The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #26176   Message #313027
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
05-Oct-00 - 04:40 PM
Thread Name: thought for tonight
Subject: RE: thought for tonight
Just hope it works out better than it did in Russia. And a lot of that depends on whether the heavy-handed get-rich-quick carpetbaggers can be kept out of the driving seat.

It always seems at times like this that there are two contrasting crises in the world's spotlight at the same time, like in 1956 and 1968. This time it's Belgrade on the one hand, where things seem to be sorting themselves out, and (touch wood) there doesn't seem to be much killing, and on the other hand Israel/Palestine, with a nightmare on the streets, children getting shot, and no clear way out of it.

Incidentally I suspect that link I gave to a revolutionary news source in Belgrade won't work, because too many people are trying to access it.