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Truth in Media's GLOBAL WATCH Bulletin
2000/7-7
28-July-2000
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Topic: BALKANS AFFAIRS
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1. American vs. Serbian “Demo
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1. American vs. Serbian “Demo
Farce”
PHOENIX, July 28 - As you probably know,
the TiM Editor is also a columnist on the topic of the New World Order
for Beograd.com, a popular Serbian web site. As you do not know,
however, this writer has been writing his next column on the topic of the
American vs. the Serbian “Demo Farce.”
Today’s news story, about the general elections being called in Serbia
for September 24, just lent added weight to this topic. And so now,
here’s an exclusive “sneak preview” for the Truth in Media readers
of the TiM editor’s column on that topic that will run in mid-September.
- “During my recent trips to Serbia, I could see that
"everybody" these days is calling for Slobodan Milosevic's
resignation. Which is understandable, considering the devastation,
deprivation and genocide committed against the Serbian nation in the
1990s.
- Far be it for me to defend the man whom I publicly denounced as early
as August 1990, at the time when he objectively enjoyed about a 90% or
higher support by the Serb electorate.
- Or have you forgotten that phase of the national euphoria? If you’re
a Serb who was of voting age in August 1990, look yourself in the mirror,
cross yourself with the Orthodox three finger sign, and answer truthfully
the following question: “Who would you have voted for back then?”
Who DID you vote for in December 1990?
- This writer’s answer: “Anyone but Milosevic.” Because
Milosevic was a person I had met and gotten to know personally by
then. Even my late father got mad at me back then because of
criticizing him at the time.
- And I repeated such an opinion in 1994, when Milosevic betrayed the
Bosnian and the Krajina Serbs. And especially after the Dayton 1995
sellout.
- But now, when the pro-western Serbian opposition vassals are
repeating, like parrots, Bill Clinton's and Madeleine Albright's demands,
I say: "Wait a minute, Serbian nation. And think about
alternatives."
- Because only the Serbian people, victims of both Milosevic and the
New World Order, and not the war criminals Clinton, Albright and other
NATO leaders, or their obedient vassals among some Serbian opposition
leaders, can decide when it is time to change the president. And
how…
- Can you imagine any Serb leader posing for reporters with one of
Hitler's top aids - after the Luftwaffe's April 6, 1941 bombing of
Belgrade which killed hundreds of civilians? Not if he hoped to be
a Serb leader for long, right?
- Well, on Dec. 17, 1999, three would-be Serb leaders - Zoran Djindjic,
Milo Djukanovic and Vuk Draskovic did just that at a Berlin (how
appropriate!) Dec. 17 meeting with an unindicted war criminal, Madeleine
Albright, the U.S. Secretary of State. And have done the same
several times since.
- Djukanovic even seemed to have posed with her in a private hotel
room. “His or hers?” asked the caption at the Truth in Media web
site.
- A Feb. 25, “His Disgrace,” Bishop Artemije did the same in
Washington. He honored the Serb butchers with his presence and
subservience. And has repeated the same disgraceful act several
times since, including in late July.
- The Serbs have long memories when it comes to traitors and
vassals. Starting with Vuk Brankovic. And including the Serbian
M&M's - Milosevic and Mira Markovic, who betrayed not only the Kosovo
Serbs, but also hundreds of thousands of Serbs from Bosnia and
Croatia.
- So unless an uncompromised Serbian patriotic alternative
emerges before the elections, the Serbs may have to choose between the
devils they know (the Milosevic and Markovic M&M's) and the ones they
don't (the Milo and Madeleine M&M’s).
- The Serb M&M’s sold out Bosnia and Krajina. He latter
M&M’s will sell out all of Serbia. Just as Yeltsin had tried to sell
out Russia, before being given a choice last year of leaving his Kremlin
office with, or without his head between the shoulders.
- He chose wisely… as evident by Vladimir Putin’s bloodless ascendance
to power.
- Which means, taking advice from the totally corrupt systems, such as
today's Washington, is a recipe for a disaster. If in doubt, just ask the
62% of Americans who voted with their feet against Klinton's Amerika - by
staying away from the voting booths at the 1998 congressional
elections.
- So to summarize the answer as to what the New World Order is…
- In its ideal form, the New World Order is not all that different from
the communist version that the Serbs experienced on their own
skins. It is a plutocratic world in which money is God and the end
all and be all. It is a world that legitimizes state terrorism, as
in the case of Serbia’s bombing by NATO.
- The last American election, the Nov. 3, 1998 U.S. mid-term vote, was
a big yawn; much ado about nothing. Well not quite nothing. But close
enough. Only 38% of adult Americans eligible to vote bothered to cast
their ballots, according to a New York Times Nov. 5, 1998
report. There was only one clear winner in the latest chapter of the
American "demo farce". And her name was Ms. Apathy.
- Everywhere one looks these days across the political spectrum, one
sees two front-runners racing for the same stable owners - the Wall
Street "piranhas." George W. Bush vs. Al Gore. Bob
Dole vs. Bill Clinton. George Bush Sr. vs. Bill Clinton.
Etc.
- Starting with the Balkans wars, and continuing with the 1995 Wall
Street bailout in Mexico, Dole, for example, supported Clinton on just
every foreign policy issue. As did ostensible Republican leaders,
Senators Trent Lott and John McCain.
- With "conservatives" like that, cheering on Clinton’s
bombings of Iraq, Serbia, Sudan or Afghanistan, who needs the
"liberals," like Al Gore?
- Nothing new there. Shortly after Bill Clinton had defeated
George Bush Sr. in the 1992 presidential elections, this writer had to
travel to Europe on business. Wherever he went, and especially in
the former Yugoslavia, people wanted to know what sort of a change in
foreign policy they could expect?
- “None whatsoever,” I would reply. “Both Clinton and Bush are in
the race for the same stable owners. Things may only change for the
worse.” (since many recent wars had been either started or escalated when
a Democrat sat in the White House).
- Nearly eight years later, people are asking me the same
question. Only in reverse. What sort of a change can they
expect if George W. Bush Jr., the “Dubya,” wins the presidency next
November?
- And my answer is the same as in 1992. “None whatsoever.
Both Gore and ‘Dubya’ are in the race for the same stable
owners.”
After the July 25 official selection of Dick Cheney as the Veep by
“Dubya,” I can again add to it that, “things may only change for the
worse.” As I did in 1992. (As if things can get any worse,
especially in the Balkans, right?).
This time, however, you don’t have to take just my word for it.
Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of
www.Antiwar.com,
has just about said the same thing in his article “Dick Cheney and Bush's
Other Warmongers.” He is a widely published author and columnist in
America. Here are some excerpts from Raimondo’s steak (take) on
“Cheney et. al.”:
- Dick Cheney and Bush's Other Warmongers
- “Dick Cheney's ascension to the number two spot on the Republican
ticket tells us much about the kind of foreign policy we can come to
expect if Dubya makes it to the White House. To begin with, it means that
the US will be in the Balkans forever. As CEO of the Halliburton Company,
Cheney was among the chief profiteers of the Kosovo war: Brown &
Root, a Houston subsidiary of Halliburton, was awarded the engineering
contract to house, feed, and otherwise amuse the US
"peacekeepers" plunked down in the middle of that quagmire.
- Indeed, in my Truth in Media wartime Bulletin, “The Pentagon Was in
for Long Haul,” filed from Belgrade on Apr. 15, 1999, I pointed out that
the $1 billion, 3-5 year services contract the Pentagon had been awarded
Dick Cheney’s company BEFORE NATO’s bombing (in Feb. 1999). It was
another piece of evidence NATO’s bombing of Serbia was case of
PREMEDITATED aggression by Washington and London, not a “humanitarian
mission” the western public was told by CNN, BBC and other “lie and deny”
media branches of the New World Order.
- Returning to excerpts from Raimondo’s comments about Bush and
Cheney:
- “DUBYA-DUBYA-DUBYA-DOT-WARMONGER-DOT-COM: A POTEMKIN VILLAGE
- The three foreign policy mavens always mentioned in news stories
about Dubya's shadow Cabinet are: Condoleeza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, and
Dick Cheney. Ms. Rice, former Stanford University provost and a low-level
advisor to Dubya's father, is often cited as the chief of this policy
group, a future Secretary of State but this is the story being told
by the Bushies, and it doesn't quite add up. Like everything else in the
Bush campaign, the foreign policy "team" assembled by the
candidate and his campaign staff has all the earmarks of a classic
Potemkin village a phony façade put up to impress those who don't
bother looking too closely. Well, then, let's look a little more closely
at the Bushies' answer to Mad Madeleine.
- ALL IN THE FAMILY
- Rice started out as a music major at Stanford but almost flunked out,
whereupon she switched to Soviet studies. Rice became interested in her
specialty of Soviet studies as a student of Joseph Korbel, the father of
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Now there is an interesting
coincidence, one that underscores the inbred nature of the foreign
policy-making elite: how different from Mad Madeleine will Secretary of
State Rice turn out to be? Two years from today will we be calling her
Crazy Condoleeza?
- HISTORY OF A MEDIOCRITY
- Having found her niche, Ms. Rice was quickly taken in hand by the
Hoover Institution, a redoubt of the George Shultz/Bechtel wing of the
Republican foreign policy elite, where she rose quickly through the
ranks. As the sole person of color, and a female to boot, in an
administration devoted to "affirmative access" (if not action),
her visibility was high. But there is nothing in Rice's resume to suggest
that she is the heavyweight the Bushies are describing. The apex of her
academic career was reached with the 1984 publication of her magnum opus,
The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army, 1948-1983 : Uncertain
Allegiance, a dissertation no more indicative of her capabilities as a
future Secretary of State than her more recent unimpressive contribution
to an anthology on German reunification.
- WHAT GIVES?
- In the first Bush administration Ms. Rice was the author of no known
policy initiatives, and in the interim her career as provost at Stanford
has not exactly catapulted her into the international spotlight. So what
gives? How can we explain this strange gap between Rice's real
achievements and the grandiose future planned for her by Bush campaign
operatives?”
- WHOSE NATIONAL INTEREST?
- With his links to Texas oil barons, and his political connections,
Cheney is gearing up with the rest of the oil industry to cash in on the
Great Caspian Oil Bonanza. Cheney has been in the forefront of the effort
to repeal US legislation that forbids foreign aid to undemocratic regimes
such as the government of Azerbaijan. That central Asian nation, ruled by
a neo-Stalinist dictator, is where a good deal of the oil is located; it
is also a key link in the oil companies' scheme to build a
trans-Balkan/Transcaucasian oil pipeline to bring its product to market
in Western Europe. Can anyone doubt that "a quarrel among faraway
peoples about whom we know nothing" in that tumultuous region will
suddenly involve "vital" US "national interests"? As
Russian troops fight Islamic rebels in Dagestan, and the Armenians and
Azeris call for the US and/or NATO to intervene, the prospect of George
Dubya in the White House begins to take on a distinctly ominous aspect.
- THEORY AND PRACTICE
- It used to be, not so long ago, that the interface of corporate
interests and US foreign policy was far subtler. In these decadents days
of imperial excess, however, there is a pagan shamelessness in the
unseemly spectacle of revolving doors between corporate and government
institutions. A man like Cheney, who segues so rapidly and easily from
chief warmaker to chief executive officer of a major international
corporation, is the perfect symbol of the Republican foreign policy
establishment in the age of George Dubya. If Wolfowitz is the chief
theoretician of this mercantilist dogma that equates untapped oil fields
with "the national interest," then Cheney is its chief
practitioner and among the most successful.
- GETTING TO THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
- The oil companies envision a pipeline that will carry their product
across Eastern Europe to customers in the West and the Albanian end
of that trans-Balkan route is already being taken care of. It was the
Houston engineering firm of Brown & Root, a subsidiary of
Halliburton, that won the contract to build barracks not only in Bosnia,
but also in Kosovo and Albania; they were one of the biggest direct
beneficiaries of the war. As Wolfowitz was signing newspaper ads
demanding the introduction of US ground troops into Kosovo, Halliburton
was busy building and outfitting the Albanian staging areas.
- FOLLOW THE MONEY
- The neo-conservative intellectuals, like Wolfowitz, expend millions
of words to prove and reprove the necessity of their policies, of the
inevitability of perpetual war for perpetual peace, while
second-and-third tier activists like William Kristol proclaim the virtues
of a "benevolent world hegemony." But in the end it boils down
to such vulgar matters as Halliburton's profit margins and the price of
oil. In an era in which wars are fought in the name of vague and
improbable ideals, such as "human rights" and
"multiculturalism," it is a safe bet to follow the money. It
works almost every time.”
Now, regular readers of this writer’s columns may have
noticed by now a striking similarity of conclusions, based on DIFFERENT
FACTS, with those Mr. Raimondo has reached.
A coincidence? Yes. Which is why it is all the more
credible. I’ve never in my life either seen Mr. Raimondo, nor have
ever spoken or exchanged any other written messages with Mr.
Raimondo. In fact, the only reason I ever got to find out about his
above piece was that a Truth in Media reader had sent it to me, having
been impressed by our similarities of views and analyses.
So given such examples of “democracy,” or American vs. Serbian “demo
farce,” what sort of a choice should Yugoslavia’s voters make on
September 24, 2000, in the country’s first-ever direct presidential
elections?
This writer has been asked that question many times, both during his
eight-city “Tour de Serbia” in September 1999, and by “live” questioners
attending his lectures in Serbia or elsewhere around the world. Or
through e-mails and/or personal communications.
I have declined to answer it. Meaning, I refused to take sides in
Serbian politics. For now…
First, because even though I am a Belgrade-born Serb, with family roots
going as far back as before the Battle of Kosovo, I have no vote in
Serbia!
I happen to think that this is an outrage. Especially considering
the shrinking population of the Serbs around the world; both through the
New World Order genocidal wars and sanctions, and through the voluntary
CNN-Coca-Cola-McDonald’s “melting pot” into which many young Serbs seem
eager to jump. The more, the merrier, you’d think would be the
attitude by a responsible Serb government.
If the Serbs are to survive as a nation, we must learn from the Jews
about the way the Diaspora is treated. Equally! (If not more
so, since the Diaspora Jews generally wielded more economic power than
any Israeli Jews. There would have been no Israel without the
Jewish Diaspora).
Any Serb anywhere should be a Serb citizen with the same rights and
privileges as those who are living within national boundaries. Until such
time that we, the Serbs in the Diaspora, are granted such right and
privileges, I assert my privilege to remain mum. In protest!
Meanwhile, I will pray to God that the nation from which I and my family
have descended, is wise enough to choose its future course wisely.
And that such a future is one of the God-fearing Orthodox Christian
salvation, rather than that of a materialistic New World Order pursuit of
“Earthly Kingdom” rewards of the CNN-Coca-Cola-McDonald’s-likes.
Regardless of whether or not I, and other Serbs in the Diaspora, are
granted our birthright to vote on September 24, 2000, I will pray for
Serbia on that day. Prophetically, it is the 18-month anniversary
of the start of NATO’s bombing of Serbia.
Does Serbia need any greater omens from God about how important this vote
is?"
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