how does the US control over Germany's elite fit with Germany's opposition to the US war against Iraq? and with the view that inter-imperialist rivalry between Germany and the US encouraged the former to meddle in Yugoslavian affairs, splitting off Croatia and Slovenia?
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Peter Hollings <[email protected]> wrote: > Louis -- > > Thanks for the interesting review. As I was reading the account "Germany > Drops a Match," I was thinking about how neatly the basis for a NATO > intervention was laid. I thought that perhaps part of the explanation might > be in Germany's secret obligations to the US as recounted in a book by the > former head of the German Defense Ministry's Security Service: > > "That is what Mr. Komossa`s book is all about. A state pact dated May, 21, > 1949, which received the "highest confidence level" category in the > country's Federal Intelligence Service, contains restrictions on the > Germany`s sovereignty until 2099. The pact reads that the ally countries > have total control over German mass media and communications. Each federal > chancellor must sign the so-called "chancellor act" before taking office. > The country`s gold reserves are seized by the ally countries. Indeed, all > German chancellors, including the incumbent, Angela Merkel, paid their first > foreign visits to the Washington. The U.S. Administration continues to > meddle in Germany`s home affairs. All political parties in the FRG are under > U.S. control, and the so-called "licensed" press in Germany turned out to be > even a more devious method of brainwashing than it used to be under the Nazi > regime. The territories of the FRG remain under U.S. occupation. This all > could have been treated as a figment of somebody's imagination if we knew > nothing about the author of the book." > > The book is reviewed at: http://en.fondsk.ru/print.php?id=1306 . > > Peter Hollings > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Louis Proyect > Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 8:18 AM > To: Progressive Economics > Subject: [Pen-l] The lessons of Yugoslavia > > The Lessons of Yugoslavia > by Louis Proyect > > David Gibbs, First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the > Destruction of Yugoslavia (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, > forthcoming, June 2009). > > [snip] > > full: http://www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine/proyect300309.html > _______________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
