1999-02-03 Jan Slakov Dear RN list, Feb. 3 Four days have gone by since I sent you Michel Chossudovsky’s article on Brazil’s IMF-sponsored economic disaster. Right afterwards, our friend and CDR (Citizens for a Democratic Renaissance) correspondent, César Roberto Magellan sent that posting to several lists. He prefaced it with a call for Brazilians to … Read more
1999-02-03 Jan Slakov Dear RN list, feb. 3 Below is another posting from César Roberto, where he argues that what is happening in Brazil is certainly revolution; whether the revolution ends up delivering Brazil as yet another jewel in the crown of Corporate Globalization or whether it will be a revolution to protect Brazil from … Read more
1999-01-30 Jan Slakov Dear RN list, jan. 30 This article (in two parts) is long, but it is damning and enlightening (at least for financial illiterates like me). Michel Chossudovsky, who gave us the term “financial warfare”, ends this article with a warning, a warning that should act as a “call to arms”. While most … Read more
1999-01-30 Jan Slakov Enticing Speculators The IMF sponsored operation was largely instrumental in enticing speculators to persist in their deadly raids; “The money was there” to be drawn upon. If the Central Bank of Brazil were to contemplate defaulting on their foreign exchange contracts, the availability of IMF-G7 money “upfront” financing would enable banks, hedge … Read more
1999-01-29 Jan Slakov Dear RN List, Jan. 29 Viviane Lerner just sent us news of the upcoming Day of Protest to Free Leonard Peltier (FEB. 6). I am pleased to have this opportunity to invite you to join the struggle for justice for Leonard Peltier and for indigenous people in general. Someone who has not … Read more
1999-01-28 Jan Slakov Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 02:45:16 -0700 To: •••@••.••• From: Bill Ellis <•••@••.•••> Subject: Re: RN: the Nuclear threat still exists War is hell. I know. I am a WW II veteran. Before the war I was a conscious objector. I choose to stay out, so designed radar systems instead. But as … Read more
1999-01-27 Jan Slakov Dear RN list, Well, quite the coincidence just occured. I was just rooting around my backpack for something and found where I had written down the subscription information for a magazine I just found out about called _Monetary Reform_. It looks very good; the issue I looked at had a great article … Read more
1999-01-27 Jan Slakov Dear Rn list, Jan. 27 Viviane Lerner sent us notice of a TV program to be shown tonight on “Iraq’s continuing nuclear threat”. I have no doubt that Iraq’s government would be continuing to arm itself with nuclear weapons if it could, and for all I know, it may still be able … Read more
1999-01-23 Jan Slakov Dear RN list, Jan. 23 It is likely that many of you on this list already subscribe to the Rachel’s newsletters, as they are certainly worthwhile. I am sending you this one in particular because the information it provides on two particularly offensive industries, the oil and gas industry and the tobacco … Read more
1999-01-23 Jan Slakov Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 23:41:50 -0200 From: •••@••.••• (R. Magellan) Subject: (ing) A nova Guerra do Ópio Jan’s attempt at a translation of César Roberto Magellan’s Portuguese introduction: The article below compares the US diplomatic offensive aimed at increasing cigarette comsumption in Asia to the Opium War, which afflicted colonial China … Read more