>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Rozoff) >Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 09:56:39 -0500 (CDT) > >STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM > >September 3, 2000 >OCTOBER BLITZ OF BELGRADE WOULD HARDLY SURPRISE >By Geoff Berne >The much-anticipated second shoe in America's 1999 grudge fight against >the government and people of Yugoslavia may be about to drop. Lest >anyone be tempted to think that image-conscious Bill Clinton would >blithely walk away from office while leaving nemesis Slobodan Milosevic >victorious in Yugoslavia's Presidential elections September 24th, a dose >of reality can be had by reading Gregory Elich's latest commentary at >http://nyc.indymedia.org >What Elich does is demonstrate that a bloody finale to last year's 78 >day Balkan war is on the launching pad. Indeed, unless exposes such as >Elich's of the plans for a reignited conflict cause a reversal of >course, America and its NATO allies could be sending in an invasion >expedition that would hit the shores of Montenegro, or sweep into >Belgrade, either just before or just after America's own presidential >elections. >The article is entitled: "NATO PREPARING NEW MILITARY STRIKE IN BALKANS" >- and it needs to be read by anybody who has ever dismissed out of hand >accusations that American covert action and CIA subversion cause the >downfall of governments seeking to stay independent of American >domination around the world. >Elich's article is a snapshot of a coup in the making, as though someone >had blown the whistle on the Spanish American War in advance with an >article entitled "MCKINLEY PLANS SINKING OF BATTLESHIP MAINE, INCIDENT >WILL BE USED TO BLAME SPAIN FOR START OF WAR." >Tearing away the last curtains of pretense, if any there still be, that >the war of '99 was a rescue of Albanian minorities from genocidal >state-sponsored persecution rather than a good old fashioned colonial >annexation, Elich shows that what happened in the Balkans was simply the >carrying out of a secret Clinton administration plan for the overthrow >of the government of Yugoslavia that pre-dated the March, 1999 NATO >invasion by four months. >Using as prime sources mainstream Bulgarian newspapers, periodicals, and >websites Elich says that as early as November, 1998 the die was cast for >American backing of a secession by Montenegro from the Federal >Government of Yugoslavia; the secession would be expected to provoke a >retaliation by the Milosevic government in Belgrade that would then be >used as a pretext for an American-NATO invasion from "training" bases in >Bulgaria plus an orchestrated putsch against Milosevic by U.S. minions >(otherwise known as "opposition parties") in Yugoslavia. >As part of the blitz, Milosevic, already targeted, since 1992, for >assassination, would be killed or put on trial in an American-made, >American-funded international court. >By discovering that training exercises of troops from NATO member >countries are set for Bulgaria from October through December, Elich has >accomplished a major revelation, documenting its ominous forecast by >linking the impending maneuvres to the Clinton administration two >year-old strategic plan. >Elich has dragged into the daylight the ugly under-side of America's new >brashly unapologetic role of self-appointed messiah for countries >anywhere in the world whose governments resist succumbing to our >supposedly superior economic system, our global intelligence operations. >The Clinton administration's George Tenet has been very busy putting to >good use the gleaming new citadel of world counter-intelligence that was >built during the Bush administration in Langley, Virginia - a Reptile >House for globetrotting drug runners, spies, saboteurs, and murderous >hit squads whom it keeps on payroll, while operating under the quaintly >academic pseudonym "Central Intelligence Agency." >Credit Clinton with having found a way to renew the agency's franchise >on world counter-revolution in a post Cold War world in which the last >revolutionary gasp was seemingly breathed more than a decade ago. >Look at Greg Elich's catalogue of U.S. covert action mischief in >Yugoslavia in the past decade, and the overriding goal of molding a >post-glasnost gestapo to "fill the vacuum" in the formerly communist and >socialist bloc could not be more clear. >What the Sofia (Bulgaria) Monitor called the "CIA coup machine" has been >gathering strength in Yugoslavia since the first stirrings of strife in >Bosnia and Croatia in the early 1990's. >As if Clinton's placing of a $5 million bounty on Milosevic's head in >July, 1999 didn't dip low enough into the sewer of foreign policy >Machiavellisms, there has been a succession of unsuccessful plots >involving snipers, truck collisions, missiles fired into Milosevic's >home at 3:10 a.m., and most recently a group of four Dutch commandos >seeking a bounty of $30 million in return for sending either Milosevic >himself or just his head home in a ski box to the Netherlands. >Much more successful have been terror killings and kidnappings of >officials in Serbia, Kosovo, and Montenegro, staged in hopes of stirring >the populace to pin blame on the Milosevic government. >And while efforts to physically decapitate Milosevic may have failed, >and Montenegro and Kosovo have not yet been geographically decoupled >from Yugoslavia's federal system, efforts to amputate the other >individual member republics from Yugoslavia and turn them into vassals >of the larger Western international companies and financial >conglomerates have been successful. Only Montenegro remains in the orbit >of the "former Yugoslavia." >Greg Elich's achievement is to show how Western financial and lending >organizations have used the allure of their money to subsidize and >promote antagonism against the Milosevic government within Yugoslavia >and simultaneously pry Yugoslavia's last remaining autonomous republic, >Montenegro, loose from its commitment to membership in the Yugoslav >union. While not yet ready to hazard a formal secession, Montenegro's >government has received massive western funding in exchange for cutting >ties to the central government in Belgrade. >Rival political parties and movements have been paid and even taken en >masse to Hungary to be trained to take power, create new banking and >financing institutions that allow Western corporations to simply move >into the native economy and run it themselves for profit, and brainwash >the population in the pro-business values of the West's "open" >societies. >Elich identifies as one of the key players in this pro-business makeover >of Yugoslavia the billionaire fund manager George Soros. Many years ago, >Soros glommed the phrase "Open Society" from his British teacher Karl >Popper and now uses it to give his own vast meddling in the affairs of >foreign countries a democratic aura. Soros calls on the United States >to start acting like the leader of the free world and to shed whatever >blood is necessary to make the Open Society concept stick around the >globe. >Soros' book, The Crisis of Global Capitalism (New York, 1998), makes >clear that what an Open Society is is a panacea fashioned for the former >communist countries, a program for intervention to suppress and even >prevent in advance the "crises" that are caused by the collapse of >anti-capitalist ideologies and public institutions, crises that might >interfere with the smooth functioning of the businesses that outside >financiers steal from native governments who owned them or set up from >scratch in countries in which they have no citizenship or right of >birth. >Investment capitalists such as himself have a duty, he says, to go into >these countries and practise "crisis prevention" by setting up >organizations such as his Open Society Foundations whose goal is "to >support civil society and help build the rule of law and a democratic >state with an independent business sector." Citing >as one of his >biggest triumphs his foundation's rescue mission to help Bosnians pick >up the pieces after NATO had ended the bloody civil war there by >imposing martial law and a full scale occupation, Soros gives this >description of the mopping-up role of foundations such as his in >imposing conditions friendly to outside investors - with or without the >blessings of local sovereign authorities: >"I gave $50 million to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees >in December 1992 for humanitarian aid to the inhabitants of Sarajevo . . >. An alternative water supply was established, an electric generator was >installed in the hospital, people were given seeds to grow vegetables on >small plots and balconies, and so on. . . I have no >doubt that the >foundations have made a significant contribution in laying the >groundwork for what I call an open society. . . In >Yugoslavia the >foundation survived an attempt by the government to close it down and it >is practically the only source of support for people who have not >abandoned the hope of democracy." (pp. 220-221) >Soros' "open society" turns out to be a society whose economy, >infrastructure, and entire social system have been opened to plunderers >and meddling guidance counsellors from outside, like himself. The >quintessence of the open society concept has just been reached in >Kosovo's city of Mitrovica where NATO troops (at Soros' behest and in a >scenario laid out in 1995 by one of Soros' typical dummy institutes, the >International Crisis Group) moved to take over the Trepca mineral mines, >former mainstay of the Yugoslav economy and one of the richest >industrial resources on the European continent. Soros' investors will >now enjoy the rich profits that are anticipated from the replacement of >the nationally owned mining complex by the all-new mining operation to >be funded by Soros - and protected from "conflict" by U.S. and NATO >troops. >Even as American political candidates utter tear-stained oaths of love >for America's "working families," members of six thousand working >families of Yugoslavia who manned the Trepca mines will be put out of >work by American troops. Somehow only American "working families" are >deemed deserving of health care, social security, quality education, and >protection from gun violence. >American troops protect a valuable mineral mine from the Serbs who >formerly worked there but can't protect nine Serb children playing >basketball from being shot by Albanian snipers in passing cars. >Even though Americans have registered their yearning for America to show >friendship toward supposed enemy nations such as Cuba in the Elian >Gonzales affair, and their sympathy even for Russian naval men whose >sunken submarine carried nuclear warheads that could have brought mass >death to this country, two American Presidential candidates embark on a >course of vastly increased militarization, rearmament, and sanctions >against the lesser economies and weaker nations of the world. >Since 1998 American bombing raids on Iraq have killed 315 and wounded >900 while since 1991 sanctions have killed children on the scale of a >major epidemic. Who doubts that the Senatorial candidacy of the >president's wife, she who wears on her sleeve her supposed love for the >humblest of the world's children, would be the intended beneficiary of a >Clinton administration last ditch, lame duck, image-redeeming effort to >put Milosevic in a Florida jail cell next to Noriega by unleashing more >bombs on the children of Yugoslavia. >Who doubts that Persian Gulf War supporter and Senate Armed Services >Committee and Intelligence Committee member Gore, whose pro-war record >in the Senate dishonors his own father, a Senator who went down to >defeat rather than still his opposition to the Vietnam war, would strive >to score campaign points from continued bombing of Iraq and intervention >in Colombia. Who doubts that Cheney - who even as Vice President would >continue to reap riches from war through stock options from a company >that happens to be the fifth largest American defense contractor - would >be a fomentor of war? Who can even dream that young Bush would break >from the militarism of a family lineage that financed the Thyssen >steelworks that proudly boasted of having created Hitler and World War >II? And Mr. Lieberman, co-author of the Kosovo Self-Defense Act of >April, 1999, that authorized American arming of the gangland-style >terrorists who call themselves the Kosovo Liberation Army? Let's just >say that I would not want to be in Gore's shoes if he's elected and >finds himself standing in the way of the Albanians having their very own >hired American President. >Together these fearless Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse proclaim the >restored respectability of war. The Clinton era climaxed the trend >toward post-Cold War rearmament and foreign war that was begun under >Reagan. Thanks to Clinton we are now in a three-front war (in Iraq, >Colombia, and Yugoslavia). Seen from this perspective, Yugoslavia's >politically divided republic of Montenegro is nothing more than the >ongoing confrontation's most likely next field of battle. >Americans were recently reminded by a commemorative gathering on the >Mall in Washington D.C. that in August, 1963, Martin Luther King >proclaimed an era of non-violence and brotherhood for this country. We >must remember that King later applied his non-violent philosophy to the >Vietnam War and indeed that the essence of his dream was the ideal of a >non-violent, peace-seeking America. Of those who cherish the memory of >the dreamer, who remembers the man who called the war in Vietnam "a >symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit" and who saw >in 1967 a metamorphosis of our country into a force that, in the name of >upholding American financial interests around the world, was setting >itself in opposition to the deepest yearnings of humanity for peace and >equity? >"During the past ten years," he said in a speech at New York's Riverside >Church, "we have seen emerge a pattern of suppression which now has >justified the presence of U.S. military 'advisors' in Venezuela. This >need to maintain social stability for our investments accounts for the >counter-revolutionary action of American forces in Guatemala. It tells >why American helicopters are being used against the guerrillas in >Colombia and why Americn napalm and green beret forces have already been >active against rebels in Peru. . . Increasingly, by >choice or by >accident, this is the role our nation has taken -- the role of those who >make peaceful revolt impossible by refusing to give up the privileges >and the pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas >investment." ("Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break >Silence" >http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/4Sa/058.html) >We must especially think of King and these words as we watch five dozen >helicopters again being sent to Colombia thirty three years after King >spoke them. We must revive in our consciousness once again the >thunderous message of King when we contemplate the meaning of an >election in which presidential and vice presidential candidates of both >parties strive to outdo each other in professions of willingness to >invest in preparations for war. If we do, we will rediscover the >capacity to abhor and repudiate the world that Greg Elich describes - a >world of covert murder squads around the globe and wars to protect the >profits of vulture-capitalist George Soros and investors who derive >"blood money" from Soros' global ventures. And, perhaps also if we do, >we shall overcome. > > >______________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform mailing list for general communist information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism mailing list for global anti-imperialist news. 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