Year: 1997

1997-12-16 Richard Moore Date: Dec. 15, 1997 From: •••@••.••• To: •••@••.••• Subject: ForeignCorrespondent WHY CLINTON CAN’T RISK BEING “SOFT ON SADDAM” Foreign Correspondent Inside Track On World News By International Syndicated Columnist & Broadcaster Eric Margolis <•••@••.•••> ,,ggddY”””Ybbgg,, ,agd888b,_ “Y8, ___`””Ybga, ,gdP””88888888baa,.””8b “888g, ,dP” ]888888888P’ “Y `888Yb, ,dP” ,88888888P” db, “8P””Yb, ,8” ,888888888b, d8888a “8, … Read more…

1997-12-15 Richard Moore Dear cj, Here are the editorial comments Bob published in “Truth in Media” along with my article “cj#733> Who is the enemy? How do we fight them?”. I’d like to invite cj subscribers to respond to Bob. I’ve got some comments of my own in mind which I can append to your … Read more…

1997-12-14 Richard Moore [apologies if duplicate: I didn’t receive this the first time from the listserv; note it was intended to precede cj#742 – rkm]. Dear cj, The root topics I’m seeking to explore on cj (for the past year or so) are Globalization and Democracy. One might choose those topics simply because of their … Read more…

1997-12-12 Richard Moore Dear cj, Before we look at the comments of Bob and his list members, I’ll show you those from cj readers. rkm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 Sender: Nisan Chavkin <•••@••.•••> Subject: RE: cj#733> Who is the enemy? How do we fight them? The MOVE fire bombing took place in Philadelphia, … Read more…

1997-12-08 Richard Moore Dear cj, Bob identifies some current global examples of how nationalist sentiment is demonized and isolated in the media, preventing it from becoming part of the “legitimate” spectrum of political discussion. For their part, the nationalist movements seem often to be excessively reactionary (xenophobic, racist, etc.), making them easy for the media … Read more…

1997-12-06 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 Sender: “Bill Michtom” <•••@••.•••> Subject: Re: cj#729> comments re: “Globalization & NWO” book rkm wrote, re: Marx: >I will need to compare as you say. I also need to read a bit more >about Marx. My impression is that his observations of capitalism have >proven to … Read more…

1997-11-28 Richard Moore [3250 words] @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ [HEARING — DAY 1] THE POLICE STATE CONSPIRACY – an INDICTMENT – ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Presented before the GRAND JURY of LIBERTY On this FIRST DAY of HEARING – OUTLINE OF INDICTMENT – The PEOPLE v NWO Et Al Defendant 1 – NWO (“Corporate Globalist Elite”) Defendant 2 – MEDIA (“Corporate … Read more…

1997-11-25 Richard Moore Dear cj, I apologize for the queue of reader inputs that has been accumulating recently — contributors please be patient. I’ve been hit my several deadlines all at once. One of the deadlines is an article for New Dawn on “The Police State Conspiracy”, which you’ll be the first to see. Meanwhile, … Read more…

1997-11-23 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 To: Richard K. Moore <•••@••.•••> and fellow philofhi list-subscribers From: David Richardson <•••@••.•••> Subject: democracy and nationalism: their ties. Dear Richard, I enjoyed your investigation of globalism, in collaboration with Carolyn Ballard. I would like to see your exposition via philofhi. Your sympathetic characterization of nationalism … Read more…

1997-11-20 Richard Moore Dear cj, Some very thoughful responses to “Who is the enemy?” have been coming in from readers, a livelier than usual debate seems to be in store. I’ll be continuing that thread soon, but in the meantime I’d like share this essay on inquiry itself, an apologia for the methodology I find … Read more…

1997-11-17 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ An activ-l reader responded: >I am printing all your posts. They are very important to me and a >study/then act group I am forming. > >I am also a member of a law study group–which it trying to re-establish >sovereign vs slave status through the courts/instead of the ‘District of >Columbia … Read more…

1997-11-16 Richard Moore Dear cj, I’d like to share this letter which I’m sending in to Bob Djurdjevic’s “Truth In Media” publication. I hope he publishes it, as it is an attempt to encourage necessary communication across a dangerous ideological divide. rkm ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Dear Truth In Media, >>From reading Truth In Media, and from many … Read more…

1997-11-13 Richard Moore I hope you find this article of interest. It is the first in a series which will flesh out the previously published outline, although the outline itself will evolve in the process (see below). Feedback, rebuttal, style suggestions, and additional points would be most welcome. Where you see [?] there is a … Read more…

1997-11-12 Richard Moore Dear cj, Here’s another piece (besides cj#730) from someone I disagree with more often than I agree; in fact this is his first piece that I’ve forwarded. He always has an incredible grasp of the facts — I sometimes suspect he has confidential access to intelligence reports — but he usually wrenches … Read more…

1997-11-11 Richard Moore [ line breaks were awful – hope this comes out better ] ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Dear cj, Here’s a piece you might find interesting. Bob is analyzing events in terms of their system-changing consequences, and he exposes official rhetoric as being a distraction from the real core issues. This is a methodology he and … Read more…

1997-11-11 Richard Moore Dear cj, As posted earlier, Chris Thorman and I are endeavoring to create a “Globalization and New World Order” web site, hopefully to be funded by PBS. Chris is a first-class web engineer, a graphics artist, and a hotshot programmer: his donated services make it possible for us to plan on a … Read more…

1997-11-10 Richard Moore Dear cj, Here’s a piece you might find interesting. Bob is analyzing events in terms of their system-changing consequences, a= nd he exposes official rhetoric as being a distraction from the real core issues. This is a methodology he and I share, and it is no surprise we sometimes find each other’s … Read more…

1997-11-09 Richard Moore 11/06/97, •••@••.••• (Susan LaBarre) wrote: >Richard, > >Your mission review sounds great and well articulated. As usual, I’m a fan >of how you string words together. >Keep going! > >Susan > >ENVISION CREATIVE SERVICES — 11/08/97, Bill Michtom wrote: >Since so much of what you will be examining seems to be exactly … Read more…

1997-11-07 Richard Moore Dear cj, As promised, here’s the summary and outline for the book project. Your comments are welcome – and if you don’t want them published please mark your message “PRIVATE”. The next piece in this series will be “cj#728.2> Brief review of globalization and world systems”, and so on for the rest … Read more…

1997-11-06 Richard Moore Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 Sender: Yves Leclerc <•••@••.•••> Subject: Re: cj#726> Our woman in Havana Richard, Jan’s reaction to her week in Cuba exactly corresponds to my own past experiences, and to those of a lot of Quebeckers and Canadians who’ve been routinely going there for vacations — and going back … Read more…

1997-11-05 Richard Moore Dear cj, As a respite from yesterday’s sizable missives, I’d like to share this letter just received from a close friend in Bristol. Interesting how travel seems to be a universal muse. If you have suggestions for reading material, let me know and I’ll forward. rkm ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ From: [Jan in Bristol] Date: … Read more…

1997-11-04 Richard Moore Dear cj anb Bcc friends, My attitude toward cyberjournal has been a bit on the lax side, in terms of devoting dedicated time to it. Typically I’ve waited until something special came across my desk to forward, or until I happened to be in the mood to put down some ideas or … Read more…

1997-11-04 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 From: Ann Bennington <•••@••.•••> Subject: Re: cj#723> a complaint about cj topics >Over the past month the number of cj subscribers jumped suddenly from 750 >to 850. I’d appreciate it if some of the new subscribers would let me know >how they heard about cj and … Read more…

1997-10-31 Richard Moore Dear cj, Over the past month the number of cj subscribers jumped suddenly from 750 to 850. I’d appreciate it if some of the new subscribers would let me know how they heard about cj and what their expectations are… thanks, rkm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 Sender: Frank Scott <•••@••.•••> … Read more…

1997-10-29 Richard Moore Dear cj, I wanted to share this resource information with you. I may not have time to follow up myself, so if anyone does I’d appreciate forwards of particularly useful pieces. rkm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 From: CAP *Erie-Lincoln* <•••@••.•••> Organization: Canadian ACT!ON Coalition News To: •••@••.••• Subject: IMPORTANT re: … Read more…

1997-10-28 Richard Moore From: Carolyn Ballard <•••@••.•••> Subject: Am.Reporter/9-25-97/OKC Bombing REPORTING: OKC BOMBING GRAND JURY + Bill Johnson American Reporter Correspondent Oklahoma City September 22, 1997 grand jury 1410/$14.10 GRAND JURY HEARS CONTRADICTORY BOMBING STORIES by Bill Johnson American Reporter Correspondent OKLAHOMA CITY — County grand jurors investigating the federal building bombing heard a lot … Read more…

1997-10-26 Richard Moore Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 From: CAP *Erie-Lincoln* <•••@••.•••> Reply-To: •••@••.••• Organization: Canadian ACT!ON Coalition News To: •••@••.••• Subject: Rachel #568: Part 2: The Nature of World War III] This is good…. especially for the Yanks, as they do not seem to be as aware of this assortment of scams as we … Read more…

1997-10-25 Richard Moore [resent to test server recovery; apologies if two copies are delivered] Dear cj, My operation went smoothly and I’m mostly recovered already – stitches come out Friday. How nice it was on returning home to find some half dozen or so warm encouragements in my in box – my thanks to each … Read more…

1997-10-08 Richard Moore Dear cr, My reasons for bringing up Iraq on the list were not to praise Saddam nor even particularly to condemn neo-imperialism. It was really more about propaganda and how it works. The strategic mission of propaganda is to create the context in which people make judgements: to limit the alternatives among … Read more…

1997-10-03 Richard Moore Dear cj, Only now getting around to looking at things people have sent in over the past several weeks… here are a few. rkm ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 14:43:18 -0400 To: •••@••.••• From: Nazli Roth <•••@••.•••> Subject: Re: cj#704> about rkm Dear Richard, Thank you for the interesting info and … Read more…

1997-10-02 Richard Moore ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 To: •••@••.••• Subject: Re: DEMOCRACY AND CYBERSPACE – conclusion Sender: Mark Stahlman (via RadioMail) <•••@••.•••> Folks: I wanted to wait for Richard to finish before commenting on his essay. Overall, it seems to be a valuable contribution. He’s asking many of the right questions; which is … Read more…

1997-09-30 Richard Moore [a thread from the iraq-l list] 9/23/97, Zahir Antia wrote to iraq-l: >The day Saddam’s regime collapses is the day sanctions will be lifted. >Whether or not any outside power has the moral right to dictate this is >not the issue; it is simply a statement of fact given the balance of … Read more…

1997-09-28 Richard Moore 9/28/97, someone wrote: >Could you please send me Part 6, I never received it. Thank you. I’ve put the series up on the WWW as a single article. Click on cyberlib, then look in “RKM-political/”: http://www.iol.ie/~rkmoore/cyberjournal

1997-09-27 Richard Moore __________________________________________________________________ DEMOCRACY AND CYBERSPACE Copyright 1997 by Richard K. Moore [part 8] Democracy & Cyberspace: strategic recommendations ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Pursuant to the goal of improving the quality of our democracies, it seems to me, upon consideration, that the only effective strategy is an old-fashioned one: grass-roots political organizing, creation of broad coalition movements, … Read more…

1997-09-26 Richard Moore __________________________________________________________________ DEMOCRACY AND CYBERSPACE Copyright 1997 by Richard K. Moore [part 7] Electronic Democracy: dream or nightmare? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ “Electronic Democracy” has no generally agreed upon definition – the term is used to refer to everything from community networking, to online discussion of issues, to email lobbying of elected representatives. What I’d like … Read more…

1997-09-25 Richard Moore __________________________________________________________________ DEMOCRACY AND CYBERSPACE Copyright 1997 by Richard K. Moore [part 6] Cyberspace: who’s utopia? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The law doth punish man or woman That steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose, That steals the common from the goose. – Anon, 18th cent., on the enclosures. One … Read more…

1997-09-24 Richard Moore __________________________________________________________________ DEMOCRACY AND CYBERSPACE Copyright 1997 by Richard K. Moore [part 5] Propaganda and democracy ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ As Noam Chomsky so competently documents in “Manufacturing Consent”, propaganda has always been an essential mechanism in the machinery of democracy, the primary means by which the elite insure that their own interests are not overwhelmed … Read more…

1997-09-23 Richard Moore __________________________________________________________________ DEMOCRACY AND CYBERSPACE Copyright 1997 by Richard K. Moore [part 4] The see-saw of democracy and the advent of globalization ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Democracy has always been a see-saw struggle for control between citizens at large and elite economic interests. This struggle has been perhaps more apparent in a country like Britain, where … Read more…

1997-09-22 Richard Moore __________________________________________________________________ DEMOCRACY AND CYBERSPACE Copyright 1997 by Richard K. Moore [part 3] The mass media: monopolized communications ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Like the Internet, today’s mass-media industry is also a global communications network, and also offers access to seemingly infinite information. Beyond these similarities, however, the two could not be more different. While Internet exchange … Read more…

1997-09-22 Richard Moore My involvement with Diana’s alleged accident has now extended beyond theorizing and passing on rumors.. I’ve got a “reliable source” – someone long known to me and trustworthy – who is directly investigating the incident and who has talked to his own “reliable sources”. The following claim of one “Sherman Skolnick” (who … Read more…