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