Genocide In Rwanda, and US INaction

James Heartfield Jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk
Mon Oct 23 10:01:49 PDT 2000


Let's hope that Leo's Herculean efforts to absolve the US of involvement in the destabilisation and invasion of Rwanda are well-rewarded.

In message <16.3db441d.2725b5aa at aol.com>, LeoCasey at aol.com writes
>James Heartfield writes:
><< The rest - that there was no US Rwandan policy - is curiously obtuse. >>
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>The article speaks for itself. Unlike the piece James posted yesterday, it
>has a clear source -- the _Covert Action Quarterly_. [I ran the title of the
>piece James posted through 10 search engines, and I could not get one
>citation; maybe it is appearing in a new journal, _Resurrected Marxism_. {-;]
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>LBO readers will remember that James went to some length to quoting _Covert
>Action_ as the authority on questions regarding Rwanda and the Great Lakes
>region of Africa; that is only the case, it now appears, since the journal
>was taken over by pro-Milosevic types, who purged the old staff that had
>built up the reputation of the journal over the years.
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>Leo Casey
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>Power concedes nothing without a demand.
>It never has, and it never will.
>If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
>Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who
>want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and
>lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
>-- Frederick Douglass --
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-- James Heartfield



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