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AND NOW FOR SOMETHING REALLY SHRILL ABOUT MACEDONIA...
by Rick Rozoff and Jared Israel [27 July 2001]

Below is a 'news' report from Agence France
Presse (AFP) concerning recent
protest demonstrations in Macedonia.

The 'AFP' report contains the shrill,
defamatory stereotypes used with
increasing frequency in the Western media to
describe Macedonians, both
ordinary citizens and officials.

We are witnessing one of those media
campaigns so uniform, scripted and
predictable - and consistently inaccurate -
that one has to suspect
coordination between the controlling elements
of the news media and certain
Western foreign offices and covert services.

Examples abound in this brief 'AFP' dispatch.
Macedonians are pointedly,
repeatedly and gratuitously identified as
'Slavs' (as opposed to what they
are - Macedonians!) and their actions are
labeled with such pejorative terms
as: 'irate,' 'mob,' 'incited,' 'escalated,'
'irresponsible' and 'immature.'

"Mob of angry Slavs" is the phrase of choice
indicating the mental image
intended for the reader. And it is have some
effect. Yesterday on one of the
major American liberal news Websites a press
wire headline read:
"Anti-Albanian Riots Explode In Macedonia."

'HONEY, IS SOMETHING MISSING FROM THE
ANTI-ALBANIAN RIOTS?' 'WHY YES, DEAR,
THEY AREN'T ANTI-ALBANIAN.'

We have read a dozen or so reports on the
protests and saw nothing factual to
suggest an anti-Albanian flavor. Rather, even
in these hostile Western media
reports one could see that the protesters
were focused and informed, with
clear political, not ethnic, targets: NATO,
the U.S., Britain and Germany,
all for their role in undermining Macedonian
sovereignty and assisting the
so-called NLA terrorists. And really,
shouldn't they be angry? NATO (led by
the U.S.) is after all trying to destroy
their country and their lives.

But "crowd of angry Slavs" is the message
that Western officials and their
always-obliging media are drilling into the
public's imagination.

Make no mistake, these distortions have a
purpose: to dehumanize the victims
of what is in fact going on in Macedonia,
that is, large scale ethnic
cleansing and national destruction

As has been the case throughout the assault
on Yugoslavia, the tone of
Imperial war propaganda is faux-liberal.

Here's how it worked starting with the
secession of Croatia and Slovenia back
in 1991, and, alas, how it is still working today.

A secessionist force is organized by the U.S.
and or Germany and or England.
This Western proxy force draws on elements
which hark back to the old Nazi
alliance of World War II - in this case, the
descendents of pro-Nazi
Albanians, mainly from Kosovo. This force is
ordered to attack, a process the
media misdescribes as a rebellion by an
oppressed local population. The
fascist flavor of the 'rebels' is hidden from
Western eyes. (In this case, we
hear little about the rallying cry of the
NATO proxy army attacking
Macedonia, which is "Greater Albania," i.e.,
the re-creation of the map of
the Balkans that existed only under Hitler.)
Moreover, the media ignores the
easily documented involvement of Western
operatives (in this case the
official NATO organization in Kosovo) in
sponsoring and directing the attack.
The attempts of the nation under attack to
defend itself are misdescribed as
brutal repression and the victims are accused
of racism.

What is the goal of this propaganda today? To
prevent the development of a
support movement for Macedonia among the
public in NATO countries. The
logical basis for supporting Macedonia is
that a) it is the victim of
Imperial attack, organized from Washington
and b) it is being attacked on a
racist basis, i.e. the attack appeals to
anti-Slavic racism within the
Albanian populations of the area. To prevent
this kind of support movement
from developing, the Western media and
government officials turn matters
upside down, portraying Macedonians as ethnic
chauvinists and opponents of
peace. One might call this strategy
"Outflanking opposition from the Left."
By feeding Western citizens the lie that
Macedonia's "problem" is
discrimination against Albanians which has
spawned an "extremist" response,
direct NATO intervention and occupation of
territory can be presented as
"peacekeeping" to "rebuild civil society" and
other fairy tales.

The propaganda works. After she had watched
the TV news, a decent but
uninformed American told one of us, "It's a
mess over there - I guess we
better do something." Little did she know:
'we' have!

President Bush's brief visit to the massive
U.S. military base ("Bondsteel"
of all things) in Kosovo Tuesday was meant to
deliver a message about
Macedonia. Or rather, several messages.

MESSAGE ONE: THE MEANING OF KOSOVO

First, he said Kosovo is for Washington the
model of progress through
intervention. He told U.S. troops (and, of
course, the world):

"Thanks to you and those who served before
you, the people of Kosovo are able
to buy food and find shelter, go to school,
and get medical help."

Since Kosovo's current reality is that an
estimated 350,000 non-Albanians and
anti-fascist Albanians have been driven from
their homes and are refugees in
Serbia or elsewhere, or are dead, since the
remaining Serbs and Roma
("Gypsies") live in conditions of terror,
including daily beatings rape and
murder, and we have documented the fact of
this terror, since the U.S. has
created in Kosovo a regime of open
gangsterism - for Bush to say:

"the people of Kosovo are able to buy food
and find shelter, go to school, and get medical help."

means that fascist tyranny is the U.S. model
for progress; thus in Macedonia as well.

Bush called for:
"a political settlement that 'addresses the
legitimate grievance of the
Albanian population while protecting
Macedonia's sovereignty and territorial integrity.'

Since in fact the issue in Macedonia has
nothing whatsoever to do with
"legitimate grievances" but rather involves
an invasion by U.S.-armed
terrorists, what is this but a call for the
Macedonians to surrender. Bush
emphasized that such was his intent by the
almost funny way he "threatened"
the KLA terrorists (many of them
UN-employed!) who are attacking Macedonia:

"..he also urged Kosovo Albanians to stop
fueling the Macedonian conflict and
'focus on Kosovo.'"

Surely that sent terror through the ranks of
the KLA or NLA or Kosovo
Protection Corps - or NATO! - take your pick.

MESSAGE TWO: "LISTEN UP YOU DARN ALBANIANS!"

All of this constitutes a message also to
those whom NATO's "NLA" proxy army
has been targeting for recruits: Macedonians
of Albanian descent. These
ethnic Albanians have not been sufficiently
receptive to the mix of terror
and promises of 'Greater Albania' which the
Kosovo Liberation Army invaders
have used in the effort to elicit their
"participation" in the "rebellion."
Bush is telling these ethnic Albanians:
Kosovo is our model. We are backing
the terrorist secessionists in Macedonia just
as strongly as we backed them
in Kosovo, so join up or when our boys take
over you can kiss your behind
goodbye. This, as we have discussed
elsewhere, is the basic 'recruiting'
strategy of the U.S. proxy force, the Kosovo
Liberation Army.

If you think this sounds terribly
conspiratorial, that a U.S. president would
never promise ethnic harmony and deliver
racist terror, just read the
article, "What NATO Occupation Would Mean For
Macedonians." Prior to
occupation, NATO promised everything to Serbs
in Kosovo. After occupation, it
delivered a nightmare.

MESSAGE THREE: THE U.S. IS READY TO OPENLY
SEND IN TROOPS

But perhaps the key thing said by Bush was:

"America's contribution is essential, both
militarily and politically."
('N.Y. Times,' 25 July 2001).

Many people were fooled by Bush's election
promise to pull out of the
Balkans. Instead of pulling out, he has
continued with Clinton's policies,
including the attack on Macedonia and the
further encirclement of Russia with
NATO bases. The continuity of these policies
from elder Bush to Clinton to
baby Bush means that U.S. policy is not
dependent on the whims or personal
economic interests of members of this or that
US presidential administration,
but rather is part of far-ranging strategic
goals of the U.S. establishment,
that is, the financial interests usually
called Wall Street. The big prize is
the former Soviet Union, the attempted
conquest of which requires securing
the Balkans as the southern staging ground
for attack.

The "Kosovication" of Macedonia is part of
that strategy. Bush's trip set the
stage for a greatly intensified attack,
including heightened demonization of
Macedonia in the Western media, and direct
NATO intervention. An ominous
note: the U.S. is pulling its Embassy
personnel out of Skopje. That is
precisely what the U.S. did before bombing
Yugoslavia.

And of course, the story below says it all:
the Macedonians' justified
protests at NATO's sponsorship of terrorist
invaders can be used as an excuse
for - NATO invasion!

Here's the report from Agence France Presse (AFP):

JI & RR
Thursday July 26, 9:43 AM

US troops placed on alert after violence in
Macedonia

WASHINGTON, July 25 (AFP) - An unspecified
number of US troops in Europe were
on alert Wednesday after attacks by irate
protesters threatened the US and
other Western embassies in Macedonia, a US
defense official said.

"We do have units which have been alerted,"
the official said on condition of
anonymity, refusing to elaborate.

Any decision whether to seek extra protection
rests with US ambassador to
Macedonia, Michael Einik, the official said,
though the State Department was
unaware of any such request late Wednesday,
an official with that agency told

The troop alert follows attacks late Tuesday
by violent protesters on
embassies in the Macedonian capital of
Skopje. A mob of angry Slavs, incited
by allegations NATO tacitly supports ethnic
Albanian rebels, damaged the US
and other embassies with hurled projectiles,
State Department officials said.

Despite the attacks, the United States
remained determined in its efforts to
help bring peace to Macedonia, though US
officials and Balkan experts
privately voiced concern the escalating
strife and emergence of anti-NATO
sentiment could complicate facilitating any
settlement.

"We continue to reach out to all the
political parties in the multi-ethnic
Macedonian government to continue promoting
their working together to find a
peaceful solution to this," State Department
spokesman Philip Reeker told reporters.

Reeker added that US special envoy for the
Balkans, James Pardew, met earlier
Wednesday with Macedonian President Boris
Trajkowski to discuss the situation.

The mob violence came as clashes between
Macedonian security forces and
ethnic Albanian rebels flared anew, while
refugees streamed out of the
contested northwestern town of Tetovo as
rebels advanced across northern Macedonia.

The Slav-dominated Macedonian government
neither condemned the violence nor
appealed for restraint Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the government of Prime Minister
Ljubco Georgievski, an opponent
of Trajkovski's, has accused NATO of siding
with the rebels and of seeking to
turn Macedonia into an international
protectorate under the control of the
Western alliance.

The State Department refuted the charge.

"These kind of irresponsible press reports...
irresponsible, immature
statements from certain political leaders,
are not helpful to the situation,"
Reeker said, denying that the United States
or other NATO countries backed Albanian rebels.

The administration of President George W.
Bush supported Macedonia "in its
territorial integrity, in its sovereignty and
in a future as a multi-ethnic
state," Reeker insisted.

Washington has become all too-aware that the
feud between Georgievski and
Trajkovski is increasingly compromising the
search for peace, with a top
administration official warning that
"political agendas aren't going to have
anything to do when they are in the midst of
a civil war and fighting for their lives."

Former National Security Council Balkans
analyst Ivo Daalder directly accused
Georgievski of trying to extract political
mileage from the conflict.

"He has no interest in negotiating because he
thinks he can win through the
use of force," Daalder told AFP.

"He doesn't want a compromise," making a
settlement in Macedonia "more
difficult but not impossible."

***

Articles Documenting U.S./Euro/Terrorist Link
in Assault on Macedonia [24 July 2001]
A must-read list of articles with brief
descriptions. The U.S. and its Euro
allies are waging terrrorist war in Macedonia
and have kidnapped the former
head of state of Yugoslavia. And this is just
the year 'One.' At
http://emperors-clothes.com/mac/list-m.htm

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