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INIZIATIVE PUBBLICHE
Vicenza
- sabato 21 e domenica 22 marzo 2009:
TARGET - Meeting
internazionale nel X Anniversario dei bombardamenti della NATO sulla
Repubblica Federale di Jugoslavia - International Meeting on the 10.th
Anniversary of the NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
- Međunarodni miting povodom X godišnjice
bombardovanja Savezne Republike Jugoslavije od strane NATO
Salonicco / Thessaloniki
21-22 marzo
2009
Convegno Internazionale promosso dal KKE-ml
in occasione del 10° anniversario
dell’intervento imperialista in Yugoslavia
Teleambiente (canale 68 a Roma e
nel Lazio), 21 e 23 marzo:
Sabato 21/3/2009 ore 22 (replica Lunedi
23/3/2009 ore 06.30)
10 ANNI DAL BOMBARDAMENTO SULLA JUGOSLAVIA
con Ivan Pavicevac di CNJ-onlus
in studio Miriam Pellegrini Ferri per il G.A.MA.DI.
Parte prima: http://www.gamadilavoce.it/90321_1.wmv
Parte seconda: http://www.gamadilavoce.it/90321_2.wmv
Es
begann mit einer Lüge! 2. Friedenskonvoi nach Belgrad
Beograd /
Belgrade / Belgrado - 23 e 24 marzo 2009
Appello
internazionale lanciato dal Beogradski
Forum / Forum di Belgrado per un Mondo di Eguali
Pisa 24 marzo
2009
A 10 ANNI DAI BOMBARDAMENTI - A 60 ANNI DALLA COSTITUZIONE DELLA NATO
ore 21:15 - Biblioteca Comunale - Lungarno Galilei
intervengono: Manlio Dinucci, Ivan Pavicevac, Federico Giusti - Andrea
Venturi
proiezione del video: Kosovo - il
luogo del delitto
Montreal
(Canada)
- March 24, 2009
HUMANITARIAN
INTERVENTION - CHALLENGED
Event sponsored by "The Centre for Research on Globalization" and
Vanier College |
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Part
1: Scott Taylor is featured with eye-witness accounts of his
travels and reporting of the war. This is the first of 3 installments
featuring Scott:
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Part
2: This is the 2nd of 3 installments featuring Scott:
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Part
3: This is the 3rd of 3 installments featuring Scott:
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Part
04: Former Canadian ambassador to Yugoslavia, James Bissett
details the diplomatic policy events and real reasons for the bombings.
He provides honest first hand accounts of those tragic days in 1999:
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Part
5: (follows) Former Canadian ambassador to Yugoslavia, James
Bissett details the diplomatic policy events and real reasons for the
bombing:
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Part
6: David Orchard, politician, author, environmentalist and organic
farmer will speak last regarding the roles of the international
community in this illegal war:
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Part
7: (follows) David Orchard on the roles of the international community
in this illegal war:
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13402
The Centre for Research
on Globalization presents Diana Johnstone, filmed in Belgrade, Serbia
at the March 24, 2009 commemoration of NATO aggression against
Yugoslavia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4GLzz-9lRY
The following text was prepared by Diana Johnstone and presented in
Montreal on 24 March 2009
as part of the
"Humanitarian Intervention Challenged" Conference held at Vanier
College. The Conference was organised by Vanier College and the Centre
for Research on Globalization (CRG).
Dear Friends in Canada,
I hope this commemoration
can be used not only to deplore the past, but also take a look at what
the 1999 NATO war against Yugoslavia implies for the future.
That war opened a new
phase of history.
Yugoslavia was used to
release the United States from the restraints of the post-World War II
system of international law. Complicated conflicts, with multiple
causes, both internal and external, were presented as a simple contest
between good and evil. The conflict in Kosovo between the Yugoslav
state and Albanian secessionists was exploited in order to stage a
little war “out of area”, beyond the defense perimeter of the Atlantic
Alliance. It was a war NATO was sure to win. This initiated a new era
in which the United States could proceed freely to pursue world
conquest, dragging its NATO allies behind.
Of course, it is never
called “world conquest”. Sometimes it is called “humanitarian
intervention”, sometimes it is called “the war on terror”, sometimes it
is merely “ensuring stability” or “promoting democracy” through “regime
change”. But if you examine it carefully, what is going on is a project
for world conquest. It probably will not succeed – such projects rarely
succeed – but that is what it is.
How and why is the United
States pursuing world conquest? This is too vast a subject to explore
here, but I want to suggest that this project of world conquest is very
largely a matter of institutional inertia.
In January 1961, in his
farewell speech as he left the Presidency, General Dwight D. Eisenhower
warned of the “military-industrial complex”. Eisenhower did not
suggest dismantling the military-industrial complex. He only called on
“an alert and knowledgeable citizenry” to keep it from getting out of
hand. Well, an “alert and knowledgeable citizenry” has been asleep at
the switch for about half a century.
The original expression
was “the military-industrial-congressional complex”, but Eisenhower
decided to let congress off the hook. Nevertheless, Congress is an
essential part of the whole complex, because congressmen vote regularly
for military appropriations to benefit their constituencies. Congress
votes for weapons systems the Pentagon hasn’t even asked for and
doesn’t know what to do with. That is the pork barrel system that has
kept military spending soaring and more and more weapons being
researched, developed and built.
This
military-industrial-congressional complex requires that the expensive
weapon systems be used from time to time. Weapons need to be tested in
real life situations, used up – to make way for more – and demonstrated
for sale to client states. But more noble pretexts are required. Thus
the Complex creates the need for enemies, for threats, for ideological
justification of war. For over forty years, the “communist threat” did
the trick. The Complex was briefly in a state of shock when Gorbachev
spoiled everything by abruptly ending the Cold War. What to do without
it?
The system needs enemies,
it needs war, to keep functioning. In the early 1990s, the United
States was short of enemies and threats. It turned instead to
“humanitarian intervention” as a way to revive NATO and rehabilitate
war as the way to solve problems.
The choice of the Serbs
as enemies seems very strange – especially to the Serbs themselves. The
Serbs were allies of the West in two world wars, they were pro-French,
pro-American, pro-Western. But ironically, the very fact that the Serbs
were so friendly to the West has made them the perfect target for a
no-casualty NATO war. They never thought they were at war with the
West, and never really fought back. This made them the perfect enemy
for a low-risk NATO experiment.
The Serbs have been used
for over fifteen years as guinea pigs.
First of all, the Serbs
have been the guinea pigs in an experiment in propaganda demonization.
They have been guinea
pigs in the use of weapons using depleted uranium.
They have been guinea
pigs in bringing a defenseless country to its knees by use of aerial
bombing. Since the overwhelming majority of countries in the
world are defenseless against US bombing, this could happen to almost
anyone.
They have been guinea
pigs in a scandalous judicial experiment in The Hague, staffed and
financed by NATO governments to justify NATO bombing.
They have been guinea
pigs in an experiment in political subversion, spearheaded by the
notorious “Otpor”, financed and trained by the US government to
interfere with the electoral process in Yugoslavia so as to stage a
phony “revolution” to overthrow Slobodan Milosevic. Otpor has gone on
to serve its US paymasters in propagating similar phony “revolutions”
to put US puppets in power in Georgia and Ukraine.
The Serbs are still
guinea pigs in a disgraceful exercise of blackmail and enticement – the
carrot and the stick – pursued by the European Union, which for the
past decade has held out the mirage of membership in the European Union
to bully Serbian leaders into more and more concessions, for which they
get a few crumbs now and then, but never anything resembling
recognition of Serbia’s right to justice, or even to existence.
I might add that the
Albanians were also used as guinea pigs. But in laboratory experiments,
some rats are starved and others are fattened. The Albanian laboratory
rats were fattened. This was certainly not for their own good.
The Albanians of Kosovo
were used as pawns, to achieve three aims:
1 – To further weaken and
break up Yugoslavia, which had been the only independent socialist
country in Europe which had close ties with the Third World, notably
Arab countries, through the Non-Aligned Movement. Both Yugoslav
socialism and non-alignment were weak and fading. But the United
States preferred to wipe out all traces of such independent tendencies,
just in case, as well as to weaken Serbia, considered a potential ally
of Russia.
2 – To provide a new
“humanitarian” mission for NATO, as a pretext to change the nature of
the alliance from defense of its members to “out of area” operations
anywhere in the world where the United States chooses to intervene.
3 – To build Camp
Bondsteel, as a part of extension of US bases eastward toward both
Russia and the Middle East.
In May, 2000,
conservative German Bundestag member Willy Wimmer, vice president of
the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE, attended a high-level
conference in Bratislava organized by the US State Department and the
American Enterprise Institute on NATO expansion and the Balkans. In a
letter to Gerhard Schröder, the German Chanceller at the time,
Wimmer enumerated the conclusions of the conference, including these
crucial points:
-- The war against the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was waged in order to rectify General
Eisenhower’s erroneous decision, during World War II, not to station US
troops in Yugoslavia. For strategic reasons, American troops must be
stationed there, to make up for the missed opportunity from
1945. In short, the war was waged to build Camp Bondsteel.
-- The Kosovo war
represented a precedent, to be followed in the future.
-- Serbia (probably for
the purposes of securing an unhindered US military presence) must be
permanently excluded from European development.
-- NATO must gain total
control over St. Petersburg’s access to the Baltic Sea.
I repeat: “Serbia must be
permanently excluded from European development.” This can explain
why the European Union keeps demanding more and more concessions before
moving ahead on Serbia’s desire to join.
There is no reason to
believe that NATO’s war against the Serbs is over.
I mentioned that
Yugoslavia served as an experimental laboratory for interventions
elsewhere. It is important to realize that the main place where the
lessons from this laboratory could be applied is Russia. This was no
doubt in the minds of some of the strategists who steered the US
military juggernaut in the direction of Yugoslavia. For some,
Yugoslavia was a miniature Soviet Union.
One of these was
apparently the influential strategic thinker Zbigniew Brzezinski, the
son of a former Polish ambassador to Canada. Brzezinski gives
every sign of being a Polish patriot, still fighting with Russia over
which country will dominate the lands between Poland and Russia, in
particular the Ukraine, which has alternately been part of the Russian
and Polish empires. Thus Brzezinski speaks repeatedly of “the Russian
threat” to the Ukraine, while the United States builds military bases
and holds joint military exercises with countries all around Russia and
demands that Ukraine join NATO.
Now I want to call
attention to a most significant parallel. Where did the wars of
Yugoslav disintegration break out most violently? In a region called
the Krajina. Krajina means borderland. So does Ukraine – it
is a variant of the same Slavic root. Both Krajina and Ukraine are
borderlands between Catholic Christians in the West and Orthodox
Christians in the East. The population is divided between those in the
East who want to remain tied to Russia, and those in the West who are
drawn toward Catholic lands. But in Ukraine as a whole, polls
show that some seventy percent of the population is against joining
NATO. Yet the US and its satellites keep speaking of Ukraine’s “right”
to join NATO. The right not to join NATO is not mentioned.
The condition for Ukraine
to join NATO is expelling foreign military bases from Ukrainian
territory. That means expelling Russia from its historic naval base at
Sebastopol, essential for Russia’s Black Sea fleet. Sebastopol is on
the Crimean peninsula, which was transferred from Russian to Ukrainian
administration only in 1954, although the population is more than two
thirds Russian and never intended to leave Russia.
As the same causes may
have the same effects, the US insistence on “liberating” Ukraine from
Russian influence may have the same effect as the West’s insistence on
“liberating” the Catholic Croats from the Orthodox Serbs. That effect
is war. But instead of a small war, against the Serbs, who had
neither the means nor the will to fight the West, meaning a war NATO
could win with one hand tied behind its back, a war in Ukraine might
lead to a NATO war with Russia. A nuclear superpower.
Recently, with the
election of Barack Obama, the style of the US government has changed.
Where the George W. Bush administration acted unilaterally, the Obama
administration wants to act multilaterally. With allies. But the war in
Afghanistan goes on, the support to Israel is a sacred dogma, the
encirclement of Russia continues.
Presidents come and
Presidents go, every four to eight years. There are some differences in
domestic policy. But the military-industrial-congressional complex
follows its own momentum. Until, perhaps, all the money runs out.
Meanwhile, NATO countries
are being enrolled in a new crusade, in the name of vague “Western
values”, to Americanize the planet. At a time when the American
economic system is crashing down, when old and new civilizations are
asserting themselves after several centuries of Western domination, for
Europeans and Canadians to follow this doomed crusade is to follow a
path of self-destruction.
Exposing the truth about
the NATO agression against Yugoslavia is one small but important
contribution to awakening the people of Canada and Europe to the
deceitful nature of NATO’s “civilizing mission” in the world. I wish
you success in this endeavor.
Beograd /
Belgrade / Belgrado - 25 marzo 2009
Weitere Veranstaltungen organisiert vom Narodni
Pokret Srbije und ICDSM -
isto pogledajte: http://1999-2009.info/
graphics: Neve Kovacevic
INIZIATIVE EDITORIALI
http://www.zeit-fragen.ch/ausgaben/weitere-texte/sonderausgabe-april-2009-10-jahre-nach-dem-jugoslawien-krieg/
Zeit-Fragen
Redaktion und Verlag
Postfach
CH-8044 Zürich
Sonderausgabe April
2009:
10 Jahre nach dem Jugoslawien-Krieg
Es begann mit einer
Lüge –
und die Lüge dauert an
10 Jahre nach dem Jugoslawien-Krieg
http://www.zeit-fragen.ch/ausgaben/weitere-texte/sonderausgabe-april-2009-10-jahre-nach-dem-jugoslawien-krieg/es-begann-mit-einer-luege-und-die-luege-dauert-an/
Eine internationale
Konferenz in
Belgrad zum 10. Jahrestag der Nato-Aggression
von Erika Vögeli
http://www.zeit-fragen.ch/ausgaben/weitere-texte/sonderausgabe-april-2009-10-jahre-nach-dem-jugoslawien-krieg/eine-internationale-konferenz-in-belgrad-zum-10-jahrestag-der-nato-aggression/
Sanjas letzter Tag
Was ein serbisches Mädchen über den Krieg erzählen
würde | von Jürgen Elsässer
http://www.zeit-fragen.ch/ausgaben/weitere-texte/sonderausgabe-april-2009-10-jahre-nach-dem-jugoslawien-krieg/sanjas-letzter-tag/
Das Verbrechen des
Nato-Angriffs
auf Jugoslawien
von Brigitte Queck, Diplomstaatswissenschaftlerin Aussenpolitik
http://www.zeit-fragen.ch/ausgaben/weitere-texte/sonderausgabe-april-2009-10-jahre-nach-dem-jugoslawien-krieg/das-verbrechen-des-nato-angriffs-auf-jugoslawien/
Die Kriegstreiber geben
nun
schon 10 Jahre den Ton an
Das Beispiel Richard Holbrooke | von Willy Wimmer,
Bundestagsabgeordneter (CDU/CSU) und ehemaliger Staatssekretär im
Bundesverteidigungsministerium
http://www.zeit-fragen.ch/ausgaben/weitere-texte/sonderausgabe-april-2009-10-jahre-nach-dem-jugoslawien-krieg/die-kriegstreiber-geben-nun-schon-10-jahre-den-ton-an/
Es ging darum, zivile
Ziele zu
treffen
Die Angriffsdoktrin der Nato im Luftkrieg gegen Jugoslawien 1999 war
völkerrechtswidrig | von Jürgen Rose
http://www.zeit-fragen.ch/ausgaben/weitere-texte/sonderausgabe-april-2009-10-jahre-nach-dem-jugoslawien-krieg/es-ging-darum-zivile-ziele-zu-treffen/
Meilensteine auf dem Weg
zum
Krieg
Eine Skizze zum Kosovo-Konflikt | von Brigadegeneral a. D. Dr. Heinz
Loquai
http://www.zeit-fragen.ch/ausgaben/weitere-texte/sonderausgabe-april-2009-10-jahre-nach-dem-jugoslawien-krieg/meilensteine-auf-dem-weg-zum-krieg/
Welche Sicherheitsordnung
für Europa?
Lehren aus dem Kosovo-Krieg | von Reinhard Mutz, Institut für
Friedensforschung an der Universität Hamburg
http://www.zeit-fragen.ch/ausgaben/weitere-texte/sonderausgabe-april-2009-10-jahre-nach-dem-jugoslawien-krieg/welche-sicherheitsordnung-fuer-europa/
Radioaktivitätsmessungen
an
Bodenproben aus Serbien
http://www.zeit-fragen.ch/ausgaben/weitere-texte/sonderausgabe-april-2009-10-jahre-nach-dem-jugoslawien-krieg/radioaktivitaetsmessungen-an-bodenproben-aus-serbien/
Messungen der
Radioaktivität an Bodenproben aus Serbien, Teil 2
http://www.zeit-fragen.ch/ausgaben/weitere-texte/sonderausgabe-april-2009-10-jahre-nach-dem-jugoslawien-krieg/messungen-der-radioaktivitaet-an-bodenproben-aus-serbien-teil-2/
«Wollte man diese
Meere
mit Uran verseuchen?»
15 Tonnen Uran auf die Region der Wasserscheide abgeworfen |
Stellungnahme von Professor Velimir Nedeljkovic, Fakultät für
Arbeitssicherheit der Universität Nis, Serbien (Januar 2007)
http://www.zeit-fragen.ch/ausgaben/weitere-texte/sonderausgabe-april-2009-10-jahre-nach-dem-jugoslawien-krieg/wollte-man-diese-meere-mit-uran-verseuchen/
Prozess zur
Zerstörung
Serbiens noch nicht zu Ende
Graben zwischen Marionettenregierung und Bevölkerung war nie so
tief
wie heute | Ein Gespräch mit dem ehemaligen Aussenminister
Jugoslawiens, Zivadin Jovanovic
http://www.zeit-fragen.ch/ausgaben/weitere-texte/sonderausgabe-april-2009-10-jahre-nach-dem-jugoslawien-krieg/prozess-zur-zerstoerung-serbiens-noch-nicht-zu-ende/
Unterwegs im Herzen
Serbiens
Eine Reise nach Kosovo und Metochien | von Dr. med. Maria Winter und
Rita Brügger, Teilnehmer an einer Reise in die serbischen Enklaven
vom
1. bis 5. Oktober 2008
http://www.zeit-fragen.ch/ausgaben/weitere-texte/sonderausgabe-april-2009-10-jahre-nach-dem-jugoslawien-krieg/unterwegs-im-herzen-serbiens/
Die historische Tradition
antiserbischer Vorurteile
von Prof. Dr. Jörg Becker
http://www.zeit-fragen.ch/ausgaben/weitere-texte/sonderausgabe-april-2009-10-jahre-nach-dem-jugoslawien-krieg/die-historische-tradition-antiserbischer-vorurteile/
Seit mehr als 60 Jahren
werden
Serben vertrieben
Dipl. phil. Vojislav Jevtimijevic, Koordinator für
Flüchtlingshilfe für die serbischen Flüchtlinge aus dem
Kosovo
http://www.zeit-fragen.ch/ausgaben/weitere-texte/sonderausgabe-april-2009-10-jahre-nach-dem-jugoslawien-krieg/seit-mehr-als-60-jahren-werden-serben-vertrieben/
La edizione speciale di aprile 2009
del periodico elvetico plurilingue Zeit-Fragen,
nella versione in lingua tedesca, è interamente dedicata al X
Anniversario della aggressione della NATO sulla RF di Jugoslavia.
Altri articoli
su temi affini si trovano nelle scorse edizioni delle
versioni inglese, italiana, spagnola e francese dello stesso periodico:
Current
Concerns
P.O. box 223
CH-8044 Zurich
Misurazioni della Radioattività in
campioni di terra provenienti dalla Serbia
di Dipl. Ing. H.W.
Gabriel e Dr. D. Schalch
http://www.zeit-fragen.ch/ausgaben/discorso-libero/2008/weitere-interessante-artikel/misurazioni-della-radioattivita-in-campioni-di-terra-provenienti-dalla-serbia/
Misurazione della radioattività su
campioni di terra provenienti dalla Serbia, parte 2
di Dipl. Ing. H.W.
Gabriel e Dr. D. Schalch
http://www.zeit-fragen.ch/ausgaben/discorso-libero/20082009/altri-articoli-interessanti/misurazione-della-radioattivita-su-campioni-di-terra-provenienti-dalla-serbia-parte-2/
Historic Sentence in Italy
Causality between
Uranium dust and cancer acknowledged by a Florence court
http://www.currentconcerns.ch/index.php?id=709
The Effects of War: Mitrovica
http://www.currentconcerns.ch/index.php?id=721
It is High Time to Oppose the Arrogance of
the West
10 years after the
war
against Yugoslavia | by Karl Mueller, Germany
http://www.currentconcerns.ch/index.php?id=757
Measurement of Radioactivity of Soil
Samples from Serbia, Part 2
http://www.currentconcerns.ch/index.php?id=756
Medición de radiactividad en
muestras de suelo de Serbia, Segunda parte
Gamaespectrometria,
energía de rayos beta, exámen de modificaciones de la
división de los isotopes naturales | Ingeniero nuclear H. W.
Gabriel y D. Schalch, físico
http://www.horizons-et-debats.ch/index.php?id=1512
Jugement historique en Italie
A Florence, un
tribunal
a reconnu le rapport causal entre la poussière d’uranium et la
maladie du cancer
http://www.horizons-et-debats.ch/index.php?id=1389
Serbie/Kosovo: Un «Petit
Hiroshima» – auquel personne ne s’intéresse …
http://www.horizons-et-debats.ch/index.php?id=1413
Il est grand temps de relever le front
devant l’arrogance de l’Occident
10 ans
après la
guerre en Yougoslavie | par Karl Müller
http://www.horizons-et-debats.ch/index.php?id=1498
Mesure de la radioactivité
d’échantillons de sol provenant de Serbie, 2e partie
Spectrométrie
gamma, énergie du rayonnement bêta, examen de la
modification de la répartition des isotopes naturels | par H.W.
Gabriel, ingénieur nucléaire et D. Schalch, physicien
http://www.horizons-et-debats.ch/index.php?id=1500
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