> WW News Service Digest #173 > > 1) Milosevic Warns Yugoslavs > by [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2) U.S. Gives Green Light to Israeli Repression > by [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 3) Yugoslavia Threatened with Counter-Revolution > by [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 4) Mongolia and Yugoslavia > by [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 5) "Abortion Pill": Victory but not Cure-All > by [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >------------------------- >Via Workers World News Service >Reprinted from the Oct. 12, 2000 >issue of Workers World newspaper >------------------------- > >MILOSEVIC WARNS YUGOSLAVS: "NATO POWERS ARE >BEHIND OPPOSITION" > >[Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic spoke to the nation on >Oct. 2 over radio and television. Below are excerpts from >that talk, which has been distorted in Western media reports.] > >As you know, efforts have been underway for a whole decade >to place the entire Balkan peninsula under the control of >some western powers. A big part of that job was done by >establishing puppet governments in some countries, by >transforming them into countries with limited sovereignty or >even deprived of any sovereignty at all. > >Due to our resistance to such a fate for our country, we >were subjected to all forms of pressure to which people in >the contemporary world can be subjected. The number and >intensity of the pressures multiplied as time went by. All >experience the big powers gained in the second half of the >20th century in overthrowing governments, causing unrest, >instigating civil wars, disparaging or liquidating national >freedom fighters, bringing states and nations to the brink >of poverty--all this was applied to our country and our >people. > >A grouping has for a long time now been present in our midst >that, under the guise of opposition political parties of >democratic orientation, represents the interests of >governments which are the protagonists of pressures against >Yugoslavia, and especially against Serbia. > >That grouping appeared in these elections under the name >Democratic Oppo sition of Serbia. Its true head is not its >presidential candidate. Its head for many years has been the >president of the Democratic Party and collaborator of the >military alliance that waged a war against our country. He >could not even conceal his collaboration with that alliance. >In fact, our entire public knows of his appeal to NATO to >bomb Serbia for as many weeks as necessary to break its >resistance. > >FALSE PROMISES OF PEACE AND PROSPERITY > >The grouping organized in this manner for these elections >therefore represents the armies and governments that >recently waged war against Yugoslavia. In representing their >interests, the grouping launched messages to our public >that, with them at the head, Yugoslavia would be out of any >danger of war or violence, that economic prosperity would >come, the standard of living would improve visibly and >rapidly, that Yugoslavia would allegedly reintegrate in >international institutions, and so forth. > >Distinguished citizens, it is my duty to warn you publicly >and in time that such promises are false and that the >situation is quite different. It is precisely our policy >that guarantees peace and theirs only lasting conflicts and >violence. With the establishment of an administration >supported or installed by a community of countries gathered >within NATO, Yugoslavia would inevitably become a country >whose territory would quickly be dismembered. > >These are not only NATO's intentions. These are the pre- >election promises of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia. > >Within this policy of dismembering Yugoslavia, Kosovo would >be the first victim. Its present status would be proclaimed >legal and final. The remaining territory that would bear the >name Serbia would be occupied by international, U.S. or some >third military forces, which would treat this territory as >their military training ground and as their property to be >controlled in line with the interests of the power whose >army is present there. > >We have been looking at cases of such control and >consequences thereof for decades, and especially in this >decade in many countries around the world, unfortunately >lately even in Europe, for instance in Kosovo, Republika >Srpska and Mace donia, in our immediate neighborhood. > >They do not want peace or prosperity in the Balkans. They >want this to be a zone of permanent conflicts and wars that >would provide them with an alibi for their lasting presence. > >DIVISION INTO RICH AND POOR > >A great division into a poor majority and a rich minority-- >this has been the picture of eastern Europe for some years >now that we can all see. That picture would also include us. >We, too, would under the command and control of the owners >of our country quickly have a tremendous majority of the >very poor, whose prospects of coming out of their poverty >would be very, very uncertain and far away. > >The rich minority would be constituted by the black >marketeering elite, which would be allowed to be rich only >on condition that it be fully loyal to the command which >decides the fate of their country. Public and social >property would quickly be transformed into private property, >but its owners, as demonstrated by the experience of our >neighbors, would as a rule be foreigners. > >Among few exceptions would be only those who would purchase >their right to ownership by their loyalty and submission, >which would lead to the elimination of elementary national >and human dignity. The greatest national assets in such >circumstances become the property of foreigners, and the >people who used to manage them would continue to do so in >these changed circumstances but as employees of foreign >companies in their own country. > >National humiliation, state fragmentation and social poverty >would necessarily lead to many forms of social pathology, of >which crime would be the first. This is not just an >assumption, this is the experience of all countries which >have taken the path that we are trying to avoid at any cost. > >The centers of European crime are no longer in the west, >they were moved to eastern Europe a decade ago. Our people >already find it hard to bear the present crime incidence, as >we lived for a long time--from World War II to the 1990s--in >a society that hardly knew any crime at all. > >One of the essential tasks of a puppet government in any >country, including ours were we to have such a government, >is loss of identity. Countries under foreign command >relatively quickly part with their history, their past, >their tradition, their national symbols, their way of >living, often their own literary language. Invisible at >first, but very efficient and merciless selection of >national identity would reduce it to a few local dishes, a >few songs and folk dances, the names of national heroes used >as brand names for food products or cosmetics. > >I would like to stress particularly because of young people, >intellectuals, scientists, that countries deprived of >sovereignty are as a rule deprived of the right to creative >work, and especially creative work in the field of science. >Large centers and large powers finance scientific work, >control its attainments and decide about the application of >its results. Dependent states, if they have scientific >laboratories and scientific institutes, are not independent >ones but operate as branches controlled by one center. Their >attainments must remain within bounds that will not >introduce in occupied countries and occupied peoples the >seed of rebellion and emancipation. > >At this moment ahead of the run-off elections, because the >Democratic Opposition of Serbia doubts it can achieve the >result it needs, leaders of the Democratic Opposition of >Serbia with money introduced into the country are bribing, >blackmailing and harassing citizens and organizing strikes, >unrest and violence in order to stop production, all work >and every activity. > >I considered it my duty to warn the citizens of our country >about the consequences of the activities financed and >supported by the governments of NATO countries. > >- END - > >(Copyleft Workers World Service: Everyone is permitted to >copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but >changing it is not allowed. For more information contact >Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011; via e-mail: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] For subscription info send message to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.workers.org) > > > > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 23:27:43 -0400 >Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT >Subject: [WW] U.S. Gives Green Light to Israeli Repression >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >------------------------- >Via Workers World News Service >Reprinted from the Oct. 12, 2000 >issue of Workers World newspaper >------------------------- > >U.S. GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO ISRAELI REPRESSION: >PALESTINIAN UPRISING DEFENDS SOVEREIGNTY > >By Richard Becker > >Provoked by a fascist politician and fired on by occupation >troops, the Palestinian people have launched a new uprising-- >a new Intifada. Hundreds of thousands of people have taken >to the streets in virtually every town of the West Bank and >Gaza, as well as inside the 1948 borders of Israel. They >have reminded the United States, Israel and the world that >their just demands cannot be ignored or shunted aside. > >By Oct. 4, the Israeli occupation army had reportedly killed >54 Palestinians and wounded more than 1,300 in six days as >they fired indiscriminately into crowds of demonstrating >youths. But the unprecedented use of heavy combat weapons by >the U.S.-armed Israeli Army failed to break the protests. > >On the contrary, the demonstrations have grown. More guns >have begun to appear on the Palestinian side, some in the >hands of Palestinian Authority police who have often fought >alongside the demonstrators. A small number of Israelis have >been killed in the fighting, and more than a hundred have >been injured. > >Heavy sustained fighting has taken place in many cities and >towns, including Nablus, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Hebron and >many locations in Gaza. > >On Oct. 2 alone, the Israeli Army shot and killed at least >19 Palestinians, nine of them in predominantly Palestinian >cities and towns such as Uhm Al-Fahm and Nazareth in the >Galilee region of northern Israel. It was the biggest single- >day death toll among Palestinians living inside Israel since >1956. > >The uprising by "Israeli Arabs," as the U.S. corporate media >usually call them, sent shock waves through Israeli society. >Comprising over 18 percent of the population--1 million >people--these Palestinians supposedly have "equality" in >Israel. In reality, they are treated like third-class >citizens and suffer extreme discrimination, poverty and >unemployment. > >Fighting broke out again on Oct. 3 in Jenin, Ramallah, >Nablus, Gaza and elsewhere, just a few hours after a "cease- >fire agreement" was to have taken effect. > >SHARON: ADVOCATE OF GENOCIDE > >The event that triggered the uprising--the most widespread >since the Intifada of 1987-1991--was a provocative visit >Sept. 28 by the Israeli fascist Ariel Sharon to the main >Muslim holy site in Palestinian East Jerusalem. The Al-Aksa >and Dome of the Rock mosques are both located on the Haram >al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary) plaza, which for many years has >been under the administration and security of Islamic >authorities. > >Sharon's invasion of the site was okayed in advance by >Israeli authorities. He was escorted into the area by 1,000 >Israeli troops. > >This was a clear provocation, accentuated by Sharon's brutal >record. Blandly described in most U.S. media as an >"opposition leader" or as holding "hawkish" views, Sharon is >both an advocate and a perpetrator of genocide against the >Palestinians. > >Sharon has long called for Israel's retention of all of >occupied Palestine and the expulsion of the Palestinians. >The removal of a people from their homeland is defined as >genocide under international law. > >But Sharon is most hated for his role in the Sabra and >Shatila massacres in Lebanon. > >In 1982 Israel, with full backing from Washington, launched >a massive invasion of Lebanon. Its goal was to destroy the >Palestine Liberation Organization and the Lebanese National >Movement. Intensive Israeli bombing killed more than 30,000 >Lebanese and Palestinians--mostly civilians. > >During the Israeli occupation of Beirut under Sharon's >command, Lebanese fascists were allowed to enter two >Palestinian refugee camps, Sabra and Shatila, and carry out >a mass slaughter of the inhabitants. More than 2,000 >children, women and men were murdered in three days. The >residents of Sabra and Shatila were families expelled from >Palestine in 1948 to make way for the creation of Israel. > >Even an official Israeli tribunal found Sharon responsible >for this atrocity. But the war criminal suffered no >punishment for his acts, and within a few years he was once >again a cabinet minister. > >In the late 1990s, as part of Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud >government, Sharon was minister of housing. He conducted a >massive Israeli settlement-building program on seized >Palestinian lands in the West Bank. > >The appearance of this bloody racist killer in the heart of >East Jerusalem, at one of Islam's most revered sites, did >not, and could not, go unanswered. Hundreds of Palestinians >fought back. > >The next day, Sept. 29, was a Friday, and an estimated >20,000 people came to Haram al-Sharif for prayers. They >found 2,000 Israeli troops surrounding the area. > >This new provocation proved beyond any doubt that the >Israeli government as a whole wanted to ignite a conflict-- >not just Sharon. > >ISRAELI TROOPS OPEN FIRE ON CROWD > >Thousands of Palestinians, mostly youths but including >people of all ages, joined in the struggle. > >Their stones were answered with rifle fire from the Israeli >troops, who used both rubber-jacketed steel bullets and live >ammunition. > >Six Palestinians were killed and more than 200 were wounded >that day, including several who "had their eyes shot out" by >rubber bullets, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. > >On Sept. 30, the uprising spread to virtually every city, >town and refugee camp in the West Bank and Gaza. In many >areas, armed Palestinian Authority police and security >forces fought side-by-side with the people against the >Israeli occupiers, reportedly with the support of the PA >leadership headed by Yasir Arafat. > >The Israeli Army responded by bringing up battle tanks, >using heavy machine guns and opening fire on the >demonstrators from helicopter gunships. Anti-tank missiles >were fired into Palestinian buildings, destroying apartment >complexes and PA structures in Gaza. Thirty-five >Palestinians were injured after an anti-armor missile hit >one building. > >But despite the overwhelming firepower and heavy casualties, >the Palestinians--most armed only with stones--displayed >incredible courage and determination. > >At the Netzarim Junction, Palestinian youths and police >stormed an Israeli police station. The occupation troops >retaliated by firing rockets, destroying two apartment >buildings. In the West Bank town of Tulkarem, four Israeli >factories were torched. > >Addameer, an Internet news summary posted by Ramallah >activists, reported that Israeli troops tried to invade the >town of Jenin Oct. 2 but were driven back. One Israeli >soldier was critically wounded. > >Two Israeli soldiers were killed in fighting in Beit Sahour, >where Palestinians also repulsed an attempted invasion of >the town. > >Addameer also reported mass arrests of Palestinians inside >the 1948 Israeli borders and in Kalandia, on the outskirts >of Jerusalem. Many other clashes were reported. > >U.S. GIVES GREEN LIGHT > >Just as Sharon could not have gone to Haram al-Sharif >without the knowledge and support of the Israeli government, >the Israelis would not have launched this massive, well- >prepared attack without a green light from Washington. > >Since the Camp David talks between Arafat, Israeli Prime >Minister Ehud Barak and U.S. President Bill Clinton broke >down this summer, Clinton's foreign policy team has blamed >the Palestinians for being "unreasonable." Yet it was the >Israeli government that refused to concede Palestinian >sovereignty over any part of East Jerusalem. > >Israel illegally annexed East Jerusalem in 1970 in violation >of international law. All Palestinians consider Jerusalem to >be their capital, and East Jerusalem is almost entirely >Palestinian. > >That latest U.S. propaganda blitz set the stage for the new >Israeli attack. > >In recent days the administration has publicly tried to >equate the Israeli brutality and the Palestinian resistance. >But as PA spokesperson Saeb Erekat said, decrying Clinton's >call for a cease-fire, "One side is shooting and one side is >dying." > >Clinton's comments on the death of 12-year-old Muhammed al- >Durrah were especially cynical. > >The boy's death was filmed by a French TV crew in Gaza as he >and father attempted to shield themselves behind a stone >block. Only the Israeli soldiers had guns at the site. > >As his father frantically waved toward the Israelis, >shouting, "The boy, the boy," the Israelis opened a barrage >of automatic weapons fire. Muhammed died and his father was >badly wounded. The Israeli troops then shot and killed an >ambulance driver attempting to aid the two. > >What was Clinton's response? On Oct. 2, he appeared on >national television to express his regrets for "the boy >killed in a crossfire." > >U.S. WEAPONS RAIN DEATH > >The Israeli Army has been built up, armed, funded and >supplied by the Pentagon for more than five decades. The >tanks, helicopters, missiles and guns raining death on the >Palestinians come from the United States. The U.S. >government has played a key and irreplaceable role in >keeping Israel afloat since its birth at the expense of the >Palestinian people 52 years ago. > >In the "peace talks," Washington is anything but a neutral >broker. It is the senior partner in a U.S./Israeli alliance. >Washington's objective is not a just peace but an >imperialist-led pacification of the entire Middle East. > >The Israeli Army is trying to force the Palestinians to >accept the "peace terms" that the PA refused at Camp David-- >in other words, surrender. > >For 52 years, Israel and the United States have tried to >accomplish this objective. Many times they have counted the >Palestinians down and out. But the Palestinian people have >shown amazing determination and resiliency. > >In recent days, the Palestinians have written another >chapter in their glorious history, and made it clear once >more that without justice for their people, there will be no >peace in the Middle East. > >- END - > >(Copyleft Workers World Service: Everyone is permitted to >copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but >changing it is not allowed. For more information contact >Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011; via e-mail: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] For subscription info send message to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.workers.org) > > > > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 23:27:43 -0400 >Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT >Subject: [WW] Yugoslavia Threatened with Counter-Revolution >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >------------------------- >Via Workers World News Service >Reprinted from the Oct. 12, 2000 >issue of Workers World newspaper >------------------------- > >FACING THREATS AND BRIBES: WILL YUGOSLAVIA RESIST >U.S.-BACKED COUNTER-REVOLUTION? > >By Sara Flounders > >The corporate media would like everyone to believe that an >authentic, national popular movement independent of the U.S. >and NATO is rising up against the Yugoslav government, and >especially President Slobodan Milosevic. But to believe this >would be a serious mistake. > >That's because the media leave out that Washington and its >European allies have subsidized this movement's leadership >with huge sums of money, bolstered them with enormous >political support, exhausted the Yugoslav population with >war threats and sanctions, demonized Milosevic by spreading >lies and false charges, and goaded the opposition to >Milosevic to risk civil war. > >The U.S. leaders don't just want to remove Milosevic, they >want to smash Yugoslavia with a counter-revolution that >overthrows whatever remains from the 1945 socialist >revolution. > >The opposition, though it led the first round of the >presidential election by 49 percent to 39 percent, has as of >Oct. 4 refused to participate in the runoff election >scheduled for Oct. 8. Instead it is trying to force a >confrontation with the government through strikes and >demonstrations. > >WASHINGTON TRIES TO BUY ELECTION > >The U.S. government has admitted to authorizing $77 dollars >to bankroll the opposition movement. On Sept. 25 the U.S. >House of Representatives voted another $105 million to fund >the "democracy movement" in Yugoslavia. > >In comparison George W. Bush has raised $177 million to fund >his presidential bid. Al Gore has raised $126 million. >(Federal Election Commission data compiled by the Center for >Responsive Politics.) > >Yugoslavia is about the size of the state of Ohio, with a >population less than 4 percent of the United States. If you >also account for the difference in average income, this >would be comparable here to a $30 billion donation from a >foreign enemy to a U.S. presidential candidate. And this is >in an economy that has been strangled by U.S.-led sanctions. > >As in the U.S. election campaign, there are also lots of >soft money donations. The congressional appropriation is >just the tip of the iceberg. Both the Sept. 20 New York > _______________________________________________________ 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 list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
