* Yugoslav elections & Abolish NATO Campaign (IAC)

* Opinions exchange regarding the elections (STOPNATO)

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> http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/461
Who Are the G-17?
By Michel Chossudovsky

> http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/460
Blagovesta Doncheva, an ordinary Bulgarian:
"Kostunica: the New US Bait for the Serb People"

> http://www.emperors-clothes.com/letters/yugoltr.htm
Criticism of Emperor's Clothes on Yugoslav Elections,
With Reply

> http://www.Antiwar.com
Will the US Get Their Money's Worth in Yugo Elections?
by George Szamuely


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Subject: Yugoslav elections & Abolish NATO Campaign
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:59:39 -0400
From: iacenter@...
To: "International" <iacenter@...>


INTERNATIONAL CALL MADE FOR
DEMONSTRATIONS TO ‘ABOLISH NATO’
October 20 - 28, 2000

The International Action Center on Sept. 22 denounced U.S. and West
European interference in the Sept. 24 Yugoslav elections and
announced it was calling for actions across the United States for the
week
of October 20 to 28 to demand an end to U.S. intervention and to
demand
that the NATO military alliance be abolished.

The IAC, founded by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark in
1992, was a leading organizer of anti-war protests during the 78-day
NATO
war against Yugoslavia. It has also organized to stop sanctions against
Yugoslavia, Iraq, Cuba and other targets of Washington.

THE U.S. IS TRYING TO STEAL THE YUGOSLAV ELECTIONS

Sara Flounders, an IAC national coordinator, explained why her
organization was protesting what she called “blatant interference in the
Yugoslav elections. The U.S. is, in effect, trying to steal the
Yugoslav
elections.”

“The destabilization campaign has been in full swing through the
election period,” she said. “It’s a no-holds-barred full court press
that
includes everything from covert operations involving assassinations;
open
funding for opposition parties; economic strangulation; media
manipulation; and psychological warfare, including the threat of another
NATO war should Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic be returned to
office.”

“While the U.S. Navy schedules maneuvers in the Adriatic Sea off the
Yugoslav coast during the election,” she continued, “the European Union
tries to bribe Yugoslav voters by promising to lift the murderous
sanctions – but only if Milosevic loses the vote. It’s an open attempt
to
manipulate the Yugoslav electorate and steal the election.”

“The New York Times (Sept. 20, 2000) ran an article saying that
Milosevic was running his election campaign against NATO,” the anti-
war leader said. “This makes perfect sense since the U.S. and its NATO
allies are the real power behind his opponent organizations and the ones
who want to turn all of Yugoslavia back into a colony of the West. Both
the New York Times (Sept. 20, 2000) and the Washington Post (Sept. 19,
2000) describe how Washington has been pumping millions of dollars into
Milosevic’s opposition.” (see quotes from article below)

Washington is using the same tactics against Yugoslavia that they have
used countless times in the past to overthrow elected governments and
establish dependent semi colonial regimes. Secret funding and military
pressure were used in Nicaragua, Panama, Iran, Philippines and
throughout
Eastern Europe.

Flounders said her group had called for coordinated international
actions against NATO for next month.

“The U.S.-led NATO alliance carried out a war of aggression against
Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999. At hearings in 14 countries the IAC
and
many others showed that U.S. and NATO leaders were guilty of war crimes.
Last June here in New York the people’s tribunal we held concluded that
NATO must be abolished, a demand raised by Ramsey Clark.”

“Now we are calling for demonstrations, meetings, rallies and other
suitable actions in as many cities and countries as possible, especially
in NATO countries, in the week from October 20—the anniversary of
Belgrade’s liberation from Nazi occupation—to October 28, when the OSCE
is
running municipal elections in Kosovo unauthorized by Serbia. The OSCE
and
NATO totally dominate every aspect of life in Kosovo. These October
elections are an effort to put a fig leaf of democracy on complete
colonial occupation. We will demand that NATO be abolished, that the
sanctions be lifted against Yugoslavia, and that the U.S. and its allies
leave the Balkans,” she said.

The IAC spokesperson said that anti-war groups in Italy, Austria,
Germany had already called local or regional protests for that time, and
that the Italian organizations were also organizing a solidarity
shipment
of medicine and other vital goods to Yugoslavia for the end of December.

“Since the U.S. military is also threatening war against Iraq and
intervention in Colombia, and U.S troops occupy Puerto Rico, the island
of
Vieques and South Korea, we expect to also raise these issues at the
protests we organize in the United States,” she concluded.

(Quotes from article referred to in the above release)

THE NEW YORK TIMES SEPTEMBER 20, 2000
Milosevic, Trailing in Polls, Rails Against NATO
By Steven Erlanger

BELGRADE, Serbia, Sept. 19 - In his race for re-election, President
Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia is running against NATO and the
United States, not against his democratic opposition.

He is not entirely mistaken to do so. The United States and its
European allies have made it clear that they want Mr. Milosevic ousted,
and they have spent tens of millions of dollars trying to get it done.

Portraying himself as the defender of Yugoslavia's sovereignty against a
hostile, hegemonic West led by Washington, Mr. Milosevic and his
government argue that opposition leaders are merely the paid, traitorous
tools of enemies who are continuing their war against him by other
means.
In March 1999, NATO began a 78-day bombing campaign to drive Serbian
forces out of Kosovo.

The Yugoslav elections are on Sunday, but there has hardly been a day
since the bombing began that state television news has not railed
against
"NATO aggressors."…

The money from the West is going to most of the institutions that the
government attacks for receiving it - sometimes in direct aid, sometimes
in indirect aid like computers and broadcasting equipment, and sometimes
in suitcases of cash carried across the border between Yugoslavia and
Hungary or Serbia and Montenegro….

Even before the Kosovo war, the United States was spending up to $10
million a year to back opposition parties, independent news media and
other institutions opposed to Mr. Milosevic. The war itself cost
billions
of dollars. This fiscal year, through September, the administration is
spending $25 million to support Serbian "democratization," with an
unknown
amount of money spent covertly to help the failed rallies of last year,
which did not bring down Mr. Milosevic, or to influence the current
election. For next year, the administration is requesting $41.5 million
in
open aid to Serbian democratization, though Congress is likely to cut
that
request.

Independent journalists and broadcasters here have been told by
American aid officials "not to worry about how much they're spending
now,"
that plenty more is in the pipeline, said one knowledgeable aid worker.
Others in the opposition complain that the Americans are clumsy, sending
e-mails from "state.gov" - the State Department's address - summoning
people to impolitic meetings with American officials in Budapest,
Montenegro or Dubrovnik, Croatia.

But there is little effort to disguise the fact that Western money pays
for much of the polling, advertising, printing and other costs of the
opposition political campaign …

THE WASHINGTON POST, SEPTEMBER 19, 2000 (Final Edition)
U.S. Funds Help Milosevic's Foes in Election Fight
By John Lancaster, Washington Post Staff Writer

Charges of Chinese influence-buying in the 1996 U.S. presidential
campaign caused a political storm in Washington that has yet to fully
abate. By some measures, however, that episode pales by comparison to
American political interference in Serbia, locus of a $ 77 million U.S.
effort to do with ballots what NATO bombs could not--get rid of Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic.

In the run-up to national elections on Sept. 24, U.S. aid officials and
contractors are working to strengthen Serbia's famously fractured
democratic opposition. They have helped train its organizers, equipped
their offices with computers and fax machines and provided opposition
parties with sophisticated voter surveys compiled by the same New York
firm that conducts polls for President Clinton.

More generally, they have sought to foster what one aid consultant
calls "democracy with a small 'd'," funneling support to student groups,
labor unions, independent media outlets, even Serbian heavy metal bands
that stage street concerts as part of a voter registration drive called
"Rock the Vote."…

Underscoring worries about Serbia and Montenegro, the Pentagon
yesterday began a global shift of forces to bolster the U.S. military
presence in the Balkans. A carrier battle group led by the USS Abraham
Lincoln left Thai waters ahead of schedule and headed toward the Persian
Gulf, which will free up another carrier group, led by the USS George
Washington, for movement to the Adriatic Sea, Defense Department
officials
said.

THE NEW YORK TIMES, MARCH 31, 1997 (Late Edition - Final)
Political Meddling by Outsiders: Not New for U.S.
By JOHN M. BRODER

Members of both political parties express horror at accusations that the
Chinese may have tried to use covert campaign donations to influence
American policy, but the United States has long meddled in other
nations'
internal affairs.

Congress routinely appropriates tens of millions of dollars in covert
and
overt money to use in influencing domestic politics abroad.

The National Endowment for Democracy, created 15 years ago to do in
the open what the Central Intelligence Agency has done surreptitiously
for
decades, spends $30 million a year to support things like political
parties, labor unions, dissident movements and the news media in dozens
of
countries, including China.

The endowment has financed unions in France, Paraguay, the
Philippines and Panama. In the mid-1980's, it provided $5 million to
Polish emigres to keep the Solidarity movement alive. It has
underwritten
moderate political parties in Portugal, Costa Rica, Bolivia and Northern
Ireland. It provided a $400,000 grant for political groups in
Czechoslovakia that backed the election of Vaclav Havel as president in
1990. For the Nicaraguan election of 1990, it provided more than $3
million in "technical" assistance, some of which was used to bolster
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the presidential candidate favored by the
United States.

International Action Center
39 West 14th Street, Room 206
New York, NY 10011
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Dear "appliedms",
When the first coffin of a dead American will go home, (and there will
be
many coffins in case of any NATO invasion, even if some Serbs are
"utterly
exhausted by
a decade of wars and rootless sanctions"), many unbelievable things will

happen.
America can't stand a second Vietnam. In Serbia it will have it.
Best
Maria

appliedms wrote:

> STOP NATO: ?NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK
>
> The forthcoming Yugoslav elections are a turning point
> for both Yugoslavia and the New World Order.
>
> The elections will be conducted in the atmosphere of
> unadulterated political pressure and military threats by the
> Western Alliance. About 160,000 well equipped Western
> troops all around Serbia, together with US airforce bombers
> in Hungary and Bulgaria, about 6 minutes flight away
> from Belgrade, "George Washington" in the Adriatic
> and more than US$100M in funding for the
> opposition are "helping" push democracy along.
>
> What remains of Yugoslavia is utterly exhausted by
> a decade of wars and rootless sanctions. The remaining Yugoslavs
> seem to have lost their penchant for resisting the NWO.
> For 10 years the NWO has been making Yugoslavia, together with
> Iraq, an example of what happens to those who resist its rule.
> It seams that it is time for Serbia to lower its head.
>
> There are only two bad electoral choices in Yugoslavia:
>
> Option A: A vote for Milosevic is a vote for fast death of Yugoslavia

>
> Scenario of Milosevic's Win: in early March 2001 Djukanovic of
> Montenegro
> declares independence without a referendum, which sparks a conflict
> between
> Montenegrian paramilitaries and pro-Serbian Montenegrians.
> Yugoslav Army gets involved to prevent the killings. Then NATO rushes

> in to help the "fledgling democracy" of Montenegro. After a couple of

> days
> of intensive bombing NATO enters Yugoslavia simultaneously from
> Hungary, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Croatia, including
> a landing of US Marines on the Montenegrian shore at Ulcinj.
Yugoslavia
>
> is overrun in 15 days (it took Nazi's 17 days for the whole of old
> Yugoslavia).
> About 10,000 Serb civilians are killed by NATO in the process.
> Before the fall, Slobo and Mira disappear for China.
>
> Victorious Djindjic enters Belgrade with a Serbian flag on top of a US

> tank.
> Nobody even remembers the last elections and some individual called
> Kostunjica.
>
> Option B: A vote for Kostunjica is a vote for a slow death of
> Yugoslavia
>
> Scenario of Kostunjica's Win: Kostunjica is removed from the top
> position within
> 6 months after the elections (either politically marginalized by his
> coalition
> partners, made into a puppet by secret CIA files on him or even
> physically
> eliminated by the CIA). Before this, Slobo and Mira secretly jet to
> their
> love nest in China. Serbia disappears from the Western media, like
> Kosovo.
> Only occasionally, the world's sheeple (a hybrid of sheep and people)
> are
> reminded by the media how bad the Serbs under Milosevic were.
> Ultimately,
> the Western media stories about Serbian atrocities make it even into
the
> official
> school curriculum in Serbia (the sense of guilt needs to be installed
> early).
>
> Serbia withers away as NATO rewards its allies for their cooperation
> with
> "administration" of parts of Serbia (the same as the US rewarded the
> KLA).
> Djindjic springs up as a new leader with hugely publicized promises
> of the "New Age for All Serbs" as an associated partner of the EU and
> NATO.
> NATO troops are stationed all over Serbia and Montenegro as guarantors

> of "peace and prosperity". But, the promised New Age always remains
> just
> outside the reach. Just a little more of IMF and World Bank economic
> medicine. Just one more year of economic austerity measures before
> Serbia starts blossoming.
>
> So, which evil do you think the Serbs should vote for,
> Milosevic evil or NATO evil?
>
> [If Milosevic wins the only solution for Serbia are Russian S300's
> bought
> by Chinese loans. Those would keep NATO humanitarians away from
> Serbia for the next couple of years.]


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