Regarding "Milosevic's War Crimes & US Role in Balkans," March 13, 2006
"Democracy Now" transcript, distributed by NY Transfer Mar 14, 2006:
http://olm.blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20060313/033...
Milosevic, Yugoslavia and the Liberals:
Democracy Now's Goodman and Hedges Butcher Truth and Reality
by Joan Malerich
On March 13, 2006, Democracy Now butchered truth and reality, which
translates into butchering peace. This was proclaimed to be a
"roundtable" discussion on Milosevic and his recent death. Amy Goodman
and Chris Hedges avoided getting to the real truth.
One must question why Goodman did not have Diana Johnstone, author of Fools'
Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions and credited as being THE
expert on the former Yugoslavia, as part of this discussion. Also, why
didn't she have Michael Parenti, author of To Kill A Nation: The Attack on
Yugoslavia (and who has three excellent articles on his website
www.michaelparenti.org) on the show? Then, there are several others who
could have contributed some truth and reality, such as: (I could list at
least 20 credited unbiased authorities, but I shall just list a few.)
(1) Professor and writer Edward Herman, who recently wrote an excellent
article, "The Politics of the Srebrenica Massacre" (July 7, 2005 and
published in Z-Net)
(2) James A. Lucas, "Media Disinformation on the war in Yugoslavia:
The Dayton Peace Accords revisited, September 7, 2005, GlobalResearch.ca
(3) David Binder, New York Times writer who was censored by the New York
Times for trying to report the truth. Apparantly, the NY Times had no
reason to censor Chris Hedges (who has moved on to the Nation Institute), as
Hedges was not concerned with the truth and real investigative reporting
when it came to the Milosevic and the former Yugoslavia. When Binder tried
to report the truth of the Bosnian Muslims killing their own people in
Sarajevo in the Markale market bombing of Feb. 4, 1994, The Times refused to
publish his article and eventually removed him in favor of party-line
reporters.
(4) Peter Brock, author of Media Cleansing: Dirty Reporting: Journalism and
Tragedy in Yugoslavia, http://www.znet.org
(5) Tiphaine Dickson and Aleksandar Jokic, whose article, "That Is The
Nature Of The Beast: Why the Hague ICTY Cannot Afford Slobodan Milosevic's
Right to Self-Representation," was reported by the Centre for Research on
Globalisation - Oct 24, 2004 http://globalresearch.ca/articles/DIC410A.html
On Sunday, March 12, NY Transfer distributed a very important article,
"Milosevic: Test Your Media," by Michel Collon
http://olm.blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20060306/033...
My advice is to go back and read that article and compare the reporting in
that article to Democracy Now's Roundtable "discussion." Go to Parenti's
website and read his three articles. Watch "Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War."
What you should not do is simply listen to Amy Goodman's limited questioning
and Chris Hedge's account regarding the demonization of Milosevic and the
situation between the Bosnian Muslims and the Bosnian Serbs.
