Against the Current, No. 25, March/April 1990
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Eastern Europe and Ourselves
— The Editors - Introduction to ATC 25, March-April 1990
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Panama--After the Coup
— Mike Fischer and Matt Schultz interview Eric Jackson -
Panama, Not for Television
— Eric Jackson -
Whose Declaration of War?
— Donald W. Bray and Marjorie Woodford Bray -
"Protecting American Lives"
— Donald W. Bray and Marjorie Woodford Bray -
The Border, the Law and Peace
— Michel Warshawski -
On Being a Marxist in the Soviet Union
— Boris Kagarlitsky -
Radicalizing Earth Day's Managed Mobilization
— Bill Resnick -
Who Will Save the Forest?
— Alexander Cockburn -
Perspectives in the Twilight of the Cold War
— The Editors -
"the collapse of Stalinism means that capitalism must confront itself"
— Paul Buhle -
“three challenges to peace and disarmament activists in the U.S.”
— Frank Brodhead -
"...that's the opportunity: to engage in a struggle for the power to produce new cultural and political meanings"
— Marcy Darnovsky -
"...international class war will not only continue but increase ... future Invasions may be done by one well-dressed agent with a briefcase"
— Shafik Abu Tahir -
"...the global economic impact of cold war chill-out will put strong pressure on U.S. capital... [and] intensification of competition on a world scale"
— Kim Moody -
"...new openings will bring more rank-and-file activism and create opportunities for socialist-feminists"
— Johanna Brenner -
“… the left [will] see that the major contradiction In a market economy is the collision with the natural world"
— Sandra Baird -
"...there are two sorts of radical demands we should be raising: peace conversion and ecological industrial conversion"
— Howard Hawkins -
"... movements in the West, East and Third World [need] to make deep connections"
— Jill Benderly -
Socialism, Markets and Restoration
— Aleksei K. Zolotov -
Restoration & Revolutionary Transformation
— James Petras -
Nicaragua: from Revolution to Stabilization
— Joseph Ricciardi -
The First Follies of 1990
— R.F. Kampfer -
Fabricating the Past
— Ellen Poteet -
Men and Women of Letters
— Mary McGuire -
The House that Montgomery Built
— Martin Glaberman -
In Memoriam--Hal Draper
— Ernie Haberkern -
Rube Singer Remembered
— Archie Lieberman
Donald W. Bray and Marjorie Woodford Bray
PRESIDENT BUSH CLAIMED that the invasion was necessary to “protect American (U. S.) lives.” But U.S. citizens in Panama on the verge of the invasion were more secure than those in our major metropolitan centers. While we were in Panama, we accidentally hailed a PDF car, thinking that it was a taxi It made a U-turn, and we were asked what we needed. Apologizing, we said that we wanted to return to our hotel. They took us there – hardly the act of a force menacing U.S. citizens.
The U.S. officer killed in the celebrated incident just before the invasion was in a highly sensitive area, which no one familiar with the city could stray into inadvertently, given that U.S. SEALS and Delta force personnel were infiltrating Panama City to position themselves for the attack.
This area of the Commandancia was in El Chorrillo, a densely populated urban slum of tinderbox wooden dwellings. The massive attack upon this neighborhood in the first days of the invasion was conducted with complete disregard for civilian life and resulted in a conflagration that left many dead and many more homeless. Another poor neighborhood, San Migueito, was subjected to similar carnage.
All in all, the loss of life by the U.S. military, the Panamanian military and civilians exceeded by far any threat to North Americans in the country.
March-April 1990, ATC 25