From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest) To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #249 Reply-To: abolition-usa-digest Sender: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk abolition-usa-digest Tuesday, January 11 2000 Volume 01 : Number 249 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 14:54:36 -0500 From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: [mil-corp] US Pres. candidates on missile defence >Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 15:05:18 -0500 >Subject: [mil-corp] US Pres. candidates on missile defence >To: mil-corp@randomlink.com >From: info@indg.org (info@indg.org) > >Network members: > >There is little resistance to Ballistic Missile Defence in the US >Presidential race. As Bill Hartung has pointed out - this is likely because >U.S. weapons corporations stand to receive more than $30 billion in >contracts even if a modest system is built. The corporations have in turn >given millions in campaign donations to both Democrats and Republicans. > >Steve Staples > >******************* > >January 9, 2000 > >Candidates Thoughts on Missiles > >Filed at 12:34 p.m. EST > >By The Associated Press > >Three days a week, The Associated Press asks the major presidential >candidates a question on the issues. Today's question and the responses: > >Missile Defense > >Does America need a national missile defense system to defend itself >against nuclear attack? > >Democrats: > >Bill Bradley: ``A national missile defense system has not been adequately >tested, so it's too soon to say that it is an effective way to defend >America against nuclear attack. Even if it is shown to be both technically >feasible and strategically desirable, a NMD cannot defend America against >nuclear attacks delivered by other means, for example in a terrorist's >suitcase. In any case, arms control and diplomatic pressure may be more >effective in reducing the possibility of a nuclear attack, and the United >States should continue to rely primarily on the threat of nuclear >retaliation to deter nuclear attacks.'' > >Al Gore: ``The decision to proceed toward deployment of a national missile >defense system needs to be based on: 1. the level of our confidence in the >technology; 2. its impact on our ability to protect arms control; 3. an >assessment of the cost; and 4. an evaluation of the threat. As President, >I would be willing to consider changes to the Anti-Ballistic Missile >Treaty restricting missile deployment and even abandoning the treaty if >the United States was seriously threatened by a missile attack from a >'rogue' nation.'' > >Reform: > >Pat Buchanan: ``Yes. The U.S. must not allow a 30-year-old ABM treaty, >with a defunct Soviet Union, to prevent us from defending our people from >a nuclear missile attack. Test a ballistic missile defense until it works; >then build it, without apology. U.S. security is paramount.'' > >Republicans: > >Gary Bauer: ``As one of my first acts in office, I will order deployment >of a strategic missile defense to begin defending the American people >against nuclear attacks.'' > >George W. Bush: ``Yes. At the earliest possible date, my administration >will deploy anti-ballistic missile systems, both theater and national, to >guard America and our allies against attack and blackmail. I will work to >persuade Russia that it is in both our nations' best interests to amend >the anti-ballistic missile treaty to allow these defense systems to >protect our people from rogue attacks. If Russia refuses, we will withdraw >from the treaty. The President of the United States has a solemn obligation > to protect the American people and our allies from nuclear attack.'' > >Steve Forbes: ``We could construct viable missile defense systems for >ourselves and our allies in Europe, Israel, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea >-- to name a few -- by integrating new missile defense innovations with >existing technologies on the Navy's Aegis cruisers. American taxpayers >have already invested some $50 billion in missile defense research. >Experts believe it would take less than $10 billion to finish the job.'' > >Orrin Hatch: ``Yes. Beginning with my support of Ronald Reagan's Strategic >Defense Initiative, I have consistently and without exception supported or >co-sponsored every congressional initiative to research, fund and deploy >at the soonest possible time a theater missile defense of the United >States.'' > >Alan Keyes: ``Yes.'' > >John McCain: ``Yes. I believe the American people can and must be >protected from the possibility of a missile attack on our soil. Recent >reports of successful tests of a missile defense system demonstrate that >such a system can work. I supported legislation stating that it should be >the policy of the United States to build a national missile defense system >as soon as technologically possible. As President, I would make the >deployment of a national missile defense system, as well as defense >systems for our Armed Forces deployed overseas, one of my highest >priorities.'' > > > > >____________________________________________________________________ >International Network on Disarmament and Globalization >405-825 Granville Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z 1K9 CANADA >tel: (604) 687-3223 fax: (604) 687-3277 >info@ing.org www.indg.org > >To subscribe to the e-mail list, send an e-mail to >mailto:mil-corp-request@randomlink.com >SUBSCRIBE mil-corp "FirstName LastName" >as the first and only line in the message body. > Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org http://www.gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons. - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 18:01:06 -0500 From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Dr. Strangelove articles Dear Friends, Earlier today I posted the webpage listing sites for papers about what the weapons labs are up to. I neglected to include the original link which is listed below if you want to catch up with our Dr. Strangeloves. Alice (1) The entire series of papers presented at this workshop can be found at http://www.llnl.gov/tid/lof/documents/toc/218126_toc.html Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org http://www.gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons. - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 17:20:32 -0600 From: "Boyle, Francis" Subject: (abolition-usa) Dr. Strangelove articles:LA DUNNed on proliferation Yes. L.A. Dr Strangelove Dunn is still cranking away on proliferation. He was the Reagan Administration's Special Assistant for Nuclear Affairs in the State Department, having written a book, Controlling the Bomb, which I reviewed for the American Journal of International Law and Power, Volume 77, p. 981 (1983):"This book begins with a superficial presentation of the historical progression of nuclear weapons proliferation since 1945....Some of his concluding policy recommendations can be read to provide justification for the Reagan administration's dismantling of President Carter's strict antiproliferation regime and its replacement by the promiscuous philosophy of America becoming a 'reliable supplier' of nuclear knowledge, training, technology, materials, and expertise--in other words, a reliable proliferator. The author cleverly manipulates nonproliferation arguments to criticize progressive developments in the field of nuclear arms control: proposals for a US no first use pledge, for a comprehensive test ban treaty, and for large reductions in US strategic nuclear forces; and the lack of European popular support for deployment of NATO's new theater nuclear weapons. Certainly, the greatest preventive to further nuclear proliferation would be a massive reduction in both US and Soviet nuclear weapons inventories. Yet the author does not even address the fundamental question of whether any nonproliferation regime can ultimately succeed unless and until the two superpowers take seriously their obligations under Article 6 of the Non-Proliferation Treaty...The book is worth reading for the insight it may provide into what the Reagan administration's otherwise nebulous proliferation policies are or could become...." Plus ca change, plus ca reste la meme chose. The only reason that blistering attack on the Reagan administration made it into the American Journal of International Law and Power was that at the time the Book Review Editor, the late and great Leo Gross, was a good friend of mine. The AJIL&Power is a propaganda mouthpiece for the State Department. And the American Society of International Law and Power is not much more than a front organization for the State Department. For documentation on this point, you can read my new book, Foundations of World Order (Duke Press:1999). fab - -----Original Message----- From: ASlater [mailto:aslater@gracelinks.org] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 5:01 PM To: abolition-caucus@egroups.com; abolition-usa Subject: [abolition-caucus] Dr. Strangelove articles Dear Friends, Earlier today I posted the webpage listing sites for papers about what the weapons labs are up to. I neglected to include the original link which is listed below if you want to catch up with our Dr. Strangeloves. Alice (1) The entire series of papers presented at this workshop can be found at http://www.llnl.gov/tid/lof/documents/toc/218126_toc.html Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org http://www.gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To subscribe to the Abolition Global Caucus, send an email from the account you wish to be subscribed to: "abolition-caucus-subscribe@egroups.com" Do not include a subject line or any text in the body of the message. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For the fastest and easiest way to backup your files and, access them from anywhere. Try @backup Free for 30 days. 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Mattheson was the State Department's Assistant Legal Advisor handling the US ICJ argument in favor of nuclear weapons. When the Assistant US Attorney tried to get Mattheson's article admitted into evidence during the prosecution of the Gods of Metal Plowshares a year ago in order to counteract my expert opinion and testimony on the World Court's Advisory Opinion, we got it excluded from evidence, basically arguing that it was nothing more than State Department Propaganda. They could not even pass the Federal Rules of Evidence. But of course it was THE LEAD article in the American Journal of International Law and Power. Indeed, if I remember correctly, Mattheson might have been on their Board at the time. He still sits on it--confirming once again that AJIL&Power is nothing more than a propaganda mouthpiece for the US State Department. fab - -----Original Message----- From: Boyle, Francis [mailto:FBOYLE@LAW.UIUC.EDU] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 5:21 PM To: 'ASlater'; abolition-caucus@egroups.com; abolition-usa Subject: [abolition-caucus] Dr. Strangelove articles:LA DUNNed on proliferation Yes. L.A. Dr Strangelove Dunn is still cranking away on proliferation. He was the Reagan Administration's Special Assistant for Nuclear Affairs in the State Department, having written a book, Controlling the Bomb, which I reviewed for the American Journal of International Law and Power, Volume 77, p. 981 (1983):"This book begins with a superficial presentation of the historical progression of nuclear weapons proliferation since 1945....Some of his concluding policy recommendations can be read to provide justification for the Reagan administration's dismantling of President Carter's strict antiproliferation regime and its replacement by the promiscuous philosophy of America becoming a 'reliable supplier' of nuclear knowledge, training, technology, materials, and expertise--in other words, a reliable proliferator. The author cleverly manipulates nonproliferation arguments to criticize progressive developments in the field of nuclear arms control: proposals for a US no first use pledge, for a comprehensive test ban treaty, and for large reductions in US strategic nuclear forces; and the lack of European popular support for deployment of NATO's new theater nuclear weapons. Certainly, the greatest preventive to further nuclear proliferation would be a massive reduction in both US and Soviet nuclear weapons inventories. Yet the author does not even address the fundamental question of whether any nonproliferation regime can ultimately succeed unless and until the two superpowers take seriously their obligations under Article 6 of the Non-Proliferation Treaty...The book is worth reading for the insight it may provide into what the Reagan administration's otherwise nebulous proliferation policies are or could become...." Plus ca change, plus ca reste la meme chose. The only reason that blistering attack on the Reagan administration made it into the American Journal of International Law and Power was that at the time the Book Review Editor, the late and great Leo Gross, was a good friend of mine. The AJIL&Power is a propaganda mouthpiece for the State Department. And the American Society of International Law and Power is not much more than a front organization for the State Department. For documentation on this point, you can read my new book, Foundations of World Order (Duke Press:1999). fab - -----Original Message----- From: ASlater [mailto:aslater@gracelinks.org] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 5:01 PM To: abolition-caucus@egroups.com; abolition-usa Subject: [abolition-caucus] Dr. Strangelove articles Dear Friends, Earlier today I posted the webpage listing sites for papers about what the weapons labs are up to. I neglected to include the original link which is listed below if you want to catch up with our Dr. Strangeloves. Alice (1) The entire series of papers presented at this workshop can be found at http://www.llnl.gov/tid/lof/documents/toc/218126_toc.html Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org http://www.gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To subscribe to the Abolition Global Caucus, send an email from the account you wish to be subscribed to: "abolition-caucus-subscribe@egroups.com" Do not include a subject line or any text in the body of the message. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For the fastest and easiest way to backup your files and, access them from anywhere. Try @backup Free for 30 days. 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For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 13:17:17 +1100 From: "Helen Caldicott" Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) LOS ALAMOS ON AUGUST 9TH, AGAIN! Peggy, I don't know where I will be on August 9th, Love Helen Caldicott - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: ; Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 5:15 AM Subject: (abolition-usa) LOS ALAMOS ON AUGUST 9TH, AGAIN! > LANL 2000 > Peace Action New Mexico hosted the very successful rally and protest in Los > Alamos last August 9th. We have been planning for the 2000 rally and civil > disobedience in Los Alamos since that very day! Help us continue the fight > for the abolition of nuclear weapons. In 1999, over 400 people confronted > the nuclear weapons machine on the 54th anniversary of the destruction of > Nagasaki at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), the belly of the nuclear > weapons beast. Over 70 > people committed civil disobedience on LANL property. NOW we need to > escalate this critical fight to end the production of these illegal nuclear > weapons of mass destruction. We hope to attract at least twice the number > that attended last year. > > PLEASE JOIN US ON AUGUST 9TH. WE NEED YOUR HELP! > > We are dedicated to ending the Nuclear Age. But, we need YOU and many > hundreds of others to stand with New Mexico communities who suffer the > consequences of nuclear weapons production. > WHAT YOU CAN DO: > Contact Peace Action New Mexico 505.989.4812 or at LANLaction@aol.com and > COMMIT to joining us at Ashley Pond in Los Alamos on August 9, 2000. Tell > your friends and pass the word! SEE YOU THERE! > > > - > To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" > with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. > For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send > "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. > - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 09:31:30 -0600 From: "Boyle, Francis" Subject: (abolition-usa) Dr Strangelove's Lawyers:Am.Soc.Int.L&Power On the subject of Dr. Strangelove (a movie I still enjoy),back in the Fall of 1987,I submitted a proposal to the Program Committee for the Annual Convention of the American Society of International Law and Power to organize and chair a panel on litigating international law on behalf of anti-nuclear protesters. Since the ASIL&Power is a front organization for the State Department, my proposal produced enormous opposition on the Program Committee. After a lot of wrangling back and forth, they eventually decided to permit the panel but informed me that I could not Chair it.Of course the American Society of International Law and Power did not wish to dignify me with that august title. I decided to swallow my pride and work with what they gave me. I invited Mr. Martin Hird to speak about the White House Anti-Nuclear Protest that he had just been prosecuted for by the US Federal Government, and his lawyer, Lynn Burnaby, Esq. of Washington DC.This was probably the first time a "convicted criminal" had ever spoken at the Convention of the American Society of International Law and Power. I had Ramsey Clark come down from New York to discuss defending Plowshares Resisters by using international law. I invited Avigdor Feldman to come and discuss the defense of Mordechai Vanunu by using international law. I also invited Mr. David Wright, Esq. of Canada to come down and discuss how they litigate international law in anti-nuclear protest cases up there. Since I was involved in all these matters, I had a few words to say as well, but not as Chair of the Panel. The Chair of the ASIL&Power Program Committee showed up for our Panel. Afterward he came up and told me that he found nothing objectionable in what we had to say. I felt like telling this Censor to stick his Nihil Obstat up a certain part of his anatomy. Instead I bit my tongue. For I wanted to get all of our papers into the Proceedings of the American Society of International Law and Power in order to prove that we had stuck it to them as well as to the Governments of the United States, Israel, Canada, etc.If interested, you can find our papers in Vol. 82, Proceedings of the American Society of International Law and Power, pages 555-78(1988). Note that I am not listed as Chair of the Panel--probably the only Panel that did not have a formal Chair. I stopped going to those "Conventions" over a decade ago. I now get State Department Propaganda emailed directly to my office and access it on their web--page. Dr. Strangelove has his lawyers--recruited from the American Society of International Law and Power. Francis A. Boyle. - -----Original Message----- From: Boyle, Francis [mailto:FBOYLE@LAW.UIUC.EDU] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 8:37 AM To: 'TP2000'; 'a-days@motherearth.org'; 'NUKENET@envirolink.org' Subject: FW: [abolition-caucus] PS: Dr. Strangelove articles:LA DUNNed on proliferation - -----Original Message----- From: Boyle, Francis [mailto:FBOYLE@LAW.UIUC.EDU] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 5:35 PM To: Boyle, Francis; 'ASlater'; abolition-caucus@egroups.com; abolition-usa Subject: [abolition-caucus] PS: Dr. Strangelove articles:LA DUNNed on proliferation For the record, the American Journal of International Law and Power recently published a piece of State Department Propaganda by Matthew Mattheson directed against the ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons. Mattheson was the State Department's Assistant Legal Advisor handling the US ICJ argument in favor of nuclear weapons. When the Assistant US Attorney tried to get Mattheson's article admitted into evidence during the prosecution of the Gods of Metal Plowshares a year ago in order to counteract my expert opinion and testimony on the World Court's Advisory Opinion, we got it excluded from evidence, basically arguing that it was nothing more than State Department Propaganda. They could not even pass the Federal Rules of Evidence. But of course it was THE LEAD article in the American Journal of International Law and Power. Indeed, if I remember correctly, Mattheson might have been on their Board at the time. He still sits on it--confirming once again that AJIL&Power is nothing more than a propaganda mouthpiece for the US State Department. fab - -----Original Message----- From: Boyle, Francis [mailto:FBOYLE@LAW.UIUC.EDU] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 5:21 PM To: 'ASlater'; abolition-caucus@egroups.com; abolition-usa Subject: [abolition-caucus] Dr. Strangelove articles:LA DUNNed on proliferation Yes. L.A. Dr Strangelove Dunn is still cranking away on proliferation. He was the Reagan Administration's Special Assistant for Nuclear Affairs in the State Department, having written a book, Controlling the Bomb, which I reviewed for the American Journal of International Law and Power, Volume 77, p. 981 (1983):"This book begins with a superficial presentation of the historical progression of nuclear weapons proliferation since 1945....Some of his concluding policy recommendations can be read to provide justification for the Reagan administration's dismantling of President Carter's strict antiproliferation regime and its replacement by the promiscuous philosophy of America becoming a 'reliable supplier' of nuclear knowledge, training, technology, materials, and expertise--in other words, a reliable proliferator. The author cleverly manipulates nonproliferation arguments to criticize progressive developments in the field of nuclear arms control: proposals for a US no first use pledge, for a comprehensive test ban treaty, and for large reductions in US strategic nuclear forces; and the lack of European popular support for deployment of NATO's new theater nuclear weapons. Certainly, the greatest preventive to further nuclear proliferation would be a massive reduction in both US and Soviet nuclear weapons inventories. Yet the author does not even address the fundamental question of whether any nonproliferation regime can ultimately succeed unless and until the two superpowers take seriously their obligations under Article 6 of the Non-Proliferation Treaty...The book is worth reading for the insight it may provide into what the Reagan administration's otherwise nebulous proliferation policies are or could become...." Plus ca change, plus ca reste la meme chose. The only reason that blistering attack on the Reagan administration made it into the American Journal of International Law and Power was that at the time the Book Review Editor, the late and great Leo Gross, was a good friend of mine. The AJIL&Power is a propaganda mouthpiece for the State Department. And the American Society of International Law and Power is not much more than a front organization for the State Department. For documentation on this point, you can read my new book, Foundations of World Order (Duke Press:1999). fab - -----Original Message----- From: ASlater [mailto:aslater@gracelinks.org] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 5:01 PM To: abolition-caucus@egroups.com; abolition-usa Subject: [abolition-caucus] Dr. Strangelove articles Dear Friends, Earlier today I posted the webpage listing sites for papers about what the weapons labs are up to. I neglected to include the original link which is listed below if you want to catch up with our Dr. Strangeloves. Alice (1) The entire series of papers presented at this workshop can be found at http://www.llnl.gov/tid/lof/documents/toc/218126_toc.html Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org http://www.gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To subscribe to the Abolition Global Caucus, send an email from the account you wish to be subscribed to: "abolition-caucus-subscribe@egroups.com" Do not include a subject line or any text in the body of the message. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For the fastest and easiest way to backup your files and, access them from anywhere. Try @backup Free for 30 days. 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For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 10:47:19 -0600 From: "Boyle, Francis" Subject: (abolition-usa) FW: No Sour Grapes! AS/JIL&Power - -----Original Message----- From: Boyle, Francis [mailto:FBOYLE@LAW.UIUC.EDU] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 10:36 AM To: 'intlawprofessor-l@law.wuacc.edu' Cc: 'AALS Section on Minority Grps. mailing list'; 'JUSTWATCH-L@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU'; 'forintlaw@law.wuacc.edu' Subject: No Sour Grapes! AS/JIL&Power Dear Professor Khan: Actually, I stopped going to the Conventions of the American Society of International Law and Power over a decade ago because I got fed up with their pronounced and pervasive anti-Arab bigotry and racism. It turned my stomach. Ditto for the American Journal of International Law and Power. Francis A. Boyle - -----Original Message----- From: khan ali [mailto:zzkhan@washburn.edu] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 10:25 AM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Sour Grapes I want to add my voice to that of Professor Boyle on the workings of what he calls "Am. Soc. Int. L & Power," an obvious reference to ASIL and perhaps to the AJIL, a journal published under ASIL command and control. ASIL has done good work, but it remains wedded to the interests of the United States foreign policy and the scholarship printed in the AJIL is predominantly boring, mechanistic, oligarchic, un-intellectual, and almost always pro-Israel. Here is one example. AJIL has acknowledged receiving my book "The Extinction of Nation-States: A World without Borders"--but has failed in the past three years to find a reviewer for it, even though the book has been reviewed in several European journals. The book challenges the notions of the single super power and shows how historically the Church and the Empire failed to institute a pyramidical legal order. It also challenges the notion of the chosen people, a reference to Romans and the English (and now to people like defunct Newt Gingrich), who foolishly believed that God had created them as the best people in the world. Most importantly, the book challenges the notion of the nation-state and argues that its present legal and political form is no longer sustainable, a prediction that does not sit well with those who are overly obsessed with the existence of "the state of Israel." The book is perhaps too radical for the boring and bland intellectuals of ASIL and AJIL, but it speaks the truth that would become irrefutable in due time and I am sure the book will be, one day, reviewed in AJIL, a command and control publication of ASIL and Power. Of course, AJIL and ASIL and Power may dismiss this email as 'sour grapes,' the complaint of a disgruntled law professor whose book simply does not meet the standards of AJIL. Ali Khan Professor of International Law & Human Rights, Washburn University Topeka, KS 66621 - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 15:20:53 -0600 From: "Boyle, Francis" Subject: (abolition-usa) FW: Clyde Ferguson on ASIL&Power - -----Original Message----- From: Boyle, Francis [mailto:FBOYLE@law.uiuc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 2:25 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Clyde Ferguson on ASIL&Power Clyde Ferguson,Henry L. Stimson Professor at Harvard Law School, was the first African American to be elected President of the American Society of International Law and Power. One of the first things he did was to appoint an Ad Hoc Committee to revise the Guidelines for co-optation of officers so as to make them more diverse. Clyde appointed me to that Ad Hoc Guidelines Committee. I did a first draft of the Ad Hoc Guidelines Committee Report, got it through the Committee, then through the ASIL&Power Executive Committee , then through the Annual Convention itself. During those two years of fighting these battles, I came to appreciate how right wing, racist, bigoted, reactionary, elitist, sexist and imperialist the American Society of International Law and Power really was. The ASIL&Power was to "celebrate" its 75 Anniversary at the 1981 Convention with a concluding plenary panel on:" The American Society of International Law: 75 years and Beyond," chaired by Clyde in his capacity as President. Around the turn of the year, Clyde called me on the phone to tell me that he was putting me on that panel:" NOW I WANT YOU TO GET UP THERE AND GIVE THOSE PEOPLE A MESSAGE!" The emphasis was all Clyde's. "Sure Clyde, you can count on me." Of course I knew that Clyde wanted me to become his sub silentio skunk at their garden party. But Clyde was my friend. So I went to work on the speech. After several weeks of hard work I sent Clyde a copy of the draft speech for his comments, questions, criticisms, suggestions, etc. Clyde called me up and said only :"This will do it!" Well you can read the text of the speech for yourself at Vol. 75 of the Proceedings of the American Society of International Law and Power, pages 270-75(1981) and draw your own conclusions. I blasted the hell out of the Reagan administration's pro-nuclear weapons policies and the Carter/Reagan support for Saddam Hussein during his genocidal war against Iran. Warming up to my subject, I then said:"The United States and Israel must finally recognize the international legal right of the Palestinian people to self-determination," and called for the recognition of the PLO as "the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people" for the purpose of conducting peace negotiations with Israel. At that point an audible gasp rose up through the audience. I called for the United States to oppose Israeli annexation of East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, and any more settlements on the West Bank and Golan.(More gasps.) I attacked our provision of weapons to Israel for the purpose of committing aggression and war crimes in Lebanon.(More gasps) And called for Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon. (More gasps) Then I condemned the Reagan administration's upcoming wars against Cuba and Nicaragua:"Current intimations that the Reagan administration will employ overt or covert military operations against Cuba and Nicaragua are illegal, irresponsible and counterproductive." I then called for the independence of Namibia:"The right of the Namibian people to self-determination had been firmly established under international law before the American, South African and Cuban governments decided to intervene in the Angolan civil war." I concluded with a nice little attack upon American realpolitik icons much admired and honored by the American Society of International Law and Power:"Otherwise the future of this planet will be left in the brutal hands of geopolitical practitioners of power politics such as Kissisnger,Brzezinski, and Haig." Etc. While all this bloodletting was going on, Clyde sat on the panel, looked straight ahead into the audience with his best diplomat's poker-face on and pretended as if he had nothing to do with what I was saying and was just as surprised as anyone else by what I was saying. Of course Clyde had deliberately put me up there to say it and had approved of everything I was going say. Notice of course that Clyde never told me WHAT to say. He did not have to and would not have done so. After this concluding, plenary panel chaired by Clyde, they had a big cocktail party reception to "celebrate" the 75th Anniversary of the American Society of International Law and Power. After my speech, the "celebration" was subdued. Not only was I treated like the proverbial skunk at their garden party, but also as if I had an advanced case of leprosy. But Clyde was pleased and let me know it. And that was all that mattered to me. Francis A. Boyle Professor of International Law HLS''76 Francis A. 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