Washington’s Bizarre Kosovo Strategy could destroy NATO

by F. William Engdahl Global Research, April 12, 2012
In one of the more bizarre foreign policy announcements of a bizarre Obama Administration, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced that Washington will “help” Kosovo to join NATO as well as the European Union. She made the pledge after a recent Washington meeting with Kosovan Prime Minister Hashim Thaci in Washington where she praised the progress of the Thaci government in its progress in “European integration and economic development.” 1
Her announcement no doubt caused serious gas pains among government and military officials in the various capitals of European NATO. Few people appreciate just how mad Clinton’s plan to push Kosovo into NATO and the EU is.
Basic Kosovo geopolitics

by Srdja Trifkovic • April 27, 2012 •

In the latest issue of The Jewish Chronicle (UK) a polemicist by the name of Oliver Kamm takes The Jerusalem Post to task for publishing an article last February “by one Srdja Trifkovic claiming that US recognition of Kosovo was an advance for jihadism.” In a fact-free diatribe Kamm complains that the JP “did not mention that Trifkovic has described Srebrenica as ‘a myth based on a lie,’ the number of whose victims ‘remain[s] unknown and misrepresented’,” and adds:

    To paraphrase the late Christopher Hitchens: it’s impossible to eat enough in order to vomit enough on reading such material. The Muslim populations of Bosnia and Kosovo bear as much relation to al-Qaeda as the Archbishop of Canterbury does to the snake-handling sects of Appalachia. Milosevic’s victims should be remembered. The truth about their fate should be defended.

“It is not just the equivalent of Holocaust denial,” Kamm goes on, “but the same fraudulent argument. It should be recognised and named for what it is: genocide denial.”

BEFORE WE REVISIT “Srebrenica,” let us deal briefly with Kamm’s interesting contention that the Muslims of Bosnia and Kosovo are immune to the well-known pursuits and obsessions of their coreligionists around the world.

The Belgrade Forum welcomes initiative of the Head office of the  World Peace Council (WPC), in Athens and the Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation to hold this meeting, which we consider very important. The dramatic events in several countries over the recent years, planned and implemented by direct involvement of the USA, NATO and the EU, also threatening to propagate to some other countries, are a huge threat to peace and security, especially in the region of the Mediterranean, Asia Minor and Middle East. We are faced with new and dangerous challenges, with new threats and with the introducing of new unrests and turmoil in various parts of the world, targeted by conquering and domination intent of the masterminds of the new world order. The leading Western countries with imperialist ambitions, primarily the USA, are increasingly assuming the right to decide on who can and who cannot lead any given country in the world.  The new arms race imposed by the USA, NATO and the EU, establishment of new military bases and new zones of influence, ever more frequent use of force and blatant violation of the fundamental principles of the international law are the ultimate threat to peace, stability and security.

After the failure of bipolar world from the early 1990s, the world revealed true colors of NATO and true intentions of its masters, first of all, the USA. Ever since, the USA and its Western allies, with the use of their NATO arm, have been trying to introduce new rules of international conduct, such as concepts of “humanitarian intervention”, “human rights above sovereignty”, “exceptionalism” and “responsibility to protect” in a bid to secure the excuse for the use of force to instigate civil wars, change of regimes, dissolution of sovereign states.

THE BELGRADE FORUM ITALIA ABOUT 13TH ANNYVERSSARY OF NATO AGRESSION AGAINST SERBIA (SRJ)
Representative and Editor Enrico Vigna

Il Forum Belgrado per un Mondo di Eguali, la Lega dei Veterani della Lotta di Liberazione della Serbia ed l’Associazione dei Generali e Ammiragli di Serbia, hanno organizzato una serie di iniziative per commemorare il 13° anniversario  dell’aggressione della NATO contro la Serbia ( RF Jugoslavia).
Un aggressione costata oltre 3500 morti, oltre 10.000 feriti, due terzi di essi civili e oltre 100 miliardi di  dollari in danni economici.
Durante i 78 giorni di bombardamenti continui la Nato ha usato missili e proiettili all’uranio impoverito, provocando un avvelenamento e inquinamento per decine di anni del suolo, dell’acqua, del cibo e uno spaventoso aumento di decessi per tumori e leucemie, nella popolazione civile.
Indipendenti, le associazioni senza partito civiche - Il Forum di Belgrado per un Mondo di Eguali, La Lega dei veterani della lotta di liberazione popolare della Serbia e del Club di generali e ammiragli di Serbia stanno organizzando le tradizionali attività commemorative in occasione del 13 ° anniversario della NATO 1999 aggressione contro la Serbia (RF Yugoslavia). L'aggressione ha causato oltre 3.500 morti, oltre 10.000 feriti, due terzi dei quali erano civili e oltre 100 miliardi di dollari danni economici. Durante 78 giorni di continui bombardamenti NATO ha usato missili con l'uranio impoverito provoca inquinamento duratura dei decessi suolo, acqua e cibo e maligne e morti.

06.02.2010

"During the months following the fall of Srebrenica, 24 international journalists, among them Mike Wallace of CBS, a BBC team and several CNN journalists attempted to follow the indications derived from the known US satellite photos and all on-the-spot information about known mass graves – to no avail. The results of their fruitless search were not made public."

The debate around President Boris Tadic's resolution on Srebrenica has again focused the spotlight on this Bosnian town in the Drina Valley. Inspired by the ad hoc tribunal set up in The Hague to punish (Serb) war crimes during the Bosnian Civil War, the resolution is causing dissention about whether Serbia should plead mea culpa and beg forgiveness for the crime supposedly committed nearly fifteen years ago.
There are many aspects to this debate. Whereas Rasim Ljajic, Serbia's Labor Minister and President of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, says that he believes it is "important that the resolution on Srebrenica is adopted for moral and political reason(s), " other parties insist that there be a resolution condemning also the war crimes committed against Serbs.

BY: Adam Kredo - April 2, 2012

Biden to welcome accused trafficker of human organs to White House

Vice President Joe Biden is set to welcome to the White House a man who is currently under investigation for trafficking human organs on behalf of a “mafia-like” crime ring.

Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci is schedule to meet with Biden this Thursday at the White House, according to the vice president’s public schedule.

Thaci is accused by the Council of Europe of being one of the central players in a crime syndicate that smuggled guns, drugs, and human organs in run-up to the 1998 Kosovo war.

http://watch.ctv.ca/news/national-affairs/april-5/#clip652714

KOMNEN BECIROVIC, ECRIVENT, PARIS:

Allocution prononcée lors de la soirée consacrée à la Syrie, organisée par Investigaction de Michel Collon, le 31 mars 2012 à Paris.

Je suis heureux de vous voir venus si nombreux ce soir, preuve, s’il en faut, qu’il reste beaucoup de gens épris de vérité en ces temps d’imposture générale. Cela ne peut que dynamiser notre espoir pour persévérer sur le chemin de la vérité que nous poursuivons depuis de nombreuses années.

Oui, comme notre médiatrice vient de l’annoncer, je vous parlerai, en tant que Serbe, en toute connaissance de cause, mon peuple ayant été dans un passé récent victime du même mal qui risque de s’abattre aujourd’hui sur le peuple syrien.

March 24, 2012 marked the 13th anniversary of the start of the U.S.-led NATO bombing of Serbia. That war lasted 78 days. It is now almost totally forgotten as NATO’s focus turns to the Middle East.
Yet those who care about the poisoning of our planet should know that NATO’s 1999 bombing escapade resulted in contamination in Serbia and throughout the Balkans from an assorted arsenal of ammunitions containing depleted uranium, dumped on that region on a daily basis.
NATO’s bombing of Serbia was especially intense in Kosovo, resulting in thousands of civilian deaths, including children. Yet, to hear NATO’s spin about its dalliance in the Balkans, one is led to believe that it was a humanitarian bombing. Humanitarian?
What happened in 1999 was solely the U.S. and NATO could gain a foothold in the Balkans. The U.S. quickly set up a huge military base, Camp Bondsteel, on confiscated farmland near Urosevac, in Kosovo.
Also, that war of convenience came about due to NATO rapidly becoming irrelevant after the end of the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Thus, a new, reinvented and invigorated NATO was reborn, ready and willing to attack all over the planet and ask questions later.
Serbia was NATO’s guinea pig and it was bombed simply because NATO knew it could get away with it, using phoney pretexts.
A very dangerous game is being played out and it shows no signs of slowing down.
Former U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower wisely warned of the dangers of the military-industrial complex. It’s best that his warning be heeded sooner rather than later.

http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/thirteen-years-later-effects-of-nato-bombing-of-serbia-still-linger/

Reflections by Fidel Castro
March 21, 2012

This Reflection could be written today, tomorrow or any other day without the risk of being mistaken. Our species faces new problems. When 20 years ago I stated at the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro that a species was in danger of extinction, I had fewer reasons than today for warning about a danger that I was seeing perhaps 100 years away. At that time, a handful of leaders of the most powerful countries were in charge of the world. They applauded my words as a matter of mere courtesy and placidly continued to dig for the burial of our species. It seemed that on our planet, common sense and order reigned. For a while economic development, backed by technology and science appeared to be the Alpha and Omega of human society. Today, everything is much clearer. Profound truths have been surfacing. Almost 200 States, supposedly independent, constitute the political organization which in theory has the job of governing the destiny of the world. Approximately 25,000 nuclear weapons in the hands of allied or enemy forces ready to defend the changing order, by interest or necessity, virtually reduce to zero the rights of billions of people. I shall not commit the naïveté of assigning the blame to Russia or China for the development of that kind of weaponry, after the monstrous massacre at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ordered by Truman after Roosvelt’s death

The usual hypocritical and cynical excuse of NATO military aggression against any country is the protection of human rights. In the case of Yugoslavia (Serbia) the aggression, which started 13 years ago, using among other “smart” weapons depleted uranium missiles, left behind thousands of dead, wounded and cancer suffering people, mostly civilians. It was launched to allegedly protect human rights of Kosovo Albanians. Later the same pretext was used in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, and in the future most certainly will be used against other countries like Syria, Iran, North Korea or any other country.
The capitalist and imperialist aggressiveness have one target: to safeguard the profitability of capital, which is its holy objective, with or without memoranda, within or outside the EU or other imperialist organizations, under the supervision of the IMF or not. Furthermore capitalism now asks back, with high interest rate, concessions that made, or was forced to make in the past century. The carrot is gone and only the yardstick is left for the peoples, to warn them and to punish them. As always the imperialists are united when they declare war against the people but they fight for the division of the loot like wolves, while their competition always leads to wars.
The peoples of every country, who are the only producers of the wealth, will have no benefits as long as the criterion for the development of the states is the profit of the capitalists and the participation in the imperialist plans. The deep, synchronized capitalist crisis has its basis in the sharpening of the basic contradiction capital-labor and demonstrates the historical boundaries of the capitalist system. Thus, the interests of the people, more than in any other instance, are connected to the struggle for their own power, for the organization of the economy with as its criterion the satisfaction of the needs of the people.
In that context the line of Bertolt Brecht, “Their War kills whatever their Peace leaves standing”, is timelier than ever.
We call on the Serbian people, the peoples of the whole world together with the organizations of the anti-imperialist peace movement and the organizations of the labor movement in a struggle against the imperialist plans, against the unjust wars, and for the respect of fundamental human rights, like the right to work, to educate, to health care, to live in peace. We call on them to create their own alliance, to choose their own path, to fight for the development which will satisfy their contemporary economic, cultural and environmental needs and their true peace and cooperation.
Stavros TASSOS, President of the Greek Committee for International Detente and Peace.

SALUTE FROM DANISH FRIEND, ARCHITECT AND JOURNALIST
On the occasion of the 13TH anniversary of the NATO aggression against Serbia (FRY).

Copenhagen, 22. March 2012

Dear Friends,
 
On the occasion of 13th anniversary of the NATO 1999 aggression against Serbia I salute you and your courageous people.
 
Although it has not proven possible for me to attend your activities in person, rest assured that my thoughts will be with you firmly in the days to come.
 
On 18th February 1999 - about a month in advance of the NATO attack - as an ordinary citizen of Denmark I wrote a letter to mr. Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, then Prime Minister of a Social-Democratic gvt. in this country:
I voiced the opinion that while pretending to support the early conclusion of a political settlement and all international efforts to "bring peace to Kosovo" the Statement on Kosovo adopted by the North Atlantic Council on 30th January, 1999, had in fact "the character of an ultimatum".
NATO was exercising a direct threat against a sovereing state, thus violating the UN Charter and international law - and as co-responsible for these threats the Danish gvt. of Nyrup Rasmussen was acting in violation of the Danish Constitution as well.
 
Could I trust that as Head of the Danish gvt. Nyrup Rasmussen would take appropriate action? No - of course not...
 
Insofar that situation has not been entirely forgotten about true solutions seem as far away as ever.
 
But you and your people have ever since stood up to the challenges in a way which will prepare for the Serbs a place in history forever - and for that I salute you.
 
Sincerely yours,

Godfred Louis-Jensen, architect.

Posted on March 6th, 2012 in the category Kosovo by TransConflict

The EU seems bent on using the leverage of the still-to-be-granted accession date to press Belgrade for more concessions, particularly concerning north Kosovo, thereby risking an escalation of tensions.

By Gerard M. Gallucci

After squeezing everything it could from Serbia’s president, Boris Tadic, on Kosovo, the EU agreed last week to grant Serbia candidacy without a date to begin accession talks. To win that prize, Belgrade agreed to last minute deals with Pristina to informally recognize Kosovo as an independent entity and to work with it to transform the northern boundary into a functional border. These steps are, in the end, an inevitable bow to reality. Serbia has lost Kosovo – at least from the Ibar south – and nothing practical is gained pretending otherwise. The EU, however, seems bent on using the leverage of the still-to-be-granted accession date to press Belgrade for more concessions. Beware triumphalism.

Independent, nonparty civic associations – The Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals, The League of Veterans of the People’s Liberation Struggle of Serbia and the Club of Generals and Admirals of Serbia are organizing traditional commemorative activities on the occasion of 13th anniversary of the NATO 1999 aggression against Serbia (FR Yugoslavia). The aggression has caused over 3.500 deaths, over 10.000 wounded, two thirds of whom were civilians and over 100 billion US dollars economic damage. During 78 days of constant bombings NATO has used missiles with the depleted uranium causing lasting pollution of the soil, water and food and malignant deceases and deaths.

On Friday, March 23rd, 2012, at 11 a.m. there will be held the round table “Kosovo and Metohija 13 years after NATO Aggression”, in the Sava Conference Center (Amphitheater), Main entrance, Street Milentije Popovic No.9. The Round table will be followed by the documentary film “From Belgrade to Baghdad”, of Canadian authors Radoslav Ognjenovic, Director, and Scott Taylor, journalist and publicist. Free Entrance.

On Saturday, March 24rth, 2012, at 11 a.m. delegations will lay flowers at the Monument to the children victims in the Tasmajdan Park and at 12 noon to the Monument of Eternal Flame at Usce, New Belgrade

The public is welcome to attend these events to pay respect to the victims and send common message of peace.

LVPLSS
Prof. Miodrag Zecevic
Chairman

CLUB OF GENERALS AND ADMIRALS
Ljubisa Stojimirovic
Chairman

BELGRADE FORUM
Zivadin Jovanovic
Chairman

Zivadin Jovanovic, President of the Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals, Serbia

 13 years since NATO aggression against Serbia (FR of Yugoslavia)

The struggle for peace and the struggle for full respect of universal human rights, as defined by UN Declaration on protection of human rights, are interdependent and non-separable. Violations of sovereignty and territorial integrity, military interventions, aggressions and occupations go hand in hand with massive violations of the basic human rights.

It is clear that there are no humanitarian military interventions.

NATO military aggression against Yugoslavia ( Serbia ) which started March 24rth, 1999 was launched to allegedly protect human rights of Kosovo Albanians. It was carried out in blatant violation of the basic principals of International Law and without approval of UN Security Council. The precedent was used later in various other parts of the world whenever it suited the interests of USA and NATO: Afghanistan , Iraq , and Libya . There are threats that it may be used against other countries like Syria, Iran, North Korea or any other country.

“The peaceful united Europe
[...] has brought us peace, freedom,
justice, human rights and
democracy over half a century.”
Angela Merkel in her New Year’s address 2012

Open letter to Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel:

Madam Federal Chancellor,
dear Dr Merkel

First all the best wishes for the new year 2012 to you and your family.
Allow me some comments on the above-quoted statement in your New Year’s address. In recent times you can hear frequently that the peaceful united Europe had brought us peace, freedom, justice, human rights and democracy over half a century. Politicians justify the establishment of an united European state on the American model with this argumentation.
But I can only agree to this historical assessment to a limited extent.
If you mean Germany with “us”, then in my opinion it also applies to a limited extent.
Peace yes, but freedom in the light of subordination to the dictates of our American allies and Big Business? And justice, human rights and democracy? In the light of rampant child and old-age poverty, the monetary turmoil and the lack of a right to a say, many citizens are not feeling treated fairly and humanely or as mature citizens by the government, and they look worryingly towards an uncertain future.
But if by “us” all the peoples in Europe and all our brothers and sisters in the world are meant, then what is said is in stark contradiction to the stories of some of my friends from Serbia, Palestine, Somalia, Congo, Iraq or Afghanistan. Since more than a decade they have been covering news about bombed-out home countries, dead, war-injured, suffering from cancer and vegetating relatives, friends and acquaintances, who became homeless and hopeless. The people in the 1999 bombarded Serbia and in other parts of the world such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Congo, Somalia or Libya and elsewhere in Africa will perceive it as a cynicism that Europe – if you think about the European NATO countries which are allied with the USA – would have brought peace, freedom, justice, human rights and democracy in the light of the devastating bombing with partial nuclear weapons and in the light of the humiliating forays with which these countries were covered.
Europe would indeed be able bring the human achievements which you mentioned to all its citizens and the people of different cultures, if it reflected on its Western Christian roots. However, the will to do so does not exist yet.
Madam Federal Chancellor, I ask you to help ensure that Europe will do that someday.
My friends and I will play our part in that with pleasure.

Yours sincerely,
Dr Rudolf Hänsel, Lindau on Lake Constance

19th February 2012

German Television programme "Time Travel" broadcast in January 2012
Narrator: These are the photos that Rudolf Scharping didn't show. He didn't show the Albanians' weapons, their UCK badges and membership cards and their ammunition. He didn't show the clear evidence of fighting."

Henning Hensch (the photographer): "There can be no talk of a massacre here, and however inconvenient this might sound, these were military battles."

The extent of the lies told about what was happening in Yugoslavia in the 1990s in order to justify the war waged by NATO has long been known - but not acknowledged by the press and mass media in Europe or the USA.

The Sarajevo market bomb [Feb 1994]
was not set by Serbs but by Bosnian Muslims, as the UN later confirmed.

The skeletal "Serb concentration camp" victim was a nonsense,
as the BBC's John Simpson confirmed and the "10,000 deaths in Kosovo" were proved to be a complete myth.

Both the Commander of the OSCE's Kosovo Verification Mission in 1999 (just before Yugoslavia was attacked) Roland Keith and the former Canadian Ambassador in Belgrade James Bissett have condemned the war and defended the Yugoslav Government. Bissett said that the 1999 attack was a "put up job" and quotes the most revealing admission by the former British Defense Minister, Lord Gilbert, who told the British House of Commons in July 2000 that the terms that NATO sought to force upon Milosevic at Rambouillet were deliberately designed to provoke war.

Commander Keith described the KLA as a terrorist organisation which had a grip on most villages in Kosovo. He had direct experience of the lies told by villagers about ethnic cleansing and he said he never saw the Yugoslav Federal Army mistreat anyone in Kosovo.

Now we have a respected German televisions programme providing clear proof of the fraud practised by the German Government to justify to their public an attack on Yugoslavia in 1999. It is the equivalent of the "dodgy dossier" of that other great "builder of Europe" Tony Blair.

Germany's ambassador to Serbia, Wolfram Maas:

Serbs must explain to their children that 78 days of the NATO bombardment in 1999 was justified, so that they would not hate the Atlantic Alliance. ...

At a press conference in Belgrade regarding NATO, Germany's ambassador to Serbia, Wolfram Maas, said Serbs must explain to their children that the bombardment [78 days in 1999] was justified, so that they won't hate the Atlantic Alliance. "I must criticize government figures in Belgrade who continue to use expressions like 'NATO bombing'. "

Imagine you are walking down Knez Milosh street and your child asks you 'Daddy, who did this?' You answer him 'NATO'. And what do you expect that child to think about NATO? "

"That's not," Maas explained, "like when I was a boy in Germany and looked at the ruins in my city. I did not hate the one who had done that, because there were people who could tell me why he did that."

by DIANA JOHNSTONE  

What if pollsters put this question to citizens of the United States and the European Union :

“Which is more important, ensuring disgruntled Islamists freedom to overthrow the secular regime in Syria, or avoiding World War Three?”

I’ll bet that there might be a majority for avoiding World War III.

But of course, the question is never framed like that.

That would be a “realistic” question, and we Westerners from the heights of our moral superiority have no time for vulgar “realism” in foreign policy (except the eccentric Ron Paul, crying out in the wilderness of Republican primaries).

Because, in the minds of our political ruling class, the United States has the power to “make reality”, we need pay no attention to the remnants of whatever reality we didn’t invent ourselves.

Our artificial reality is coming into collision with the reality perceived by most or at least much of the rest of the world.  The tenants of these conflicting views of reality are armed to the teeth, including with nuclear weapons capable of leaving the planet to insects.

Twenty-eight MPs tabled a proposal in parliament on Thursday requesting a debate on the so-called occupation loan paid by the collaborationist government to Germany during the Second World War as well as the issues of reparations for victims of Nazi atrocities and looted treasures.
 
The proposal, signed by MPs from Pasok, New Democracy (ND), the Radical Left Coalition (Syriza) and independent deputies, calls on the issues be discussed in the presence of the ministers of finance, foreign affairs, defence and justice as well as representatives of all interested parties.
 
The signatories also called on parliament to adopt a clear stance on what they described as a “crucial national issue”.
 
The 28 MPs underlined that at an Italian-German financial conference held in Rome in 1942, the Axis powers arbitrarily decided that occupied Greece, as it had fought on the side of the Allies, was obliged to fund the country’s occupation through a "loan".
 
The MPs stressed that the now united German state owes Greece, a Second World War victor, roughly 54bn euros before interest, underlining that Greece was the victim of unparalleled cruelty inflicted by the Nazi forces.
 
The signatories stressed that Greece has been the subject of an obvious injustice because it is the only country to which Germany has not paid reparations. (AMNA, Athens News)

Aleksandar PAVIC
11.02.2012
 
In the tantrums thrown by the Western powers in the wake of the Russo-Chinese veto of their UN Security Council resolution on Syria, the US’s UN Ambassador, Susan Rice, expressed «disgust» at these two states’ behavior. In addition to these kinds of «hysterics» – as Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov so aptly described them – being calculated to rally the global media further against the two Eurasian giants, they also serve the purpose of directing attention away from the West’s own disastrous intervention track record. On February 8, just four days after the failed Syria resolution, the UNSC had a chance to discuss another Western interventionist «success story» – Kosovo.

Many might think that Russia’s and China’s reluctance to give a green light to foreign intervention in Syria is mostly based on the recent Libya (and Iraq and Afghanistan) experience. That is only partly true. For the occupied Serbian province of Kosovo has been under NATO/EU control for more than 12 years now – since June 10, 1999 – and offers a much better view of what Western intervention brings than the still-fresh, although already clearly disastrous, Libyan case.

The first thing that struck attention was the fact that the Assistant Secretary-General for UN Peacekeeping Operations, Edmond Mulet, referred to the situation in Kosovo at February 8 session as one of «fragile calm.» Remember – this is more than 12 years after Western powers have taken complete control of the territory, and almost four years since they have unilaterally recognized its «independence.» With tens of thousands of Western «peacekeepers» on the ground for over a decade and several billion dollars spent – we have nothing more than «fragile calm.» A «success story» – this is not.

Vuk Jeremić, the Foreign Minister of Serbia, whose province Kosovo still is according to UNSC Resolution 1244 (as well as Resolutions 1160, 1199, 1203 and 1239, all of which the Western powers have trampled in their unilateral recognition of the breakaway province), characterized the situation in Kosovo as «ghetto and barbed wire,» with the Serbian population being «the most imperiled in Europe.» Practically none of the over 200,000 people expelled from Kosovo since NATO and the EU have taken over have returned. The 100,000 or so Serbs and non-Albanians that have remained are waging a daily battle, not just for survival but for basic human rights. Pointing to this state of affairs, the Serbian FM cited reports of international organizations such as Human Rights Watch, OSCE and Transparency International, which talk of rampant corruption, discrimination against non-Albanians, politically influenced judiciary, inadequate witness protection, etc., while the European Commission has qualified the fight against corruption and organized crime as «inefficient.»

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Voice of Russia
December 29, 2011
John Robles

Interview with Rick Rozoff, the. Recorded on December 21, 2011:

Can you give us the latest on NATO and your predictions for 2012, as far as the ABM system in Europe and NATO global expansion in general? I know it’s a big question.

The past year, of course, has been a momentous one. I think it’s been a very troubling one in many regards. What we’ve seen this year in regard to NATO and what we’re likely to see an intensification of next year, 2012, is a follow-up on the Strategic Concept, as they call it, adopted at the Lisbon summit in November 2010, which is unveiling – and unleashing – NATO as an increasingly global political and military player. We saw this with the seven-month aerial campaign, air war, against Libya earlier this year where NATO flew an estimated 26,000 air missions against a small country with six million people, over 9,000 of which were combat sorties. We’re seeing that as a template. That’s pretty much how NATO officials and heads of state of major NATO countries have characterized it.

by Hannes Hofbauer

To eliminate a development project: Was this the reason behind waging war against Libya?

Since the breakdown of the Soviet Union, the Comecon and the Warsaw Treaty Organisation in 1991, three heads of states, odious to Western governments and institutions such as USA, EU and NATO were killed by them, respectively died under their responsibility. This is remarkable.
On the 11 March 1996 Slobodan Miloševic, former president of Yugoslavia, was left without medical help during his trial in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in Den Haag and died in his cell in Scheveningen.
On the 30 December 2006 Saddam Hussein, former prime minister and president of Iraq was hanged in Al-Kadhimiya North-East of Baghdad.
On the 20 October 2011 Muammar al-Gaddafi was lynched in Sirte.
What do these three dead leaders have in common?
First and visible the brutal form of their elimination. No serious trial, no hearing, no international examination took place concerning their guilt or responsibility for alleged war crimes.
Western media convicted them by following the will of the Western military alliance surrounding NATO.
In the moment of their elimination all of them were presented as the personification of evil. This demonization even allowed exposing – in the case of Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein and his sons – their distorted dead bodies to the public.
Media consumers were supposed to look at them as devils not as human beings. This form of brutalisation also shows a historical step backwards in terms of standards of civilization.
Miloševic, Saddam Hussein, and Gaddafi were physically eliminated because they were enemies, not because of their crimes, and for sure: all three were criminals, responsible for monstrous crimes. But these crimes – repressive policy towards ethnic minorities and political opposition – served the West only as a pretext for military interventions.
This is the only interpretation possible because political oppression is taking place all over the world without the “international community” considering a military intervention.
From Saudi Arabia to Spain [Basque country], from Nigeria to Indonesia: Nato would have their hands full of work to send their armada to combat for human rights.
Only in specific cases the Western allies take military action, allegedly to protect civilians.
When and where are they doing that and what are the reasons behind?
The Western allies did not hunt down Slobodan Miloševic, Saddam Hussein and Muammar al-Gaddafi because of their bad politics, but because of their good ones.
All three of them can be seen as different symbols of a “development dictatorship”.
This included social policy for the masses, efforts to achieve regional balance and economic modernization.
For some decades Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya had used a huge amount of public money to modernise society. Instead of administering the
state in favour of foreign investors, they used the means of the nationalization of industries for social and regional development.
Western firms had only restricted access to the markets. This was one of the reasons why Miloševic, Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi were considered as “odious” by the troika of Nato, USA ,and EU.
But also their geopolitical position made them suspicious to the Western allies.
Miloševic, Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi were leaders of societies on the periphery of the Western sphere of influence, historically as well as presently.
Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya – all three of them were key states between the two blocks in the period of the Cold War and they saw no reason to relinquish their independent stance towards western take-overs and eastern greediness.
Moscow and Washington, each guaranteed indirectly one half of this independence, leading to an increase in national self-confidence.
After the breakdown of the Soviet Union their self-confidence lost its backing leading directly into disaster. It looks as if the “in-betweens” of the two old geopolitical blocks had to suffer most under the advance of imperial strategies to streamline political regimes in order to take over economic core pieces.
And they were not willing to giveup political and economic independence completely, as they were asked for after the breakdown of the Soviet Union.

Chicago – May 2012

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NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is holding a summit meeting in Chicago, May 2012.  We, peace and justice activists, will gather at a counter summit to voice a new vision of global security and peace.

Join us in Chicago May 18 & 19 for a counter-summit conference to conceive and help build a more peaceful, economically secure and environmentally sustainable world.

 As the majority of the U.S. people know, it’s long past time to end the U.S./NATO war in Afghanistan, bring home all U.S. and NATO troops from Afghanistan, Iraq and around the world, to end the attacks on Libya and to begin to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction and redirect monies from wars and weapons back to our communities.

Despite its claims, NATO was never a defensive alliance, and since the end of the Cold War has been transformed into global alliance structured to wage “out of area” wars in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, as well as to “contain” China. NATO’s creed is aggressive, expansionist, militarist and undemocratic.

By EFRAIM ZUROFF
01/04/2012 23:28

A service for Hitler is unthinkable.
So why is the world quiet in response to a service for Ante Pavelić?

Imagine for a minute that memorial masses were held in two major cities in Germany on the anniversary of the death of Adolf Hitler. Needless to say, such a ceremony would arouse fury, indignation, and widespread protests not only in Germany, but throughout the entire world. Last week, the local equivalent of such an event took place in Croatia, but instead of anger and demonstrations, not a single word of protest was heard from anywhere in the country.

I am referring to the December 28 memorial masses conducted in Zagreb and Split (and perhaps elsewhere as well) to mark the 51st anniversary of the death of Ante Pavelić, the head of state of the infamous Independent State of Croatia, created by the Nazis and their Italian allies in 1941. Following its establishment, rule was turned over to the local fascist movement, the Ustasha, headed by its Poglavnik (leader) Ante Pavelić.

During the entire course of its brief existence (1941- 1945), the Ustasha sought to rid the country (which consisted of the area of today’s Croatia plus most of Bosnia-Herzegovina) of all its minorities, as well as their local political opponents. In order to do so, they established a network of concentration camps all over the country, the largest and most notorious of which was Jasenovac, located on the banks of the Sava River, southeast of Zagreb. There, many tens of thousands of innocent civilians were murdered in a variety of brutal ways, which earned the camp the nickname of the “Auschwitz of the Balkans.”

Arnold J. Toynbee:

History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.

Dear friend, comrade

The civic association Soldiers against War in the Czech Republic as a part of world peace and anti-war movement principally condemn any violation of sovereignty and aggressive war actions against the sovereign member states of the UNO.
We fully agree with your critical attitude towards the USA policy.

From the very beginning we condemn the USA/NATO aggression against FRY(Serbia) in 1999. In particular, we resolutely refuse a cynical statement of former president of the Czech Republic Václav Havel, who had the impudence to support the aggression as "humanitarian bombardment".
We evaluate the violent secession of Kosovo from the FRY (Serbia) as an act of aggression against the sovereign state incompatible with the UNO Charter.
We strongly refuse the unjustifiable recognition of this unilateral illegal act by the Czech government. This standpoint we have repeatedly expressed, both
on international forums and in our statements, addressed to constitutional representatives of the Czech Republic.
The building of the biggest USA military basis on the territory of Serbia in the Kosovo Province we condemn as the occupation of a part of the sovereign state. This illegally built basis not only violates Serbia´s sovereignty, but represent a serious threat to the region´s security and international peace, as well.

We shall always support rightful interests and rights of Serbia, not only in relation to the Kosovo Province.
We shall also support, and together with you demand the abolition of the USA/NATO military basis on the territory of Kosovo.

Sincerely yours,

Jiři Bureš
President of the Association
Soldiers Against War

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Interview with the serbian radio in Ottawa, Canada, in serbian:

Shocking video, possibly the best documentary ever made about political manipulations aimed at justifying the bombing of Serbia. This video was shown only once on the German Chanel One TV and then moved away.

Playlists of five parts:

Playlists on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIdSm5ZkS5M&;list=PLA7FAD5AE9B50224B&feature=plpp_play_all

“WASHINGTON -- U.S. Ambassador in Belgrade Mary Warlick stated for Voice of America that progress has been made in the dialogue, but that Kosovo's participation in regional forums has not been resolved yet, as well as that it is very bad that there are barricades in Kosovo”…

Comment:

First of all, it is very bad to take way 15% of the Serbian state territory by force and hand it over to the former terrorist leader Hashim Tachi and co;

Second, it is very bad that the US government violated sovereignty and territorial integrity of FRY (Serbia), guarantied by UN SC resolution 1244 (1244) and Serbia’s Constitution, by recognizing unilateral illegal secession of Prishtina and lobbying world-wide recognition of such an illegal act; 

Third, it is very bad that the US established military base Bondstil in Kosovo, said to be the biggest US base in the world, immediately following the NATO aggression in 1999, without asking permission neither from Serbia to which the territory belongs, nor from UN SC which still has mandate over the Province;

By William Dorich

I preface this review by admitting that I am not a film critic—however, I have written six books on Balkan history and as a journalist, many of my articles have been published dealing with the Balkans that have been reproduced in the International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times among others and published in the Serbian press for two decades.

In the Land of Blood and Honey, I wish to correct what I observed and relate my opinion as to the distortion of historic facts. I will leave the artistic side to those who are more qualified. Sex, violence and fabrication appear alive and well in Hollywood as cinematic tricks are used to distract and “entertain” us.

Zivadin Jovanovic,
President of the Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals, Serbia

- Theses for a case study -

(Paper presented at the International Conference “Human Rights with the view to building a Culture of Peace”, held in Sao Paolo, Brazil, on 2nd and 3rd of December 2011)

It is true that the struggle for peace and the struggle for full respect of universal human rights, as defined by UN Declaration on protection of human rights, are interdependent and non-separable. Threats to peace, violations of sovereignty and territorial integrity, military interventions, aggressions and occupations go hand in hand with massive violations of the basic human rights.
It is clear that there are no humanitarian military interventions.  
NATO military aggression against Yugoslavia (Serbia) in the spring 1999 was launched to allegedly protect human rights of Kosovo Albanians. It was the first of that sort and without approval of UN Security Council. The precedent was used later in various other parts of the world whenever it suited the interests of USA and NATO: Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. There are threats that it may be used against Syria, Iran or any other country.

The letter to Eliot Engel, Member of USA Congress
by Stella L. Jatras,
5 December 2011

Please grant me the courtesy of reading my letter regarding the "USA for Kosova" Exhibition.

Congressman Engel, during one of your trips to Pristina, you spoke to the Kosovo Albanians stating that you wanted to be the first U.S. Ambassador to an "Independent Kosovo," in essence fomenting anarchy. At one time, there were 80,000 Serbs living in Pristina. Today, there are fewer than 150 elderly living in ghettos in fear for their lives from Albanian mobs.

If you are aware of the fact that Kosovo is Serbia’s Jerusalem, the cradle of the Serbian Orthodox Christian Church, it was not evident since you proceeded to support the Kosovo Liberation Army, an army that was described a terrorist one by Bosnian Envoy Robert Gelbard when he said, "I know a terrorist when I see one, and these men are terrorists." Does this mean nothing to you? Furthermore, these jihadists whom you support are engaged in sex slavery, prostitution, kidnapping and drugs. Over 80% of drugs going into Europe now come from Kosovo, your friends. All of this information is available to you.

Vojin Joksimovich, Ph.D
Modern Tokyo Times

KLA DETENTION CAMPS

In my late December essay in 2010  called Amorality of US Kosovo Policy: Friends with the Snake I have published reactions to the Council of Europe (CoE) 27-page report authored by the Swiss-Italian politician, senator and prosecuting lawyer Dick Marty. The report, after his two-year investigation, claimed that the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) thugs headed by the current Kosovo prime minister Hashim Thaci, known as the “Snake,” abducted mostly Kosovo Serbs but also some Albanian so called “collaborators,” transported them to northern Albania, murdered them, extracted their organs like the kidneys, and sold them on the black market. These macabre Nazi/Croatian Nazi style crimes were covered up by the leading international organizations such as the UN, NATO, OSCE as well as the governments of leading western countries. NATO’s secret documents as well as an UN report have been leaked out clearly demonstrating that both of those international organizations had full knowledge of these grisly crimes and opted to cover them up in addition to several western governments, the U.S. and Germany in particular. While a EULEX investigation is being launched, it will focus on the grisly crimes committed by the Snake and his thugs but will not include an investigation of those who enabled these crimes to be covered up for over a decade. In addition, it is doubtful if EULEX is capable of conducting an all-encompassing inquiry. Hence, the most important question needs to be posed: Is the justice going to be served.

Talk by Michael Parenti on "The U.S. War on Yugoslavia" given May 16, 1999 in Seattle, WA.