| steve rhodes on Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:32:16 -0700 |
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Just wanted to send the latest issue of a free newsletter I do three times a week. (sorry if some of the links are already dead). you can subscribe by sending an email to [email protected] or by filling out this form http://www.memail.com/kosovo-subscribe.htm MeMail: Kosovo Crisis eMagazine http://www.memail.com ____________________________________________________________________ 21 April 1999 Index ------------------------------------> Paul Watson from Kosovo --------------------------------------> Mark Danner on Kosovo ----------------------------------> Earth Day and Rambouillet -------------------------------------------------> Commentary --------------------------------------------------> Headlines ---------------------> Feedback Time - Discuss This eMagazine Paul Watson from Kosovo ----------------------- While NATO has said that armed Serbs are forcing refugees to march to Pristina to be deported, Watson reports that some are being allowed to go home. Serbs Steer Many Refugees Toward Home by Paul Watson, Los Angeles Times (4-21-99) http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/FRONT/t000035727.html Watson talked to NBC Nightly News on April 20th in a segment called "In Their Own Words." This is what he said: "I am the last Western reporter in Pristina, in Kosovo, and I've been here since the bombing began on March 24th. We live in an age when you can watch bombs fall in slow motion through the cross hairs of a weapons screen, but it is darn terrifying to be underneath those things. "The pictures that you see of a ghost town would apply to certain parts of Pristina now. You can hear jets flying overhead all the time, but I haven't sensed any panic. "To think that NATO is doing this to try to end a civil war, to try to end old ethnic hatreds, when all I see is those old ethnic hatreds boiling over like they haven't before in my lifetime is to think someone didn't think this through very well. I see people becoming more hateful and more determined to fight on." Mark Danner on Kosovo --------------------- Mark Danner, a writer for the New Yorker, has covered Yugoslavia extensively. In a lengthy piece for the New York Review of Books, he says of the continuing comparisons to Nazi Germany that "such drawing of half-century parallels, of the parallel, derives in fact from a failure of memory. How much more comfortable to invoke Europe in the 1940s than Croatia and Bosnia in the 1990s, a mere few years ago." He writes, "Endgame: we have finally stumbled into it, the confrontation the West has labored so long and so hard to avoid, the consequences of a politics of gesture. All the hesitations, hypocrisy, half-solutions, compromises, and wishful thinking on which Western, and above all American, policy have rested for nearly a decade-all stand revealed for what they are in the reality of those hundreds of thousands of people massed along the Macedonian and Albanian borders, deposited there with such efficiency by Slobodan Milosevic, the great peacemaker of Dayton." Endgame in Kosovo by Mark Danner, New York Review of Books (5-6-99) http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWfeatdisplay.cgi?19990506008F Earth Day and Rambouillet ------------------------- Robert Hayden Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, Hayden said: "The administration's Rambouillet plan was a public relations fraud rather than a diplomatic compromise. It provided for the independence of Kosovo in all but name and the military occupation by NATO of all of Yugoslavia-not just Kosovo. This was plainly a proposal that no government could accept... NATO's bombing of the petrochemical plant at Baric only a few miles from Belgrade risked the life, health and safety of the civilian population of 2 million in the city of Belgrade. The attack released clouds of poison gas over Belgrade, and violated international humanitarian law. Fortunately, the winds kept the poison cloud above the city. Ironically, Clinton had just warned the Serbs against using chemical weapons." The full news release from the Institute for Public Accuracy is at: http://www.accuracy.org/press_releases/PR042199.htm Commentary ---------- The Progressive magazine has a number of pieces on the war in the May issue including an article by Ruth Conniff on Rep. Barbara Lee, one of the few U.S. politicians to oppose the war. Commentaries from Noam Chomsky, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Danny Schechter and others are also listed here. A Diplomatic Solution by Howard Zinn http://www.progressive.org/zinn9905.htm Bill Clinton's War http://www.progressive.org/comment9905.htm Conscientious Objector in the House by Ruth Conniff http://www.progressive.org/conniff9905.htm Noam Chomsky on Radio Nation (4-14-99) http://www.webactive.com/webactive/radionation/rn990414.html Norman Solomon on Democracy Now (2nd segment) (4-21-99) http://www.webactive.com/webactive/pacifica/demnow/dn990421.html African-Americans Are Deafeningly Silent on Kosovo by Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Jinn (4-19-99) http://www.pacificnews.org/jinn/stories/5.08/990419-kosovo.html The Kosovo News Drama by Danny Schechter (4-20-99) http://www.commondreams.org/kosovo/views/schechter.htm From Vietnam to Serbia by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair (4-21-99) http://www.counterpunch.org/ Headlines --------- "Shocked at the accidental killing Monday of a civilian by U.S. jets training for Kosovo, Puerto Rican politicians and residents alike are demanding that Clinton end some 60 years of bombings, shellings and strafings on the island of Vieques." Politicians demand Navy stop bombing Puerto Rican island (4-21-99) http://www.canoe.ca/TopStories/bombing_apr21.html The big buildup by Laura Rozen, Salon (4-20-99) http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/04/20/kosovo_buildup/index.html 'Over the ridge, a 21st-century war rages. Here, it's a biblical tragedy' by Richard Lloyd Parry, Independent (4-21-99) http://www.independent.co.uk/stories/B2104904.html Feedback Time - Discuss This eMagazine -------------------------------------- To facilitate more communication among subscribers to this eMagazine and to get feedback on how to make it better, we have created a discussion list at eGroups. There you will find a notice board for you to post your comments, and a chat room to discuss these issues right now with other subscribers. http://www.egroups.com/group/kosovo-crisis/info.html (You may need to register as a member of eGroups) _____________________________________________________________________ Subscription Information The Kosovo Crisis eMagazine is another MeMail Publication. To SUBSCRIBE, send an email to [email protected] Steve Rhodes http://www.well.com/~srhodes ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/east/ to unsubscribe, write to <[email protected]> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe [email protected]