URL for this article is http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/wash.htm Washington Votes to Finance Yugoslav Runoff Election by Professor Michel Chossudovsky (9-27-2000) Washington is preparing for the run-off election in Yugoslavia. More money is scheduled to be wired to opposition groups to their bank accounts in Budapest with fresh and "clean" dollar bills to be transported in suitcases across the border. And this time it's big bucks: 500 million US dollars... Perfect timing. On the day after the Presidential election, the US House of Representatives approved a bill: "authorizing financial aid for opposition groups in Serbia. The bill authorizes $500 million to help finance democratic forces in Serbia and Montenegro, ... including $ 50 million to fund the activities of pro-democracy and dissident groups.". ('Los Angeles Times,' September 26, 2000). In an ironic twist, while the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) receives big bucks from the bombers, it has committed itself in its electoral platform to adopting "new laws" on the financing of political parties. These laws are to be: "in accordance with the generally accepted standards of democratic societies. Republican parliaments will be advised to adjust their legislation according to these principles." (Election manifesto of "Democratic Opposition of Serbia" , 5 September 2000). With opposition political parties on the enemy's payroll, the Western media has casually accused the Yugoslav authorities of electoral fraud. In any other country, receiving cash from a foreign government would lead to the immediate indictment of the political parties concerned. Their bank accounts would be frozen. This has not happened yet in Yugoslavia. Yet the media accuses the Yugoslav government of mistreating the "democratic" opposition. In the US, taking money from an unfriendly foreign power, especially a hostile one, to finance campaign expenses would quite understandably be considered "un-American". But in Belgrade opposition forces say that they are patriotic. For them it is not "un-Yugoslav" to accept 500 million dollars from the bombers of their country... Michel Chossudovsky Department of Economics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, K1N6N5 Voice box: 1-613-562-5800, ext. 1415, Fax: 1-514-425-6224 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; (Altern. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Recent articles on Yugoslavia "NATO Willfully Triggered an Environmental Disaster "http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/willful.htm "UN Appoints Alleged War Criminal in Kosovo" http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/unandthe.htm "Opening Kosovo to Foreign Capital" http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/opening.htm "NATO's Claim of Ethnic Cleansing Challenged" http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/nato.htm NATO's Reign of Terror in Kosovo http://members.xoom.com/_XOOM/yugo_archive/19990816mcpaper.htm _______________________________________________ Crashlist resources: http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/crashlist
