URL for this article is http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/rozoff/shrill.htm To Join Emperor's Clothes Email list go to http://emperors-clothes.com/feedback.htm - We Send About One Emperor's Clothes Article a Day www.tenc.net [Emperor's Clothes] AND NOW FOR SOMETHING REALLY SHRILL ABOUT MACEDONIA... by Rick Rozoff and Jared Israel [27 July 2001] Today Agence France Presse (AFP) published a report about protest demonstrations in Macedonia. The 'AFP' report contains the shrill, defamatory stereotypes used with increasing frequency in the Western media to describe Macedonians, both ordinary citizens and officials. We are witnessing one of those media campaigns so uniform, scripted and predictable - and consistently inaccurate - that one has to suspect coordination between the controlling elements of the news media and certain Western foreign offices and covert services. Examples abound in this brief 'AFP' dispatch. Macedonians are pointedly, repeatedly and gratuitously identified as 'Slavs' (as opposed to what they are - Macedonians!) and their actions are labeled with such pejorative terms as: 'irate,' 'mob,' 'incited,' 'escalated,' 'irresponsible' and 'immature.' "Mob of angry Slavs" is the phrase of choice indicating the mental image intended for the reader. And it is have some effect. Yesterday on one of the major American liberal news Websites a press wire headline read: "Anti-Albanian Riots Explode In Macedonia." 'HONEY, IS SOMETHING MISSING FROM THE ANTI-ALBANIAN RIOTS?' 'WHY YES, DEAR, THEY AREN'T ANTI-ALBANIAN.' We have read a dozen or so reports on the protests and saw nothing factual to suggest an anti-Albanian flavor. Rather, even in these hostile Western media reports one could see that the protesters were focused and informed, with clear political, not ethnic, targets: NATO, the U.S., Britain and Germany, all for their role in undermining Macedonian sovereignty and assisting the so-called NLA terrorists. And really, shouldn't they be angry? NATO (led by the U.S.) is after all trying to destroy their country and their lives. (2) But "crowd of angry Slavs" is the message that Western officials and their always-obliging media are drilling into the public's imagination. Make no mistake, these distortions have a purpose: to dehumanize the victims of what is in fact going on in Macedonia, that is, large scale ethnic cleansing and national destruction As has been the case throughout the assault on Yugoslavia, the tone of Imperial war propaganda is faux-liberal. Here's how it worked starting with the secession of Croatia and Slovenia back in 1991, and, alas, how it is still working today. A secessionist force is organized by the U.S. and or Germany and or England. This Western proxy force draws on elements which hark back to the old Nazi alliance of World War II (3) - in this case, the descendents of pro-Nazi Albanians, mainly from Kosovo. This force is ordered to attack, a process the media misdescribes as a rebellion by an oppressed local population. The fascist flavor of the 'rebels' is hidden from Western eyes. (In this case, we hear little about the rallying cry of the NATO proxy army attacking Macedonia, which is "Greater Albania," i.e., the re-creation of the map of the Balkans that existed only under Hitler.) Moreover, most of the media ignores the easily documented involvement of Western operatives (in this case the official NATO organization in Kosovo) in sponsoring and directing the attack. (4) The attempts of the nation under attack to defend itself are misdescribed as brutal repression and the victims are accused of racism. What is the goal of this propaganda today? To prevent the development of a support movement for Macedonia among the public in NATO countries. The logical basis for supporting Macedonia is that a) it is the victim of Imperial attack, organized from Washington and b) it is being attacked on a racist basis, i.e. the attack appeals to anti-Slavic racism within the Albanian populations of the area. To prevent this kind of support movement from developing, the Western media and government officials turn matters upside down, portraying Macedonians as ethnic chauvinists and opponents of peace. One might call this strategy "Outflanking opposition from the Left." By feeding Western citizens the lie that Macedonia's "problem" is discrimination against Albanians which has spawned an "extremist" response, direct NATO intervention and occupation of territory can be presented as "peacekeeping" to "rebuild civil society" and other fairy tales. The propaganda works. After she had watched the TV news, a decent but uninformed American told one of us, "It's a mess over there - I guess we better do something." Little did she know: 'we' have! President Bush's brief visit to the massive U.S. military base ("Bondsteel" of all things) in Kosovo Tuesday was meant to deliver a message about Macedonia. Or rather, several messages. MESSAGE ONE: THE MEANING OF KOSOVO First, he said Kosovo is for Washington the model of progress through intervention. He told U.S. troops (and, of course, the world): "Thanks to you and those who served before you, the people of Kosovo are able to buy food and find shelter, go to school, and get medical help." Since Kosovo's current reality is that an estimated 350,000 non-Albanians and anti-fascist Albanians have been driven from their homes and are refugees in Serbia or elsewhere, or are dead, since the remaining Serbs and Roma ("Gypsies") live in conditions of terror, including daily beatings rape and murder, and we have documented the fact of this terror, since the U.S. has created in Kosovo a regime of open gangsterism - for Bush to say: "the people of Kosovo are able to buy food and find shelter, go to school, and get medical help." means that fascist tyranny is the U.S. model for progress; thus in Macedonia as well. (5) Bush called for: "a political settlement that 'addresses the legitimate grievance of the Albanian population while protecting Macedonia's sovereignty and territorial integrity.' Since in fact the issue in Macedonia has nothing whatsoever to do with "legitimate grievances" but rather involves an invasion by U.S.-armed terrorists, what is this but a call for the Macedonians to surrender. Bush emphasized that such was his intent by the almost funny way he "threatened" the KLA terrorists (many of them UN-employed!) who are attacking Macedonia: "..he also urged Kosovo Albanians to stop fueling the Macedonian conflict and 'focus on Kosovo.'" Surely that sent terror through the ranks of the KLA or NLA or Kosovo Protection Corps - or NATO! - take your pick. MESSAGE TWO: "LISTEN UP YOU DARN ALBANIANS!" All of this constitutes a message also to those whom NATO's "NLA" proxy army has been targeting for recruits: Macedonians of Albanian descent. These ethnic Albanians have not been sufficiently receptive to the mix of terror and promises of 'Greater Albania' which the Kosovo Liberation Army invaders have used in the effort to elicit their "participation" in the "rebellion." Bush is telling these ethnic Albanians: Kosovo is our model. We are backing the terrorist secessionists in Macedonia just as strongly as we backed them in Kosovo, so join up or when our boys take over you can kiss your behind goodbye. This, as we have discussed elsewhere, is the basic 'recruiting' strategy of the U.S. proxy force, the Kosovo Liberation Army. (6) If you think this sounds terribly conspiratorial, that a U.S. president would never promise ethnic harmony and deliver racist terror, just read the article, "What NATO Occupation Would Mean For Macedonians." Prior to occupation, NATO promised everything to Serbs in Kosovo. After occupation, it delivered a nightmare. (7) MESSAGE THREE: THE U.S. IS READY TO OPENLY SEND IN TROOPS But perhaps the key thing said by Bush was: "America's contribution is essential, both militarily and politically." ('N.Y. Times,' 25 July 2001). Many people were fooled by Bush's election promise to pull out of the Balkans. Instead of pulling out, he has continued with Clinton's policies, including the attack on Macedonia and the further encirclement of Russia with NATO bases. The continuity of these policies from elder Bush to Clinton to baby Bush means that U.S. policy is not dependent on the whims or personal economic interests of members of this or that US presidential administration, but rather is part of far-ranging strategic goals of the U.S. establishment, that is, the financial interests usually called Wall Street. The big prize is the former Soviet Union, the attempted conquest of which requires securing the Balkans as the southern staging ground for attack. The "Kosovication" of Macedonia is part of that strategy. Bush's trip set the stage for a greatly intensified attack, including heightened demonization of Macedonia in the Western media, and direct NATO intervention. An ominous note: the U.S. is pulling its Embassy personnel out of Skopje. That is precisely what the U.S. did before bombing Yugoslavia. (7) And of course, the story below says it all: the Macedonians' justified protests at NATO's sponsorship of terrorist invaders can be used as an excuse for - NATO invasion! Below is the report from Agence France Presse (AFP): JI & RR Thursday July 26, 9:43 AM US troops placed on alert after violence in Macedonia WASHINGTON, July 25 (AFP) - An unspecified number of US troops in Europe were on alert Wednesday after attacks by irate protesters threatened the US and other Western embassies in Macedonia, a US defense official said. "We do have units which have been alerted," the official said on condition of anonymity, refusing to elaborate. Any decision whether to seek extra protection rests with US ambassador to Macedonia, Michael Einik, the official said, though the State Department was unaware of any such request late Wednesday, an official with that agency told The troop alert follows attacks late Tuesday by violent protesters on embassies in the Macedonian capital of Skopje. A mob of angry Slavs, incited by allegations NATO tacitly supports ethnic Albanian rebels, damaged the US and other embassies with hurled projectiles, State Department officials said. Despite the attacks, the United States remained determined in its efforts to help bring peace to Macedonia, though US officials and Balkan experts privately voiced concern the escalating strife and emergence of anti-NATO sentiment could complicate facilitating any settlement. "We continue to reach out to all the political parties in the multi-ethnic Macedonian government to continue promoting their working together to find a peaceful solution to this," State Department spokesman Philip Reeker told reporters. Reeker added that US special envoy for the Balkans, James Pardew, met earlier Wednesday with Macedonian President Boris Trajkowski to discuss the situation. The mob violence came as clashes between Macedonian security forces and ethnic Albanian rebels flared anew, while refugees streamed out of the contested northwestern town of Tetovo as rebels advanced across northern Macedonia. The Slav-dominated Macedonian government neither condemned the violence nor appealed for restraint Wednesday. Meanwhile, the government of Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski, an opponent of Trajkovski's, has accused NATO of siding with the rebels and of seeking to turn Macedonia into an international protectorate under the control of the Western alliance. The State Department refuted the charge. "These kind of irresponsible press reports... irresponsible, immature statements from certain political leaders, are not helpful to the situation," Reeker said, denying that the United States or other NATO countries backed Albanian rebels. The administration of President George W. Bush supported Macedonia "in its territorial integrity, in its sovereignty and in a future as a multi-ethnic state," Reeker insisted. Washington has become all too-aware that the feud between Georgievski and Trajkovski is increasingly compromising the search for peace, with a top administration official warning that "political agendas aren't going to have anything to do when they are in the midst of a civil war and fighting for their lives." Former National Security Council Balkans analyst Ivo Daalder directly accused Georgievski of trying to extract political mileage from the conflict. "He has no interest in negotiating because he thinks he can win through the use of force," Daalder told AFP. "He doesn't want a compromise," making a settlement in Macedonia "more difficult but not impossible." Further Reading: (1) 'AFP' story can be read at http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010726/1/19qib.html (2) SORRY VIRGINIA BUT THEY ARE NATO TROOPS, NOT 'REBELS' by Jared Israel with research by Rick Rozoff, George Thompson and Max Sinclair. Can be read at http://emperors-clothes.com/mac/times2.htm (3) The Roots of Kosovo Fascism; by George Thompson at http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/thompson/rootsof.htm (4) "GERMAN PAPER CHARGES: U.S. IS 'ADVISING' ALBANIAN TERRORISTS" at http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/advise.htm (5) "I cannot give it a name but it seems like hell" by a Serbian woman from Kosovo at http://emperors-clothes.com/misc/name.htm (6) "What is the KLA Strategy in Kosovo" - Interview with a Kosovo Historian who explains the nature of the "offer" the KLA makes to get Albanians to join up. Can be read at http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/strategy.htm (7) What NATO Occupation Would Mean For Macedonians." Interview with eyewitnesses tells what happened to a Kosovo town after NATO - and its KLA - took over in July, 1999. Every citizin of a NATO country should read this for it tells what has been down in our names. At http://www.emperors-clothes.com/misc/savethe-a.htm *** Articles Documenting U.S./Euro/Terrorist Link in Assault on Macedonia [24 July 2001] A must-read list of articles with brief descriptions. The U.S. and its Euro allies are waging terrrorist war in Macedonia and have kidnapped the former head of state of Yugoslavia. And this is just the year 'One.' At http://emperors-clothes.com/mac/list-m.htm Click here for Emperor's Clothes Email list - We'll Send you About One Emperor's Clothes Article a Day URGENT APPEAL! 23 JULY TO THOSE WHO HAVE DONATED TO OUR FUNDRAISING APPEAL - THANK YOU! BUT EMPEROR'S CLOTHES STILL URGENTLY NEEDS HELP! The George Soros Foundation does not fund Emperor's Clothes. Our only source of money is people like you. All contributions help. Our work has expanded but our income has not kept pace. We are now several months behind on long distance and international phone bills, and other expenses as well. 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