Voice of Russia
December 29, 2011
John Robles

Interview with Rick Rozoff, the. Recorded on December 21, 2011:

Can you give us the latest on NATO and your predictions for 2012, as far as the ABM system in Europe and NATO global expansion in general? I know it’s a big question.

The past year, of course, has been a momentous one. I think it’s been a very troubling one in many regards. What we’ve seen this year in regard to NATO and what we’re likely to see an intensification of next year, 2012, is a follow-up on the Strategic Concept, as they call it, adopted at the Lisbon summit in November 2010, which is unveiling – and unleashing – NATO as an increasingly global political and military player. We saw this with the seven-month aerial campaign, air war, against Libya earlier this year where NATO flew an estimated 26,000 air missions against a small country with six million people, over 9,000 of which were combat sorties. We’re seeing that as a template. That’s pretty much how NATO officials and heads of state of major NATO countries have characterized it.

by Hannes Hofbauer

To eliminate a development project: Was this the reason behind waging war against Libya?

Since the breakdown of the Soviet Union, the Comecon and the Warsaw Treaty Organisation in 1991, three heads of states, odious to Western governments and institutions such as USA, EU and NATO were killed by them, respectively died under their responsibility. This is remarkable.
On the 11 March 1996 Slobodan Miloševic, former president of Yugoslavia, was left without medical help during his trial in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in Den Haag and died in his cell in Scheveningen.
On the 30 December 2006 Saddam Hussein, former prime minister and president of Iraq was hanged in Al-Kadhimiya North-East of Baghdad.
On the 20 October 2011 Muammar al-Gaddafi was lynched in Sirte.
What do these three dead leaders have in common?
First and visible the brutal form of their elimination. No serious trial, no hearing, no international examination took place concerning their guilt or responsibility for alleged war crimes.
Western media convicted them by following the will of the Western military alliance surrounding NATO.
In the moment of their elimination all of them were presented as the personification of evil. This demonization even allowed exposing – in the case of Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein and his sons – their distorted dead bodies to the public.
Media consumers were supposed to look at them as devils not as human beings. This form of brutalisation also shows a historical step backwards in terms of standards of civilization.
Miloševic, Saddam Hussein, and Gaddafi were physically eliminated because they were enemies, not because of their crimes, and for sure: all three were criminals, responsible for monstrous crimes. But these crimes – repressive policy towards ethnic minorities and political opposition – served the West only as a pretext for military interventions.
This is the only interpretation possible because political oppression is taking place all over the world without the “international community” considering a military intervention.
From Saudi Arabia to Spain [Basque country], from Nigeria to Indonesia: Nato would have their hands full of work to send their armada to combat for human rights.
Only in specific cases the Western allies take military action, allegedly to protect civilians.
When and where are they doing that and what are the reasons behind?
The Western allies did not hunt down Slobodan Miloševic, Saddam Hussein and Muammar al-Gaddafi because of their bad politics, but because of their good ones.
All three of them can be seen as different symbols of a “development dictatorship”.
This included social policy for the masses, efforts to achieve regional balance and economic modernization.
For some decades Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya had used a huge amount of public money to modernise society. Instead of administering the
state in favour of foreign investors, they used the means of the nationalization of industries for social and regional development.
Western firms had only restricted access to the markets. This was one of the reasons why Miloševic, Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi were considered as “odious” by the troika of Nato, USA ,and EU.
But also their geopolitical position made them suspicious to the Western allies.
Miloševic, Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi were leaders of societies on the periphery of the Western sphere of influence, historically as well as presently.
Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya – all three of them were key states between the two blocks in the period of the Cold War and they saw no reason to relinquish their independent stance towards western take-overs and eastern greediness.
Moscow and Washington, each guaranteed indirectly one half of this independence, leading to an increase in national self-confidence.
After the breakdown of the Soviet Union their self-confidence lost its backing leading directly into disaster. It looks as if the “in-betweens” of the two old geopolitical blocks had to suffer most under the advance of imperial strategies to streamline political regimes in order to take over economic core pieces.
And they were not willing to giveup political and economic independence completely, as they were asked for after the breakdown of the Soviet Union.

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Despite its claims, NATO was never a defensive alliance, and since the end of the Cold War has been transformed into global alliance structured to wage “out of area” wars in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, as well as to “contain” China. NATO’s creed is aggressive, expansionist, militarist and undemocratic.

By EFRAIM ZUROFF
01/04/2012 23:28

A service for Hitler is unthinkable.
So why is the world quiet in response to a service for Ante Pavelić?

Imagine for a minute that memorial masses were held in two major cities in Germany on the anniversary of the death of Adolf Hitler. Needless to say, such a ceremony would arouse fury, indignation, and widespread protests not only in Germany, but throughout the entire world. Last week, the local equivalent of such an event took place in Croatia, but instead of anger and demonstrations, not a single word of protest was heard from anywhere in the country.

I am referring to the December 28 memorial masses conducted in Zagreb and Split (and perhaps elsewhere as well) to mark the 51st anniversary of the death of Ante Pavelić, the head of state of the infamous Independent State of Croatia, created by the Nazis and their Italian allies in 1941. Following its establishment, rule was turned over to the local fascist movement, the Ustasha, headed by its Poglavnik (leader) Ante Pavelić.

During the entire course of its brief existence (1941- 1945), the Ustasha sought to rid the country (which consisted of the area of today’s Croatia plus most of Bosnia-Herzegovina) of all its minorities, as well as their local political opponents. In order to do so, they established a network of concentration camps all over the country, the largest and most notorious of which was Jasenovac, located on the banks of the Sava River, southeast of Zagreb. There, many tens of thousands of innocent civilians were murdered in a variety of brutal ways, which earned the camp the nickname of the “Auschwitz of the Balkans.”

Arnold J. Toynbee:

History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.

Dear friend, comrade

The civic association Soldiers against War in the Czech Republic as a part of world peace and anti-war movement principally condemn any violation of sovereignty and aggressive war actions against the sovereign member states of the UNO.
We fully agree with your critical attitude towards the USA policy.

From the very beginning we condemn the USA/NATO aggression against FRY(Serbia) in 1999. In particular, we resolutely refuse a cynical statement of former president of the Czech Republic Václav Havel, who had the impudence to support the aggression as "humanitarian bombardment".
We evaluate the violent secession of Kosovo from the FRY (Serbia) as an act of aggression against the sovereign state incompatible with the UNO Charter.
We strongly refuse the unjustifiable recognition of this unilateral illegal act by the Czech government. This standpoint we have repeatedly expressed, both
on international forums and in our statements, addressed to constitutional representatives of the Czech Republic.
The building of the biggest USA military basis on the territory of Serbia in the Kosovo Province we condemn as the occupation of a part of the sovereign state. This illegally built basis not only violates Serbia´s sovereignty, but represent a serious threat to the region´s security and international peace, as well.

We shall always support rightful interests and rights of Serbia, not only in relation to the Kosovo Province.
We shall also support, and together with you demand the abolition of the USA/NATO military basis on the territory of Kosovo.

Sincerely yours,

Jiři Bureš
President of the Association
Soldiers Against War

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Interview with the serbian radio in Ottawa, Canada, in serbian:

Shocking video, possibly the best documentary ever made about political manipulations aimed at justifying the bombing of Serbia. This video was shown only once on the German Chanel One TV and then moved away.

Playlists of five parts:

Playlists on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIdSm5ZkS5M&;list=PLA7FAD5AE9B50224B&feature=plpp_play_all

“WASHINGTON -- U.S. Ambassador in Belgrade Mary Warlick stated for Voice of America that progress has been made in the dialogue, but that Kosovo's participation in regional forums has not been resolved yet, as well as that it is very bad that there are barricades in Kosovo”…

Comment:

First of all, it is very bad to take way 15% of the Serbian state territory by force and hand it over to the former terrorist leader Hashim Tachi and co;

Second, it is very bad that the US government violated sovereignty and territorial integrity of FRY (Serbia), guarantied by UN SC resolution 1244 (1244) and Serbia’s Constitution, by recognizing unilateral illegal secession of Prishtina and lobbying world-wide recognition of such an illegal act; 

Third, it is very bad that the US established military base Bondstil in Kosovo, said to be the biggest US base in the world, immediately following the NATO aggression in 1999, without asking permission neither from Serbia to which the territory belongs, nor from UN SC which still has mandate over the Province;

By William Dorich

I preface this review by admitting that I am not a film critic—however, I have written six books on Balkan history and as a journalist, many of my articles have been published dealing with the Balkans that have been reproduced in the International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times among others and published in the Serbian press for two decades.

In the Land of Blood and Honey, I wish to correct what I observed and relate my opinion as to the distortion of historic facts. I will leave the artistic side to those who are more qualified. Sex, violence and fabrication appear alive and well in Hollywood as cinematic tricks are used to distract and “entertain” us.

Zivadin Jovanovic,
President of the Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals, Serbia

- Theses for a case study -

(Paper presented at the International Conference “Human Rights with the view to building a Culture of Peace”, held in Sao Paolo, Brazil, on 2nd and 3rd of December 2011)

It is true that the struggle for peace and the struggle for full respect of universal human rights, as defined by UN Declaration on protection of human rights, are interdependent and non-separable. Threats to peace, violations of sovereignty and territorial integrity, military interventions, aggressions and occupations go hand in hand with massive violations of the basic human rights.
It is clear that there are no humanitarian military interventions.  
NATO military aggression against Yugoslavia (Serbia) in the spring 1999 was launched to allegedly protect human rights of Kosovo Albanians. It was the first of that sort and without approval of UN Security Council. The precedent was used later in various other parts of the world whenever it suited the interests of USA and NATO: Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. There are threats that it may be used against Syria, Iran or any other country.

The letter to Eliot Engel, Member of USA Congress
by Stella L. Jatras,
5 December 2011

Please grant me the courtesy of reading my letter regarding the "USA for Kosova" Exhibition.

Congressman Engel, during one of your trips to Pristina, you spoke to the Kosovo Albanians stating that you wanted to be the first U.S. Ambassador to an "Independent Kosovo," in essence fomenting anarchy. At one time, there were 80,000 Serbs living in Pristina. Today, there are fewer than 150 elderly living in ghettos in fear for their lives from Albanian mobs.

If you are aware of the fact that Kosovo is Serbia’s Jerusalem, the cradle of the Serbian Orthodox Christian Church, it was not evident since you proceeded to support the Kosovo Liberation Army, an army that was described a terrorist one by Bosnian Envoy Robert Gelbard when he said, "I know a terrorist when I see one, and these men are terrorists." Does this mean nothing to you? Furthermore, these jihadists whom you support are engaged in sex slavery, prostitution, kidnapping and drugs. Over 80% of drugs going into Europe now come from Kosovo, your friends. All of this information is available to you.

Vojin Joksimovich, Ph.D
Modern Tokyo Times

KLA DETENTION CAMPS

In my late December essay in 2010  called Amorality of US Kosovo Policy: Friends with the Snake I have published reactions to the Council of Europe (CoE) 27-page report authored by the Swiss-Italian politician, senator and prosecuting lawyer Dick Marty. The report, after his two-year investigation, claimed that the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) thugs headed by the current Kosovo prime minister Hashim Thaci, known as the “Snake,” abducted mostly Kosovo Serbs but also some Albanian so called “collaborators,” transported them to northern Albania, murdered them, extracted their organs like the kidneys, and sold them on the black market. These macabre Nazi/Croatian Nazi style crimes were covered up by the leading international organizations such as the UN, NATO, OSCE as well as the governments of leading western countries. NATO’s secret documents as well as an UN report have been leaked out clearly demonstrating that both of those international organizations had full knowledge of these grisly crimes and opted to cover them up in addition to several western governments, the U.S. and Germany in particular. While a EULEX investigation is being launched, it will focus on the grisly crimes committed by the Snake and his thugs but will not include an investigation of those who enabled these crimes to be covered up for over a decade. In addition, it is doubtful if EULEX is capable of conducting an all-encompassing inquiry. Hence, the most important question needs to be posed: Is the justice going to be served.

Talk by Michael Parenti on "The U.S. War on Yugoslavia" given May 16, 1999 in Seattle, WA.