This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------D5A5C20156C1BF0B645FDDC7 Are any professional groups representing TV or Radio journalists, technicians etc. saying anything about the bombing of Serb TV and radio stations, particularly the brutal attack in downtown Belgrade? Serb short wave reported a statement of solidarity from Italian journalists who condemned the raid. Western journalists in Belgrade expressed sympathy for the families. According to the Serb short wave the CNN reporters report aired briefly but then was not repeated. There was video of the aftermath I gather. You would think that there would be outrage among journalists and reporters at what has happened even though their sympathies might be with NATO. . NATO has now specifically targeted a Belgrade power plant. With that they did not even have a fig leaf to cover their actions. They claim that they are bringing the war home to the populace and encouraging them to get rid of Milosevic. Are NATO leaders losing it or is it me? Why not really bring it home to the populace by carpet bombing? Are these trial balloons to see what if any will be the public reaction in NATO countries? We go from military installations and police stations, to bridges, to railroads, to civilian airports, a cigarette factory, a car factory protected by workers, a politician's residence, to TV stations, and to heating plants. What is next? Why not aim at schools where they no doubt teach Serb propaganda, universities, etc. etc. I post a couple of recent commentaries by Rebick. They are not that bright but even a dim light seems impressive in the overpowering gloom of most media reporting. 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Most people supported the Vietnam war in 1965. The American government assured its citizens that it would be a brief intervention to stay the hand of Communism in the region. <p> With eerie echoes of those days, I am hearing the argument that the NATO bombing may have been a mistake but now that we are in there we cannot possibly leave until Milosevic backs down. If NATO ends the bombing now, the argument goes, Milosevic will be free to continue his campaign of terror without fear of consequence. For those of us who remember, such arguments are a chilling reminder of the step by step escalation of the war in Vietnam. Surely Vietnam taught us that compounding a mistake by digging yourself in further makes absolutely no sense. If the initial bombing was ill conceived than escalating it makes absolutely no sense. <p> I got an e-mail early this week that broke my heart. The letter was from 17 Belgrade non-governmental organizations pleading with their counterparts in the Europe and North America to support their demand to stop the bombing. <p> These are groups like the Center for Democracy and Free elections, the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia and Women in Black who for years have courageously opposed the savage, repressive policies of Slobodan Milosevic. <i> "Our efforts to develop democracy and a civic society in Yugoslavia...have taken place under constant pressure by the Serbian regime. We, the representatives of civil groups and organizations, have courageously and consistently fought against every war-mongering and nationalistic policy and for the respect of human rights and particularly against the repression of the Kosovo Albanians. The NATO intervention has destroyed everything that has been achieved so far."</i> <p> Personal e-mails that I have received from feminists in Belgrade are saying the same thing. They want the bombing stopped and for Europe and Russia to take responsibility for finding a peaceful solution to the crisis. The want an end to ethnic cleansing and a repatriation of the refugees. And they want the media in both Serbia and abroad to "stop fanning the flames of ethnic hatred, hysteria and glorification of force as the only reasonable way out of the crisis." <p> These are the people in the region who have worked across ethnic barriers and for a multi- ethnic democracy and they are demanding an end to the NATO bombing. These democrats have never received the support of the West against Milosevic. The NATO bombing has in fact destroyed the best chance for a peaceful and democratic society in the Serbia. <p> Over the winter months this democratic opposition brought hundreds of thousands of people into the streets and forced Milosevic to revoke a number of undemocratic and illegal measures. If NATO had really been interested in promoting human rights in Yugoslavia, they would have backed this coalition of women's, peace and democratic groups. They did not. <p> At one time in our history, Canada might have been working with Russia and the UN to broker a peaceful solution. People in the region who have suffered years of inter-ethnic warfare are the best placed to develop such a solution. Canada should be supporting them. Instead our leaders are simply tagging behind the U.S. and Britain in what seems to be the new form of Western imperialism. <p> <HR><P> Judy Rebick is host of <A HREF="http://www.newsworld.cbc.ca/thehip">Straight from the Hip</A> - you can e mail her at <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED] <! ----------END CONTENT-----------> </TD></TR></TABLE><P> </CENTER> </BODY> </HTML> --------------D5A5C20156C1BF0B645FDDC7 <HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>CBC NEWSWORLD ONLINE - Viewpoint: Anne Petrie</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#00579F" ALINK="#FF0000" VLINK="#7F000F"> <BASEFONT SIZE=3 FACE="Arial,Helvetica"> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=3 CELLSPACING=8 WIDTH=630><TR><TD ROWSPAN=2 VALIGN=top> <!----NAVIGATION INSERT----> <!----START NAVIGATION INSERT----> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=78> <TR><TD><A HREF="/"><IMG SRC="/gfx/nav_logonw.gif" WIDTH="78" HEIGHT="110" BORDER="0" ALT="cbc news"></A></TD></TR><TR><TD><A HREF="/" TARGET=_top><IMG SRC="/gfx/nav_news_off.gif" WIDTH="78" HEIGHT="23" BORDER="0" ALT="news"></A></TD></TR> <TR><TD><A HREF="/news/indepth/" TARGET=_top><IMG SRC="/gfx/nav_indepth_off.gif" WIDTH="78" HEIGHT="23" BORDER="0" ALT="indepth"></A></TD></TR> <TR><TD><A HREF="/live/" TARGET=_top><IMG SRC="/gfx/nav_live_off.gif" WIDTH="78" HEIGHT="23" BORDER="0" ALT="live"></A></TD></TR> <TR><TD><A HREF="/business/" TARGET=_top><IMG SRC="/gfx/nav_business_off.gif" WIDTH="78" HEIGHT="23" BORDER="0" ALT="businesss"></A></TD></TR> <TR><TD><A HREF="/programs/" TARGET=_top><IMG SRC="/gfx/nav_programs_off.gif" WIDTH="78" HEIGHT="23" BORDER="0" ALT="programs"></A></TD></TR> <TR><TD><A HREF="/weather/" TARGET=_top><IMG SRC="/gfx/nav_weather_off.gif" WIDTH="78" HEIGHT="23" BORDER="0" ALT="weather"></A></TD></TR> <TR><TD><A HREF="/viewpoint/" TARGET=_top><IMG SRC="/gfx/nav_viewpoint_on.gif" WIDTH="78" HEIGHT="23" BORDER="0" ALT="viewpoint"></A></TD></TR> <TR><TD><A HREF="/news/indepth/worldfair39/" TARGET=_top><IMG SRC="/gfx/promo/nav_worldfair.gif" WIDTH="78" HEIGHT="112" BORDER="0"></A></TD></TR> </TABLE> <!-----END NAVIGATION INSERT-----> </TD><TD VALIGN=top> <!-----------START AD----------> <!A HREF="adlink.html"><!IMG SRC="http://newsworld.cbc.ca/gfx/bannerdir/canadian/cpi.gif" BORDER=1 WIDTH=468 HEIGHT=60><!/A> <!-- AdSpace begins --> <div align="center"> <IFRAME MARGINWIDTH=0 HSPACE=0 VSPACE=0 FRAMEBORDER=0 SCROLLING=no BORDERCOLOR="#000000" width=470 height=60 SRC="http://ads.cbc.ca/html.ng/uniqueID=0001&site=test&size=1"> </div> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="http://ads.cbc.ca/js.ng/Params.richmedia=yes&uniqueID=9999&site=newsworld&size=1&network=tv&pagepos=1"> </SCRIPT> </IFRAME> <div align="center"> <NOSCRIPT> <A HREF="http://ads.cbc.ca/click.ng/Params.richmedia=yes&uniqueID=9999&site=newsworld&size=1&network=tv&pagepos=1"> <IMG SRC=http://ads.cbc.ca/image.ng/Params.richmedia=yes&uniqueID=9999&site=newsworld&size=1&network=tv&pagepos=1></A> </NOSCRIPT> </div> <!-- AdSpace ends --> <!------------END AD------------> <P> <!-----------LOGO------------> <TABLE CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=0 WIDTH=500> <TR><TD><IMG SRC="/gfx/nw_title_newsworld.gif" WIDTH="217" HEIGHT="23" BORDER="0" ALT="newsworld"></TD><TD ALIGN=right><FONT SIZE=1> <A HREF="/viewpoint/insidezolf/index.html"><IMG SRC="/gfx/icon_more.gif" HSPACE=2 BORDER=0>INSIDE ZOLF</A> <A HREF="http://www.tv.cbc.ca/national/pgminfo/rex/index.html"><IMG SRC="/gfx/icon_more.gif" HSPACE=2 BORDER=0>REX MURPHY</A> </FONT></TD></TR> <TR><TD COLSPAN=2 VALIGN=top><IMG SRC="/gfx/nw_title_viewpoint.gif" WIDTH="500" HEIGHT="25" BORDER="0" ALT="programs"></TD></TR></TABLE> </TD></TR><TR><TD VALIGN=top> <!-----------CONTENT------------> <TABLE ALIGN=left HSPACE=2 WIDTH=160><TR><TD> <A HREF="/programs/sites/straight.html"> <IMG SRC="/programs/sites/gfx/straightfromhip_rebick.gif" WIDTH="156" HEIGHT="154" BORDER="0"><BR> <IMG SRC="/programs/sites/gfx/straightfromhip_logo.gif" WIDTH="160" HEIGHT="65" BORDER="0" ALT="straightfromhip"></A> </TD></TR></TABLE> <B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#003399">Judy Rebick: Kosovo - The Internet War</FONT></B><P> Just like the Gulf War made CNN an indispensable information source, so the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia has shown what an effective source of news and views the Internet can be. The old adage that the first casualty of war is truth may be dumped in the dustbin of history by electronic communications through the Internet.<P> From the moment of the first bombings, I started to get e-mails with articles providing an alternative to the mainstream media. Anyone can log on to numerous alternative web sites, depending on your preferences and find out views that your mainstream news outlets won't print. After the first day of bombing I logged into the Z Magazine's wonderful web site to get three different progressive views of what was going on in Kosovo. Mainstream sites like CBC Online or BBC Online provide a depth of coverage and background that has never been so available.<P> Like most people I have followed the bloody career of Slobodan Milosevic with horror. Milosevic is a brutal, power-mad nationalist who has committed terrible war crimes, especially in Bosnia and deserves to be tried for them by a world court. If something could be done to stop further atrocities in Kosovo, I would support it. But is that what this bombing is really about?<P> From all reports, and it is difficult to get accurate information now that foreign journalists have been expelled, Serbian army savagery against the ethnic Albanians has gotten much worse since the bombing began. Unquestionably the flow of refugees has massively increased. The NATO bombing has produced or accelerated a human disaster of historic proportions. Rather than isolating Milosevic, the NATO attack has united Serbians around the world behind his leadership. Even those who originally fled his regime are now demonstrating at U.S. embassies around the world.<P> The argument is that we had to do something. We could not just stand by. In a brilliant analysis distributed through the Internet, famed U.S. anti-war activist and scholar Noam Chomsky says, "One choice, always, is to follow the Hippocratic principle: ‘First, do no harm' If you can think of no way to adhere to that elementary principle, then do nothing...Diplomacy and negotiations are never at an end." Chomsky also points out that the U.S. supports regimes even more brutal than Milosevic's when it suits their purposes. In recent history, the Turks have been just as savage to the Kurds, Indonesia's Suharto to the East Timorese, and the Chinese government to the Tibetans.<P> Another advantage of the Internet is easy access to newspaper archives. A 1987 report in the New York Times warned about civil war in the Kosovo area of Yugoslavia. Here is reporter David Binder's analysis of the situation a little more than ten years ago: "Ethnic Albanians in the government have manipulated public funds and regulations to take over land belonging to the Serbs...Slavic Orthodox churches have been attacked...Slavic boys have been knifed and some ethnic Albanians have been told by their elders to rape Serbian girls...The goal of the radical nationalists among them, one said in an interview, is an "ethnic Albania that includes western Macedonia, southern Montenegro, part of Southern Serbia, Kosovo and Albania itself...As Slavs flee the protracted violence, Kosovo is becoming what ethnic Albanian nationals have been demanding for years, an ethnically pure Albanian region, a Republic of Kosovo in all but name."<P> I quote this at length not to minimize the crimes of Milosevic but to illustrate that we are only getting one side of the story. Nevertheless, I notice a much wider diversity of views about this war in the mainstream media than during the Gulf War. For this, in part, we can thank our newest and so far most democratic form of international telecommunications, the Internet.<P> <HR><P> Judy Rebick is host of <A HREF="http://www.newsworld.cbc.ca/thehip">Straight from the Hip</A> - you can e mail her at <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED] <! ----------END CONTENT-----------> </TD></TR></TABLE><P> </CENTER> </BODY> </HTML> --------------D5A5C20156C1BF0B645FDDC7--