Jugoinfo
Le tre "M" del colonialismo:
MISSIONARI - preti cattolici nell'Ottocento, ONG (e preti cattolici) nel
2000;
MERCANTI - Rockfeller nell'Ottocento, Soros (e Rockfeller) nel 2000
MILITARI - eserciti dei paesi coloniali nell'Ottocento, NATO (ed
eserciti dei paesi coloniali) nel 2000.
---
DIANA JOHNSTONE: "UNA CROCIATA UMANITARIA"
http://www.inthesetimes.com/johnstone2420.html
[The following is one of two responses, the other is
by Edward Herman, to an egregious but by this time
typical In These Times piece on the Balkans. Typical,
that is, since the publication's editor, David Moberg,
signed on to the 'progressive' version of the
Blair/Clinton Doctrine of soi-disant moral imperialism
and Third Way neo-colonialism for allegedly backward
peoples. I'm not sure if the hardcopy version of it is
longer, or if this is all there is.]
In These Times
September 4, 2000
A Humanitarian Crusade
By Diana Johnstone
Few issues have provoked as much debate among
progressive Americans in recent years as the war in
the Balkans. In the following article, Diana Johnstone
responds to Paul Hockenos' essay "Human Wrongs: How
the Great Powers Failed the Balkans," which appeared
in the August 7 issue of the magazine.
In the obscure mix of motives behind such an action as
NATO intervention in the Balkans, some motives - and
not those most openly proclaimed - may turn out to be
more operative than others. NATO's professed objective
of creating a multi-ethnic, humanitarian democracy in
Kosovo - no doubt the sincere desire of some of the
many lesser supporters in NATO's "humanitarian
crusade," especially intellectuals who have mistaken
Balkan windmills for Hitlerian dragons - is a
resounding failure. Rather than "stability" the
operation has produced many of the effects Hockenos
claims it wished to prevent.
For Hockenos, criticism of the new doctrine of
"humanitarian intervention" has strict limits. It is
all right to want to make it more effective by using
ground warfare rather than air strikes, and by
following up military intervention with "credible,
professional peacekeeping missions that will help
indigenous democratic forces create self-sustaining
democratic institutions and political cultures." In
fact, Hockenos himself, having worked for the OSCE
administration of Bosnia at Banja Luka, has been
actively engaged in the enterprise of teaching
democracy to the local people. This is no doubt an
inspiring and rewarding project, but so was the
imperial civilizing mission of the 19th century. The
Christian missionaries have been replaced by
progressive NGOs.
Idealistic or cynical, those embarked on this crusade
readily partake of a consensus that fiercely rejects
any suggestion that the mission itself might be
basically flawed - that freedom and democracy must be
developed by the people themselves, not by occupying
armies and foreign administrators who know what is
best, as dictated by IMF economists. Imbued with their
own righteousness, the transnational benefactors
indignantly reject the suggestion that the Great
Powers and their armies that make their humanitarian
work possible might have ulterior motives, and might
even be largely responsible for stirring up the
conflicts and instability that allow them to intervene
in the first place.
---
GILLES D'AYMERY: "IL MISSIONARIO, IL MERCANTE, IL MILITARE"
http://www.swans.com/library/art6/ga092.html
Swans
Armies of Compassion
The Missionary, the Businessman and the Military
by Gilles d'Aymery
August 7, 2000
Note from the Editor: Here is a chance we could not
let pass. This week's real investigative piece is the
result of two totally separate and unrelated events.
First, the discovery by chance of an intriguing Web
site in the Central Asian cyberspace and second, the
remarks that Elizabeth Dole gave at the Republican
National Convention in Philadelphia.
Now, please do not ask why I spent fifteen minutes
listening to Mrs. Dole's rhetoric. The lame excuse is
that her Viagra spokesman of a husband is an old
friend of Swans (irony intended). And don't ask either
why and how I ended up associating those two seemingly
disparate events. Another mystery of life, I guess.
But there is no mystery behind the lesson, "Always
consider the source" and none either behind the veil
of the so-called philanthropic endeavors of
egomaniacs. In the words of Shirley Chisholm, "When
morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that
profit loses."
You will find a series of Web resources at the end of
the article.
"Ladies and gentlemen, in my eight years as President
of the American Red Cross, I saw things that will
haunt me the rest of my life -- the evil that humans
can inflict on one another -- saw it in the dim eyes
of starving children in Somalia and in the paralyzing
grief of parents in Oklahoma City.
"But I have also been uplifted by the extraordinary
power of the American heart -- by those armies of
compassion, who are willing to cross town or cross the
globe to minister to those they've never met and will
never see again.
"People who go where government cannot, and others
will not, who carry our values of peace and democracy
around the world, putting service before self. Such
kindness and generosity are not legislated by any
Congress. They arise from faith, neighborliness, and
yes, occasional saintliness. Indeed, I learned long
ago that you don't have to be a missionary to be
filled with a sense of mission."
[Excerpt] Remarks of Elizabeth Dole
Republican National Convention
3rd Session
Tuesday, August 1, 2000
>From all the sanctified words and holy platitudes
pronounced by the Republican luminaries in
Philadelphia last week, these few lines caught my
attention.
They reminded me of another time when Europeans were
hard at work adding colonies to their respective
empires. In those times, the white Europeans,
confident of their civilizing mission, were sailing
across the oceans and marching steadfastly and
relentlessly toward faraway lands, "carrying their
values of peace and democracy around the world"
(including in America). Those admirable endeavors were
carried out by a famous trio -- missionaries,
businessmen and troops -- all "armies of compassion"
advancing the values of liberty and freedom. Most
often, missionaries would be sent first to spread the
good word. Then, depending on the situation on the
ground, the army would be sent next to pacify the
region and finally the businessmen would go to do what
they do best; or the businessmen would go second and
the army would be called in to enforce order and
stability. Whatever the scenario, from Algeria to
America, from India to South Africa, from the Middle
East to Indochina, the trio always acted with perfect
chronology and in concert. The reasons for this
worldwide European expansionism, we now know, had more
to do with competitive forces of the nascent era of
capitalism, the opening of new markets and the need
for raw materials than with compassion and generosity.
Nowadays, America, confident of her manifest destiny,
carries on the tradition. And indeed, Mrs. Dole is
correct, "you don't have to be a missionary to be
filled with a sense of mission." Today, we are sailing
across oceans and marching as steadfastly and
relentlessly toward faraway lands as our European
brethrens did in the past. We pacify - that is, we
bring peace to the regions (according obviously to our
definition of the term "peace"), we bring order and
stability in the name of democracy - that is, our way
of spreading the good word (we do throw a few bibles
in the bargain), and we create a safe environment for
our business people (we are PC now) and our investors.
And we talk about "kindness and generosity" and
"faith, neighborliness, and yes, occasional
saintliness." But behind the sanctimonious tirades, we
are still after new markets, appropriation of raw
materials at the lowest possible price and competitive
forces within a more strident and possibly imploding
capitalism (a.k.a. free market economy). I grant you,
we do not gobble up the lands anymore. We simply suck
them out.
By now, if you are still with me there is a good
chance that you either know me personally (you are
reading this out of courtesy and friendliness -- thank
you, please carry on) or, and hopefully and, you have
an open mind (I hear this is fast becoming a rarefied
commodity). But I'd like to illustrate the previous
paragraph with a case in point.
A week or so ago, I asked William (Will) Daley -- a
young man who hopefully will take over my
responsibilities of Network Administrator and Jack of
all trades at the non-profit organization where I've
been working for the past 10 years so that I can
dedicate more time to Swans and ineluctably join the
ranks of the poverty-laden masses -- to do a search on
the Web about Internet Domains and Sub-Domains. Will
came up with the right document following a search on
Google that lead him to a site in Central Asia. But
Will went one step further. He said, "Hey dude, come
and check this out" (I hear that to be called a dude
means that I am "cool." So much to learn, so little
time…) and he showed me a large quantity of technical
documentation posted on that site, presumably
unlawfully (if any of you are computer savvy in UNIX,
Java, CGI, networking, etc., I strongly recommend you
visit the site before they pull it down to remove all
the allegedly infringed copyright documentation).
Well, in a system which is legally codified to rob
from the poor, at least here, the poor are taking
advantage of the wealthy (no class welfare intended;
we all know that classes do not exist, so say the
textbooks). But what really caught my attention was
one short sentence on the Home Page that read: "This
Network is developed with NATO, OSI and EurAsia
support."
Hmmm…
So here we are, on the Web site of the Academy of
Sciences of Uzbekistan… Uzbewhat? What's that?
Impossible to pronounce! Well, that's a country in
Central Asia, a former republic of the deceased Soviet
Union, part of what is now known as NIS (Newly
Independent States). Don't know it, can't find it on
your obsolete world map, don't even have a world map?
Don't worry, it's there, surrounded by Kazakhstan on
the west and north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikstan on the
east, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan on the south and
west, and it has access to the Aral Sea. The capital
is Tashkent. That's all I can tell you. Just notice
that they all have names that rhyme and they all have,
or almost all have, a rare commodity in common. More
about this later.
As for its supporters, you all know about NATO, this
ever so friendly humanitarian organization, defender
of widows and orphans and always ready to bring peace
and stability to a region.
OSI is the acronym for Open Society Institute, one of
the myriad organizations of the Soros Foundations
Network, which is "dedicated to building Open
Societies around the world." In 1997, the
organizations of the Soros Foundations Network spent a
total of $428 million and are now spending about $500
million. Their motto? "The concept of Open Societies
is based on the recognition that people act on
imperfect knowledge and NOBODY IS IN POSSESSION OF THE
ULTIMATE KNOWLEDGE." Mrs. Dole, a good-natured
born-again Christian, may slightly disagree with the
last proposition but would be comforted by the zeal
with which Mr. Soros pursues his mission of supporting
the development of open societies. Such a missionary
fervor includes "an array of initiatives concerned
with arts and culture, children and youth, civil
society development, economic reform, education at all
levels, legal reform and public administration, media
and communications, publishing, and health care," in
"over 30 countries around the world, principally in
Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
but also in Guatemala, Haiti, Mongolia, and Southern
Africa." I strongly recommend you spend a few hours as
I've done in the past few days to familiarize
yourselves with the style and tone packaging those
grandiose generalities. George Soros will be
remembered as a man with a rich and enlightened
mission!
EurAsia (or Eurasia) is a private non-profit
organization based in Washington D.C. and mostly
financed by USAID (i.e., American tax dollars). Of
course, Eurasia has its own mission statement:
"Building institutions . . . Benefiting individuals."
"The Eurasia Foundation promotes the advancement of
democratic institutions and private enterprise in
twelve host countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus,
Georgia, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova,
Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and
Uzbekistan. The Eurasia Foundation believes that
societies function best when citizens take
responsibility for their own civic and economic
future. Foundation programs seek to promote the skills
and vision necessary to bring the greatest social and
economic benefits to individuals and their societies."
Ain't that sweet?
Have you heard of the Silk Road Strategy Act of 1999?
It's a bill that the 106th Congress passed "to amend
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to target
assistance to support the economic and political
independence of the countries of the South Caucasus
and Central Asia." Congress made two significant
findings (among seven) for setting the new policy.
They were:
The development of open market economies and open
democratic systems in the countries of the South
Caucasus and Central Asia will provide positive
incentives for international private investment,
increased trade, and other forms of commercial
interactions with the rest of the world.
The region of the South Caucasus and Central Asia
could produce oil and gas in sufficient quantities to
reduce the dependence of the United States on energy
from the volatile Persian Gulf region.
Did you read "oil?" Really? You really did. OIL.
Accordingly, continues the Silk Road Strategy Act,
It shall be the policy of the United States in the
countries of the South Caucasus and Central Asia--
(1) to promote and strengthen independence,
sovereignty, democratic government, and respect for
human rights;
(2) to promote tolerance, pluralism, and understanding
and counter racism and anti-Semitism;
(3) to assist actively in the resolution of regional
conflicts and to facilitate the removal of impediments
to cross-border commerce;
(4) to promote friendly relations and economic
cooperation;
(5) to help promote market-oriented principles and
practices;
(6) to assist in the development of the infrastructure
necessary for communications, transportation,
education, health, and energy and trade on an
East-West axis in order to build strong international
relations and commerce between those countries and the
stable, democratic, and market-oriented countries of
the Euro-Atlantic Community; and
(7) to support United States business interests and
investments in the region.
Time for you to read again Mrs. Dole's moving remarks…
You know, those "people who carry our values of peace
and democracy around the world, putting service before
self." NATO, Open Society Institute, Eurasia
Foundation…. Silk Road Strategy Act…All armies and
tools of compassion "willing to cross town or cross
the globe to minister to those they've never met and
will never see again." So much generosity, so much
goodness. Soros and Dole, our divine saviors; NATO,
our heroic pacifier. My eyes are filled with tears of
admiration.
Here is an example of such generosity: "Since the U.S.
Trade and Development Agency's inception in 1981, we
have been associated with approximately $16 billion in
exports -- or nearly $37 in exports for every dollar
invested in TDA activities" (Source tda.gov). Oops,
wrong example!
Did I mention that the South Caucasus and Central Asia
are geographically located in the Russian Federation's
southern backyard? Turn the case on its head for one
minute and imagine the same scenario with this time
Mexico being the target of Russian armies of
compassion…
Who's the idiot that uttered that we had reached the
end of history? Looks quite alive to me. History is
still very present, though it repeats itself at an
accelerated pace. Perhaps, like the new economy of
late we now have a new history. What has changed is
that the missionaries, the business people and the
troops are now roaming the world together, hand in
hand advancing the civilizing mission of the Occident.
But the purpose remains the same: pilfering and
enriching themselves. Don't you love this age of
compassionate humanitarianism?
Those armies of compassion…An old story indeed!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Resources regarding this article
The Network of Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan This
is the culprit. Be aware that the site is often down
and quite slow.
Silk Road Strategy Act of 1999 The bill is posted on
Eurasianet.org (Soros).
Uzbekistan International Involvement Links Also on
Eurasianet.org (Soros).
Eurasianet.org A project of the Open Society
Institute.
Central Eurasia Academy Link From the friends at
Eurasianet.org (Soros).
Soros Foundations Network The main site of dedicated
to George Soros' missionary "philanthropy." Myriad
pages and activities. Of interest is the FAQ on what
is an "open society".
The Eurasia Foundation Nicely financed by USAID.
Eurasia Foundation's Links to NIS-related sites Visit
the entire region through this page.
List of academic programs (Harvard U.) This will give
a good idea of the interests the region attracts.
USAID for Uzbekistan US generosity in display. The
site has pages about the other countries in the
region.
NATO The main site of our heroic pacifier. Look for
NATO ASI (Advanced Study Institute).
NATO Advanced Research Workshops Continuing
Education.
U.S. Trade and Development Agency A return of $37 for
every $1 invested...
The Silk Road Foundation A privately funded
organization. There are many more like this one.
Swans - http://www.swans.com
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MISSIONARI - preti cattolici nell'Ottocento, ONG (e preti cattolici) nel
2000;
MERCANTI - Rockfeller nell'Ottocento, Soros (e Rockfeller) nel 2000
MILITARI - eserciti dei paesi coloniali nell'Ottocento, NATO (ed
eserciti dei paesi coloniali) nel 2000.
---
DIANA JOHNSTONE: "UNA CROCIATA UMANITARIA"
http://www.inthesetimes.com/johnstone2420.html
[The following is one of two responses, the other is
by Edward Herman, to an egregious but by this time
typical In These Times piece on the Balkans. Typical,
that is, since the publication's editor, David Moberg,
signed on to the 'progressive' version of the
Blair/Clinton Doctrine of soi-disant moral imperialism
and Third Way neo-colonialism for allegedly backward
peoples. I'm not sure if the hardcopy version of it is
longer, or if this is all there is.]
In These Times
September 4, 2000
A Humanitarian Crusade
By Diana Johnstone
Few issues have provoked as much debate among
progressive Americans in recent years as the war in
the Balkans. In the following article, Diana Johnstone
responds to Paul Hockenos' essay "Human Wrongs: How
the Great Powers Failed the Balkans," which appeared
in the August 7 issue of the magazine.
In the obscure mix of motives behind such an action as
NATO intervention in the Balkans, some motives - and
not those most openly proclaimed - may turn out to be
more operative than others. NATO's professed objective
of creating a multi-ethnic, humanitarian democracy in
Kosovo - no doubt the sincere desire of some of the
many lesser supporters in NATO's "humanitarian
crusade," especially intellectuals who have mistaken
Balkan windmills for Hitlerian dragons - is a
resounding failure. Rather than "stability" the
operation has produced many of the effects Hockenos
claims it wished to prevent.
For Hockenos, criticism of the new doctrine of
"humanitarian intervention" has strict limits. It is
all right to want to make it more effective by using
ground warfare rather than air strikes, and by
following up military intervention with "credible,
professional peacekeeping missions that will help
indigenous democratic forces create self-sustaining
democratic institutions and political cultures." In
fact, Hockenos himself, having worked for the OSCE
administration of Bosnia at Banja Luka, has been
actively engaged in the enterprise of teaching
democracy to the local people. This is no doubt an
inspiring and rewarding project, but so was the
imperial civilizing mission of the 19th century. The
Christian missionaries have been replaced by
progressive NGOs.
Idealistic or cynical, those embarked on this crusade
readily partake of a consensus that fiercely rejects
any suggestion that the mission itself might be
basically flawed - that freedom and democracy must be
developed by the people themselves, not by occupying
armies and foreign administrators who know what is
best, as dictated by IMF economists. Imbued with their
own righteousness, the transnational benefactors
indignantly reject the suggestion that the Great
Powers and their armies that make their humanitarian
work possible might have ulterior motives, and might
even be largely responsible for stirring up the
conflicts and instability that allow them to intervene
in the first place.
---
GILLES D'AYMERY: "IL MISSIONARIO, IL MERCANTE, IL MILITARE"
http://www.swans.com/library/art6/ga092.html
Swans
Armies of Compassion
The Missionary, the Businessman and the Military
by Gilles d'Aymery
August 7, 2000
Note from the Editor: Here is a chance we could not
let pass. This week's real investigative piece is the
result of two totally separate and unrelated events.
First, the discovery by chance of an intriguing Web
site in the Central Asian cyberspace and second, the
remarks that Elizabeth Dole gave at the Republican
National Convention in Philadelphia.
Now, please do not ask why I spent fifteen minutes
listening to Mrs. Dole's rhetoric. The lame excuse is
that her Viagra spokesman of a husband is an old
friend of Swans (irony intended). And don't ask either
why and how I ended up associating those two seemingly
disparate events. Another mystery of life, I guess.
But there is no mystery behind the lesson, "Always
consider the source" and none either behind the veil
of the so-called philanthropic endeavors of
egomaniacs. In the words of Shirley Chisholm, "When
morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that
profit loses."
You will find a series of Web resources at the end of
the article.
"Ladies and gentlemen, in my eight years as President
of the American Red Cross, I saw things that will
haunt me the rest of my life -- the evil that humans
can inflict on one another -- saw it in the dim eyes
of starving children in Somalia and in the paralyzing
grief of parents in Oklahoma City.
"But I have also been uplifted by the extraordinary
power of the American heart -- by those armies of
compassion, who are willing to cross town or cross the
globe to minister to those they've never met and will
never see again.
"People who go where government cannot, and others
will not, who carry our values of peace and democracy
around the world, putting service before self. Such
kindness and generosity are not legislated by any
Congress. They arise from faith, neighborliness, and
yes, occasional saintliness. Indeed, I learned long
ago that you don't have to be a missionary to be
filled with a sense of mission."
[Excerpt] Remarks of Elizabeth Dole
Republican National Convention
3rd Session
Tuesday, August 1, 2000
>From all the sanctified words and holy platitudes
pronounced by the Republican luminaries in
Philadelphia last week, these few lines caught my
attention.
They reminded me of another time when Europeans were
hard at work adding colonies to their respective
empires. In those times, the white Europeans,
confident of their civilizing mission, were sailing
across the oceans and marching steadfastly and
relentlessly toward faraway lands, "carrying their
values of peace and democracy around the world"
(including in America). Those admirable endeavors were
carried out by a famous trio -- missionaries,
businessmen and troops -- all "armies of compassion"
advancing the values of liberty and freedom. Most
often, missionaries would be sent first to spread the
good word. Then, depending on the situation on the
ground, the army would be sent next to pacify the
region and finally the businessmen would go to do what
they do best; or the businessmen would go second and
the army would be called in to enforce order and
stability. Whatever the scenario, from Algeria to
America, from India to South Africa, from the Middle
East to Indochina, the trio always acted with perfect
chronology and in concert. The reasons for this
worldwide European expansionism, we now know, had more
to do with competitive forces of the nascent era of
capitalism, the opening of new markets and the need
for raw materials than with compassion and generosity.
Nowadays, America, confident of her manifest destiny,
carries on the tradition. And indeed, Mrs. Dole is
correct, "you don't have to be a missionary to be
filled with a sense of mission." Today, we are sailing
across oceans and marching as steadfastly and
relentlessly toward faraway lands as our European
brethrens did in the past. We pacify - that is, we
bring peace to the regions (according obviously to our
definition of the term "peace"), we bring order and
stability in the name of democracy - that is, our way
of spreading the good word (we do throw a few bibles
in the bargain), and we create a safe environment for
our business people (we are PC now) and our investors.
And we talk about "kindness and generosity" and
"faith, neighborliness, and yes, occasional
saintliness." But behind the sanctimonious tirades, we
are still after new markets, appropriation of raw
materials at the lowest possible price and competitive
forces within a more strident and possibly imploding
capitalism (a.k.a. free market economy). I grant you,
we do not gobble up the lands anymore. We simply suck
them out.
By now, if you are still with me there is a good
chance that you either know me personally (you are
reading this out of courtesy and friendliness -- thank
you, please carry on) or, and hopefully and, you have
an open mind (I hear this is fast becoming a rarefied
commodity). But I'd like to illustrate the previous
paragraph with a case in point.
A week or so ago, I asked William (Will) Daley -- a
young man who hopefully will take over my
responsibilities of Network Administrator and Jack of
all trades at the non-profit organization where I've
been working for the past 10 years so that I can
dedicate more time to Swans and ineluctably join the
ranks of the poverty-laden masses -- to do a search on
the Web about Internet Domains and Sub-Domains. Will
came up with the right document following a search on
Google that lead him to a site in Central Asia. But
Will went one step further. He said, "Hey dude, come
and check this out" (I hear that to be called a dude
means that I am "cool." So much to learn, so little
time…) and he showed me a large quantity of technical
documentation posted on that site, presumably
unlawfully (if any of you are computer savvy in UNIX,
Java, CGI, networking, etc., I strongly recommend you
visit the site before they pull it down to remove all
the allegedly infringed copyright documentation).
Well, in a system which is legally codified to rob
from the poor, at least here, the poor are taking
advantage of the wealthy (no class welfare intended;
we all know that classes do not exist, so say the
textbooks). But what really caught my attention was
one short sentence on the Home Page that read: "This
Network is developed with NATO, OSI and EurAsia
support."
Hmmm…
So here we are, on the Web site of the Academy of
Sciences of Uzbekistan… Uzbewhat? What's that?
Impossible to pronounce! Well, that's a country in
Central Asia, a former republic of the deceased Soviet
Union, part of what is now known as NIS (Newly
Independent States). Don't know it, can't find it on
your obsolete world map, don't even have a world map?
Don't worry, it's there, surrounded by Kazakhstan on
the west and north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikstan on the
east, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan on the south and
west, and it has access to the Aral Sea. The capital
is Tashkent. That's all I can tell you. Just notice
that they all have names that rhyme and they all have,
or almost all have, a rare commodity in common. More
about this later.
As for its supporters, you all know about NATO, this
ever so friendly humanitarian organization, defender
of widows and orphans and always ready to bring peace
and stability to a region.
OSI is the acronym for Open Society Institute, one of
the myriad organizations of the Soros Foundations
Network, which is "dedicated to building Open
Societies around the world." In 1997, the
organizations of the Soros Foundations Network spent a
total of $428 million and are now spending about $500
million. Their motto? "The concept of Open Societies
is based on the recognition that people act on
imperfect knowledge and NOBODY IS IN POSSESSION OF THE
ULTIMATE KNOWLEDGE." Mrs. Dole, a good-natured
born-again Christian, may slightly disagree with the
last proposition but would be comforted by the zeal
with which Mr. Soros pursues his mission of supporting
the development of open societies. Such a missionary
fervor includes "an array of initiatives concerned
with arts and culture, children and youth, civil
society development, economic reform, education at all
levels, legal reform and public administration, media
and communications, publishing, and health care," in
"over 30 countries around the world, principally in
Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
but also in Guatemala, Haiti, Mongolia, and Southern
Africa." I strongly recommend you spend a few hours as
I've done in the past few days to familiarize
yourselves with the style and tone packaging those
grandiose generalities. George Soros will be
remembered as a man with a rich and enlightened
mission!
EurAsia (or Eurasia) is a private non-profit
organization based in Washington D.C. and mostly
financed by USAID (i.e., American tax dollars). Of
course, Eurasia has its own mission statement:
"Building institutions . . . Benefiting individuals."
"The Eurasia Foundation promotes the advancement of
democratic institutions and private enterprise in
twelve host countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus,
Georgia, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova,
Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and
Uzbekistan. The Eurasia Foundation believes that
societies function best when citizens take
responsibility for their own civic and economic
future. Foundation programs seek to promote the skills
and vision necessary to bring the greatest social and
economic benefits to individuals and their societies."
Ain't that sweet?
Have you heard of the Silk Road Strategy Act of 1999?
It's a bill that the 106th Congress passed "to amend
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to target
assistance to support the economic and political
independence of the countries of the South Caucasus
and Central Asia." Congress made two significant
findings (among seven) for setting the new policy.
They were:
The development of open market economies and open
democratic systems in the countries of the South
Caucasus and Central Asia will provide positive
incentives for international private investment,
increased trade, and other forms of commercial
interactions with the rest of the world.
The region of the South Caucasus and Central Asia
could produce oil and gas in sufficient quantities to
reduce the dependence of the United States on energy
from the volatile Persian Gulf region.
Did you read "oil?" Really? You really did. OIL.
Accordingly, continues the Silk Road Strategy Act,
It shall be the policy of the United States in the
countries of the South Caucasus and Central Asia--
(1) to promote and strengthen independence,
sovereignty, democratic government, and respect for
human rights;
(2) to promote tolerance, pluralism, and understanding
and counter racism and anti-Semitism;
(3) to assist actively in the resolution of regional
conflicts and to facilitate the removal of impediments
to cross-border commerce;
(4) to promote friendly relations and economic
cooperation;
(5) to help promote market-oriented principles and
practices;
(6) to assist in the development of the infrastructure
necessary for communications, transportation,
education, health, and energy and trade on an
East-West axis in order to build strong international
relations and commerce between those countries and the
stable, democratic, and market-oriented countries of
the Euro-Atlantic Community; and
(7) to support United States business interests and
investments in the region.
Time for you to read again Mrs. Dole's moving remarks…
You know, those "people who carry our values of peace
and democracy around the world, putting service before
self." NATO, Open Society Institute, Eurasia
Foundation…. Silk Road Strategy Act…All armies and
tools of compassion "willing to cross town or cross
the globe to minister to those they've never met and
will never see again." So much generosity, so much
goodness. Soros and Dole, our divine saviors; NATO,
our heroic pacifier. My eyes are filled with tears of
admiration.
Here is an example of such generosity: "Since the U.S.
Trade and Development Agency's inception in 1981, we
have been associated with approximately $16 billion in
exports -- or nearly $37 in exports for every dollar
invested in TDA activities" (Source tda.gov). Oops,
wrong example!
Did I mention that the South Caucasus and Central Asia
are geographically located in the Russian Federation's
southern backyard? Turn the case on its head for one
minute and imagine the same scenario with this time
Mexico being the target of Russian armies of
compassion…
Who's the idiot that uttered that we had reached the
end of history? Looks quite alive to me. History is
still very present, though it repeats itself at an
accelerated pace. Perhaps, like the new economy of
late we now have a new history. What has changed is
that the missionaries, the business people and the
troops are now roaming the world together, hand in
hand advancing the civilizing mission of the Occident.
But the purpose remains the same: pilfering and
enriching themselves. Don't you love this age of
compassionate humanitarianism?
Those armies of compassion…An old story indeed!
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Resources regarding this article
The Network of Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan This
is the culprit. Be aware that the site is often down
and quite slow.
Silk Road Strategy Act of 1999 The bill is posted on
Eurasianet.org (Soros).
Uzbekistan International Involvement Links Also on
Eurasianet.org (Soros).
Eurasianet.org A project of the Open Society
Institute.
Central Eurasia Academy Link From the friends at
Eurasianet.org (Soros).
Soros Foundations Network The main site of dedicated
to George Soros' missionary "philanthropy." Myriad
pages and activities. Of interest is the FAQ on what
is an "open society".
The Eurasia Foundation Nicely financed by USAID.
Eurasia Foundation's Links to NIS-related sites Visit
the entire region through this page.
List of academic programs (Harvard U.) This will give
a good idea of the interests the region attracts.
USAID for Uzbekistan US generosity in display. The
site has pages about the other countries in the
region.
NATO The main site of our heroic pacifier. Look for
NATO ASI (Advanced Study Institute).
NATO Advanced Research Workshops Continuing
Education.
U.S. Trade and Development Agency A return of $37 for
every $1 invested...
The Silk Road Foundation A privately funded
organization. There are many more like this one.
Swans - http://www.swans.com
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* La NATO prepara nuove aggressioni umanitarie
* La NATO usa la menzogna sistematica come arma di guerra
>NATO PREPARING NEW MILITARY STRIKE IN BALKANS
>
>By Gregory Elich
>
>Quietly, NATO is laying plans for a new military strike against Yugoslavia.
>On August 13 through 15, CIA Director George Tenet visited Bulgaria. In a
>series of extraordinary meetings, Tenet met with Bulgarian President Petur
>Stoyanov, as well as the Prime Minister, Interior Minister and Defense
>Minister. Officially, the purpose of Tenet's visit was to discuss the
>problem of organized crime and narcotics. However, Tenet spent a combined
>total of only 20 minutes at the headquarters of the National Security
>Service and the National Service for Combating Organized Crime. Unnamed
>diplomatic sources revealed that the proposed oil transit pipeline from the
>Caspian Sea was also topic of discussion.
>
>The driving motivation for Tenet's visit, though, was to discuss
>Yugoslavia. According to an unnamed diplomatic source, Montenegrin
>secession from Yugoslavia topped the agenda. Following the meeting between
>Tenet and Major General Dimo Gyaurov, Director of the National Intelligence
>Service, a public statement was issued which stressed their "commonality of
>interests." Reports in the Bulgarian press revealed that various options
>were discussed with Bulgaria's president and prime minister. Tenet's
>preferred option is the removal of the Yugoslav government, either as a
>result of that country's election on September 24, or by a NATO military
>assault that would install a puppet government. Another scenario would
>follow the secession of Montenegro from Yugoslavia. If open warfare breaks
>out over Montenegro's secession, then the United States plans to wage a
>full-scale war against Yugoslavia, as it did in spring 1999. Sofia's
>Monitor reported that the "CIA coup machine" is forming. "A strike against
>Belgrade is imminent," it adds, and "Bulgaria will serve as a base." (1)
>
>The Italian army recently signed a lease contract to conduct training
>exercises beginning in October at the Koren training ground, near Kaskovo
>in southeast Bulgaria. The French army signed a similar agreement, in which
>French soldiers and tanks will train at the Novo Selo grounds in central
>Bulgaria from October 11 to December 12. Talks are also underway for the
>U.S. military to lease the Shabla training grounds in northeastern
>Bulgaria. Scheduled to take place following the election in Yugoslavia, the
>training exercises could serve as a launching pad for NATO's planned
>military strike. It was recently announced that the British aircraft
>carrier HMS Invincible is to be redeployed to the Adriatic over the next
>few months in support of a potential conflict over Montenegro (2)
>
>Military force is only one component of the West's destabilization campaign
>against Yugoslavia. In November 1998, President Clinton launched a plan for
>the overthrow of the government of Yugoslavia. The initial emphasis of the
>plan centered on supporting secessionist forces in Montenegro and the
>right-wing opposition in Serbia. (3) Several months later, during the
>bombing of Yugoslavia, Clinton signed a secret paper instructing the CIA to
>topple the Yugoslav government. The plan called for the CIA to secretly
>fund opposition groups and the recruitment of moles in the Yugoslav
>government and military. (4) On July 8, 1999, U.S. and British officials
>revealed that commando teams were training snatch operations to seize
>alleged war criminals and Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. As an
>encouragement to mercenaries, the U.S. State Department also announced a $5
>million bounty for President Milosevic. (5)
>
>Several Yugoslav government officials and prominent individuals, including
>Defense Minister Pavle Bulatovic, have been gunned down. Most of these
>crimes remain unsolved, as the assassins managed to escape. Police
>apprehended one assassin, Milivoje Gutovic, after he shot Vojvodina
>Executive Council President Bosko Perosevic at an agricultural fair in Novi
>Sad. During interrogations, Gutovic admitted to police that he worked for
>the right-wing Serbian Renewal Movement. (6)
>
>Goran Zugic, security advisor to secessionist Montenegrin President Milo
>Djukanovic, was murdered late on May 31, 2000. The assassin escaped,
>allowing Western leaders to blame President Milosevic. Coming just one week
>before crucial local elections in Montenegro, forces opposing President
>Milosevic stood to gain from the murder, as the effect would tend to sway
>undecided voters in favor of secessionist parties. A few days after the
>assassination, Yugoslav Minister of Information Goran Matic held a press
>conference, at which he accused the CIA of complicity in the murder. Matic
>played a taped recording of two telephone conversations between head of the
>US mission in Dubrovnik Sean Burns, US State Department official James
>Swaggert, Gabriel Escobar of the US economic group in Montenegro and Paul
>Davies of the US Agency for International Development. Excerpts of the
>conversations, recorded 20 minutes after the assassination and again three
>hours later, included comments such as, "It was professional," and "Mission
>accomplished." (7)
>
>The first publicly known Western plan to assassinate President Milosevic
>was drafted in 1992. Richard Tomlinson, a former British MI6 employee,
>later disclosed the plan. His task as an MI6 agent was to carry out
>undercover operations in Eastern Europe posing as a businessman or
>journalist. Tomlinson frequently met with MI6 officer Nick Fishwick. During
>one their meetings, Fishwick showed Tomlinson a document entitled, "The
>Need to Assassinate President Milosevic of Serbia." Three methods were
>proposed for the assassination of Milosevic. The first method, Tomlinson
>recalled, "was to train and equip a Serbian paramilitary opposition group,"
>which would have the advantage of deniability but an unpredictable chance
>of success. The second method would employ a specially trained British SAS
>squad to murder President Milosevic "either with a bomb or sniper ambush."
>Fishwick considered this more reliable, but it lacked deniability. The
>third method would be to kill Milosevic "in a staged car crash." (8) Seven
>years later, on October 3, 1999, the third method was employed against the
>leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement, Vuk Draskovic, when a truck filled
>with sand plowed into his car, killing everyone inside except for
>Draskovic. The temperamental Draskovic had been a major factor in the
>chronic fragmentation of the right-wing opposition, frustrating
>Washington's efforts to forge a unified opposition. (9)
>
>During NATO's war against Yugoslavia, a missile struck President
>Milosevic's home on April 22, 1999. He and his wife were staying elsewhere
>that evening. Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon was quick to announce that "we
>are not targeting President Milosevic." It is impossible, though, to view a
>missile striking Milosevic's bedroom at 3:10 AM as anything but an
>assassination attempt. (10)
>
>In November 1999, members of an assassination squad, code-named "Spider,"
>were arrested in Yugoslavia. According to Minister Goran Matic, "French
>intelligence was behind" the Spider group, whose aim was the assassination
>of President Milosevic. Planned scenarios included a sniper attack,
>planting an explosive device alongside a route they expected Milosevic to
>travel, planting an explosive in his car, and organizing 10 trained
>commandos to storm the presidential residence. The leader of the group,
>Jugoslav Petrusic, had dual Yugoslav and French citizenship. Matic claimed
>that Petrusic worked for French intelligence for ten years. During
>interrogations, Petrusic said that he had killed 50 men on orders by French
>intelligence. Matic announced that one of the members of Spider was a
>"specialist for killings with a truck full of sand" - the same method used
>against Draskovic the previous month.
>
>Following the Bosnian war, Petrusic organized the transport of 180 Bosnian
>Serb mercenaries to fight for Mobutu Sese Seku in Zaire, an affair that was
>managed by French intelligence. According to a Bosnian Serb businessman,
>Petrusic "did not hide the fact that he was working for the French
>intelligence service. I have personally seen a photo of him next to
>Mitterand as his bodyguard." In younger days, Petrusic was a member of the
>French Foreign Legion. During NATO's war against Yugoslavia, the Spider
>group infiltrated the Yugoslav Army, supplying information to the French
>and guiding NATO warplanes to their targets.
>
>Yugoslav secret service sources revealed that the Spider group trained at
>NATO bases in Bosnia where "buildings resembling those where Milosevic
>lives were constructed." Money from the French intelligence service for
>Spider was brought to the border between Hungary and Yugoslavia by a man
>named Serge Lazarevic. (11)
>
>One month later, the members of a second hit team, calling itself the
>Serbian Liberation Army, was arrested. Their aim was to assassinate
>President Milosevic and restore the monarchy. (12)
>
>At the end of July 2000, a squad of four Dutch commandos was apprehended
>while attempting to cross into Serbia from Montenegro. During the
>investigation, they admitted that they intended to kill or kidnap President
>Milosevic. The four said that they were informed that $30 million had been
>offered for "Milosevic's head," and that they intended to "claim a reward."
>One of the men said that the group planned to abduct Milosevic or former
>Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic and "surrender them to The Hague."
>The group planned to put them atop a car "in a ski box and transport
>them.out of the country." If the abduction failed, one of the men "had the
>idea to kill the president, to decapitate his head, to put it in the box
>and to send it home" to the Netherlands.
>
>One of the arrested men, Gotfrides de Ri, belonged to the openly racist
>neo-nazi Center Party. During the wars in Croatia and Bosnia, the Center
>Party sent Dutch mercenaries to fight in right-wing Croatian paramilitary
>units. At the time of their arrest, the four were found with several
>knives, including one with a swastika, and wires with hooks for
>strangulation. All four admitted that they had trained under the British
>SAS. At a news conference on August 1, Goran Matic accused the U.S of being
>the prime sponsor of assassinations and attempted assassinations. "It is
>obvious that they are recruiting various terrorist groups because they are
>frustrated with the fact that their military, political and economic goals
>in southeastern Europe have not been realized. [They are] trying to send
>them into the country so that they can change our political and social
>environment." (13) Jonathan Eyal, an advisor to the British government,
>commented recently, "I can't say when it will happen, but I can guarantee
>that Milosevic will end up dead, and he will be followed by a more
>pro-Western government." (14)
>
>Flagrant Western interference is distorting the political process in
>Yugoslavia. U.S. and Western European funds are channelled to right-wing
>opposition parties and media through such organizations as the National
>Endowment for Democracy and George Soros' Open Society Institute. The
>National Democratic Institute (NDI) is yet another of the myriad
>semi-private organizations that have attached themselves like leeches on
>Eastern Europe. The NDI opened an office in Belgrade in 1997, hoping to
>capitalize on opposition attempts to bring down the government through
>street demonstrations. By 1999, the NDI had already trained over 900
>right-wing party leaders and activists on "message development, public
>outreach and election strategy." NDI also claimed to have provided
>"organizational training and coalition-building expertise" to the
>opposition. (15)
>
>The New Serbia Forum, funded by the British Foreign Office, brings Serbian
>professionals and academics to Hungary on a regular basis for discussions
>with British and Central European "experts." The aim of the meetings is to
>"design a blueprint for post-Milosevic society." The Forum develops reports
>intended to serve as "an action plan" for a future pro-Western government.
>Subjects under discussion have included privatization and economic
>stabilization. The Forum calls for the "reintegration of Yugoslavia into
>the European family," a phrase that translates into the dismantling of the
>socialist economy and inviting Western corporations to swarm in. (16)
>
>Western aims were clearly spelled out in the Stability Pact for
>Southeastern Europe of June 10, 1999. This document called for "creating
>vibrant market economies" in the Balkans, and "markets open to greatly
>expanded foreign trade and private sector investment." One year later, the
>White House issued a fact sheet detailing the "major achievements" of the
>Pact. Among the achievements listed, the European Bank for Reconstruction
>and Development (EBRD) and the International Finance Corporations are said
>to be "mobilizing private investment." By 2002, "new private investment in
>the region" is expected to reach nearly $2 billion. The Pact's Business
>Advisory Council "is visiting all of the countries of Southeast Europe" to
>"offer advice" on investment issues. Another initiative is Hungarian
>involvement with opposition-led local governments and opposition media in
>Serbia.
>
>The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), on July 26, 2000,
>inaugurated an investment fund to be managed by Soros Private Funds
>Management. The Southeast Europe Equity Fund, "will invest in companies in
>the region in a range of sectors." Its purpose, according to the U.S.
>Embassy in Macedonia, is "to provide capital for new business development,
>expansion and privatization." In March 2000, Montenegro signed an agreement
>permitting the operation of OPIC on its territory. Billionaire George Soros
>spelled out what all this means. U.S. involvement in the region, he said,
>"creates investment opportunities," and "I am happy to put my money where
>they are putting theirs." In other words, there is money to be made. George
>Munoz, President and CEO of OPIC was also blunt. "The Southeast Europe
>Equity Fund," he announced, "is an ideal vehicle to connect American
>institutional capital with European entrepreneurs eager to help Americans
>tap their growing markets. OPIC is pleased that Soros Private Funds
>Management has chosen to send a strong, positive signal that Southeast
>Europe is open for business."
>
>The final text of the Stability Pact for Southeast Europe suggested that a
>Yugoslavia that would "respect" the Pact's "principles and objectives"
>would be "welcome" to become a full member. "In order to draw the Federal
>Republic of Yugoslavia closer to this goal," the document declared,
>Montenegro would be an "early beneficiary." Western leaders hope that a
>future pro-Western Yugoslavia would, as has the rest of Eastern Europe, be
>
>"eager to help Americans" make money. (17)
>
>Western leaders yearn to install a puppet government in Belgrade, and place
>their hopes in the fragmented right-wing opposition parties in Serbia. In
>1999, American officials encouraged these parties to organize mass
>demonstrations to overthrow the government, but these rallies quickly
>fizzled due to lack of popular support. When Yugoslav Federal and local
>elections were announced for July 24, 2000, American and Western European
>officials met with leaders of the Serbian opposition parties, urging them
>to unite behind one presidential candidate. Despite U.S. efforts, three
>candidates emerged in opposition to President Milosevic.
>
>At the beginning of August 2000, the U.S. opened an office in Budapest
>specifically tasked to assist opposition parties in Yugoslavia. Among the
>staff are 24 psychological warfare specialists who engaged in psychological
>operations during NATO's war against Yugoslavia and earlier against Iraq in
>the Gulf War. During those operations, the team also fabricated news items
>in an effort to sway Western public opinion.
>
>If President Milosevic is re-elected, then U.S. Secretary of State
>Madeleine Albright expects street demonstrations to overturn the election
>results and topple the government. In meetings held in Banja Luka in spring
>2000, Albright expressed disappointment with the failure of past efforts to
>overthrow the legally elected Yugoslav government. Albright said that she
>had hoped sanctions would lead people to "blame Milosevic for this
>suffering." An exasperated Albright wondered, "What was stopping the people
>from taking to the streets?" Indicating that the U.S. was casting about for
>a pretext for intervention, she added, "Something needs to happen in Serbia
>that the West can support." (18)
>
>The paths of Yugoslavia's two republics are sharply diverging, and
>Montenegro has embarked on a program to place its entire economy at the
>service of the West. November 1999 saw the introduction in Montenegro of
>the German mark as an official currency and the passage of legislation
>eliminating socially owned property. One month later, several large firms
>were publicly offered for sale, including the Electric Power Company, the
>13th July Agricultural Complex, the Hotel-Tourist firm Boka and many
>others. (19) The republic's privatization program for 2000 calls for the
>privatization of most state-owned industries, and includes measures to
>"protect domestic and foreign investors." Three hundred firms will be
>privatized in the initial stage of the plan. In early 2000, the U.S. signed
>an agreement to provide Montenegro $62 million, including $44 million from
>the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). According to the
>agency, it will also undertake "assistance programs to support economic
>reform and restructuring the economy..to advance Montenegro toward a free
>market economy." U.S. policy advisor on the Balkans James Dobbins indicated
>that the U.S. viewed the "market-oriented reforms of the Djukanovic regime
>as a model and stimulus for similar reforms throughout the former
>Yugoslavia." The U.S. is also offering guarantees for private investors in
>the republic. Additional aid is provided by the European Union, which has
>approved $36 million for Montenegro. "From the first day," admitted
>Djukanovic, "we have had British and European consultants." (20)
>
>The Center for International Private Enterprise, an affiliate of the U.S.
>Chamber of Commerce, is providing support to the Center for
>Entrepreneurship (CEP) in Montenegro. According to the center's executive
>director, Petar Ivanovic, the organization "focuses on elementary and high
>schools," establishing entrepreneurship as a new subject to be taught in
>schools. As Ivanovic explains it, "Introducing young people to the concept
>of entrepreneurship will make them less resistant to the private sector."
>The CEP also intends to "educate government officials about the potential
>rewards of the private sector," and to help them "understand the benefits
>of economic reform and privatization." (21) According to Djukanovic, when
>he met with President Clinton on June 21, 1999, the U.S. president gave the
>privatization process a push by telling Djukanovic that the U.S. planned to
>"stimulate the economy" by "encouraging US corporations and banks to invest
>capital in Montenegro." (22)
>
>Djukanovic has moved steadily toward secession from Yugoslavia, indicating
>that he will push for separation if the right-wing opposition loses the
>September 24 election. In a phone call to Djukanovic in July 2000,
>Madeleine Albright promised that the U.S would provide him with an
>additional $16.5 million. That same week, Djukanovic blurted out that
>Montenegro "is no longer part of Yugoslavia." He also made the astonishing
>claim that he considered it a "priority" for Montenegro to join NATO, the
>organization that had bombed his country only the year before. The next
>month, Albright announced that she and Djukanovic "try and talk to each
>other and meet on a regular basis," and that the "United States is
>supportive of the approach that President Djukanovic has taken in terms of
>democratic development and his approach to the economic reforms also." (23)
>
>Western support for secession extends beyond Albright meeting and talking
>with Djukanovic. More than half of the population of Montenegro opposes
>secession, and any such move is likely to explode into violence. In
>preparation for that rift, Djukanovic is building up a private army of over
>20,000 soldiers, the Special Police, including special forces armed with
>anti-tank weapons. Sources in Montenegro revealed that Western special
>forces are training this private army. Djukanovic has requested that NATO
>establish an "air shield over Montenegro" as he moves toward secession. One
>member of the Special Police, named Velibor, confirmed that they were
>receiving training from the British SAS. "If there is a situation where
>weapons will decide the outcome, we are ready," he said. "We are training
>for that." At a press conference on August 1, 2000, Minister Goran Matic
>declared that the "British are carrying out part of the training of the
>Montenegrin special units. It is also true," he added, that the Special
>Police "are intensively obtaining various kinds and types of weapons,
>starting with anti-aircraft and anti-helicopter weapons and so on, and they
>are also being assisted by Croatia, as the weapons go through Dubrovnik and
>other places." Furthermore, Matic pointed out that, "last year, before and
>after the aggression, a group from within the Montenegrin MUP [Ministry of
>Interior Affairs] structure left for training within the U.S. police
>structure and the U.S. intelligence structures." In August, two armored
>vehicles bound for Montenegro were discovered in the port of Ancona, Italy.
>One of the vehicles was fitted with a turret suitable for mounting a
>machine gun or anti-tank weapon. Italian customs officials, reports the
>Italian news service ANSA, are "convinced" that arms trafficking to
>Montenegro "is of far greater magnitude than this single episode might lead
>one to believe." Revelling in anticipation of armed conflict, Djukanovic
>bragged that "many will tuck their tails between their legs and will soon
>have to flee Montenegro." (24)
>
>A violent conflict in Montenegro would provide NATO with its long-desired
>pretext for intervention. As early as October 1999, General Wesley Clark
>drew up plans for a NATO invasion of Montenegro. The plan envisions an
>amphibious assault by more than 2,000 Marines storming the port of Bar and
>securing the port as a beachhead for pushing inland. Troops ferried by
>helicopters would seize the airport at Podgorica, while NATO warplanes
>would bomb and strafe resisting Yugoslav forces. According to U.S.
>officials, other Western countries have also developed invasion plans. (25)
>Richard Holbrooke, U.S. Ambassador to the UN declared, "We are in constant
>touch with the leadership of Montenegro," and warned that a conflict in
>Montenegro "would be directly affecting NATO's vital interest." (26) NATO
>General Secretary George Robertson was more explicit. "I say to Milosevic:
>watch out, look what happened the last time you miscalculated." (27)
>
>President Milosevic and the ruling coalition enjoy considerable popular
>support in Yugoslavia, and many Western analysts admit they are likely to
>emerge victorious in the September 24 election. This will set in motion,
>possibly within a few months, a NATO strike launched from Bulgaria intended
>to overthrow the legally elected government of Yugoslavia. If the coup
>fails, then Montenegro could declare independence, setting in motion a
>chain of events that would lead to a second all out war by NATO against
>Yugoslavia. The war in 1999 brought immense suffering to the Balkans. The
>next war promises to be catastrophic.
>
>NOTES
>
>1) "Bulgaria - Press Review" BTA (Sofia), August 12, 2000 "Bulgaria - Us
>CIA Director's Visit," BTA (Sofia), August 15, 2000 "CIA Did Not Tell Us
>the Most Important Thing," Trud (Sofia), August 16, 2000 "Bulgaria - Press
>Review," BTA (Sofia), August 14, 2000 "Bulgaria - Press Review," BTA
>(Sofia), August 16, 2000
>
>2) Mila Avramova, "Italians Lease Training Ground for 400,000 Leva," Trud
>(Sofia), August 9, 2000 Michael Evans, "Balkans Watch for 'Invincible',"
>The Times (London), August 26, 2000.
>
>3) Paul Beaver, "Clinton Tells CIA to Oust Milosevic," The Observer,
>November 29, 2000. Fran Visnar, "Clinton and the CIA Have Created a
>Scenario to Overthrow Milosevic," Vijesnik (Zagreb), November 30, 2000.
>
>4) Douglas Waller, "Tearing Down Milosevic," Time Magazine, July 12, 1999.
>
>5) Michael Moran, "A Threat to 'Snatch' Milosevic," MSNBC, July 8, 1999.
>
>6) "Yugoslav Police Say Killer of Local Leader Worked for Opposition,"
>Agence France-Presse,
>
>May 15, 2000.
>
>"Arrested Assassin Gutovic Member of Otpor and SPO," Tanjug (Belgrade), May
>15, 2000.
>
>7) "Yugoslav Official Accuses CIA of Being Behind Montenegro Murder,"
>Agence France-Presse, June 6, 2000. Aleksandar Vasovic, "Serb Aide Says CIA
>Behind Slaying," Associated Press, June 6, 2000 "Yugoslav Information
>Minister Accuses CIA of Complicity in Zugic Murder," Borba (Belgrade), June
>6, 2000
>
>8) Statement by Richard Tomlinson, addressed to John Wadham, September 11,
>1998.
>
>9) "Serb Consensus: Draskovic Crash Was No Accident," Seattle Times News
>Services, October 13, 1999.
>
>10) "NATO: Milosevic Not Target," BBC News, April 22, 1999.
>
>11) "Serbs Allege Milosevic Assassination Plot," Reuters, November 25,
>1999. "France Plots to Murder Milosevic," Agence France-Presse, November
>26, 1999. "SFOR Units Involved in a Plot to Kill Milosevic," Agence
>France-Presse, December 1, 1999. Gordana Igric, "Alleged 'Assassins' Were
>No Stranger to France," IWPR Balkan Crisis Report (London), November 26,
>1999. Milenko Vasovic, "Belgrade's French Connection," IWPR Balkan Crisis
>Report (London), November 26, 1999.
>
>12) "Lt. Testifies at Milosevic Trial," Associated Press, April 26, 2000.
>
>13) Aleksandar Vasovic, "4 Accused of Milosevic Death Plot," Associated
>Press, July 31, 2000. "Dutchmen Arrested, Accused of Plotting Against
>Milosevic," Agence France-Presse, July 31, 2000. Email correspondence from
>Herman de Tollenaere, quoting from NRC- Business Paper of August 1, 2000.
>"Arrested Dutchmen Admitted Plans to Kill, Kidnap Milosevic," BETA
>(Belgrade), August 17, 2000. "Dutch Espionage Terrorist Gang Arrested in
>Yugoslavia - Minister," Tanjug (Belgrade), July 31, 2000. "Yugoslav
>Information Minister Says U.S. Behind Dutch 'Mercenaries'," BBC Monitoring
>Service, August 1, 2000.
>
>14) "West Sees Noose Tightening Around Milosevic," Reuters, June 9, 2000.
>
>15) "NDI Activities in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
>(Serbia-Montenegro)," NDI Worldwide Activities, www.ndi.org
>
>16) "Britain Trains New Elite for Post-Milosevic Era," The Independent, May
>3, 2000. The New Serbia Forum web page,
>http://ds.dial.pipex.com/town/way/glj77/Serbia.htm
>
>17) "Final Text of Stability Pact for Southeast Europe," June 10, 1999.
>U.S. Embassy, Skopje, Macedonia, "Southeast Europe Equity Fund Launched
>July 26," July 27, 2000. White House Fact Sheet, "The Stability Pact for
>Southeast Europe: One Year Later," July 27, 2000.
>
>18) Borislav Komad, "At Albright's Signal," Vecernje Novosti, May 18, 2000.
>"US Anti-Yugoslav Office Opens in Budapest," Tanjug (Belgrade), August 21,
>2000.
>
>19) Ljubinka Cagorovic, "Montenegro Assembly Scraps Socially-Owned
>Property," Reuters, November 13, 1999. "Montenegrin Government Prepares to
>Privatise Economy," Tanjug (Belgrade), December 25, 1999.
>
>20) Central and Eastern European Business Information Center, "Southeastern
>Europe Business Brief," February 3, 2000. Central and Eastern European
>Business Information Center, "Southeastern Europe Business Brief," April
>27, 2000. Anne Swardson, "West Grows Close to Montenegro," Washington Post,
>May 24, 2000.
>
>21) Petar Invanovic, "Montenegro: Laying the Foundation of
>Entrepreneurship," Center for International Private Enterprise.
>
>22) Statement by Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic, "Important Step in
>Opening New Perspectives For Montenegrin State Policy," Pobjeda
>(Podgorica), June 22, 1999.
>
>23) "Albright Renews Montenegro Support," Associated Press, July 13, 2000.
>"Montenegro Wants to Join NATO and the EU," Agence France-Presse, July 10,
>2000. Office of the Spokesman, U.S. Department of State, "Secretary of
>State Madeleine K. Albright and Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic,"
>Press Stakeout at Excelsior Hotel, Rome, Italy, August 1, 2000.
>
>24) "Montenegro Ahead of Elections: Boycott and Threats," BETA (Belgrade),
>August 9, 2000. "Montenegro and Elections - Boycott Becomes Official," BETA
>(Belgrade), August 17, 2000. Phil Reese, "We Have the Heart for Battle,
>Says Montenegrin Trained by SAS," The Independent, July 30, 2000. "Yugoslav
>Information Minister Says U.S. Behind Dutch 'Mercenaries'", BBC Monitoring
>Service, August 1, 2000. "Yugoslavia Says British SAS Trains Montenegrins,"
>Reuters, August 1, 2000. "Information Minister Sees Montenegrin Arms
>Purchases, Croatian Assistance," BETA (Belgrade), July 31, 2000. "Foreign
>'Dogs of War' Training Montenegrin Police to Attack Army," Tanjug
>(Belgrade), August 9, 2000. "Montenegro: Camouflaged Military Vehicles
>Seized in Ancona," ANSA (Rome), August 21, 2000. "Montenegro: Traffic in
>Camouflaged Armored Vehicles: Investigation into Documentation," ANSA
>(Rome), August 22, 2000.
>
>25) Richard J. Newman, "Balkan Brinkmanship," US News and World Report,
>November 15, 1999.
>
>26) "Clinton Warns Milosevic 'Remains a Threat to Peace'," Agence
>France-Presse, July 29, 2000.
>
>27) "NATO's Robertston Warns Milosevic on Montenegro," Reuters, July 27, 2000.
>
>
>
>Louis Proyect
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>Via Workers World News Service
>Reprinted from the Aug. 31, 2000
>issue of Workers World newspaper
>-------------------------
>
>It was all a lie
>
>NATO ADMITS YUGOSLAVS CARRIED OUT NO MASS KILLINGS IN KOSOVO
>
>By John Catalinotto
>
>On Aug. 17 NATO officials conceded that the figures they
>released in 1999, allegedly a count of the people killed by
>Yugoslav forces in Kosovo, were much higher than the actual
>number of people killed there.
>
>Findings by forensic teams from the International Criminal
>Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague forced
>NATO's admission. The ICTY exhumed 3,000 bodies and examined
>them.
>
>While they have not yet released a report, ICTY spokespeople
>said that at most 3,000 people were killed. They said there
>was no evidence of mutilations. And they said that not all
>the dead can be proved to be victims of murder or execution.
>
>Last year NATO had charged that Yugoslav forces massacred at
>least 10,000 people. NATO spokespeople implied that 500,000
>supposedly "missing" people also had been killed.
>
>They used these claims to justify NATO bombings that had no
>basis in United Nations treaties or NATO's own charter.
>
>NATO has now been forced to admit in effect that it waged a
>lying propaganda war to win support for its own illegal
>intervention that killed over 3,000 Yugoslavs, about one-
>third of them children.
>
>Washington and NATO have no hard evidence that Yugoslav
>forces carried out even a small-scale massacre of civilians,
>let alone the "genocide" they were charged with.
>
>The ICTY--itself created and funded by the NATO powers--has
>exposed this "Big Lie" of NATO's.
>
>According to a report in the Aug. 18 British Guardian, Mark
>Laity, the acting NATO spokesperson, said: "NATO never said
>the missing were all dead. The figure we stood by was
>10,000." Laity even tried to claim that NATO's intervention
>stopped further killing.
>
>The truth is that since NATO occupied Kosovo, right-wing
>Albanian forces have killed some 1,000 people, mostly Serb
>and Romani, while pushing all non-Albanian peoples out of
>the region.
>
>NATO FORCES LIE AGAIN ABOUT TREPCA
>
>While this exposure of NATO's lies came too late to stop
>last year's bombing, it should be kept in mind by anyone
>evaluating NATO leaders' current statements regarding
>Yugoslavia.
>
>On Aug. 14, French and British forces occupying the Serbian
>province of Kosovo and Metohija seized the smelter at the
>Trepca mines near Kosovo Mitrovica. These are the richest
>nickel and lead mines in Europe. Corporate forces in the
>United States, Britain and France want these mines in their
>hands and not in the hands of the Yugoslav government.
>
>This time the excuse for the action was that the smelter was
>"polluting" the environment. Compared to the pollution
>caused by NATO's deliberate bombing of Pancevo and other
>Yugoslav chemical complexes, not to mention the use of
>radioactive depleted uranium weapons, this pollution is
>minor. In any case, Yugoslav authorities reported that steps
>had already been taken to reduce the smelter's pollution.
>
>The United States, Britain and France--the major NATO powers-
>-are again using a lie to justify an unwarranted and illegal
>seizure of Yugoslav property, just as they lied to justify
>the war in the first place.
>
>The NATO powers and Washington in particular have been
>attempting to intervene in the Yugoslav election scheduled
>for Sept. 24. They have set up an office in Budapest,
>Hungary, to deliver funds to parties in Yugoslavia that
>oppose the current elected president, Slobodan Milosevic.
>
>Seizing the Trepca smelter must be seen as part of this
>election strategy. By taking this step before the election,
>NATO hopes to put the blame for the "loss of Trepca" on
>Milosevic rather than on his opposition.
>
>This strategy was spelled out last fall in a study prepared
>by a think tank funded by multi-billionaire George Soros.
>The report suggested that NATO use the excuse of pollution
>to seize the Trepca mines, and to do it before the election.
>
>Besides trying to undermine the Yugoslav government by
>meddling in the national election, NATO forces have been
>supporting a pro-Western leadership in Montenegro, the
>republic that with Serbia makes up present-day Yugoslavia.
>British officers have been training the Montenegrin police
>to combat the Yugoslav Army.
>
>This was underlined when Yugoslav forces caught two British
>officers who were doing this training, along with two
>Canadians who had equipment that could be used for setting
>explosives. Whatever the outcome of the hearing over charges
>that these four were conducting terrorism, the case has made
>it clear that British imperialism is trying to help pro-
>Western political groups split Montenegro from Yugoslavia.
>
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* La NATO usa la menzogna sistematica come arma di guerra
>NATO PREPARING NEW MILITARY STRIKE IN BALKANS
>
>By Gregory Elich
>
>Quietly, NATO is laying plans for a new military strike against Yugoslavia.
>On August 13 through 15, CIA Director George Tenet visited Bulgaria. In a
>series of extraordinary meetings, Tenet met with Bulgarian President Petur
>Stoyanov, as well as the Prime Minister, Interior Minister and Defense
>Minister. Officially, the purpose of Tenet's visit was to discuss the
>problem of organized crime and narcotics. However, Tenet spent a combined
>total of only 20 minutes at the headquarters of the National Security
>Service and the National Service for Combating Organized Crime. Unnamed
>diplomatic sources revealed that the proposed oil transit pipeline from the
>Caspian Sea was also topic of discussion.
>
>The driving motivation for Tenet's visit, though, was to discuss
>Yugoslavia. According to an unnamed diplomatic source, Montenegrin
>secession from Yugoslavia topped the agenda. Following the meeting between
>Tenet and Major General Dimo Gyaurov, Director of the National Intelligence
>Service, a public statement was issued which stressed their "commonality of
>interests." Reports in the Bulgarian press revealed that various options
>were discussed with Bulgaria's president and prime minister. Tenet's
>preferred option is the removal of the Yugoslav government, either as a
>result of that country's election on September 24, or by a NATO military
>assault that would install a puppet government. Another scenario would
>follow the secession of Montenegro from Yugoslavia. If open warfare breaks
>out over Montenegro's secession, then the United States plans to wage a
>full-scale war against Yugoslavia, as it did in spring 1999. Sofia's
>Monitor reported that the "CIA coup machine" is forming. "A strike against
>Belgrade is imminent," it adds, and "Bulgaria will serve as a base." (1)
>
>The Italian army recently signed a lease contract to conduct training
>exercises beginning in October at the Koren training ground, near Kaskovo
>in southeast Bulgaria. The French army signed a similar agreement, in which
>French soldiers and tanks will train at the Novo Selo grounds in central
>Bulgaria from October 11 to December 12. Talks are also underway for the
>U.S. military to lease the Shabla training grounds in northeastern
>Bulgaria. Scheduled to take place following the election in Yugoslavia, the
>training exercises could serve as a launching pad for NATO's planned
>military strike. It was recently announced that the British aircraft
>carrier HMS Invincible is to be redeployed to the Adriatic over the next
>few months in support of a potential conflict over Montenegro (2)
>
>Military force is only one component of the West's destabilization campaign
>against Yugoslavia. In November 1998, President Clinton launched a plan for
>the overthrow of the government of Yugoslavia. The initial emphasis of the
>plan centered on supporting secessionist forces in Montenegro and the
>right-wing opposition in Serbia. (3) Several months later, during the
>bombing of Yugoslavia, Clinton signed a secret paper instructing the CIA to
>topple the Yugoslav government. The plan called for the CIA to secretly
>fund opposition groups and the recruitment of moles in the Yugoslav
>government and military. (4) On July 8, 1999, U.S. and British officials
>revealed that commando teams were training snatch operations to seize
>alleged war criminals and Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. As an
>encouragement to mercenaries, the U.S. State Department also announced a $5
>million bounty for President Milosevic. (5)
>
>Several Yugoslav government officials and prominent individuals, including
>Defense Minister Pavle Bulatovic, have been gunned down. Most of these
>crimes remain unsolved, as the assassins managed to escape. Police
>apprehended one assassin, Milivoje Gutovic, after he shot Vojvodina
>Executive Council President Bosko Perosevic at an agricultural fair in Novi
>Sad. During interrogations, Gutovic admitted to police that he worked for
>the right-wing Serbian Renewal Movement. (6)
>
>Goran Zugic, security advisor to secessionist Montenegrin President Milo
>Djukanovic, was murdered late on May 31, 2000. The assassin escaped,
>allowing Western leaders to blame President Milosevic. Coming just one week
>before crucial local elections in Montenegro, forces opposing President
>Milosevic stood to gain from the murder, as the effect would tend to sway
>undecided voters in favor of secessionist parties. A few days after the
>assassination, Yugoslav Minister of Information Goran Matic held a press
>conference, at which he accused the CIA of complicity in the murder. Matic
>played a taped recording of two telephone conversations between head of the
>US mission in Dubrovnik Sean Burns, US State Department official James
>Swaggert, Gabriel Escobar of the US economic group in Montenegro and Paul
>Davies of the US Agency for International Development. Excerpts of the
>conversations, recorded 20 minutes after the assassination and again three
>hours later, included comments such as, "It was professional," and "Mission
>accomplished." (7)
>
>The first publicly known Western plan to assassinate President Milosevic
>was drafted in 1992. Richard Tomlinson, a former British MI6 employee,
>later disclosed the plan. His task as an MI6 agent was to carry out
>undercover operations in Eastern Europe posing as a businessman or
>journalist. Tomlinson frequently met with MI6 officer Nick Fishwick. During
>one their meetings, Fishwick showed Tomlinson a document entitled, "The
>Need to Assassinate President Milosevic of Serbia." Three methods were
>proposed for the assassination of Milosevic. The first method, Tomlinson
>recalled, "was to train and equip a Serbian paramilitary opposition group,"
>which would have the advantage of deniability but an unpredictable chance
>of success. The second method would employ a specially trained British SAS
>squad to murder President Milosevic "either with a bomb or sniper ambush."
>Fishwick considered this more reliable, but it lacked deniability. The
>third method would be to kill Milosevic "in a staged car crash." (8) Seven
>years later, on October 3, 1999, the third method was employed against the
>leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement, Vuk Draskovic, when a truck filled
>with sand plowed into his car, killing everyone inside except for
>Draskovic. The temperamental Draskovic had been a major factor in the
>chronic fragmentation of the right-wing opposition, frustrating
>Washington's efforts to forge a unified opposition. (9)
>
>During NATO's war against Yugoslavia, a missile struck President
>Milosevic's home on April 22, 1999. He and his wife were staying elsewhere
>that evening. Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon was quick to announce that "we
>are not targeting President Milosevic." It is impossible, though, to view a
>missile striking Milosevic's bedroom at 3:10 AM as anything but an
>assassination attempt. (10)
>
>In November 1999, members of an assassination squad, code-named "Spider,"
>were arrested in Yugoslavia. According to Minister Goran Matic, "French
>intelligence was behind" the Spider group, whose aim was the assassination
>of President Milosevic. Planned scenarios included a sniper attack,
>planting an explosive device alongside a route they expected Milosevic to
>travel, planting an explosive in his car, and organizing 10 trained
>commandos to storm the presidential residence. The leader of the group,
>Jugoslav Petrusic, had dual Yugoslav and French citizenship. Matic claimed
>that Petrusic worked for French intelligence for ten years. During
>interrogations, Petrusic said that he had killed 50 men on orders by French
>intelligence. Matic announced that one of the members of Spider was a
>"specialist for killings with a truck full of sand" - the same method used
>against Draskovic the previous month.
>
>Following the Bosnian war, Petrusic organized the transport of 180 Bosnian
>Serb mercenaries to fight for Mobutu Sese Seku in Zaire, an affair that was
>managed by French intelligence. According to a Bosnian Serb businessman,
>Petrusic "did not hide the fact that he was working for the French
>intelligence service. I have personally seen a photo of him next to
>Mitterand as his bodyguard." In younger days, Petrusic was a member of the
>French Foreign Legion. During NATO's war against Yugoslavia, the Spider
>group infiltrated the Yugoslav Army, supplying information to the French
>and guiding NATO warplanes to their targets.
>
>Yugoslav secret service sources revealed that the Spider group trained at
>NATO bases in Bosnia where "buildings resembling those where Milosevic
>lives were constructed." Money from the French intelligence service for
>Spider was brought to the border between Hungary and Yugoslavia by a man
>named Serge Lazarevic. (11)
>
>One month later, the members of a second hit team, calling itself the
>Serbian Liberation Army, was arrested. Their aim was to assassinate
>President Milosevic and restore the monarchy. (12)
>
>At the end of July 2000, a squad of four Dutch commandos was apprehended
>while attempting to cross into Serbia from Montenegro. During the
>investigation, they admitted that they intended to kill or kidnap President
>Milosevic. The four said that they were informed that $30 million had been
>offered for "Milosevic's head," and that they intended to "claim a reward."
>One of the men said that the group planned to abduct Milosevic or former
>Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic and "surrender them to The Hague."
>The group planned to put them atop a car "in a ski box and transport
>them.out of the country." If the abduction failed, one of the men "had the
>idea to kill the president, to decapitate his head, to put it in the box
>and to send it home" to the Netherlands.
>
>One of the arrested men, Gotfrides de Ri, belonged to the openly racist
>neo-nazi Center Party. During the wars in Croatia and Bosnia, the Center
>Party sent Dutch mercenaries to fight in right-wing Croatian paramilitary
>units. At the time of their arrest, the four were found with several
>knives, including one with a swastika, and wires with hooks for
>strangulation. All four admitted that they had trained under the British
>SAS. At a news conference on August 1, Goran Matic accused the U.S of being
>the prime sponsor of assassinations and attempted assassinations. "It is
>obvious that they are recruiting various terrorist groups because they are
>frustrated with the fact that their military, political and economic goals
>in southeastern Europe have not been realized. [They are] trying to send
>them into the country so that they can change our political and social
>environment." (13) Jonathan Eyal, an advisor to the British government,
>commented recently, "I can't say when it will happen, but I can guarantee
>that Milosevic will end up dead, and he will be followed by a more
>pro-Western government." (14)
>
>Flagrant Western interference is distorting the political process in
>Yugoslavia. U.S. and Western European funds are channelled to right-wing
>opposition parties and media through such organizations as the National
>Endowment for Democracy and George Soros' Open Society Institute. The
>National Democratic Institute (NDI) is yet another of the myriad
>semi-private organizations that have attached themselves like leeches on
>Eastern Europe. The NDI opened an office in Belgrade in 1997, hoping to
>capitalize on opposition attempts to bring down the government through
>street demonstrations. By 1999, the NDI had already trained over 900
>right-wing party leaders and activists on "message development, public
>outreach and election strategy." NDI also claimed to have provided
>"organizational training and coalition-building expertise" to the
>opposition. (15)
>
>The New Serbia Forum, funded by the British Foreign Office, brings Serbian
>professionals and academics to Hungary on a regular basis for discussions
>with British and Central European "experts." The aim of the meetings is to
>"design a blueprint for post-Milosevic society." The Forum develops reports
>intended to serve as "an action plan" for a future pro-Western government.
>Subjects under discussion have included privatization and economic
>stabilization. The Forum calls for the "reintegration of Yugoslavia into
>the European family," a phrase that translates into the dismantling of the
>socialist economy and inviting Western corporations to swarm in. (16)
>
>Western aims were clearly spelled out in the Stability Pact for
>Southeastern Europe of June 10, 1999. This document called for "creating
>vibrant market economies" in the Balkans, and "markets open to greatly
>expanded foreign trade and private sector investment." One year later, the
>White House issued a fact sheet detailing the "major achievements" of the
>Pact. Among the achievements listed, the European Bank for Reconstruction
>and Development (EBRD) and the International Finance Corporations are said
>to be "mobilizing private investment." By 2002, "new private investment in
>the region" is expected to reach nearly $2 billion. The Pact's Business
>Advisory Council "is visiting all of the countries of Southeast Europe" to
>"offer advice" on investment issues. Another initiative is Hungarian
>involvement with opposition-led local governments and opposition media in
>Serbia.
>
>The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), on July 26, 2000,
>inaugurated an investment fund to be managed by Soros Private Funds
>Management. The Southeast Europe Equity Fund, "will invest in companies in
>the region in a range of sectors." Its purpose, according to the U.S.
>Embassy in Macedonia, is "to provide capital for new business development,
>expansion and privatization." In March 2000, Montenegro signed an agreement
>permitting the operation of OPIC on its territory. Billionaire George Soros
>spelled out what all this means. U.S. involvement in the region, he said,
>"creates investment opportunities," and "I am happy to put my money where
>they are putting theirs." In other words, there is money to be made. George
>Munoz, President and CEO of OPIC was also blunt. "The Southeast Europe
>Equity Fund," he announced, "is an ideal vehicle to connect American
>institutional capital with European entrepreneurs eager to help Americans
>tap their growing markets. OPIC is pleased that Soros Private Funds
>Management has chosen to send a strong, positive signal that Southeast
>Europe is open for business."
>
>The final text of the Stability Pact for Southeast Europe suggested that a
>Yugoslavia that would "respect" the Pact's "principles and objectives"
>would be "welcome" to become a full member. "In order to draw the Federal
>Republic of Yugoslavia closer to this goal," the document declared,
>Montenegro would be an "early beneficiary." Western leaders hope that a
>future pro-Western Yugoslavia would, as has the rest of Eastern Europe, be
>
>"eager to help Americans" make money. (17)
>
>Western leaders yearn to install a puppet government in Belgrade, and place
>their hopes in the fragmented right-wing opposition parties in Serbia. In
>1999, American officials encouraged these parties to organize mass
>demonstrations to overthrow the government, but these rallies quickly
>fizzled due to lack of popular support. When Yugoslav Federal and local
>elections were announced for July 24, 2000, American and Western European
>officials met with leaders of the Serbian opposition parties, urging them
>to unite behind one presidential candidate. Despite U.S. efforts, three
>candidates emerged in opposition to President Milosevic.
>
>At the beginning of August 2000, the U.S. opened an office in Budapest
>specifically tasked to assist opposition parties in Yugoslavia. Among the
>staff are 24 psychological warfare specialists who engaged in psychological
>operations during NATO's war against Yugoslavia and earlier against Iraq in
>the Gulf War. During those operations, the team also fabricated news items
>in an effort to sway Western public opinion.
>
>If President Milosevic is re-elected, then U.S. Secretary of State
>Madeleine Albright expects street demonstrations to overturn the election
>results and topple the government. In meetings held in Banja Luka in spring
>2000, Albright expressed disappointment with the failure of past efforts to
>overthrow the legally elected Yugoslav government. Albright said that she
>had hoped sanctions would lead people to "blame Milosevic for this
>suffering." An exasperated Albright wondered, "What was stopping the people
>from taking to the streets?" Indicating that the U.S. was casting about for
>a pretext for intervention, she added, "Something needs to happen in Serbia
>that the West can support." (18)
>
>The paths of Yugoslavia's two republics are sharply diverging, and
>Montenegro has embarked on a program to place its entire economy at the
>service of the West. November 1999 saw the introduction in Montenegro of
>the German mark as an official currency and the passage of legislation
>eliminating socially owned property. One month later, several large firms
>were publicly offered for sale, including the Electric Power Company, the
>13th July Agricultural Complex, the Hotel-Tourist firm Boka and many
>others. (19) The republic's privatization program for 2000 calls for the
>privatization of most state-owned industries, and includes measures to
>"protect domestic and foreign investors." Three hundred firms will be
>privatized in the initial stage of the plan. In early 2000, the U.S. signed
>an agreement to provide Montenegro $62 million, including $44 million from
>the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). According to the
>agency, it will also undertake "assistance programs to support economic
>reform and restructuring the economy..to advance Montenegro toward a free
>market economy." U.S. policy advisor on the Balkans James Dobbins indicated
>that the U.S. viewed the "market-oriented reforms of the Djukanovic regime
>as a model and stimulus for similar reforms throughout the former
>Yugoslavia." The U.S. is also offering guarantees for private investors in
>the republic. Additional aid is provided by the European Union, which has
>approved $36 million for Montenegro. "From the first day," admitted
>Djukanovic, "we have had British and European consultants." (20)
>
>The Center for International Private Enterprise, an affiliate of the U.S.
>Chamber of Commerce, is providing support to the Center for
>Entrepreneurship (CEP) in Montenegro. According to the center's executive
>director, Petar Ivanovic, the organization "focuses on elementary and high
>schools," establishing entrepreneurship as a new subject to be taught in
>schools. As Ivanovic explains it, "Introducing young people to the concept
>of entrepreneurship will make them less resistant to the private sector."
>The CEP also intends to "educate government officials about the potential
>rewards of the private sector," and to help them "understand the benefits
>of economic reform and privatization." (21) According to Djukanovic, when
>he met with President Clinton on June 21, 1999, the U.S. president gave the
>privatization process a push by telling Djukanovic that the U.S. planned to
>"stimulate the economy" by "encouraging US corporations and banks to invest
>capital in Montenegro." (22)
>
>Djukanovic has moved steadily toward secession from Yugoslavia, indicating
>that he will push for separation if the right-wing opposition loses the
>September 24 election. In a phone call to Djukanovic in July 2000,
>Madeleine Albright promised that the U.S would provide him with an
>additional $16.5 million. That same week, Djukanovic blurted out that
>Montenegro "is no longer part of Yugoslavia." He also made the astonishing
>claim that he considered it a "priority" for Montenegro to join NATO, the
>organization that had bombed his country only the year before. The next
>month, Albright announced that she and Djukanovic "try and talk to each
>other and meet on a regular basis," and that the "United States is
>supportive of the approach that President Djukanovic has taken in terms of
>democratic development and his approach to the economic reforms also." (23)
>
>Western support for secession extends beyond Albright meeting and talking
>with Djukanovic. More than half of the population of Montenegro opposes
>secession, and any such move is likely to explode into violence. In
>preparation for that rift, Djukanovic is building up a private army of over
>20,000 soldiers, the Special Police, including special forces armed with
>anti-tank weapons. Sources in Montenegro revealed that Western special
>forces are training this private army. Djukanovic has requested that NATO
>establish an "air shield over Montenegro" as he moves toward secession. One
>member of the Special Police, named Velibor, confirmed that they were
>receiving training from the British SAS. "If there is a situation where
>weapons will decide the outcome, we are ready," he said. "We are training
>for that." At a press conference on August 1, 2000, Minister Goran Matic
>declared that the "British are carrying out part of the training of the
>Montenegrin special units. It is also true," he added, that the Special
>Police "are intensively obtaining various kinds and types of weapons,
>starting with anti-aircraft and anti-helicopter weapons and so on, and they
>are also being assisted by Croatia, as the weapons go through Dubrovnik and
>other places." Furthermore, Matic pointed out that, "last year, before and
>after the aggression, a group from within the Montenegrin MUP [Ministry of
>Interior Affairs] structure left for training within the U.S. police
>structure and the U.S. intelligence structures." In August, two armored
>vehicles bound for Montenegro were discovered in the port of Ancona, Italy.
>One of the vehicles was fitted with a turret suitable for mounting a
>machine gun or anti-tank weapon. Italian customs officials, reports the
>Italian news service ANSA, are "convinced" that arms trafficking to
>Montenegro "is of far greater magnitude than this single episode might lead
>one to believe." Revelling in anticipation of armed conflict, Djukanovic
>bragged that "many will tuck their tails between their legs and will soon
>have to flee Montenegro." (24)
>
>A violent conflict in Montenegro would provide NATO with its long-desired
>pretext for intervention. As early as October 1999, General Wesley Clark
>drew up plans for a NATO invasion of Montenegro. The plan envisions an
>amphibious assault by more than 2,000 Marines storming the port of Bar and
>securing the port as a beachhead for pushing inland. Troops ferried by
>helicopters would seize the airport at Podgorica, while NATO warplanes
>would bomb and strafe resisting Yugoslav forces. According to U.S.
>officials, other Western countries have also developed invasion plans. (25)
>Richard Holbrooke, U.S. Ambassador to the UN declared, "We are in constant
>touch with the leadership of Montenegro," and warned that a conflict in
>Montenegro "would be directly affecting NATO's vital interest." (26) NATO
>General Secretary George Robertson was more explicit. "I say to Milosevic:
>watch out, look what happened the last time you miscalculated." (27)
>
>President Milosevic and the ruling coalition enjoy considerable popular
>support in Yugoslavia, and many Western analysts admit they are likely to
>emerge victorious in the September 24 election. This will set in motion,
>possibly within a few months, a NATO strike launched from Bulgaria intended
>to overthrow the legally elected government of Yugoslavia. If the coup
>fails, then Montenegro could declare independence, setting in motion a
>chain of events that would lead to a second all out war by NATO against
>Yugoslavia. The war in 1999 brought immense suffering to the Balkans. The
>next war promises to be catastrophic.
>
>NOTES
>
>1) "Bulgaria - Press Review" BTA (Sofia), August 12, 2000 "Bulgaria - Us
>CIA Director's Visit," BTA (Sofia), August 15, 2000 "CIA Did Not Tell Us
>the Most Important Thing," Trud (Sofia), August 16, 2000 "Bulgaria - Press
>Review," BTA (Sofia), August 14, 2000 "Bulgaria - Press Review," BTA
>(Sofia), August 16, 2000
>
>2) Mila Avramova, "Italians Lease Training Ground for 400,000 Leva," Trud
>(Sofia), August 9, 2000 Michael Evans, "Balkans Watch for 'Invincible',"
>The Times (London), August 26, 2000.
>
>3) Paul Beaver, "Clinton Tells CIA to Oust Milosevic," The Observer,
>November 29, 2000. Fran Visnar, "Clinton and the CIA Have Created a
>Scenario to Overthrow Milosevic," Vijesnik (Zagreb), November 30, 2000.
>
>4) Douglas Waller, "Tearing Down Milosevic," Time Magazine, July 12, 1999.
>
>5) Michael Moran, "A Threat to 'Snatch' Milosevic," MSNBC, July 8, 1999.
>
>6) "Yugoslav Police Say Killer of Local Leader Worked for Opposition,"
>Agence France-Presse,
>
>May 15, 2000.
>
>"Arrested Assassin Gutovic Member of Otpor and SPO," Tanjug (Belgrade), May
>15, 2000.
>
>7) "Yugoslav Official Accuses CIA of Being Behind Montenegro Murder,"
>Agence France-Presse, June 6, 2000. Aleksandar Vasovic, "Serb Aide Says CIA
>Behind Slaying," Associated Press, June 6, 2000 "Yugoslav Information
>Minister Accuses CIA of Complicity in Zugic Murder," Borba (Belgrade), June
>6, 2000
>
>8) Statement by Richard Tomlinson, addressed to John Wadham, September 11,
>1998.
>
>9) "Serb Consensus: Draskovic Crash Was No Accident," Seattle Times News
>Services, October 13, 1999.
>
>10) "NATO: Milosevic Not Target," BBC News, April 22, 1999.
>
>11) "Serbs Allege Milosevic Assassination Plot," Reuters, November 25,
>1999. "France Plots to Murder Milosevic," Agence France-Presse, November
>26, 1999. "SFOR Units Involved in a Plot to Kill Milosevic," Agence
>France-Presse, December 1, 1999. Gordana Igric, "Alleged 'Assassins' Were
>No Stranger to France," IWPR Balkan Crisis Report (London), November 26,
>1999. Milenko Vasovic, "Belgrade's French Connection," IWPR Balkan Crisis
>Report (London), November 26, 1999.
>
>12) "Lt. Testifies at Milosevic Trial," Associated Press, April 26, 2000.
>
>13) Aleksandar Vasovic, "4 Accused of Milosevic Death Plot," Associated
>Press, July 31, 2000. "Dutchmen Arrested, Accused of Plotting Against
>Milosevic," Agence France-Presse, July 31, 2000. Email correspondence from
>Herman de Tollenaere, quoting from NRC- Business Paper of August 1, 2000.
>"Arrested Dutchmen Admitted Plans to Kill, Kidnap Milosevic," BETA
>(Belgrade), August 17, 2000. "Dutch Espionage Terrorist Gang Arrested in
>Yugoslavia - Minister," Tanjug (Belgrade), July 31, 2000. "Yugoslav
>Information Minister Says U.S. Behind Dutch 'Mercenaries'," BBC Monitoring
>Service, August 1, 2000.
>
>14) "West Sees Noose Tightening Around Milosevic," Reuters, June 9, 2000.
>
>15) "NDI Activities in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
>(Serbia-Montenegro)," NDI Worldwide Activities, www.ndi.org
>
>16) "Britain Trains New Elite for Post-Milosevic Era," The Independent, May
>3, 2000. The New Serbia Forum web page,
>http://ds.dial.pipex.com/town/way/glj77/Serbia.htm
>
>17) "Final Text of Stability Pact for Southeast Europe," June 10, 1999.
>U.S. Embassy, Skopje, Macedonia, "Southeast Europe Equity Fund Launched
>July 26," July 27, 2000. White House Fact Sheet, "The Stability Pact for
>Southeast Europe: One Year Later," July 27, 2000.
>
>18) Borislav Komad, "At Albright's Signal," Vecernje Novosti, May 18, 2000.
>"US Anti-Yugoslav Office Opens in Budapest," Tanjug (Belgrade), August 21,
>2000.
>
>19) Ljubinka Cagorovic, "Montenegro Assembly Scraps Socially-Owned
>Property," Reuters, November 13, 1999. "Montenegrin Government Prepares to
>Privatise Economy," Tanjug (Belgrade), December 25, 1999.
>
>20) Central and Eastern European Business Information Center, "Southeastern
>Europe Business Brief," February 3, 2000. Central and Eastern European
>Business Information Center, "Southeastern Europe Business Brief," April
>27, 2000. Anne Swardson, "West Grows Close to Montenegro," Washington Post,
>May 24, 2000.
>
>21) Petar Invanovic, "Montenegro: Laying the Foundation of
>Entrepreneurship," Center for International Private Enterprise.
>
>22) Statement by Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic, "Important Step in
>Opening New Perspectives For Montenegrin State Policy," Pobjeda
>(Podgorica), June 22, 1999.
>
>23) "Albright Renews Montenegro Support," Associated Press, July 13, 2000.
>"Montenegro Wants to Join NATO and the EU," Agence France-Presse, July 10,
>2000. Office of the Spokesman, U.S. Department of State, "Secretary of
>State Madeleine K. Albright and Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic,"
>Press Stakeout at Excelsior Hotel, Rome, Italy, August 1, 2000.
>
>24) "Montenegro Ahead of Elections: Boycott and Threats," BETA (Belgrade),
>August 9, 2000. "Montenegro and Elections - Boycott Becomes Official," BETA
>(Belgrade), August 17, 2000. Phil Reese, "We Have the Heart for Battle,
>Says Montenegrin Trained by SAS," The Independent, July 30, 2000. "Yugoslav
>Information Minister Says U.S. Behind Dutch 'Mercenaries'", BBC Monitoring
>Service, August 1, 2000. "Yugoslavia Says British SAS Trains Montenegrins,"
>Reuters, August 1, 2000. "Information Minister Sees Montenegrin Arms
>Purchases, Croatian Assistance," BETA (Belgrade), July 31, 2000. "Foreign
>'Dogs of War' Training Montenegrin Police to Attack Army," Tanjug
>(Belgrade), August 9, 2000. "Montenegro: Camouflaged Military Vehicles
>Seized in Ancona," ANSA (Rome), August 21, 2000. "Montenegro: Traffic in
>Camouflaged Armored Vehicles: Investigation into Documentation," ANSA
>(Rome), August 22, 2000.
>
>25) Richard J. Newman, "Balkan Brinkmanship," US News and World Report,
>November 15, 1999.
>
>26) "Clinton Warns Milosevic 'Remains a Threat to Peace'," Agence
>France-Presse, July 29, 2000.
>
>27) "NATO's Robertston Warns Milosevic on Montenegro," Reuters, July 27, 2000.
>
>
>
>Louis Proyect
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>Reprinted from the Aug. 31, 2000
>issue of Workers World newspaper
>-------------------------
>
>It was all a lie
>
>NATO ADMITS YUGOSLAVS CARRIED OUT NO MASS KILLINGS IN KOSOVO
>
>By John Catalinotto
>
>On Aug. 17 NATO officials conceded that the figures they
>released in 1999, allegedly a count of the people killed by
>Yugoslav forces in Kosovo, were much higher than the actual
>number of people killed there.
>
>Findings by forensic teams from the International Criminal
>Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague forced
>NATO's admission. The ICTY exhumed 3,000 bodies and examined
>them.
>
>While they have not yet released a report, ICTY spokespeople
>said that at most 3,000 people were killed. They said there
>was no evidence of mutilations. And they said that not all
>the dead can be proved to be victims of murder or execution.
>
>Last year NATO had charged that Yugoslav forces massacred at
>least 10,000 people. NATO spokespeople implied that 500,000
>supposedly "missing" people also had been killed.
>
>They used these claims to justify NATO bombings that had no
>basis in United Nations treaties or NATO's own charter.
>
>NATO has now been forced to admit in effect that it waged a
>lying propaganda war to win support for its own illegal
>intervention that killed over 3,000 Yugoslavs, about one-
>third of them children.
>
>Washington and NATO have no hard evidence that Yugoslav
>forces carried out even a small-scale massacre of civilians,
>let alone the "genocide" they were charged with.
>
>The ICTY--itself created and funded by the NATO powers--has
>exposed this "Big Lie" of NATO's.
>
>According to a report in the Aug. 18 British Guardian, Mark
>Laity, the acting NATO spokesperson, said: "NATO never said
>the missing were all dead. The figure we stood by was
>10,000." Laity even tried to claim that NATO's intervention
>stopped further killing.
>
>The truth is that since NATO occupied Kosovo, right-wing
>Albanian forces have killed some 1,000 people, mostly Serb
>and Romani, while pushing all non-Albanian peoples out of
>the region.
>
>NATO FORCES LIE AGAIN ABOUT TREPCA
>
>While this exposure of NATO's lies came too late to stop
>last year's bombing, it should be kept in mind by anyone
>evaluating NATO leaders' current statements regarding
>Yugoslavia.
>
>On Aug. 14, French and British forces occupying the Serbian
>province of Kosovo and Metohija seized the smelter at the
>Trepca mines near Kosovo Mitrovica. These are the richest
>nickel and lead mines in Europe. Corporate forces in the
>United States, Britain and France want these mines in their
>hands and not in the hands of the Yugoslav government.
>
>This time the excuse for the action was that the smelter was
>"polluting" the environment. Compared to the pollution
>caused by NATO's deliberate bombing of Pancevo and other
>Yugoslav chemical complexes, not to mention the use of
>radioactive depleted uranium weapons, this pollution is
>minor. In any case, Yugoslav authorities reported that steps
>had already been taken to reduce the smelter's pollution.
>
>The United States, Britain and France--the major NATO powers-
>-are again using a lie to justify an unwarranted and illegal
>seizure of Yugoslav property, just as they lied to justify
>the war in the first place.
>
>The NATO powers and Washington in particular have been
>attempting to intervene in the Yugoslav election scheduled
>for Sept. 24. They have set up an office in Budapest,
>Hungary, to deliver funds to parties in Yugoslavia that
>oppose the current elected president, Slobodan Milosevic.
>
>Seizing the Trepca smelter must be seen as part of this
>election strategy. By taking this step before the election,
>NATO hopes to put the blame for the "loss of Trepca" on
>Milosevic rather than on his opposition.
>
>This strategy was spelled out last fall in a study prepared
>by a think tank funded by multi-billionaire George Soros.
>The report suggested that NATO use the excuse of pollution
>to seize the Trepca mines, and to do it before the election.
>
>Besides trying to undermine the Yugoslav government by
>meddling in the national election, NATO forces have been
>supporting a pro-Western leadership in Montenegro, the
>republic that with Serbia makes up present-day Yugoslavia.
>British officers have been training the Montenegrin police
>to combat the Yugoslav Army.
>
>This was underlined when Yugoslav forces caught two British
>officers who were doing this training, along with two
>Canadians who had equipment that could be used for setting
>explosives. Whatever the outcome of the hearing over charges
>that these four were conducting terrorism, the case has made
>it clear that British imperialism is trying to help pro-
>Western political groups split Montenegro from Yugoslavia.
>
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GLI STESSI VALORI UMANI DEL SENATORE LIEBERMANN
(CANDIDATO SEGRETARIO DI STATO ALLA CASA BIANCA)
"Insieme, Al (Gore) ed io abbiamo valicato i confini del partito per
appoggiare la guerra del Golfo. Io ero nella sua stanza quando si rese
conto che i principi e gli interessi dell'America erano in pericolo in
Kosovo ed in Bosnia"
(Discorso alla Convention nazionale democratica, 16/8/2000)
"Gli USA e l'UCK si battono per gli stessi valori e principi umani...
Combattere per l'UCK e' combattere per i diritti umani e per i valori
americani"
(Washington Post, 28/4/1999)
---
"Together, Al and I crossed party lines to support the
Gulf War. I was there in the room when he forcefully
argued that America's principles and interests were at
stake in Kosovo and Bosnia." (Address to the
Democratic National Convention, August 16, 2000)
"The United States of America and the Kosovo
Liberation Army stand for the same human values and
principles....Fighting for the KLA is fighting for
human rights and American values." (Washington Post,
April 28, 1999)
Or values of those living currently in The White House ?
> http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/8/11/190221
Surprised Hashim Thaqi, KLA commander is guest
on Democratic Convention?
> http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2000/tim2000-8-3.html
More on the esteemed guest:
In February, U.S. special envoy Robert Gelbard asserted that
the KLA "is, without any questions, a terrorist group."
> http://www.cato.org/dailys/8-05-98.html
More on the same values:
> http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/08/15/fp9s1-csm.shtml
Saturday August 12, 2000; 10:35 AM EDT
> http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2000/8/12/93845
'Jews for Morality' Web Site Shut Down After Lieberman Critique
Hours after telling NewsMax.com that Gore vice presidential pick Joe
Lieberman doesn't live up to the standards set by his Orthodox Jewish
faith, Rabbi Yehuda Levin found that his "Jews for Morality" Web site
had been shut down by hackers.
"It seems like Lieberman supporters don't believe in freedom of speech
on the Internet when it comes to people in the Orthodox Jewish community
dissenting from his Orthodoxy," Levin told NewsMax.com on Friday.
Before the hackers struck Wednesday, Levin had complained about
Lieberman's moral hypocrisy.
"It's very ironic that the liberal media is spinning Joe Lieberman as
'Mr. Morality' because he has made a few nice sound bites," said the
Brooklyn rabbi. "But the question is, where's the kosher beef when it
comes to morality?"
Levin repeated his arguments to San Francisco talk host Michael Savage
and on Bob Grant's nationally syndicated radio program.
In his comments to NewsMax.com, he zeroed in on the vice presidential
hopeful's pro-abortion stance, which includes support for the gruesome
procedure known as partial-birth abortion.
"There's no way in the world that any Orthodox Jew could possibly
support something so horrific," said Levin, noting that even Orthodox
children know that abortion is "akin to murder."
The Jews for Morality founder suggested that the hacker attack may be
connected to complaints earlier this week about religion-based smears
against the Connecticut senator on other Web sites.
"I think this is especially interesting in light of the fact that Mr.
Lieberman was crying foul and had Yahoo! shut down some anti-Semitic
sites shortly after it was announced that he was chosen as vice
presidential nominee."
Levin says the attempt to drive him from the Internet is no trifling
matter and urged the candidate to address the issue personally.
"I'm trying to get Senator Lieberman to issue an official statement
disassociating himself from any kind of censorship of Orthodox Jews or
others who are dissenting from Joe Lieberman based on his record of
Orthodoxy - or frankly for any other reason," he told NewsMax.com.
Read the NewsMax.com interview with Rabbi Levin that preceded the hacker
attack on his "Jews for Morality" Web site: Lieberman Void of Moral
'Kosher Beef,' Says Rabbi.
More on Senator Lieberman:
> http://www.rockfordinstitute.org/NewsST081600.htm
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(CANDIDATO SEGRETARIO DI STATO ALLA CASA BIANCA)
"Insieme, Al (Gore) ed io abbiamo valicato i confini del partito per
appoggiare la guerra del Golfo. Io ero nella sua stanza quando si rese
conto che i principi e gli interessi dell'America erano in pericolo in
Kosovo ed in Bosnia"
(Discorso alla Convention nazionale democratica, 16/8/2000)
"Gli USA e l'UCK si battono per gli stessi valori e principi umani...
Combattere per l'UCK e' combattere per i diritti umani e per i valori
americani"
(Washington Post, 28/4/1999)
---
"Together, Al and I crossed party lines to support the
Gulf War. I was there in the room when he forcefully
argued that America's principles and interests were at
stake in Kosovo and Bosnia." (Address to the
Democratic National Convention, August 16, 2000)
"The United States of America and the Kosovo
Liberation Army stand for the same human values and
principles....Fighting for the KLA is fighting for
human rights and American values." (Washington Post,
April 28, 1999)
Or values of those living currently in The White House ?
> http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/8/11/190221
Surprised Hashim Thaqi, KLA commander is guest
on Democratic Convention?
> http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2000/tim2000-8-3.html
More on the esteemed guest:
In February, U.S. special envoy Robert Gelbard asserted that
the KLA "is, without any questions, a terrorist group."
> http://www.cato.org/dailys/8-05-98.html
More on the same values:
> http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/08/15/fp9s1-csm.shtml
Saturday August 12, 2000; 10:35 AM EDT
> http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2000/8/12/93845
'Jews for Morality' Web Site Shut Down After Lieberman Critique
Hours after telling NewsMax.com that Gore vice presidential pick Joe
Lieberman doesn't live up to the standards set by his Orthodox Jewish
faith, Rabbi Yehuda Levin found that his "Jews for Morality" Web site
had been shut down by hackers.
"It seems like Lieberman supporters don't believe in freedom of speech
on the Internet when it comes to people in the Orthodox Jewish community
dissenting from his Orthodoxy," Levin told NewsMax.com on Friday.
Before the hackers struck Wednesday, Levin had complained about
Lieberman's moral hypocrisy.
"It's very ironic that the liberal media is spinning Joe Lieberman as
'Mr. Morality' because he has made a few nice sound bites," said the
Brooklyn rabbi. "But the question is, where's the kosher beef when it
comes to morality?"
Levin repeated his arguments to San Francisco talk host Michael Savage
and on Bob Grant's nationally syndicated radio program.
In his comments to NewsMax.com, he zeroed in on the vice presidential
hopeful's pro-abortion stance, which includes support for the gruesome
procedure known as partial-birth abortion.
"There's no way in the world that any Orthodox Jew could possibly
support something so horrific," said Levin, noting that even Orthodox
children know that abortion is "akin to murder."
The Jews for Morality founder suggested that the hacker attack may be
connected to complaints earlier this week about religion-based smears
against the Connecticut senator on other Web sites.
"I think this is especially interesting in light of the fact that Mr.
Lieberman was crying foul and had Yahoo! shut down some anti-Semitic
sites shortly after it was announced that he was chosen as vice
presidential nominee."
Levin says the attempt to drive him from the Internet is no trifling
matter and urged the candidate to address the issue personally.
"I'm trying to get Senator Lieberman to issue an official statement
disassociating himself from any kind of censorship of Orthodox Jews or
others who are dissenting from Joe Lieberman based on his record of
Orthodoxy - or frankly for any other reason," he told NewsMax.com.
Read the NewsMax.com interview with Rabbi Levin that preceded the hacker
attack on his "Jews for Morality" Web site: Lieberman Void of Moral
'Kosher Beef,' Says Rabbi.
More on Senator Lieberman:
> http://www.rockfordinstitute.org/NewsST081600.htm
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