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*** CRIMINI DI GUERRA
Le bugie mortali della NATO e le loro vittime nel conflitto del Kosovo.
Con un dossier su Srebrenica
di Juergen Elsaesser
*** GUERRA, BUGIE E VIDEOTAPE
Come il monopolio dei media soffoca la verità
di Lenora Foerstel (IAC)
RI-PROPOSTE:
* MONOPOLY
una recensione di Enrico Giardino
* IMBROGLI DI GUERRA
Versione integrale on-line
* LA NATO NEI BALCANI
International Action Center / AaVv.
* DAL MEDIO ORIENTE AI BALCANI
Losurdo, Taboni, Moffa, Catone
ALTRI NUOVI LIBRI SEGNALATI:
*** IL BOMBARDAMENTO ETICO
Saggio sull'Interventismo Umanitario, sull'Embargo Terapeutico e sulla
Menzogna Evidente
di Costanzo Preve
Ed. CRT, Pistoia, agosto 2000
http://www.zen.it/crtiltempio/Editrice.html
*** NATO AGGRESSION AGAINST THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
Documents sent to international organizations (Two Volumes)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the FR of Yugoslavia
Eds. "Sluzbeni glasnik", Belgrade, May 2000
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CRIMINI DI GUERRA
Le bugie mortali della NATO e le loro vittime nel conflitto del Kosovo.
Con un dossier su Srebrenica
di Juergen Elsaesser
Konkret Verlag Hamburg, 192 pagine, 26.80 DM
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Juergen Elsaesser, coredattore della rivista tedesca KONKRET ed autore
di vari contributi sia sulla Jugoslavia (si veda ad esempio
l'eccezionale intervista a Mihailo Markovic, in italiano su:
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/455), sia sul nuovo
ordine europeo germano-centrico e sul nazismo, ha recentemente prodotto
un importante libro dal titolo "Crimini di guerra - Le bugie mortali
della NATO e le loro vittime nel conflitto per il Kosovo", contenente
anche un dossier sulla campagna di disinformazione strategica legata
alle vicende di Srebrenica 1995.
Il libro sara' presentato anche alla Fiera del Libro di Francoforte il
prossimo 20 ottobre, ed accanto all'autore siedera' un militare tedesco
che e' stato licenziato per le sue critiche contro l'intervento militare
del 1999. L'autore sta cercando di far conoscere il libro a livello
internazionale, ed e' disponibile a presentarlo in Italia, anche
attraverso interviste radiofoniche eccetera. Del libro e' in
preparazione anche una versione in inglese, ma Elsaesser sarebbe felice
se ne venisse fatta pure una traduzione ed edizione italiana...
Se qualcuno e' interessato, puo' contattare l'autore tramite noi.
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KONKRET-Magazin, Ruhrstr.111, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany
Juergen Elsaesser
Tel. xx49-331/6005211
Fax. xx49-331/6005213
Mobil 0171/1720368
Email: J.Elsasser@...
Website: www.juergen-elsaesser.de
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen
of the International Media,
on 15th October, my new book about the lies of Nato in the
Kosovo-conflict is on
sale in Germany. A big presentation during the Frankfurt Book Fair will
take
place on the 20th October, ex-general Heinz Loquai (the officer who was
fired by
MoD Scharping because of his critic of the war) will join me in this
event.
All details about the book and the author you can find below.
I would appreciate if you would write a review of the book for your
paper or
TV-programm or make an interview (by phone?) with me about my theses.
Unfortunately there’s only a German issue at the moment. An english
edition
could be published next year, but it’s not sure.
Please remail me if you are interested.
Thanks a lot
yours sincerely
J.E.
Outline
KRIEGSVERBRECHEN
Die toedlichen Luegen der Nato und ihre Opfer im Kosovo-Konflikt.
Mit einem Dossier zu Srebrenica
(Konkret Verlag Hamburg, 192 Seiten, 26.80 DM)
WAR CRIMES
The Deadly Lies of Nato and ist Victims in the Kosovo-Conflikt.
With a Special File about Srebrenica
»Never before so few lied so thoroughly to so many, as in connection
with
the Kosovo war«, says Willy Wimmer, member of the CDU party in the
German
Bundestag. »People died for this.«
No lie seemed too grotesque to start the slaughter and keep it going:
Milosevic as the new Hitler, concentration camps in Pristina, Auschwitz
in
Kosovopolje. Whereas NATO and CNN took the trouble to provide fabricated
video documents, the German Minister of Defense sought to convince by
mere
force of words: Mister Scharping‘s portrayal of Serbs playing football
with
the heads of their Abanian victims or Serbs grilling foetuses, torn from
their mothers‘ wombs will go down in the annals of psychopathology.
Finally
miracles of biblical dimensions: massacred Albanian intellectuals hold
post
mortem press conferences in Western capitals; ghost trains suddenly
appear on
scarcely used tracks and bore their way into NATO-missiles; mass graves
are
found as empty as Our Lord‘s vault on the third day.
What is left? »In the nine months after stationing of KFOR in Kosovo
nothing could be found to sustain the indictment of ›genocide‹ « (Le
Monde
Diplomatique, March 2000) . In the light of new evidence and with the
aid of
previously unaccessible documents Juergen Elsaesser questions NATO‘s
justification for the war.
Elsaesser proves the thesis that the first victim of war is the truth to
be wrong. For the truth dies long before a war starts: It was the lies
about
Srebrenica, about Racak, about Rambouillet and about the so-called
apartheid
in Kosovo that deceived members of parliament and citizens alike and led
them
into a murderous adventure. NATO was made the »air force in an ethnic
war«
(Henry Kissinger ) and brought the KLA into power. The result: Pristina
is
purged, ethnic monirities have been driven out of Kosovo, chaos rules in
the streets, the KLA‘s secret police is everywhere, and the few
remaining
survivors fear in ghettos for their lives. Indeed, nobody talks now of
»humanitarian catastrophe«, »ethnic cleansing« or »genocide« and not
surprisingly so: to acknowledge the disgrace of the last war would
impede
preparations for the next.
Table of contents
1 Before the War
1.1 The Mother of All Lies
The »Ramps of Srebrenica« as Starting-Ramps for the War.
***central chapter of approximately 50.000 characters***
1.2 Withheld Murders
The KLA‘s Terror before the War and the Ignorance of the Western
Public.
approximately 25.000 characters
1.3 Classified: Racak
The Previously Classified Autopsy-Records of the 40 Bodies of Racak
Disprove NATO‘s Version of a Serbian Massacre.
approximately 18.000 characters
1.4 Meddled
Memoirs of a Viennese Diplomat: Petritsch on the German
Front-Line in Rambouillet.
approximately 20.000 characters
1.5 Scharping‘s Blacksmiths
»Operation Horseshoe« — An Amateurish Fabrication Coming from the
House of the Vienna-Berlin-Secret- Service-Connection.
approximately 24.000 characters
2 The War
2.1 Sex, Lies and Video
How To Get Your Country in the Mood for War Using Photomontage and
Sexually Laden Horror-Scenarios.
approximately 14.000 characters
2.2 Legal, Illegal, Collateral
Myths and Facts about the Bombing
approximately 19.000 characters
2.3 Killing Fields and Deadly Lies
What Remains of the 100.000 Corpses in Mass Graves?
***central chapter of approximately 40.000 characters***
3 After the War
3.1 Prizren Is Cleared of Serbs
The Fabulous Cleanliness of the German Bundeswehr.
approximately 24.000 characters
3.2 And they lived happily together ever after
NATO‘s fairy-tale about the multi-ethnic future of the Kosovo
protectorate.
***central chapter of approximately 40.000 characters***
4 Epilogue
Fact-Dump Cyberspace
Post-Modernism destroys Reason, Or: Questions of an Active Reader.
approximately 15.000 characters
5 Appendix
5.1 International Press Commentaries on the Situation in Kosovo in the
1980ies.
approximately 10.000 characters
5.2 The German Foreign Ministry about the Situation in Kosovo 1990 -
Fall 1998;
secret documents
approximately 35.000 characters
5.3. Massgraves „As seen As told“ - strange details of a OSCE
documentation
approximately 12.000 characters
About the Author
Juergen Elsaesser was born in 1957. Until June 1997 he was chief editor
of
Berlin‘s daily newspaper Junge Welt and from April 1999 on has been
editor of
the monthly magazin Konkret, Germany‘s most important magazine of an
independent Left since 1957 . He also works as a freelance journalist,
amongst others for the Allgemeine Juedische Wochenzeitung, the
Sueddeutsche
Zeitung, the state television WDR and the Kursbuch.
In the time of the Kosovo war he coined the slogan »No Blood for
Joschka«, an anology to the slogan »No Blood for oil«, that the members
of
the Green Party had coined in the Golf war 1991. The German magazine Der
Spiegel consequently libelled him as a »professional cynic« bound to
»antiquated leftist clichés«. Others were more kindly disposed: About
his
latest book Nie wieder Krieg ohne uns. Das Kosovo und die neue deutsche
Geopolitik (Konkret Verlag, June 1999, second edition November 1999)
the renowned daily newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau wrote: »An excellent
book.
Written in anger and deep regret, regrets about the development of the
Left
movement and the Green Party. But it is thoroughly investigated.«
Bibliography
Juergen Elsaesser/Andrei S. Markovits (Hrsg)
Die Fratze der eigene Geschichte
Von der Goldhagen-Debatte zum Jugoslawienkrieg. Berlin
(Elefantenpress) September 1999, 208 Seiten, 29.90 DM
Juergen Elsaesser (Hrsg.)
Nie wieder Krieg ohne uns
Das Kosovo und die neue deutsche Geopolitik. Hamburg
(Konkret) Juni
1999, 165 Seiten, 22.80 DM
Juergen Elsaesser
Braunbuch DVU
Eine deutsche Arbeiterpartei und ihre Freunde. Hamburk
(Konkret)
September 1998, 152 Seiten, 19.80 DM
Juergen Elsaesser/Sahra Wagenknecht
Vorwaerts und vergessen?
Ein Streit ueber Marx, Lenin, Ulbricht und die verzweifelte
Aktualitaet des Kommunismus. Hamburg (Konkret) Juni 1996,
140 S.
19.80 DM
Juergen Elsaesser
Wenn das der Fuehrer haette erleben duerfen
29 Glueckwuensche zum deutschen Sieg ueber die Alliierten.
Hamburg
(Konkret) Mai 1995, 112 Seiten, 14.80 DM
Juergen Elsaesser
Antisemitismus - das alte Gesicht des neuen Deutschland
Analysen nach der Wiedervereinigung. Berlin (Dietz)
September 1992,
145 Seiten, 19.80 DM
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GUERRA, BUGIE E VIDEOTAPE
http://digilander.iol.it/convogliogiorgiana/foerstel130800.html
Guerra, bugie & videotape: come il monopolio dei media soffoca la verità
di Lenora Foerstel - marzo 2000
(a cura di Enrico Giardino -Forum DAC- Roma 13 agosto 2000)
Lenora Foerstel è un'attivista dello IAC (International Action
Center) impegnata nei
movimenti femminili e per la pace, a livello mondiale. Ha scritto
libri e pubblicazioni,
ha prodotto video legati soprattutto a situazioni geografiche del
Sud Pacifico.
In quest'ultimo suo libro raccoglie una serie di testimonianze di
qualificati personaggi
e ricercatori mediatici che colpiscono duro (come lei dice)
impegnati a demistificare gli
slogan e la propaganda delle grandi multinazionali e dei governi ad
esse legate.
Personaggi come Ramsey Clark (IAC), Scott Armstrong, M. Collon, M.
Parenti, Diana
Johnstone, J.B. Aristide ed altri.
Il libro prende spunto da una conferenza internazionale tenutasi ad
Atene nel 1998,
intitolata "L'età oscura dei media": in essa sono emerse
circostanziate denunce delle
più colossali mistificazioni mondiali, nonché una serie di proposte
di resistenza e di
alternativa rispetto all'attuale monopolio imperialistico dei
mass-media. Essendo
impossibile sintetizzare in breve le 270 pagine del libro, degno di
pubblicazione in
italiano, fornisco qui solo un'idea del suo contenuto, riferendomi
all'introduzione di L.
Foerstel e ad alcune parti del libro.
Gli argomenti principali trattati nel libro sono i seguenti:
La crescente concentrazione della proprietà dei media soffoca
il dissenso ed il
flusso informativo
Il ruolo dei media nel preparare le guerre e catturare il
mercato mondiale
La propaganda di guerra della Nato e la sua espansione in
Jugoslavia
Il ruolo delle grandi compagnie petrolifere, del Pentagono e
dei media nel Golfo
Le nuove tecnologie possono aiutare gli attivisti a rompere il
monopolio
mediatico dominante
Tali argomenti sono riferiti alle 5 parti del libro, con questi
titoli:
1.Censura mediatica e gestione delle notizie
con cinque contributi: Scott Armstrong (I sottotitoli della
censura), Ben
Bagdikian (Le notizie degli eventi internazionali), Ramsey
Clark
(Manipolazione mediatica della politica estera), M. Parenti
(Evasione
madiatica) e Peter Philips (Proprietà e controllo dei media).
2.Filtraggio delle notizie: storie riprese dal buio dei media
con cinque contributi: B. Dupuy (Il linciaggio del presidente
Aristide), Laura
Flanders (Un topolino ruggente: i media popolari acquistano
fondamento),
Sara Flounders (Il tallone d'Achille del potere mediatico:
perdita di
credibilità), Brian Becker (La caduta del socialismo dell'est
europeo devasta
i lavoratori: rapporto ONU ignorato dai media), Danni
Schechter (Per la luce
nel buio)
3.Media e guerra nei Balcani
con quattro contributi: M. Collon (La storia che i media non
raccontano), T.
Deichmann (Premio Pulitzer e propaganda croata), Diana
Johnstone
(Guardando la Jugoslavia attraverso un vetro oscurato), Z.P.
Pirocanac (I
moderni media, quarto braccio della Nato)
4.Imperialismo culturale: la prospettiva del Terzo Mondo
con quattro contributi: J.B. Aristide (Mass media e media di
massa),
M.Mukherjee (Accesso pubblico all'informazione in India),
Nawal El
Saadawi (Neo-colonialismo ed età oscura dei media), Adel
Samara (Media
come strumento nazionale di oppressione di classe)
5.Alternative internazionali al monopolio dei media
con cinque contributi: B.N.Aziz (Esiste una alternativa
mediatica fuori
dell'Occidente?), D. Barsanian (Radio alternative: audio di
conflitto), Peter
Frank ed altri (Radiodiffusione, costituzione e democrazia),
M. Jacobi
(Informazione su Internet, potenzialità di un medium
democratico), Ch.
Levendosky (Può il mercato proteggere le voci libere?).
I media ed i loro proprietari agiscono ormai come
"consulenti-patrocinatori" del
pubblico americano (e mondiale) sugli eventi mondiali, orchestrando
l'opinione
pubblica sui temi della pace e della guerra. Questa potenza
manipolativa cresce nella
misura in cui le compagnie di fondono e si concentrano. Esempi : nel
1961 la CBS
prepara la guerra in Vietnam; nel 1986 la General Electric si
impadronisce di NBC ed
RCA, entra nel mercato militare con la Westinghouse e promuove
azioni belliche USA
su vasta scala. Ciò non riguarda solo le news come si pensa, ma i
programmi di fiction
e di intrattenimento: basta pensare all'ideologia ed alle
distorsioni diffuse da film,
telefilm, ecc. (es. stereotipi xenofobi che incoraggiano sciovinismo
e militarismo).
Altri esempi: l'editoriale del "New York Times" che il 20-9-98 (ben
prima
dell'aggressione Nato) incoraggia Clinton ad intervenire in Kosovo
(se necessario
anche da solo, senza Nato).
Nel 1997 gli USA mandano le loro truppe ad occupare i trasmettitori
nell'area di Pale
(Bosnia) per trasmettere propaganda a favore del Presidente
serbo-bosniaco Plavic,
filo occidentale , in corsa elettorale con altro candidato inviso
agli USA (che pure in
passato avevano finanziato).
Grazie al supporto USA i ladroni-baroni russi hanno applicato il
modello occidentale
per pilotare le notizie nel loro Paese, dopo la caduta del
socialismo sovietico: è
cominciata così anche in quel Paese l'era buia dei media. Come negli
USA, le notizie
arrivano oggi dalle sale dei Consigli di Amministrazione delle
multinazionali, invece
che dalle strade o dal Paese reale.
Negli USA un ruolo di mistificazione enorme hanno gli addetti alle
Public Relations
(PR): sono già 150.000 contro 130.000 reporter accreditati.
A costoro interessa, non la verità di una notizia, ma il risultato
che essa determina a
vantaggio dei loro "clienti": lo ha riferito pubblicamente il
responsabile di una grossa
agenzia PR americana in occasione di una campagna lanciata per
portare il Governo
USA ad intervenire militarmente nel Golfo Persico per "proteggere il
Kwait" dall'Iraq
di Saddam Hussein: questa aggressione, che ancora continua, è
costata finora milioni
di dollari ed ha devastato l'Iraq.
Lo stesso copione si è ripetuto con un'altra agenzia PR che, pagata
30.000
dollari/mese dai governanti croati e dai musulmani bosniaci, ha
sostenuto la loro
causa, diffondendo notizie e storie false ai fini di un intervento
armato USA nell'area
(es.50.000 donne musulmane rapite dai serbi, mentre il successivo
rapporto ONU,
ignorato dai media, parlava di 800 rapimenti totali effettuati da
tutte le etnie della
Regione).
La demonizzazione dei Serbi è riuscita pienamente solo quando
l'agenzia PR, a suo
stesso dire, è riuscita, con la sua campagna di falsità e di
propaganda, a coinvolgere le
associazioni ebraiche: da quel momento i serbi sono stati equiparati
ai nazisti di Hitler
e sono stati usati per essi i termini di quel periodo: pulizia
etnica, fosse comuni, campi
di concentramento, ecc.
La nostra "campagna ha avuto pieno successo" ha dichiarato con
orgoglio il
responsabile PR, "noi non siamo pagati per essere morali", "non
siamo attrezzati per
controllare le notizie che diffondiamo", il nostro obiettivo è
soddisfare le richieste di
chi ci paga, usando "bene" i media.
Un'altra vittima di campagne dis-informative è stato l'ex presidente
di Haiti
J.B.Aristide che ,eletto con il 67% dei voti, si opponeva alle
ricette di "aggiustamento
strutturale" del FMI: fu rimosso dopo una dura campagna mediatica
orchestrata dagli
USA che considerano Haiti una loro colonia (definizioni di Aristide:
"psicopatico",
"piccolo socialista assetato di sangue").
Mi sembrano poi notevoli le affermazioni di Ramsey Clark "La lotta
che noi possiamo
e dobbiamo fare, la più grande sfida nella lotta per la democrazia è
la ricerca della
verità"; " la questione della sopravvivenza umana ..dipenderà
largamente dalla nostra
capacità di vedere e mostrare la verità in tempo utile"; "la
possibilità dei media di
demonizzare intere nazioni ed i loro leaders, costituisce il potere
più pericoloso e più
perverso".
Ciò significa, come noi del Forum DAC sosteniamo, che, con la lotta
politica,
occorre riportare sotto la sovranità popolare il controllo dei
processi di
conoscenza, informazione, comunicazione.
L'autrice rivolge poi un cenno ai contributi dei vari relatori del
libro.
I contributi della terza parte si incentrano sulle menzogne che
hanno preparato e
coperto l'aggressione USA-NATO nei Balcani con il graduale
smantellamento della
Repubblica federata di Jugoslavia.
Se ne può dedurre che l'immagine mediatica ha beffato il mondo
intero.
Pirocanac, in particolare, esamina il ruolo dei media come quarto
braccio della NATO.
Nella quarta parte del libro si indagano le ricadute sul Terzo Mondo
dell'imperialismo
mediatico ( ma anche militare ed economico) nonchè le possibili vie
di resistenza e di
alternativa rispetto ad esso.
Da un lato si propongono agenzie, reti ed alleanze "orizzontali"
capaci di offrire ai
movimenti un flusso informativo e conoscitivo correlato alla realtà
del mondo e dei
popoli (un esempio è l'idea denominata PRIME Progressive
International Media
Exchange), dall'altro si tenta di sostenere e valorizzare le
strutture informative non
legate ai monopoli (pubbliche, comunitarie, ecc.).
In questa direzione, la conquista dei DIRITTI COMUNICATIVI, attivi e
passivi, mi
sembra una battaglia decisiva nel senso indicato sopra da Ramsey
Clark.
Qui serve una progettualità articolata a più livelli, da quello
locale a quello mondiale,
capace di contrastare, o almeno limitare, i danni sociali prodotti
dalle multinazionali
dei media.
Qui si collocano le proposte del FORUM DAC che possono diventare
praticabili, a
condizione di assumere la questione dei MEDIA ( e dei diritti
negati) come problema
politico universale e prioritario. Qui le testimonianze dei vari
relatori si intrecciano
con i lavori e gli scopi di Videazimut (nel mondo) e del nostro
Forum DAC (in Italia).
Sintetizzo infine i contributi dell'ultima parte, più propositivi e
progettuali, essendo
l'analisi delle menzogne USA-NATO più nota, almeno tra gli "addetti
ai lavori" non
asserviti all'imperialismo
Barbara Nimiri Aziz (USA) si chiede se esistano alternative
mediatiche al di fuori
dell'Occidente. Pur accettando che i grandi mass-media occidentali
ormai dominano
l'attenzione e l'ascolto dei popoli di ogni parte del mondo,
l'autrice esamina i processi
culturali e comunicativi delle civiltà "non occidentali" (arabi,
asiatici, ecc.): qui i
processi di comunicazione orali non sono ancora scomparsi ed hanno
tradizioni
consolidate. Non è vero che non esistano ad EST giornalisti,
intellettuali e
comunicatori, indipendenti e capaci. Un altro aspetto caratteristico
è che in quei Paesi
il vissuto conta più della politica, per cui le persone non sono
così disinformate come
gli occidentali credono. Cita una serie di esempi. I popoli di 22
Stati arabi costituiscono
un buon esempio di competizione e diversità.
Il suo invito è quindi di non omologare frettolosamente l'ovest
all'est.
David Barsamian (USA) tratta il tema delle radio antagoniste e del
loro ruolo
antimperialista. Cita Antonio Gramsci "creare una nuova cultura non
significa solo fare
originali scoperte individuali, ma soprattutto significa divulgare
criticamente le verità
esistenti, portarle al linguaggio sociale, quindi, dare ad esse la
consistenza di base per
azioni vitali e gli elementi di raccordo di rilevanza intellettuale
e sociale". Egli trova
nel rilancio e nel potenziamento delle radio alternative le funzioni
politiche e culturali
evocate da Gramsci. Ragioni di costo, di semplicità e di diffusione
ne fanno fattori
decisivi di conoscenza critica, resistenza ed opposizione
all'imperialimo. Cita una
serie di esempi.
La relazione di Peter Frank ed altri (USA), intitolata
"Radiodiffusione, costituzione
e democrazia" pone il diritto a comunicare in relazione al 1°
emendamento della
Costituzione USA: rivendica il diritto all'installazione in ambito
locale di
microripetitori radio FM di piccola potenza (50-100 watt). Cita i
numeri della rapida
espansione in USA di tali microripetitori "comunitari e/o rurali",
sostenuta dal
"movimento internazionale per le microradio".
Manse Jacobi (USA) esplora limiti e potenzialità di Internet come
potenziale mezzo
di democrazia comunicativa (alternativa al regime dominante). Cita
le applicazione di
WEBcasting-diffusione di notizie audiovisive via Internet, nonché il
progetto di
"convergenza della società civile" lanciato da AMAR, APC e
Videazimut: si tratta
di una rete di giornalisti, scrittori, intellettuali ed attivisti
che scambiano, su base
mondiale, informazioni libere, democraticamente.
C.Levendosky (USA) si chiede, pleonasticamente, se il mercato possa
mai
proteggere voci libere. La sua risposta, suffragata da esempi, è
negativa, per cui
ritorna all'uso di media alternativi.
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MONOPOLY
La Nato alla conquista del mondo
di Michel Collon (ed. EPO - marzo 2000)
-> NUOVA RECENSIONE a cura di Enrico Giardino:
http://digilander.iol.it/convogliogiorgiana/collon110800.html
-> nostri documenti gia' distribuiti:
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/252
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IMBROGLI DI GUERRA
Scienziate e scienziati contro la guerra
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"Imbrogli di guerra" e' finalmente disponibile anche sul web,
all'indirizzo http://www.iac.rm.cnr.it/~spweb/libro/
Il comitato "Scienziate e scienziati contro la guerra", inoltre,
e' in procinto di pubblicare con l'editore Odradek un secondo
volume, come continuazione del primo. Il secondo libro riportera'
il contenuto delle relazioni raccolte nel corso del convegno di
Torino svoltosi nel mese di giugno 2000.
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IMBROGLI DI GUERRA - Scienziate e scienziati contro la guerra
Un libro per coloro che vogliono approfondire, fuori dai clamori e
al riparo da interferenze mediatiche, cause e conseguenze del recente
conflitto e di cui consigliamo vivamente l'adozione nelle universita'
e nelle scuole superiori.
Raccoglie contributi e interventi che "Scienziate e scienziati contro
la guerra" hanno prodotto in un seminario sul conflitto nei Balcani,
tenutosi a Roma il 21 giugno 1999. Sono testi ricchi di grafici e
tabelle,
meditati e documentati, che analizzano un vasto spettro di temi e di
ambiti a partire da metodologie scientifiche diverse, attenti a riferire
soprattutto, ma non solo, sulle conseguenze del recente conflitto sulla
popolazione e sull'ambiente.
Sono testi scientifici che non vogliono ignorare le connessioni
economiche
tra universita', ricerca ed industria bellica, e che affrontano, di
nuovo,
la responsabilita' della scienza e degli scienziati nei confronti del
Pianeta e della sua popolazione. In un contesto culturale di profonda
crisi, laddove molti intellettuali sono spiazzati dagli eventi, altri
latitano, ed altri ancora si vendono al miglior offerente, qualcuno
s'interroga...
Le autrici e gli autori: A. Di Fazio, V.F. Polcaro, S. Salerno, L.
Triolo,
V. Caffarelli, W. Bocola, P. Cagnetti, V. Gennaro, G. Grandoni,
A. Signorini N. Pacilio, C. Pona, A. Baracca, R. La Valle e altri,
F. Grimaldi, A. Drago, E. Donini, M. Emmer, A. Martocchia: docenti
appartenenti a Dipartimenti di varie Universita' italiane (Napoli,
Roma, Firenze, Torino, Trieste); ricercatori del CNR, dell'ENEA, degli
Osservatori astronomici, del Ministero dell'Ambiente, dell'Istituto
Nazionale per la ricerca sul Cancro di Genova; studenti della Scuola
Internazionale per gli Studi Avanzati di Trieste.
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Per scaricare il libro o i singoli contributi, il sito internet e'
http://www.iac.rm.cnr.it/~spweb/libro/
Sia l'intero libro che i singoli contributi che sono scaricabili
in formato PostScript compresso (.PS.GZ) che in formato PDF.
I software di riferimento per visualizzare i file sono
- Aladdin ghostscript + gv (Unix/Linux)
- Aladdin ghostscript + gsview (Windows)
- Acrobat Reader (tutte le piattaforme)
Si fa notare che i file PostScript devono prima essere decompressi
con gunzip (linux/unix) o winzip (windows).
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http://www.iac.rm.cnr.it/~spweb/
scienzaepace@...
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> International Action Center / AaVv.
>
> LA NATO NEI BALCANI
>
> Editori Riuniti, Roma, giugno 1999 - lire 18mila
Dei QUATTORDICI saggi contenuti nell'opera originale - vale a dire
l'eccezionale volume dell'I.A.C. "NATO IN THE BALKANS", che a suo tempo
segnalammo, cfr. http://marx2001.org/crj/GEOPO/natobalc.html - con
grande
ardimento gli Editori Riuniti sono riusciti a pubblicarne QUATTRO in
versione italiana. C'e' voluto un anno e mezzo d'attesa e qualche decina
di migliaia di tonnellate di bombe, ma il risultato e' incoraggiante.
Il libro, che e' curato da Tommaso di Francesco, si apre con una
PREFAZIONE di Luciana Castellina. Questa esordisce con alcune righe di
premessa inutile ed in perfetto stile "politically correct" sulle colpe
di
Milosevic, tanto per mettere le mani avanti, ma subito dopo in poche
pagine riesce a riassumere efficacemente 10 anni di aggressione
imperialista ai danni delle popolazioni della Jugoslavia, analizzando a
nostro avviso correttamente anche il quadro politico-culturale
complessivo.
Segue una NOTA REDAZIONALE e la parziale traduzione di "NATO IN THE
BALKANS", con gli scritti di R. Becker (sulle sanzioni ed il ruolo
occidentale nella distruzione della RFSJ), S. Flounders (sulla attivita'
USA contro la pace in Bosnia; da questa sezione e' scioccamente saltato
via un paragrafo che elencava alcuni articoli di fonte occidentale
sull'operato della CIA in Bosnia), G. Elich (sulla "Operazione Tempesta"
a
danno dei serbi delle Krajne) e B. Lituchy (sul ruolo dei media, laddove
si citano alcuni esempi di disinformazione strategica, con i nomi delle
agenzie di "public relations" coinvolte).
Mancano dunque all'appello l'introduzione di R. Clark, l'importante
analisi geopolitica di S. Gervasi sulla strategia della NATO, il pezzo
sulla Bosnia di Chossudovski, l'analisi di S. Marcy sugli interessi
dietro
allo squartamento della RFSJ, il saggio sugli accordi di Dayton di G.
Wilson, l'articolo di T. Deichmann sulla campagna di disinformazione
relativa a certi "lager serbi" in Bosnia, quello di R. Foerstel sul
ruolo
dei media e quello della N. Tesich sul clima culturale in cui e'
germogliato il razzismo antiserbo di questi anni. Manca anche l'analisi
di
Cottin e Dorfman sulla agenzia di disinformazione strategica
"Ruder&Finn",
impegnata ad orientare la lobby ebraica USA in senso antijugoslavo.
Il libro contiene invece una aggiornata APPENDICE, con l'ACCORDO PER
L'AUTOGOVERNO DEL KOSMET (18.03.99) e l'ACCORDO DI RAMBOUILLET
(integrale), nonche': LE COLPE DELLA GERMANIA (intervista a Helmuth
Schmidt a cura di P.A. Stauffer e P. Decallier), GLI OBBIETTIVI DELLA
POLITICA DELLE BOMBE (di E. Said), STELLE D'AMERICA, STRISCE D'EUROPA
(di
G. Kolko), L'IRRESISTIBILE ASCESA DELLA NATO (di H. Scheer) e
soprattutto
le LETTERE DI UN VIAGGIATORE AL PRESIDENTE DELLA REPUBBLICA FRANCESE di
R. Debray, l'articolo apparso il 12/5 scorso sul "Le Monde" che ha
scatenato una oscena campagna diffamatoria contro il suo autore.
Nonostante l'incompletezza, l'estremo ritardo con cui appare ed il
totale
embargo informativo (non ci risulta sia stato recensito da alcun
giornale), questo libro rimane comunque il migliore di tutti quelli
finora
pubblicati sul dramma jugoslavo e balcanico di questi anni in Italia.
Pochi soldi per un'agile lettura che fornisce salde basi di
comprensione di quanto accaduto nel paese che con noi confina ad est.
Certo mancano tanti tasselli, documentazione, manca una cronologia,
mancano illustrazioni, manca la voce dei comunisti jugoslavi, ma non
disperiamo: qualche altra tonnellata di uranio impoverito o qualche
pioggia di bombe in Adriatico indurranno sicuramente gli "Editori
Riuniti"
ad azzardare un altro passo nella direzione giusta.
(http://www.marx2001.org/nuovaunita/jugo/crj/m_l/100899.htm)
===
> Losurdo, Taboni, Moffa, Catone
>
> DAL MEDIO ORIENTE AI BALCANI
> L'alba di sangue del "secolo americano"
>
> La Citta' del Sole / Manes Ed., Napoli 1999
Si tratta della raccolta di quattro eccezionali saggi sulle cause
strategiche, economiche e politiche della aggressione occidentale contro
la Repubblica Federale di Jugoslavia (Serbia e Montenegro). Questo
paese,
ultimo dell'area balcanica a rivendicare fino in fondo una continuita'
con
la multinazionale (o "multietnica", come vuole la vulgata corrente)
Repubblica Federativa e Socialista di Jugoslavia, e' tuttora soggetto ad
un attacco in varie forme da parte dell'imperialismo, che intende
spaccarlo facendo leva sui settori revanscisti e micronazionalisti per
arrivare ad una ricolonizzazione di tutta l'area, e puntare
ulteriormente
ad est.
Particolarmente accesa la polemica contro la deriva teorica e pratica
di certo internazionalismo, di certo pacifismo e di certa sinistra, che
usando in modo a-dialettico la categoria della "autodeterminazione dei
popoli" hanno di fatto sostenuto lo squartamento della RFSJ esaltando un
"differenzialismo identitario" di carattere reazionario e decadente.
(http://www.marx2001.org/nuovaunita/jugo/crj/m_l/100899.htm)
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Le bugie mortali della NATO e le loro vittime nel conflitto del Kosovo.
Con un dossier su Srebrenica
di Juergen Elsaesser
*** GUERRA, BUGIE E VIDEOTAPE
Come il monopolio dei media soffoca la verità
di Lenora Foerstel (IAC)
RI-PROPOSTE:
* MONOPOLY
una recensione di Enrico Giardino
* IMBROGLI DI GUERRA
Versione integrale on-line
* LA NATO NEI BALCANI
International Action Center / AaVv.
* DAL MEDIO ORIENTE AI BALCANI
Losurdo, Taboni, Moffa, Catone
ALTRI NUOVI LIBRI SEGNALATI:
*** IL BOMBARDAMENTO ETICO
Saggio sull'Interventismo Umanitario, sull'Embargo Terapeutico e sulla
Menzogna Evidente
di Costanzo Preve
Ed. CRT, Pistoia, agosto 2000
http://www.zen.it/crtiltempio/Editrice.html
*** NATO AGGRESSION AGAINST THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
Documents sent to international organizations (Two Volumes)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the FR of Yugoslavia
Eds. "Sluzbeni glasnik", Belgrade, May 2000
===
CRIMINI DI GUERRA
Le bugie mortali della NATO e le loro vittime nel conflitto del Kosovo.
Con un dossier su Srebrenica
di Juergen Elsaesser
Konkret Verlag Hamburg, 192 pagine, 26.80 DM
---
Juergen Elsaesser, coredattore della rivista tedesca KONKRET ed autore
di vari contributi sia sulla Jugoslavia (si veda ad esempio
l'eccezionale intervista a Mihailo Markovic, in italiano su:
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/455), sia sul nuovo
ordine europeo germano-centrico e sul nazismo, ha recentemente prodotto
un importante libro dal titolo "Crimini di guerra - Le bugie mortali
della NATO e le loro vittime nel conflitto per il Kosovo", contenente
anche un dossier sulla campagna di disinformazione strategica legata
alle vicende di Srebrenica 1995.
Il libro sara' presentato anche alla Fiera del Libro di Francoforte il
prossimo 20 ottobre, ed accanto all'autore siedera' un militare tedesco
che e' stato licenziato per le sue critiche contro l'intervento militare
del 1999. L'autore sta cercando di far conoscere il libro a livello
internazionale, ed e' disponibile a presentarlo in Italia, anche
attraverso interviste radiofoniche eccetera. Del libro e' in
preparazione anche una versione in inglese, ma Elsaesser sarebbe felice
se ne venisse fatta pure una traduzione ed edizione italiana...
Se qualcuno e' interessato, puo' contattare l'autore tramite noi.
---
KONKRET-Magazin, Ruhrstr.111, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany
Juergen Elsaesser
Tel. xx49-331/6005211
Fax. xx49-331/6005213
Mobil 0171/1720368
Email: J.Elsasser@...
Website: www.juergen-elsaesser.de
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen
of the International Media,
on 15th October, my new book about the lies of Nato in the
Kosovo-conflict is on
sale in Germany. A big presentation during the Frankfurt Book Fair will
take
place on the 20th October, ex-general Heinz Loquai (the officer who was
fired by
MoD Scharping because of his critic of the war) will join me in this
event.
All details about the book and the author you can find below.
I would appreciate if you would write a review of the book for your
paper or
TV-programm or make an interview (by phone?) with me about my theses.
Unfortunately there’s only a German issue at the moment. An english
edition
could be published next year, but it’s not sure.
Please remail me if you are interested.
Thanks a lot
yours sincerely
J.E.
Outline
KRIEGSVERBRECHEN
Die toedlichen Luegen der Nato und ihre Opfer im Kosovo-Konflikt.
Mit einem Dossier zu Srebrenica
(Konkret Verlag Hamburg, 192 Seiten, 26.80 DM)
WAR CRIMES
The Deadly Lies of Nato and ist Victims in the Kosovo-Conflikt.
With a Special File about Srebrenica
»Never before so few lied so thoroughly to so many, as in connection
with
the Kosovo war«, says Willy Wimmer, member of the CDU party in the
German
Bundestag. »People died for this.«
No lie seemed too grotesque to start the slaughter and keep it going:
Milosevic as the new Hitler, concentration camps in Pristina, Auschwitz
in
Kosovopolje. Whereas NATO and CNN took the trouble to provide fabricated
video documents, the German Minister of Defense sought to convince by
mere
force of words: Mister Scharping‘s portrayal of Serbs playing football
with
the heads of their Abanian victims or Serbs grilling foetuses, torn from
their mothers‘ wombs will go down in the annals of psychopathology.
Finally
miracles of biblical dimensions: massacred Albanian intellectuals hold
post
mortem press conferences in Western capitals; ghost trains suddenly
appear on
scarcely used tracks and bore their way into NATO-missiles; mass graves
are
found as empty as Our Lord‘s vault on the third day.
What is left? »In the nine months after stationing of KFOR in Kosovo
nothing could be found to sustain the indictment of ›genocide‹ « (Le
Monde
Diplomatique, March 2000) . In the light of new evidence and with the
aid of
previously unaccessible documents Juergen Elsaesser questions NATO‘s
justification for the war.
Elsaesser proves the thesis that the first victim of war is the truth to
be wrong. For the truth dies long before a war starts: It was the lies
about
Srebrenica, about Racak, about Rambouillet and about the so-called
apartheid
in Kosovo that deceived members of parliament and citizens alike and led
them
into a murderous adventure. NATO was made the »air force in an ethnic
war«
(Henry Kissinger ) and brought the KLA into power. The result: Pristina
is
purged, ethnic monirities have been driven out of Kosovo, chaos rules in
the streets, the KLA‘s secret police is everywhere, and the few
remaining
survivors fear in ghettos for their lives. Indeed, nobody talks now of
»humanitarian catastrophe«, »ethnic cleansing« or »genocide« and not
surprisingly so: to acknowledge the disgrace of the last war would
impede
preparations for the next.
Table of contents
1 Before the War
1.1 The Mother of All Lies
The »Ramps of Srebrenica« as Starting-Ramps for the War.
***central chapter of approximately 50.000 characters***
1.2 Withheld Murders
The KLA‘s Terror before the War and the Ignorance of the Western
Public.
approximately 25.000 characters
1.3 Classified: Racak
The Previously Classified Autopsy-Records of the 40 Bodies of Racak
Disprove NATO‘s Version of a Serbian Massacre.
approximately 18.000 characters
1.4 Meddled
Memoirs of a Viennese Diplomat: Petritsch on the German
Front-Line in Rambouillet.
approximately 20.000 characters
1.5 Scharping‘s Blacksmiths
»Operation Horseshoe« — An Amateurish Fabrication Coming from the
House of the Vienna-Berlin-Secret- Service-Connection.
approximately 24.000 characters
2 The War
2.1 Sex, Lies and Video
How To Get Your Country in the Mood for War Using Photomontage and
Sexually Laden Horror-Scenarios.
approximately 14.000 characters
2.2 Legal, Illegal, Collateral
Myths and Facts about the Bombing
approximately 19.000 characters
2.3 Killing Fields and Deadly Lies
What Remains of the 100.000 Corpses in Mass Graves?
***central chapter of approximately 40.000 characters***
3 After the War
3.1 Prizren Is Cleared of Serbs
The Fabulous Cleanliness of the German Bundeswehr.
approximately 24.000 characters
3.2 And they lived happily together ever after
NATO‘s fairy-tale about the multi-ethnic future of the Kosovo
protectorate.
***central chapter of approximately 40.000 characters***
4 Epilogue
Fact-Dump Cyberspace
Post-Modernism destroys Reason, Or: Questions of an Active Reader.
approximately 15.000 characters
5 Appendix
5.1 International Press Commentaries on the Situation in Kosovo in the
1980ies.
approximately 10.000 characters
5.2 The German Foreign Ministry about the Situation in Kosovo 1990 -
Fall 1998;
secret documents
approximately 35.000 characters
5.3. Massgraves „As seen As told“ - strange details of a OSCE
documentation
approximately 12.000 characters
About the Author
Juergen Elsaesser was born in 1957. Until June 1997 he was chief editor
of
Berlin‘s daily newspaper Junge Welt and from April 1999 on has been
editor of
the monthly magazin Konkret, Germany‘s most important magazine of an
independent Left since 1957 . He also works as a freelance journalist,
amongst others for the Allgemeine Juedische Wochenzeitung, the
Sueddeutsche
Zeitung, the state television WDR and the Kursbuch.
In the time of the Kosovo war he coined the slogan »No Blood for
Joschka«, an anology to the slogan »No Blood for oil«, that the members
of
the Green Party had coined in the Golf war 1991. The German magazine Der
Spiegel consequently libelled him as a »professional cynic« bound to
»antiquated leftist clichés«. Others were more kindly disposed: About
his
latest book Nie wieder Krieg ohne uns. Das Kosovo und die neue deutsche
Geopolitik (Konkret Verlag, June 1999, second edition November 1999)
the renowned daily newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau wrote: »An excellent
book.
Written in anger and deep regret, regrets about the development of the
Left
movement and the Green Party. But it is thoroughly investigated.«
Bibliography
Juergen Elsaesser/Andrei S. Markovits (Hrsg)
Die Fratze der eigene Geschichte
Von der Goldhagen-Debatte zum Jugoslawienkrieg. Berlin
(Elefantenpress) September 1999, 208 Seiten, 29.90 DM
Juergen Elsaesser (Hrsg.)
Nie wieder Krieg ohne uns
Das Kosovo und die neue deutsche Geopolitik. Hamburg
(Konkret) Juni
1999, 165 Seiten, 22.80 DM
Juergen Elsaesser
Braunbuch DVU
Eine deutsche Arbeiterpartei und ihre Freunde. Hamburk
(Konkret)
September 1998, 152 Seiten, 19.80 DM
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Vorwaerts und vergessen?
Ein Streit ueber Marx, Lenin, Ulbricht und die verzweifelte
Aktualitaet des Kommunismus. Hamburg (Konkret) Juni 1996,
140 S.
19.80 DM
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Wenn das der Fuehrer haette erleben duerfen
29 Glueckwuensche zum deutschen Sieg ueber die Alliierten.
Hamburg
(Konkret) Mai 1995, 112 Seiten, 14.80 DM
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Antisemitismus - das alte Gesicht des neuen Deutschland
Analysen nach der Wiedervereinigung. Berlin (Dietz)
September 1992,
145 Seiten, 19.80 DM
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GUERRA, BUGIE E VIDEOTAPE
http://digilander.iol.it/convogliogiorgiana/foerstel130800.html
Guerra, bugie & videotape: come il monopolio dei media soffoca la verità
di Lenora Foerstel - marzo 2000
(a cura di Enrico Giardino -Forum DAC- Roma 13 agosto 2000)
Lenora Foerstel è un'attivista dello IAC (International Action
Center) impegnata nei
movimenti femminili e per la pace, a livello mondiale. Ha scritto
libri e pubblicazioni,
ha prodotto video legati soprattutto a situazioni geografiche del
Sud Pacifico.
In quest'ultimo suo libro raccoglie una serie di testimonianze di
qualificati personaggi
e ricercatori mediatici che colpiscono duro (come lei dice)
impegnati a demistificare gli
slogan e la propaganda delle grandi multinazionali e dei governi ad
esse legate.
Personaggi come Ramsey Clark (IAC), Scott Armstrong, M. Collon, M.
Parenti, Diana
Johnstone, J.B. Aristide ed altri.
Il libro prende spunto da una conferenza internazionale tenutasi ad
Atene nel 1998,
intitolata "L'età oscura dei media": in essa sono emerse
circostanziate denunce delle
più colossali mistificazioni mondiali, nonché una serie di proposte
di resistenza e di
alternativa rispetto all'attuale monopolio imperialistico dei
mass-media. Essendo
impossibile sintetizzare in breve le 270 pagine del libro, degno di
pubblicazione in
italiano, fornisco qui solo un'idea del suo contenuto, riferendomi
all'introduzione di L.
Foerstel e ad alcune parti del libro.
Gli argomenti principali trattati nel libro sono i seguenti:
La crescente concentrazione della proprietà dei media soffoca
il dissenso ed il
flusso informativo
Il ruolo dei media nel preparare le guerre e catturare il
mercato mondiale
La propaganda di guerra della Nato e la sua espansione in
Jugoslavia
Il ruolo delle grandi compagnie petrolifere, del Pentagono e
dei media nel Golfo
Le nuove tecnologie possono aiutare gli attivisti a rompere il
monopolio
mediatico dominante
Tali argomenti sono riferiti alle 5 parti del libro, con questi
titoli:
1.Censura mediatica e gestione delle notizie
con cinque contributi: Scott Armstrong (I sottotitoli della
censura), Ben
Bagdikian (Le notizie degli eventi internazionali), Ramsey
Clark
(Manipolazione mediatica della politica estera), M. Parenti
(Evasione
madiatica) e Peter Philips (Proprietà e controllo dei media).
2.Filtraggio delle notizie: storie riprese dal buio dei media
con cinque contributi: B. Dupuy (Il linciaggio del presidente
Aristide), Laura
Flanders (Un topolino ruggente: i media popolari acquistano
fondamento),
Sara Flounders (Il tallone d'Achille del potere mediatico:
perdita di
credibilità), Brian Becker (La caduta del socialismo dell'est
europeo devasta
i lavoratori: rapporto ONU ignorato dai media), Danni
Schechter (Per la luce
nel buio)
3.Media e guerra nei Balcani
con quattro contributi: M. Collon (La storia che i media non
raccontano), T.
Deichmann (Premio Pulitzer e propaganda croata), Diana
Johnstone
(Guardando la Jugoslavia attraverso un vetro oscurato), Z.P.
Pirocanac (I
moderni media, quarto braccio della Nato)
4.Imperialismo culturale: la prospettiva del Terzo Mondo
con quattro contributi: J.B. Aristide (Mass media e media di
massa),
M.Mukherjee (Accesso pubblico all'informazione in India),
Nawal El
Saadawi (Neo-colonialismo ed età oscura dei media), Adel
Samara (Media
come strumento nazionale di oppressione di classe)
5.Alternative internazionali al monopolio dei media
con cinque contributi: B.N.Aziz (Esiste una alternativa
mediatica fuori
dell'Occidente?), D. Barsanian (Radio alternative: audio di
conflitto), Peter
Frank ed altri (Radiodiffusione, costituzione e democrazia),
M. Jacobi
(Informazione su Internet, potenzialità di un medium
democratico), Ch.
Levendosky (Può il mercato proteggere le voci libere?).
I media ed i loro proprietari agiscono ormai come
"consulenti-patrocinatori" del
pubblico americano (e mondiale) sugli eventi mondiali, orchestrando
l'opinione
pubblica sui temi della pace e della guerra. Questa potenza
manipolativa cresce nella
misura in cui le compagnie di fondono e si concentrano. Esempi : nel
1961 la CBS
prepara la guerra in Vietnam; nel 1986 la General Electric si
impadronisce di NBC ed
RCA, entra nel mercato militare con la Westinghouse e promuove
azioni belliche USA
su vasta scala. Ciò non riguarda solo le news come si pensa, ma i
programmi di fiction
e di intrattenimento: basta pensare all'ideologia ed alle
distorsioni diffuse da film,
telefilm, ecc. (es. stereotipi xenofobi che incoraggiano sciovinismo
e militarismo).
Altri esempi: l'editoriale del "New York Times" che il 20-9-98 (ben
prima
dell'aggressione Nato) incoraggia Clinton ad intervenire in Kosovo
(se necessario
anche da solo, senza Nato).
Nel 1997 gli USA mandano le loro truppe ad occupare i trasmettitori
nell'area di Pale
(Bosnia) per trasmettere propaganda a favore del Presidente
serbo-bosniaco Plavic,
filo occidentale , in corsa elettorale con altro candidato inviso
agli USA (che pure in
passato avevano finanziato).
Grazie al supporto USA i ladroni-baroni russi hanno applicato il
modello occidentale
per pilotare le notizie nel loro Paese, dopo la caduta del
socialismo sovietico: è
cominciata così anche in quel Paese l'era buia dei media. Come negli
USA, le notizie
arrivano oggi dalle sale dei Consigli di Amministrazione delle
multinazionali, invece
che dalle strade o dal Paese reale.
Negli USA un ruolo di mistificazione enorme hanno gli addetti alle
Public Relations
(PR): sono già 150.000 contro 130.000 reporter accreditati.
A costoro interessa, non la verità di una notizia, ma il risultato
che essa determina a
vantaggio dei loro "clienti": lo ha riferito pubblicamente il
responsabile di una grossa
agenzia PR americana in occasione di una campagna lanciata per
portare il Governo
USA ad intervenire militarmente nel Golfo Persico per "proteggere il
Kwait" dall'Iraq
di Saddam Hussein: questa aggressione, che ancora continua, è
costata finora milioni
di dollari ed ha devastato l'Iraq.
Lo stesso copione si è ripetuto con un'altra agenzia PR che, pagata
30.000
dollari/mese dai governanti croati e dai musulmani bosniaci, ha
sostenuto la loro
causa, diffondendo notizie e storie false ai fini di un intervento
armato USA nell'area
(es.50.000 donne musulmane rapite dai serbi, mentre il successivo
rapporto ONU,
ignorato dai media, parlava di 800 rapimenti totali effettuati da
tutte le etnie della
Regione).
La demonizzazione dei Serbi è riuscita pienamente solo quando
l'agenzia PR, a suo
stesso dire, è riuscita, con la sua campagna di falsità e di
propaganda, a coinvolgere le
associazioni ebraiche: da quel momento i serbi sono stati equiparati
ai nazisti di Hitler
e sono stati usati per essi i termini di quel periodo: pulizia
etnica, fosse comuni, campi
di concentramento, ecc.
La nostra "campagna ha avuto pieno successo" ha dichiarato con
orgoglio il
responsabile PR, "noi non siamo pagati per essere morali", "non
siamo attrezzati per
controllare le notizie che diffondiamo", il nostro obiettivo è
soddisfare le richieste di
chi ci paga, usando "bene" i media.
Un'altra vittima di campagne dis-informative è stato l'ex presidente
di Haiti
J.B.Aristide che ,eletto con il 67% dei voti, si opponeva alle
ricette di "aggiustamento
strutturale" del FMI: fu rimosso dopo una dura campagna mediatica
orchestrata dagli
USA che considerano Haiti una loro colonia (definizioni di Aristide:
"psicopatico",
"piccolo socialista assetato di sangue").
Mi sembrano poi notevoli le affermazioni di Ramsey Clark "La lotta
che noi possiamo
e dobbiamo fare, la più grande sfida nella lotta per la democrazia è
la ricerca della
verità"; " la questione della sopravvivenza umana ..dipenderà
largamente dalla nostra
capacità di vedere e mostrare la verità in tempo utile"; "la
possibilità dei media di
demonizzare intere nazioni ed i loro leaders, costituisce il potere
più pericoloso e più
perverso".
Ciò significa, come noi del Forum DAC sosteniamo, che, con la lotta
politica,
occorre riportare sotto la sovranità popolare il controllo dei
processi di
conoscenza, informazione, comunicazione.
L'autrice rivolge poi un cenno ai contributi dei vari relatori del
libro.
I contributi della terza parte si incentrano sulle menzogne che
hanno preparato e
coperto l'aggressione USA-NATO nei Balcani con il graduale
smantellamento della
Repubblica federata di Jugoslavia.
Se ne può dedurre che l'immagine mediatica ha beffato il mondo
intero.
Pirocanac, in particolare, esamina il ruolo dei media come quarto
braccio della NATO.
Nella quarta parte del libro si indagano le ricadute sul Terzo Mondo
dell'imperialismo
mediatico ( ma anche militare ed economico) nonchè le possibili vie
di resistenza e di
alternativa rispetto ad esso.
Da un lato si propongono agenzie, reti ed alleanze "orizzontali"
capaci di offrire ai
movimenti un flusso informativo e conoscitivo correlato alla realtà
del mondo e dei
popoli (un esempio è l'idea denominata PRIME Progressive
International Media
Exchange), dall'altro si tenta di sostenere e valorizzare le
strutture informative non
legate ai monopoli (pubbliche, comunitarie, ecc.).
In questa direzione, la conquista dei DIRITTI COMUNICATIVI, attivi e
passivi, mi
sembra una battaglia decisiva nel senso indicato sopra da Ramsey
Clark.
Qui serve una progettualità articolata a più livelli, da quello
locale a quello mondiale,
capace di contrastare, o almeno limitare, i danni sociali prodotti
dalle multinazionali
dei media.
Qui si collocano le proposte del FORUM DAC che possono diventare
praticabili, a
condizione di assumere la questione dei MEDIA ( e dei diritti
negati) come problema
politico universale e prioritario. Qui le testimonianze dei vari
relatori si intrecciano
con i lavori e gli scopi di Videazimut (nel mondo) e del nostro
Forum DAC (in Italia).
Sintetizzo infine i contributi dell'ultima parte, più propositivi e
progettuali, essendo
l'analisi delle menzogne USA-NATO più nota, almeno tra gli "addetti
ai lavori" non
asserviti all'imperialismo
Barbara Nimiri Aziz (USA) si chiede se esistano alternative
mediatiche al di fuori
dell'Occidente. Pur accettando che i grandi mass-media occidentali
ormai dominano
l'attenzione e l'ascolto dei popoli di ogni parte del mondo,
l'autrice esamina i processi
culturali e comunicativi delle civiltà "non occidentali" (arabi,
asiatici, ecc.): qui i
processi di comunicazione orali non sono ancora scomparsi ed hanno
tradizioni
consolidate. Non è vero che non esistano ad EST giornalisti,
intellettuali e
comunicatori, indipendenti e capaci. Un altro aspetto caratteristico
è che in quei Paesi
il vissuto conta più della politica, per cui le persone non sono
così disinformate come
gli occidentali credono. Cita una serie di esempi. I popoli di 22
Stati arabi costituiscono
un buon esempio di competizione e diversità.
Il suo invito è quindi di non omologare frettolosamente l'ovest
all'est.
David Barsamian (USA) tratta il tema delle radio antagoniste e del
loro ruolo
antimperialista. Cita Antonio Gramsci "creare una nuova cultura non
significa solo fare
originali scoperte individuali, ma soprattutto significa divulgare
criticamente le verità
esistenti, portarle al linguaggio sociale, quindi, dare ad esse la
consistenza di base per
azioni vitali e gli elementi di raccordo di rilevanza intellettuale
e sociale". Egli trova
nel rilancio e nel potenziamento delle radio alternative le funzioni
politiche e culturali
evocate da Gramsci. Ragioni di costo, di semplicità e di diffusione
ne fanno fattori
decisivi di conoscenza critica, resistenza ed opposizione
all'imperialimo. Cita una
serie di esempi.
La relazione di Peter Frank ed altri (USA), intitolata
"Radiodiffusione, costituzione
e democrazia" pone il diritto a comunicare in relazione al 1°
emendamento della
Costituzione USA: rivendica il diritto all'installazione in ambito
locale di
microripetitori radio FM di piccola potenza (50-100 watt). Cita i
numeri della rapida
espansione in USA di tali microripetitori "comunitari e/o rurali",
sostenuta dal
"movimento internazionale per le microradio".
Manse Jacobi (USA) esplora limiti e potenzialità di Internet come
potenziale mezzo
di democrazia comunicativa (alternativa al regime dominante). Cita
le applicazione di
WEBcasting-diffusione di notizie audiovisive via Internet, nonché il
progetto di
"convergenza della società civile" lanciato da AMAR, APC e
Videazimut: si tratta
di una rete di giornalisti, scrittori, intellettuali ed attivisti
che scambiano, su base
mondiale, informazioni libere, democraticamente.
C.Levendosky (USA) si chiede, pleonasticamente, se il mercato possa
mai
proteggere voci libere. La sua risposta, suffragata da esempi, è
negativa, per cui
ritorna all'uso di media alternativi.
===
MONOPOLY
La Nato alla conquista del mondo
di Michel Collon (ed. EPO - marzo 2000)
-> NUOVA RECENSIONE a cura di Enrico Giardino:
http://digilander.iol.it/convogliogiorgiana/collon110800.html
-> nostri documenti gia' distribuiti:
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/252
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IMBROGLI DI GUERRA
Scienziate e scienziati contro la guerra
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"Imbrogli di guerra" e' finalmente disponibile anche sul web,
all'indirizzo http://www.iac.rm.cnr.it/~spweb/libro/
Il comitato "Scienziate e scienziati contro la guerra", inoltre,
e' in procinto di pubblicare con l'editore Odradek un secondo
volume, come continuazione del primo. Il secondo libro riportera'
il contenuto delle relazioni raccolte nel corso del convegno di
Torino svoltosi nel mese di giugno 2000.
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IMBROGLI DI GUERRA - Scienziate e scienziati contro la guerra
Un libro per coloro che vogliono approfondire, fuori dai clamori e
al riparo da interferenze mediatiche, cause e conseguenze del recente
conflitto e di cui consigliamo vivamente l'adozione nelle universita'
e nelle scuole superiori.
Raccoglie contributi e interventi che "Scienziate e scienziati contro
la guerra" hanno prodotto in un seminario sul conflitto nei Balcani,
tenutosi a Roma il 21 giugno 1999. Sono testi ricchi di grafici e
tabelle,
meditati e documentati, che analizzano un vasto spettro di temi e di
ambiti a partire da metodologie scientifiche diverse, attenti a riferire
soprattutto, ma non solo, sulle conseguenze del recente conflitto sulla
popolazione e sull'ambiente.
Sono testi scientifici che non vogliono ignorare le connessioni
economiche
tra universita', ricerca ed industria bellica, e che affrontano, di
nuovo,
la responsabilita' della scienza e degli scienziati nei confronti del
Pianeta e della sua popolazione. In un contesto culturale di profonda
crisi, laddove molti intellettuali sono spiazzati dagli eventi, altri
latitano, ed altri ancora si vendono al miglior offerente, qualcuno
s'interroga...
Le autrici e gli autori: A. Di Fazio, V.F. Polcaro, S. Salerno, L.
Triolo,
V. Caffarelli, W. Bocola, P. Cagnetti, V. Gennaro, G. Grandoni,
A. Signorini N. Pacilio, C. Pona, A. Baracca, R. La Valle e altri,
F. Grimaldi, A. Drago, E. Donini, M. Emmer, A. Martocchia: docenti
appartenenti a Dipartimenti di varie Universita' italiane (Napoli,
Roma, Firenze, Torino, Trieste); ricercatori del CNR, dell'ENEA, degli
Osservatori astronomici, del Ministero dell'Ambiente, dell'Istituto
Nazionale per la ricerca sul Cancro di Genova; studenti della Scuola
Internazionale per gli Studi Avanzati di Trieste.
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Per scaricare il libro o i singoli contributi, il sito internet e'
http://www.iac.rm.cnr.it/~spweb/libro/
Sia l'intero libro che i singoli contributi che sono scaricabili
in formato PostScript compresso (.PS.GZ) che in formato PDF.
I software di riferimento per visualizzare i file sono
- Aladdin ghostscript + gv (Unix/Linux)
- Aladdin ghostscript + gsview (Windows)
- Acrobat Reader (tutte le piattaforme)
Si fa notare che i file PostScript devono prima essere decompressi
con gunzip (linux/unix) o winzip (windows).
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Scienziate e Scienziati contro la guerra
http://www.iac.rm.cnr.it/~spweb/
scienzaepace@...
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> International Action Center / AaVv.
>
> LA NATO NEI BALCANI
>
> Editori Riuniti, Roma, giugno 1999 - lire 18mila
Dei QUATTORDICI saggi contenuti nell'opera originale - vale a dire
l'eccezionale volume dell'I.A.C. "NATO IN THE BALKANS", che a suo tempo
segnalammo, cfr. http://marx2001.org/crj/GEOPO/natobalc.html - con
grande
ardimento gli Editori Riuniti sono riusciti a pubblicarne QUATTRO in
versione italiana. C'e' voluto un anno e mezzo d'attesa e qualche decina
di migliaia di tonnellate di bombe, ma il risultato e' incoraggiante.
Il libro, che e' curato da Tommaso di Francesco, si apre con una
PREFAZIONE di Luciana Castellina. Questa esordisce con alcune righe di
premessa inutile ed in perfetto stile "politically correct" sulle colpe
di
Milosevic, tanto per mettere le mani avanti, ma subito dopo in poche
pagine riesce a riassumere efficacemente 10 anni di aggressione
imperialista ai danni delle popolazioni della Jugoslavia, analizzando a
nostro avviso correttamente anche il quadro politico-culturale
complessivo.
Segue una NOTA REDAZIONALE e la parziale traduzione di "NATO IN THE
BALKANS", con gli scritti di R. Becker (sulle sanzioni ed il ruolo
occidentale nella distruzione della RFSJ), S. Flounders (sulla attivita'
USA contro la pace in Bosnia; da questa sezione e' scioccamente saltato
via un paragrafo che elencava alcuni articoli di fonte occidentale
sull'operato della CIA in Bosnia), G. Elich (sulla "Operazione Tempesta"
a
danno dei serbi delle Krajne) e B. Lituchy (sul ruolo dei media, laddove
si citano alcuni esempi di disinformazione strategica, con i nomi delle
agenzie di "public relations" coinvolte).
Mancano dunque all'appello l'introduzione di R. Clark, l'importante
analisi geopolitica di S. Gervasi sulla strategia della NATO, il pezzo
sulla Bosnia di Chossudovski, l'analisi di S. Marcy sugli interessi
dietro
allo squartamento della RFSJ, il saggio sugli accordi di Dayton di G.
Wilson, l'articolo di T. Deichmann sulla campagna di disinformazione
relativa a certi "lager serbi" in Bosnia, quello di R. Foerstel sul
ruolo
dei media e quello della N. Tesich sul clima culturale in cui e'
germogliato il razzismo antiserbo di questi anni. Manca anche l'analisi
di
Cottin e Dorfman sulla agenzia di disinformazione strategica
"Ruder&Finn",
impegnata ad orientare la lobby ebraica USA in senso antijugoslavo.
Il libro contiene invece una aggiornata APPENDICE, con l'ACCORDO PER
L'AUTOGOVERNO DEL KOSMET (18.03.99) e l'ACCORDO DI RAMBOUILLET
(integrale), nonche': LE COLPE DELLA GERMANIA (intervista a Helmuth
Schmidt a cura di P.A. Stauffer e P. Decallier), GLI OBBIETTIVI DELLA
POLITICA DELLE BOMBE (di E. Said), STELLE D'AMERICA, STRISCE D'EUROPA
(di
G. Kolko), L'IRRESISTIBILE ASCESA DELLA NATO (di H. Scheer) e
soprattutto
le LETTERE DI UN VIAGGIATORE AL PRESIDENTE DELLA REPUBBLICA FRANCESE di
R. Debray, l'articolo apparso il 12/5 scorso sul "Le Monde" che ha
scatenato una oscena campagna diffamatoria contro il suo autore.
Nonostante l'incompletezza, l'estremo ritardo con cui appare ed il
totale
embargo informativo (non ci risulta sia stato recensito da alcun
giornale), questo libro rimane comunque il migliore di tutti quelli
finora
pubblicati sul dramma jugoslavo e balcanico di questi anni in Italia.
Pochi soldi per un'agile lettura che fornisce salde basi di
comprensione di quanto accaduto nel paese che con noi confina ad est.
Certo mancano tanti tasselli, documentazione, manca una cronologia,
mancano illustrazioni, manca la voce dei comunisti jugoslavi, ma non
disperiamo: qualche altra tonnellata di uranio impoverito o qualche
pioggia di bombe in Adriatico indurranno sicuramente gli "Editori
Riuniti"
ad azzardare un altro passo nella direzione giusta.
(http://www.marx2001.org/nuovaunita/jugo/crj/m_l/100899.htm)
===
> Losurdo, Taboni, Moffa, Catone
>
> DAL MEDIO ORIENTE AI BALCANI
> L'alba di sangue del "secolo americano"
>
> La Citta' del Sole / Manes Ed., Napoli 1999
Si tratta della raccolta di quattro eccezionali saggi sulle cause
strategiche, economiche e politiche della aggressione occidentale contro
la Repubblica Federale di Jugoslavia (Serbia e Montenegro). Questo
paese,
ultimo dell'area balcanica a rivendicare fino in fondo una continuita'
con
la multinazionale (o "multietnica", come vuole la vulgata corrente)
Repubblica Federativa e Socialista di Jugoslavia, e' tuttora soggetto ad
un attacco in varie forme da parte dell'imperialismo, che intende
spaccarlo facendo leva sui settori revanscisti e micronazionalisti per
arrivare ad una ricolonizzazione di tutta l'area, e puntare
ulteriormente
ad est.
Particolarmente accesa la polemica contro la deriva teorica e pratica
di certo internazionalismo, di certo pacifismo e di certa sinistra, che
usando in modo a-dialettico la categoria della "autodeterminazione dei
popoli" hanno di fatto sostenuto lo squartamento della RFSJ esaltando un
"differenzialismo identitario" di carattere reazionario e decadente.
(http://www.marx2001.org/nuovaunita/jugo/crj/m_l/100899.htm)
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Emperor's Clothes Interviews Radio B292
www.tenc.net
[Emperor's Clothes]
On May 17th, the Yugoslav government closed Studio B, controlled by Vuk
Draskovic's Serbian
Renewal Party in Belgrade. The charge: that Studio B Television "has
been calling for armed terrorist and
criminal actions against the Republic of Serbia and its citizens." Since
the controversial Radio B292 used
space at Studio B, B292 was effectively closed as well.
Some said that the charges were fabricated, that this was a terrible
attack on free speech. Were they
right? Did the station represent an attempt at free journalism, stifled
by heavy-handed bureacrats?
Emperor's Clothes published two articles by geopolitical analyst Paul
Treanor which argued, with
documentation, that Radio B292 was in fact controlled by powerful
Western interests which aimed to
bring Yugoslavia down.
Shortly after Studio B was closed, Emperor's Clothes editor Jared Israel
tracked down B292 staff
members at a temporary office in Belgrade. He interviewed two people,
gordan Paunovic, who ran
B292's web page, and Sanda Savic, the news editor. The interviews were
an attempt to shed light on the
charges raised by Mr.. Treanor. They relate directly to the question: Is
the Serbian opposition in fact
independent of US control? This has direct bearing on the present
Yugoslav elections.
Interview with gordan Paunovicm webmaster for B292.
Conducted by Jared Israel, editor www.tenc.net
Jared: Why did the government shut down Studio B?
Gordan Paunovic: The main accusation was that they called for an armed
response to overthrow the
government
Jared: Is that true?
Paunovic: No, of course not. On the 13th of May you had a rally on a
mountain over there and you had
these people who shouted "Uprising! Uprising!" And they had coverage of
both rallies. So if you think
that's a call for uprising -
[Note: Subsequently I learned from a Montengran student whose family has
been involved in "upriings"
for 200 years, that while the term "uprising" might be taken as radical
chic in English, in Serbia it is
associated with a bloody history of anti-Turkish rebellions, a history
with which every Serbian child is
familiar. It is therefore not a term likely to be used casually.]
Jared: Well the news report I read in the West said that guns were fired
in the air and Vuk Draskovic
said, "Save your bullets, we're going to need them." Doesn't that sound
like a call for civil war and -
Paunovic: These are folklore events without any political weight which
are happening every year. It is the
anniversary of the Chetniks' uprising against the Nazi's in the Second
World War, on this mountain. It's a
completely folklore gathering. They always have guns.
Jared: But his comment? "Save your bullets we'll need them later?"
Paunovic: Well then let them arrest Draskovic.
Jared: Well, they closed his Studio B...Tell me, is radio B292 funded by
George Soros?
Paunovic: Funded or founded?
Jared: Funded. Given money -
Paunovic: I think it happens quite often since 1992 but it's not the
only source of money. But I'm not the
right person to talk about this.
Jared: Do you know anything about -
Paunovic: There is a list of international foundations, not only Soros
who -
Jared: Like what else?
Paunovic: Press Now, from Holland, Royal Swedish Foundation or
something, Royal Netherlands
Foundation.
Jared: Any in the US?
Paunovic: I guess so. I don't know the details. Those things I know by
chance. But Soros Foundation,
yes, definitely, but much, these days in last year or two years much
less than before.
Jared: Any money coming from foundations in the US?
Paunovic: Probably, but I don't know which Foundations. I am pretty much
pissed off in putting this kind
of argumentation, like Soros equals B92. That really comes from people
who are not in a position to see
what we are doing. We will take money from anyone. To make a good
production on many levels, from
radio, to TV and video productions to Internet, Books, music. You need
money.
Jared: I'll read you a statement from Gelbard. You know who Gelbard is?
Paunovic: US Special Envoy to the Balkans.
Jared: Exactly. [Jared's note: actually prior to this interview Gelbard
had been moved to a new position,
Ambassador to Indonesia...] Do you know who Biden is? Sen. Biden? This
an exchange from the July
29th [1999] hearings on supporting the so-called independent forces in
Serbia. The hearings took place
the day after the Senate voted to give 100,000,000 dollars to the
'independent' opposition. This is Sen.
Biden talking:
"SEN. BIDEN: "What can we do about inside Serbia? For example Draskovic
continues to deny access
to Studio B, which is supposedly, as I understand it -- he's not?
"MR. GELBARD: No, he's actually given access to Studio B -- excuse me;
given access of Studio B to
Radio B-92. And my understanding is that Radio B-92, one of the
independent voices, has just reopened
as Radio B-292. We want Draskovic to open up Studio B to the rest of the
opposition, and that's a
message that he'll be getting from us in the next few days."
Jared resumes: That's how they talked about you. Any comment?
Paunovic: Can you read it to me again?
Jared: I'll read it slowly. [Reads again]
Paunovic: Hmmm. I think it's, I mean I'm not getting clear what do you
want to point? What do you want
to ask me? If you want to think B92 is the voice of Gelbard or the
American administration, that has
nothing to do with reality.
Jared: Well let me ask you, does it sound like an extraordinary
situation for the government of a hostile
country to be discussing in detail the use of studio facilities in the
target country. And discussing it in detail
-
Paunovic: Well, to make such a conclusion that would mean that you have
a perfectly normal situation
here. What you have here is the most abnormal situation in the world
which has nothing to do with the US
government.
Jared: You think the situation has nothing to do with the US -
Paunovic: And another thing I don't like the way we are - Like Robin
Cook and Jamie Shea they made a
huge damage to our image when Robin Cooke said in a Press Conference
which was directly broadcast
on CNN "You know we helped B92 to get satellite access" and things like
that. But you know I think
they will obviously help anyone who is spreading serious criticism of
the government. So what are we
going to do about it? If they want to do it they will.
Jared: Do you feel uncomfortable with that statement [by Gelbard and
Biden]?
Paunovic: I absolutely feel uncomfortable with anyone patronizing -
Jared: You said before that the United States had nothing do with the
situation in Yugoslavia. You don't
think the United States is any part of the problem that you face in
Yugoslavia?
Paunovic: Well I don't say they are not part of the problem They are a
very big part of the problem
because for nine years they saw Milosevich as a guarantor of peace and
then completely changed their
policy declaring him a war criminal. If they needed the year 1999 to
realize he is a war criminal I think
they are very wrong. He is a war criminal and a person who is seriously
violating for many years. He
came to power in a completely illegal way. He had a coup in the [former
communist] party congress.
Jared: You think he's a war criminal? They charge him with war crimes
because they say the Serbian
police and the Yugoslav Army committed war crimes. Do you think the
Yugoslav Army committed war
crimes in Kosovo?
Paunovic: Well that's a collective guilt issue. They should specifiy the
names of people who committed
war crimes in Kosovo.
Jared: Do you think the Serbian Army committed war crimes in Kosovo?
Paunovic: I don't know. How can I know this? I don't work for the Hague
Tribunal.
Jared: Do you think the Hague Tribunal is a legitimate orgnaizxation>?
Paunovic: I don't know.
Jared: You said the US has been responsible for problems because of its
policy of backing Milosevich.
So that's the only thing the United States has done?
Paunovic: Are you referring to the bombing? I mean we can talk about
these things for 24 hours.
Jared: Well, it did happen. But anyway, you take money from the US
government
Paunovic: [Laughs] I don't know about it. I didn't say that. Did I say
it?
Jared: They say it.
Paunovic: Who?
Jared: In these hearings they say it explicitly; they say we've been
giving large sums of money to the
'independent' media. Now the main, the only name of 'independent' media
they mention is yours. They
say we had to stop when the bombing started. Since the bombing ended
we've been able to start again
and we're immediately going to get $10 million dollars in there. And we
have voted 100 million. That's
what they say.
Paunovic: You know, I don't know. That help was not only for B92. I mean
you have a list, practically
everyone, all media that exists in Serbia that is not controlled by the
Serbian government is on that list.
Jared: Getting money from the US?
Paunovic: Exactly,.
Jared: So they're all getting it, not just B92?
Paunovic: You know it's not a question of morality or something like
that because we're in an open war
with the government. We realized much before Washington realized we had
to overthrow Milosevich
Jared: Let me ask you, I understand you're broadcasting on satellite.
What satellite is that?
Paunovic: I don't know.
Jared: Is that Eurosat?
Paunovic: I am not a technical expert on the satellite. I can tell you
about the Internet.
Jared: Is there somebody who handles the radio I can talk to?
Paunovic: You can talk to me about it.
Jared; So do you know what satellite it is?
Paunovic: Yes but I don't know. I don't have anybody here who can help
you about this.
Jared: Is there anybody I can call to find that out?
Paunovic: Before, the way satellite operation was done I think in
cooperation with BBC.
Jared: Ahh, so you do know. And so now?
Paunovic: Probably the same.
Jared: Have you protested the Serbian government's exclusion from
Eurosat [the European Satellite TV
link]
Paunovic: We protest all those things. Everything.
[At this point Paunovic instructed Jared to check on their website to
see about the protest against
Yugoslav exclusion from Eursat. He checked but found no such protest
against Yugoslav exclusion.
Pauvonic promised to send the URL to that protest, and did in fact send
an email in which he stated his
regrets that the URL for the protest against Yugoslav esclusion from the
Eurosat was "unavailable".]
End of interview with gordan pauvonic
***
Inerview with Sanda Savic, News editor of Radio B292
Conducted by Jared Israel, May 23, 2000.
Jared: Are you in an office there or somebody's house?
Sanda: So-called office. We are just trying to gather computers,
telephones and etc., etc.
Jared: But I understand you're still able to transmit by satellite? What
satellite to you use?
Sanda: It's a BBC satellite.
Jared: You have an arrangement with them where you can -
Sanda: It's old arrangement. They give us more time on satellite now.
Every day we are broadcasting two
hours in the morning, two afternoon and two at the evening. Six hours a
day.
Jared: The BBC contributes this?
Sanda: I don't know the details about that agreement. But we used their
satellite before. But it was just
three hours before. We made a new agreement. They just wanted to help us
now.
Jared: That's a lot of time. What does that reach?
Sanda: We cover all the protests. That can be heard by everyone but
Belgrade because local stations
rebroadcast our programs, between 20 and 30 local stations.
Unfortunately BBC cannot be heard in
Belgrade.
Jared: I understand some people are very mad at you and some support
you. Are you getting strong
support?
Sanda: Many of us are very disappointed. We expect nothing special from
opposition [parties.] That's
why we prepared earlier offices and other ways to continue our work.
That's why we able to work now.
Because we didn't expect anything from the others, especially not from
the opposition parties.
Jared: So you prepared a whole alternative set of offices before this
happened? Sounds expensive.
Sanda: And we are doing some things to cover Belgrade. We are trying to
do that.
Jared: How are you doing that?
Sanda: I can't tell you more
Jared: What do you mean though, you say you're trying to cover Belgrade?
Sanda: We are trying to make some agreement with other radio stations,
not in Serbia.
Jared: You mean like Bulgaria or something?
Sanda: I can't tell you now. You're going to find out in the next ten or
15 days. Yes this is expensive but
you know the European Union and every organization from the outside
helped us for years and they are
going to help [now].
Jared: Like what organizations?
Sanda: Like, I don't know; [George] Soros, you know? There are so many
organizations from abroad.
They all help us.
Jared: Who owns the station?
Sanda: No one.
Jared: That can't be.
Sanda: We are not private. We are not a city organization. We are just,
I don't know. It's private owner
Jared: Who is the private owner?
Sanda: No one. It's just a part of Association of Independent Electronic
Media in Serbia.
Jared: You say no one owns it but I'm unclear. You said no one owns it,
but you said "we prepared other
offices." Somebody has to write checks. You've got phones; you have
relations with a satellite, etc.
Soros gives money; the money must go to something, some entity. Does
Soros own it?
Sanda: No no no no no no no. We don't have a legal status. We are just
part of an Association. You
know what happened during the bombing?
Jared: But somebody pays you a paycheck every week? Someone writes a
check and signs it?
Sanda: Yes but you have to ask my Director.
Jared: In other words you don't know who writes the -
Sanda: I don't know much about - it's so confused -
Jared: Specifically though you get a check you can cash at the bank?
Yes?
Sanda: Yes.
Jared: How much pay would a person get there? Is it a very good job?
Sanda: It's a good job.
Jared: Well somebody owns it because they write a check. Means
ownership, control.
Sanda: It's like a non-government organization. We have an Editor,
Director, it's just their job to get
money.
Jared: Let me read you something that's on the net now from a guy named
Paul Treanor. He says the
website that was set up when radio 2B292 came around is owned by KPB
Telecom through its
subsidiary XS4ALL NederlandBV. (2)
Sanda: Uh -huh.
Jared: Is that correct?
Sanda: Really, I really don't know. I'm not sure. I can't tell you
anything about that. I can just give you the
number of Sasa Milkovic. He's the Editor in Chief.
[Jared's note: I called Mr. Milkovic numerous times but he was always
too busy to talk.]
Further reading...
Do anti-Yugoslav Western interests own Radio 'Free' B292?'' by Paul
Treanor
www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/treanor/reisa.htm
'B92 "solidarity" money goes to Soros Fund' by Paul Treanor at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/treanor/b92$.htm
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On May 17th, the Yugoslav government closed Studio B, controlled by Vuk
Draskovic's Serbian
Renewal Party in Belgrade. The charge: that Studio B Television "has
been calling for armed terrorist and
criminal actions against the Republic of Serbia and its citizens." Since
the controversial Radio B292 used
space at Studio B, B292 was effectively closed as well.
Some said that the charges were fabricated, that this was a terrible
attack on free speech. Were they
right? Did the station represent an attempt at free journalism, stifled
by heavy-handed bureacrats?
Emperor's Clothes published two articles by geopolitical analyst Paul
Treanor which argued, with
documentation, that Radio B292 was in fact controlled by powerful
Western interests which aimed to
bring Yugoslavia down.
Shortly after Studio B was closed, Emperor's Clothes editor Jared Israel
tracked down B292 staff
members at a temporary office in Belgrade. He interviewed two people,
gordan Paunovic, who ran
B292's web page, and Sanda Savic, the news editor. The interviews were
an attempt to shed light on the
charges raised by Mr.. Treanor. They relate directly to the question: Is
the Serbian opposition in fact
independent of US control? This has direct bearing on the present
Yugoslav elections.
Interview with gordan Paunovicm webmaster for B292.
Conducted by Jared Israel, editor www.tenc.net
Jared: Why did the government shut down Studio B?
Gordan Paunovic: The main accusation was that they called for an armed
response to overthrow the
government
Jared: Is that true?
Paunovic: No, of course not. On the 13th of May you had a rally on a
mountain over there and you had
these people who shouted "Uprising! Uprising!" And they had coverage of
both rallies. So if you think
that's a call for uprising -
[Note: Subsequently I learned from a Montengran student whose family has
been involved in "upriings"
for 200 years, that while the term "uprising" might be taken as radical
chic in English, in Serbia it is
associated with a bloody history of anti-Turkish rebellions, a history
with which every Serbian child is
familiar. It is therefore not a term likely to be used casually.]
Jared: Well the news report I read in the West said that guns were fired
in the air and Vuk Draskovic
said, "Save your bullets, we're going to need them." Doesn't that sound
like a call for civil war and -
Paunovic: These are folklore events without any political weight which
are happening every year. It is the
anniversary of the Chetniks' uprising against the Nazi's in the Second
World War, on this mountain. It's a
completely folklore gathering. They always have guns.
Jared: But his comment? "Save your bullets we'll need them later?"
Paunovic: Well then let them arrest Draskovic.
Jared: Well, they closed his Studio B...Tell me, is radio B292 funded by
George Soros?
Paunovic: Funded or founded?
Jared: Funded. Given money -
Paunovic: I think it happens quite often since 1992 but it's not the
only source of money. But I'm not the
right person to talk about this.
Jared: Do you know anything about -
Paunovic: There is a list of international foundations, not only Soros
who -
Jared: Like what else?
Paunovic: Press Now, from Holland, Royal Swedish Foundation or
something, Royal Netherlands
Foundation.
Jared: Any in the US?
Paunovic: I guess so. I don't know the details. Those things I know by
chance. But Soros Foundation,
yes, definitely, but much, these days in last year or two years much
less than before.
Jared: Any money coming from foundations in the US?
Paunovic: Probably, but I don't know which Foundations. I am pretty much
pissed off in putting this kind
of argumentation, like Soros equals B92. That really comes from people
who are not in a position to see
what we are doing. We will take money from anyone. To make a good
production on many levels, from
radio, to TV and video productions to Internet, Books, music. You need
money.
Jared: I'll read you a statement from Gelbard. You know who Gelbard is?
Paunovic: US Special Envoy to the Balkans.
Jared: Exactly. [Jared's note: actually prior to this interview Gelbard
had been moved to a new position,
Ambassador to Indonesia...] Do you know who Biden is? Sen. Biden? This
an exchange from the July
29th [1999] hearings on supporting the so-called independent forces in
Serbia. The hearings took place
the day after the Senate voted to give 100,000,000 dollars to the
'independent' opposition. This is Sen.
Biden talking:
"SEN. BIDEN: "What can we do about inside Serbia? For example Draskovic
continues to deny access
to Studio B, which is supposedly, as I understand it -- he's not?
"MR. GELBARD: No, he's actually given access to Studio B -- excuse me;
given access of Studio B to
Radio B-92. And my understanding is that Radio B-92, one of the
independent voices, has just reopened
as Radio B-292. We want Draskovic to open up Studio B to the rest of the
opposition, and that's a
message that he'll be getting from us in the next few days."
Jared resumes: That's how they talked about you. Any comment?
Paunovic: Can you read it to me again?
Jared: I'll read it slowly. [Reads again]
Paunovic: Hmmm. I think it's, I mean I'm not getting clear what do you
want to point? What do you want
to ask me? If you want to think B92 is the voice of Gelbard or the
American administration, that has
nothing to do with reality.
Jared: Well let me ask you, does it sound like an extraordinary
situation for the government of a hostile
country to be discussing in detail the use of studio facilities in the
target country. And discussing it in detail
-
Paunovic: Well, to make such a conclusion that would mean that you have
a perfectly normal situation
here. What you have here is the most abnormal situation in the world
which has nothing to do with the US
government.
Jared: You think the situation has nothing to do with the US -
Paunovic: And another thing I don't like the way we are - Like Robin
Cook and Jamie Shea they made a
huge damage to our image when Robin Cooke said in a Press Conference
which was directly broadcast
on CNN "You know we helped B92 to get satellite access" and things like
that. But you know I think
they will obviously help anyone who is spreading serious criticism of
the government. So what are we
going to do about it? If they want to do it they will.
Jared: Do you feel uncomfortable with that statement [by Gelbard and
Biden]?
Paunovic: I absolutely feel uncomfortable with anyone patronizing -
Jared: You said before that the United States had nothing do with the
situation in Yugoslavia. You don't
think the United States is any part of the problem that you face in
Yugoslavia?
Paunovic: Well I don't say they are not part of the problem They are a
very big part of the problem
because for nine years they saw Milosevich as a guarantor of peace and
then completely changed their
policy declaring him a war criminal. If they needed the year 1999 to
realize he is a war criminal I think
they are very wrong. He is a war criminal and a person who is seriously
violating for many years. He
came to power in a completely illegal way. He had a coup in the [former
communist] party congress.
Jared: You think he's a war criminal? They charge him with war crimes
because they say the Serbian
police and the Yugoslav Army committed war crimes. Do you think the
Yugoslav Army committed war
crimes in Kosovo?
Paunovic: Well that's a collective guilt issue. They should specifiy the
names of people who committed
war crimes in Kosovo.
Jared: Do you think the Serbian Army committed war crimes in Kosovo?
Paunovic: I don't know. How can I know this? I don't work for the Hague
Tribunal.
Jared: Do you think the Hague Tribunal is a legitimate orgnaizxation>?
Paunovic: I don't know.
Jared: You said the US has been responsible for problems because of its
policy of backing Milosevich.
So that's the only thing the United States has done?
Paunovic: Are you referring to the bombing? I mean we can talk about
these things for 24 hours.
Jared: Well, it did happen. But anyway, you take money from the US
government
Paunovic: [Laughs] I don't know about it. I didn't say that. Did I say
it?
Jared: They say it.
Paunovic: Who?
Jared: In these hearings they say it explicitly; they say we've been
giving large sums of money to the
'independent' media. Now the main, the only name of 'independent' media
they mention is yours. They
say we had to stop when the bombing started. Since the bombing ended
we've been able to start again
and we're immediately going to get $10 million dollars in there. And we
have voted 100 million. That's
what they say.
Paunovic: You know, I don't know. That help was not only for B92. I mean
you have a list, practically
everyone, all media that exists in Serbia that is not controlled by the
Serbian government is on that list.
Jared: Getting money from the US?
Paunovic: Exactly,.
Jared: So they're all getting it, not just B92?
Paunovic: You know it's not a question of morality or something like
that because we're in an open war
with the government. We realized much before Washington realized we had
to overthrow Milosevich
Jared: Let me ask you, I understand you're broadcasting on satellite.
What satellite is that?
Paunovic: I don't know.
Jared: Is that Eurosat?
Paunovic: I am not a technical expert on the satellite. I can tell you
about the Internet.
Jared: Is there somebody who handles the radio I can talk to?
Paunovic: You can talk to me about it.
Jared; So do you know what satellite it is?
Paunovic: Yes but I don't know. I don't have anybody here who can help
you about this.
Jared: Is there anybody I can call to find that out?
Paunovic: Before, the way satellite operation was done I think in
cooperation with BBC.
Jared: Ahh, so you do know. And so now?
Paunovic: Probably the same.
Jared: Have you protested the Serbian government's exclusion from
Eurosat [the European Satellite TV
link]
Paunovic: We protest all those things. Everything.
[At this point Paunovic instructed Jared to check on their website to
see about the protest against
Yugoslav exclusion from Eursat. He checked but found no such protest
against Yugoslav exclusion.
Pauvonic promised to send the URL to that protest, and did in fact send
an email in which he stated his
regrets that the URL for the protest against Yugoslav esclusion from the
Eurosat was "unavailable".]
End of interview with gordan pauvonic
***
Inerview with Sanda Savic, News editor of Radio B292
Conducted by Jared Israel, May 23, 2000.
Jared: Are you in an office there or somebody's house?
Sanda: So-called office. We are just trying to gather computers,
telephones and etc., etc.
Jared: But I understand you're still able to transmit by satellite? What
satellite to you use?
Sanda: It's a BBC satellite.
Jared: You have an arrangement with them where you can -
Sanda: It's old arrangement. They give us more time on satellite now.
Every day we are broadcasting two
hours in the morning, two afternoon and two at the evening. Six hours a
day.
Jared: The BBC contributes this?
Sanda: I don't know the details about that agreement. But we used their
satellite before. But it was just
three hours before. We made a new agreement. They just wanted to help us
now.
Jared: That's a lot of time. What does that reach?
Sanda: We cover all the protests. That can be heard by everyone but
Belgrade because local stations
rebroadcast our programs, between 20 and 30 local stations.
Unfortunately BBC cannot be heard in
Belgrade.
Jared: I understand some people are very mad at you and some support
you. Are you getting strong
support?
Sanda: Many of us are very disappointed. We expect nothing special from
opposition [parties.] That's
why we prepared earlier offices and other ways to continue our work.
That's why we able to work now.
Because we didn't expect anything from the others, especially not from
the opposition parties.
Jared: So you prepared a whole alternative set of offices before this
happened? Sounds expensive.
Sanda: And we are doing some things to cover Belgrade. We are trying to
do that.
Jared: How are you doing that?
Sanda: I can't tell you more
Jared: What do you mean though, you say you're trying to cover Belgrade?
Sanda: We are trying to make some agreement with other radio stations,
not in Serbia.
Jared: You mean like Bulgaria or something?
Sanda: I can't tell you now. You're going to find out in the next ten or
15 days. Yes this is expensive but
you know the European Union and every organization from the outside
helped us for years and they are
going to help [now].
Jared: Like what organizations?
Sanda: Like, I don't know; [George] Soros, you know? There are so many
organizations from abroad.
They all help us.
Jared: Who owns the station?
Sanda: No one.
Jared: That can't be.
Sanda: We are not private. We are not a city organization. We are just,
I don't know. It's private owner
Jared: Who is the private owner?
Sanda: No one. It's just a part of Association of Independent Electronic
Media in Serbia.
Jared: You say no one owns it but I'm unclear. You said no one owns it,
but you said "we prepared other
offices." Somebody has to write checks. You've got phones; you have
relations with a satellite, etc.
Soros gives money; the money must go to something, some entity. Does
Soros own it?
Sanda: No no no no no no no. We don't have a legal status. We are just
part of an Association. You
know what happened during the bombing?
Jared: But somebody pays you a paycheck every week? Someone writes a
check and signs it?
Sanda: Yes but you have to ask my Director.
Jared: In other words you don't know who writes the -
Sanda: I don't know much about - it's so confused -
Jared: Specifically though you get a check you can cash at the bank?
Yes?
Sanda: Yes.
Jared: How much pay would a person get there? Is it a very good job?
Sanda: It's a good job.
Jared: Well somebody owns it because they write a check. Means
ownership, control.
Sanda: It's like a non-government organization. We have an Editor,
Director, it's just their job to get
money.
Jared: Let me read you something that's on the net now from a guy named
Paul Treanor. He says the
website that was set up when radio 2B292 came around is owned by KPB
Telecom through its
subsidiary XS4ALL NederlandBV. (2)
Sanda: Uh -huh.
Jared: Is that correct?
Sanda: Really, I really don't know. I'm not sure. I can't tell you
anything about that. I can just give you the
number of Sasa Milkovic. He's the Editor in Chief.
[Jared's note: I called Mr. Milkovic numerous times but he was always
too busy to talk.]
Further reading...
Do anti-Yugoslav Western interests own Radio 'Free' B292?'' by Paul
Treanor
www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/treanor/reisa.htm
'B92 "solidarity" money goes to Soros Fund' by Paul Treanor at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/treanor/b92$.htm
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Della miseria della opposizione di destra in Serbia
Settima parte:
VERSO LE ELEZIONI. KOSTUNICA, OTPOR, B92, DRASKOVIC
LA "QUINTA COLONNA"
GLI USA APRONO UN UFFICIO PER L'OPPOSIZIONE SERBA - A BUDAPEST...
GLI USA ORGANIZZANO CORSI DI FORMAZIONE PER L'OPPOSIZIONE SERBA - A
SOFIA...
=== KOSTUNICA ===
http://news.beograd.com/english/articles_and_opinion/djurdjevic/000919_toward_another_red_october.html
Toward Another "Red October"
Kostunica: A Don Quixote in Bed with Scorpions - The EU "Trojan Horse"
Is Real "Kiss of Death," As Is Djindjic's Endorsement
(Bob Djurdjevic)
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/kostunic.htm
Kostunica & the Yugoslav Election
Written by Jared Israel following discussion with the people who work on
Emperor's Clothes - revised 9-15-00
=== OTPOR ===
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/otpor.htm
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/otpor2.htm
Otpor is an American Tragedy
by Jared Israel (9-08-00)
----
Dal sito:
http://www.otpor.com
OTPOR website
"...seppellire il comunismo ancora vivo e vegeto in Serbia..."
Kragujevac Otpor observes July 7
Otpor activists staged a performance on Friday named "Let's Regain our
consciousness" in front of their premises in
Kragujevac to observe the Day of Uprising in Serbia. They placed three
red painted pentagrams made of ice on the sunlit
side of the street and set candles beside them. Otpor activist Ana Savic
told Beta news agency that "thawing of the
five-pointed stars in the sun" symbolized "the entombment of Communism
still alive and vivid in Serbia after five
decades."
---
OTPOR@...
Dear Friends of NATO and the U.S. State Department,
I
recently visited your Web site, a better site that
most opposition groups here in the United States can
afford, and read your appeal for support from Western
celebrities and, implicitly, for financial support.
One would think that with the handsome funding you
receive from George Soros' Open Society Institute and,
less directly, the U.S. State Department, that your
coffers would be full and that you wouldn't be in need
of further monies....But bringing Yugoslavia out of
its isolation, as you put it, and into NATO presumably
- the same NATO alliance that bombed your country and
people ruthlessly for 79 days and killed thousands of
your fellow citizens - and ushering your nation "into
the 21st Century," a line the not terribly clever
Yankee spin masters seem to have recycled from the
1992 Clinton presidential campaign to present to you,
is expensive, I realize. Well, enjoy the NATO largesse
while you can, because if your dreams of 'freedom'
ever come to fruition you'll be begging for bread like
the people of the rest of Eastern Europe, who could
tell you a thing or two about what's expected in
returm from American/Western agents....Now please
explain to me how the arch-demon Slobodan Milosevic is
solely responsible for your democratic friends in
London and Washington attacking your own country, as
well as bombing and waging war in or against Iraq,
Colombia, etc....P.S. For a 'catchier' acronym for
your organization, try Collaborators In Action.
Rick, Chicago (America's third largest city, which has
a one-party political system...Want to come here and
help liberate us?)
(Letter to OTPOR, by Rick Rozoff, 23 May 2000)
=== B92 ED IL SOSTEGNO USA AI MEDIA "INDIPENDENTI" ===
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/457
Emperor's Clothes Interviews Radio B292
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/treanor/b92$.htm
'B92 "solidarity" money goes to Soros Fund'
(Paul Treanor)
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/hearin.htm
"PROSPECTS FOR DEMOCRACY IN YUGOSLAVIA"
US Senate hearing, July 29, 1999
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/strange.htm
'Gangsters & other democrats'
=== DRASKOVIC ===
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/comic.htm
Vuk Draskovic Stages A Comic Opera Attempt on His Own Life (Such As It
Is), by Bob Djurdjevic (6-18-00)
=== LA QUINTA COLONNA ===
"La quinta colonna"
Quello che è chiaro per Noam Chomsky, Ramsey Clark, Peter Handke,
Friederich Gorenstein, Nikita Mahlkov, Pier Marie Galois, è difficile
capire perché non lo sia anche per la nostra quinta colonna, quale che
sia il suo interesse personale in tutto ciò. E’ particolarmente strano
perché non lo sia anche "per l’uomo di Dio", il Patriarca Artemije al
quale la memoria storica dovrebbe essere più chiara che ai semplici
cittadini, e lui alcuni giorni fa disse che non aveva voluto chiedere
alla Albright perché fosse stata bombardata la Jugoslavia, sicuramente
perché ritiene che noi stessi abbiamo provocato questa reazione ! La
quinta colonna nostrana non sa mettersi d’accordo su cosa vuole da se
stessa. Si vanta della storia del popolo serbo, e chiede allo stesso
popolo che "venda la religione per la colazione" (in serbo :"da proda
veru za veceru"). Quanto onore bisogna avere per viaggiare per il mondo
sputando sulla propria terra e spalla a spalla con la CNN costruire
l’immagine dei serbi cattivi e primitivi.. La sventura dell’opposizione
e proprio questa, di aver indirizzato tutto il loro odio contro gli
avversari politici, contro il paese e il popolo. Sembra che questi
cosiddetti opposizionisti e persuasi intellettuali abbiano compreso che
per loro stessi è molto più conveniente contrastare il governo
legalmente e democraticamente eletto dal popolo e distribuire baciamani
in giro per il mondo, e accusare per tutti i mali di questo mondo -come
loro stessi dicono- ufficialmente Belgrado. Non ènemmeno
contraddittorio che l’opposizione sia contro quelli che hanno vinto le
elezioni. Questo si trova nella -descrizione del loro posto di lavoro- ,
ma in questione è il fatto che in questa corsa richiedano che alle
spalle soffino loro quelli che durante i bombardamenti hanno ammazzato
tanta di quella gente, distrutto tante di quelle cose costruite con il
sudore dei lavoratori e che sono pronti a consegnare ogni serbo al
tribunale dell’Aja, per avere più "coca-cola" e per ricordare quei
cosiddetti antagonisti al regime che si vantano delle vittorie serbe
nella Prima guerra mondiale -è la Serbia che è entrata in guerra proprio
perché non voleva i gendarmi stranieri che spadroneggino sul suo
territorio. E perché sia ancora una volta chiaro nessuno è contrario a
che l’opposizione sia contro il governo, ma ogni serbo deve essere
contro quelli che sono pronti a tradire il popolo, il paese per
qualsiasi poltron
In questo consiste la loro quinta colonna.
(Da "Politika", Belgrado, luglio 2000)
=== UN UFFICIO A BUDAPEST E CORSI DI FORMAZIONE A SOFIA ===
U.S. Opens New Office in Hungary
The Associated Press
Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2000; 4:20 p.m. EDT
WASHINGTON –– The State Department has opened a new office at the
U.S.
Embassy in Hungary to support democratic forces in Yugoslavia in advance
of
national elections, a spokesman said Tuesday.
The office will be headed by the ambassador to Croatia, William
Montgomery.
"We think it's very important to let those committed to true democracy
in
Serbia know that we support their efforts," State Department spokesman
Philip
Reeker said. Serbia and the smaller republic of Montenegro comprise the
Yugoslav Federation.
Montgomery will be addressing "a full range of issues related to our
long-term goal of advancing democracy in Serbia," Reeker said.
The Clinton administration is hoping for a strong showing by opposition
forces in the Sept. 24 elections. President Slobodan Milosevic has
changed
the constitution to allow him to serve an additional eight years. In
addition
to the presidency, elections for the federal parliament also will be
held.
Reeker said Montgomery will retain the title of ambassador to Croatia
but
will be based in Budapest until a new ambassador is appointed in Zagreb.
© Copyright 2000 The Associated Press
---
http://www.centraleurope.com/news.php3?id=190281
Yugoslavia Raps U.S. Over Office To 'Run' Opposition
BELGRADE, Aug 18, 2000 -- (Reuters) A senior Yugoslav government
official accused the
United States on Thursday of waging more aggression on the Balkan state
by opening an office in
Budapest that he said was designed to "run" the Serbian opposition.
"The U.S. State Department issued a statement ... saying that they are
setting up a special office
in Budapest, headed by William Montgomery, to run the Serbian
opposition," Deputy Prime
Minister Nikola Sainovic told a news conference.
Montgomery, the U.S. ambassador to Croatia, will head the office as
charge d'affaires.
Belgrade broke off diplomatic ties with the United States and three
other Western countries last
year at the start of NATO's 11-week air campaign against Yugoslavia.
According to a Washington press briefing published on the State
Department website,
Montgomery will deal "solely with issues relating to Yugoslavia".
He will be working with the Serbian democratic opposition until
September elections and
"addressing a full range of issues related to our long-term goal of
advancing democracy in
Serbia".
But Sainovic, also a senior official in Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic's Socialist Party of
Serbia, said the office was part of a U.S. effort to gain control over
Yugoslavia by assisting
opposition parties in the run-up to the September 24 vote for Yugoslav
president, parliament and
local governments.
"That (the office) is one more link in a chain called 'How to Conquer
Yugoslavia'. This is the
battle for Yugoslavia and that is why the (September) elections are an
important element of the
battle," he said.
But Milosevic's opponents, regularly blasted by state media for
cultivating contacts with the
West after NATO's 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia that halted a Serbian
military crackdown on
Kosovo Albanians, were not enchanted by the U.S. move either.
Vojislav Kostunica, chosen by 15 Serbian opposition parties as their
joint candidate to challenge
Milosevic in the September vote, said on Wednesday the opening of the
office was an "American
kiss of death to the democratic forces of Serbia.
"It takes a great degree of arrogance...to say that promoting democracy
in Serbia is a long-term
U.S. goal. Democracy in Serbia is Serbia's goal and no one else is
entitled to it ... The real U.S.
goal is obviously a further break-up of Yugoslavia. Milosevic's victory
directly leads to it," he
said.
Both Milosevic's ruling coalition of socialists, neo-communists and
ultra-nationalists and the
opposition parties say that the coming elections will be historic.
For Milosevic, the polls are a chance to cement power for many more
years.
The opposition hopes to topple the Serbian strongman.
(C)2000 Copyright Reuters Limited
---
"Monitor" (BULGARIA), August 28
The Balkans Are Latin America for CIA
>>Arguments: CIA lectures Serbs from "Otpor in Sofia since today"
>>Monitor, August 28, 2000.
>>
>>"I hate to be the first one!" That remark of Bruce Willis might be
>repeated by "Monitor" re all the subjects, connected with the USA presence
>in the Balkans and Bulgaria.
>>
>>We have published several times the truth of the US invasion, and we have
>noticed that usually the things develop after the same scheme.
>>First stage: firm denial on the part of the powerful ones.
>>Second stage: painful admission.
>>
>>It was just so when the Yankee demanded bases in Bulgaria. While one of
the
>ruling "elite" was denying it, other had already been admitting it. At the
>end everything had proved to be just as "Monitor" had announced it.
>>
>>The same had been repeated also with the CIA center in Sofia, about which
>we wrote even as early as the last year.
>>
>>It was the same in connection with the meetings of the Yugoslavian
>opposition activists with Ambassador Miles and USA spies that took place
>last year too in "Sheraton" Hotel, Sofia. "There is no such thing" -Miles
>lied first, but then he had to admit that he had shared a meal with them.
>>
>>Now our warning, announced while Tenet was still in Sofia, has proved to
be
>true too. All the pretentious analyses about CIA Boss visit are reduced to
>a brutal order to the Bulgarian rulers of today - namely, to keep selling
>our country sovereignty, providing another country spy organizations with a
>terrain from which to work against a neighbouring country.
>>
>>According to a BBC information a ten-day special course starts in Sofia
>since today (August 28). In that course USA spies will lecture to Serb
>activists from "Otpor".
>>
>>What exactly will Uncle Sams spies lecture to the Serbs? Maybe how to
>organize a procession with beating on empty pans? A CIA trade mark,
>accompanying the coups, and used in Brasil in 1961, in Chili in 1973, and
in
>Bulgaria in 1990. Or, maybe, the Serbs will be taught how to destroy and
set
>fire to a Parliament building? It was tried on in Sofia in 1997.
>>
>>There are many ways to destabilize a Balkan country but on principle, the
>specialists from beyond the ocean do not rack their brains uselessly and do
>not rely on imagination. They follow strictly the standard ranger method.
>>
>>It seems that for the USA Latin America has moved to the Balkans. And the
>Bulgarian ruling men and women are no more than the puppets of colonels,
>which Washington used with gusto during the colonization of the territory
to
>the south of the Panama Channel.
>>
>>The sad thing in that squalid story is that both our rulers and we know
>well what the future has in store for the puppets and the go-betweens in
>that dirty game...
>>
>>
>>
>>Translated by Blagovesta Doncheva
>>September 2 2000
>>Sofia
===
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VERSO LE ELEZIONI. KOSTUNICA, OTPOR, B92, DRASKOVIC
LA "QUINTA COLONNA"
GLI USA APRONO UN UFFICIO PER L'OPPOSIZIONE SERBA - A BUDAPEST...
GLI USA ORGANIZZANO CORSI DI FORMAZIONE PER L'OPPOSIZIONE SERBA - A
SOFIA...
=== KOSTUNICA ===
http://news.beograd.com/english/articles_and_opinion/djurdjevic/000919_toward_another_red_october.html
Toward Another "Red October"
Kostunica: A Don Quixote in Bed with Scorpions - The EU "Trojan Horse"
Is Real "Kiss of Death," As Is Djindjic's Endorsement
(Bob Djurdjevic)
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/kostunic.htm
Kostunica & the Yugoslav Election
Written by Jared Israel following discussion with the people who work on
Emperor's Clothes - revised 9-15-00
=== OTPOR ===
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/otpor.htm
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/otpor2.htm
Otpor is an American Tragedy
by Jared Israel (9-08-00)
----
Dal sito:
http://www.otpor.com
OTPOR website
"...seppellire il comunismo ancora vivo e vegeto in Serbia..."
Kragujevac Otpor observes July 7
Otpor activists staged a performance on Friday named "Let's Regain our
consciousness" in front of their premises in
Kragujevac to observe the Day of Uprising in Serbia. They placed three
red painted pentagrams made of ice on the sunlit
side of the street and set candles beside them. Otpor activist Ana Savic
told Beta news agency that "thawing of the
five-pointed stars in the sun" symbolized "the entombment of Communism
still alive and vivid in Serbia after five
decades."
---
OTPOR@...
Dear Friends of NATO and the U.S. State Department,
I
recently visited your Web site, a better site that
most opposition groups here in the United States can
afford, and read your appeal for support from Western
celebrities and, implicitly, for financial support.
One would think that with the handsome funding you
receive from George Soros' Open Society Institute and,
less directly, the U.S. State Department, that your
coffers would be full and that you wouldn't be in need
of further monies....But bringing Yugoslavia out of
its isolation, as you put it, and into NATO presumably
- the same NATO alliance that bombed your country and
people ruthlessly for 79 days and killed thousands of
your fellow citizens - and ushering your nation "into
the 21st Century," a line the not terribly clever
Yankee spin masters seem to have recycled from the
1992 Clinton presidential campaign to present to you,
is expensive, I realize. Well, enjoy the NATO largesse
while you can, because if your dreams of 'freedom'
ever come to fruition you'll be begging for bread like
the people of the rest of Eastern Europe, who could
tell you a thing or two about what's expected in
returm from American/Western agents....Now please
explain to me how the arch-demon Slobodan Milosevic is
solely responsible for your democratic friends in
London and Washington attacking your own country, as
well as bombing and waging war in or against Iraq,
Colombia, etc....P.S. For a 'catchier' acronym for
your organization, try Collaborators In Action.
Rick, Chicago (America's third largest city, which has
a one-party political system...Want to come here and
help liberate us?)
(Letter to OTPOR, by Rick Rozoff, 23 May 2000)
=== B92 ED IL SOSTEGNO USA AI MEDIA "INDIPENDENTI" ===
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/457
Emperor's Clothes Interviews Radio B292
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/treanor/b92$.htm
'B92 "solidarity" money goes to Soros Fund'
(Paul Treanor)
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/hearin.htm
"PROSPECTS FOR DEMOCRACY IN YUGOSLAVIA"
US Senate hearing, July 29, 1999
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/strange.htm
'Gangsters & other democrats'
=== DRASKOVIC ===
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/comic.htm
Vuk Draskovic Stages A Comic Opera Attempt on His Own Life (Such As It
Is), by Bob Djurdjevic (6-18-00)
=== LA QUINTA COLONNA ===
"La quinta colonna"
Quello che è chiaro per Noam Chomsky, Ramsey Clark, Peter Handke,
Friederich Gorenstein, Nikita Mahlkov, Pier Marie Galois, è difficile
capire perché non lo sia anche per la nostra quinta colonna, quale che
sia il suo interesse personale in tutto ciò. E’ particolarmente strano
perché non lo sia anche "per l’uomo di Dio", il Patriarca Artemije al
quale la memoria storica dovrebbe essere più chiara che ai semplici
cittadini, e lui alcuni giorni fa disse che non aveva voluto chiedere
alla Albright perché fosse stata bombardata la Jugoslavia, sicuramente
perché ritiene che noi stessi abbiamo provocato questa reazione ! La
quinta colonna nostrana non sa mettersi d’accordo su cosa vuole da se
stessa. Si vanta della storia del popolo serbo, e chiede allo stesso
popolo che "venda la religione per la colazione" (in serbo :"da proda
veru za veceru"). Quanto onore bisogna avere per viaggiare per il mondo
sputando sulla propria terra e spalla a spalla con la CNN costruire
l’immagine dei serbi cattivi e primitivi.. La sventura dell’opposizione
e proprio questa, di aver indirizzato tutto il loro odio contro gli
avversari politici, contro il paese e il popolo. Sembra che questi
cosiddetti opposizionisti e persuasi intellettuali abbiano compreso che
per loro stessi è molto più conveniente contrastare il governo
legalmente e democraticamente eletto dal popolo e distribuire baciamani
in giro per il mondo, e accusare per tutti i mali di questo mondo -come
loro stessi dicono- ufficialmente Belgrado. Non ènemmeno
contraddittorio che l’opposizione sia contro quelli che hanno vinto le
elezioni. Questo si trova nella -descrizione del loro posto di lavoro- ,
ma in questione è il fatto che in questa corsa richiedano che alle
spalle soffino loro quelli che durante i bombardamenti hanno ammazzato
tanta di quella gente, distrutto tante di quelle cose costruite con il
sudore dei lavoratori e che sono pronti a consegnare ogni serbo al
tribunale dell’Aja, per avere più "coca-cola" e per ricordare quei
cosiddetti antagonisti al regime che si vantano delle vittorie serbe
nella Prima guerra mondiale -è la Serbia che è entrata in guerra proprio
perché non voleva i gendarmi stranieri che spadroneggino sul suo
territorio. E perché sia ancora una volta chiaro nessuno è contrario a
che l’opposizione sia contro il governo, ma ogni serbo deve essere
contro quelli che sono pronti a tradire il popolo, il paese per
qualsiasi poltron
In questo consiste la loro quinta colonna.
(Da "Politika", Belgrado, luglio 2000)
=== UN UFFICIO A BUDAPEST E CORSI DI FORMAZIONE A SOFIA ===
U.S. Opens New Office in Hungary
The Associated Press
Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2000; 4:20 p.m. EDT
WASHINGTON –– The State Department has opened a new office at the
U.S.
Embassy in Hungary to support democratic forces in Yugoslavia in advance
of
national elections, a spokesman said Tuesday.
The office will be headed by the ambassador to Croatia, William
Montgomery.
"We think it's very important to let those committed to true democracy
in
Serbia know that we support their efforts," State Department spokesman
Philip
Reeker said. Serbia and the smaller republic of Montenegro comprise the
Yugoslav Federation.
Montgomery will be addressing "a full range of issues related to our
long-term goal of advancing democracy in Serbia," Reeker said.
The Clinton administration is hoping for a strong showing by opposition
forces in the Sept. 24 elections. President Slobodan Milosevic has
changed
the constitution to allow him to serve an additional eight years. In
addition
to the presidency, elections for the federal parliament also will be
held.
Reeker said Montgomery will retain the title of ambassador to Croatia
but
will be based in Budapest until a new ambassador is appointed in Zagreb.
© Copyright 2000 The Associated Press
---
http://www.centraleurope.com/news.php3?id=190281
Yugoslavia Raps U.S. Over Office To 'Run' Opposition
BELGRADE, Aug 18, 2000 -- (Reuters) A senior Yugoslav government
official accused the
United States on Thursday of waging more aggression on the Balkan state
by opening an office in
Budapest that he said was designed to "run" the Serbian opposition.
"The U.S. State Department issued a statement ... saying that they are
setting up a special office
in Budapest, headed by William Montgomery, to run the Serbian
opposition," Deputy Prime
Minister Nikola Sainovic told a news conference.
Montgomery, the U.S. ambassador to Croatia, will head the office as
charge d'affaires.
Belgrade broke off diplomatic ties with the United States and three
other Western countries last
year at the start of NATO's 11-week air campaign against Yugoslavia.
According to a Washington press briefing published on the State
Department website,
Montgomery will deal "solely with issues relating to Yugoslavia".
He will be working with the Serbian democratic opposition until
September elections and
"addressing a full range of issues related to our long-term goal of
advancing democracy in
Serbia".
But Sainovic, also a senior official in Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic's Socialist Party of
Serbia, said the office was part of a U.S. effort to gain control over
Yugoslavia by assisting
opposition parties in the run-up to the September 24 vote for Yugoslav
president, parliament and
local governments.
"That (the office) is one more link in a chain called 'How to Conquer
Yugoslavia'. This is the
battle for Yugoslavia and that is why the (September) elections are an
important element of the
battle," he said.
But Milosevic's opponents, regularly blasted by state media for
cultivating contacts with the
West after NATO's 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia that halted a Serbian
military crackdown on
Kosovo Albanians, were not enchanted by the U.S. move either.
Vojislav Kostunica, chosen by 15 Serbian opposition parties as their
joint candidate to challenge
Milosevic in the September vote, said on Wednesday the opening of the
office was an "American
kiss of death to the democratic forces of Serbia.
"It takes a great degree of arrogance...to say that promoting democracy
in Serbia is a long-term
U.S. goal. Democracy in Serbia is Serbia's goal and no one else is
entitled to it ... The real U.S.
goal is obviously a further break-up of Yugoslavia. Milosevic's victory
directly leads to it," he
said.
Both Milosevic's ruling coalition of socialists, neo-communists and
ultra-nationalists and the
opposition parties say that the coming elections will be historic.
For Milosevic, the polls are a chance to cement power for many more
years.
The opposition hopes to topple the Serbian strongman.
(C)2000 Copyright Reuters Limited
---
"Monitor" (BULGARIA), August 28
The Balkans Are Latin America for CIA
>>Arguments: CIA lectures Serbs from "Otpor in Sofia since today"
>>Monitor, August 28, 2000.
>>
>>"I hate to be the first one!" That remark of Bruce Willis might be
>repeated by "Monitor" re all the subjects, connected with the USA presence
>in the Balkans and Bulgaria.
>>
>>We have published several times the truth of the US invasion, and we have
>noticed that usually the things develop after the same scheme.
>>First stage: firm denial on the part of the powerful ones.
>>Second stage: painful admission.
>>
>>It was just so when the Yankee demanded bases in Bulgaria. While one of
the
>ruling "elite" was denying it, other had already been admitting it. At the
>end everything had proved to be just as "Monitor" had announced it.
>>
>>The same had been repeated also with the CIA center in Sofia, about which
>we wrote even as early as the last year.
>>
>>It was the same in connection with the meetings of the Yugoslavian
>opposition activists with Ambassador Miles and USA spies that took place
>last year too in "Sheraton" Hotel, Sofia. "There is no such thing" -Miles
>lied first, but then he had to admit that he had shared a meal with them.
>>
>>Now our warning, announced while Tenet was still in Sofia, has proved to
be
>true too. All the pretentious analyses about CIA Boss visit are reduced to
>a brutal order to the Bulgarian rulers of today - namely, to keep selling
>our country sovereignty, providing another country spy organizations with a
>terrain from which to work against a neighbouring country.
>>
>>According to a BBC information a ten-day special course starts in Sofia
>since today (August 28). In that course USA spies will lecture to Serb
>activists from "Otpor".
>>
>>What exactly will Uncle Sams spies lecture to the Serbs? Maybe how to
>organize a procession with beating on empty pans? A CIA trade mark,
>accompanying the coups, and used in Brasil in 1961, in Chili in 1973, and
in
>Bulgaria in 1990. Or, maybe, the Serbs will be taught how to destroy and
set
>fire to a Parliament building? It was tried on in Sofia in 1997.
>>
>>There are many ways to destabilize a Balkan country but on principle, the
>specialists from beyond the ocean do not rack their brains uselessly and do
>not rely on imagination. They follow strictly the standard ranger method.
>>
>>It seems that for the USA Latin America has moved to the Balkans. And the
>Bulgarian ruling men and women are no more than the puppets of colonels,
>which Washington used with gusto during the colonization of the territory
to
>the south of the Panama Channel.
>>
>>The sad thing in that squalid story is that both our rulers and we know
>well what the future has in store for the puppets and the go-betweens in
>that dirty game...
>>
>>
>>
>>Translated by Blagovesta Doncheva
>>September 2 2000
>>Sofia
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20 September 2000
Text: State Department Spokesman Message on Yugoslav Elections
(Removal of sanctions will follow democratic transition, Boucher says)
(190)
U.S. State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher issued the following
message September 20 on the Yugoslav elections, which are scheduled to
take place September 24:
(begin text)
U.S. Department of State
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, D.C.
September 20, 2000
STATEMENT BY RICHARD BOUCHER, SPOKESMAN
MESSAGE ON THE YUGOSLAV ELECTIONS
The United States welcomes Monday's message from the EU General
Affairs Council to the people of Yugoslavia and supports the
ministers' statement. When a democratic transition takes place, we
will take steps to remove sanctions.
The democratic opposition has chosen to contest these elections, and
there is every sign that the great majority of the people support them
in this choice, intend to vote, and to vote for change. We have joined
with our Russian and European colleagues already in looking forward to
the time when a democratic Yugoslavia is a full partner in the new
Europe.
(end text)
(Distributed by the Office of International Information Programs, U.S.
Department of State. Web site: http://usinfo.state.gov)
-------------------------
Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the Sept. 21, 2000
issue of Workers World newspaper
-------------------------
AS ELECTIONS LOOM: U.S. STEPS UP PLAN TO TOPPLE YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT
By Pat Chin
With elections set for Sept. 24 in the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia, the United States and its junior partners in
Europe have intensified efforts to topple the government of
President Slobodan Milosevic as a first step toward turning
Yugoslavia into a colonial country.
The destabilization campaign is in full swing. It's a no-
holds-barred full court press that includes covert
operations involving assassinations; open funding for
opposition parties; economic strangulation; media
manipulation; and psychological warfare, including the
threat of another NATO war should Milosevic be returned to
office.
Milosevic enjoys popular support for standing up to NATO.
But the West's big-business media have been giving prominent
play to Democratic Opposition of Serbia presidential
candidate Vojislav Kostunica.
Other opposition leaders, like Vuk Draskovic and Zoran
Djindjic, have already discredited themselves by their close
relations with the U.S. and NATO forces. While Kostunica
hasn't yet openly embraced NATO, it's obvious he's
Washington's favorite.
The media claim that Kostunica, who represents a group of
allied opposition parties, is the clear frontrunner
according to polls. The surveys, however, are being done by
anti-Milosevic institutions inside the country.
Serbian Science Minister Branislav Ivkovic recently
denounced the polls, accusing the CIA of "direct
involvement." It's "business as usual," said Ivkovic, "so
when the surveys turn out to be false, they will say the
vote was a fraud and will call for a rebellion." (Nedeljni
Telegraf weekly)
A known anti-communist, Kostunica told a Sept. 1 rally in
Belgrade that, if elected, he will "persistently and
patiently strive to get our country back into the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and
restore its rightful membership in the United Nations and
the world's leading financial institutions." (Associated
Press)
The European Union has been scheming with the U.S. to unseat
Milosevic so that a puppet government can be installed that
would subordinate the country's economy to Western corporate
interests.
EUROPEAN UNION OFFERS BRIBE
A meeting of the EU on Sept. 4 offered to lift imperialist-
imposed economic sanctions if people vote Milosevic out of
office. The 15-member cabal announced that it had postponed
a review of the sanctions until after the elections, adding
that a "proposal" will be unveiled just before the
balloting.
"The victory of democracy would lead to a radical revision
of EU policy towards Serbia in all its aspects," said French
Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine. "The Serbs will have to
make a very important choice in the elections." (Reuters)
Of course, like most election promises made by capitalist
politicians, there's no guarantee that they'll be kept.
Vedrine's goal is to open up the Yugoslav economy to Western
corporate exploitation.
Around the same time, La Stampa, an Italian newspaper,
reported that former NATO chief Javier Solana had said,
"There are three possible outcomes of the Yugoslav election:
Milosevic wins, Milosevic cheats, Milosevic loses." The
first two outcomes are "negative," warned Solana, and will
meet hostility from NATO forces.
This blatantly manipulative and arrogant display of
interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign country
has reached a fever pitch. Solana wants the message to be
that if the Yugoslavs don't unseat Milosevic, they'll not
only face economic suffocation, they might also get bombed
again.
Such an attack, however, would arouse the already growing
opposition within the NATO countries to the unjustified
pressure on Yugoslavia, and could provoke splits within
NATO. At this moment the military threats should be seen
mainly as an attempt to intimidate the Yugoslavs into voting
against Milosevic.
The U.S. recently barred Yugoslav federal government
officials from attending the United Nations' first global
gathering of parliamentary leaders and the Millennium Summit
by denying them visas. But Montenegrin President Milo
Djukanovic was allowed to attend the latter.
While there, he met with the presidents of Croatia,
Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Macedonia. These
countries, backed by Berlin and Washington, broke off from
the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia starting
in 1991.
According to the opposition Freeb92 news outlet, the leaders
"sent a message to the Yugoslavian public that their
countries will propose that the international community lift
sanctions against Yugoslavia if the Serbian Democratic
Opposition achieves victory in the forthcoming elections."
Yugoslavia now consists of the republics of Serbia and
Montenegro, whose president has become a puppet of
imperialist interests. Djukanovic has, in fact, threatened
to declare independence if Milosevic is re-elected.
On Sept. 7, after meeting with him, U.S. Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright added grist to the propaganda mill by
declaring that she feared for his life.
"There are ongoing concerns about his safety," she intoned.
When asked if upcoming joint U.S. and Croatian military
exercises off Montenegro's coast were a show of force,
Albright replied, according to Reuters, that they were
"naval exercises planned as part of the Partnership for
Peace," an organization that links NATO with former Warsaw
Pact countries.
Two days later, Kostunica visited Montenegro where he met
with government officials there opposed to Milosevic.
According to a press report, "both sides emphasized that the
future of Serbia and Montenegro depended on democratic
changes within Serbia."
Meanwhile, in embattled UN/NATO-occupied Kosovo-Metohija
(Kosmet), Serbs, Roma and progressives of other ethnic
groups plan to vote on Sept. 24. Organizers say they will
prevail. They'll conduct the polling in private homes, since
they've been barred from using public buildings by
occupation head Bernard Kouchner. NATO also recently
announced plans to increase the number of troops in Kosmet
for the election.
Murderous attacks against Serbs and others have continued
under the watchful eye of the occupying forces. But the
Serbs are fighting back. And more news is beginning to
surface exposing the lies about "defending human rights"
used to justify the imperialist aggression against
Yugoslavia, and NATO's trumped-up indictment of Milosevic as
a "war criminal" based on the myth of mass graves containing
Albanian victims of Serb genocide.
EVIDENCE OF KLA WAR CRIMES
On Aug. 17, for example, NATO officials admitted that their
estimate of Albanians allegedly killed by Yugoslav forces in
Kosmet was much higher than the actual number of exhumed
bodies. This admission, coupled with the fact that many of
the corpses showed no sign of "Yugoslav troop atrocities,"
was carried by the Aug. 18 British Guardian. But the U.S.
capitalist media deliberately ignored it.
The same is true of a Sept. 3 piece in the British Sunday
Times. Headlined, "KLA faces trials for war crimes on Serbs,
Inquiry turns on Albanians," it described five sites in
Kosmet "where war crimes were allegedly carried out by
members of the KLA" against the Serbs.
"The investigation could radically alter the international
perception of the conflict, in which Albanians were seen as
the largely innocent victims of Serbian aggression,"
concluded the article. "After a year of growing concern
about hundreds of revenge killings of Serbs by Albanians in
the province, there are signs that the public relations
pendulum may begin to swing the Serbs' way."
The London Daily Observer also reported Sept. 11 that U.S.
officials in Kosmet are obstructing a UN investigation of
former KLA commander Ramushi Haradinay, who is suspected of
assassinations, drug smuggling and war crimes. U.S. soldiers
reportedly removed evidence from a crime scene involving
Haradinay before whisking him away to their camp and later
to a U.S. military hospital in Germany.
Meanwhile, Serbs in the southern province continue to
protest the NATO take-over of the mineral-rich Trepca Mines.
And the government in Belgrade has announced that a war
crimes trial of NATO leaders involved in last year's 78-day
blitzkreig against Yugoslavia will start on Sept. 18.
The Yugoslav people can best defend their sovereignty and
livelihood by uniting to resist NATO, which is really much
weaker than it appears. There's growing opposition to
another military strike against Yugoslavia inside NATO and
worldwide, and people are organizing against the embargo. If
an independent government is dropped for the imperialists'
promise of a "better" life, all social benefits still being
enjoyed despite the harsh sanctions could be lost.
Yugoslavia could, in fact, become another Bulgaria, which
has shown the world that submitting to the imperialist West
is no guarantee of avoiding poverty for the mass of the
population.
With respect to the elections, it's important to remember:
All that glitters is not gold.
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YUGOSLAVIA PROTESTS TO SECURITY COUNCIL
NEW YORK, Sep 19 (Tanjug). The opening of the US Office for
Yugoslavia in Budapest is an open demonstration of force, pressure and
brutal interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state by the
outgoing US administration, the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry said in a
protest
to the UN Security Council.
The protest, addressed on the occasion of the opening of the
Office, headed by a US Ambassador, on August 15, was distributed on
Tuesday
at the Palace of Nations as a General Assembly and Security Council
document.
The "Office" has a personnel of 30 employees of various
profiles,
including members of the CIA, the National Security Council, the
Pentagon,
USAID and other similar US agencies. According to US officials, its main
task is to help the opposition in Serbia and Yugoslavia and to influence
the will of the voters ahead of the upcoming elections.
With this act, the US administration practically pursues its
last
year's unsuccessful aggression on Yugoslavia, using subversive and
spying
activities inadmissible in international relations. It also endorses
separatism and terrorism, fans dangerous aspirations in the region and
violates international law.
The opening of the "Office" and its proclaimed tasks constitute
a
glaring violation of the US commitment to the UN Charter, the Vienna
Conventions on diplomatic relations, the UN Declaration principles
regarding relations and cooperation among states of October 24, 1970,
and
other international documents.
The Office activities and Hungary's acceptance of the use of
its
territory for activities against a third country also constitute a
direct
violation of the GA Resolution 54/168 of December 17, 1999, on the
respect
of national sovereignty and noninterference in internal affairs of
states
as regards electoral process. It particularly violates its Para. 5,
which
stipulates that all states must refrain from financing political parties
or
groups in other states or undertaking any actions undermining their
electoral processes.
The Hungarian Government's acceptance and endorsement of the
opening of the "Office" is a precedent in international relations, and
raises the question of whether such acts are in line with the principles
of
goodneighbourly relations and of the OSCE that Hungarian government
allegedly supports. This act is reminiscent of the time when Budapest,
albeit in different circumstances and under the influence of other
powers,
also served as a center for pressures and subversive activities against
Yugoslavia.
The Yugoslav Government most strongly protests against such
illegal activities of the US administration in the territories of
Hungary
and other states, with the aim of openly interfering in Yugoslavia's
internal affairs, endangering its sovereignty and territorial integrity,
and attempting to destabilize it.
The Yugoslav Government expects the Security Council to most
strongly condemn such conduct and to urge the US administration to abide
by
the UN Charter, its international commitments and international law, the
Ministry document says.
EU STANCE IS AN INSULT TO YUGOSLAVIA AMBASSADOR
ATHENS, Sep 19 (Tanjug). The European Union's promise to lift
antiYugoslav sanctions if its citizens do not vote for incumbent
Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic is the most glaring interference in
Yugoslavia's internal affairs, Yugoslav Ambassador to Greece Dragomir
Vucicevic told Athens Radio 902.
This also constitutes one of the aspects of continuing NATO and
EU
aggression, now by different means, which is a violation of all basic
principles of international relations, Vucicevic said.
The Yugoslav Government has taken all the necessary measures to
make the upcoming federal presidential and parliamentary elections and
local elections in Serbia democratic and fair, as many foreign observers
have already witnessed, Vucicevic said.
The EU stance amounts to taking sides openly, which is
dangerous
and contrary to the basic principles of democracy, Vucicevic said. The
EU
promise of a reward to the people of they do not vote according to their
own will is an insult to the people of Yugoslavia, who have always
strived
throughout their history to preserve their dignity, freedom and national
independence, Vucicevic said.
The EU sanctions against Yugoslavia are unfounded and illegal
as
they are contrary to the fundamental principles of the EU Charter and
have
been imposed without Security Council approval, he noted. The people of
Yugoslavia consequently expect the sanctions to be lifted immediately,
without preconditions, and without being used as an instrument of
preelection pressure, Vucicevic said.
YUGOSLAVIA ELECTIONS
FEDERAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION ISSUES STATEMENT
BELGRADE, September 19 (Tanjug) The Federal Electoral
Commission
held a session on Tuesday chaired by Borivoje Vukicevic and noted that
all
preparations for the implementation of the upcoming presidential and
parliamentary elections were nearing completion according to plan, the
Parliamentary Press Service said.
The printing, packing and distribution of election materials
has
been completed. These operations were monitored by the Federal Electoral
Commission and representatives of political parties running in the
September 24 elections.
Representatives of political parties who supervised the
operations
had no objections and confirmed that all electoral materials were
correct.
However, some party leaders are spreading rumours that already
filled out ballots are being distributed, and that people are being
threatened to force them to use such ballots.
The Commission strongly protests against such lies and points
out
that such irresponsible conduct is unnecessarily misleading the voters
and
violating their right to free choice.
Condemning all manipulations with lies, the Commission urges
for
the creation of legal and constitutional conditions for enabling voters
to
freely elect the lists and candidates of their choice. The Commission
has
consequently taken measures and requested state institutions to protect
the
democratic rights of the citizens.
This year's polls will be attended by over 200 observers from
50
countries, including parliamentarians and eminent public figures, whose
presence will enable the world public opinion to witness the democratic
character of free and fair elections in Yugoslavia, the Commission said.
FALSE WEBSITES FOR YUGOSLAV ELECTIONS
BELGRADE, Sept 20 (Tanjug) Yugoslav public enterprise
RadioTelevision YugoslaviaInternet Yugoslavia has once again drawn
attention to the fact that the official website of the Yugoslav
Government
devoted to elections has an Internet (URL) site www.gov.yu/izbori.
The statement said that certain organizations financed by
Western
countries use parallel sites, with similar names, so that it is possible
that on URLsites such as www.izbori.org.yu and www.izbori.co.yu are
promoted false election results, and confusion created.
The first mentioned website is currently openly promoting
candidates of the political organization Democratic Opposition of Serbia
(DOS), which runs stories such as Arm Yourselves for September 20, when
the
election convention of DOS is due to be held, or it even calls on
citizens
to take to the streets and wait for the announcing of trumpedup election
results from their parallel election site.
The second site mentioned above is still in preparation and
will
be active on September 24.
Internet Yugoslavia points out that the official site
www.gov.yu/izbori is updated in conjunction with the Yugoslav Election
Commission, and is therefore the most accurate source of information
about
elections and about election results.
MORE THAN 210 FOREIGN OBSERVERS ARRIVE IN YUGOSLAVIA FOR ELECTIONS
BELGRADE, September 20 (Tanjug) - President of the Yugoslav Electoral
Commission Borivoje Vukicevic and Supervising Board President Ivan
Radosavljevic will organize a cocktail on Wednesday evening to welcome
foreign observers who have arrived in Belgrade to monitor the federal
presidential and parliamentary elections and local elections in the
Yugoslav Republic of Serbia.
More than 210 foreign observers, including parliament members and
officials from 52 countries have arrived so far. They are from: Albania,
Angola, Argentina, Belgium, Belarus, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Chad, Czech
Republic, Chile, Denmark, Egypt, France, Ghana, Greece, India,
Indonesia,
Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Armenia, Jordan, Canada, Kazakhstan, Kenya,
Cyprus,
Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Libya, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Germany, Nepal,
Nicaragua, Palestine, Portugal, Romania, Russia, the U.S.A., Salvador,
Slovakia, Sweden, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, United
Kingdom, Vietnam and Zimbabwe.
Among the foreign observers is a joint delegation of the Parliamentary
Assembly of Russia and Belarus. The foreign observers have attended the
final rallies of various political parties, and will be present at most
electoral stations all day on Sunday, September 24.
STATE DUMA DEPUTIES AGAINST EU PRESSURES ON YUGOSLAVIA
MOSCOW, September 20 (Tanjug) Russian state Duma deputies
condemned the interference of the European Union in the internal affairs
of
Yugoslavia, with the intention of influencing the will of its voters,
said
a statement of the Duma Committee for helping our country overcome the
consequences of NATO's aggression last year.
State Duma members called on the EU, the statement specified,
not
to create obstacles for the free expression of will of voters, at the
upcoming presidential and legislative elections in Yugoslavia, on
September
24.
The EU attempt to influence by messages and false promises the
Serbian people to vote against Slobodan Milosevic was describes by Duma
deputies as "blatant interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign
state."
"Western countries are, in fact, the obstacle to the
development
of democracy in Yugoslavia, because they imposed years of sanctions,
political and informativepropaganda pressure," the statement said,
stressing that the reconstruction of Serbia, after NATO's barbaric
bombing
should not be an act of charity, but an obligation of the West.
OBSERVERS FROM RUSSIA AND BELARUS ARRIVE IN BELGRADE
BELGRADE, September 20 (Tanjug) A delegation of the Russian
state
Duma, made up of representatives of all party groupings, and of the
parliamentary assembly of the Union of Russia and Belarus arrived on
Wednesday at the invitation of the Yugoslav Federal Assembly, to attend
in
the capacity of international observers presidential, legislative and
local
elections in FR Yugoslavia, scheduled for September 24. In the
delegation
of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Russia and Belarus are
members of all legislative committees and secretariats, while from the
Russian Duma the role of observers will be performed by representatives
of
party groupings "Homelandall Russia," "Regions of Russia," "Jabloko,"
the
Communist party, "Unity" and the LiberalDemocratic party.
The delegation was welcomed at the airport by Yugoslav
Parliament
Lower House Foreign Policy Committee President Ljubisa Ristic, who
informed
them that at the Yugoslav elections will be present over 200 observers,
of
whom more than half are members of parliament from more than 50
countries.
"We want them to have all the necessary conditions for
monitoring
the elections independently and freely and to be impartial with respect
to
all key issues," Ristic said, pointing out, also, the intention of the
hosts to make it possible to observers in FR Yugoslavia to talk with
whom
ever and where ever they want to.
"Please communicate freely with the media and with voters, and
I
believe that your impressions about the democratic character of the
elections will be confirmed also by freedom of movement and the
monitoring
of elections," he said.
Russian Duma delegation head and international affairs
committee
deputychairman Konstantin Kasachov stressed that the delegation had
arrived
in Yugoslavia with best intentions and wishes that its members convey an
objective picture about elections conditions and about everything that
they
see during the election process.
Kasachov, speaking about the tasks of the delegation, cited as
very important the consequences of foreign interference in the campaign.
Delegation head of the parliamentary assembly of the Union of
Russia and Belarus and parliament foreign policy committee chairman
Nikolai
Cherginez said he believed that the elections in Yugoslavia will be
conducted in a democratic manner and be an expression of the free will
of
the people of Yugoslavia.
OBSERVERS FROM UKRAIN, MOLDAVIA ARRIVE
BELGRADE, September 20 (Tanjug) At the invitation of the
Federal
Parliament, parliamentary delegations from Ukrain and Moldavia arrived
in
Belgrade late on Tuesday to attend the presidential, federal and local
elections in Yugoslavia on September 24 as international observers.
The MPs were welcomed at Belgrade's airport by the Yugoslav
Parliament's Chamber of Citizens Foreign Policy Committee President
Ljubisa
Ristic and Foreign Ministry Ambassador Vladimir Krsljanin.
It is expected that over 200 MPs and other prominent public
figures from 50 countries all over the world will attend the elections
in
Yugoslavia in the capacity of observer, Ristic said.
Ristic said 16 parliaments would send official delegations to
Yugoslavia.
He pointed out that the federal parliament had not invited
official delegations from the aggressor countries, since he said this
would
be unacceptable for the Yugoslav people.
Nevertheless, a number of public figures from certain countries
that took part in the 1999 NATO aggression on Yugoslavia have arrived
here,
even some MPs, but in a private capacity, and not as official
representatives of the respective parliaments, Ristic said.
ZYUGANOV ON ELECTIONS IN YUGOSLAVIA
MOSCOW, September 20 (Tanjug) Russian Federation Communist
Party (KPRF) President Gennady Zyuganov said on Tuesday during a
meeting
and talks with Yugoslav Ambassador to Russia Borislav Milosevic that the
Duma KPRF deputies would meet all their obligations as observers at the
upcoming elections in Yugoslavia.
Milosevic informed Zyuganov, on the grounds of reports
available
to the public, about the plans to destabilize the situation in
Yugoslavia
in the event of an outcome of the presidential, federal and Serbian
local
elections set for September 24 which would be unfavourable for the west,
the KPRF Press Service said.
Zyuganov resolutely condemned attempts by western countries to
interfere in the election process in Yugoslavia, describing this as
"direct
pressure on voters." "We will respect the choice of the Yugoslav people
made at the upcoming elections, and will continue contributing as much
as
we can to the development of the brotherly relations between our
states,"
Zyuganov said.
GERMAN MP BLASTS GERMANY, E.U., NATO OVER YUGOSLAVIA
BERLIN, September 20 (Tanjug) An MP of Germany's leftist Party
of
Democratic Socialism (PDS) on Wednesday accused the German Government,
the
European Union and NATO of not wanting peace in the Balkans. This,
according to Wolfgang Gehrke speaking for Berlin's Neues Deutschland
newspaper, is evident from their officious meddling in Yugoslavia's
internal affairs ahead of September 24 elections.
If the European Union and NATO are already so certain before
the
event that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic will cheat to win the
elections, then what they are doing is only adding to the tensions in
the
region, Gehrke said.
The PDS authority on foreign policy in the Bundestag said he
feared that at work here was a highly dangerous policy of the west which
might precipitate another war.
The PDS, successor to the former East German communists, is the
only political party in Germany to have consistently and constantly
condemned NATO's MarchJune 1999 aggression on Yugoslavia as an act
unprecedented in recent European history.
Gehrke again pointed out that the PDS had always insisted on
defining the status of KosovoMetohija with strict respect for U.N.
Resolution 1244 which says that this province of the Yugoslav Republic
of
Serbia must remain in Yugoslavia.
***
URL for this article is http://emperors-clothes.com/news/erlang.htm
'NY Times' Confirms Charge that U.S. Gov't Meddles in Yugoslav Internal
Affairs
Introduction by Jared Israel and Max Sinclair (9-21-2000)
The following article from the NY Times is most important. In it, the
reporter concedes that the charges many people have raised about US
meddling in the internal affairs of Yugoslavia are true. Indeed, he adds
information that we had no way of knowing. For example, that suitcases
full
of cash are sent across the borders into Yugoslavia to fund the
"democratic
opposition". Doesn't our assertion, that "democratic" means "following
the
dictates of the US State Department" appear to be a simple statement of
fact?
Note that despite the shocking evidence he presents to the contrary, Mr.
Erlanger still manages to call this self-styled "democratic" opposition
"independent":
[Start quote] "Independent journalists and broadcasters here have been
told
by American aid officials "not to worry about how much they're spending
now," that plenty more is in the pipeline, said one knowledgeable aid
worker. Others in the opposition complain that the Americans are clumsy,
sending e-mails from "state.gov" - the State Department's address -
summoning people to impolitic meetings with American officials in
Budapest,
Montenegro or Dubrovnik, Croatia."[End quote]
The article includes various attacks on the Yugoslav government in
general
and Mr. Milosevich in particular. Those readers who do not read the US
press should be aware that it is impossible for a large US newspaper to
write anything about Yugoslavia without including a number of such
attacks:
[Start quote]"When speaking of the Serbs it is considered proper to say
something negative. More than one thing is optional. But one is
obligatory."[End quote] (From 'The Obligatory Bash' at
emperors-lothes.com/analysis/obligato.htm )
Mr. Erlanger refers to documentation of US meddling, which appeared in
the
Yugoslav paper, 'Politika'. That documentation comes from an Emperor's
Clothes article, which Politika reprinted. (1) The article was also
shown
in full on Serbian Television this past Monday at 7:30.
Notice also that Mr. Kostunica now appears to concede that our charges
are
true. Or, rather, he is quoted first saying they represent the ravings
of
"the regime" (one must refer to the elected government of Yugoslavia as
a
'Regime') and then saying that the so-called "nongovernmental"
organizations who take this money "are even unconsciously working for
American imperial goals." I am not sure what it means to "unwittingly"
take
millions of US dollars. But that aside, it is good that Mr. Kostunica
says
this, but I wonder if he sees the implications. Are these people, who
take
the US money, not the G-17, who wrote the so-called "Democratic"
Opposition
Program, which he endorsed? Aren't they the members of the "democratic"
opposition coalition, for which he is the candidate? Aren't they groups
like Otpor, who according to the US press put up his posters and hand
out
his fliers?
Let us make no mistake. The fault for corrupting the Yugoslav political
process lies in one place: Washington, with its "democratic" this and
"independent" that, and all the time they are trying to buy people,
especially young people, with the lure of a traitor's gold.
When, and it will happen, the American people learn what crimes are
being
committed in their name, God help the State Department.
***.
The New York Times September 20, 2000
Milosevic, Trailing in Polls, Rails Against NATO
By STEVEN ERLANGER
BELGRADE, Serbia, Sept. 19 - In his race for re-election, President
Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia is running against NATO and the United
States, not against his democratic opposition.
He is not entirely mistaken to do so. The United States and its European
allies have made it clear that they want Mr. Milosevic ousted, and they
have spent tens of millions of dollars trying to get it done.
Portraying himself as the defender of Yugoslavia's sovereignty against a
hostile, hegemonic West led by Washington, Mr. Milosevic and his
government
argue that opposition leaders are merely the paid, traitorous tools of
enemies who are continuing their war against him by other means. In
March
1999, NATO began a 78-day bombing campaign to drive Serbian forces out
of
Kosovo.
The Yugoslav elections are on Sunday, but there has hardly been a day
since
the bombing began that state television news has not railed against
"NATO
aggressors."
With the campaign at its height, the government has spread its attacks
to
include all opposition political parties, independent newspapers,
magazines
and electronic media, the student organization known as Otpor - or
Resistance - and any nongovernmental organization working to promote
democracy, human rights or even economic reforms.
While Mr. Milosevic is trailing the main opposition leader, Vojislav
Kostunica, in opinion polls, the anti- Western campaign is having an
impact. The money from the West is going to most of the institutions
that
the government attacks for receiving it - sometimes in direct aid,
sometimes in indirect aid like computers and broadcasting equipment, and
sometimes in suitcases of cash carried across the border between
Yugoslavia
and Hungary or Serbia and Montenegro. Most of those organizations and
news
media could not exist without foreign aid in this society, which is poor
and repressive and whose market is distorted by foreign economic
sanctions.
Even with foreign aid, government restrictions on newsprint supplies and
high and repeated fines after suspiciously quick court cases make it
hard
for the independent news media to reach their natural market.
As for the opinion polls that show Mr. Kostunica in the lead, the
information minister, Goran Matic, charges that the polls are
orchestrated
and manipulated by the Americans and the Central Intelligence Agency,
who
help pay for them. According to Mr. Matic, Mr. Milosevic is actually far
ahead of Mr. Kostunica, and the polls simply serve as a vehicle for the
opposition to claim that the government stole the election once Mr.
Milosevic wins.
Mr. Matic asserts that the Atlantic alliance has come up with various
scenarios, such as infiltrating soldiers wearing Yugoslav Army and
police
uniforms, to make it possible for the opposition to start civil unrest
in
the streets after the election while claiming that the police and the
army
are actually on their side.
Mr. Matic has attacked various nongovernmental organizations, including
the
Center for Free Elections and Democracy, which is trying to monitor the
fairness of the election, as paid instruments of American and alliance
policy. Many such organizations have been raided by the police, who
confiscate computer files and also appear to be gathering evidence about
foreign payments.
"President Milosevic will win this election," said Ljubisa Ristic, the
president of the Yugolav United Left party, founded by Mr. Milosevic's
wife, Mirjana Markovic. "This is not Hollywood." Washington and the
West,
she said, "are like little kids, wanting something to happen so much
they're fooling themselves."
Mr. Ristic said the alliance's war produced a new solidarity among
Yugoslavs and "killed many illusions people had about the West and about
their own opposition leaders, who went to the countries that were
bombing
us to seek their support."
The issues, Mr. Ristic said, are clear now. "It's a decisive time," he
said. "This is not an election so much as a referendum, a decision on
being
an independent country or a colony. People see what's happened in
Kosovo,
what happens when NATO troops enter the country, and they are not going
to
allow the alliance's hand- picked candidates to win."
Even before the Kosovo war, the United States was spending up to $10
million a year to back opposition parties, independent news media and
other
institutions opposed to Mr. Milosevic. The war itself cost billions of
dollars. This fiscal year, through September, the administration is
spending $25 million to support Serbian "democratization," with an
unknown
amount of money spent covertly to help the failed rallies of last year,
which did not bring down Mr. Milosevic, or to influence the current
election. For next year, the administration is requesting $41.5 million
in
open aid to Serbian democratization, though Congress is likely to cut
that
request.
Independent journalists and broadcasters here have been told by American
aid officials "not to worry about how much they're spending now," that
plenty more is in the pipeline, said one knowledgable aid worker. Others
in
the opposition complain that the Americans are clumsy, sending e-mails
from
"state.gov" - the State Department's address - summoning people to
impolitic meetings with American officials in Budapest, Montenegro or
Dubrovnik, Croatia.
But there is little effort to disguise the fact that Western money pays
for
much of the polling, advertising, printing and other costs of the
opposition political campaign - one way, to be sure, to give opposition
leaders a better chance to get their message across in a
quasi-authoritarian system where television in particular is in the firm
hands of the government.
While that spending allows the opposition to be heard more broadly,
deepening the opposition to Mr. Milosevic, it also allows the government
here to argue that it has real enemies, and that the Serbian opposition
is
in league with them.
Just today, in the state-run newspaper Politika, a long article used
public
information from the United States - including Congressional testimony
and
Web site material - to show that the United States is financing the
opposition.
" `Independent,' `nongovernmental' and `democratic' are the standard
phrases the C.I.A. uses to describe organizations established all over
the
world to destroy the governments and the societies that the U.S.
government
wants to colonize and control," the paper wrote.
The Congressional testimony, from July 29, 1999, cited American
officials
then involved with Yugoslav policy, like Robert Gelbard and James
Pardew,
telling Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware about their projects. They
describe the creation of a "ring around Serbia" of radio stations
broadcasting into Serbia from Bosnia and Montenegro, the spending of
$16.5
million in the previous two years to support "democratization in
Serbia,"
and another $20 million to support Montenegro's president, Milo
Djukanovic,
who broke away from Mr. Milosevic in 1998.
The testimony listed some of the recipients of American aid here,
including
various newspapers, magazines, news agencies and broadcasters opposed to
Mr. Milosevic, as well as various nongovernmental organizations engaged
in
legal defense and human rights and projects to bring promising Yugoslav
journalists to the United States for professional training.
All such projects are portrayed by Politika and state television as a
way
to undermine the legal government, and the recipients are labeled
traitors
to their country.
Opposition leaders like Mr. Kostunica regard such tactics by the
government
as crass propaganda, but even he is skeptical of American intentions in
paying for nongovernmental organizations, some of whom, he believes, are
even unconsciously working for American imperial goals and not
necessarily
Serbian values.
Other democratic leaders, like Zoran Djindjic and Zarko Korac, regard
such
attacks as an indication of Mr. Milosevic's desperation and anxiety on
the
eve of the first election he is likely to lose in his entire political
career. Given the stakes for Mr. Milosevic, they believe that he will do
all he can, including the wholesale stealing of votes, to ensure a
victory
in the first round of voting.
"The stakes are fundamental for Milosevic," Mr. Korac said. "These
elections are crucial, not necessarily for the immediate handover of
power,
but because for the first time Mr. Milosevic will be delegitimized in
the
eyes of his own people. He was an elected dictator, with popular and
legal
legitimacy. But from now on he's a true dictator, and he will only be
able
to rule by force - that's a big step for Serbia."
Footnote:
(1) 'How the U.S. has Created a Corrupt Opposition in Serbia'
http://emperors-clothes.com/engl.htm
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Text: State Department Spokesman Message on Yugoslav Elections
(Removal of sanctions will follow democratic transition, Boucher says)
(190)
U.S. State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher issued the following
message September 20 on the Yugoslav elections, which are scheduled to
take place September 24:
(begin text)
U.S. Department of State
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, D.C.
September 20, 2000
STATEMENT BY RICHARD BOUCHER, SPOKESMAN
MESSAGE ON THE YUGOSLAV ELECTIONS
The United States welcomes Monday's message from the EU General
Affairs Council to the people of Yugoslavia and supports the
ministers' statement. When a democratic transition takes place, we
will take steps to remove sanctions.
The democratic opposition has chosen to contest these elections, and
there is every sign that the great majority of the people support them
in this choice, intend to vote, and to vote for change. We have joined
with our Russian and European colleagues already in looking forward to
the time when a democratic Yugoslavia is a full partner in the new
Europe.
(end text)
(Distributed by the Office of International Information Programs, U.S.
Department of State. Web site: http://usinfo.state.gov)
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Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the Sept. 21, 2000
issue of Workers World newspaper
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AS ELECTIONS LOOM: U.S. STEPS UP PLAN TO TOPPLE YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT
By Pat Chin
With elections set for Sept. 24 in the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia, the United States and its junior partners in
Europe have intensified efforts to topple the government of
President Slobodan Milosevic as a first step toward turning
Yugoslavia into a colonial country.
The destabilization campaign is in full swing. It's a no-
holds-barred full court press that includes covert
operations involving assassinations; open funding for
opposition parties; economic strangulation; media
manipulation; and psychological warfare, including the
threat of another NATO war should Milosevic be returned to
office.
Milosevic enjoys popular support for standing up to NATO.
But the West's big-business media have been giving prominent
play to Democratic Opposition of Serbia presidential
candidate Vojislav Kostunica.
Other opposition leaders, like Vuk Draskovic and Zoran
Djindjic, have already discredited themselves by their close
relations with the U.S. and NATO forces. While Kostunica
hasn't yet openly embraced NATO, it's obvious he's
Washington's favorite.
The media claim that Kostunica, who represents a group of
allied opposition parties, is the clear frontrunner
according to polls. The surveys, however, are being done by
anti-Milosevic institutions inside the country.
Serbian Science Minister Branislav Ivkovic recently
denounced the polls, accusing the CIA of "direct
involvement." It's "business as usual," said Ivkovic, "so
when the surveys turn out to be false, they will say the
vote was a fraud and will call for a rebellion." (Nedeljni
Telegraf weekly)
A known anti-communist, Kostunica told a Sept. 1 rally in
Belgrade that, if elected, he will "persistently and
patiently strive to get our country back into the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and
restore its rightful membership in the United Nations and
the world's leading financial institutions." (Associated
Press)
The European Union has been scheming with the U.S. to unseat
Milosevic so that a puppet government can be installed that
would subordinate the country's economy to Western corporate
interests.
EUROPEAN UNION OFFERS BRIBE
A meeting of the EU on Sept. 4 offered to lift imperialist-
imposed economic sanctions if people vote Milosevic out of
office. The 15-member cabal announced that it had postponed
a review of the sanctions until after the elections, adding
that a "proposal" will be unveiled just before the
balloting.
"The victory of democracy would lead to a radical revision
of EU policy towards Serbia in all its aspects," said French
Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine. "The Serbs will have to
make a very important choice in the elections." (Reuters)
Of course, like most election promises made by capitalist
politicians, there's no guarantee that they'll be kept.
Vedrine's goal is to open up the Yugoslav economy to Western
corporate exploitation.
Around the same time, La Stampa, an Italian newspaper,
reported that former NATO chief Javier Solana had said,
"There are three possible outcomes of the Yugoslav election:
Milosevic wins, Milosevic cheats, Milosevic loses." The
first two outcomes are "negative," warned Solana, and will
meet hostility from NATO forces.
This blatantly manipulative and arrogant display of
interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign country
has reached a fever pitch. Solana wants the message to be
that if the Yugoslavs don't unseat Milosevic, they'll not
only face economic suffocation, they might also get bombed
again.
Such an attack, however, would arouse the already growing
opposition within the NATO countries to the unjustified
pressure on Yugoslavia, and could provoke splits within
NATO. At this moment the military threats should be seen
mainly as an attempt to intimidate the Yugoslavs into voting
against Milosevic.
The U.S. recently barred Yugoslav federal government
officials from attending the United Nations' first global
gathering of parliamentary leaders and the Millennium Summit
by denying them visas. But Montenegrin President Milo
Djukanovic was allowed to attend the latter.
While there, he met with the presidents of Croatia,
Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Macedonia. These
countries, backed by Berlin and Washington, broke off from
the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia starting
in 1991.
According to the opposition Freeb92 news outlet, the leaders
"sent a message to the Yugoslavian public that their
countries will propose that the international community lift
sanctions against Yugoslavia if the Serbian Democratic
Opposition achieves victory in the forthcoming elections."
Yugoslavia now consists of the republics of Serbia and
Montenegro, whose president has become a puppet of
imperialist interests. Djukanovic has, in fact, threatened
to declare independence if Milosevic is re-elected.
On Sept. 7, after meeting with him, U.S. Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright added grist to the propaganda mill by
declaring that she feared for his life.
"There are ongoing concerns about his safety," she intoned.
When asked if upcoming joint U.S. and Croatian military
exercises off Montenegro's coast were a show of force,
Albright replied, according to Reuters, that they were
"naval exercises planned as part of the Partnership for
Peace," an organization that links NATO with former Warsaw
Pact countries.
Two days later, Kostunica visited Montenegro where he met
with government officials there opposed to Milosevic.
According to a press report, "both sides emphasized that the
future of Serbia and Montenegro depended on democratic
changes within Serbia."
Meanwhile, in embattled UN/NATO-occupied Kosovo-Metohija
(Kosmet), Serbs, Roma and progressives of other ethnic
groups plan to vote on Sept. 24. Organizers say they will
prevail. They'll conduct the polling in private homes, since
they've been barred from using public buildings by
occupation head Bernard Kouchner. NATO also recently
announced plans to increase the number of troops in Kosmet
for the election.
Murderous attacks against Serbs and others have continued
under the watchful eye of the occupying forces. But the
Serbs are fighting back. And more news is beginning to
surface exposing the lies about "defending human rights"
used to justify the imperialist aggression against
Yugoslavia, and NATO's trumped-up indictment of Milosevic as
a "war criminal" based on the myth of mass graves containing
Albanian victims of Serb genocide.
EVIDENCE OF KLA WAR CRIMES
On Aug. 17, for example, NATO officials admitted that their
estimate of Albanians allegedly killed by Yugoslav forces in
Kosmet was much higher than the actual number of exhumed
bodies. This admission, coupled with the fact that many of
the corpses showed no sign of "Yugoslav troop atrocities,"
was carried by the Aug. 18 British Guardian. But the U.S.
capitalist media deliberately ignored it.
The same is true of a Sept. 3 piece in the British Sunday
Times. Headlined, "KLA faces trials for war crimes on Serbs,
Inquiry turns on Albanians," it described five sites in
Kosmet "where war crimes were allegedly carried out by
members of the KLA" against the Serbs.
"The investigation could radically alter the international
perception of the conflict, in which Albanians were seen as
the largely innocent victims of Serbian aggression,"
concluded the article. "After a year of growing concern
about hundreds of revenge killings of Serbs by Albanians in
the province, there are signs that the public relations
pendulum may begin to swing the Serbs' way."
The London Daily Observer also reported Sept. 11 that U.S.
officials in Kosmet are obstructing a UN investigation of
former KLA commander Ramushi Haradinay, who is suspected of
assassinations, drug smuggling and war crimes. U.S. soldiers
reportedly removed evidence from a crime scene involving
Haradinay before whisking him away to their camp and later
to a U.S. military hospital in Germany.
Meanwhile, Serbs in the southern province continue to
protest the NATO take-over of the mineral-rich Trepca Mines.
And the government in Belgrade has announced that a war
crimes trial of NATO leaders involved in last year's 78-day
blitzkreig against Yugoslavia will start on Sept. 18.
The Yugoslav people can best defend their sovereignty and
livelihood by uniting to resist NATO, which is really much
weaker than it appears. There's growing opposition to
another military strike against Yugoslavia inside NATO and
worldwide, and people are organizing against the embargo. If
an independent government is dropped for the imperialists'
promise of a "better" life, all social benefits still being
enjoyed despite the harsh sanctions could be lost.
Yugoslavia could, in fact, become another Bulgaria, which
has shown the world that submitting to the imperialist West
is no guarantee of avoiding poverty for the mass of the
population.
With respect to the elections, it's important to remember:
All that glitters is not gold.
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YUGOSLAVIA PROTESTS TO SECURITY COUNCIL
NEW YORK, Sep 19 (Tanjug). The opening of the US Office for
Yugoslavia in Budapest is an open demonstration of force, pressure and
brutal interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state by the
outgoing US administration, the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry said in a
protest
to the UN Security Council.
The protest, addressed on the occasion of the opening of the
Office, headed by a US Ambassador, on August 15, was distributed on
Tuesday
at the Palace of Nations as a General Assembly and Security Council
document.
The "Office" has a personnel of 30 employees of various
profiles,
including members of the CIA, the National Security Council, the
Pentagon,
USAID and other similar US agencies. According to US officials, its main
task is to help the opposition in Serbia and Yugoslavia and to influence
the will of the voters ahead of the upcoming elections.
With this act, the US administration practically pursues its
last
year's unsuccessful aggression on Yugoslavia, using subversive and
spying
activities inadmissible in international relations. It also endorses
separatism and terrorism, fans dangerous aspirations in the region and
violates international law.
The opening of the "Office" and its proclaimed tasks constitute
a
glaring violation of the US commitment to the UN Charter, the Vienna
Conventions on diplomatic relations, the UN Declaration principles
regarding relations and cooperation among states of October 24, 1970,
and
other international documents.
The Office activities and Hungary's acceptance of the use of
its
territory for activities against a third country also constitute a
direct
violation of the GA Resolution 54/168 of December 17, 1999, on the
respect
of national sovereignty and noninterference in internal affairs of
states
as regards electoral process. It particularly violates its Para. 5,
which
stipulates that all states must refrain from financing political parties
or
groups in other states or undertaking any actions undermining their
electoral processes.
The Hungarian Government's acceptance and endorsement of the
opening of the "Office" is a precedent in international relations, and
raises the question of whether such acts are in line with the principles
of
goodneighbourly relations and of the OSCE that Hungarian government
allegedly supports. This act is reminiscent of the time when Budapest,
albeit in different circumstances and under the influence of other
powers,
also served as a center for pressures and subversive activities against
Yugoslavia.
The Yugoslav Government most strongly protests against such
illegal activities of the US administration in the territories of
Hungary
and other states, with the aim of openly interfering in Yugoslavia's
internal affairs, endangering its sovereignty and territorial integrity,
and attempting to destabilize it.
The Yugoslav Government expects the Security Council to most
strongly condemn such conduct and to urge the US administration to abide
by
the UN Charter, its international commitments and international law, the
Ministry document says.
EU STANCE IS AN INSULT TO YUGOSLAVIA AMBASSADOR
ATHENS, Sep 19 (Tanjug). The European Union's promise to lift
antiYugoslav sanctions if its citizens do not vote for incumbent
Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic is the most glaring interference in
Yugoslavia's internal affairs, Yugoslav Ambassador to Greece Dragomir
Vucicevic told Athens Radio 902.
This also constitutes one of the aspects of continuing NATO and
EU
aggression, now by different means, which is a violation of all basic
principles of international relations, Vucicevic said.
The Yugoslav Government has taken all the necessary measures to
make the upcoming federal presidential and parliamentary elections and
local elections in Serbia democratic and fair, as many foreign observers
have already witnessed, Vucicevic said.
The EU stance amounts to taking sides openly, which is
dangerous
and contrary to the basic principles of democracy, Vucicevic said. The
EU
promise of a reward to the people of they do not vote according to their
own will is an insult to the people of Yugoslavia, who have always
strived
throughout their history to preserve their dignity, freedom and national
independence, Vucicevic said.
The EU sanctions against Yugoslavia are unfounded and illegal
as
they are contrary to the fundamental principles of the EU Charter and
have
been imposed without Security Council approval, he noted. The people of
Yugoslavia consequently expect the sanctions to be lifted immediately,
without preconditions, and without being used as an instrument of
preelection pressure, Vucicevic said.
YUGOSLAVIA ELECTIONS
FEDERAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION ISSUES STATEMENT
BELGRADE, September 19 (Tanjug) The Federal Electoral
Commission
held a session on Tuesday chaired by Borivoje Vukicevic and noted that
all
preparations for the implementation of the upcoming presidential and
parliamentary elections were nearing completion according to plan, the
Parliamentary Press Service said.
The printing, packing and distribution of election materials
has
been completed. These operations were monitored by the Federal Electoral
Commission and representatives of political parties running in the
September 24 elections.
Representatives of political parties who supervised the
operations
had no objections and confirmed that all electoral materials were
correct.
However, some party leaders are spreading rumours that already
filled out ballots are being distributed, and that people are being
threatened to force them to use such ballots.
The Commission strongly protests against such lies and points
out
that such irresponsible conduct is unnecessarily misleading the voters
and
violating their right to free choice.
Condemning all manipulations with lies, the Commission urges
for
the creation of legal and constitutional conditions for enabling voters
to
freely elect the lists and candidates of their choice. The Commission
has
consequently taken measures and requested state institutions to protect
the
democratic rights of the citizens.
This year's polls will be attended by over 200 observers from
50
countries, including parliamentarians and eminent public figures, whose
presence will enable the world public opinion to witness the democratic
character of free and fair elections in Yugoslavia, the Commission said.
FALSE WEBSITES FOR YUGOSLAV ELECTIONS
BELGRADE, Sept 20 (Tanjug) Yugoslav public enterprise
RadioTelevision YugoslaviaInternet Yugoslavia has once again drawn
attention to the fact that the official website of the Yugoslav
Government
devoted to elections has an Internet (URL) site www.gov.yu/izbori.
The statement said that certain organizations financed by
Western
countries use parallel sites, with similar names, so that it is possible
that on URLsites such as www.izbori.org.yu and www.izbori.co.yu are
promoted false election results, and confusion created.
The first mentioned website is currently openly promoting
candidates of the political organization Democratic Opposition of Serbia
(DOS), which runs stories such as Arm Yourselves for September 20, when
the
election convention of DOS is due to be held, or it even calls on
citizens
to take to the streets and wait for the announcing of trumpedup election
results from their parallel election site.
The second site mentioned above is still in preparation and
will
be active on September 24.
Internet Yugoslavia points out that the official site
www.gov.yu/izbori is updated in conjunction with the Yugoslav Election
Commission, and is therefore the most accurate source of information
about
elections and about election results.
MORE THAN 210 FOREIGN OBSERVERS ARRIVE IN YUGOSLAVIA FOR ELECTIONS
BELGRADE, September 20 (Tanjug) - President of the Yugoslav Electoral
Commission Borivoje Vukicevic and Supervising Board President Ivan
Radosavljevic will organize a cocktail on Wednesday evening to welcome
foreign observers who have arrived in Belgrade to monitor the federal
presidential and parliamentary elections and local elections in the
Yugoslav Republic of Serbia.
More than 210 foreign observers, including parliament members and
officials from 52 countries have arrived so far. They are from: Albania,
Angola, Argentina, Belgium, Belarus, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Chad, Czech
Republic, Chile, Denmark, Egypt, France, Ghana, Greece, India,
Indonesia,
Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Armenia, Jordan, Canada, Kazakhstan, Kenya,
Cyprus,
Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Libya, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Germany, Nepal,
Nicaragua, Palestine, Portugal, Romania, Russia, the U.S.A., Salvador,
Slovakia, Sweden, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, United
Kingdom, Vietnam and Zimbabwe.
Among the foreign observers is a joint delegation of the Parliamentary
Assembly of Russia and Belarus. The foreign observers have attended the
final rallies of various political parties, and will be present at most
electoral stations all day on Sunday, September 24.
STATE DUMA DEPUTIES AGAINST EU PRESSURES ON YUGOSLAVIA
MOSCOW, September 20 (Tanjug) Russian state Duma deputies
condemned the interference of the European Union in the internal affairs
of
Yugoslavia, with the intention of influencing the will of its voters,
said
a statement of the Duma Committee for helping our country overcome the
consequences of NATO's aggression last year.
State Duma members called on the EU, the statement specified,
not
to create obstacles for the free expression of will of voters, at the
upcoming presidential and legislative elections in Yugoslavia, on
September
24.
The EU attempt to influence by messages and false promises the
Serbian people to vote against Slobodan Milosevic was describes by Duma
deputies as "blatant interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign
state."
"Western countries are, in fact, the obstacle to the
development
of democracy in Yugoslavia, because they imposed years of sanctions,
political and informativepropaganda pressure," the statement said,
stressing that the reconstruction of Serbia, after NATO's barbaric
bombing
should not be an act of charity, but an obligation of the West.
OBSERVERS FROM RUSSIA AND BELARUS ARRIVE IN BELGRADE
BELGRADE, September 20 (Tanjug) A delegation of the Russian
state
Duma, made up of representatives of all party groupings, and of the
parliamentary assembly of the Union of Russia and Belarus arrived on
Wednesday at the invitation of the Yugoslav Federal Assembly, to attend
in
the capacity of international observers presidential, legislative and
local
elections in FR Yugoslavia, scheduled for September 24. In the
delegation
of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Russia and Belarus are
members of all legislative committees and secretariats, while from the
Russian Duma the role of observers will be performed by representatives
of
party groupings "Homelandall Russia," "Regions of Russia," "Jabloko,"
the
Communist party, "Unity" and the LiberalDemocratic party.
The delegation was welcomed at the airport by Yugoslav
Parliament
Lower House Foreign Policy Committee President Ljubisa Ristic, who
informed
them that at the Yugoslav elections will be present over 200 observers,
of
whom more than half are members of parliament from more than 50
countries.
"We want them to have all the necessary conditions for
monitoring
the elections independently and freely and to be impartial with respect
to
all key issues," Ristic said, pointing out, also, the intention of the
hosts to make it possible to observers in FR Yugoslavia to talk with
whom
ever and where ever they want to.
"Please communicate freely with the media and with voters, and
I
believe that your impressions about the democratic character of the
elections will be confirmed also by freedom of movement and the
monitoring
of elections," he said.
Russian Duma delegation head and international affairs
committee
deputychairman Konstantin Kasachov stressed that the delegation had
arrived
in Yugoslavia with best intentions and wishes that its members convey an
objective picture about elections conditions and about everything that
they
see during the election process.
Kasachov, speaking about the tasks of the delegation, cited as
very important the consequences of foreign interference in the campaign.
Delegation head of the parliamentary assembly of the Union of
Russia and Belarus and parliament foreign policy committee chairman
Nikolai
Cherginez said he believed that the elections in Yugoslavia will be
conducted in a democratic manner and be an expression of the free will
of
the people of Yugoslavia.
OBSERVERS FROM UKRAIN, MOLDAVIA ARRIVE
BELGRADE, September 20 (Tanjug) At the invitation of the
Federal
Parliament, parliamentary delegations from Ukrain and Moldavia arrived
in
Belgrade late on Tuesday to attend the presidential, federal and local
elections in Yugoslavia on September 24 as international observers.
The MPs were welcomed at Belgrade's airport by the Yugoslav
Parliament's Chamber of Citizens Foreign Policy Committee President
Ljubisa
Ristic and Foreign Ministry Ambassador Vladimir Krsljanin.
It is expected that over 200 MPs and other prominent public
figures from 50 countries all over the world will attend the elections
in
Yugoslavia in the capacity of observer, Ristic said.
Ristic said 16 parliaments would send official delegations to
Yugoslavia.
He pointed out that the federal parliament had not invited
official delegations from the aggressor countries, since he said this
would
be unacceptable for the Yugoslav people.
Nevertheless, a number of public figures from certain countries
that took part in the 1999 NATO aggression on Yugoslavia have arrived
here,
even some MPs, but in a private capacity, and not as official
representatives of the respective parliaments, Ristic said.
ZYUGANOV ON ELECTIONS IN YUGOSLAVIA
MOSCOW, September 20 (Tanjug) Russian Federation Communist
Party (KPRF) President Gennady Zyuganov said on Tuesday during a
meeting
and talks with Yugoslav Ambassador to Russia Borislav Milosevic that the
Duma KPRF deputies would meet all their obligations as observers at the
upcoming elections in Yugoslavia.
Milosevic informed Zyuganov, on the grounds of reports
available
to the public, about the plans to destabilize the situation in
Yugoslavia
in the event of an outcome of the presidential, federal and Serbian
local
elections set for September 24 which would be unfavourable for the west,
the KPRF Press Service said.
Zyuganov resolutely condemned attempts by western countries to
interfere in the election process in Yugoslavia, describing this as
"direct
pressure on voters." "We will respect the choice of the Yugoslav people
made at the upcoming elections, and will continue contributing as much
as
we can to the development of the brotherly relations between our
states,"
Zyuganov said.
GERMAN MP BLASTS GERMANY, E.U., NATO OVER YUGOSLAVIA
BERLIN, September 20 (Tanjug) An MP of Germany's leftist Party
of
Democratic Socialism (PDS) on Wednesday accused the German Government,
the
European Union and NATO of not wanting peace in the Balkans. This,
according to Wolfgang Gehrke speaking for Berlin's Neues Deutschland
newspaper, is evident from their officious meddling in Yugoslavia's
internal affairs ahead of September 24 elections.
If the European Union and NATO are already so certain before
the
event that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic will cheat to win the
elections, then what they are doing is only adding to the tensions in
the
region, Gehrke said.
The PDS authority on foreign policy in the Bundestag said he
feared that at work here was a highly dangerous policy of the west which
might precipitate another war.
The PDS, successor to the former East German communists, is the
only political party in Germany to have consistently and constantly
condemned NATO's MarchJune 1999 aggression on Yugoslavia as an act
unprecedented in recent European history.
Gehrke again pointed out that the PDS had always insisted on
defining the status of KosovoMetohija with strict respect for U.N.
Resolution 1244 which says that this province of the Yugoslav Republic
of
Serbia must remain in Yugoslavia.
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'NY Times' Confirms Charge that U.S. Gov't Meddles in Yugoslav Internal
Affairs
Introduction by Jared Israel and Max Sinclair (9-21-2000)
The following article from the NY Times is most important. In it, the
reporter concedes that the charges many people have raised about US
meddling in the internal affairs of Yugoslavia are true. Indeed, he adds
information that we had no way of knowing. For example, that suitcases
full
of cash are sent across the borders into Yugoslavia to fund the
"democratic
opposition". Doesn't our assertion, that "democratic" means "following
the
dictates of the US State Department" appear to be a simple statement of
fact?
Note that despite the shocking evidence he presents to the contrary, Mr.
Erlanger still manages to call this self-styled "democratic" opposition
"independent":
[Start quote] "Independent journalists and broadcasters here have been
told
by American aid officials "not to worry about how much they're spending
now," that plenty more is in the pipeline, said one knowledgeable aid
worker. Others in the opposition complain that the Americans are clumsy,
sending e-mails from "state.gov" - the State Department's address -
summoning people to impolitic meetings with American officials in
Budapest,
Montenegro or Dubrovnik, Croatia."[End quote]
The article includes various attacks on the Yugoslav government in
general
and Mr. Milosevich in particular. Those readers who do not read the US
press should be aware that it is impossible for a large US newspaper to
write anything about Yugoslavia without including a number of such
attacks:
[Start quote]"When speaking of the Serbs it is considered proper to say
something negative. More than one thing is optional. But one is
obligatory."[End quote] (From 'The Obligatory Bash' at
emperors-lothes.com/analysis/obligato.htm )
Mr. Erlanger refers to documentation of US meddling, which appeared in
the
Yugoslav paper, 'Politika'. That documentation comes from an Emperor's
Clothes article, which Politika reprinted. (1) The article was also
shown
in full on Serbian Television this past Monday at 7:30.
Notice also that Mr. Kostunica now appears to concede that our charges
are
true. Or, rather, he is quoted first saying they represent the ravings
of
"the regime" (one must refer to the elected government of Yugoslavia as
a
'Regime') and then saying that the so-called "nongovernmental"
organizations who take this money "are even unconsciously working for
American imperial goals." I am not sure what it means to "unwittingly"
take
millions of US dollars. But that aside, it is good that Mr. Kostunica
says
this, but I wonder if he sees the implications. Are these people, who
take
the US money, not the G-17, who wrote the so-called "Democratic"
Opposition
Program, which he endorsed? Aren't they the members of the "democratic"
opposition coalition, for which he is the candidate? Aren't they groups
like Otpor, who according to the US press put up his posters and hand
out
his fliers?
Let us make no mistake. The fault for corrupting the Yugoslav political
process lies in one place: Washington, with its "democratic" this and
"independent" that, and all the time they are trying to buy people,
especially young people, with the lure of a traitor's gold.
When, and it will happen, the American people learn what crimes are
being
committed in their name, God help the State Department.
***.
The New York Times September 20, 2000
Milosevic, Trailing in Polls, Rails Against NATO
By STEVEN ERLANGER
BELGRADE, Serbia, Sept. 19 - In his race for re-election, President
Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia is running against NATO and the United
States, not against his democratic opposition.
He is not entirely mistaken to do so. The United States and its European
allies have made it clear that they want Mr. Milosevic ousted, and they
have spent tens of millions of dollars trying to get it done.
Portraying himself as the defender of Yugoslavia's sovereignty against a
hostile, hegemonic West led by Washington, Mr. Milosevic and his
government
argue that opposition leaders are merely the paid, traitorous tools of
enemies who are continuing their war against him by other means. In
March
1999, NATO began a 78-day bombing campaign to drive Serbian forces out
of
Kosovo.
The Yugoslav elections are on Sunday, but there has hardly been a day
since
the bombing began that state television news has not railed against
"NATO
aggressors."
With the campaign at its height, the government has spread its attacks
to
include all opposition political parties, independent newspapers,
magazines
and electronic media, the student organization known as Otpor - or
Resistance - and any nongovernmental organization working to promote
democracy, human rights or even economic reforms.
While Mr. Milosevic is trailing the main opposition leader, Vojislav
Kostunica, in opinion polls, the anti- Western campaign is having an
impact. The money from the West is going to most of the institutions
that
the government attacks for receiving it - sometimes in direct aid,
sometimes in indirect aid like computers and broadcasting equipment, and
sometimes in suitcases of cash carried across the border between
Yugoslavia
and Hungary or Serbia and Montenegro. Most of those organizations and
news
media could not exist without foreign aid in this society, which is poor
and repressive and whose market is distorted by foreign economic
sanctions.
Even with foreign aid, government restrictions on newsprint supplies and
high and repeated fines after suspiciously quick court cases make it
hard
for the independent news media to reach their natural market.
As for the opinion polls that show Mr. Kostunica in the lead, the
information minister, Goran Matic, charges that the polls are
orchestrated
and manipulated by the Americans and the Central Intelligence Agency,
who
help pay for them. According to Mr. Matic, Mr. Milosevic is actually far
ahead of Mr. Kostunica, and the polls simply serve as a vehicle for the
opposition to claim that the government stole the election once Mr.
Milosevic wins.
Mr. Matic asserts that the Atlantic alliance has come up with various
scenarios, such as infiltrating soldiers wearing Yugoslav Army and
police
uniforms, to make it possible for the opposition to start civil unrest
in
the streets after the election while claiming that the police and the
army
are actually on their side.
Mr. Matic has attacked various nongovernmental organizations, including
the
Center for Free Elections and Democracy, which is trying to monitor the
fairness of the election, as paid instruments of American and alliance
policy. Many such organizations have been raided by the police, who
confiscate computer files and also appear to be gathering evidence about
foreign payments.
"President Milosevic will win this election," said Ljubisa Ristic, the
president of the Yugolav United Left party, founded by Mr. Milosevic's
wife, Mirjana Markovic. "This is not Hollywood." Washington and the
West,
she said, "are like little kids, wanting something to happen so much
they're fooling themselves."
Mr. Ristic said the alliance's war produced a new solidarity among
Yugoslavs and "killed many illusions people had about the West and about
their own opposition leaders, who went to the countries that were
bombing
us to seek their support."
The issues, Mr. Ristic said, are clear now. "It's a decisive time," he
said. "This is not an election so much as a referendum, a decision on
being
an independent country or a colony. People see what's happened in
Kosovo,
what happens when NATO troops enter the country, and they are not going
to
allow the alliance's hand- picked candidates to win."
Even before the Kosovo war, the United States was spending up to $10
million a year to back opposition parties, independent news media and
other
institutions opposed to Mr. Milosevic. The war itself cost billions of
dollars. This fiscal year, through September, the administration is
spending $25 million to support Serbian "democratization," with an
unknown
amount of money spent covertly to help the failed rallies of last year,
which did not bring down Mr. Milosevic, or to influence the current
election. For next year, the administration is requesting $41.5 million
in
open aid to Serbian democratization, though Congress is likely to cut
that
request.
Independent journalists and broadcasters here have been told by American
aid officials "not to worry about how much they're spending now," that
plenty more is in the pipeline, said one knowledgable aid worker. Others
in
the opposition complain that the Americans are clumsy, sending e-mails
from
"state.gov" - the State Department's address - summoning people to
impolitic meetings with American officials in Budapest, Montenegro or
Dubrovnik, Croatia.
But there is little effort to disguise the fact that Western money pays
for
much of the polling, advertising, printing and other costs of the
opposition political campaign - one way, to be sure, to give opposition
leaders a better chance to get their message across in a
quasi-authoritarian system where television in particular is in the firm
hands of the government.
While that spending allows the opposition to be heard more broadly,
deepening the opposition to Mr. Milosevic, it also allows the government
here to argue that it has real enemies, and that the Serbian opposition
is
in league with them.
Just today, in the state-run newspaper Politika, a long article used
public
information from the United States - including Congressional testimony
and
Web site material - to show that the United States is financing the
opposition.
" `Independent,' `nongovernmental' and `democratic' are the standard
phrases the C.I.A. uses to describe organizations established all over
the
world to destroy the governments and the societies that the U.S.
government
wants to colonize and control," the paper wrote.
The Congressional testimony, from July 29, 1999, cited American
officials
then involved with Yugoslav policy, like Robert Gelbard and James
Pardew,
telling Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware about their projects. They
describe the creation of a "ring around Serbia" of radio stations
broadcasting into Serbia from Bosnia and Montenegro, the spending of
$16.5
million in the previous two years to support "democratization in
Serbia,"
and another $20 million to support Montenegro's president, Milo
Djukanovic,
who broke away from Mr. Milosevic in 1998.
The testimony listed some of the recipients of American aid here,
including
various newspapers, magazines, news agencies and broadcasters opposed to
Mr. Milosevic, as well as various nongovernmental organizations engaged
in
legal defense and human rights and projects to bring promising Yugoslav
journalists to the United States for professional training.
All such projects are portrayed by Politika and state television as a
way
to undermine the legal government, and the recipients are labeled
traitors
to their country.
Opposition leaders like Mr. Kostunica regard such tactics by the
government
as crass propaganda, but even he is skeptical of American intentions in
paying for nongovernmental organizations, some of whom, he believes, are
even unconsciously working for American imperial goals and not
necessarily
Serbian values.
Other democratic leaders, like Zoran Djindjic and Zarko Korac, regard
such
attacks as an indication of Mr. Milosevic's desperation and anxiety on
the
eve of the first election he is likely to lose in his entire political
career. Given the stakes for Mr. Milosevic, they believe that he will do
all he can, including the wholesale stealing of votes, to ensure a
victory
in the first round of voting.
"The stakes are fundamental for Milosevic," Mr. Korac said. "These
elections are crucial, not necessarily for the immediate handover of
power,
but because for the first time Mr. Milosevic will be delegitimized in
the
eyes of his own people. He was an elected dictator, with popular and
legal
legitimacy. But from now on he's a true dictator, and he will only be
able
to rule by force - that's a big step for Serbia."
Footnote:
(1) 'How the U.S. has Created a Corrupt Opposition in Serbia'
http://emperors-clothes.com/engl.htm
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