Slakov Dear RN list, Sept. 29 In a way I hesitate to send out yet another item about how bad Monsanto is, for this company is so bad I can’t help but wonder if it is some kind of straw man we activists are supposed to waste all our energy opposing (and neglect … Read more
1999-09-28 Richard Moore ============================================================================ From: “Wyles, Margaret” <•••@••.•••> To: “‘•••@••.•••'” <•••@••.•••> Subject: Jeff Gates’ Book Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 12:24:11 -0700 Richard: I reread with interest the intellectual sparring match you had with Mr. Gates. I haven’t read his book, nor would I. Just the list of people praising the work convinced me there … Read more
1999-09-28 Richard Moore ============================================================================ From: •••@••.••• Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 22:03:44 EDT Subject: SPANISH FORENSIC EXPERTS SAY NO SERB GENOCIDE! To: •••@••.••• MIME-Version: 1.0 Spanish experts see no Serbian genocide in Kosovo by Pablo Ordaz commentary by Jared Israel (revised 9-27-99) [The website http://www.emperors-clothes.com encourages everyone to reproduce the following report in full including … Read more
1999-09-27 Jan Slakov Dear RN list, Sept. 27 I feel it is important that we always reach out and make the links between our various communities and so… I wrote a draft letter to the editor on the East Timor issue and the imperative for us to say: NEVER AGAIN. I sent the draft to … Read more
1999-09-23 Jan Slakov Dear RN list, It is with tears in my eyes that I send you this piece. Tears partly because, although I wrote letters in the past about East Timor, I didn’t do enough, tears because I wasn’t the only one not doing enough. We have let the “long distance activists” down, yes, … Read more
1999-09-22 Richard Moore ============================================================================ Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 21:15:44 -0400 (EDT) To: •••@••.••• Subject: Rachel #667: The Natural Step From: •••@••.••• Sender: •••@••.••• Reply-To: •••@••.••• =======================Electronic Edition======================== . . . RACHEL’S ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH WEEKLY #667 . . —September 9, 1999— . . HEADLINES: . . THE NATURAL STEP . . ========== . . … Read more
1999-09-21 Richard Moore Dear rn, I don’t know what happened to Jan. She did return from Vancouver. Perhaps the old PC has succumbed at last. rkm ============================================================================ Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 15:27:33 -0300 From: •••@••.••• To: •••@••.••• Subject: (en) (Fwd) Millenium Round — self-organizing in Seattle Cc: •••@••.•••, •••@••.••• I begin with some samples … Read more
1999-09-16 Richard Moore Dear cj, Below are some interesting angles and background on the East Timor situation. In cj#982, Chomsky quoted the following NY Times piece as giving the ‘very clear’ reasons for US inaction: …the Clinton Administration “has made the calculation that the United States must put its relationship with Indonesia, a mineral-rich nation … Read more