migrane apologies times 2 (fwd)

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                   ANDRE GUNDER FRANK
250 Kensington Ave - Apt 608     Tel: 1-514-933 2539    
Westmount/Montreal PQ/QC         Fax: 1-514-933 6445 or 1478
Canada H3Z 2G8              e-mail:agfrank@chass.utoronto.ca 

My Home Page is at:       http://www.whc.neu.edu/gunder.html
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Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 11:54:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Gunder Frank <agfrank@chass.utoronto.ca>
To: agf <agfrank@chass.utoronto.ca>
Subject: migrane apologies times 2

gunder frank apologizes for going on and on with a migrane about the world
court matter, and doubles the apology since after being -unjustly -
told I  am 'flaming' I recently said I would sign off.
But while I am at it, let me say one thing I was TRYING to say with the
migrane: for worldly problems we gotta use the WORLD institutions we got
especially the UN nd the World Court and even the very flawed Security
Council, and try to improve those to get there from here [trying to reform
the UN to democratize it more, including to bring the World Bank and IMF
under the Economic and Social Council as provided for in the UN Charter].
In other words, we need better/more effective  inernational law
and more non-military/violent incentives to promote compliance also 
through self-interest, rather than dumping or circumventing the UN Charter
and international law that we already got. Now that also means NOT using
NATO to circumvent/replace the UN and evn the flawed Security Council 
institutional structure. But the same principle may apply to using NATO
in and for what it may be useful for within its much more limited domain,
which as Article 1 of the NATO Charter itself says is also legally 
subordinate to international law and the UN Charter. The 50th birthday
party this easter sunday might be a good place to start. Fat chance!
I stop my car at red traffic lights not only because I otherwise could get
a traffic fine but primarily because I might crash with a car going on 
green along the cross street - and along  with dear Nikolai also  because
by running the red light I might run down a pedestrian, which would be
bad for him/her --- and also bad for me. Some traffic laws are bad, but
some are also better than none. How about trying to improve the ones we 
got?
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                   ANDRE GUNDER FRANK
250 Kensington Ave - Apt 608     Tel: 1-514-933 2539    
Westmount/Montreal PQ/QC         Fax: 1-514-933 6445 or 1478
Canada H3Z 2G8              e-mail:agfrank@chass.utoronto.ca 

My Home Page is at:       http://www.whc.neu.edu/gunder.html
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