award-winning doc Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War pr [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]emières in Toronto June 26th
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK ListBot Sponsor (from Snezana Vitorovich) Dear friends, I am sending the press release for movie theatre première of the documentary Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War that was shown on History Television last April. A number of people had complained that, since they do not have pay TV, they could not see it. So here it is in Toronto's Bloor Cinema on June 26th. Note: this will be a one-time screening. After the screening you will have the chance to meet one of the producers, Mr. George Bogdanich as well the author Scott Taylor. The advance sale of the tickets is available at the following locations in Toronto: Serbica Books 2465 Dundas St.W tel:416-539 0476 Mosaic Tour 2510 Yonge St #203 416-489 0699 Toronto Travel 427 Donlands Ave. 416-461 8171 Slavia Travel 1425 Dundas St. E unite 202, Mississauga 905-602 0365 Ma Belle Beauty Salon 24,Mabelle Ave. 416-236 0847 Bloor Optical 2235 Blor St. W. tel: 416-769 699 Lily's European Delicatessen 978 Pape Ave tel:416-421-0306 Also if you would like to reserve tickets, please send me an e-mail and your ticket will be waiting at Bloor Cinema ticket office so that you can pick it up just before the screening. Hope to see you at the Bloor Cinema on June 26! Please bring your friends and children to this evening of learning and sharing. The victims of this unjust, illegal and avoidable war deserve our respect, support and commitment to truth in history. Thank you, Snezana - Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, June 6, 2001 New York's Frontier Theatre and Film Inc. presents the award-winning documentary Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War Date: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 Time: 7:30 PM Place: Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor St. West at Bathurst Admission: $10, students $5 Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War is co-produced by George Bogdanich and German TV producer Martin Lettmayer. TORONTO - The documentary traces how crucial mistakes by the West, particularly Germany and the US led to the violent break-up of Yugoslavia in 1991, culminating in the devastating NATO bombing campaign of 1999. Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War traces the role of Western intelligence agencies in arming separatist groups in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo and reveals how Western governments supported different sides in an ethnic conflict while portraying themselves as peacemakers. Most compelling are the candid statements of the decision-makers themselves, including former EC Mediator Lord Peter Carrington, former US Secretaries of State James Baker and Lawrence Eagleburger, as well as Germany's former foreign minister, Hans Dietrich Genscher, UN Commanders Lewis MacKenzie and Sir Michael Rose, former Newsweek military correspondent Col. David Hackworth, author Susan Woodward, former Nuremberg prosecutor Walter Rockler, historian Nora Beloff, Canadian diplomat James Bissett, author Scott Taylor and many other participants and observers. The LA Weekly called the film truly accomplished, adding: The numerous strategic missteps by the West and the endless political doublespeak are carefully detailed. The tragedy of the situation seems to multiply before your eyes as the film clearly proves that so much of the bloodshed could have easily been prevented. Winner Best Social Documentary at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, September 1999. This special screening is sponsored by Association of Serbian Women and WILPF ( Women International League for Peace and Freedom , Toronto Chapter) For more information , please call Snezana Vitorovich at 416-928-0043 or e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Pass the word To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Things You Can't Say in America [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK ListBot Sponsor Left Coast by Alexander Cockburn Antiwar.com June 8, 2000 Things You Can't Say in America FDR knew about the attack on Pearl Harbor John Flynn made a sound case for Roosevelt's foreknowledge in 1946. Relying on public documents, the historian Charles Beard did it magisterially in 1948, with his FDR and the Coming of the War 1941. John Toland wrapped it with Infamy in the early 1980s. John Stinnett made the case all over again a year ago with Day of Deceit. I can guarantee to you that about five years down the road, after the National Archives have released another truckload of documents, someone will be triumphantly writing that the case has finally been made, and someone else will be whining that once again the conspiracy mongers are at work. There's no mystery as to why this should be. As Flynn and Beard both understood, FDR's manipulation of the attack on Pearl Harbor goes to the very heart of executive abuse of the warmaking power. Not matter how mountainous the evidence, the case will always officially be non proven, a conspiracy theory. For the same reason, despite a hundred proofs, it remains officially non proven, time and time, that US leaders order the assassination of foreign leaders. By now, it should be as soundly based in American historiography as as Johnson's manipulation of Tonkin Gulf in the Vietnam War that the White House requisitioned (with only partial success) the deaths of Trujillo, Lumumba, Castro, the Diem brothers, Chou En Lai, Qaddafi, and perhaps even the Swedish leftish prime minister, Olof Palme, though this one has never been properly settled or even mooted. But because the actual practice of executive assassination runs counter to every official pretension of US honor and fair dealing, instances of its use or intended use have to be discounted. It's like torture, as a tool of US foreign policy in the field. Another no no. When the New York Times' Ray Bonner reported that a US intelligence official might have been present at a torture session in Central America his career went into a rapid nose dive from which it took years to recover and only at the expense of Bonner's political backbone. Other examples? The role of the CIA in supervising and protecting smugglers of cocaine into this country in the 1980s. I write as the coauthor (with CounterPunch coeditor Jeffrey St. Clair) of Whiteout, a book on this same topic, subtitled The CIA, Drugs and the Press. Even though the CIA's Inspector General has himself issued reports ratifying the validity of these charges, the average press story will, to this day, refer to vague charges never conclusively established. The fate of Charles Beard tells us the cost that challenges to these core Lies of State can extort. Earlier in the century, Charles A. Beard was the lodestar of liberal American historiography. Books such as his Economic Interpretation of the Constitution and Rise of American Civilization were among the most influential of this century. But they were respectable. They did not challenge core beliefs. The 1910 edition of his textbook American Government and Politics snooted isolationist ideas and talked placidly of cooperation with other power in military expeditions. By the 1930s Beard was changing. In 1936 he was writing that Having rejected the imperialist 'racket' and entertaining doubts about our ability to make peace and goodness prevail in Europe and Asia, I think we should concentrate our attention on tilling our own garden. His last two books, American Foreign Policy in the Making, 1932-1940 and the above-mentioned FDR and the Coming of the War 1941 were written to prove that though the appearance of FDR's foreign policy was the pursuit of peace, the reality was the quest for war. The liberals who had hailed him in earlier decades turned upon him with a vengeance. In June, 1948, The Nation entrusted Perry Miller, eminent professor history at Harvard, with the urgent task of demolishing Beard's FDR and the Coming of the War 1941. Miller dutifully fell to his task, in a 700 word dismissal which ignored Beard's painstaking documentation and concluded thus, As must every historian of this generation, I account myself a child of Beard. But in the presence of this work I can only pray to whatever divinity presides over the profession that I may not grow old and embittered and end by projecting my personal rancor into the tendency of history. Frida Kirchwey, editor of The Nation, felt that Beard required another, more extended thrashing and assigned Perry Miller the task of a longer profile of Beard. In September of 1948, after homage to Early Beard, Miller sank talons of venom into Late Beard, reporting that his friends plead that his deafness and isolation on a Connecticut farm shut him off from conversation, and that he nursed the scorpions of spiritual loneliness... He played into the isolationist line and into the party line. One
RE: 3 Years Too Late: UN To Issue Kosovo Anti-Terrorism Regulation [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Get a low APR NextCard Visa in 30 seconds! 1. Fill in the brief application 2. Receive approval decision within 30 seconds 3. Get rates as low as 2.99% Intro or 9.99% Ongoing APR and no annual fee! Apply NOW! http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/NextCard -- Once the last Romanies and Serbs are have been driven out, we can expect some hate crimes regulations as well. -Original Message- From: Rick Rozoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 4:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 3 Years Too Late: UN To Issue Kosovo Anti-Terrorism Regulation [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Get a low APR NextCard Visa in 30 seconds! 1. Fill in the brief application 2. Receive approval decision within 30 seconds 3. Get rates as low as 2.99% Intro or 9.99% Ongoing APR and no annual fee! Apply NOW! http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/NextCard -- http://www.un.org UN Newservice Friday, June 8, 2001 United Nations mission in Kosovo to issue anti-terrorism regulation 8 June - Following an extraordinary session of the Interim Administrative Council, the head of the United Nations mission in Kosovo, Hans Haekkerup, said today he would promulgate a regulation designed to curb terrorism. According the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), the new Regulation on the Prohibition of Terrorism and Related Offences will be the third part of a package designed to combat terrorism and armed violence in Kosovo and to prevent its export outside the territory. Under the regulation, any person who commits an act of terrorism could face a prison sentence of between 10 and 40 years. In addition, anyone who dispatches or transfers armed groups, equipment, explosives, arms, ammunition and other material for terrorism purposes inside or outside Kosovo could face a 10 to 15 year prison sentence. Collecting funds or recruiting people for terrorist purposes, and providing or receiving training in carrying out terrorist acts could result in up to 15 years in prison, UNMIK said. The regulation also covers such offences as preparing an act of terrorism; attempting, inciting or aiding others to do so; and participating in a terrorist organizations. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FYROM: IWPR Spy Arrested, Released [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Get a low APR NextCard Visa in 30 seconds! 1. Fill in the brief application 2. Receive approval decision within 30 seconds 3. Get rates as low as 2.99% Intro or 9.99% Ongoing APR and no annual fee! Apply NOW! http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/NextCard -- Latifi, who has extensive contacts with international diplomats and others engaged in the crisis,... Well, I believe THAT, anyway... -Original Message- From: Rick Rozoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 8:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FYROM: IWPR Spy Arrested, Released [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Get a low APR NextCard Visa in 30 seconds! 1. Fill in the brief application 2. Receive approval decision within 30 seconds 3. Get rates as low as 2.99% Intro or 9.99% Ongoing APR and no annual fee! Apply NOW! http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/NextCard -- International War And Peace Reporting Sunday, June 10, 2000 IWPR Editor Detained in Macedonia (Special Alert, 9-Jun-01) At approximately 9:00 AM on Saturday, June 9, IWPR assistant editor in Macedonia Veton Latifi was arrested at a police checkpoint on the road towards Kumanovo at the outskirts of Skopje, the Macedonian capital. Latifi, 26, a regular contributor to IWPR's Balkan Crisis Report who also works for the Albanian programme of the Macedonian state television, was travelling in a shared taxi with four other passengers and was the only one taken to the police station, after a review of identity cards. It is an order, Latifi was told by one of the officers as he was taken in a special windowless van to the police station. During his detention, Latifi's mobile telephone, computer disks, press cards, and other material related to his work as a journalist were seized. He was not allowed to make any telephone calls. Police regularly pointed guns at him, and several times he was threatened verbally. Definitely he will die [sic], a member of the police special forces said. After nearly two hours, he was released without explanation. Some of his computer disks were retained. This is the second time Latifi, who has extensive contacts with international diplomats and others engaged in the crisis, has had trouble with the Macedonian authorities since the crisis erupted in the country. A month ago, police arrested his father in Kumanovo and detained him for one night without charges. The incident occurs in the context of increasing fighting between Macedonian forces and the National Liberation Army. The Institute for War Peace Reporting condemns this effort to intimidate a working journalist. RELATED LINKS United States Instititute of Peace Albanian-language Media Blue Sky Radio, Kosovo Central Europe Online - Balkans Today Exile Images Greek Helsinki Monitor Human Rights Watch Intl Crisis Group KosovoPress Lawyers Committee for Human Rights Orthodox Church, Kosovo OSCE Serbian Information Ministry UNMIK US State Dept World Press Review Yahoo! News/Kosovo YU-Media SUPPORT IWPR gratefully acknowledges support from: Department for International Development UK (DFID) The European Union Ford Foundation Freedom Forum Open Society Institute Press Now Swedish International Development and Cooperation Agency (SIDA) (c) Institute for War Peace Reporting Lancaster House, 33 Islington High Street, London N1 9LH, UK Tel: +44 (207) 713 7130 Fax: +44 (207) 713 7140 __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
URGENT: Let Korean Voices Be Heard! [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK ListBot Sponsor (nb: see background info on Korea Truth Commission below jy) LET KOREAN VOICES BE HEARD! The U.S. State Department has informed the Korea Truth Commission that it is unlikely to issue visas to North Korean witnesses at this time. A delegation of 10 citizens of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has been scheduled to attend the Korea International War Crimes Tribunal in New York on June 23. Washington is trying to suppress the truth about U.S. war crimes in Korea before, during and after the 1950-53 war. Phone calls and letters demanding that the U.S. reverse its position and grant visas to the North Koreans should be sent to Secretary of State Colin Powell, telephone (202) 647-6878 and fax (202) 647-7388. A sample letter: June 13, 2001 Secretary of State Washington, DC Secretary of State Colin Powell, I am writing to express my concern and disappointment over the denial of visas to eleven citizens from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea who wish to attend the Korean War Crimes Tribunal on June the 23rd in New York City. It is incredibly important that these eleven delegates be allowed to travel to the United States to share their experiences and knowledge with the people of the US during this historic Tribunal. It is time that the US takes responsibility for the horrific events and atrocities that were committed during the Korean War and allow the truth to be known. By closing the doors to these delegates, the US is showing that after 50 years, it still has plenty to hide from the citizens of the US and the international community. The United States claims to be an open and democratic country yet this display of repression shows that this does not apply to individuals who may not say what the government wants to hear. I am urging you to grant the North Korean delegation visas and the opportunity to share the truth with the international community. Sincerely, Your Name International Action Center 39 West 14th Street, Room 206 New York, NY 10011 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] En Espanol: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.iacenter.org CHECK OUT SITE http://www.mumia2000.org phone: 212 633-6646 fax: 212 633-2889 To make a tax-deductible donation, go to http://www.peoplesrightsfund.org URGENT: LET KOREAN VOICES BE HEARD! U.S. Government on trial for war crimes against Korea! Come to the Korea Truth Commission WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL ON U.S. TROOP MASSACRES DURING THE KOREAN WAR SATURDAY, JUNE 23RD, 2001 10 AM TO 6PM 475 RIVERSIDE DRIVE, MANHATTAN VOLUNTEER! MAKE FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS! GET LITERATURE! call 212 633-6646 website www.koreatruthcommission.org Program will include: Testimony from survivors of U.S. Troop Attacks The Importance of Nogun-ri in today's fight for justice Star Wars and Bush's disdain for peace and reunification Sanctions in the context of international war crimes law - by Ramsey Clark To volunteer, make financial contributions, get literature or get more information; CALL 212 633-6646 or logon to WWW.KOREATRUTHCOMMISSION.ORG THE US IN KOREA; A BRUTAL HISTORY OF OCCUPATION Since a 1999 Associated Press series about U.S. troops attacking and killing innocent civilians during the Korean war, news of 160 attacks on unarmed civilians, in the north and in the south, has surfaced. At Nogun-ri, the most notorious account, villagers were pinned beneath a bridge as US forces strafed from aircraft and fired machine guns and mortars. More than 400 people were killed. The Pentagon inquiry of Nogun-ri concluded that it was a rare occurrence caused by poor training. Then-president Clinton expressed regret but offered no apology. The truth is that of the millions of non-combatants who died during the 3-year war, many tens of thousands were killed just like this. U.S. MILITARY ATTACKS PAVED THE WAY FOR GLOBALIZATION When the economy of south Korea crumbled in 1998 the U.S. dominated IMF and World Bank moved in with harsh austerity measures. Job losses, union busting, and cuts in services spread, while U.S. companies took over banks and businesses. The 37,000 U.S. troops, and the bases that still dominate south Korea gave U.S. bankers and businessmen the leverage to turn the economic crisis to their advantage by dictating the terms of the bailout. The brutal military campaign of 1950/53 had paved the way for them. U.S. ABUSE OF KOREAN PEOPLE SMACKS OF COLONIALISM Washington arbitrarily divided Korea in 1945 and moved the troops in to enforce it. Since that time, tens of thousands of Koreans have been unable to see their aging parents, their siblings or other loved ones. Today those troops aren't even accountable to the Korean justice system for many crimes committed by them against Korean people. The U.S. Military often refuses to turn offenders over to Korean authorities, based on the provisions of the Status Of Forces Agreement, which gives the military
Fink Tanks [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK ListBot Sponsor (http://www.exile.ru/118/finktanks.php) Fink Tanks Brookings Institute 1998 funding: Corporate and Private 38%; Endowment: 30%; Sales 18%; Foundations 14%; Government 2% 1998 spending: $23 million Citations in major media 1999: 2883 Some of the current board members: William Ford, Teresa Heinz, Michael Jordan (CEO of CBS/Westinghouse), Vincent Trosiino (former CEO or State Farm) Cato Institute 1998 Spending: $11.8 million Citations in major media 1999: 1428 Some of the current board members: Rupert Murdoch, John Malone (CEO of Tele-Communications Inc.) Heritage Foundation 1998 funding: Private 47%; Foundations 21%; Endowment 21%; Sales 7%; Corporate 4% 1998 spending: $26 million Citations in major media 1999: 1419 Some of the current board members: Steve Forbes, Richard Scaife (Carnegie-Mellon fortune), Holland Coors American Enterprise Institute 1998 funding: Corporate 29%; Private 27%; Foundations 26%; Sales 17% 1998 spending: $14 million Citations in major media 1999: 1263 Some of the current board members: Edward Rust (CEO of State Farm Insurance), William Stavropoulos (Chairman of Dow Chemical), Christopher Galvin (CEO of Motorola), Harvey Golub (CEO of American Express) 1985-1998 Grants from Foundations to Think Tanks (Place of recipient in total grants given by foundation, organization, amount in millions of dollars) Bradley Foundation: 1. AEI. 12.3 2. Heritage. 11.1 69. Brookings. 1.2 166. Cato. 0.5 Smith-Richardson Foundation: 5. Brookings. 1.5 8. AEI. 1.3 Olin Foundation: 6. Heritage. 6.4 7. AEI. 6.2 66. Cato. 0.7 76. Brookings. 0.6 Sarah Scaife Foundation 1. Heritage. 13.4 5. AEI. 3.7 30. Cato. 1.6 How do lobbyists differ from think tanks? Corporations pay for lobbyists, whereas the people who own and run corporations finance think tanks. There is one other major difference: donations to think tanks are tax deductible. The four most sited think tanks the Brookings Institute, the Cato Institute, the Heritage Institute, the American Enterprise Institute are all paid for by the same people and organizations. Large, rabidly conservative foundations like the Olin Foundation and the Bradley Foundation and Americas richest private citizens pour millions of dollars into them annually and get back ideologically appropriate analysis. Think tanks are an unknown entity to the vast majority of the population. We read references to them in the newspapers and no TV roundtable would be complete without at least one talking head from a major think tank coming via satellite from DC, yet they remain rather elusive institutions. The only information we get is in the brief tag line, which disingenuously informs us whether the tank is conservative, liberal or centrist. Even label think tank is meant to conjure images of objective intellectuals analyzing statistics in soundproof rooms far from the din of partisan politics. We are supposed to believe that they are simply analyzing the hard facts, rather than telling us which issues to analyze. But the real twisted thing is they dont just define the issues Americans think about, they brag about it! Michael Joyce, the president of the Bradley Foundation (a generous contributor to all of the think tanks mentioned above) said, Its true that many people do not know where certain ideas come from, but the important thing is that they agree with them. In keeping with this statement, think tanks main goal is to define which issues get discussed, thereby controlling what is thought about them. In its mission statement, the aggressively conservative Heritage Foundation openly admits its purpose is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense. Heritages staff and departments pursue this mission by performing timely, accurate research on key policy issues and effectively marketing these findings to our primary audiences: members of Congress, key congressional staff members, policymakers in the executive branch, the nations news media, and the academic and policy communities. To paraphrase, they exist to market their agenda to Congress and then convert it into law. Heritage often drafts bills that then are sponsored by conservative legislators. However, Heritage (and all think tanks) includes at the bottom of every press release that they are a non-partisan, tax-exempt organization. This asterisk is extremely important. Because of it, newspapers can quote them with a clean conscience. Thus, think tanks talking heads provide reporters with convenient statistics and expert quotes on everything from welfare reform to NATO expansion, qualified only with
FW: RCWP statement on Land Reform Bill [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Title: There is virtually nothing to lose STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK ListBot Sponsor -Original Message- From: Viktor V. Bourenkov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 2:17 PM To: RedNet mailing list Subject: RCWP statement on Land Reform Bill Statement of the CC of RCWP of 18 June 2001 On pushing the Land Code through the Duma There is virtually nothing to lose Acting impudently and unceremoniously, the reactionary pro-president majority in the State Duma is imposing the Land Code on the country, which introduces free trading of land. Commenting on this event, Prime Minister M.Kasyanov stated that this important step lays one more brick in the base of economic reforms in Russia. This is really so. Making land trade possible is an act as unpopular as the liberalisation of the prices, privatisation of the industry or the home ownership reform. As in all the previous reforms, all the chatter concerning the search for a assiduous owner, attracting investments are a propagandist fraud of the right from the well give two cars each series. Their aim is to enter a new stage of dividing the people into masters and slaves through land ownership relations. For the new lords it is no longer sufficient to have bank accounts, Mercedes cars and luxurious apartments; they want to own forests, agricultural fields, and whole residential areas. They want to renew the breathing space for the Russian financial speculators, brought up on hierarchies of the Short-term State Bonds [the system resulting in state debts that lead to state bankruptcy], and for their foreign tutors. This land reform should more correctly be called not a brick, but a stone hanging around peoples neck. Majority of population is not in possession of money to move into the last resort, the free plot of four square metres at the graveyard. Russian Communist Workers Party states that the governments version of the Land Code is against the will of the people, is directed against Russia, and is being imposed forcibly on the society. In fact, this is a step towards the civil war. Soon, there will be nothing to lose. It is necessary to prepare for an appropriate response in order to get back everything that the marauders took away from the people. First Sec. CC RCWP Viktor Tiulkin To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
on the soccer game massacre [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK ListBot Sponsor A US? bomb kills 23 at a soccer match in Iraq, including four brothers in one family. Making friends in the MidEast. This is not a United Nations no fly zone - it is insisted upon by the US and Britain. The sanctions kill thousands more every month, mostly poor women and children. Vaccines for children withheld irrationally. So-called 'smart sanctions' proposed by Britain, might be a modest improvement, but the problem is the Iraqi economy is dead, the people can't even afford essentials. http://www.flashpoints.net/realaudio/fp20010620.ram To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Barry Lituchy on the Albanian Mafia/Nato connection [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
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FW: [JUGOINFO] Mis-informing... 3: Dubrovnik 1992 [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 9:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [JUGOINFO] Mis-informing... 3: Dubrovnik 1992 Subject:to the Guardian re the Dubrovnik Hoax: Christopher Hope Date:Tue, 26 Jun 2001 07:43:40 -0500 From:john_peter maher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: GUARDIANletters [EMAIL PROTECTED] 26 June 2001 To The Editor The Guardian re Christopher Hope on Dubrovnik, again Since 1991 the press has dozens of times printed the hoax that the Pearl of the Adriatic was reduced to rubble. Those stories were fakes. Again the Guardian's Christopher Hope revives the hoax. It really is dejà vu all over again. The purpose is to whip up support for shipping more Serbs off to the Hague. On 25 March 1992 I visited Dubrovnik to see for myself the truth about the war. The Old City of Dubrovnik was never destroyed. It was barely scratched. Captain Shuttleworth, an English officer of the EEC (now EU) and British journalist Boris beloff have confirmed my assessment.So has Susan L Woodward. 1995. Balkan Tragedy Chaos and Dissolution after the Cold War Washington: The Brookings Institution: An assault on Dubrovnik (beginning in early October), which was protected under the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), was particularly significant in creating antagonism toward Serbia and the Army: the Croatian government had calculated in using sharpshooters on the Dubrovnik walls to provoke a YPA attack on the city, knowing that Dubrovnik would attract ? attention. Roof tiles blown off by concussion had all been replaced when I visited the city THREE MONTHS after the ?destruction?. Dubrovnik?s destruction was an invention of PR companies in the hire of the war criminals who broke up Yugoslavia without negotiations. The big bombardment was from PR fakers, not navy guns.-like the Kuwaiti incubator babies hoax used by President Bush Ist in order to stoke up war fever. PR liars Hill Knowlton, Ruder Finn, and Waterman Associates have earned millions in fanning the flames of this war. The ?Serb-dominated federal navy? off Dubrovnik was commanded by Admiral Stane Brovet, a Slovene. The target was not the Old City, but the Napoleonic fort of St. Sergius far above Dubrovnik and hotels outside the city walls, where Croatian forces were billeted and because of the presence of refugees, had set up gun positions from which they fired on the federal forces in order to provoke death and destruction. Zagreb?s aim was to provoke a Western attack on the Serbs. On 5 December 1991, Croatian forces mounted a mortar on a flat bed truck running up and down the Stradun taking potshots at naval forces in order to provoke counterfire. The ?Dubrovnik burning? pictures were shot with long lenses. This compresses perspective, making it look like there is no distance between objects that are quite separated in real space. Thus, the columns of smoke billowing up from the harbor and from modern hotels outside the walls, where Croatian forces had used a gun positions to provoke naval return fire. The production is a worthy successor to Hitchcocks? lady showering in the film ?Psycho.? That smoke was also from piles of tyres set alight by Croat secessionists and from fuel tanks of two pleasure boats burning in the Old Harbor outside, of course, the walls. Dubrovnik?s Old City never burned. Bullet holes along Stradun were from gunfire inside the walls, at ground level at close range in a fight on the street between rival Croatian factions. Scaffolding was set up in front of facades in anticipation of the shooting to come. Video tapes of gunfire along the ancient walls, run backward, show clearly that the gun smoke is from outgoing, not incoming fire. My videotapes of Dubrovnik from 25 March 1992, have been aired on Chicago Cable Access TV, Channel 19. Want to see them? This war is the latest chapter in the predation of Orthodox lands by the Western Church. (I?m RC, by the way.) The only building in the Old City of Ragusa to be gutted by explosives and fire had housed a priceless collection of medieval manuscripts and icons belonging to the Serb Orthodox Church. It was not navy guns that did the damage, but plastique and incendiary devices planted on the spot by Croatian fascist forces . Ca 7,000 Croat refugees from Dubrovnik have taken refuge-in Belgrade. Professor J. P. Maher Chicago. P. S. A refugee from once independent Ragusa, now incorporated in Titoist, now fascist Croatia, has written me: I hope people will at last learn the truth about Dubrovnik. Reporters should discuss with some of us who have been driven out of Dubrovnik what
FW: [IAC] Ramsey Clark Returns from Yugoslavia [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Have you visited eBayTM lately? The Worlds Marketplace where you can buy and sell practically anything keeps getting better. From consumer electronics to movies, find it all on eBay. What are you waiting for? Try eBay today. http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/ebay -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Action Center Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 8:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IAC] Ramsey Clark Returns from Yugoslavia International Action Center National: 39 West 14th Street, #206 New York, NY 10011 (212) 633-6646 Fax: (212) 633-2889 Bay Area: 2489 Mission St., Rm. 28 San Francisco,CA 94110 (415) 821-6545 Fax: (415) 821-5782 Web page: www.iacenter.org Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ramsey Clark, Chairperson June 29, 2001 Dear Friend of Yugoslavia and of Truth, We are writing because we need your help! Former U.S. Attorney General and human rights activist Ramsey Clark is in Belgrade With him is IAC West Coast coordinator Gloria La Riva, a videographer who produced the world-renowned film, NATO Targets. Both had been under NATO bombs twice in 1999 to show their solidarity with Yugoslavia. They returned two days ago to again show support for the struggle against the re-colonization of Serbia. Mr. Clark had attempted on June 26 to fly to Belgrade to confer on former President Slobodan Milosevic's defense. But the Yugoslav ambassador to the U.S., Milan Propic, refused to grant a visa. The delay prevented a meeting before the kidnapping and abduction of Milosevic. Ambassador Propic actually defied orders from the federal government of Yugoslavia to issue Mr. Clark a visa. Propic was following orders from other masters - - those running the U.S. Even after landing in Belgrade, collaborators in Zoran Djindjic's police force tried to put them back on the plane. Finally, representatives of the Foreign Ministry were able to get through to Mr Clark. A crime ordered by Washington took place June 28 in Belgrade - - the 612th anniversary of the battle of Kosovo Polje - - a battle that even in defeat became a national symbol of heroic struggle against occupation and enslavement. Mr. Milosevic, who was the elected president of Yugoslavia when this heroic land resisted 78 days of U.S./NATO bombing, was turned over to those same NATO powers by collaborators in the current government. They are selling the president and the national honor to the criminals who bombed and sanctioned the people of Yugoslavia. All people of honor must resist these acts. Tens of thousands of people gathered in Belgrade June 29 to protest this crime. They are not necessarily supporters of Mr. Milosevic or his policies. However, they all find it shameful that the person who led the defense of their country was sold out for a handful of coins. Similar loans to other countries in Eastern Europe have been Trojan horses, increasing their dependency and deepening their poverty as their riches are taken away. A second bombing campaign of Yugoslavia is now underway. The phony tribunal established by the NATO countries at the Hague is planning months of bombardment with daily media lies and horror stories. Each new tale is designed to justify NATO's war on a sovereign country that had no troops outside its own borders. Countless arrests of other patriots who dared to stand up to NATO lie ahead. All those who defend Yugoslavia from aggression, all who fight for peace will lose if Washington, Berlin and their allies succeed in blaming Milosevic for the war against Yugoslavia. They are desperately trying to use the case against Milosevic to escape blame themselves. The International Action Center has taken on the vital task of organizing within the United States itself a movement to protest this illegal abduction and to remind the world of the real crimes committed by NATO. We are rushing a book to the printer that gives an accurate record of NATO's bombing and destruction of Yugoslavia. Regular press releases, internet work, and gathering testimony is essential in the days ahead. Otherwise, the lies of the warmakers will go unanswered and unopposed. This is a critical moment. We need your help to continue to defend Yugoslavia. Please make a generous donation to assist this work. A tax deductible contribution of $50 or more can be made out to the People's Rights Fund / Truth for Yugoslavia Campaign. Credit card donations can be made on line at www.peoplesrightsfund.org. At a meeting in New York on Thursday, July 5 we will hear first hand from Mr. Clark and see video footage of the mass demonstrations shot by Ms. La Riva. (See enclosure for more details) This meeting will also include the participation of leaders of the European anti-NATO movement#8212;uniting those on both sides of the Atlantic who
FW: [C-I] Fw: CPC release on the Milosevic Extradition [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK ListBot Sponsor -Original Message- From: mart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 12:37 PM To: W W; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; NY Transfer News; New Worker Online; Miroslav Antic; Marcellino; iac; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Gordon Flett; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Bob Petrovich; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Communards; wolfgang mueller; Eleanor; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Michel Collon; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; KIM; Rick Rozoff; Vladimir Krsljanin; Mrs. Jela Jovanovic; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Roger Romain Subject: [C-I] Fw: CPC release on the Milosevic Extradition Forward from mart. Please distribute widely. - Original Message - From: Communist Party of Canada To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 12:33 PM Subject: CPC release on the Milosevic Extradition July 2, 2001 For Immediate Release Canadian Communist Leader Denounces Illegal Extradition of Milosevic Miguel Figueroa, leader of the Communist Party of Canada, has strongly condemned the unlawful extradition of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to face war crime charges before the International Tribunal at The Hague. The illegal abduction of Milosevic violated not only the Constitution of the Federal Republic, the decisions of its Parliament, and the ruling of its Constitutional Court; it has also been condemned by the current Yugoslav President Kostunica himself, Mr. Figueroa said. This act, taken under immense and unprecedented economic and political pressure from the U.S. government, constitutes a shameful denial of elementary democratic rights and due process. It also reveals the true character of the International War Crimes Tribunal as an instrument of political vengeance and the imposition of a winners justice, the Communist leader added. The trial of Milosevic will be nothing more than a show trial to further demonize and punish all Yugoslavs who resisted NATO aggression, and who continue to oppose the trampling of their sovereignty and the imposition of a New World Order as dictated from Washington. Why is it that this nominally U.N. court continues to target those who resist U.S. imperialism and aggression, while real war criminals like Arial Sharon -- who was directly responsible for 1982 massacre of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Sabra and Chatilla camps -- and Henry Kissinger -- who as National Security Adviser to the U.S. government oversaw the slaughter of thousands of innocent civilians in Vietnam, Cambodia, East Timor and Chile -- have never been brought to account for their crimes against humanity? It is certain that President Milosevic will never receive a fair trial at The Hague tribunal, which is under the financial and political control of the NATO countries and private corporations. The pending trial of Milosevic, by all counts illegal and illegitimate, can only worsen the situation in Yugoslavia and dangerously destabilize the Balkan region as a whole. Mr. Figueroa demanded that the Hague Tribunal immediately release President Milosevic, and that no other Yugoslav nationals be sent to The Hague. Instead, he called for the establishment of a truly impartial committee of investigation into all allegations of murder and genocide in the Balkans. The CPC leader also called on the Yugoslav and Serbian authorities to end the arbitrary kidnapping, arrest, harassment and persecution of former Yugoslav leaders, soldiers, and working people and for the immediate release of the 250 members of the Socialist Party of Serbia and United Left who have been arrested on trumped up political charges. Instead of applauding this vengeful and illegal abduction, Canada should demand that all war criminals responsible for the Balkan calamity be brought to justice, including the NATO leaders themselves who launched a flagrant and murderous aggression against the people of Yugoslavia, and who continue those crimes today in Macedonia, using Albanian mercenaries and other proxy forces. =30= For more information, contact Miguel Figueroa at 416-469-2446. *** Communist Party of Canada 290A Danforth Ave., Toronto, Ont. M4K 1N6 416-469-2446 (voice) 416-469-4063 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.communist-party.ca Communist Internet Web Site Homepage: http://www.billkath.demon.co.uk/cw/cw.html Communist-Internet eGroup Homepage: http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet Subscribe send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubcribe send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FW: Marxists and Neolib Economists Debate Globalization in Cuba [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob Everton Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 5:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: san: Marxists and Neolib Economists Debate Globalization in Cuba Subject: What is Globalization? Cuba: Jan 2001 - In our countries we don't have economic policies, commented the president of the National College of Economists of Bolivia, we sign annual statements of intent between the government and the IMF. An excellent review of presentations by a range of economists - neo-classical to Marxist and shades in between at the 2nd Meeting on Globalisation and Problems of Development held in Cuba, January 24-28th, by the National Association of Cuban Economists and the Association of Economists of Latin America and the Caribbean. Talks focused on What is Globalization?, Globalization and Crisis, meaning of Seattle, Cuba, and solutions to problems through taxation, regional integration and the future of socialism among other things. fyi-janet = http://jinx.sistm.unsw.edu.au/~greenlft/2000/392/392p14.htm Globalisation -- understanding and resisting the monster By Dick Nichols HAVANA, Cuba -- What happens when you pour into one pot more than 800 economists from 58 countries representing nearly every viewpoint on the analytical and political spectrum? That's what occurred here on January 24-28 when some bold cooks, the National Association of Cuban Economists and the Association of Economists of Latin America and the Caribbean, held their Second Meeting on Globalisation and Problems of Development. The resulting stew was not as unpalatable as might have been feared when Chilean neo-classical economists are added to Latin American Marxists of various stripes, and dollops of every other school as well. The conference, a direct initiative of Cuban President Fidel Castro, began with a presentation from Ignacio Ramonet, the editor-in-chief of Le Monde Diplomatique. For Ramonet, globalisation represents a new phase in the world economy in which finance capital and the multinational firm dominate, turning compete or perish into a universal imperative. In economics, globalisation has killed the national market and led to the takeover of the public by the private, Ramonet said. In politics it has confiscated democracy, destroyed the basic values of the bourgeois revolution and established the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank as a planetary executive. In culture it means the universalisation of banality and violence. Ramonet was passionate in his support for global movements and campaigns, such as the revolt at Seattle, the proposal of US economist James Tobin for a tax on short-term international capital movements, the Campaign to Abolish Third World Debt and the demand that First World governments devote 0.7% of gross domestic product to Third World development. What is globalisation? Ramonet was followed by Jan Kregel of the United Nations Council on Trade and Development, who outlined how development as an issue for the international community had totally dropped off the agenda. However, Ramonet's extreme globalisation thesis was the target of all the subsequent discussion. Globalisation is predominantly a cultural phenomenon, argued Jaime Loring, from Spain's University of Cordoba. Others stressed that there's nothing in recent economic statistics for international trade, foreign investment and even the concentration of capital that hasn't been equalled or topped in previous periods. The most virulent comment was to come from Canadian analyst of the transnational firm, Frederic Clairmont: globalisation was a vile buzzword designed to drug the peoples with the feeling that struggle against the world-system is useless. However, while less apocalyptic in tone than Ramonet, most of the Marxist analysts present accepted that a qualitative change in world economy has taken place over the past 15 years. They differed, however, in the aspects stressed. For many, including the governor of the Central Bank of Cuba, Francisco Soberon Valdes, the central feature is the ballooning of global financial transactions of all sorts, and the terrible dangers posed by a stock market crash, a trading house bankruptcy or loan default by a Third World country. With a candour that no capitalist central banker could permit himself, Soberon told of the response he had received when he asked former IMF director Michel Camdessus and James Leach, the chairman of the banking committee of the US Congress, what measures were in train to control the activities of such operations as Long Term Capital Management. (In 1998 this US hedge
FW: Tribunal Finds U.S. Guilty of War Crimes in Korea [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb -- -Original Message- From: Gregory Elich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 9:37 AM To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Subject: Tribunal Finds U.S. Guilty of War Crimes in Korea - Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the July 5, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - After 50 Years of Suffering TRIBUNAL FINDS U.S. GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES IN KOREA Koreans from north and south present evidence By John Catalinotto New York Fifty years of enforced silence were broken on June 23 when Korean victims of U.S. war crimes finally had the chance to tell an International War Crimes Tribunal about what had happened to them. Some 600 people attended the historic gathering at the Interchurch Center of Riverside Church. Large delegations of Koreans came from South Korea, Japan, Canada and Germany, as well as from all over the U.S. Most evidence was presented in Korean and English to the multinational audience. The U.S. State Department had refused visas to a delegation of 11 lawyers bringing evidence from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The South Korean government had barred some witnesses from boarding planes to the U.S., sparking protests in Seoul. Tribunal organizers saw this as proof that both Washington and Seoul fear the impact of the truth about the U.S.'s colonial relationship with Korea. The testimony of victims from North Korea was presented via videotape. Listening intently to the evidence were over two dozen jurists from 17 countries. Twelve of these countries participated in the 1950-1953 war against Korea. After four sessions of deliberating over the testimony, this jury unanimously found the U.S. government and military guilty of 19 counts of war crimes committed against Korea from 1945 until 2001. Korea Truth Commission formed after No Gun Ri exposé The tribunal was the culmination of over a year's work by the Korea Truth Commission, which had been formed after the exposure of U.S. atrocities against Korean civilians at No Gun Ri during the Korean War. The KTC enlisted the aid in the U.S. of the International Action Center and Veterans for Peace, and the cooperation of many other organizations internationally. Yoomi Jeong of the KTC and Sara Flounders of the IAC co-chaired the tribunal. Former South Korean Supreme Court Justice Byun Jung Soo and former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark--who drafted the original indictment against the U.S. at the KTC request--were the chief prosecutors. Opening the prosecution, Byun noted that U.S. crimes have been suppressed and covered up and should be revealed in detail. People from North and South Korea have come together in the tribunal movement, he said. They hope the tribunal work will serve as an example for those who want the reunification of the two Koreas. Clark pointed out that the U.S. military went into Korea in September 1945 to stop Soviet troops and they divided the Korean people in half, putting into power a military government in the south that used brutal means to eliminate every form of sympathy with Koreans in the north. When war broke out in 1950, the U.S. declared North Korea Indian Territory, Clark said. This was a racist term meaning a free-fire zone. The invading troops killed 3.5 million civilians in three years. Washington has kept up the torture of economic sanctions since. Clark explained the KTC's decision to focus not only on the U.S. slaughter of civilians during the 1950-1953 Korean War, but also on the periods that preceded and followed it: first, the repression and murder of leftists from 1945 to 1950, and later the U.S. occupation of the south and economic sanctions against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the north following the 1953 truce. 1945-1950: Crimes against peace Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, legal representative of the Partnership for Civil Justice in Washington, presented the prosecution's brief for the 1945 to 1950 period. She instructed the jury that during this period the U.S. committed crimes against peace, which were defined at Nuremberg as the most serious of all war crimes. As an example of the political persecution and outright slaughter by the U.S.-backed military regime in the south during this period, the tribunal heard the testimony of witness Lee Do Young regarding the massacre of a quarter of the population of Cheju Island after an uprising in the spring of 1948. The island lies off the southern coast of the Korean peninsula. Lee said he was still frightened that the regime might punish him for presenting his testimony. Indeed, Seoul stopped some of the Cheju witnesses from coming to the tribunal. Lee's own father, who had worked
RE: I do not love Yugoslavia so much [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK ListBot Sponsor And it shows. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 10:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I do not love Yugoslavia so much [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK ListBot Sponsor Have you visited eBayTM lately? The Worlds Marketplace where you can buy and sell practically anything keeps getting better. From consumer electronics to movies, find it all on eBay. What are you waiting for? Try eBay today. http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/ebay Serbia's Prime Minister Eyes EU By HANS GREIMEL, Associated Press Writer SALZBURG, Austria (AP) - Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic primed his republic for possible European Union membership Monday, downplaying political turmoil in Yugoslavia and pledging cooperation in international war crimes trials.Speaking on the sidelines of the European Economic Summit, being held in Salzburg through Tuesday, Djindjic said EU membership for Serbia might be achieved only through a breakup with Montenegro, the junior partner in the Yugoslav federation.``I do not love Yugoslavia so much ... that I can't stand the thought that it doesn't exist,'' Djindjic said.Djindjic said Serbia, the larger of the two remaining Yugoslav republics, would try to develop a concrete plan for EU membership by 2004 and aim to launch accession talks within 10 years.Although admitting that Yugoslavia might not be able to meet the EU's strict membership rules any time soon, Djindjic said accepting Serbia was in the EU's interest because it would contribute to stability and prosperity in southeastern Europe, a region that has brought war, organized crime and waves of refugees to Western Europe's doorstep.``It's more expensive to have us outside than to have us inside,'' Djindjic said.Brushing off the collapse of the Yugoslav federal government as no more important than a ``soccer game,'' Djindjic said the formation of a new Cabinet would do little to change the country's overall landscape.Yugoslav Prime Minister Zoran Zizic and his Montenegrin allies in the federal government resigned last week in protest of former President Slobodan Milosevic's extradition to the U.N. war crimes tribunal - an extradition arranged by Djindjic.Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica and other Serb pro-democracy leaders still are jockeying to form a new Cabinet.Milosevic's handover brought pledges for $1.28 billion in aid from the United States and other Western donors.Djindjic defended the decision to turn over Milosevic, saying it was part of his government's obligation to confront its past.Although Djindjic said Serbia would continue to cooperate with international war crimes investigations, he balked at whether Serb authorities would help apprehend Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic.``It's a problem for international forces,'' Djindjic said. ``Not all problems are our problems.'' To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Milosevic: Trial Aims To Justify NATO's War Crimes [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Have you visited eBayTM lately? The Worlds Marketplace where you can buy and sell practically anything keeps getting better. From consumer electronics to movies, find it all on eBay. What are you waiting for? Try eBay today. http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/ebay -- Dave, I agree. When Kosta was doing some research, he came upon an article I found really interesting, in date of Aug. 10th, 1991, I believe. It's a GM thing taken off the wires AP/Reuter/CP. The final paragraph is: Also yesterday, Serbia's parliament annulled international agreements that forgave Second World War reparations, and demanded $96-billion in reparations from Germany, Bulgaria, and Hungary. ...thus making it really clear who was going to do hard time in a New World Order slammer, if the New World Order got its way. History WILL absolve him. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 12:02 PM To: STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! Subject: Re: Milosevic: Trial Aims To Justify NATO's War Crimes [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Have you visited eBayTM lately? The Worlds Marketplace where you can buy and sell practically anything keeps getting better. From consumer electronics to movies, find it all on eBay. What are you waiting for? Try eBay today. http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/ebay -- This guy has to be the bravest, boldest and most principled motherf..around! Definitely someone to look up to. On 3 Jul 01, at 2:38, Rick Rozoff wrote: STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Have you visited eBayTM lately? The Worlds Marketplace where you can buy and sell practically anything keeps getting better. From consumer electronics to movies, find it all on eBay. What are you waiting for? Try eBay today. http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/ebay -- July 3, 2001 War crimes court charges Milosevic THE HAGUE, Netherlands (CNN) -- Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has appeared before the U.N. war crimes tribunal to be formally charged with crimes against humanity. Milosevic -- the first head of state to face trial in The Hague -- did not have legal representation, having said he did not recognise the authority of the tribunal. He told the tribunal: I consider this tribunal false and the indictment false. It is illegal so I have no need to appoint counsel. At his first appearance before the tribunal on Tuesday, not guilty pleas were entered on Milosevic's behalf by the court after he refused to enter one himself. He faces charges of crimes against humanity stemming from the Yugoslav campaign against ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo. The case was adjourned until August 27 but the trial was not expected to begin hearing evidence until next year. Presiding judge Richard May told Milosevic he could re-consider his decision not to appoint counsel as the proceedings were expected to be long and complex. When Milosevic was asked if he wanted the indictments read out he replied: That's your problem. His response was regarded as a waiver of his rights by the court and the indictments were not read out. Milosevic also refused to enter a plea, saying: This trial aims to produce false justification for war crimes of NATO committed in Yugoslavia. CNN's Christiane Amanpour said Milosevic appeared in court with his jaw jutted forward, he looked defiant, and he kept looking at the public gallery. Throughout the hearing, Milosevic tried to make speeches, both in English and his native language, but the judge cut him off politely, saying this was not the time for speeches. Amanpour said Milosevic regards himself as a hero and NATO as the villains with the U.N. tribunal an arm of NATO. Milosevic believes he was transferred illegally to The Hague and that he was essentially kidnapped from his homeland. He is accused of crimes against humanity for actions carried out by the Yugoslav Army and Serbian security forces in Kosovo in 1999, including murder, deportation and prosecution of people on political, racial and ethnic grounds. He faces life in prison if convicted of any of the four charges. Milosevic's advisors have said he feels he was acting in the best interests of his country. Since his extradition last Thursday, Milosevic has spoken to his wife three times during what were described as seven-minute conversations. Milosevic's allies in Belgrade say that the
on the anniversary of the Lumumba assassination [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK ListBot Sponsor July 3, 2001 on Democracy NOW! [listen to the entire program at 14.4] Story: ON THE FORTY FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE CONGO, A CONVERSATION WITH RAOUL PECK ABOUT HIS AWARD WINNING NEW FILM LUMUMBA Congo eagerly ended a more than one decade break in relations with its old colonial ruler Saturday, welcoming Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt on the first visit by a Belgian leader since end of the the Cold War. At the same time, Congolese Prime Minister Joseph Kabila and his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni will meet in Tanzania on Wednesday for the first time to talk about the peace process in the Congo, which has been wracked by a regional war involving six countries - including Uganda - since 1998. It's a fitting moment for reflection, coming nearly forty-one years to the day after the Congo's independence from Belgium. It's also 76 years after the birth of Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the Congo. Lumumba, the new movie by Haitian-born film maker Raoul Peck, tells the story of Patrice Lumumba, who rose to power in 1960 as a leader the Congo's independence movement and was assassinated just over six months later in January 1961. Lumumba's pan-Africanism and his vision of a united Congo gained him many enemies. Both Belgium and the United States actively sought to have Lumumba overthrown or killed. Belgium was determined to maintain control over its former colony, while the United States sought to protect its access to the Congo's vast resources. The two countries turned to an ambitious young Colonel named Mobutu Sese Seko, who helped betray Lumumba and was implicated in his assassination. Mobutu went on to rule the Congo with U.S. support for more than thirty years before he was ousted in 1997, after stealing billions from his country people. The legacy of Lumumba's assassination in the Congo, potentially one of the richest countries in Africa, is especially bitter. Six foreign armies are now fighting in the Congo and an estimated 2 million people have died from fighting, disease and starvation since Rwanda and Burundi invaded the Congo in 1998. Patrice Lumumba's dream for the future of the Congo is today a walking nightmare. These words are from the last letters Patrice Lumumba wrote, a note to his wife: All during the length of my fight for the independence of my country, I have never doubted for a single instant the final triumph of the sacred cause to which my companions and myself have consecrated our lives. We are not alone. Africa, Asia, and free and liberated people from every corner of the world will always be found at the side of the Congolese History will one day have its say, but it will not be the history that Brussels, Paris, Washington or the United Nations will teach, but that which they will teach in the countries emancipated from colonialism and its puppets. Africa will write its own history, and it will be, to the north and to the south of the Sahara, a history of glory and dignity. When Lumumba premiered last week in New York at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival I had a chance to speak to Raoul Peck. We sat upstairs as the film played in the theater below us. Guest: Raoul Peck, director of Lumumba Related link: Zeitgeist Film Story: THE ROLE OF THE U.S. AND U.S. CORPORATIONS IN THE ASSASSINATION OF PATRICE LUMUMBA In the New York Times' review of Raoul Peck's film Lumumba last week, the role of the United States and the CIA in the assassination of the first Prime Minister of the Congo is relegated to a single sentence. The role of U.S., Belgian and other mining corporations in supporting the dismembering of the Congo and aiding the rise of Joseph Mobutu escapes the New York Times' version of history entirely. Most history books treat the crisis in the Congo as a Cold War struggle between the U.S. and the USSR. But there was another struggle, one among Western business interests for access to the Congo's vast mineral wealth. It was these struggles that help to explain U.S. support for Belgium intervention in the Congo during the Eisenhower Administration - and U.S. support for UN intervention under President Kennedy. Guests: David Gibbs, Professor of Political Science at the University of Arizona and author of The Political Economy of Third World Intervention: Mines, Money and U.S. Policy in the Congo Crisis Elombe Brath, head of the Patrice Lumumba Coalition. He is also a producer at WBAI (99.5 fm in New York), where he hosts a show, Africaleidescope, which airs on Thursday nights from 9-10pm. To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Title: FW: [TW] Milosevic hearing transcript - Comment from Italian TV. STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK ListBot Sponsor And you can disagree with the ruling pro-democracy forces in Serbia as long as you dont try to demonstrate against them and for Milosevic (thats banned) and you can vote down extradition proposals, naively exercising your authority as a federal legislator, as long as you dont expect your vote to be enforced. And you can defend Yugoslavias sovereignty and defend the Serbs against defamation on the Tribunal Watch [sic] list, as long as you dont mind being branded a Cetnik by the racist dumbass list owner and dont, say, call the people with whom you disagree Ustashas, in which case youd be put on notice, and then bounced if youre not repentant. Enjoy your trip through the Looking Glass. -Original Message- From: Jonathan Knight [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 1:18 PM To: 'STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN!' Subject: RE: [TW] Milosevic hearing transcript - Comment from Italian TV. [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK][WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK ListBot Sponsor Have you visited eBayTM lately? The Worlds Marketplace where you can buy and sell practically anything keeps getting better. From consumer electronics to movies, find it all on eBay. What are you waiting for? Try eBay today. http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/ebay A true sign of the fair hearing he will receive. He can defend himself as long as he doesn't say anything! JDK -Original Message- From: John Jay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 8:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FW: [TW] Milosevic hearing transcript - Comment from Italian TV. [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK ListBot Sponsor -- From: Luciano Di Cocco [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [TW] Milosevic hearing transcript Date: Tue, Jul 3, 2001, 7:16 pm To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FW: [JUGOINFO] Guerres latentes et stratégie améri [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]caine des Contras
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 1:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [JUGOINFO] Guerres latentes et stratégie américaine des Contras Nikolaï von KREITOR Guerres latentes et stratégie américaine des Contras Parmi les éléments clefs de la doctrine de Reagan, introduite au début des années 80, il y avait l'application de la tactique de la guerre indirecte, par le truchement de groupes criminels, agissant au titre de marionnettes (cf. les termes War by proxy, guerre par procuration, et Contras strategy, stratégie des contras). Cette stratégie a été appliquée à grande échelle au Nicaragua, un pays qui, pendant plusieurs années consécutives, a subi une attaque de la part des Etats-Unis, par le biais d'unités composées de bandits (les Contras), entièrement financées, armées et entraînées par les Etats-Unis. En vue d'examiner la stratégie américaine consistant à mener des guerres indirectes (la stratégie des Contras) à la lumière de la législation internationale positive, il faut préalablement se référer à la décision de la Cour Internationale de La Haye, qui constitue un précédent valable. En 1986, cette Cour a condamné les actes de terrorisme international, tels qu'ils avaient été mis en forme par la politique étrangère américaine à la suite de la Doctrine Reagan. Au cours du procès Nicaragua against the US, la Cour internationale a dit que les Etats-Unis avaient violé la législation internationale, à la suite d'actes d'agression prouvés. La sentence de la Cour a été énoncée comme suit: (3) Considérant que les Etats-Unis, en entraînant, fournissant, finançant, équipant et armant les forces des Contras, et également en encourageant, maintenant et organisant des opérations militaires et para-militaires contre le Nicaragua et sur le territoire de ce pays, ont agi contre la République du Nicaragua, en contrevenant de manière flagrante les normes de la législation internationale communément acceptée, en intervenant dans les affaires intérieures d'autres pays. (4) [La Cour] estime dès lors que les Etats-Unis d'Amérique ont commis des attaques armées contre Puerto Sandino le 13 septembre et le 14 octobre 1983, et ont également commis d'autres actes d'intervention, tels que mentionnés dans le paragraphe 3 de la présente sentence, y compris l'usage de la force militaire contre la République du Nicaragua, en contrevenant de manière flagrante les normes de la législation internationale communément acceptée, qui rejettent les interventions dans les affaires intérieures d'autres pays (1). L'élément, la composante, de violence est particulièrement évidente dans le cas d'une intervention soutenue par l'usage de la force - dans sa forme ouverte, par un usage direct de la force militaire, ou dans sa forme latente, par le soutien apporté aux actions terroristes et subversives se déroulant sur le territoire d'un autre Etat (3). En outre, il nous semble bon de rappeler ici que, durant les sessions du Premier Tribunal Russell International, qui examinait les crimes de l'armée américaine au Vietnam, le célèbre philosophe britannique Lord Bertrand Russell, de concert avec Jean-Paul Sartre, a déclaré, en tant que représentant principal de ce Tribunal, que les Etats-Unis considéraient le Vietnam de la même façon que Hitler avait considéré l'Espagne. Si Lord Russell était toujours vivant, il ajouterait aujourd'hui que les Etats-Unis considèrent la Yougoslavie comme Hitler considérait l'Espagne. Dans son message adressé au Second Tribunal Russell International, qui examinait les crimes contre la paix et contre l'humanité, ainsi que les crimes de guerre américains en Amérique latine, Lord Russell a déclaré: Les formes modernes d'agression internationale consistent à établir des régimes marionnettes, servant les intérêts d'Etats étrangers. La caractéristique principale de ces régimes marionnettes réside dans leur fonction, qui est de garantir la continuité des investissements étrangers (soit l'expansionnisme géopolitique étranger). Ces gouvernements marionnettes liquident brutalement tous les opposants politiques qui osent dénoncer le comportement collaborationniste de ces marionnettesS Les Etats-Unis emploient la CIA dans ce sens et dépensent des millions de dollars pour acheter, tuer ou renverser les gouvernements qui résistent à l'impérialisme américain (4). L'établissement de régimes marionnettes est historiquement l'une des méthodes traditionnelles, bien éprouvée, de la politique américaine pour détruire la souveraineté des pays et pour réduire les peuples en esclavage. Dans cette optique, il est désormais nécessaire de considérer ces méthodes comme des actes d'agression, relevant de
RE: Yugoslavia: Treason, Blackmail, Gangsterism [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb -- Isn't the Aussie Guardian a progressive pub? CPA, n'est-ce pas? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 8:40 PM To: STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! Subject: Re: Yugoslavia: Treason, Blackmail, Gangsterism [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb -- A refreshing change from, what I assume to be, a main-stream publication(?)... On 4 Jul 01, at 15:53, Rick Rozoff wrote: STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb -- The Guardian (Australia) Wednesday, July 4th, 2001. Yugoslavia: Treason, blackmail, gangsterism Treason, blackmail, kidnapping and gangsterism are the only fitting words to describe the actions of the Federal Government of Yugoslavia in the kidnapping of Milosevic which involved a British military plane and bribery by the European Union and the US. The operation was marked by the disregard of a ruling by the High Court of Yugoslavia that suspended the Governmentís decree authorising the extradition of Milosevic and others. The Government in effect tore up the Yugoslav Constitution which specifically rules out the extradition of Yugoslav citizens to other countries. It then, together with British and American authorities, organised the spiriting away of Slobodan Milosevic from his Belgrade prison in a bread delivery van. He was delivered to an American base from where he was flown to The Hague in a British military plane. All this was associated with the billion dollar bribe of the Yugoslav Government by the European Union and the US. Milosevic is now to be arraigned before NATOís kangaroo court in The Hague. Belgrade is in turmoil following the illegal extradition of Milosevic. Even before Mr. Milosevic was secretly taken from his prison, huge Belgrade crowds reacted angrily to the news that the Yugoslav Government cabinet had issued a decree authorising the extradition of Milosevic and other Yugoslav citizens to NATO's so-called War Crimes Tribunal. Between 100,000 to 200,000 people rallied and marched in Republic Square in Belgrade. Speakers were saying this is treason to the Serbian nation. The Constitution is the highest legal obligation of any state and by breaking the Constitution one betrays the nation. They are saying that all Serbian people and others loyal to Yugoslavia must unite and take back their government and throw out those who have betrayed the nation to Washington, which dangles false bribes to humiliate the Serbian people, says an urgent message from Jared Israel (journalist of Emperor's Clothes) who was on the phone to Belgrade as the rally went on. At the rally people were speaking with one voice. They said: Abolish the decree! Serbian and Yugoslav governments should resign! Nobody should be extradited to The Hague! Those who adopted this illegal decree should be criminally charged! There must be general elections on all levels because the government has committed treason and lied and therefore nobody any longer supports them. The President of Yugoslavia, Vojislav Kostunica claimed that he had found out about the transportation of Mr Milosevic from the media [sic] and that his deportation was illegal. International reaction: International reaction to the events in Belgrade was swift and furious. Despite attempts of western media outlets to present the case as a just and well-deserved outcome, alternative voices hit the Internet to express their views. Demonstrations were organised and petitions and protests sent to Yugoslav authorities. Momir Bulatovic, President of the Socialist People's Party (SNP) of Montenegro, a major party in the ruling coalition, announced that the Prime Minister and six Ministers would quit the federal government in protest. The SNP Vice President, Mr Jovanovic, told the media that the Serbian Government's decision to hand over Milosevic in defiance of the Federal Constitutional Courtís ruling amounted to a coup. What happened is that Djindjic suspended the constitutional system of Yugoslavia. Djindjic introduced dictatorship, and the responsibility for that lies on him and all others who did nothing to prevent this. As another official of the Yugoslav Socialist Party said
RE: Toronto Star Editorial on illegal decree... [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb -- The Kostunica government deserves credit for adopting a cabinet decree on Saturday... but as we've seen, he's far too modest to take the credit -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 9:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; activistlist; Eternera Mailing List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Toronto Star Editorial on illegal decree... [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Have you visited eBayTM lately? The Worlds Marketplace where you can buy and sell practically anything keeps getting better. From consumer electronics to movies, find it all on eBay. What are you waiting for? Try eBay today. http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/ebay -- [Courtesy of a disgusting paper, with despicable editors parading as progressive...] No place to hide Thus do despots fall. Two years ago, Slobodan Milosevic was undisputed master of Yugoslavia. A notorious Balkan nationalist, he seduced his people with dreams of a Greater Serbia, delivered nothing but ethnic hatred, war, disintegration, sanctions and ruin, yet remained in power. He seemed untouchable. Not so today. Milosevic has been replaced by a reformist democrat, President Vojislav Kostunica. He was ousted in a remarkable popular uprising last October. On April 1 Milosevic was arrested by fellow Serbs, charged with corruption, jailed, served with a warrant to face United Nations accusations of crimes against humanity, and now is fighting extradition to the U.N. war crimes tribunal at The Hague. After more than a decade of self-imposed isolation, Serbia is rejoining the family of nations. Milosevic's fate is a powerful caution to other political leaders who may imagine themselves to be above the rule of law. His comfortable world changed in May, 1999 when a Canadian jurist serving as U.N. chief war crimes prosecutor, Madam Justice Louise Arbour, made legal history by issuing the indictment against him and his cronies for crimes in Kosovo, where thousands of ethnic Albanians were killed by Serb forces and hundreds of thousands driven from their homes. That made him the first political leader in office to be so charged. At the time, Milosevic sneered that the court would never touch him, claiming its reach did not extend to Serbia. How wrong he was. The law proved more powerful than his bluster. Arbour's indictment, no less than the North Atlantic Treaty Organization air campaign to prevent Milosevic's army from rampaging through Kosovo, shattered his credibility with Serbs and ultimately his regime. Today, a broken man, Milosevic sits in a Belgrade prison fighting extradition, pitying himself and threatening suicide. Yugoslavia's international obligation as a U.N. member state is to co-operate with The Hague tribunal, said Nebojsa Covic, a Kostunica ally. We must no longer allow ourselves to be Milosevic's hostages.'' The Kostunica government deserves credit for adopting a cabinet decree on Saturday promising to send Milosevic to The Hague for trial for his role in Balkan campaigns of ``ethnic cleansing'' and terror that killed 250,000 or more. The decree is meant to override the Yugoslav parliament's refusal to change the law prohibiting such extradition. Parliament is still thick with holdover Milosevic cronies. Judges and prosecutors must now co-operate fully with The Hague, which yesterday requested Milosevic's extradition. Cabinet's decree recognizes that international law takes precedence over national law in war crimes cases. This gesture took political courage, because many Serbs still oppose Milosevic's extradition, though few want him back in office. It should spur the United States, Canada and other countries to pledge $1.5 billion or more in aid to Yugoslavia, to begin rebuilding its war- and sanctions-shattered economy. A donors' conference will be held in Brussels this coming weekend. Belgrade has earned some help. The sooner democratic Yugoslavia can regain its feet, and rejoin the European community of nations, the better. __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Jamaican History: Sean Gervasi 1980 report[WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] [WWW.ST...
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Sopranos fanatics, this one is for you. Tony Soprano's autographed Suburban is available for purchase on eBayTM. James Gandolfini has personally signed the vehicle. Find this and over 800 other Sopranos items for sale on eBay. http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/ebay -- Kole/Heather, A Jamaican friend was telling me that her phonetic spelling of Seaga was C-I-A-ga -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 6:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Jamaican History: Sean Gervasi 1980 report[WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] [WWW.ST... STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Have you visited eBayTM lately? The Worlds Marketplace where you can buy and sell practically anything keeps getting better. From consumer electronics to movies, find it all on eBay. What are you waiting for? Try eBay today. http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/ebay -- Dear Kole, Thank you so much for your kind words. Last weekend the NYTimes had an article about some poor woman whose son was killed and how devoted she and her neighbors in Kingston, Jamaica are to their political savior, Seaga; the Times even did a phonetic spelling of it, so readers would learn this name again as a soon-to-be household word. He's not Kostunica, he is Djindjic. So now its Yugoslavia in Jamaica, not just in Zimbabwe. Not just in Yugoslavia. Destabilization is the name of the game, and it's an old game. If Patterson isn't developing good ties with Venezuela, he should be. I am trying to find out more information about Jamaica and I will keep stopnato posted. Regards, Heather __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK ListBot Sponsor July 3, 2001 Letters to the Editor New York Times 229 West 43rd St New York, NY 10036-3959 [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX. (212) 556-3622 To the Editor: The removal of Holocaust artifacts from the Ukraine discussed in your op-ed piece (The Wrong Way to Protect the Jewish Past, July 3rd) is not the only scandal of this nature facing major Holocaust museums today. In November 2000 the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. cut a deal with the unelected Premier of the Serbian Republic in Bosnia, Milorad Dodik, which improperly transferred Holocaust archives and artifacts out of Bosnia. At least 25,000 Jews and hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Gypsies, and anti-fascist Yugoslavs were murdered at Jasenovac by the Croatian Nazi wartime régime. That the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum now wishes to transfer these archives this year back into the hands of a Croatian government which is tied to and upholds the very same Nazi past is an outrage to Survivors and another stain on the reputation of Holocaust institutions. Jim Yarker Administrative Director Jasenovac Research Institute To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Sopranos fanatics, this one is for you. Tony Soprano's autographed Suburban is available for purchase on eBayTM. James Gandolfini has personally signed the vehicle. Find this and over 800 other Sopranos items for sale on eBay. http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/ebay -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 4:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: you will find this article interesting Western foundations in Ukraine Wooing pro-American elite starts at school By Kirill Frolov 19.48.2001, 15:48 Full story: Americans persist with propaganda campaigns against Belarus and Ukraine [printable version] The United States and its NATO allies are seeking to exercise full control over Ukraine's cadres, intellectual resources and elite via a well-oiled and ramified system of foundations and public organizations in Ukraine. There are several dozen such organizations. Apart from Freedom House, which Bogdan Khmelnitsky mentions in his article, there are Pilip Orlik Foundation, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Moscow branch of Keston College also known as Center for Study of Religion and Communism Ltd., and, of course, organizations created by George Soroz. The wooing of the future elite starts at school. Speaking in an interview with Kiev-based Zerkalo nedeli paper as early as 1997, Soroz Foundation Ukrainian branch chief Bogdan Gavrilishin claimed that his outfit had published over 90 titles of school history textbooks devoted to anti-colonial (i.e., anti-Russian) themes. One of these mentions four (!) Russian-Ukrainian wars. The fostering of pro-American elite continues in major universities. For example, the Atlantic Center, actually the press service of the NATO representation in Ukraine, has for several years been based in the Kiev State University. The Kiyevo-Mogilyanskaya Academy, which trains managerial personnel, is under the same sort of tutelage. The Academy students had a rare piece of luck, what with Zbigniew Brzezinsky himself, honorary citizen of the city of Lvov, delivering them a lecture. Directed by the U.S. Embassy, these organizations openly interfere in the Ukrainian political process. A well-known student of the Russian emigre community, Mikhail Nazarov, asserts the U.S. side was very selective about its financing of anticommunist organizations, with only those that favored partition of historical Russia eligible for aid. All others, including supporters of a Russian-Belarussian-Ukrainian federation, were given no aid whatsoever and their very existence was glossed over in silence. But let us go back to modernity. The early operation to play up Yushchenko and fan the cassette scandal was run by the Ukrainian branch of Radio Liberty and Zerkalo nedeli, Kiev's biggest Russian-language newspaper characterized not otherwise than the mouthpiece of the U.S. Embassy. The Zerkalo nedeli cropped up as the Ukrainian outgrowth of the U.S. Russian-language newspaper Novoye Russkoye Slovo. Today, ZN is the mouthpiece of Yushchenko and his bloc, which is made up of Rukh and the Reforms and Order party. In spring 2001, George Soroz wrote President Kuchma an open letter, in which he declared that he was wrapping up his operations in Ukraine pending Kuchma's departure from his post. Soroz suggested that he go as soon as possible and stated his support for Yushchenko and Timoshenko. A forthright man he is. Well, Ukraine will manage without him somehow. Particularly without his textbooks. But dozens of other foundations, public organizations and charities are still in place. According to information from Kiev sources, there are plans to launch a number of actions shortly with the aim of playing up former Prime Minister Yushchenko. One of these will be inducing the collapse of a number of commercial banks (Ukraina Bank among others), which cater to the agro-industrial complex. After that the Kinakh Government will be accused of inability to ensure wage payments in the countryside, which under Yushchenko were solely at the expense of Western credits. Kiev observers put forward the following story of Yushchenko's political career. It is asserted that after the death of his political father, National Bank Governor Viktor Getman, young politician Yushchenko was left without a chaperon and found the new patron in former Deputy Prime Minister Nikolai Zhulinsky, one of the most rabidly anti-Russian politicians in Ukraine. Yet another dark side of the Brzezinsky plan involves operation of Ukrainian pro-fascist organizations like UNA-UNSO. In accordance with information from Kiev sources, Brzezinsky ordered precisely that organization to become the leader of nationalist
FW: Killing of a Protester [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK ListBot Sponsor -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Burch Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 5:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: san: Killing of a Protester July 20, 2001 Francesco Scarlata, Consulate General Italian Consulate Cons. Gen. 136 Beverly Street Toronto, Ontario M5T 1Y5 Dear Mr. Scarlata, It was with dismay that I heard of the killing of a protester in Genoa, Italy. The protester was, it is my understanding, shot in the head. I must protest, in the most strongest terms, the use of what can best be described as extra-judicial executions to deal with expressions of dissent. If there are allegations of illegal activities at a protest, the proper method to deal with such allegationsare through arrests and a fair and impartial trial of those accused of criminal activities. It is never appropriate to use deadly force to deal with those willing to speak out. I look forward to reading of charges being laid against the officer responsible for the death of the protester. Any other response is a public acceptance of the use of murder as a political tool. Sincerely, (Rev.) Brian Burch To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FW: Aug 6 - March for Disarmament and Hiroshima Day vigil [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
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RE: Belarus: State Department Appoints Its Kostunica [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb -- 'as the Sorosite independent media kick into gear and neo-fascist skinheads are recruited into OTPOR-type assault squads' and watch for some others to kick into gear in support of the Belarus Otpor - Znet, British pseudo-trotskyists, Western anti-globalization Beautiful People, DSA/CofC hacks, etc - all's fair when it comes to toppling Stalinist bureaucracies. -Original Message- From: Rick Rozoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 3:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Belarus: State Department Appoints Its Kostunica [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb -- Goncharik, 61, said he had no objection to Belarus joining the European Union and NATO. [The suitcases full of Deutschmarks and US dollars are no doubt already arriving in Minsk, as the Sorosite independent media kick into gear and neo-fascist skinheads are recruited into OTPOR-type assault squads: All the earmarks of NATO democracy for export. When does the Belarus Parliament building go up in flames?] Sunday July 22, 1:44 AM Belarus opposition agrees on single election candidate MINSK, July 21 (AFP) - The opposition in the former Soviet republic of Belarus announced Saturday it would field a single presidential candidate against hardline leader Alexander Lukashenko and predicted victory if the elections were fair. We appeal to all political forces, organisations and citizens to support us for the sake of the future of Belarus, said new opposition candidate Vladimir Goncharik. He will lead a bid on September 9 to topple Lukashenko, whose authoritarian regime has come under fire at home and abroad with charges of political opponents ending up in prison or disappearing. The new five-man opposition team have said they believe their alliance can win if the vote was free and fair. But foreign observers are much more cautious about the opposition's prospects. Despite his tough image, Lukashenko, 46, a former Soviet collective farm boss who has ruled here since 1994, enjoys a popularity rating of 43.8 percent and Goncharik only 10.3 percent, according to opinion polls. If we win, society will become democratic and the economy will be reformed, said Goncharik, once a communist official of the former state-controlled Soviet trade union movement and now leader of his country's largest trade union. Goncharik, 61, said he had no objection to Belarus joining the European Union and NATO. However, observers say Russia would firmly resist any idea of a former Soviet constituent republic such as its neighbour Belarus joining the Atlantic Alliance - and Belarus is heavily dependent on Russia economically. Goncharik gained the backing of the four other opposition leaders, who will withdraw from the race at the beginning of August when the electoral commission confirms who can run. All five of us will work in a united team and combine our efforts, he said. Sergei Kalyakin, a communist, said he believed other candidates sharing the ideas of the main opposition would join the anti-Lukashenko alliance. Others in the new oppositon alliance are former prime minister Mikhail Chigir, former defence minister Pavel Kozlovsky and a former mayor of the northwest city of Grodno, Semyon Domash. The opposition boycotted last October's parliamentary elections which were marred by irregularities, according to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Western powers have kept Lukashenko's regime isolated because of what they consider human rights violations and undemocratic practices. Several political opponents to Lukashenko have ended up in prison, on disputed charges, or disappeared. The economy has remained practically unreformed since Belarus became independent with the dissolution the Soviet Union in 1991. The oppposition is at the mercy of a president who governs by decree and can change the rules of the game at any time. Its only opportunity to get its voice heard is on neighbouring Russian television, which is watched in Belarus. But the opposition is openly supported from Washington which has demanded an investigation into the disappearance of regime opponents. On Friday four women pleaded in Washington for international support over their husbands, who have been jailed, disappeared or died in suspicious circumstances. The opposition is pinning its hopes on forcing the vote to a second round, which it believes it could grow into a protest movement against Lukashenko that will topple him. Foreign observers are much
