Cost Of One Bullet [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_77530,0012.htm The Hindustan Times October 4, 2002 Editorial Cost of one bullet The post-Cold War world, which leaves a single superpower with no balancer, is now getting truly murky. Carrot-and-stick was the age-old trick of great powers to be used against those they wished to bring to heel. In the era of superpower rivalry, the threat of massive retaliation did just as well. All of that succeeded in making the world a fairly unsafe place, though it was maintained that the balance of terror was instrumental in holding the peace. Even that uncertain theoretical construct has now been removed. Not content with postulating the patently self-serving doctrine of pre-emption in a bid to prepare the ground for a military attack on Iraq, the US now appears to have decided to tread the dangerous and ethically forbidden territory of ordering the assassination of a head of government, though this is forbidden by American law except when the killing occurs in the course of a US-backed coup. In effect, then, the US law is flexible and this suits President George W. Bush perfectly. The White House Press Secretary, Ari Fleischer, has said that the cost of one bullet to take out Saddam Hussein would achieve the US goal of a regime change more quickly and cheaply than an American attack which could cost up to $200 billion. Mr Fleischer has, of course, taken care to note that the Iraqi leaders assassination should be carried out by Iraqis themselves. In June, however, the president reportedly signed an intelligence order directing the CIA to undertake a comprehensive programme to topple Mr Hussein. Thus, Mr Fleischer is unlikely to be taken at face value when he says that his one bullet observation is not a statement of administration policy. When in the past the US sought the assassination of Fidel Castro (who is fortunate to be still with us), Salvador Allende and Patrice Lumumba, it relied on secrecy. In contrast, the White House officials remarks stand out as brazen. Quite clearly, Americas Iraq gambit is not only about disarmament. __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
NATO Initiation: Bulgaria Offers Air Base For Strikes On Iraq [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/articleshow?artid=24135109 The Times Of India October 4, 2002 Bulgaria offers air base for strikes on Iraq -Last November, during the Afghan operation, US supply planes used the Sarafovo airport, north of Bourgas on the Black Sea, while some 200 US troops used the nearby military base. Bulgaria has agreements for transit and provisional stay of NATO and US forces. SOFIA (AFP): Bulgaria, a NATO candidate nation, is prepared to open its air space and provide an air base for a future attack against Iraq, Defence Minister Nikolai Svinarov said. We make clear our willingness to respond to certain requests if they are put to Bulgaria, notably concerning Bulgarian air space and eventually Sarafovo airport, the national BTA agency quoted the minister as saying on Thursday. He stressed that thus far no such request had been received. However Bulgaria, will take no position on Iraq until there is a clear (UN) Security Council resolution on Iraq and clarity within the international community; the UN, NATO, and America and its partners, the minister added. Last November, during the Afghan operation, US supply planes used the Sarafovo airport, north of Bourgas on the Black Sea, while some 200 US troops used the nearby military base. Bulgaria has agreements for transit and provisional stay of NATO and US forces. __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
'Wise Decision': NATO Lord Pleased Slovaks Voted His Way [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/ao/Qslovakia-vote-nato.RI2U_CO3.html [Although the winner of the election, the party of former president Vladimir Meciar, won't be allowed in any future government - by orders of Lord Robertson and US Ambassador to NATO Nicholas Burns. Europe's democratic mainstream, indeed.] NATO chief welcomes 'wise decision' by Slovak voters -Robertson said there was clear evidence that Slovak voters had followed his advice to become part of Europe's democratic mainstream. BRUSSELS, Oct 3 (AFP) - NATO Secretary General George Robertson on Thursday hailed the outcome of a legislative election in Slovakia last month, which gave the majority of parliamentary seats to parties who back rapid integration of the country into NATO. It was a very wise decision that the people of Slovakia took in these elections and it has been well noticed, Robertson told journalists in Brussels. Robertson said there was clear evidence that Slovak voters had followed his advice to become part of Europe's democratic mainstream. I think that there was a collective sigh of relief by the continent of Europe by what happened in Slovakia and I think that it is very good news for the people of Slovakia, he added. In particular, they are part of a democratic mainstream of Europe today and they voted to be part of that integration that is going to be the way that stability and prosperity will be guaranteed in the future. Robertson remained cautious about Slovakia's prospects for NATO membership. The issue was currently being examined by the members of the 19-nation defence alliance and a decision would be taken by their heads of state and government, he said. But the result of the Slovak election had not gone unnoticed in NATO capitals, he said. Four centre-right parties that back Slovakia's rapid integration into the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation won 78 of the 150-seat parliament in the September 21-22 vote. Slovakia expects to be invited to join NATO at an alliance summit in Prague on November 21-22. A small country of 5.4 million inhabitants, Slovakia is one of 12 countries negotiating to join the European Union, most of them hoping to become members in 2004. __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Apartheid Latvia To Get NATO-Approved Parliament [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/dt/Qlatvia-vote.R7Nc_CO3.html As EU, NATO invitations loom, Latvia votes for a new parliament -Placed a close third in recent polls is the left leaning For Human Rights in a United Latvia (FHRUL), which campaigns on behalf of the country's Russian speakers, who represent almost a third of the population. Many of them are Soviet era settlers who have not naturalised and have no voting rights. RIGA, Oct 3 (AFP) - The ex-Soviet state of Latvia goes to the polls on Saturday to choose the team which will steer the Baltic country through to membership of the European Union and NATO. The government which emerges from the 100-strong parliament elected by the 1.4 million voters will be tasked with pushing Latvia towards the finishing line in its EU membership talks by end year and ensuring that it gets its expected invitation to join the NATO military alliance at a November summit in Prague. The latest opinion polls show that voters in the chilly country of 2.35 million people are unimpressed by the efforts of the Latvia's Way party of Prime Minister Andris Berzins, and suggest that another coalition government is likely. With two and a half years at the helm Berzins is the country's longest standing prime minister. However, polls suggest that he will get only 5.5 percent of the vote, just enough to squeeze his party back into parliament under the country's system of proportional representation. Although Berzins has all but ensured Latvia gets into the EU and NATO and helped the Latvian economy buck the global downturn last year, growing by 7.6 percent, that is cold comfort to the eight percent of the population which is out of work, sidelined by the slow modernisation of old Soviet-era businesses. The benefits ... that we're proud of are not things that come overnight. Closing EU chapters doesn't mean anything to the man on the street, Berzins' advisor Peteris Elferts acknowledged. Latvia has ploughed through all but three of the 31 negotiating areas, or chapters in EU speak, it needs to conclude before it gets confirmation in December that it is ready to join the EU in 2004. Latvia's economy is booming and it's on the verge of achieving major foreign policy goals, but the election is up in the air, said Pauls Raudseps, editor of the leading daily Diena. Although it has raced ahead its EU and NATO membership preparations, Latvia's efforts to join both organisations have been dogged by concerns over its record in fighting corruption. Benefiting from what is perceived as a poor performance by Berzins has been the centre-right People's Party of Andris Skele, a coalition partner, which led the pack in the latest Latvijas Fakti poll with 14.9 percent support. However, a bitter row between coalition partners threw a cat among the pigeons just days before the election. As the poll approached Berzins sacked his People's Party Interior Minister Mareks Seglins, saying he had orchestrated the detention by law enforcement agents of a senior Latvia's Way official who had been involved in underhand campaign tactics. The row could tip the balance in favor of the right-of-center New Era party, formed earlier this year by a popular former central bank head, Einars Repse, on a ticket of transparency and efficiency. Despite spurning the use of advertising, New Era led in opinion polls until a few weeks ago and was close to the People's Party in the latest Latvijas Fakti poll at 13.6 percent. But any New Era victory is unlikely to be overwhelming due to the country's proportional representation system, Karlis Streips, a political commentator for Radio Latvia, said. Placed a close third in recent polls is the left leaning For Human Rights in a United Latvia (FHRUL), which campaigns on behalf of the country's Russian speakers, who represent almost a third of the population. Many of them are Soviet era settlers who have not naturalised and have no voting rights. The situation of the Russian minority has proved a regular bone of contention between Riga and its former Soviet master Russia. For Fatherland and Freedom, the third partner in the government coalition, has fared badly in opinion polls having been seen to have done badly at its job of managing the health system. __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Georgia: US-NATO Train Military; Govt Supports Rebels, Threatens Republics [WWW.
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160msg_id=2764014startrow=41date=2002-10-03do_alert=0 SPOKESMAN OF U.S. MILITARY COMMAND IN EUROPE, GEORGIAN DEFENCE MINISTER SIGN AGREEMENT ON COOPERATION -On Thursday a U.S. military delegation watched the U.S. instructors training servicemen of Commandos battalion of the Georgian army. Head of the U.S. delegation said that he was satisfied with the training process of Georgian servicemen. U.S. instructors are going to train about 2,000 Georgian servicemen within the next year and a half. TBILISI, October 3rd, 2002 /From RIA Novosti correspondent David Imedashvili/ -- A spokesman of the U.S. Military Command in Europe Fred Rasmussen and Georgian Defence Minister David Tevzadze have signed an agreement on logistics cooperation. The Georgian Defence Ministry told RIA Novosti that the agreement had been signed as a standard agreement between the NATO member-states and the NATO partner-states. The agreement envisages further cooperation between the countries in defence. On Thursday a U.S. military delegation watched the U.S. instructors training servicemen of Commandos battalion of the Georgian army. Head of the U.S. delegation said that he was satisfied with the training process of Georgian servicemen. U.S. instructors are going to train about 2,000 Georgian servicemen within the next year and a half. --- http://www.nato.int/docu/update/2002/10-october/e1001a.htm NATO Online October 4, 2002 NATO to help destroy munitions and clean up military sites in Georgia Georgia and NATO signed, on 1 October, a memorandum opening the way for a joint project aimed at disposing of missile stockpiles and clean up of military sites in Georgia. The agreement was signed by the Georgian Foreign Minister Irakli Menagarishvili and Peter D. Markey, General Manager of the NATOs Maintenance and Supply Agency (NAMSA), during the Foreign Ministers visit to NATO Headquarters. Assistance and training Under the agreement, NATO will provide material assistance and training to carry out the safe disposal of missile stockpiles and the clean up of a former military site close to the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. The cost of the project is estimated to be in excess of EUR 1,250,000. The Georgian authorities will contribute in kind. Financial support will be provided by Luxembourg and other NATO and partner countries. Working with partner countries This is the fourth project initiated under NATOs Partnership for Peace Trust Fund, which was established in 2000 to assist partner countries in destroying surplus munitions. NAMSA is currently overseeing Trust Fund projects to ensure the destruction of surplus ordnance in Ukraine and Moldova, having earlier this year completed the destruction of 1.6 million anti-personnel landmines in Albania. --- http://top.rbc.ru/english/index.shtml?/news/english/2002/10/03/03170401_bod.shtml RBC.ru October 4, 2002 Captured gunman claims Shevardnadze met with Chechen warlord Chechen warlord Ruslan Gelayev several times visited Tbilisi where he met with Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, Murtaz Maniya, a member of Gelayevs detachment, told representatives of the federal forces when he was captured after recent combat near the Galashki village in Ingushetia. According to the gunman, he was trained at a base headed by Gelayev in the Pankisi gorge, Georgia, RTR television reported. The militant also said that representatives of Georgian authorities, generals and colonels of the Georgian armed forces had visited the base several times. They brought weapons and food supplies. Maniya stressed that Georgian authorities intended to use Gelayevs group to restart a military conflict in Abkhazia. Moreover, Gelayev planned to seize the Sochi airport to demand the withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya. As it was reported earlier, former Georgian Defense Minister Tengiz Kitovani admitted that about three years ago he had discussed the problem of Chechen gunmen in the Pankisi gorge with President Eduard Shevardnadze. However, the Georgian leader did nothing about this problem at that time. I think Shevardnadze used Gelayevs gangs for his personal purposes, to conduct his policy, the former Minister claimed. --- http://www.gazeta.ru/intnews.shtml?204710#204710 Gazeta.ru October 4, 2002 Captured rebel tells of Georgian authorities support to Gelayevs gang Chechen fighter Murtaza Maniya, who was captured in the recent operation in Ingushetia has told investigators that the Georgian authorities openly supported Chechen warlord Ruslan Gelayev and his gunmen during their stay in the Pankisi gorge. Maniya said that he had repeatedly heard that after being wounded Gelayev had underwent treatment in a Tbilisi hospital and
Belarus President Opposes Attack Against Iraq [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2002/10/3-CEE/cee-031002.asp Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 2, 2002 BELARUSIAN PRESIDENT OPPOSES POSSIBLE ATTACK ON IRAQ -If in these difficult times for Iraq, some people try to present our cooperation as a friendship aimed against all peace-loving and -- as it is trendy to say nowadays -- antiterrorist forces, then they are deeply mistaken. President Alyaksandr Lukashenka on 2 October met with a visiting Iraqi delegation led by Deputy Premier and Minister for Military Industrialization Abd-al-Tawwab Abdallah al-Mullah Huwaysh (see RFE/RL Newsline, 30 September 2002), Belarusian media reported. If in these difficult times for Iraq, some people try to present our cooperation as a friendship aimed against all peace-loving and -- as it is trendy to say nowadays -- antiterrorist forces, then they are deeply mistaken, Lukashenka said, adding that contacts between Belarus and Iraq violate no international treaties. The Belarusian president stressed that Belarus categorically opposes any attack against Iraq, saying that the charges against Iraq are unfounded or, at least, unproven. JM __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
US Steps Up Threats Against Russia, Ukraine On 'Evil Axis' Sales [WWW.STOPNATO.O
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- http://www.rosbalt.com/2002/10/04/50362.html Rosbalt, 02/10/2002, 19:10 Russian Defence Enterprises Deny Selling Weapons to Terrorist States -These sanctions have no legal basis whatever. They have been imposed on the basis of U.S. legislation. The U.S. has made up a list of countries suspected of terrorist activities. In the meantime, the Russian companies act on the basis of Russian legislation and UN resolutions. We have not violated any UN resolutions. ATHENS, OCTOBER 2. The leaders of Russia's three defence enterprises categorically reject U.S. accusations concerning alleged weapons supplies to terrorist states. Spokesmen for the Priborostroyenie, Rosvertol and Bazalt companies said this at a press conference at Rosoboronexport concerning the 12th Defendory International-2002 international exhibition of arms and hardware currently taking place near the Greek capital. When asked about the imposition of the sanctions on the part of the U.S., Leonid Roshal, Deputy Director General of the Priborostroyenie design bureau, said, These sanctions have no legal basis whatever. They have been imposed on the basis of U.S. legislation. The U.S. has made up a list of countries suspected of terrorist activities. In the meantime, the Russian companies act on the basis of Russian legislation and UN resolutions. We have not violated any UN resolutions. Moreover, the Russian weapons exporting system is set up so that no banned goods can be sold, even if anyone wanted to. The spokesman for the Rosvertol helicopter company noted that the Rostov-on-Don enterprise number 168 mentioned by the Americans had been closed over 50 years ago, and Rosvertol was not its successor. Besides', he said, 'we do all our transactions through the Rosoboronexport agency. Finally, the spokesman for the Bazalt enterprise remarked that his company sold high efficiency arms with no analogues anywhere. He emphasised that the report presented by the US Department of State had no relation to reality. 'We too carry out all transactions through Rosoboronexport and none of our products are delivered to terrorist countries. © RIA Novosti --- http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2002/10/3-CEE/cee-031002.asp Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 3, 2002 U.S. TO SEND EXPERTS TO UKRAINE TO PROBE KOLCHUGA SUSPICIONS... Washington on 2 October said it will send investigators to Ukraine to probe charges that President Leonid Kuchma flouted UN sanctions by authorizing the sale of a Kolchuga radar system to Iraq, Reuters reported. We are making preparations to send a team of experts to Ukraine in the near future. We are still working out details of such a visit, State Department spokesman Philip Reeker told journalists. We do welcome Ukraine's offer to make available all information on sales or transfers of the Kolchuga system and grant experts access to all Kolchuga sites and the manufacturing plant as a sign of transparency, Reeker added. JM ... WHILE UKRAINE DEMANDS TAPES ON ALLEGED DEAL WITH IRAQ Prosecutor-General Svyatoslav Piskun on 2 October called on U.S. officials to hand over audio recordings that Washington says indicate that Ukraine might have sold Kolchugas to Iraq with President Kuchma's approval. We are ready to invite any expert to check [the Kolchuga allegations], but do not treat us like fools -- give us the original [tapes made by Mykola Melnychenko]. They are offering us only edited versions, Reuters quoted Piskun as saying. Piskun said he is sure Ukraine has not sold arms to Iraq. Piskun also cast doubts on Melnychenko's assertion that he secretly taped Kuchma using a tape recorder placed under a sofa in the presidential office. According to Piskun, only much more sensitive equipment could have been used to record conversations across the huge presidential office. JM __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Slovakia: Communists Oppose NATO, Govt Supports [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2002/10/3-CEE/cee-031002.asp Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 3, 2002 SLOVAK COMMUNISTS OPPOSE JOINING NATO Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS) Secretary Ladislav Jaca told TASR on 2 October that his formation is opposed to Slovak membership in NATO and wants a referendum to be held by the end of the year to decide whether it should do so. Jaca said NATO has become an instrument used by the United States to become the world's policeman. He added that if Slovaks decide in the plebiscite to join NATO, the KSS will respect that decision. Also on 2 October, the daily Sme quoted Jaca as saying the KSS is seeking the return of property confiscated from the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia after 1989. If property is returned to churches, he said, there is no reason why it should not be returned to his party as well. MS SLOVAK FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS NATO, EU CLOSER THAN EVER Foreign Minister Eduard Kukan on 2 October asserted that the parliamentary elections last month removed the last possible obstacle to Slovak admission to NATO and the EU. In an interview with Reuters, Kukan said he expects Slovakia to conclude EU accession talks later this year. Kukan added that if either EU accession or NATO enlargement is to be postponed, it could only be due to some unexpected development that has nothing to do with his country, and the postponement would then affect all the candidates to the two organizations. He said he believes EU candidates and Brussels will soon resolve their protracted disagreements over development funds and farm subsidies. There have been many dramatic situations where there was skepticism that no solution can be found, but all of these cases ended in compromises accepted by everyone, Kukan said, according to Reuters. MS __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
NATO Set To Form 'Go Anywhere, Any Time Force' [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStoryc=StoryFTcid=1031119899874p=1012571727166 Financial Times October 4, 2002 Nato set to form 'go anywhere, any time force' By Judy Dempsey in Brussels Nato's top military commander in Europe yesterday swept away several taboos by saying the US-led alliance would establish a rapid reaction force ready to go anywhere, any time at very short notice and capable of carrying out 200 combat sorties a day. General Joseph Ralston's short speech to a Nato conference hosted by the Transatlantic Centre of the German Marshall Fund in effect threw down the gauntlet to the European Union, almost paralysed in trying to establish its own rapid reaction force by mid-2003. The EU hopes to launch a 60,000-strong rapid reaction force (RRF) capable of being deployed for up to one year and earmarked largely for peacekeeping and humanitarian missions. Given the need for rotation, this would require at least 180,000 troops, which the Europeans do not have. The RRF would also need airlift, logistics and communications - areas where the Europeans have shortfalls. Plans also by the EU to take over the small Nato-led operation in Macedonia this month have fallen apart because of a long standing dispute between Greece and Turkey over how the EU could have access to Nato assets. Diplomats said Gen Ralston's speech confirmed a fresh willingness by the US to push Nato into a leaner, more flexible organisation through its new Nato Response Force. The Pentagon said the Nato Response Force would be ready for training by October 2004 and operational two years later. It would operate out of Nato areas, be capable of fighting alone for 30 days and be a stand alone force that is lethal, technically superior to any envisioned threat and readily deployable on short notice of between five and 30 days. Although Nato diplomats dismissed the idea that the NRF would eclipse the EU's force, European diplomats think otherwise. What a reversal of roles, said a European diplomat. ESDP [European Security and Defence Policy] is struggling for survival while Nato is attempting a revival. __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Nigeria, Angola Meet Over US Military Plans [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStoryc=StoryFTcid=1031119894650p=1012571727172 Financial Times October 3, 2002 Nigeria and Angola meet over US military plans By Antony Goldman in London and James Lamont in Johannesburg -The two countries together produce 3m barrels of oil a day and have attracted billions of dollars in US investment in recent years. The region is increasingly regarded as a strategic energy reserve by a US administration anxious to diversify its sources for oil imports away from the Middle East. General Carlton Fulford, deputy commander-in-chief, US European Command, visited Sao Tomé Principe, an island cluster in the Atlantic midway between Nigeria and Angola, in July in connection with the proposed base. Nigeria and Angola, Africa's two biggest oil producers, will meet in Luanda, Angola's capital, on Friday to discuss shared concern over reports that the US is considering setting up a new military base in the region. Rilwanu Lukman, special adviser on oil to the Nigerian head of state and also president of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, will meet José Eduardo dos Santos, the Angolan leader, and senior members of his administration, officials in Mr Lukman's office said on Thursday. The two countries together produce 3m barrels of oil a day and have attracted billions of dollars in US investment in recent years. The region is increasingly regarded as a strategic energy reserve by a US administration anxious to diversify its sources for oil imports away from the Middle East. General Carlton Fulford, deputy commander-in-chief, US European Command, visited Sao Tomé Principe, an island cluster in the Atlantic midway between Nigeria and Angola, in July in connection with the proposed base. He was welcomed by Fradique de Menezes, the country's president, who said such a facility would help protect Sao Tomé, one of the poorest countries, which has ambitions to build its own oil industry. This will be good for São Tomé as it will ensure the future of the country in relation to those that are ambitious and are looking to come to the country when oil is extracted from our waters, said Mr Menezes. It [the base] is at a pre- positioning stage. The aim would be [protection of] the Gulf of Guinea and oil interests. It would be handy to have a staging point, said Richard Cornwell, an analyst at the Pretoria-based Institute for Security Studies. Analysts also believe a military presence in São Tomé would assist US participation in regional peace-keeping operations. Having a central Africa command would give the US a security presence in the area. There is a strategic interest with so much oil coming out of West Africa. But it may also be a reflection on the African Union and an acknowledgement that Africa is not up to peacekeeping. There is a shift in concern, said Ross Herbert, an analyst at the South African Institute of International Affairs. Walter Kansteiner, the US assistant secretary of state for Africa, is expected to visit Gabon, another oil-producing African state, in the next few days. American defence officials have played down interest in establishing a permanent base in the region, however, saying their interests could be better served simply by having access rights to air and naval facilities. Relations between São Tomé and Nigeria have deteriorated recently after a delay in efforts to promote a new initiative to exploit oil reserves along their common maritime boundary. Mr Menezes has also questioned a number of controversial oil-related contracts signed by his predecessor. __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Israel May Use Iraq To Push Regional Ambitions [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStoryc=StoryFTcid=1031119869804p=1012571727172 Financial Times Israel 'may use Iraq' to push regional ambitions By Gareth Smyth in Beirut Political and religious leaders in Lebanon are becoming concerned that Israel will seize the opportunity of a US attack on Iraq to advance its regional ambitions. Unusually heavy flights by Israeli jets into Lebanese airspace this week prompted a UN observer to recall the 1996 'Grapes of Wrath' operation, when Israel bombardment culminated with the incineration of over 100 civilians in a UN compound at Qana. Tension centres on the Wazzani springs, in south Lebanon, where Lebanon is building a pumping station to supply drinking water to villages being rebuilt and repopulated after Israeli military occupation ended two years ago. Qabalan Qabalan, president of the government agency responsible for the $3.5-million project, told NBN, the Lebanese TV station, on Wednesday that pumping will begin on October 16. Israeli officials have threatened to attack the pumping station if water is diverted from the river, which flows into the Jordan and Lake Tiberius and contributes 138m m3 water to Israel. Lebanon says it wants only 3.6 m m3 from the springs. In response to an Israeli request, the US sent a technical mission, led by water expert Jack Lawson, to the Wazzani springs two weeks ago. But the mission has still produced no report, and the US embassy in Beirut could not confirm that one will be made public. Mr Kabalan told NBN that Mr Lawson had assured him that Lebanon's case was just. But America's silence, Israel's continuing threats, and the regional crisis over Iraq are all contributing to Lebanon's unease. In recent months, the Israeli and western media have carried stories - from intelligence sources - that appear to pre-justify Israel intervention against Lebanon. These have included the arrival of both Iranian revolutionary guards and 200 al-Qaeda fighters, and a missile build-up in south Lebanon by Hizbollah, the Lebanese resistance group that fought Israel's occupation. Threats from Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, over the Wazzani have reminded many Lebanese of his role, as defence minister, as architect of the 1982 invasion, in which 20,000 people died. That invasion was supposedly in response to the attempted assassination of Israel's ambassador in London, said a journalist. Well, many of us lost family and friends as a result. Can you blame us for wondering why Sharon is making such a fuss about some poor Lebanese villagers getting drinking water? Chibli Mallat, a leading lawyer, said that Sharon's bluster over the Wazzani was typical of the way he ups the anti. Mr Mallat cited a recent article in the Jerusalem Post where Mr Sharon said that gradual escalation of its military strikes against the Palestinians would deflect international criticism. One obvious danger, said Mr Mallat, is that the Israelis - possibly in response to what they're calling a 'mega-terrorist' attack - drive Palestinians out of the West Bank. We are on the verge of a dangerous and sensitive period, said Rafik Hariri, the prime minister, in a speech calling on the Arabs to counter the influence of the Zionist lobby in Washington. But Joseph Samaha, a former minister replying to Mr Hariri in al Safir newspaper, argued the more prevalent view that the Arabs should resist US policy more openly. He detected a new coalition of the Zionist lobby, fundamentalists, conservatives and right-wing forces that was engaged in a major drive towards war on Iraq. Crucially, the Lebanese believe that US designation of Hizbollah as a terrorist group reflects Israeli interests. Despite co-operation with the US against al-Qaeda, both Lebanon and its ally Syria have defended the right of Hizbollah and Palestinian groups to use violence to liberate land occupied by Israel. __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Turkish Forces To Take Part In NATO Maneuver In Italy [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- http://www.turkishdailynews.com/FrTDN/latest/for.htm#f6 Turkish Daily News October 4, 2002 Turkish forces to take part in NATO maneuver in Italy -The total number of personnel to participate in the maneuver is 8,000. Some 70 ships and 170 war planes will also take part in the Destined Glory-02 Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) is set to participate in an amphibious maneuver to be held by NATO in October 2002. The Turkish maneuver team will comprise of a frigate, a tank landing ship, an amphibious infantry company, an undersea attack unit and eight F-16 jet fighters, said a statement from the Turkish General Staff Thursday. The Destined Glory-02 maneuver will take place between Oct. 5-15, with participation of naval and amphibious forces from Turkey, the United States, Germany, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Canada, Norway and Greece, the statement went on. The total number of personnel to participate in the maneuver is 8,000. Some 70 ships and 170 war planes will also take part in the Destined Glory-02, which is due to be hosted by Italy. NATO will test norms and principles pertaining to conveyance of multinational forces through the sea and develop international cooperation in this regard, said the General Staff statement. Ankara - Turkish Daily News __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
7 Years Of NATO Occupation Bring Hope, Prosperity To Bosnia [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42010-2002Oct4.html [No small part of the prevalent apathy - disgust - with electoral politics in Bosnia is the crude, heavy-handed practice of NATO-SFOR to summarily dismiss elected officials it doesn't approve of.] Bosnians Left Cold by Vote Prospects -But peace has not been much better. Unemployment is at 60 percent and the average monthly salary is $250 while food, clothing and other goods sell at Western European prices. A staggering 62 percent of young Bosnians want to leave, a recent study found. -Before the war, my salary equaled 750 dollars. Today, it's 200 dollars, said Halil Gadara, 54, a Muslim driver. I won't vote for anybody. I feel cheated. -On Saturday, I'll be going to the wedding of my friend. That's more important to me than their false promises. Frankly, I don't care who will be running this country in the future. I'm leaving Bosnia. By Aida Cerkez-Robinson Associated Press Writer Friday, October 4, 2002; 5:44 AM SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina Campaign posters offer a bright new future, but the same tired faces smile down on Bosnians like Natasa Jekic. Despite pleas from U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and others for a strong turnout, observers expect one in three voters to sit out Saturday's general elections, the sixth since the 1992-1995 war but the first administered by local authorities instead of foreign diplomats. The West is hailing the ballot as a crucial turning point for an emerging democracy. But Jekic, a 29-year-old Bosnian Serb clerk from the southern city of Mostar, is among many left cold by recycled politicians with few fresh ideas. They all lie, she said. I won't vote. Seven years after the guns and tanks fell silent, Bosnia remains bitterly divided along ethnic lines and heavily dependent on international administrators who run the country's day-to-day affairs. Nationalism is at a postwar high and the economy is a wreck. Saturday's elections will decide the country's three-member presidency representing each of Bosnia's rival ethnic groups: Serbs, Muslims and Croats. Voters also will elect a joint state parliament, a Bosnian Serb parliament, a Muslim-Croat parliament and officials to head the 10 cantons into which modern Bosnia is divided. The new leaders face a daunting dual challenge: rebuilding a multiethnic society and taking the country closer to a market economy. War was bad enough. At least 250,000 people were killed and 1 million others driven from their homes. But peace has not been much better. Unemployment is at 60 percent and the average monthly salary is $250 while food, clothing and other goods sell at Western European prices. A staggering 62 percent of young Bosnians want to leave, a recent study found. Bosnia's former wartime foes are united by at least two things: desperation and apathy. Before the war, my salary equaled 750 dollars. Today, it's 200 dollars, said Halil Gadara, 54, a Muslim driver. I won't vote for anybody. I feel cheated. Many Bosnians are skeptical of politicians who spend much of their time quarreling and disagreeing on simple issues such as the design of the country's flag and passports. Two of the three leading nationalist parties that led their ethnic groups into the war remain in power: the Serb Democratic Party and the Croat Democratic Union. Bosnia's majority Muslims abandoned their own nationalist Party for Democratic Action two years ago in favor of a multiethnic bloc that formed a ruling alliance with other pro-Western parties in Muslim-dominated parts of the Balkan country. But nationalism still inflames Bosnia, particularly among Serbs and to a lesser degree among Croats. Nationalist candidates are expected to win across Republika Srpska, the Bosnian Serb republic. We can expect a remake of the well-known movie from the beginning of the '90s here, warned Miodrag Zivanovic, a Bosnian Serb political analyst, alluding to the ethnic tensions that erupted into war in 1992. However, Zivanovic expects a significant number of voters to stay home. Candidates in the previous five postwar elections could not deliver on promises of jobs and political stability. On one side, people are tired of voting, and on the other, people really don't know who else to vote for. What is offered are old politicians who are more or less already compromised, he said. With apathy so high, Western leaders are appealing to Bosnians to go to the polls. Powell even has videotaped a message to the nation. A vote for reform will advance Bosnia further and faster on the path of democracy, the free market and integration with Europe. Or you can elect to go back down the dark and dangerous road to ethnic division, economic stagnation and international isolation, Powell said in the nationally televised message. Do not cast away the progress you have made ... your vote matters, he said, promising that the EU and the
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Petras: The Bush Doctrine: Unrestrained empire building [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- The Bush Doctrine: Unrestrained empire building James Petras Rebelión The Bush Doctrine set out in his U.S. National Security Strategy speech September 20, 2002 ) promotes a single sustainable model for success - the United States through unlimited, unilateral, offensive ( pre-emptive ) wars. While couched in the language of defense and liberty the Bush doctrine is an extreme departure from the previous Truman doctrine of containment ( limiting Soviet influence ), and even the Reagan doctrine of roll back, (reversing Soviet influence). The Bush doctrine is based on undefined conspiratorial enemies shadowy networks of individuals who overlap with states and who are planning an imminent attack, based on dangerous technologies. The scope and depth of political threats by Bush encompass the whole world, exactly the target of imperial policy - global conquest. In most of his speeches - and those of Rumsfeld and the rest of the imperial gang - Bush makes clear to his listeners the imperialist starting point of U.S. politics: Today, the United States enjoys a position of unparalleled military strength and political influence. we seek .to create a balance of power that favors human freedom (read U.S. empire ). By definition any country - big or small - which fails to accept or support U.S. imperial conquest becomes an enemy: the U.S. will persuade countries to support U.S. empire building by convincing or compelling states to accept their sovereign responsibilities. Washington's violent and vitriolic attacks on German Chancellor Schroeder's opposition to a U.S. war against Iraq is a recent example. Washington's totalitarian vision of world conquest through offensive wars, is defended by extremely irrational logic: weak states.can pose as great a danger to our national interest as strong states. Afghanistan and Iraq did not bomb the U.S. - it was the other way around. The Bush Doctrine speaks of emerging threats linked to dangerous technologies and cites 9/11. The hijackers used $2 dollar plastic box cutters -- $38 dollars of high technology - to seize airliners and crash them into the Towers and the Pentagon. The Bush doctrine does not target active terrorists with weapons intent on causing harm. It plans to destroy plans and emerging threats. Plans refers to discussions, ideas, debates - not to actions or even the securing of weapons. In other words, U.S. destruction of emerging threats means license to assassinate any radical associated with dangerous technologies - watch out what you say when you are shaving. More seriously, the Bush doctrine states that threats to economic freedom - the failed neo-liberal economic system - is one of the key values which the U.S. will militarily defend through an offensive war. This part of the doctrine has specific relevance for Latin America where U.S. economic freedom has devastated the lives and aspirations of hundreds of millions of people. Instead of recognizing how economic freedom in Latin America has led to poverty, authoritarianism and insecurity, the Bush doctrine reduces regional conflict to a problem with drug cartels and terrorists and extremist groups and refers to U.S. military intervention in Colombia as a model. The resurgence of popular social and electoral movements in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela and elsewhere which reject U.S. domination and its client states puts the lie to Bush's assertion that in the Western Hemisphere we have formed flexible coalitions with countries that share our priorities, particularly Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Chile and Colombia. Below the level of certain foreign ministries, the great majority of Latin Americans reject U.S. priorities - as the 10 million Brazilians who voted against ALCA, the majority of the Mexican Congress which rejects support for the U.S. war against Iraq, and the several hundreds of thousands who joined a general strike against the Uribe/IMF austerity plan demonstrated. The Doctrine speaks to consultation, allied cooperation and freedom - yet in the same document it makes over a dozen assertions of the right to unilateral action. It speaks to allied cooperation yet Washington venomously attacks France and Germany, NATO allies, for not supporting the war. The Doctrine talks of consultation yet it rejects the near unanimous voice of the United Nations supporting the return of weapons inspectors. The Doctrine claims to support an independent and democratic Palestine yet abstains from a United Nations resolution calling on Israel to desist from bombing Arafat's headquarters. The Bush Doctrine combines the rhetoric of freedom and coalition building, and consultation and peace with the preparations for war, unilateral action and conquest. The Bush Doctrine explicitly warns European competitors and critics; Russia and China not to challenge U.S. efforts to build a world empire. The Doctrine warns China's leaders to make the right choices
Czech Left To Hold Anti-NATO Protests During November Summit [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.U
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/view-id.php4?id=20021003E04201 Czech Happenings October 3, 2002 Communists, anarchists planning anti-NATO protests for Nov 20, 21 PRAGUE, Oct 3 (CTK) - The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM) and anarchists are planning protests against the NATO policy for November 20 and 21, when the NATO summit is to be held in Prague. The main KSCM demonstration will take place on Wednesday, November 20, when President Vaclav Havel will host NATO summit participants at Prague castle. Anarchists have announced a series of protests in the centre of Prague for November 20-24, with the main ones to be held on November 20 and 21. A week before the summit, on November 17, anarchists will meet in Prague's Albertov to assess the development in the Czech Republic since the 1989 fall of communism and prepare for their main protests. The next demonstration will probably be held on November 20, on the eve of the start of the summit, in protest against the luxurious dinner which the Czech potentates are planning as welcome, Ondrej Slacalek from the Czechoslovak Anarchist Federation said. Thursday, November 21, will be the main day of anarchist protests, including marches. Slacalek, however, refused to specify their routes. They can be held virtually in all important parts of the city. Unlike the Communists, who will organise their counter-summit on November 19 accompanied by discussions and exhibitions, anarchists are not planning such a broad programme, Slacalek said. He refused to estimate how many demonstrators could meet in Prague. He said he expected people to come from abroad. The protests will not be coordinated by any special centre, as it was two years ago during the International Monetary Fund/World Bank meetings in Prague. According to Slacalek, the linking of protests of anarchists, non-governmental organisations and radical environmentalists did not prove to work well because their programmes split too much. Protests are also being planned by the Feminist Group of March 8, the organisation of revolutionary anarchists called Solidarity, the association Streets to People and other groups. The Communists declined to specify how many demonstrators they expected as well. According to KSCM spokeswoman Vera Zezulkova, the same number as for the anti-IMF protests two years ago will probably arrive, that is 4,000. Czech Communists were then supported mainly by left-orientated Italians. This year the Communists are expecting mainly their colleagues from Slovakia, Hungary and Germany. The Prague NATO summit will bring together leading representatives from 19 NATO member countries and 27 Partnership for Peace programme participating countries. It is expected to make a decisive decision on further enlargement of the Alliance. The official part of the NATO summit, which will for the first time be held behind the former Iron Curtain, will start in the Congress Centre on November 21 by a meeting of the North Atlantic Council. In the afternoon, representatives of countries seeking NATO membership are to join the NATO representatives. A gala evening for the heads of states and premiers of 46 countries of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) will be held at Prague Castle in the evening. Another reception will take place in the building of the Foreign Ministry. The second day of the summit, on November 22, a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine commission and a meeting of EAPC heads of states and premiers will be held. __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Loyal NATO Ally: Canada Could Provide Military For Iraq War [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,64703,00.html Defense Minister: Canada Can Make Military Contribution Fox News Wednesday, October 02, 2002 TORONTO If Canada joins a war in Iraq, it could send a military contingent similar to the force it provided for the war in Afghanistan, a defense ministry official said Wednesday. Shane Diaczuk, a spokesman for Defense Minister John McCallum, said that no decision has been made on whether Canada would take part in any military action against Saddam Hussein. But McCallum has said the armed forces would contribute if ordered to do so. Should the government decide to exercise a military option, the Canadian forces would be able to make a meaningful contribution, Diaczuk quoted McCallum as saying. Canada provided 800 army soldiers, an undisclosed number of special force fighters, navy support ships and air force transport and reconnaissance planes to the Afghanistan campaign. The Canadian commitment cooled after four Canadian soldiers were killed in an accidental bombing by a U.S. jet fighter in April. Canada did not replace the 800 soldiers after their six-month mission in Afghanistan ended in August, but continues to send support ships and special forces fighters. Military experts and opposition parties have warned that Canada's armed forces lack the resources to make a significant contribution to an Iraq campaign because of years of budget cuts. The U.S. government wants Canada to bolster its military spending. U.S. Ambassador Paul Cellucci has said Canada needs to devote more resources to its military so it can better share the burden of North American defense commitments and participation in NATO and U.N. missions. __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
(1) Colombia: Globalization and Free Trade (INOTA report) [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- http://www.colombiareport.org/globalization_colombia.htm#oneGlobalization and "Free" Tradein Colombia A Report by the Information Network of the Americas (INOTA) Historical Continuities in the Relations of Exploitation Colombia: Demanding Wealth, Supplying Death The Channels of Exploitation Remain Open The Effects of Centuries of Austerity Plan Colombia: Ensuring Access to Resources Plan Colombia: A Convergence of Corporate Interests Colombia and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) An Alternative Vision of Freedom and Globalization --Historical Continuities in theRelations of Exploitation "We have about 50 percent of the world's wealth, but only 6.3 percent of its populationIn this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without detriment to our national security. To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world benefactionWe should cease to talk about vague and - for the far east - unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of living standards and democratization." George Kennan, U.S. State Department Policy Planning Study, 1949 It has been said that colonization was one of the first steps in the globalization process. For the Europeans, colonization fueled industrial growth by utilizing cheap labor to extract raw materials. This new division of labor, where one actor took everything and gave nothing, was only sustainable through the use of force. In areas where anger and resistance were fierce and the contested resources were desired more than labor, massacres aimed at extermination were most useful. Globalization began, not because international actors came together to conduct a voluntary and mutually beneficial exchange, but because colonizers had the firepower to coerce the colonized into a completely asymmetrical relationship. The first global connections established a system where resources and capital flowed from the colonized to the industrializing colonizers. While the era of colonization has passed, certain fundamental patterns remain. The colonizers, today's "developed" nations, still seek to control access to inexpensive resources. Profit maximization is the name of the game, therefore, unequal relations of exchange are desirable. Because the more unequal the exchange the greater the profit, the most successful players on the global stage are those who are most willing and able to impose these asymmetrical relationships on developing nations. Hence, although globalization has made international exchanges more numerous than ever before, resources and capital increasingly flow in one direction. This is illustrated by the fact that the gap between rich and poor countries continues to widen. Currently the net worth of the three richest families in the world is greater than the combined gross domestic product of the 43 poorest nations on earth.1 One person's right is another person's duty, and the freedom to take indefinitely is accompanied by the duty to give indefinitely. Powerful economic actors possess many rights and freedoms but are allotted few responsibilities and perform few duties, while less powerful beings have fewer rights, little freedom, and many duties. This distribution of freedom and obligation is so skewed that while some live gluttonously, others die of hunger or are killed for challenging the superfluous resource ownership of the powerful. The celebration of the liberty and prosperity that many living in developed nations enjoy is largely divorced from an understanding of the price that others have paid and continue to pay to make these privileges possible. The dominant voices are those coming from corporate America. For them, neoliberal policies and a decrease in the political regulation of their activities increase their freedom and prosperity, but the converse is the imposition of duty on others: namely the citizens of countries where profit maximization is carried out without restrictions. Environmental degradation, human rights abuses, harassment and even murder of union leaders, activists, and representatives of non-governmental organizations are all by-products of unregulated corporate freedom. The unrestrained drive for profit demands death of those who get in the way. In some places, the right to maximize profit is, in fact, accompanied by the duty to die. Back to Top Colombia: Demanding Wealth, Supplying Death "We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We the living
(2) Colombia: Globalization and Free Trade (INOTA report) [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- (Part 2)http://www.colombiareport.org/globalization_colombia.htm#one The Effects of Centuries of Austerity By the end of the 1990s, external debt had grown to five times what it had been in 1980 reaching $34.5 billion. Growth figures of -4.9% were the lowest of the century, unemployment was sky high, and almost 55 percent of Colombians lived in poverty.5 Colombia was in a serious recession. In December 1999, desperation provoked the government to accept, once again, reforms favorable to foreign investors in exchange for a $2.7 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund. Colombian's economic problems, according to the IMF, were largely the result of unsustainable fiscal policies, principally, the large increases in public spending introduced in the early 1990s. The IMF-imposed remedy called for a severe reduction of public spending and the creation of new taxes. Consequently, salaries were to be reduced; the age of retirement raised; subsidies for public services cut; the official bank and the state-owned energy, mining and communications enterprises privatized; and massive dismissals in the public sector. In effect, the IMF was suggesting that Colombia was in the midst of an economic crisis because it had been too generous with its citizens. It is interesting to note what the increased government revenue (and the shirts taken from the peasants' backs) is going to pay for. According to the IMF, the goal is to "exert a strict control over all expenditure other than interest payments."6 In other words, the IMF wants the Colombian government to take money from its already brutalized population and deposit it directly into the purses of rich lender nations. According to Joseph E. Stiglitz, a professor of economics at Stanford University and the former chief economist at the World Bank: "Today, the mandate [of the IMF] often appears to be that of a bill collector for lending nations: its objective is to make sure that the debtor country has as large a war chest as possible to repay outstanding loans."7 This relationship is quite apparent in Colombia. In 1998, even before officially accepting the IMF loan conditions, Colombia paid close to $4.6 billion in debt services (interest and repayments). This was equivalent to three times the entire healthcare budget and more than the total sum spent on education. In 2000, after the implementation of IMF policies, debt servicing increased by 20 percent. In 2001, this figure grew again by almost 30 percent. In fact, 86 percent of tax income is now being used to pay debt services.8 Debt service payments have been financed through falling real wages, as well as by state cutbacks in healthcare, education, and public employment. It is not surprising that the number of dissidents in Colombian society has increased. Even during negotiations for the IMF bail out there were massive demonstrations in the cities. In the past year, unions, public employees, students, human rights groups and other non-governmental organizations have taken to the streets demanding decent wages; the right to health, employment and education; an end to privatization and austerity; and a moratorium on debt payments (see, Colombians protest IMF-Imposed Austerity Measures). When a hospital in San Juan de Dios was forced to shut down because it could not afford to pay its electricity bill, doctors and nurses throughout Colombia threatened to call a nationwide strike. In the cities, the government, the elites, multinational corporations, and their hired killers have responded with more death; targeting union leaders, journalists, human rights activists, and political challengers. Meanwhile, in vast expanses of the countryside there are still no roads, no schools, no hospitals and 85 percent of the rural population lives in poverty. Liberalization, privatization, and related violence have undermined subsistence and pushed many peasants off their lands. The displaced move deeper into the jungle where coca--because it grows in poor soil, provides bountiful yields, and can be easily transported--is the only economically viable crop. In order to survive, peasants must function outside the channels regulated by neoliberal policies. As a result, some of the profits from coca cultivation find their way back to the peasant producer (see, The Plight of the Peasant Coca Grower). In these areas--historically neglected or abused by the government--the guerrillas provision justice. By taxing the drug trade, the guerrillas build infrastructure and fund schools and medical clinics. They also enact violent land and wealth redistribution by murdering and kidnapping large landowners and business executives, while bombing oil pipelines owned by elite and foreign interests. Also, the level of rural violence escalates as wealthy landowners, cattle ranchers, industrialists, and right-wing
Venezuela: The Chávez Factor [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- http://www.colombiareport.org/colombia56.htm March 26, 2001The Chávez Factorby Garry M. LeechFor the past two years, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has been a thorn in the side of U.S. foreign policy in Latin America. He has been instrumental in revitalizing the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), which has resulted in production cutbacks in order to raise the price of crude oil. The Venezuelan president's oil policies further aggravated Washington when he agreed to supply affordable oil to Cuba. Also, Chávez has been an outspoken critic of last year's $1.3 billion U.S. aid package to Colombia, claiming it will result in a "Vietnamization" of the region. Tensions have also escalated between Venezuela and Colombia as a result of the U.S. intervention in Colombia, Chávez's sympathies for Colombia's guerrilla organizations and several recent diplomatic incidents.Chávez, a former army paratrooper, was elected in 1998 as a populist alternative to Venezuela's traditional parties who finally collapsed under the weight of their corruption and failed policies. With overwhelming popular support, Chávez succeeded in introducing a new constitution and even changed the official name of the country to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The new name signifies Chávez's nationalist and regionalist tendencies. He has been outspoken about the need to redirect the benefits derived from Venezuela's vast oil fields away from the United States and multinationals towards the 80 percent of Venezuelans who live in poverty. Chávez has also revived South American liberator Simon Bolívar's dream of a more unified South America.The Venezuelan president has called for Latin American countries to work together for their own economic benefit and to limit U.S. influence in the region. With the closing of the U.S. air base in Panama, U.S. military presence in the region actually increased with the creation of Forward Operating Locations (FOLs) in Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Aruba, Curacao and Ecuador. But Chávez has refused to allow U.S. drug surveillance flights from the Aruba and Curacao FOLs to operate in Venezuelan air space. Consequently, they are forced to fly a circuitous route in order to reach Colombia and are unable to track any planes that fly over Venezuela. Normally, such a lack of cooperation with Washington's drug war would result in de-certification, but the United States is hesitant to impose economic sanctions on its primary supplier of crude oil.Since coming to office, Chávez has revitalized OPEC and cooperation between member nations is at a level unseen since the oil crisis of the early 1970s. As a result, OPEC countries have agreed to increase or decrease production in order to maintain the price of oil between $22 and $28 a barrel. This decision raised the cost of oil dramatically from the $7 a barrel it was selling for when Chávez assumed office. The Venezuelan president's oil policies further angered Washington when he reached an agreement with Fidel Castro to supply affordable oil to Cuba. The Caribbean island will receive 53,000 barrels of oil a day and will be allowed to pay for it in installments. Furthermore, Cuba can also provide Venezuela with medical and other services in exchange for the some of the oil.The Venezuelan president has been a leading critic of Plan Colombia, which has allowed the U.S. to dramatically increase its military presence in the region. Chavez has claimed that Plan Colombia will only result in an escalation of the violence and will regionalize the conflict by forcing refugees, guerrillas and drug traffickers to seek haven in neighboring countries.Chavez's criticism of Plan Colombia and other incidents have increased tensions between Venezuela and Colombia. There have been claims from Bogotá, although no evidence, that Chávez has been supplying arms to Colombian rebels. Furthermore, last year, Chávez allowed two Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla leaders to speak on the floor of the Venezuelan Congress, which resulted in Colombia recalling its ambassador in protest.Tensions have also been heightened by the flow of Colombian refugees across the border. Venezuela has been criticized by Colombia and human rights organizations for its refusal to acknowledge asylum requests by refugees and its policy of forcibly repatriating them. Meanwhile, Venezuelan ranchers who live near the Colombian border have claimed that Caracas is doing nothing to protect them from cross-border raids and kidnapping by Colombian guerrillas. Consequently, wealthy landowners are now creating armed paramilitary groups to protect themselves from the guerrillas. It has been reported that the Colombian paramilitary organization, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) is currently training 100 paramilitary fighters in Venezuela. Chávez has
Nepal: King Gyanendra sacks Deuba, assumes control [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- AFP; Reuters. 4 October 2002. Nepal's King dismisses prime minister and cabinet; Nepal rebels see 'conspiracy' in plan to delay vote. KATHMANDU -- Nepal's King Gyanendra sacked caretaker prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and the cabinet on Friday, declaring he would temporarily take executive power of the country. Gyanendra, speaking on state-run television and radio, said Deuba was unqualified to preside over elections that were scheduled to start on November 13. Deuba met Gyanendra on Thursday to request that the elections be postponed for one year because of the deteriorating law-and-order situation in the country due to the Maoist rebellion. Earlier Friday, Nepal's Maoist rebels said a government plan to delay general elections by a year was a conspiracy to avoid holding peace talks and appealed to democratic forces to oppose the move. It is another conspiracy against talks proposed by our party to find a positive political solution to the present problem, Maoist chief Prachanda said. We appeal to all left, progressive, patriotic and democratic forces of the country to unite against this, the rebel chief said in a statement faxed to newspapers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ProletarianNews http://www.utopia2000.org --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Milosevic slams May [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- AFP; AP. 4 October 2002. Milosevic clashes with judge again; Milosevic Denies Responsibility. THE HAGUE -- Slobodan Milosevic denied he bore responsibility for ethnic Serbs accused of killing non-Serbs in Croatia in the early 1990s, saying Friday they were defending themselves against Croatian aggression. There was no aggression from Serbia. It was a civil war (in Croatia), Milosevic said. The Serb people had war imposed on them, and furthermore it was a war of self-defense. Milosevic often clashed with the presiding judge over his cross-examination of a protected prosecution witness. The former Yugoslav president was cut short several times by Judge Richard May and ordered to stick to the point as he led the witness, a moderate Croatian Serb politician identified only as C037, through a catalogue of alleged atrocities committed against Serbs in the Western Slavonia area of Croatia in late 1991. But it all got too much for the judge at one point, when Milosevic's microphone failed as he was asking a question. Judge May snapped: We can't hear you but it sounds that what you are saying is irrelevant [!]. He went on: You are trying to argue your entire case through this witness, which is a waste of the court's time. If he simply read something in the paper, then that's no use to anyone. Milsoevic, who on Monday had questioned the crediblity of the witness on the grounds that his evidence consisted almost entirely of hearsay, denials and memory lapses, then retorted: Mr May, I expected you to make such comments to the prosecution in their examination. He was asked if he heard about something or read it in a newspaper or saw it on Croatian TV, but I am only asking him what he knows. So you accept testimony of something heard in the examination-in-chief but you are not allowing me to do so. Milosevic was also angry at a prosecution request to change the order of calling witnesses due to difficulties of people travelling to the Netherlands. He said he thought the court had agreed to provide him with a list of who was to appear at least a week ahead. There are 125,500 pages, 600 videotapes and two to three hundred audio tapes and it is physically impossible to view them all or even make a selection unless I have notice a few days in advance. If the prosecution try to use these tricks, it is impermissible. After another lengthy period of cross-questioning in which Milosevic tried to establish an inventory of how many Serbian villages in the region had been torched, May intervened again to warn him: You are rehearsing at great length and, if I may say so, with much repetition, that crimes were committed against Serbs. That may or may not be so but it is not relevant to our determining whether crimes were committed by you or by others. Milosevic hit back: I wish to remind you that I am not concealing my view that what you call an indictment is a false indictment, primarily for two reasons. First of all, no aggression took place, it was a civil war, and secondly the Serbian people had this war imposed upon them both in Croatia and in Bosnia. It is evident they were defending the territory where they lived and were trying to avoid pogroms such as those perpetrated 50 years earlier. That is the only truth I am trying to explain here. And denying he was contending that the other side was equally guilty, he insisted: I have committed no crimes. Also Friday, the war crimes tribunal withdrew an indictment against a Bosnian Croat accused of murdering a wheelchair-bound man and three other Muslims, saying his case could better be handled by a court in Bosnia. Zoran Marinic, a former military policemen, was charged in a 1995 indictment with the murder of four Muslim civilians in Bosnia while serving with a Croat rebel group two years earlier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ProletarianNews http://www.utopia2000.org --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
STOP THE WAR ON IRAQ! UPDATE: Sunday Oct 6 protest in L.A. [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 19:52:10 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [imc-la]UPDATE: Sunday Oct 6 protest in L.A. UPDATE: Sunday Oct 6 protest in L.A. Not In Our Name www.notinourname.net Nationwide protests. Twenty two cities so far. Among the other big cities are San Francisco, Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Seattle, and, of course, New York City. For the L.A. protest, we have an amazing lineup of 30+ speakers, musicians, spoken word, and more - in addition to the march itself. Hip hop, folk, Sonali Kolhatkar from KFPK and the Afghanistan Women's Mission, Tibetan gongs, Blase Bonpane from the Office of the Americas, DJ's, ministers, and lots more. L.A. demonstration Sunday Oct 6, 1-6 PM Federal Building in Westwood. 11000 Wilshire. 1 block east of the 405 fwy, between Sepulveda and Veteran 1 PM: Rally - speakers, spoken word, music 2 PM: March to U.S. Army Reserve/California National Guard (Wilshire and Federal) 3 PM: Return to Federal Bldg. More music, poetry, speakers. Direction/parking: Exit the San Diego (405) on Wilshire East. If Wilshire off ramps are closed by police, get off at the next exit, follow Sepulveda to Wilshire. Parking could be problematic. Arrive early! Pay parking available in Westwood. There is also some street parking. Parking not allowed in Federal Building lots. A quick explanation http://www.polizeros.com/2002/09/26.html#a393 ___ imc-la mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://regenerationtv.net/mailman/listinfo/imc-la To Unsubscribe: 1. go to regenerationtv.com/mailman/listinfo/imc-la 2. at the bottom of the page, enter your email address 3. on your options page, you can unsubscribe here. 4. if you have forgotten your password, enter your email address and you will be mailed a copy of your password. Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo!
URGENT - calls needed to Senator Byrd's office to stop the war [WWW.STOPNATO.OR
Forward from mart. Important! Please distribute far and wide and particulaly to all friends and activists in the U.S! Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 21:20:36 -0700 Subject: URGENT - calls needed to Senator Byrd's office to stop the war From: "sharon cotrell" [EMAIL PROTECTED]-- From: "Voice4Change" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 12:12:23 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Today's Voice: URGENT - calls needed to Senator Byrd's office to stop the war Voice4Change Changing Hearts and Minds http://www.voice4change.org October 03, 2002 URGENT - calls needed to Senator Byrd's office to stop the war It is urgent to call Sen. Robert Byrd's office (202-224-3954) and ask the Senator to filibuster against the war resolution of the Administration (and Dem leadership). His office is taking a poll on whether he should do this. We need to swamp the offices to urge him on. (He has been one of the few courageous voices on this.) His filibuster may be the only impediment to the war plans and it may spark demonstrations of support in DC and around the country. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Over 1300! of you have sent an e-mail to the Democratic Party Leaders in Congress who have Presidential aspirations. Lets continue to put the pressure on! Please Forward the following link as widely as possible. http://www.voice4change.org/stories/mailcongress.asp Note: It is clear there was a problem with the Daschle and Edwards E-mail addresses. The solution I propose is that everone call Senator Daschle and Senator Edwards and tell them you will not forget this vote, at the end of the call ask them for an e-mail address that you can forward your bounced message too. This solution puts more pressure on with the phone call. Icould call and try to get another e-mail address, but 1300 calls would be better! Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- URGENT: CALL CONGRESS EVERY DAY! NO AUTHORIZATION FOR WAR ON IRAQ! 202-224-3121 ! WAR RESOLUTION TEXT IS SET;VOTE IS IMMINENT! THE MORE CONGRESSIONAL VOTES BUSH GETS IN FAVOR OF THIS RESOLUTION, THE MORE HE IS EMPOWERED TO FORCE THIS WAR ON THE WORLD--- EITHER TO GO TO WAR UNILATERALLY, OR PUT MORE PRESSURE ON THE UN TO APPROVE THE WAR. EITHER WAY, MILLIONS OF LIVES ARE IN THE BALANCE! This is the action alert with lots of precise info from Southern California Americans for Democratic Action For the rest of the story: http://www.voice4change.org =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Democracy Now! Online Democracy Now! October 2, 2002 -- Bushs single-bullet theory assassinate Saddam Hussein: International human rights attorneys Michael Ratner and Reed Brody respond to Bushs press secretary Ari Fleischers call to kill. -- Police spying: New York police seeks court approval to monitor political activists; Denver opens hundreds of spy files collected from illegal monitoring of citizens. -- Police crack down on activists across the country from Maine to California to Washington To view the rest of the story: http://www.voice4change.org =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Blah3 Does it Again! Question Mark #21: 'Threat? WHAT threat?' Posted Wednesday, October 2, 2002 If Iraq is so weak, how can they be a threat to the US? Musical Guest: Buffalo Springfield To view the rest of the story: http://www.voice4change.org =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- EVENTS CALENDAR and PROTESTS For Peace! Courtesy of Voter March Summary: 10/3 - Ed Asner in Cooper Union, NYC; 10/4 - Ralph Nader at Wall St. protest, NYC; 10/6 -7 National Days of Resistance to War and Repression - NYC, CA ( LA, SF), CT, GA, IL, NC, NM, OH, OR, RI, SC, WA. WI; 10/ 26 - NATIONAL MARCH on WASHINGTON DC with a joint action in San Francisco to STOP THE WAR ON IRAQ. To view the rest of the story: http://www.voice4change.org =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= TAKE ACTION NOW! Support Striking Janitors in Boston! Tell Your Senators to Extend Unemployment Benefits Now! Tell ABC to Air Strong Roots, Fragile Farms! Mark Your Calendar for the Wal-Mart Day of Action November 21! JwJ Supports the ILWU Coast to Coast! To view the rest of the story: http://www.voice4change.org =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= On-going Campaigns Get Involved!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Take The Pledge to Oppose War with Iraq "A time has come when silence is betrayal. That time is now." Martin Luther King Jr. To take the pledge: http://www.voice4change.org/stories/showstory.asp?file=020624~for.asp Note to Southern California Residents: The coalition For World Peace will be demonstrating every Friday from 5pm to 7pm at the Westwood Federal Building. For more information call 323-852-9808 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- IMMEDIATE ACTION ALERT ON IRAQ from Progressive Portal and
Fwd: Hse Comm vote 31-11 CALL! LET'S GO FOR IT - VOTE AGAINST IRAQ SEIZURE -PRES
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 22:37:37 -0700 Subject: Hse Comm vote 31-11 CALL! LET'S GO FOR IT - VOTE AGAINST IRAQ SEIZURE -PRESS YOUR REP. From: "sharon cotrell" sharoncotrell@charter. Let's make more calls. Sharon - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 22:43:45 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LET'S GO FOR IT - VOTE AGAINST IRAQ SEIZURE -PRESS YOUR REP. Okay. Just now the House Committee on International Relations voted 31 to 11 in favor of the war against Iraq resolution. The vote now moves to the full House of Representatives. THIS IS THE TIME TO FLOOD THE PHONE LOGS OF THE ONES who voted for the resolution and TELL THEM TO CHANGE THEIR VOTE WHEN IT COMES BEFORE THE FULL HOUSE (next week sometime). E-mails are not as reliably effective as some office assistants just delete them. Capitol Switchboard: (202)224-3121. You know you won't be alone (although no one could tell that by the mainstream press or tv coverage). A Pacific program (Democracy Now) producer interviewed various Congress Representatives' staffers. Some told her that they were receiving calls against the war in ratios varying between 100 to one; some said 500 to one; some said 1,000 to one. Committee Members from California who voted FOR the Iraq War Resolution: Capitol Switchboard: (202)224-3121 OR Direct: Howard Berman (818) 891-0543 Mision Hills; (202) 225-4695 Brad Sherman (818) 501-9200 Sherman Oaks; (202) 225-5911 Darrell Issa (949) 496-2343 San Clemente; (202) 225-3906 Tom Lantos (415) 566-5257 San Francisco; (202) 225-3531 Dana Rohrabacher (714) 960-6483 Huntington Beach; (202) 225-2415 Edward Royce (562) 220-2411 Fullerton; (202)225-4111 Adam Schiff (626) 304-2727 Pasadena; (202) 225-4176 Committee Members from California voting AGAINST the Iraq War Resolution: Capitol Switchboard: (202)224-3121 OR Direct: Thank You Grace Napolitano (562) 801-2134; (202) 225-5256 Not Present Capitol Switchboard: (202)224-3121 OR Direct: Barbara Lee (510) 763-0370 Oakland; (202) 225-2661 Diane Watson _ Los Angeles; (202)225-7084 I Don't Know How This One Voted Capitol Switchboard: (202)224-3121 OR Direct: Elton Gallegly ___ Simi Valley; (202) 225-5811 Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo!
Los Angeles Times article - Operation: Peace [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Operation: Peace Antiwar movement reflects a different America than in past eras, but diverse allies keep the spirit alive. By REED JOHNSON TIMES STAFF WRITER October 1 2002 http://www.latimes.com/la-lv-peace1oct01,0,2831291.story We want to poison your mind, teases the woman with slate-colored hair outside First Baptist Church in Koreatown. Swathed in natural fibers and sporting an anti-Dubya button, she's minding a table piled high with books, pamphlets and stickers decrying the sorry state of the planet--wars, corporate malfeasance, environmental disasters-in-the-making, and so on--along with half a dozen copies of the revolutionary rabble-rousings of Chairman Mao. Change a few names and haircuts, and the scene could be an outtake from the American peace movement's tie-dyed past--Berkeley or Chicago, circa 1960-something. But inside the Romanesque-Revival church's packed sanctuary, a fired-up multilingual L.A. crowd mirrors the complex and rapidly changing profile of Americans opposed to a new war with Iraq. As the Bush administration turns up the rhetorical heat on Saddam Hussein and an anxious world braces for a possible Desert Storm redux, American peace activists are busy marshaling their own forces. And while the choreography of dissent sometimes stirs up ghosts of Selma, Vietnam and the anti-nukes protests of the early 1980s, the current peace movement seems eager to find a voice and image suited to a very different America than existed 40 or even 20 years ago. In that process, some observers say, peace activists are moving beyond a singular, post-Vietnam cultural stereotype that depicts them as clueless hippies hopelessly mired in the peacenik past, as apologists for whatever power-mad dictator is on the prowl, or as cynical trouble-makers of questionable patriotism whose fringe antics give aid and comfort to America's enemies, as Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft has suggested. Dissident political activity that's portrayed in this country leads people to believe that anyone who gets out in the street must be kind of crazy, says Robert Jensen, a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, who became a marked man in the Lone Star State last fall after writing several columns attacking U.S. military policy in Afghanistan. There was a vague feeling of the torch being passed at First Baptist's recent two-hour rally, an evening of agitprop theater that mixed old-time progressive sentiments with a newfound sense of urgency. And if anyone present was worrying aloud about finding the peace movement's next Martin Luther King, Tom Hayden or Helen Caldicott, it was drowned out in a poly-lingual chorus of shared convictions. Filling the pews of the 1,500-seat church were the movement's traditional shock troops: trade unionists, middle-age progressives of various creeds, battle-hardened veterans of the civil rights and Vietnam War struggles. But clapping and singing alongside them were young anti-globalization activists, interspersed with many Central American and Asian immigrants, some of whose countries have suffered their own, albeit less publicized versions of 9/11-style terrorist atrocities. Many of the speakers and much of the symbolism were familiar. Labor leader Maria Elena Durazo extolled a union member who perished at the World Trade Center. Syndicated columnist Bob Scheer chastised Taliban brutality and Washington demagoguery. Hollywood star Alfre Woodard gave soothing line-readings from the Koran, the Bible and the Bhagavad-Gita. Between speakers, a mixed-race choir delivered a thin but plucky rendition of Down by the Riverside. But the rally's emotional climax occurred when Kelly Campbell and Barry Amundson, members of September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, a group composed of relatives of 9/11 victims, embraced beneath a giant video screen where images of the burning twin towers had flashed by moments earlier. Barry Amundson, 32, is the brother of Craig Amundson, a 28-year-old Army multimedia specialist who was killed when the hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon; Campbell is his sister-in-law. Both were in Los Angeles to voice their conviction that the response to last year's attacks on New York and Washington shouldn't be more mangled bodies and grieving relatives. Join us in a new peace movement, exhorted the Rev. George Regas, catching the evening's forward-looking tone. We will change the face of this earth! Rising to its feet, the congregation roared its approval. Less easily pigeonholed than their predecessors, and more reliant on Internet mailing lists than sloganized placards, today's peace activists are more globally attuned and media-savvy than the bearded and sandaled legions of yore, some say. Our general argument is the same one: that we've got to find alternatives to war because we don't like the
Re: trial of Slobodan Milosevic [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
You're missing the point. This "court" has NO legitamacy even in eyes off the United Nations, aside from the long list of breaches of due process cited earlier. It was set up through the security council, a body which DOES NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY to establish international war crimes tribunals. I'm not here trying to debate the morality of a war crimes tribunal; needless to say, I'm wholeheartedly in favour of trying war criminals for their actions (in principle at least). My point is that we can't even start talking about trying people for war crimes when the same court given this task is entirely under the control of the western governments responsible for destroing the country belonging to the persons now being "tried" in this "court". From: "Ivan I M Kokotovic" [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BCC to: Subject: Re: trial of Slobodan Milosevic Date sent: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 00:31:20 + The answers lie not in the carrying out of justice, rather in the"legitimisation" of acts ofextreme force, to meet an end, at the expense of others. As for the US, you cannot expect they to admit to any wrong doing; not since after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,because, as is seen by popular history, itis considered the right thing to do. This is not a court of right and wrong, it is a court of human rights violations. Therein lies the problem which anti-imperialists, asDavid, seem not to grasp. Nancy at leastargues the point that those who committed war crimes in the former Yugoslavia should be brought to justice, this includes those in the NATO force whokilled innocent people, by bombing them. As for Milosevic,my feelings are that if the events of 1999 did not occur, he wouldnot bestanding before the tribunaldefendinghis role in the breakup of Yugoslavia. In a similar case of western powersturning a blind eye to war crimes to "legitimise" military actions (suchas in Krajina, wherethere was evidence of Croatian army violations against the Serbs who were caught there, or who werefleeing the area), Milosevicwas rewarded for his role in settling peace negotiations at Dayton. It was Karadzic and Mladic the west wanted. Having said this, Milosevic'sclaims in his defense seem not as strong anymore, after Biljana Plavsic's"agreement" to plead guilty to human rights violations. The impartiality of the court, as a court of law, has never been raised.War Crimes courts have always been a court of legitimising the actions of the winners. However I suggest that if Milosevic had agreed toa defense (other than himself), his arguments would be a lot clearer and ordered, and he would have a better case, which would give all of your arguments a lotmore creedence. >From: "Nancy A. Hey" >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: trial of Slobodan Milosevic >Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 11:51:28 -0400 > >I agree, no legitimate/impartial court would ever do those things, especially torture! The fact that the court is founded and funded by countries that supported the bombing also shows an extreme bias, most notably in the fact that it means that none of the war crimes committed in said bombing will ever come to trial. How can those who have committed war crimes themselves have a leg to stand on for trying others for war crimes? > > >Peacefully Yours, >Nancy A. Hey > > > > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: "Ivan I M Kokotovic" , "Nancy A. Hey" , [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: trial of Slobodan Milosevic > >Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:18:53 -0400 > > > > > > I think you both are giving a bit too much legitimacy. This so- > >called 'court' was set up by the U.S. and its western imperialist > >minions, albeit under the aspices of the UN so as to provide it a > >degree of legitimacy. It recieves all of its funding from western > >"governments" and private business interests. Its so-called judge > >was a former member of TONY (the butcher) BLAIR's so- called > >LABOUR GOVERNMENT; that is, the same regime that > >champioined the destruction of Yugoslavia including the bombing > >campaign of' 99, and the same group of criminals that now call for > >the killing of more innocents in Iraq.. Its prosecutors have regular > >meetings with the judge as to ways' to proceed ' with presenting > >the (overwhelmingly) concocted and circumstancial (BS) passing > >as evidence. Its witnesses are permitted to testify behind close > >doors, without dislosing their identity. It regards hearsay evidence > >as legimate, and worthy of 'proof' of a so-called defendent's guilt. Its > >accused and its witinesses are tortured in its own court-run jails > >while awaiting so-called trial; and then its "judge" does not flinch an > >eye when this info. is disclosed to the court, and in fact, gets > >annoyed by the witnesses's apparent nerve to bring this to the > >court's attention.
Boucher cheers Plavsic [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- U.S. Applauds War Crimes Guilty Plea .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States on Thursday applauded the guilty plea of a Bosnian Serb political leader indicted for war crimes, and called on others wanted for war crimes to surrender themselves for trial. The guilty plea by Biljana Plavsic should serve as an example for former Yugoslav officials to ``examine themselves'' and ``accept their responsibility,'' said State Department spokesman Richard Boucher. He referred specifically to military commander Gen. Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic, to whom Plavsic was closely associated. Plavsic pleaded guilty to one count of crimes against humanity. Prosecutors at the U.N. war crimes tribunal dropped seven other charges, including genocide. ``We hope that her important step in expressing full and unconditional remorse for the harm that was done to innocent victims of the conflict will contribute to the reconciliation process in the region,'' Boucher said. The United States will continue its pursuit of Mladic, Karadzic and other fugitives being sought by the international tribunal for Yugoslavia, Boucher said. ``We haven't succeeded yet, but the operative word is 'yet.' We intend to get them,'' Boucher said. Twenty-three people are wanted by the tribunal for war crimes, and 26 are in pretrial proceedings, Boucher said. Twelve are currently on trial. The court has convicted 28 people, six of whom pleaded guilty, and acquitted five. Charges against 17 people were dismissed or withdrawn. ``They continue to add to the totals, and they get closer and closer to bringing to justice all of the people who need to be brought to justice,'' Boucher said. 10/03/02 15:54 EDT --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^^=== This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^^===
Hey Kids, Soros Offers to Exploit You! [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- In a message dated 10/4/02 3:18:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subj:[balkans] CfA: LGI, Research Interns Spring - Summer 2003, Budapest Date:10/4/02 3:18:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent from the Internet Call for LGI Research Interns Spring-Summer 2003 Application deadline: December 1, 2002 LGI is currently accepting applications for its research internship program. Interns will work on a voluntary basis at the LGI office (located in the Budapest headquarters of the Open Society Institute) in a diverse, challenging and exciting environment on various topics related to local public policy development, decentralization, public service reform, and multi-ethnic community management. Interns will contribute to LGI research and publications and participate in a variety of projects addressing the Central-Eastern European, Southeast European and Central Asian regions. The internship cycle will last for a period of four - six months depending on the availability of selected applicant. The next deadline for submitting application is December 1, 2002 for the period of Spring-Summer 2003 (March 1 -August 31 2003). Qualifications: Interns must have excellent writing, research and communication skills and must hold at least a BA degree (MA desirable) in an area related to public policy or political science. Interns should be knowledgeable about the Eastern European region, Southeastern Europe or Central Asia, able to work independently and computer literate. Familiarity with online research and a commitment to working in the region are a bonus. As the official language of LGI/OSI is English, excellent written and oral skills are essential. Application Process: All applications must include the following materials: * Resume/CV * Cover letter explaining the applicant's qualifications and motivation in applying for the internship. * The names and contact information (e-mail and telephone numbers) of two references familiar with your academic or written work. * An English language writing sample (e.g. publication) no longer than 5 pages in length. The deadline for applications for the spring- summer 2003 internship is October December 1, 2002. Applicants will be notified by December 15, 2002, and will be expected to begin working in Budapest by March 1, 2003. (Next deadlines for application in 2003: March 1, 2003 for the period of fall 2003 and October 15 for the period of Spring 2004) LGI is unfortunately unable to provide compensation for its interns, and encourages prospective applicants to seek outside sources of funding. For further information on the Internship Program, please contact Scott Abrams at [EMAIL PROTECTED] For further information on LGI please, visit our website at http://lgi.osi.hu --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^^=== This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^^=== ---BeginMessage--- Call for LGI Research Interns Spring-Summer 2003 Application deadline: December 1, 2002 LGI is currently accepting applications for its research internship program. Interns will work on a voluntary basis at the LGI office (located in the Budapest headquarters of the Open Society Institute) in a diverse, challenging and exciting environment on various topics related to local public policy development, decentralization, public service reform, and multi-ethnic community management. Interns will contribute to LGI research and publications and participate in a variety of projects addressing the Central-Eastern European, Southeast European and Central Asian regions. The internship cycle will last for a period of four - six months depending on the availability of selected applicant. The next deadline for submitting application is December 1, 2002 for the period of Spring-Summer 2003 (March 1 -August 31 2003). Qualifications: Interns must have excellent writing, research and communication skills and must hold at least a BA degree (MA desirable) in an area related to public policy or political science. Interns should be knowledgeable about the Eastern European region, Southeastern Europe or Central Asia, able to work independently and computer literate. Familiarity with online research and a commitment to working in the region are a bonus. As the official language of LGI/OSI is English, excellent written and oral skills are essential. Application Process: All applications must include the following materials: * Resume/CV * Cover letter explaining the applicant's qualifications and
Fwd: kindu [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- In a message dated 10/4/02 4:03:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chers compatriotes, Voici l'appel de détresse venant de Maniema à faire lire. Mesdames, Messieurs, Nous vous écrivons pour demander, chacun à son niveau, de faire quelque chose pour dénoncer et arrêter le drame que vivent en ce moment les populations civiles du Maniema à l'Est de la RDCongo. La situation est grave, raison pour laquelle nous vous demandons vivement de taire nos identités, c'est à dire la source si non nous subirons, nous et nos familles, des représailles graves de la part du RCD dont la répression devient une arme pour faire taire toute forme d'opposition, actes devant lesquels la communauté internationale garde un silence complice, comme le cas des massacres de Kisangani! On est même tente de croire que le RCD a recu de quelque part une mission d'exterminer les populations civiles. Au Maniema et plus particulièrement à Kindu, chef-lieu de cette province, depuis le retrait des troupes rwandaises, le RCD-Goma, représente par deux de ses officiers militaires:Bernard Biamungu (commandant 8 brigade) et Gabriel AMISI Tango-Fort (Chef dâétat major général adjoint),les mêmes qui ont massacre des civils à Kisangani, tuent au quotidien à Kindu et sa périphérie et des milliers des familles sont endeuillées et certaines familles entières sont décimées soupçonnées de collaborer avec les mai-mai. Dès leur arrivée à Kindu avec comme mission de taquer les mai-mai, les deux officiers rebelles ont installé une terreur sans nom. Durant trois jours (29-30-31aout) Gabriel Amissi dit Tango-Fort va déclarer à la radio locale de Kindu que toute la population de Kindu est mai-mai et par conséquent à traiter comme tel. Ces propos ont ainsi ouvert la voie au dérapage car il suffit seulement d'être soupçonné pour être carrément exécute. Il suffit d'être dans une famille ou avoir un ancien ami qui aujourd'hui est mai-mai pour être exécuté. Il suffit d'avoir un litige banal avec quelqu'un du RCD,pour recevoir l'étiquette de mai-mai pour être exécuté par la suite. Lâéchec des négociations RCD/Mai-mai du 19/9/2002 inaugure l'intensification de la répression. La mort d'un militaire du RCD est la goutte qui va s'ajouter au vase plein des rebelles et le fameux TANGO-FORT va résolument porter les gants contre la population civile de Kindu. Il passera à la radio locale pour déverser toute sa colère en vantant publiquement ses exploits de Kisangani et sur les antennes de cette radio dont les émetteurs FM ont été offerts par le RCD,il demande à la population civile de bien s'informer sur ce qu'il a réalisé à Kisangani et malgré les bruits de la communauté internationale rien ne lui est arrive, a-t-il martelé. Des villages périphériques vont être incendies par les troupes rebelles: Shoko, Lokala, Kulu. 7-8-9km route Kasongo... Des civils vont être arrêtés et lâchement abattus : Mr Rashidi Kalindi, 17ans fils du feu Kalindi, ancien agent de la SNCC lui-même abattu par l'Apr le 12/10/1998.Rashidi a été enterre à cote du bureau de l'Assemblée Provinciale, Mme Fatuma abattue dans le quartier Lokole par le soldat du RCD. Un prétendu mai-mai capture par le RCD sur l'avenue Okenge/commune de Kasuku sera lâchement abattu. -Le 21/9 prenant tout le monde pour mai-mai, l'armée du RCD va tuer sur ordre de TANGO-FORT plusieurs personnes civiles qui revenaient des champs dans les quartiers Tokolote et Brazza :me Séraphine Tcheusi avec grossesse à terme (av Carrière N° 43), Mr Mbilizi Musema, Directeur de l'école primaire Lubinga (av.Carriere n*20) et son fils Ngolombe Mazambi, âgé de 17 ans, Mr Wenga Vincent pasteur de l'église Celpa, Mr Diongo ancien Directeur d'école. Ce sont ces corps qui ont été retrouves sur le lieu avant le bouclage du lieu par les militaires du RCD.Certaines sources affirment que d'autres corps ont été enterrés précipitamment par ces militaires. Le 22/9 dans les quartiers Brazza et Tokolote, trois membres du RCD/local (Cyrille Ngandu, Okoko Wenendja et Longamba) et le policier MENDA AMANI conduisent une expédition punitive et tuent plusieurs personnes notamment : Mme Henriette Kepoke mère de 4 Enfants, épouse de Mr Bala Lobilo. Elle était une vendeuse des gibiers, groupe accusé par le RCD de vendre des produits provenant de milieux sous contrôle de mai-mai, par conséquent collaborateurs des ces derniers, Mr Lambert OKOKO, enseignant à l'école primaire Ndjiapanda, marié et père de trois enfants, Mr Tokoko Wale, marié et père de trois enfants et vendeurs au marché de Kindu, un autre groupe accusé d'approvisionner les mai-mai, Mr KONGOLO, 7 ans, jeune frère de TOKOKO Wale; les deux ont été tues à domicile et rapidement enterrés par les militaires, Mrs UNGANDA MUSA Ãmile, UNGANDA NUMBI et YUWAKALI Longema tous trois
Fwd: FW: Anti-terrorist team raids Warrior Society!!! [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- In a message dated 10/4/02 1:20:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subj:FW: Anti-terrorist team raids Warrior Society!!! Date:10/4/02 1:20:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent from the Internet -- to unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=PleaseStopMailingMe please forward this message to any interested people if you know of someone else who would be interested in receiving news and updates on Native/indigenous resistance in "Western Canada" and throughout Turtle Island, please forward me their email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] i just got this email after sending out the last email and thought people should read this because it goes into more detail about the raid by INSET, the RCMP and others. this is really serious shit that's going down and is reflective of what's happening all over North Amerikkka in the post Sept 11th world. In August, animal rights activist, David Barbarash, had his house in Courtenay, Vancouver Island raided and trashed by INSET, the RCMP and other agencies. For the kkkanadian and u$ governments, resistance=terrorism. We have to support our sisters and brothers who are being targetted, harrassed and persecuted. From: "James Ward" Hey Eveyone, I am writing to inform you of a very serious recent event. After a summer of intelligence probes from CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Canada's spy agency), the Soliciter General's Office and possibly British Columbia's RCMP AEU (Aboriginal Extremist Unit) the Canadian government has decided to label and attack Indigenous resistence as Terrorism. Last week Canada's INSET (Intergrated National Security Enforcement Team, the new Anti-terrorist team created after Sept 11th to hunt down and destroy terrorists) raided one of the West Coast Warrior's homes. The conducted a forced entry raid using the RCMP ERT (Emergency Response Team, similiar to American SWAT Teams). They conducted a 3 hour search on the premises and didnt find anything. It was a misguided and failed operation. Later that day more individuals associated with the warrior society were questioned. By evening, INSET approached another West Coast Warriors and aggressively questioned him at his residence creating and provoking a potentially explosive situation. The following morning, INSET tracked down and questioned another member of the West Coast Warriors and questioned him. During all of the questioning there was continuing use of intimidation tactics with indirect threat to the Warrior's children and spouces. One of the INSET officers made sure that the Warriors were aware of there ever present surviellance by telling himwe know all your guys, were everyone lives, what vehicle each one of you drives and we are watching you all the time... All indigenous people should be very concerned about this tactic of the Canadian state targeting and labelling Indigenous resistence as terrorism. It is important to understand that Warrior Societies have never conducted a terrorist act. When have you heard of a Warrior Society that has hijacked a plane, a bus or a train? Warrior Societies haven't blown up state institutions, military complexes, children's schools, or shopping malls. Warrior Societies have not attempted to assassinate key political figures or judges or used sniper attacks on any civillians. Warrior Societies have not kidnapped anyone or taken anyone hostage. Warrior Societies have not targeted non-combatants for any kind of terrorist activity and the targeting of non-combatants is the key to defining terroist action. So why has the Canadian governemnt labelled Indigenous Warrior Socities as terrorist? Despite all the government and media hype terrorism does not mean that you, as a non nation-state, are simply an "enemy of the state" as the Canadian government would have you believe(under the new Anti-terrorist legislation that basically means you have a different political agenda than the government). The definition of terrorism is far more specific than that. Terrortism is a military strategy with specific tactics. Terrorism targets non-combatants for extremely violent or contreversial military type action to "terrorize" the population so it becomes alienated from government control. The more shocking the military action the more media covergae the terrorsit will recieve. Media becomes an invaluable tool of the terrorist to broadcast the terrorist action to a wider audience and terrorize more people into doing what the terrorist want. Clearly Indigenous Warriors are NOT terrorist. Terrorism is not the strategy of any Warrior Society nor do they employ any type of terrorist tactics. The Canadian governments targeting of Indigenous Warrior Societies as terrorist is a horrific abuse of the Anti-terrorist legislation. This tactic of abusing legislation as a means of
Re: What gives with Barbara Streisand? [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Thanks, my memory didn't go back that far. Apparently, her hypocrisy runs deep. peacefully yours, Nancy Hey ProletarianNews wrote: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Nancy Hey wrote: Yo, did any of you folks happen to see on the news last night Barbara Streisand doing a fundraiser for the Democratic Party?... It seems to me that complaining about war while supporting the Democratic Party is a bit like supporting the Nazi Party while complaining about anti-Semitism. I recall she sang 'People' for LBJ's inaugural. Uncle Ho, I presume, was underawed. --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: [Fwd: List of Ustasha terrorist attacks] [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- One big problem is that imperialist nations had an interest in supporting right-wing organizations like the Ustasha to defeat socialism in Yugoslavia. This support probably made the Ustasha stronger than it otherwise would have been. peacefully yours, Nancy Hey Nancy Hey wrote: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Dear friends, I posted this article to Country Joe MacDonald's message board today, to which Ivan Kokotovic immediately took great offense. peacefully yours, Nancy Hey --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST Subject: List of Ustasha terrorist attacks Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 13:32:35 -0400 From: Nancy A. Hey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Ivan, Please understand that I am not equating all Croatians with the Ustasha. I posted the article to show people a piece of history that they might not otherwise be aware of, and to show that the Serbs are not always the bad guys in the Balkans, often they have been the victims of great persecution. Here in the United States, their side of the story doesn't get heard in the mainstream media. Peacefully yours, Nancy Hey From: Ivan I M Kokotovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: trial of Slobodan Milosevic Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 15:26:00 + Nancy.. you seriously can't expect me to allow you to show that pro-serb propaganda on a public forum...without a response. i meanthis is just the stuff i was telling you about. you got that stuff from a serbian sitewhich hadn't been updated since 1996...what has that got to do with NATO in the former Yugoslavia??...expecially with the Kosovo crisis. once you stop equating the Ustasa with anything croatian, or any croatian legitimate thoughts to freedom (as a member of the human race), then i will stop being so pinnicky about your posts. indeed as a member of the croatian diaspora...i have first hand experience of my father leading us out of church (croatian), after the priest there denounced the ustasa and all use of violence i obtaining freedom (as i have mentioned to you before my father is still a thourough nationalist). in fact in croatian church we used to sing we shall overcome , in a direct link to the black liberation movement of martin luther king..., of peaceful cohabitation with those we saw as oppressors and oppressed alike...under communism. can you call this priest and the millions of other croats around the world who thought as he did..as ustase do not bring this up again.unless you have some logical and insightful point to make about the current problems in the balkans. if anything it contradicts your earlier sentiments that somehow everyone has been against the Serbs...always...(this is what Milosevic is basing his defense upon). obviously not everyone was against the serbs and Yugoslavia if croatian terrorists in places such as USA, West Germany, and Australia were arrested for illegal activities. and a lot of these cases in the list were not actual convictions rather allegations, and the croats were suspects out of a long line of terrorists in the USA and germany at the time including...PLO, Chilean and Peruvian Marxists, and Puerto Rican terrorists. so please...enough with the propagandaunless there is something more material to your postings, then don't post them..or i shall have to forward you some sources.which have different viewsand which are not driven by western imperialist thought. yours slightly concerned indy Posted by Nancy Hey (192.104.54.1) on October 03, 2002 at 06:06:07: http://www.balkan-archive.org.yu/kosta/ndh/ndh-list_of_cro_terrorist_attacks.html LIST OF CROATIAN TERRORIST ATTACKS (from: Jahn Otto Johansen: Ustasja, J.W. Cappelens Forlag A.S. 1984 (in Norwegian)) The most important terrorist attacks, which were Ustasha responsibility in LAST TWENTY YEARS (up to 1984, Ed.), were: 1962: * Attack on Yugoslav consulate in Bad Goldberg, West Germany. Momcilo Popovic killed . 1963: * Yugoslav citizen Andjelka Vuletina was killed by Ustasha terrorists . 1965: * Andrija Klaric, Yugoslav consul in Munich wounded by an Ustasha assassin . 1966: * Yugoslav consul in Stutgart Sava Milovanovic killed . * A Yugoslav Stipe Medvedovic killed in Frankfurt . 1968: * Ustashi blew a bomb in cinema theater 20th October in Belgrade . One person killed, 85 wounded . 1969: * Leader of Yugoslav military corps mission in West Berlin Anton Kolendic and one member of the mission wounded by an Ustasha assassin . 1970: * Yugoslav Niko Mijaljevic killed in Frankfurt . 1971: * Terrorist attack on Yugoslav consulate in Geteborg. Three
Five Iraqi civilians killed, 11 wounded in US-British raids: Baghdad [WWW.STOPNA
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Dear friends, 'We just want them to get the message, hey, this is why we keep striking, Hetlage said.' But most Iraqis already know why they keep striking - it's because they want to be able to violate Iraq's national sovereignty at will. The no-fly zones are not authorized by the UN, or by any kind of International Law, and no leaflet can change that fact. peacefully yours, Nancy Hey Five Iraqi civilians killed, 11 wounded in US-British raids: Baghdad October 03, 2002, 07:26 PM BAGHDAD (AFP) - Five Iraqi civilians were killed and 11 others wounded when US and British warplanes bombed southern Iraq, an Iraqi military spokesman said, quoted by the official INA news agency. Enemy warplanes bombed civilian installations in the town of Nassiriyah, 375 kilometers (235 miles) south of Baghdad, killing five Iraqi civilians and wounding 11 others, the spokesman said. He claimed surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft batteries had forced the enemy warplanes to flee to their base in Kuwait, and that the US and British aircraft had conducted 55 raids over 18 areas in the south of the country during the day. The US military said earlier that US and British warplanes struck in southern Iraq Thursday after an aircraft came under fire as it dropped leaflets on Iraqi air defense positions warning gunners not to fire on coalition aircraft or You could be next. Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant Dan Hetlage said US and British planes attacked an Iraqi air defense headquarters and operations center which was believed to be the source of the fire. With the United States also stepping up pressure for a renewed international campaign against Iraq, the raid was near Tallil, about 250 kilometers (160 miles) southeast of Baghdad, he said. The air strike was in retaliation for shooting at the aircraft dropping the leaflets that say don't shoot at us, Hetlage said. The leaflets contained a cartoon showing a fighter aircraft firing missiles into a ground radar and a surface-to-air missile launcher. Iraqi ADA beware! read the message. Don't track or fire on coalition aircraft. On the other side, the leaflet said: The destruction experienced by your colleagues in other air defense locations is a response to your continuing aggression toward planes of the coalition forces. No tracking or firing on these aircraft will be tolerated. You could be next, it said. Commander Frank Merriman, a spokesman with the US Central Command, said US forces also dropped leaflets on Iraqi positions in October 2001. We just want them to get the message, hey, this is why we keep striking, Hetlage said. A Pentagon official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the leaflets were dropped only in the Tallil area, the site of numerous exchanges with Iraqi forces. Although the Central Command has not publicized past leaflet drops, the official said, As they are needed, this has been going on since Desert Storm. The leaflets, however, suggested that US forces are preparing the ground with psychological operations in case diplomatic efforts fail and the United States goes to war. US and British forces have recently stepped up air attacks in the no-fly zones that cover large swaths of southern and northern Iraq. The zones were imposed by western powers after the 1991 Gulf War to contain Iraq militarily and help protect minority Kurd and Shiite populations from reprisals by Saddam's forces. In the latest strike, warplanes fired precision guided missiles at an air defence sector headquarters and integrated operations centre near Tallil, the US Central Command said. On Tuesday, British and US planes hit a mobile radar near Al Kut, 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad. Last Saturday there was an air attack near the southern city of Basra. No US pilot has been shot down by Iraqi forces since the Gulf War, but US military officials say Baghdad has improved the effectiveness of its air defenses with fiber optic communications. Pentagon officials complain that Iraqi forces have fired at US and British forces scores of times since Baghdad offered on September 16 to allow UN arms inspections without conditions. --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Teacher Brutally Hatchets Helpless Bird to Death Before Young Students [WWW.STOP
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- From : United Poultry Concerns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject : Teacher Brutally Hatchets Helpless Bird to Death Before Young Students Date : Fri, 4 Oct 2002 12:28:51 -0400 (EDT) U N I T E D P O U L T R Y C O N C E R N S [UPC] E-mail list - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - UNITED POULTRY CONCERNS * PO Box 150 * Machipongo, VA 23405 757-678-7875 * Fax:757-678-5070 * http://www.UPC-online.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Davis 757-678-7875 October 4, 2002 Teacher Brutally Hatchets Helpless Bird to Death Before Young Students Teacher Compares Hatchet Killing to Use of Screwdriver and Hammer Machipongo, VA - Washington Island School District administrators should adopt an immediate written policy banning the instructional killing of birds and other animals. The Wisconsin teacher who killed a chicken on school property on September 20 crassly compared this bird to a thing, and the hatchet he used to kill her with he referred to as a tool in the sense of a screwdriver or a hammer. An October 2 article in the Green Bay Press-Gazette (Wisconsin) shows the extent to which Washington Island school administrators and the teacher, Steve Waldron, are manipulating language to insulate students (and themselves) from the reality of this cruel and unnecessary schoolyard killing. It's absurd to assert, as the School Board president does, that this teacher deals with life and death in a most respectful manner. Mr. Waldron didn't deal with death-HE DEALT OUT DEATH and seeks to hide his deed in a blather of platitudes and euphemisms. Parents and others who objected to the schoolyard killing of an animal might want to use the episode to reflect on why a killing they consider unsuitable to be seen is okay to commit behind the closed doors of a slaughterhouse. In some Asian cultures, dogs are killed for food. Should students be given diversity lessons in how other cultures kill animals whom most Americans regard as family companions? Chickens experience pain, terror, and suffering the same as mammals. Avian physiologist Dr. Lesley J. Rogers points out that the assumption that birds, including chickens, are not as highly evolved as mammals is incorrect. If we wonder where so much of our violence and callous disregard for life comes from, we need to look at the classroom as well as the hypocrisy we are passing on to our children, Dr. Karen Davis, President of United Poultry Concerns, insists. The idea that slaughter is 'necessary' and 'respectful' is ridiculous, and slaughtering a chicken in front of students is not the same kind of demonstration as showing them how a baby is born. _ United Poultry Concerns is a nonprofit organization that promotes the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl. For more information, visit http://www.UPC-online.org --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Allied planes again retaliate over Iraq no-fly zone [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Dear friends, This escalation of hostilities in the so-called no-fly zones in Iraq, at a time when Pres. Bush is trying to shore up support for an invasion, seems deliberately designed to antagonize Iraq even more. peacefully yours, Nancy Hey Allied planes again retaliate over Iraq no-fly zone By PAULINE JELINEK, Associated Press Thursday October 03, 2002, 05:27:00 AM WASHINGTON (AP) - Allied planes launched an airstrike in the southern no-fly zone over Iraq Thursday, targeting an air defense headquarters and operations center, defense officials said. It brought to 46 the number of strike days reported this year by the United States and the United Kingdom coalition put together to patrol zones set up to protect Iraqi minorities following the 1991 Gulf War. On some days, more than one area is bombed. Today's strike came after Iraq air defenses fired anti-aircraft artillery and surface-to-air missiles at coalition aircraft, said a statement from the U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Fla. Coalition planes responded, targeting precision-guided weapons at an operations center and air defense headquarters for the sector near Tallil, some 160 miles southeast of Baghdad at 4:30 a.m. EDT Thursday. There was no assessment immediately available on how much damage was done. It was the third time in nine days that planes launched strikes in the area trying to destroy communications equipment, control radar and a surface-to-air missile launcher in missions Sept. 25 and 28. Repeat missions have become common in recent weeks. Coalition aircraft for the sixth time in a month struck this week near Al Kut, 100 miles southeast of Baghdad, because Iraqis keep moving mobile radar equipment to the area, Pentagon officials said. Iraq considers the patrols a violation of its sovereignty and frequently shoots at the planes. In response, coalition pilots try to bomb Iraqi air defense systems. Coalition strikes are not necessarily aimed at the place or equipment used to target them. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld disclosed recently that he has ordered that pilots attack command and communications links in Iraq's air defense network rather than the guns and radars used to target or shoot at U.S. and British pilots. The goal of the new approach, more than a decade after American and British pilots began enforcing no-fly zones, is to reduce dangers to the pilots while increasing the damage inflicted on an Iraqi air defense system that has grown more sophisticated. The amount of any damage from Thursday's strike was unknown because assessment was still under way. The strike was in the southern zone, set up to protect Shiite Muslims. The northern zone was set up to protect the Kurdish population. Both groups were given protection after unsuccessfully revolting against the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The strikes come as the Bush administration increases efforts to convince the world of the need to overthrow Saddam. --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
