* Mercenari dagli USA per compiere atti terroristici in Jugoslavia
* Clinton vuole "s-balcanizzare i Balcani" !!!
* American Barbarism and the Big Lie Technique
* "School of the Americas": centro di addestramento per terroristi
---
Politika Expres, Beograd, 15/7/2000:
E' gia' arrivata la gran parte delle unita' terroristiche americane
"CANI DA GUERRA" IN KOSMET
Pristina - agli inizi di luglio 120 specialisti americani di terrorismo
(...) sono arrivati nella base di Camp Bondsteel, presso Urosevac, nel
Kosmet. Questi specialisti sono stati addestrati nella base militare di
Fort Bragg, nel North Carolina (USA), armati fino ai denti ed istruiti a
parlare bene il serbo e l'albanese, per poter compiere azioni
terroristiche (...)
Sono arrivati nella regione serba attraverso il valico di Bozaj, sulla
frontiera jugoslavo-albanese. Questi "cani da guerra" (cioe' mercenari)
sono terroristi spietati. L'amministrazione americana gia' nella scorsa
primavera aveva creato l'unita' speciale denominata "cacciatori di
teste", formata da circa 120 terroristi con licenza di catturare, ma
anche di liquidare, i serbi che sarebbero inclusi in varie liste -
pubbliche o segrete - come indiziati di vari crimini. Dunque non bastano
la KFOR, l'UNMIK con a capo Kouchner, che assistono benevolmente alla
repressione ed alla uccisione dei serbi (...)
Stigla glavnina americke teroristicke jedinice
"PSI RATA" NA KOSMETU
Pristina - Glavnina americke teroristicke jedinice od oko specijalaca,
koji su tokom visemesecnih priprema u vojnoj bazi Fort Bragu, Severna
Karolina (USA), obucavali za teroristicke akcije, ukljucujuci i
najbrutalnije likvidacije, naoruzavani i cak nauceni da tecno govore
srpski i albanski jezik, stigla je pocetkom Jula u bazu Baunstel,
nadomak Urosevca, na Kosovu i Metohiji...
American terrorist units are preparing
attacks on Ministry of Internal Affairs
of Serbia
July 15, 2000
Pristina, July 14 (Tanjug) - Main part of the
American terrorist unit, composed of 120
specialists who were trained for terrorist
actions, including the most brutal liquidations,
armed and even taught to speak Serbian and
Albanian language fluently, during the several
months' preparations in the military base in
Fort Brag in north Carolina (USA), came to
the base Bondsteel near Urosevac in Kosovo
and Metohija, at the beginning of July.
Cruelled and armed to the teeth "dogs of war", who
have experience in
wars around the world and in war territory of
Chechnya, came in the
southern Serbian province through boundary
crossing
of Bozaj, at
Yugoslav-Albanian boundary.
Their aim is clear: with frequent attacks on
members
of Serbian Ministry
of Internal Affairs in the region of Presevo,
Bujanovac and Medvedje and
synchronic terrorist actions in the small ghettoes
in
Kosovo and Metohija,
in which Serbs and other citizens of non-Albanian
nationality survive, in
spite of their exile, physical maltreating and
constant threat of physical
liquidations, and during that they are completely
deprived of KFOR and
UNMIK protection, American specialists have to
continue with agony of
survival of those citizens, speed up their exodus
and
provoke reaction of
Serbian security forces.
In that way, according to the large number of
analysts, the USA would
have the alibi in front of the international
public
in order to interfere in one
of the, probably, last chapter of Kosovo's drama.
Immediately after their arrival and under
supervision
of American military
commanders, hundreds of the hardest militant
ethnic
Albanian
extremists-members of, officially dissolved,
so-called KLA and one unit
from American KFOR contingent joined mentioned
terrorist group.
All of that was done as a part of perfidious,
long-term strategy of
Washington in order to destabilize political
situation in Serbia and to exert
pressure on authorities in Belgrade, thus,
secretly
and besides knowing of
European alliances in military mission of the UN
Security Council in
Kosovo and Metohija.
Small part of that terrorist unit stayed stationed
at
airport Petrovac near
Skoplje, where are several pilotless planes.
The government of the USA is continuing with
sowing
seeds of violence
and terror wherever it can, although it is
declaratively against terrorism
and is fighting against that demon of modern world
with all means on its
territory.
In that way, this summer, American administration
has
formed special unit
of "hunters on blackmailed heads", consisting of
almost 120 terrorists and
gave it "authority" to arrest and even liquidates
Serbs who are suspected
of war crimes in some public and secret lists of
the
Hague Tribunal,
including those who only looks like suspects (case
of
brothers twins Milan
and Miroslav Vuckovic).
That will be, doubtless, written in one of the
darkest charters of
international terrorism. In the same charter, in
which had already been
written that the USA, last year, began and leaded,
against international
law and without any reason and cause, brutal
aggression on one sovereign
European state and its people.
Although the group for the International public
informing (IPI) - supreme
censor of all media in the USA, which formed
American
administration in
order to stop publishing compromising facts-is
trying
to stop break of
truth about responsibility and Washington's
participation in all events, vital
for the survive of recent federation, and with
dramatic events in the
territory of FR of Yugoslavia, facts about that
are
inexorable breaking
through.
Recently published book "Censured 2000", by
respectable professor
from the California University "Sonoma", Peter
Philips, about brutal
informative restriction of all American newspapers
during the aggression
on FR of Yugoslavia, agitated world public, just
like
publishing of facts in
British media about participation of specialists
from
the England in
massive, brutal execution of Muslim civilians in
the
vicinity of Srebrenica,
during the civil war in FR of Yugoslavia - of what
Serbs were accused.
Hand of justice is maybe slow but inevitable.
---
Sad Day: Clinton postures about 'de-Balkanizing the Balkans'
by Raymond Kent (6-4-00)
Question from Emperors-clothes: Is it by reversing whatever Clinton says
that
one arrives at the truth about U.S. foreign policy?
www.tenc.net [emperors-clothes]
President Clinton's current statements about being "for Peace in
Europe,"
"de-Balkanizing the Balkans," and "including Yugoslavia into Europe,"
reveal
once more that contradictions and historical ignorance hardly bother
this
Baby-Boomer.
The accepted dictionary version of "Balkanize" is to "divide (a region
or
territory) into small, often hostile, units." The term derives "from
the
division of Balkan Countries by the Great Powers early in the 20th
Century."
The Clinton Administration, along with Germany, has had a major role in
"Balkanizing" Yugoslavia, a process still on hand at Kosovo, with
Montenegro
on the brink and Vojvodina still "on the menu." Since its inception
after
World War I, Yugoslavia has been in Europe by virtue of geography as
well as
by way of an educational and economic system.
Despite its industrial underdevelopment in comparison with Western
Europe it
was a modern European state before being dismantled by the Third Reich.
It
did not orbit out of Europe under 40 years of Communist rule. It has not
done
so in its truncated state. Its modern infrastructure was just destroyed
by
the 78 days of US/NATO "humanitarian" bombs. It has not been allowed to
be a
part of the rest of Europe by the economic sanctions demanded and
imposed by
Mr. Clinton himself. His sanctions are still in place as he calls for
"de-Balkanization of the Balkans" and economic integration of Yugoslavia
into
the European Union, a mission impossible.
As for "Peace in Europe," it should be recalled that three times within
the
last decade peace in ex-Yugoslav space was more than possible if it had
not
been actively opposed and torpedoed by the Clinton foreign-policy team.
It
had a chance in Lisbon in 1992. It had a chance with the Vance-Owen
Plan
subsequently. It even had a chance at Kosovo via Rambouillet. All
three
chances were deliberately killed by the Clinton Administration.
It is now known that the British shipped arms and related equipment to
Slovenia before it orbited out of Yugoslavia, that Germany and Hungary
were
secretly arming Croatia, that we allowed Iran to arm the Bosnian
Muslims,
that we trained both the Croat and Bosnian Muslim armies to fight
against the
Serbs, that NATO already bombed the Bosnian Serbs, and that we have
actively
supported Albanian terrorists at Kosovo and still do. "Peace" in Europe,
Mr.
Clinton?
The recent killings in Belgrade more than suggest a CIA involvement in
destabilizing Serbia and the sub-rosa pressure for Montenegro to secede
is in
force. Only Mr. Clinton can promote peace while actively promoting war
which
becomes a "virtual war" never a "real war" and aimed at a single leader
not
at all a people. Now you see it and now you do not. Might makes Right.
Only
the bombs of the mighty can be humanitarian. The Ends justify the Means.
Oh, yes, the only "peace" at Kosovo, with 40,000 NATO troops, happens to
show
some signs of life in the parts ethnically cleansed of all the Serbs and
other minorities. We have already spent 20 billion dollars for Bosnia
and
Kosovo without solving anything in a lasting way. If absence of
shooting,
without removing the underlying causes, problems and foreign
interferences,
becomes "peace" by edict it has already cost the American people too
much and
there is no end in sight for other billions on the way. With that kind
of
money we could revamp Medicare to help our own needy instead of spending
it
on egregious foreign policy stupidities masked as "victories" for "Human
Rights" by people who are horrifed about the killing of an Albanian by a
Serb
but hardly blink when our planes and bombs kill a couple of thousand
Serbs,
en passant, while our NATO generals throw tantrums for not being allowed
to
kill a couple of million Serbs.
How can our Military-Industrial Complex make the big bucks without
hoisting
NATO on an increasingly uneasy Europe? We need more wars, not peace.
Without
them half of the present foreign policy elites would not be able to make
a
living even as dog catchers for a county. Was it not George Orwell, the
great
prophet of our moment in time, who concluded that Peace is War and War
is
Peace? He was only wrong about the place at which this would become
true. It
was not Moscow. It is Washington, D.C. It is not a Stalinist who does it
but
our own Democratic Baby-Boomer who blows up a country in order to make
us
forget the cigar.
Raymond K. Kent is Professor Emeritus, History Department University of
California, Berkeley
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By Andrew J. Pierre
DECEMBER 1999
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American Barbarism and the Big Lie Technique
Author: Barry Lituchy
Organisation: History Department, Kingsborough Community College,
CUNY (US), June 28, 1999
http://www.users.bigpond.com/wattyler/19990718lituchy.htm
http://www.zoran.net/afp/text/submitted/american_barbarism.htm
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From: reporter2 <reporter2@m...> Date:
Sat May 20, 2000 5:21pm
Subject: [Take Action] Shut Down the Army School of the Americas!
1) House Votes To Keep Army's School of Americas Open But With A Name
Change
2) NATIONAL DAY OF RESISTANCE TO CLOSE THE SOA! MAY 24, 2000
To learn more, visit The School of the Americas Watch,
http://www.soaw.org
The US Army School of Americas, based in Fort Benning, Georgia, trains
Latin American soldiers in combat, counter-insurgency, and
counter-narcotics. Graduates of the SOA have been responsible for some
of
the worst human rights abuses in Latin America. Among the SOA's nearly
60,000 graduates are notorious dictators Manuel Noriega and Omar
Torrijos
of Panama, Leopoldo Galtieri and Roberto Viola of Argentina, Juan
Velasco
Alvarado of Peru, Guillermo Rodriguez from Ecuador, and Hugo Banzer
Suarez
of Bolivia. Lower-level SOA graduates have participated in human rights
abuses that include the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero and the
El
Mozote Massacre of 900 civilians.
SOA Watch is an independent organization that seeks to close the US Army
School of the Americas through vigils and fasts, demonstrations and
nonviolent protest, as well as media and legislative work.
******
Published on Saturday, May 20, 2000 in the New York Times
House Votes To Keep Army's School of Americas Open But With A Name
Change
by Steven Lee Myers
Dogged by years of controversy over its mission and its graduates, the
Army's School of the Americas is on the verge of getting a new charter,
a
new curriculum and a new name. It appears likely, however, to face the
same old protests.
The Army's plans to reorganize the school, which has trained generations
of
soldiers from Central America and South America, cleared a major hurdle
this week when the House narrowly rejected an amendment that would have
closed it down.
If the Senate goes along, as expected, the school that critics have
linked
to human rights violations by former students will officially "close"
and
"reopen" later this year as the Defense Institute for Hemispheric
Security
Cooperation.
The Army proposed the changes last month, prompted by rising opposition
to
the school from religious
groups and, more importantly, from some members of Congress, who nearly
succeeded in cutting off the school's financing last year.
Opened in Panama in 1946 and moved to its current location at Fort
Benning,
Ga., in 1984, the school has been the primary training ground for more
than
60,000 Latin American military and police.
Some were later implicated in the region's most notorious abuses, like
the
murder of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador in 1989.
The secretary of the Army, Louis Caldera, said in an interview that
critics
have unfairly tarnished the
school's reputation because of the actions of very few. Nonetheless, he
said, the changes would give the school a focus that was more academic
and
less strictly military.
"I thought it would be a mistake to close the school down," Mr. Caldera
said, "because that would be turning our backs on the countries of Latin
America."
Because Congress chartered the school, the Army had to seek approval for
its changes.
In addition to having a new name, the school would have an advisory
board
to review its curriculum and
report to Congress. Authority over the school would be transferred from
the
Army to the Department of Defense, and students would be required to
have
at least eight hours of instruction in human rights in each course.
Mr. Caldera said the Army would try to increase the number of civilian
students, and emphasize training political and military leaders in the
proper role of the military under the region's emerging democratic
governments.
The school would remain at Fort Benning and still offer courses
involving
purely military tactics and strategies, prompting opponents to denounce
the
changes as cosmetic.
When the Army's proposal came before the House on Thursday as part of
the
defense authorization bill, four members sponsored an amendment to shut
the
school and create a committee to review military training for Latin
Americans.
"Even with a new coat of paint, the School of the Americas has trained
far
too many killers of innocent people to remain a part of our foreign
policy," said one of the sponsors, Representative John J. Moakley,
Democrat
of Massachusetts.
But the amendment lost on a roll-call vote of 214 to 204 after lobbying
by
Army, Pentagon and Clinton administration officials. A day before the
vote,
Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen and Secretary of State Madeleine
K.
Albright sent members a joint letter saying the Army's proposal would
"allow us to move past what had become a contentious annual debate on
the
school's legacy and focus on the question of how best to engage
militarily
our friends and allies in the hemisphere."
The Army's proposal won approval when the House overwhelmingly approved
the
larger authorization
bill late Thursday.
The Rev. Roy L. Bourgeois, a priest who has organized protests against
the
school for a decade from
his apartment at Fort Benning's main gate, said the changes would not
diminish the movement against the school. The protests have grown from a
handful of opponents to a crowd in November that was estimated at more
than
8,000.
"After thinking this thing out, we realized what they're really talking
about is a name change," he said in a telephone interview today. "For
us,
this is the same old school doing what it's always been doing."
Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company
***
[from http://www.soaw.org]
We are calling on
affinity-groups from all over the country to organize and act on
Wednesday,
May 24, the
NATIONAL
DAY OF RESISTANCE TO CLOSE THE SOA!
WEDNESDAY
MAY 24th
"Nothing but organized
nonviolence can check the organized violence" of the United States
Government!--
Gandhi
On Thursday, May 18, the U.S. Congress dismissed the Moakley Amendment,
accepted the Pentagon proposal to close the SOA and open an SOA Clone
the
very next day. The House opted to change the SOA's name rather than
close
its doors. The name is basically all that is changed. The Pentagon's
deceptive proposal is not a move towards responsible policy for Latin
America. It is merely an attempt to silence those working for human
rights
and justice. It is an attempt to silence the bloody truth about the
School
of Assassins, but THE TRUTH CANNOT BE SILENCED!
Support in the House was strong and the amendment lost by only ten
votes!
All week long people fighting to close the SOA lobbied on Capitol Hill,
but
human rights activists weren't the only ones lobbying. Secretary of the
Army Caldera, Col. Weidner and Colin Powell were there lobbying to keep
the SOA open at any cost. This shows we are the threat of a good
example,
we are winning and now is the time to rise up!
Register your outrage at the congressional vote to accept the Pentagon's
SOA Clone. Let the White House, the Pentagon and Congress know that we
are
not falling for the Pentagon deception and we REJECT THE SOA CLONE!
Come to Washington to participate in civil disobedience and
demonstrations
at the White House, Pentagon and other locales, hook into organizing in
your own community or organize yourself! Bring your spirit of hope and
resistance, bring your outrage, bring your passion, bring your
creativity
and bring
your puppets and banners and help send the message that the SCHOOL OF
THE AMERICAS MUST BE CLOSED! (...)
http://www.soaw.org
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* Clinton vuole "s-balcanizzare i Balcani" !!!
* American Barbarism and the Big Lie Technique
* "School of the Americas": centro di addestramento per terroristi
---
Politika Expres, Beograd, 15/7/2000:
E' gia' arrivata la gran parte delle unita' terroristiche americane
"CANI DA GUERRA" IN KOSMET
Pristina - agli inizi di luglio 120 specialisti americani di terrorismo
(...) sono arrivati nella base di Camp Bondsteel, presso Urosevac, nel
Kosmet. Questi specialisti sono stati addestrati nella base militare di
Fort Bragg, nel North Carolina (USA), armati fino ai denti ed istruiti a
parlare bene il serbo e l'albanese, per poter compiere azioni
terroristiche (...)
Sono arrivati nella regione serba attraverso il valico di Bozaj, sulla
frontiera jugoslavo-albanese. Questi "cani da guerra" (cioe' mercenari)
sono terroristi spietati. L'amministrazione americana gia' nella scorsa
primavera aveva creato l'unita' speciale denominata "cacciatori di
teste", formata da circa 120 terroristi con licenza di catturare, ma
anche di liquidare, i serbi che sarebbero inclusi in varie liste -
pubbliche o segrete - come indiziati di vari crimini. Dunque non bastano
la KFOR, l'UNMIK con a capo Kouchner, che assistono benevolmente alla
repressione ed alla uccisione dei serbi (...)
Stigla glavnina americke teroristicke jedinice
"PSI RATA" NA KOSMETU
Pristina - Glavnina americke teroristicke jedinice od oko specijalaca,
koji su tokom visemesecnih priprema u vojnoj bazi Fort Bragu, Severna
Karolina (USA), obucavali za teroristicke akcije, ukljucujuci i
najbrutalnije likvidacije, naoruzavani i cak nauceni da tecno govore
srpski i albanski jezik, stigla je pocetkom Jula u bazu Baunstel,
nadomak Urosevca, na Kosovu i Metohiji...
American terrorist units are preparing
attacks on Ministry of Internal Affairs
of Serbia
July 15, 2000
Pristina, July 14 (Tanjug) - Main part of the
American terrorist unit, composed of 120
specialists who were trained for terrorist
actions, including the most brutal liquidations,
armed and even taught to speak Serbian and
Albanian language fluently, during the several
months' preparations in the military base in
Fort Brag in north Carolina (USA), came to
the base Bondsteel near Urosevac in Kosovo
and Metohija, at the beginning of July.
Cruelled and armed to the teeth "dogs of war", who
have experience in
wars around the world and in war territory of
Chechnya, came in the
southern Serbian province through boundary
crossing
of Bozaj, at
Yugoslav-Albanian boundary.
Their aim is clear: with frequent attacks on
members
of Serbian Ministry
of Internal Affairs in the region of Presevo,
Bujanovac and Medvedje and
synchronic terrorist actions in the small ghettoes
in
Kosovo and Metohija,
in which Serbs and other citizens of non-Albanian
nationality survive, in
spite of their exile, physical maltreating and
constant threat of physical
liquidations, and during that they are completely
deprived of KFOR and
UNMIK protection, American specialists have to
continue with agony of
survival of those citizens, speed up their exodus
and
provoke reaction of
Serbian security forces.
In that way, according to the large number of
analysts, the USA would
have the alibi in front of the international
public
in order to interfere in one
of the, probably, last chapter of Kosovo's drama.
Immediately after their arrival and under
supervision
of American military
commanders, hundreds of the hardest militant
ethnic
Albanian
extremists-members of, officially dissolved,
so-called KLA and one unit
from American KFOR contingent joined mentioned
terrorist group.
All of that was done as a part of perfidious,
long-term strategy of
Washington in order to destabilize political
situation in Serbia and to exert
pressure on authorities in Belgrade, thus,
secretly
and besides knowing of
European alliances in military mission of the UN
Security Council in
Kosovo and Metohija.
Small part of that terrorist unit stayed stationed
at
airport Petrovac near
Skoplje, where are several pilotless planes.
The government of the USA is continuing with
sowing
seeds of violence
and terror wherever it can, although it is
declaratively against terrorism
and is fighting against that demon of modern world
with all means on its
territory.
In that way, this summer, American administration
has
formed special unit
of "hunters on blackmailed heads", consisting of
almost 120 terrorists and
gave it "authority" to arrest and even liquidates
Serbs who are suspected
of war crimes in some public and secret lists of
the
Hague Tribunal,
including those who only looks like suspects (case
of
brothers twins Milan
and Miroslav Vuckovic).
That will be, doubtless, written in one of the
darkest charters of
international terrorism. In the same charter, in
which had already been
written that the USA, last year, began and leaded,
against international
law and without any reason and cause, brutal
aggression on one sovereign
European state and its people.
Although the group for the International public
informing (IPI) - supreme
censor of all media in the USA, which formed
American
administration in
order to stop publishing compromising facts-is
trying
to stop break of
truth about responsibility and Washington's
participation in all events, vital
for the survive of recent federation, and with
dramatic events in the
territory of FR of Yugoslavia, facts about that
are
inexorable breaking
through.
Recently published book "Censured 2000", by
respectable professor
from the California University "Sonoma", Peter
Philips, about brutal
informative restriction of all American newspapers
during the aggression
on FR of Yugoslavia, agitated world public, just
like
publishing of facts in
British media about participation of specialists
from
the England in
massive, brutal execution of Muslim civilians in
the
vicinity of Srebrenica,
during the civil war in FR of Yugoslavia - of what
Serbs were accused.
Hand of justice is maybe slow but inevitable.
---
Sad Day: Clinton postures about 'de-Balkanizing the Balkans'
by Raymond Kent (6-4-00)
Question from Emperors-clothes: Is it by reversing whatever Clinton says
that
one arrives at the truth about U.S. foreign policy?
www.tenc.net [emperors-clothes]
President Clinton's current statements about being "for Peace in
Europe,"
"de-Balkanizing the Balkans," and "including Yugoslavia into Europe,"
reveal
once more that contradictions and historical ignorance hardly bother
this
Baby-Boomer.
The accepted dictionary version of "Balkanize" is to "divide (a region
or
territory) into small, often hostile, units." The term derives "from
the
division of Balkan Countries by the Great Powers early in the 20th
Century."
The Clinton Administration, along with Germany, has had a major role in
"Balkanizing" Yugoslavia, a process still on hand at Kosovo, with
Montenegro
on the brink and Vojvodina still "on the menu." Since its inception
after
World War I, Yugoslavia has been in Europe by virtue of geography as
well as
by way of an educational and economic system.
Despite its industrial underdevelopment in comparison with Western
Europe it
was a modern European state before being dismantled by the Third Reich.
It
did not orbit out of Europe under 40 years of Communist rule. It has not
done
so in its truncated state. Its modern infrastructure was just destroyed
by
the 78 days of US/NATO "humanitarian" bombs. It has not been allowed to
be a
part of the rest of Europe by the economic sanctions demanded and
imposed by
Mr. Clinton himself. His sanctions are still in place as he calls for
"de-Balkanization of the Balkans" and economic integration of Yugoslavia
into
the European Union, a mission impossible.
As for "Peace in Europe," it should be recalled that three times within
the
last decade peace in ex-Yugoslav space was more than possible if it had
not
been actively opposed and torpedoed by the Clinton foreign-policy team.
It
had a chance in Lisbon in 1992. It had a chance with the Vance-Owen
Plan
subsequently. It even had a chance at Kosovo via Rambouillet. All
three
chances were deliberately killed by the Clinton Administration.
It is now known that the British shipped arms and related equipment to
Slovenia before it orbited out of Yugoslavia, that Germany and Hungary
were
secretly arming Croatia, that we allowed Iran to arm the Bosnian
Muslims,
that we trained both the Croat and Bosnian Muslim armies to fight
against the
Serbs, that NATO already bombed the Bosnian Serbs, and that we have
actively
supported Albanian terrorists at Kosovo and still do. "Peace" in Europe,
Mr.
Clinton?
The recent killings in Belgrade more than suggest a CIA involvement in
destabilizing Serbia and the sub-rosa pressure for Montenegro to secede
is in
force. Only Mr. Clinton can promote peace while actively promoting war
which
becomes a "virtual war" never a "real war" and aimed at a single leader
not
at all a people. Now you see it and now you do not. Might makes Right.
Only
the bombs of the mighty can be humanitarian. The Ends justify the Means.
Oh, yes, the only "peace" at Kosovo, with 40,000 NATO troops, happens to
show
some signs of life in the parts ethnically cleansed of all the Serbs and
other minorities. We have already spent 20 billion dollars for Bosnia
and
Kosovo without solving anything in a lasting way. If absence of
shooting,
without removing the underlying causes, problems and foreign
interferences,
becomes "peace" by edict it has already cost the American people too
much and
there is no end in sight for other billions on the way. With that kind
of
money we could revamp Medicare to help our own needy instead of spending
it
on egregious foreign policy stupidities masked as "victories" for "Human
Rights" by people who are horrifed about the killing of an Albanian by a
Serb
but hardly blink when our planes and bombs kill a couple of thousand
Serbs,
en passant, while our NATO generals throw tantrums for not being allowed
to
kill a couple of million Serbs.
How can our Military-Industrial Complex make the big bucks without
hoisting
NATO on an increasingly uneasy Europe? We need more wars, not peace.
Without
them half of the present foreign policy elites would not be able to make
a
living even as dog catchers for a county. Was it not George Orwell, the
great
prophet of our moment in time, who concluded that Peace is War and War
is
Peace? He was only wrong about the place at which this would become
true. It
was not Moscow. It is Washington, D.C. It is not a Stalinist who does it
but
our own Democratic Baby-Boomer who blows up a country in order to make
us
forget the cigar.
Raymond K. Kent is Professor Emeritus, History Department University of
California, Berkeley
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From: reporter2 <reporter2@m...> Date:
Sat May 20, 2000 5:21pm
Subject: [Take Action] Shut Down the Army School of the Americas!
1) House Votes To Keep Army's School of Americas Open But With A Name
Change
2) NATIONAL DAY OF RESISTANCE TO CLOSE THE SOA! MAY 24, 2000
To learn more, visit The School of the Americas Watch,
http://www.soaw.org
The US Army School of Americas, based in Fort Benning, Georgia, trains
Latin American soldiers in combat, counter-insurgency, and
counter-narcotics. Graduates of the SOA have been responsible for some
of
the worst human rights abuses in Latin America. Among the SOA's nearly
60,000 graduates are notorious dictators Manuel Noriega and Omar
Torrijos
of Panama, Leopoldo Galtieri and Roberto Viola of Argentina, Juan
Velasco
Alvarado of Peru, Guillermo Rodriguez from Ecuador, and Hugo Banzer
Suarez
of Bolivia. Lower-level SOA graduates have participated in human rights
abuses that include the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero and the
El
Mozote Massacre of 900 civilians.
SOA Watch is an independent organization that seeks to close the US Army
School of the Americas through vigils and fasts, demonstrations and
nonviolent protest, as well as media and legislative work.
******
Published on Saturday, May 20, 2000 in the New York Times
House Votes To Keep Army's School of Americas Open But With A Name
Change
by Steven Lee Myers
Dogged by years of controversy over its mission and its graduates, the
Army's School of the Americas is on the verge of getting a new charter,
a
new curriculum and a new name. It appears likely, however, to face the
same old protests.
The Army's plans to reorganize the school, which has trained generations
of
soldiers from Central America and South America, cleared a major hurdle
this week when the House narrowly rejected an amendment that would have
closed it down.
If the Senate goes along, as expected, the school that critics have
linked
to human rights violations by former students will officially "close"
and
"reopen" later this year as the Defense Institute for Hemispheric
Security
Cooperation.
The Army proposed the changes last month, prompted by rising opposition
to
the school from religious
groups and, more importantly, from some members of Congress, who nearly
succeeded in cutting off the school's financing last year.
Opened in Panama in 1946 and moved to its current location at Fort
Benning,
Ga., in 1984, the school has been the primary training ground for more
than
60,000 Latin American military and police.
Some were later implicated in the region's most notorious abuses, like
the
murder of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador in 1989.
The secretary of the Army, Louis Caldera, said in an interview that
critics
have unfairly tarnished the
school's reputation because of the actions of very few. Nonetheless, he
said, the changes would give the school a focus that was more academic
and
less strictly military.
"I thought it would be a mistake to close the school down," Mr. Caldera
said, "because that would be turning our backs on the countries of Latin
America."
Because Congress chartered the school, the Army had to seek approval for
its changes.
In addition to having a new name, the school would have an advisory
board
to review its curriculum and
report to Congress. Authority over the school would be transferred from
the
Army to the Department of Defense, and students would be required to
have
at least eight hours of instruction in human rights in each course.
Mr. Caldera said the Army would try to increase the number of civilian
students, and emphasize training political and military leaders in the
proper role of the military under the region's emerging democratic
governments.
The school would remain at Fort Benning and still offer courses
involving
purely military tactics and strategies, prompting opponents to denounce
the
changes as cosmetic.
When the Army's proposal came before the House on Thursday as part of
the
defense authorization bill, four members sponsored an amendment to shut
the
school and create a committee to review military training for Latin
Americans.
"Even with a new coat of paint, the School of the Americas has trained
far
too many killers of innocent people to remain a part of our foreign
policy," said one of the sponsors, Representative John J. Moakley,
Democrat
of Massachusetts.
But the amendment lost on a roll-call vote of 214 to 204 after lobbying
by
Army, Pentagon and Clinton administration officials. A day before the
vote,
Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen and Secretary of State Madeleine
K.
Albright sent members a joint letter saying the Army's proposal would
"allow us to move past what had become a contentious annual debate on
the
school's legacy and focus on the question of how best to engage
militarily
our friends and allies in the hemisphere."
The Army's proposal won approval when the House overwhelmingly approved
the
larger authorization
bill late Thursday.
The Rev. Roy L. Bourgeois, a priest who has organized protests against
the
school for a decade from
his apartment at Fort Benning's main gate, said the changes would not
diminish the movement against the school. The protests have grown from a
handful of opponents to a crowd in November that was estimated at more
than
8,000.
"After thinking this thing out, we realized what they're really talking
about is a name change," he said in a telephone interview today. "For
us,
this is the same old school doing what it's always been doing."
Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company
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[from http://www.soaw.org]
We are calling on
affinity-groups from all over the country to organize and act on
Wednesday,
May 24, the
NATIONAL
DAY OF RESISTANCE TO CLOSE THE SOA!
WEDNESDAY
MAY 24th
"Nothing but organized
nonviolence can check the organized violence" of the United States
Government!--
Gandhi
On Thursday, May 18, the U.S. Congress dismissed the Moakley Amendment,
accepted the Pentagon proposal to close the SOA and open an SOA Clone
the
very next day. The House opted to change the SOA's name rather than
close
its doors. The name is basically all that is changed. The Pentagon's
deceptive proposal is not a move towards responsible policy for Latin
America. It is merely an attempt to silence those working for human
rights
and justice. It is an attempt to silence the bloody truth about the
School
of Assassins, but THE TRUTH CANNOT BE SILENCED!
Support in the House was strong and the amendment lost by only ten
votes!
All week long people fighting to close the SOA lobbied on Capitol Hill,
but
human rights activists weren't the only ones lobbying. Secretary of the
Army Caldera, Col. Weidner and Colin Powell were there lobbying to keep
the SOA open at any cost. This shows we are the threat of a good
example,
we are winning and now is the time to rise up!
Register your outrage at the congressional vote to accept the Pentagon's
SOA Clone. Let the White House, the Pentagon and Congress know that we
are
not falling for the Pentagon deception and we REJECT THE SOA CLONE!
Come to Washington to participate in civil disobedience and
demonstrations
at the White House, Pentagon and other locales, hook into organizing in
your own community or organize yourself! Bring your spirit of hope and
resistance, bring your outrage, bring your passion, bring your
creativity
and bring
your puppets and banners and help send the message that the SCHOOL OF
THE AMERICAS MUST BE CLOSED! (...)
http://www.soaw.org
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