"OTPOR" E LA "N.E.D."
Otpor "fu creata attraverso larghe sovvenzioni di fondi
occidentali tra i giovani disoccupati jugoslavi, attratti dalle
immagini false e seducenti dell'America costantemente trasmesse
dai media 'indipendenti' finanziati dagli USA.
Nella edizione di 'News and Information' della primavera del 2001 -
una pubblicazione del National Endowment for Democracy
(NED), una agenzia ufficiale statunitense creata dal Congresso nel
1983 per assumere alcune delle funzioni della CIA, si ammette
che la NED ha finanziato Otpor dall'agosto del 1999. Vale a dire che
non appena gli USA smisero di bombardare la Jugoslavia, la
burocrazia di Washington impresse una accelerazione approntando
una struttura tipo "Quinta colonna" utile a compiere un
colpo di Stato. Presto sul sito Emperor's Clothes
[http://www.tenc.net] verranno pubblicati ampi stralci
dal bollettino della NED 'News and Information': e' molto
istruttivo..."
Otpor "was created by spreading
vast amounts of Western cash among jobless Yugoslav
youths who had fallen for the lure of the false and
seductive images of America, broadcast constantly by the
U.S.-financed 'independent' media.
In the Spring, 2001 issue of 'News and Information', a
publication of the National Endowment for Democracy
(NED), an official U.S. agency set up by Congress in 1983
to take over certain functions of the CIA, it is admitted
that the NED funded Otpor since August, 1999. That is, as
soon as the U.S. stopped bombing Yugoslavia, the
Washington bureaucracy went into high gear setting up the
Fifth Column infrastructure needed to pull off a coup
d'tat. Emperor's Clothes will soon publish extensive
excerpts from the NED 'News and Information' bulletin. It
is most educational..."
(Fonte: http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/phillips.htm )
---
> http://www.antiwar.com/szamuely/sz-col.html
A LETTO CON LA N.E.D.
Decline of The West by George Szamuely
Antiwar.com May 5, 2001
In Bed With NED
The "National Evisceration of Democracy"?
Excerpts:
...The extent of the NED involvement in pre-Kostunica
Yugoslavia was revealed in the 1998 testimony of Paul
McCarthy before the Commission on Security and
Cooperation in Europe. McCarthy, a program officer at
the NED, boasted that, among the many recipients of
NED moolah were "the newspapers Nasa Borba, Vreme and
Danas, an independent TV station in eastern Serbia, TV
Negotin, the prominent news agency BETA, and the
important Belgrade station, Radio B-92." Naturally,
such media are always described in the NED literature
as "independent."
One of the organizations currently being bankrolled by
the NED is the Serbian "youth" organization Otpor.
According to the NED, it has been doing so since
August 1999. Recently, the NED and the International
Republican Institute (IRI), which is also funded by
the NED, jointly sponsored a forum for Otpor leaders.
According to NED literature, Otpors notorious "he is
finished" posters "helped to galvanize public opinion
against Slobodan Milosevic. Otpors enormous
get-out-the-vote campaign made a critical difference
in helping Vojislav Kostunica defeat Milosevic at the
ballot box Subsequently, Otpors activists played a
crucial role in the street demonstrations that
followed the elections and led to Milosevics ultimate
downfall on October 5."
NED goes on to say that Otpor will continue to do
"grassroots political work as a watchdog that will
exert pressure on the new government to quickly
implement democratic reforms they view as crucial to
Yugoslavias return to life as a normal country."
The NED does not specify what "grassroots" work
entails. However, it explains, "this extensive
grassroots network can work to fill the political
vacuum that was created when the Democratic Opposition
of Serbia defeated Milosevic, and was left with no
serious political rival. Without any loyal
opposition to pressure the new regime, Otpor intends
to keep important reform issues in front of the public
and Serbias new leaders to make sure that democratic
progress continues." Note the repeated emphasis on
"grassroots" activism along with the vague nature of
the organizations goals. "Reform," "democratic
progress," "normal country" the NED invariably uses
such vacuous trivia to disguise its true agenda. (...)
The British Helsinki Human Rights Group has a very
different take on Otpor. Its recent report about the
December parliamentary elections in Serbia, describes
how Otpors "Hes finished" campaign was "followed up
with a similar poster campaignconsisting of the
slogan Overi! or Be sure ie that he is finished
off. The Overi! slogans were printed in a rather
sinister way, in menacing black letters and sometimes
with Slobodan Milosevics face. It is a matter of
considerable concern that Overi is Mafia slang for
the three shots which contract killers pump into an
already dead body in order to be sure that the victim
has, indeed, been finished off. It hardly bodes well
for Serbian democracy that such vocabulary is
associated with the new era." Indeed. It is even more
disturbing that US taxpayers should underwrite such
blatant threats of violence.
The BHHRG report goes on: "Otpor also ran a poster
campaign with the equally sinister slogan, We are
watching you, an apparently direct reference to
George Orwells 1984. The motif of these posters is a
bulldozer, a reminder of the heroic vehicle that
headed the march on Belgrade from Cacak on October
5; it also, no doubt, emphasizes the DOS attitude
towards its opponents. The Socialists have alleged
that menacing leaflets of this nature have been sent
to the homes of Socialist Party activists. Finally,
Otpor has not hesitated to recruit underage persons
for its purposes, an action which is strictly
incompatible with the duty of political organizations
not to exploit the young." This then is what the NED
is pleased to call "grassroots political work." The
task the Us Government has assigned to Otpor is to act
as the local bully scaring people into not voting for
the socialists or the nationalists.
What remains interesting is why the US Government
continues to underwrite Otpor. The goals it outlines
are also the goals of the Djindjic regime. So why the
duplication of beneficiaries? Evidently, Washington
does not trust the new regime in Belgrade. Therefore,
an alternative regime has to be manufactured and kept
on the sidelines. Should Belgrade once again fall out
of favor in Washington, there will be new leaders to
champion. Doubtless, the NED is already grooming the
next "Djindjic." "Yugoslavia," warns the NED, "risks
the same fate as its neighbor Romania, which had an
important democratic election, but failed to
consolidate its democratic gains and soon slipped back
into a political culture of nationalism where
reformers became divided, were corrupted, and
eventually were defeated by former communists."...
---
> http://emperors-clothes.com/news/cialectures.htm
CORSI DI FORMAZIONE A SOFIA PER MILITANTI OTPOR -
ORGANIZZATI DALLA CIA
Is the Balkans the new Latin America?
Bulgarian paper says: 'CIA is tutoring Serbian group, Otpor'
>From the Bulgarian newspaper, "The Monitor"
Translated by Blagovesta Doncheva (Posted 9-8-00)
---
> http://www.ce-review.org/01/8/pozun8.html
REPORTAGE DALL'ULTIMO CONGRESSO DI OTPOR:
difficile transizione da finta organizzazione studentesca a vera
lobby di pressione per la trasformazione della societa' in senso
liberista
Planning for an Uncertain Future (Brian J Pozun)
Some think it should be a political party, some an NGO;
others think Otpor should disband.
---
I SITI INTERNET DI OTPOR
> http://195.8.231.173/index.php
Prva strana na srpskom
> http://www.otpor.net
Home page in English (not updated)
---
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Otpor "fu creata attraverso larghe sovvenzioni di fondi
occidentali tra i giovani disoccupati jugoslavi, attratti dalle
immagini false e seducenti dell'America costantemente trasmesse
dai media 'indipendenti' finanziati dagli USA.
Nella edizione di 'News and Information' della primavera del 2001 -
una pubblicazione del National Endowment for Democracy
(NED), una agenzia ufficiale statunitense creata dal Congresso nel
1983 per assumere alcune delle funzioni della CIA, si ammette
che la NED ha finanziato Otpor dall'agosto del 1999. Vale a dire che
non appena gli USA smisero di bombardare la Jugoslavia, la
burocrazia di Washington impresse una accelerazione approntando
una struttura tipo "Quinta colonna" utile a compiere un
colpo di Stato. Presto sul sito Emperor's Clothes
[http://www.tenc.net] verranno pubblicati ampi stralci
dal bollettino della NED 'News and Information': e' molto
istruttivo..."
Otpor "was created by spreading
vast amounts of Western cash among jobless Yugoslav
youths who had fallen for the lure of the false and
seductive images of America, broadcast constantly by the
U.S.-financed 'independent' media.
In the Spring, 2001 issue of 'News and Information', a
publication of the National Endowment for Democracy
(NED), an official U.S. agency set up by Congress in 1983
to take over certain functions of the CIA, it is admitted
that the NED funded Otpor since August, 1999. That is, as
soon as the U.S. stopped bombing Yugoslavia, the
Washington bureaucracy went into high gear setting up the
Fifth Column infrastructure needed to pull off a coup
d'tat. Emperor's Clothes will soon publish extensive
excerpts from the NED 'News and Information' bulletin. It
is most educational..."
(Fonte: http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/phillips.htm )
---
> http://www.antiwar.com/szamuely/sz-col.html
A LETTO CON LA N.E.D.
Decline of The West by George Szamuely
Antiwar.com May 5, 2001
In Bed With NED
The "National Evisceration of Democracy"?
Excerpts:
...The extent of the NED involvement in pre-Kostunica
Yugoslavia was revealed in the 1998 testimony of Paul
McCarthy before the Commission on Security and
Cooperation in Europe. McCarthy, a program officer at
the NED, boasted that, among the many recipients of
NED moolah were "the newspapers Nasa Borba, Vreme and
Danas, an independent TV station in eastern Serbia, TV
Negotin, the prominent news agency BETA, and the
important Belgrade station, Radio B-92." Naturally,
such media are always described in the NED literature
as "independent."
One of the organizations currently being bankrolled by
the NED is the Serbian "youth" organization Otpor.
According to the NED, it has been doing so since
August 1999. Recently, the NED and the International
Republican Institute (IRI), which is also funded by
the NED, jointly sponsored a forum for Otpor leaders.
According to NED literature, Otpors notorious "he is
finished" posters "helped to galvanize public opinion
against Slobodan Milosevic. Otpors enormous
get-out-the-vote campaign made a critical difference
in helping Vojislav Kostunica defeat Milosevic at the
ballot box Subsequently, Otpors activists played a
crucial role in the street demonstrations that
followed the elections and led to Milosevics ultimate
downfall on October 5."
NED goes on to say that Otpor will continue to do
"grassroots political work as a watchdog that will
exert pressure on the new government to quickly
implement democratic reforms they view as crucial to
Yugoslavias return to life as a normal country."
The NED does not specify what "grassroots" work
entails. However, it explains, "this extensive
grassroots network can work to fill the political
vacuum that was created when the Democratic Opposition
of Serbia defeated Milosevic, and was left with no
serious political rival. Without any loyal
opposition to pressure the new regime, Otpor intends
to keep important reform issues in front of the public
and Serbias new leaders to make sure that democratic
progress continues." Note the repeated emphasis on
"grassroots" activism along with the vague nature of
the organizations goals. "Reform," "democratic
progress," "normal country" the NED invariably uses
such vacuous trivia to disguise its true agenda. (...)
The British Helsinki Human Rights Group has a very
different take on Otpor. Its recent report about the
December parliamentary elections in Serbia, describes
how Otpors "Hes finished" campaign was "followed up
with a similar poster campaignconsisting of the
slogan Overi! or Be sure ie that he is finished
off. The Overi! slogans were printed in a rather
sinister way, in menacing black letters and sometimes
with Slobodan Milosevics face. It is a matter of
considerable concern that Overi is Mafia slang for
the three shots which contract killers pump into an
already dead body in order to be sure that the victim
has, indeed, been finished off. It hardly bodes well
for Serbian democracy that such vocabulary is
associated with the new era." Indeed. It is even more
disturbing that US taxpayers should underwrite such
blatant threats of violence.
The BHHRG report goes on: "Otpor also ran a poster
campaign with the equally sinister slogan, We are
watching you, an apparently direct reference to
George Orwells 1984. The motif of these posters is a
bulldozer, a reminder of the heroic vehicle that
headed the march on Belgrade from Cacak on October
5; it also, no doubt, emphasizes the DOS attitude
towards its opponents. The Socialists have alleged
that menacing leaflets of this nature have been sent
to the homes of Socialist Party activists. Finally,
Otpor has not hesitated to recruit underage persons
for its purposes, an action which is strictly
incompatible with the duty of political organizations
not to exploit the young." This then is what the NED
is pleased to call "grassroots political work." The
task the Us Government has assigned to Otpor is to act
as the local bully scaring people into not voting for
the socialists or the nationalists.
What remains interesting is why the US Government
continues to underwrite Otpor. The goals it outlines
are also the goals of the Djindjic regime. So why the
duplication of beneficiaries? Evidently, Washington
does not trust the new regime in Belgrade. Therefore,
an alternative regime has to be manufactured and kept
on the sidelines. Should Belgrade once again fall out
of favor in Washington, there will be new leaders to
champion. Doubtless, the NED is already grooming the
next "Djindjic." "Yugoslavia," warns the NED, "risks
the same fate as its neighbor Romania, which had an
important democratic election, but failed to
consolidate its democratic gains and soon slipped back
into a political culture of nationalism where
reformers became divided, were corrupted, and
eventually were defeated by former communists."...
---
> http://emperors-clothes.com/news/cialectures.htm
CORSI DI FORMAZIONE A SOFIA PER MILITANTI OTPOR -
ORGANIZZATI DALLA CIA
Is the Balkans the new Latin America?
Bulgarian paper says: 'CIA is tutoring Serbian group, Otpor'
>From the Bulgarian newspaper, "The Monitor"
Translated by Blagovesta Doncheva (Posted 9-8-00)
---
> http://www.ce-review.org/01/8/pozun8.html
REPORTAGE DALL'ULTIMO CONGRESSO DI OTPOR:
difficile transizione da finta organizzazione studentesca a vera
lobby di pressione per la trasformazione della societa' in senso
liberista
Planning for an Uncertain Future (Brian J Pozun)
Some think it should be a political party, some an NGO;
others think Otpor should disband.
---
I SITI INTERNET DI OTPOR
> http://195.8.231.173/index.php
Prva strana na srpskom
> http://www.otpor.net
Home page in English (not updated)
---
Questa lista e' provvisoriamente curata da componenti della
ASSEMBLEA ANTIMPERIALISTA (ex Coord. Naz. "La Jugoslavia Vivra'"):
> http://www.tuttinlotta.org
I documenti distribuiti non rispecchiano necessariamente le
opinioni delle realta' che compongono questa struttura, ma
vengono fatti circolare per il loro contenuto informativo al
solo scopo di segnalazione e commento ("for fair use only").
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