My dear Jared,
It is strange that you cannot recall our idea- my proposal - to write a book
about NATO war against Serbia. It was made in the middle of the war. We had
a long phone call, talking over 20 minutes, and I have told you that the
only condition for writing for this book was that facts, facts, facts and
facts are respected and that Milosevic shouldn't be presented as benefactor
and great antiimperialistic factor. You have rejected the proposal , with
the words that you have to write in favour of Milosevic because "the whole
campaign is being made on his demonization"; you have stayed on this same
line and I respect that- I admire your consistency. What buffles me is the
thing that you don't remember our rich correspondence , and good deal of it
was about Sorosh, Yugoslav "Americanisms", pseudo-NGO's, US militarism and
interests in region and so forth. I made clear to you that I am against all
of these, that I have even a reputation in Belgrade as someone who is in
silent war with Sorosh and his community, because of their anti leftist,
anti libertarian , capitalist, pseudopfilantropist and , yes,
spy-organization role here. Ask around, I am sure that this "score of
activist Serb" do no my name and positions rather well.
So, telling me this, is rather a waste of time:
You ignore the most important fact about Yugoslavia internally: that the US
> and Western Europe are doing everything possible to distort its political
> life. That includes openly distributing $100,000,000 to opposition
elements
> in Yugoslavia. As the website editor of B292, whom I interviewed, told me
> (this is on tape) B292 is not the ONLY place that gets this US-Soros
money.
> "There's a list." he said. "Everyone gets it." One hundred million dollars
in
> Yugoslavia, an impoverished country with 4% of the US population and where
> $150 is a good MONTHLY salary, has the influence of a trillion dollars in
the
> US.
>
> US officials openly discussed in the July 29, 1999 Senate hearings on
> destabilizing Yugoslavia (see
> http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/hearin.htm ) the details of
their
> use of the "democratic" opposition arguing that their manipulation of the
> "independent" opposition is just another part of the attack on
Yugoslavia,
> similar to the bombing of Serbia TV. Check it out. I am not
exaggerating..
>
> Opposition elements funded by the US government and the Sores people,
whether
> these elements call themselves leftists or rightists, are walking around
> free. It is unbelievable that Yugoslavia has not arrested these people
who
> are paid as part of a vicious campaign that combines military attack,
> economic strangulation and bribery, on a scale unprecedented in
> history. Even today, the so-called 'democratic' opposition, funded by the
> US, is allowed to function. Nowhere else would this be tolerated.
>
> I am sure, Andrej, that with a little effort you could get some of this
cash,
> distributed like play money through Egos all over Belgrade. New
computers,
> nice office space, whatever you wanted. All you would have to do is
attack
> Milosevich. Only your integrity stands in the way of the best career in
> Serbia - working for US intelligence or for Soros, its private arm.
I am not ignoring anything, I am very well aware of this, and I try to fight
it, best I can.
But, just like you, I am also on the same line: I am an ethical anarchist,
left libertarian, radical leftis who cannot feel support towards the State,
Government, nationalism...I know only too well how nationalism is being used
in class manipulation. And I am witnessing Milosevic crimes- I am not saying
that he is the most brutal dictator?- every day. He is not more brutal than
Salvadorian death squads or Turkish government, but where are those
comparisons taking us exactly? People are suffering under Milosevic booth.
This is enough for me.
And I think that you should admit that Chomsky was also very consistent; he
made many mistakes, but he never did abandon his crucial principal: "Not
supporting the government but opposing foreign intervention". He never did
supported Vietnamese leaders. He opposed criminal war against Vietnam people
and their right to chose. Same for Nicaragua, Salvador , Columbia ( he is
very much against FARC as you know, of course)....
So, in brief, I don't see that Chomsky did something harmful. Once again,
he was very useful to us, leftist community here, as someone who had
brilliantly demasked AmeriKKKan imperialism , media deceptions, State
violence per se......
I cannot judge his usefulness to American anti war movement because I am
not
in America. So, i would like to ask you, in the name of courtesy, to stop
explaining me Milosevic and his government. Fighting NATO and Milosevic is
much more admirable task, and strongly advice you to re-think your
position.
I find this words, made by Mr. Wood, illuminating in this sense:
"... I think that what this debate reflects with wonderful
clarity is what Fanon called the "pitfalls of the national
consciousness". This is linked to the debate that some of us
had just a little earlier. A purely national consciousnes
rallies to defend the leadership of the "oppressed nation"
as its bulwark against imperialism. But an anti-imperialism
that is not thoroughly guided by anti-capitalist and
anti-bourgeois radicalism simply becomes a defence of
scoundrels, opportunists and tin-pot dictators. These latter
are demagogues who know the political and rhetorical value
of "anti-imperialism" only too well. But what is so
deceiving is that their rhetoric always contains a grain of
truth. My point is that we need so much more than this
little nationalist grain of truth........."
We must tolerate a great level of complexity here, but giving support to
Milosevic certainly isn't a best choice to fight US imperialism, i.e. to
help people in Yugoslavia.
Yours,
Andrej Grubacic
co-founder of www.resistancenet.org
I am a patriot. What is a patriot? Man who fights his own nationalism. Man
who demystifies, who deconstructs, the image of Hero.That is what patriotism
is".
Gazi Kaplan, Albanian poet
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