[A-List] Renounce ethnic identity --and all false identity

[Nadja Tesich]

James,Todd and others,
Yugoslavia used to get economic aid from USA.That stopped with the fall of Soviet Union.
At the same time there was an act in Congress that only those republics that vote the way US wishes-will get economic aid.It meant-YOU CAN'T vote socialist.AND they tempted Croatia with money,easy life etc.Croatia had the bank accounts in New York before they separated.
Other players--Germany wanted the Adriatic.
Vatican-can't remember the name of Pope who said in Hungary,that he is for free
and independent Croatia.
 
Everything was about-to destroy the unity and to end socialsm.
 
In Bosnia,USA picked Izatbegovich who had worked with German fascists and was condemned by Tito for the war crimes.
 
 
In Lisbon all the parties in Bosnia had signed an agreement when USA
 
 
told Izatbegovich to lift his signature because 'he would get a 
better deal'.
 
Slobodan Milosevich proposed at the conference in London'that all people should vote  and decide if they want to be in Yugoslavia.
USA said NO to that.And then ,later they killed him.
 
If Soviet Union had lasted--nothing would have happened.
The war turned out to be a war against the Serbs because they remained
Socialist and were bombed for that reason.
 
I could say so much more but it would take a book.
Nadja
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> From: james.irldaly at ntlworld.com
> To: a-list at lists.econ.utah.edu
> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:46:11 +0100
> Subject: Re: [A-List] Renounce ethnic identity --and all false identity
>
>
>
>
> Thanks, Tony, for that prompt demolition of the imperialist lying
> propaganda about Yugoslavia. Ironically for Todd's account, Yugoslavia
> was "ethnically" homogeneous -- Slav. But Croatia was always
> sympathetic to clerical fascism of the "Jews Christ killers" kind. The
> recognition of its breakaway by Germany was the beginning of the end.
> Yet, a peaceful if reluctant settlement based on a European carve up
> was on the point of being signed, when an overnight visit to
> Izetbegovic by US representatives made him change his mind -- and the
> rest is war.
>
> -- JD
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tony B.
> To: The A-List
> Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2010 10:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [A-List] Renounce ethnic identity --and all false identity
>
> "James, would you please clarify for me, your theory of the
> causes and operation of the Yugoslav wars. "
>
> Todd,
>
> I've posted this before; I wrote it many moons ago re the Yugoslav
> conflict. As a 'quick and dirty' intro it'll do..though as James
> mentioned, the books by Parenti and Johnstone are, naturally, the
> essential in-depth sources.
>
> Tony
>
> ..a blast from the past. The real story behind the war on Yugoslavia
> (circa 1999).
>
>
> Death at The Hague
>
>
>
>
>
> Kafka could have written the book, Orwell the screen adaptation, such
> is the extraordinary, even absurdist, lengths to which Western
> propagandists have gone to invert the reality.
>
>
>
> Nevertheless, the fanciful vilification of one man (Slobobdan
> Milosevic), the completely fabricated demonization of an entire nation
> (Serbia), and the impudent revisionist history concocted for an epoch
> defining conflict (Yugoslavia), was scripted by neither of these two
> masters of social and political satire. It was, instead, penned by an
> altogether more sinister hand - 'victor's justice'.
>
>
>
> A Kangaroo Tribunal
>
>
>
> The controversial death (controversial by virtue of the fact that, by
> all accounts, it was entirely preventable) on March 11 of Milosevic in
> his prison cell at Sheveningen (near The Hague) capped one of the most
> sordid episodes in recent Western imperial history. That the trial
> itself was nothing but a show trial, a kangaroo court, there can be no
> doubt.
>
>
>
> Thus, not only was the tribunal largely funded by American corporations
> and the American government in direct violation of its Charter, but it
> was entirely staffed through their approval. Nor was it ever ratified
> by the UN General Assembly. Then, of course, the 78 day bombardment of
> Yugoslavia by NATO was, itself, completely illegal under international
> law having never been validated by the United Nations Security Council
> or General Assembly (a fact conveniently and unfailingly forgotten by
> official pundits).
>
>
>
> Indeed, there was no comparable tribunal to try the NATO leaders for
> this brutal, gratuitous and unlawful attack on a sovereign nation (the
> first unprovoked assault on a European nation since the Second World
> War).
>
>
>
> In addition, the protocol of the court itself was/is patently
> scandalous, openly defying centuries of normative Western jurisprudence
> (hearsay evidence is allowed, witnesses can testify anonymously; there
> is no jury, etc).
>
>
>
> Moreover, in three years of testimony not a single piece of evidence
> linking Milosevic to his alleged crimes was ever produced (his
> premature death thus proving something of Godsend to prosecutors).
> Indeed, despite having the most meagre of resources at his disposal,
> Milosevic early on turned the tables on his accusers by demolishing
> their witnesses one after the other. Such was his success that the
> proceedings quickly began to resonate less with "echoes of the
> Nuremberg trials" than with rumblings of the Stalin show trials.
> Expecting a staid morality play of "the Butcher of Belgrade" vs. the
> Good Guys, journalists at the trial were, instead, treated to a rousing
> production of David versus Goliath.
>
>
>
> But then, the charges against Milosevic were always flimsy at best,
> where they were not outright fabrications.
>
>
>
> A Short History of Violence
>
>
>
> Though virtually the entire corpus of the mainstream media has
> continued to paint the civil wars in the 1990s as the sole
> responsibility of the Serbs, to do so has required an unremitting
> dedication to wilfully falsifying the facts of the case.
>
>
>
> It has, for instance, entered Western political mythology that
> Milosevic was a rabid nationalist who in his famous Kosovo Field Speech
> of 1989 stoked the fires of Serb national intolerance. This notion is
> curiously at odds with the media's initial reception of the speech
> which called it a model of multiethnic tolerance and profound
> appreciation of the virtues of peaceful co-existence (as is consistent
> with the fact the speech was never thereafter actually quoted).
>
>
>
> Moreover, it was clear that leaders such as Croatia's Franjo Tudjman, a
> Holocaust-denier with an abiding affection for the old WW2 Croatian
> regime allied with Hitler (Tudjman, once in power, had streets, that
> had been named in honour of WW2 anti-fascist partisans, changed to
> honour fascist leaders), and the Muslim nationalist leader Izetbegovic
> (who in his youth had collaborated with Hitler) were intent from the
> get-go both in breaking up Yugoslavia and in ethnically 'cleansing'
> their respective populations. But to do this they needed outside help.
> Enter the World Bank and the IMF.
>
>
>
> In December 1989 the IMF imposed draconian conditions on Yugoslavia
> aimed at destabilizing and destroying its large state-owned businesses.
> In the banking system alone over half a million workers were laid off
> in one year. Two out of every three state sector jobs were eliminated.
> The result, not surprisingly, was chaos, misery, and the inflammation
> of long smouldering nationalist sentiments amongst the various ethnic
> enclaves. The initial impulse, then, of the eventual civil wars in
> Yugoslavia stemmed from this externally imposed, ham-fisted,
> neo-colonialist enterprise.
>
>
>
> Now, when Milosevic assumed leadership of Yugoslavia in the fall of
> 1990 he immediately sought to stem this destruction of the country's
> largely socialist economy. However, in resisting this process of
> 'globalization' Milosevic quickly earned the undying enmity of the
> great Western powers. Imperial logic dictated that he would have to go.
>
>
>
> It was at this point that the US and Germany began infiltrating
> advisors, weapons and money into the hands of secessionist groups
> throughout Yugoslavia. The infiltration was, at first, carried out by
> ostensibly private mercenary outfits like Military Professional
> Resources Inc. (MPRI), a 'business' with close ties to the Pentagon and
> staffed by former high ranking US military and intelligence officers.
> In collusion with Slovenian, Croat, Muslim and Albanian leaders MPRI
> began to foment the various conflicts that would be uniformly
> thereafter blamed on Milosevic, but who, by any objective standards,
> was alone in attempting to quell the growing, and by now largely
> artificially stimulated, ethnic tensions.
>
>
>
> Later outfits included the likes of several thousand Mujahadeen
> fighters (with cameo appearances by Osama bin Laden) who had graduated
> from CIA-funded training in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and who then
> found gainful employment in the service of their old masters in a new
> and exciting frontier.
>
>
>
> When the inevitable wars of secession finally did occur and when, as in
> any civil war, excesses and atrocities were committed on all sides,
> only the Serbs' crimes were focused on in lavish, endlessly provocative
> detail (this due in part to the US public relations firm Ruder Finn,
> colleagues of the PR firm Hill & Knowlton, they of the infamous Kuwaiti
> 'incubator' lie used as pretext for the 1991 Gulf War). In fact, the
> disinformation campaign was worse than this. Many of the larger crimes
> attributed to the Serbs were either brazenly decontextualized, grossly
> exaggerated or completely fabricated. A few examples are worthy of
> exploration.
>
>
>
> Welcome to The Trueman Show....
>
>
>
> One of the "crimes" (in fact the 'crime') used as a pretext for the
> NATO attack on March 24, 1999, was a sensationalized account of a
> massacre of 48 Albanian Kosovars in the village of Racak by Serb armed
> forces in mid-January of that year. The problem with the official
> version of events was that a bevy of international observers and an
> Associated Press TV crew who happened to be on hand witnessed not a
> massacre but a firefight between Yugoslav and Kosovo Liberation Army
> (KLA) guerrillas. Subsequently two Western forensic teams also cast
> grave doubt on the 'massacre' which looked more and more like a
> dog-and-pony show staged by William Walker, (Washington's man in
> Kosovo) and the KLA. But NATO and its dutiful press corps simply
> suppressed the evidence and reported its own version of events to a
> now, well-indoctrinated, anti-Serb Western audience.
>
>
>
> Then there was the infamous "death camp" at Trnopolje, Bosnia,
> reputedly filmed by an ITN film crew in 1992. It was later revealed
> that the crew had filmed immigrants while stationing themselves behind
> a chicken and barbed wire enclosure, i.e. a complete fabrication.
>
>
>
> Another egregious piece of propaganda concerns the so-called "ethnic
> genocide" in Kosovo in the two years prior to NATO intervention. For
> despite the wildly extravagant claims bandied about in the press prior
> to the NATO attack (often ranging past a hundred thousand and,
> occasionally up to half a million) follow-up investigation by a number
> of international forensic teams (including one from the RCMP) yielded
> approximately 3000 bodies. And of these, the majority were combatants,
> not civilians, and included Serb as well as KLA forces.
>
>
>
> In other words, a "genocide" had been fabricated entirely out of thin
> air, was later proven to be so, and this fact was then blithely
> dismissed as somehow irrelevant to Western political and cultural
> values.
>
>
>
> Irrelevant perhaps, but certainly revealing.
>
>
>
> Then there was the ludicrous charge that Milosevic had ethnically
> cleansed up to 800,000 Albanian Kosovars during the 78-day NATO
> bombardment. In truth, it was the bombardment itself in conjunction
> with some timely cattle prodding by the KLA (to provide a continued
> pretext for NATO intervention) that led to the mass exodus.
>
>
>
> What is worse is that, following the NATO attack, the KLA (long known
> to the American Drug Enforcement Agency as virtually coincident with
> the Albanian mafia - itself responsible for a sizeable proportion of
> the heroin trade in the Western Hemisphere) did, in actual fact, later
> ethnically cleanse over 300,000 Serbs, Romas, Jews and others from
> Kosovo (and killed several thousand more). And this occurred under NATO
> stewardship. Indeed, the almost total ethnic cleansing of up to 2
> million Serbs by Croat, Bosnian and KLA forces from their respective
> territories remains to this day one of the most blatantly suppressed
> facts of the entire Yugoslav conflict.
>
>
>
> This latter example points up the utter hypocrisy of the doctrine of
> 'command responsibility' under which Milosevic was being tried. For if
> this doctrine was applied across the board, there is not a leader in
> NATO who wouldn't (just for the aftermath of Kosovo alone, let alone
> previous or more recent crimes) find him or herself in the dock.
>
>
>
> Finally, it's worth delving into what is probably the greatest triumph
> of propaganda to emerge from the Balkan wars; the so-called 'Srebrenica
> massacre'.
>
>
>
> Of the vast repertoire of lies that have been woven into the rotted
> fabric of the official history of modern Yugoslavia (including - in
> addition to those already mentioned - the Serb refusal to negotiate at
> Rambouillet, the 250,000 Bosnian dead, the Markdale massacre, and the
> notion of 'Greater Serbia' as the driving impulse behind the Balkan
> wars) probably the most resonant, and so the most damaging, is that of
> the Srebrenica massacre. For it is 'Srebrenica' that, above all the
> others, came to symbolize the bottomless depredation, the utter evil of
> the Serbs, in stark and woeful contrast to the limitless victimhood of
> their opponents.
>
>
>
> The truth of the matter is somewhat more sobering. Thus, of the
> original estimate of 8,000 killed (which included 5,000 "missing"),
> several thousand were later known to have reached Bosnian Muslim lines.
> Many more were later shown to have perished in combat. Despite these
> well documented facts, and despite the fact that satellite photos and
> later forensic investigation failed to turn up any actual evidence of a
> massacre [2,000 bodies were later disinterred in the area but, as in
> the case of Kosovo, most (though not all) of these were found to be
> combatants, including the bodies of Serb forces] the '8,000' (civilian)
> figure continues to live on in Western mythology completely immune from
> critical analysis.
>
>
>
> Also immune from critical analysis was the political and military
> context surrounding Srebrenica. That is, the almost total 'failure' to
> publicize how the Bosnian Muslims were using the previously designated
> 'safe haven' of Srebrenica to launch murderous raids on local Bosnian
> Serb villages; or how the 'massacre' was yet another in a long line of
> strategically timed revelations/fabrications designed to surmount
> political barriers to increased NATO intervention; or how it was used
> as propaganda cover for the immediately preceding ethnic cleansing of
> Western Bosnia by Croatian authorities, and for the immediately
> succeeding and brutal 'cleansing' of the Krajina Serb population (over
> 150,000 forced out with more civilian deaths than ever documented at
> Srebrenica) again by Croatian forces, and with US approval and
> logistical support.
>
>
>
>
>
> Witness for the Prosecution
>
>
>
> Following the NATO attack and the subsequent reduction of Yugoslavia to
> a splintered string of NATO protectorates dominated by intolerance,
> militarism, graft, unemployment prostitution and rampant privatization
> (and the construction, to boot, of the largest NATO military base in
> Eastern Europe - Camp Bondsteel), there quickly arose the need to
> maintain the fictions employed in the decade long propaganda war. To
> this end was Milosevic illegally (i.e. in defiance of the Serb
> Constitution) kidnapped and brought to The Hague for prosecution for
> ‘war crimes’.
>
>
>
> Unfortunately for the prosecution, its evidence, consisting of little
> more than the war propaganda churned out at a time when the principle
> concern of the Allies was not to contrive an airtight criminal case,
> but rather simply to win Western public acquiescence for a naked
> assault on Serbia, failed conspicuously to stand up under
> cross-examination.
>
>
>
> Indeed, symbolic of the prosecution’s failure was the case of their
> star witness, Radomir Markovic, the former head of Serbian secret
> police. Called to the stand to tell the dirty on Milosevic, he not only
> completely turned the tables (by relating how Milosevic had, time and
> again, attempted to quell ethnic tensions, and reign in, discipline and
> even prosecute Serbian army excesses), but, and oh by the way, how he
> (Markovic) had first been tortured, then bribed by the prosecution to
> lie about Milosevic’s ’crimes’!
>
>
>
> Judge Richard May immediately attempted to muzzle Markovic. He needn’t
> have bothered for the Western press subsequently did the job for him,
> almost uniformly failing to report Markovic’s testimony. They also
> failed to report many other accounts including the testimony of Dr Cees
> Wiebes, a professor at Amsterdam University, whose 7,000 page report on
> Srebrenica concluded that, whatever did happen there, it is clear that
> Milosevic had absolutely nothing to do with it.
>
>
>
> Now, of course, none of this - not the historical record of US and
> German intrigue, the questions, the testimony, the pattern of
> undeniable and egregious propaganda - none of it has made the slightest
> dent in the massive outpouring of mainstream invective directed towards
> Milosevic following his death on March 11.
>
>
>
> Which just goes to point up that, however justified you may feel in
> concluding we have, apparently, mercifully, escaped the fate of
> Orwell’s “1984” - you are wrong.
>
>
>
> Antony C. Black
>
> tal1 at cogeco.ca
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