US ARMY SHIFTING TO SURROUND CHINA [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - . . [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] - Original Message - From: Global Network Against Weapons Nuclear Power in Space [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mailto:Undisclosed-Recipient:;@mindspring.com Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 8:48 PM Subject: ARMY SHIFTING TO SURROUND CHINA Army Shifting Equipment to Asia By Robert Burns AP Military Writer Thursday, Aug. 30, 2001; 5:28 p.m. EDT WASHINGTON -- The Army intends to move some of its weapons and other war-fighting equipment from Europe to Asia, reflecting a shift in strategic focus by the Bush administration, the Army's top official said Thursday. No troops are moving yet, but Army Secretary Thomas White left open the possibility the service might expand or reconfigure its presence in the Asia-Pacific region while maintaining its basic commitments in Europe. There's been a heightened awareness or concern about the Pacific region, White said in an interview with a group of reporters. It's been talked about a lot. I think we in the Army will have to look at that very closely, look at our stationing around the Pacific Rim. He was asked whether the Army is considering, for example, basing troops on Guam, a U.S. territory in the Pacific where the Air Force maintains a staging base for its aircraft operating in the region. You have to see if there are opportunities for forward basing or engagement on the Pacific Rim, he replied. I think all the services are going to do that. The Army has almost 29,000 soldiers based permanently in Japan and South Korea. Its other major overseas presence is in Europe, where about 65,000 soldiers are posted mostly in Germany. If the administration were to decide to put more troops in the Asia-Pacific region as well as weapons and equipment, it inevitably would cause consternation among allies and others, White said. I suppose any time you make shifts in strategy and deployments, there's a lot of concern by a lot of different people, he said. Consequently it will take time, if that's what the secretary (of defense) and the president decide to do. He emphasized that no such decisions have been made. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has made clear he believes the U.S. military needs to be oriented more toward potential threats in the Asia-Pacific region, not just the traditional worry about North Korea but also China. Rumsfeld has stressed, also, that putting more focus on Asia should not be interpreted as reduced interest in Europe. When he visited Europe in June, Rumsfeld took pains to emphasize the U.S. commitment to NATO allies. He dismissed speculation that he favors reducing the U.S. troop presence in Europe, saying he didn't want to cause tremors unnecessarily by suggesting Europe was less important to the United States. In Thursday's interview, White said the extent to which the Army increases its attention on Asia will depend on the outcome of Rumsfeld's lengthy review of U.S. strategy, which White said is not yet completed. If the Pacific becomes of greater importance than it typically has in the past, relative to Europe and the other regions of the world, you're going to re-examine the whole business of troop positioning, he said. We're doing that. For starters, the Army intends to move war-fighting equipment now stored in Germany and Italy to locations in the Asia-Pacific region, he said. It's a signal, once again, that we're going to shift our available resources around to fit the strategy, White said. He did not say how many weapons or how much equipment would be moved, but an aide said it would be enough to equip several combat brigades. A typical combat brigade comprises about 5,000 troops. Col. Tom Begines, an Army spokesman, said equipment intended to support an Army battalion (about 1,200 soldiers) would be moved from Europe to South Korea, but he was unsure of other details. Some of the equipment in Europe may be moved to Diego Garcia, where the Army already has weapons and equipment stored aboard ships, one White aide said. That British-owned island in the Indian Ocean now is used primarily as a forward base for Air Force B-52 bombers and support aircraft. White said he was not familiar with other details of the intended move, such as the timing and exact locations. He did not say what kinds of weapons and equipment would be moved, but typically it would include armored vehicles, missile launchers, ammunition, fuel and other support equipment. A trade publication, Inside the Army, reported Aug. 13 that an internal Army document described a plan for redistributing war-fighting stocks from Europe to existing caches in southwest Asia - a region that includes Diego Garcia - and in South Korea. It also said the
Thousands rally in Durban against Israel and U.S. [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - . . [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] - Original Message - From: secr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 5:59 PM Subject: [mobilize-globally] Thousands rally in Durban against Israel and U.S. Thousands rally in Durban against Israel and U.S. DURBAN, South Africa, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Thousands of demonstrators chanting anti-Israeli and anti-American slogans marched through the centre of Durban on Friday as a world conference against racism got under way. Israel is an apartheid state and Free, Free Palestine were among banners waved by the protesters, estimated to number 10,000, as they headed for a meeting to be addressed by U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson. Another banner read: George Bush: Palestinian blood is on your hands. Both the United States and Israel have sent only low-level delegations to the United Nations-organised World Conference Against Racism in protest at what they say is an anti-Israel bias in draft texts drawn up for the meeting. Arab states have dropped clauses equating Zionism with Racism but want foreign occupation -- a veiled reference to Israeli actions in Palestinian territories -- to be branded as a new kind of apartheid. Armed police looked on as marchers filed through central city streets but there were no immediate reports of any violence. 07:33 08-31-01 U.N. Chief: Racism Summit Can't Afford Failure By Richard Waddington Reuters DURBAN, South Africa (Aug. 31) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Friday urged delegates to an acrimonious global conference against racism to set aside their differences, saying the meeting could not afford to fail. ''If we leave here without agreement we shall give comfort to the worst elements in every society,'' he told the opening session of the eight-day World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. Acknowledging rows that dogged preparations for the United Nations-organised meeting in the South African port of Durban -- Washington has sent only a low-level delegation because of what it says is an anti-Israeli bias -- was a test of the international community's ability to unite on a vital issue. ''Let us not fail that test,'' he said. Annan sought to sound a conciliatory note on the two most contentious issues -- how to deal with, if at all, conflict in the Middle East and how to address the historic ill of slavery. Arab states have been insisting that the conference text contain a specific reference to what it says is racist treatment by Israel of Palestinians in the occupied territories. Describing the Holocaust, in which some six million Jews were killed by the Nazis in World War Two, as ''the ultimate abomination,'' Annan said Israel could not use the tragedy as an excuse never to examine its own behavior. ''We cannot expect Palestinians to accept this (the Holocaust) as a reason why the wrongs done to them -- displacement, occupation, blockage, and now extra-judicial killings -- should be ignored, whatever label one uses to describe them,'' he said. But Annan said the conference was not the place for mutual recriminations and that its aim was to look to the future. He sent the same message on slavery, for which some African states want an explicit apology and possibly financial reparations from former slave-trading nations. ''Our aim must be to banish from this new century the hatred and prejudice that have disfigured previous centuries,'' he said. The emphasis of the conference was on practical measures to combat racism and discrimination against ethnic minorities from which few countries were immune. ''We must not leave this city without agreeing on practical measures which all states should take to fill that pledge,'' he said. European countries and the United States, the main players in the traffic of slaves from Africa to north and south America for some 400 years up to the 19th century, reject any talk of reparations and are wary of any wording in the conference texts that could leave them open to legal action. REUTERS Reut09:05 08-31-01 Jackson: Zionism Criticism to Come Out .c The Associated Press DURBAN, South Africa (AP) - The Palestinian delegation has agreed to drop criticism of Israel and Zionism in a final declaration for the U.N. conference against racism, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said Friday. Following a three-hour meeting with Yasser Arafat, Jackson said the Palestinian leader had agreed to oppose efforts to criticize Israel and Zionism, and to recognize the Holocaust as the worst crime of the 20th century. The Palestinians were not immediately available for comment. Jackson presented reporters with a handwritten draft of the document signed by Arafat in which he said he did not want the U.N. conference to derail over criticism of
U.S. hard-line policy under fire [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - Pyongyang, August 30 (KCNA) -- The international community and world peace and stability remain disturbed due to the u.s. hard-line policy, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article. It goes on: The extremely adventurous policy pursued by the bush administration since its emergence is to maintain its position as the world's only superpower and control the world as it pleases. But its hard-line policy and hegemonism are rebuffed and opposed worldwide and have thrown Washington into a quagmire. Russia warned that it would take a strong counter-measure against the U.S. moves to establish the Missile Defense system (MD) which might spark a global nuclear arms race. Many countries including china dismissed MD as unreasonable and dangerous and are opposed to it. Even the U.S. allies advised Washington to think twice over MD when they were requested to support it, clarifying their view that it lacks reason to convince the world. The U.S. hard-line policy is the desperate effort of the weak. It is quite clear that the hard-line policy of the Bush administration will throw it into a bottomless quagmire. . . [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] - This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
German Defense Minister, Like NATO, Is Above The Law [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - [A glimpse into what sort of New Order Germany and its Brothers of the Bayonet intend to bring to Macedonia; basically the same type they've introduced into the NATO-created crime and prostitution-infested hellholes of Bosnia and Kosovo.] German Defense Minister Under Fire Gy GEIR MOULSON Associated Press Writer The Associated Press Friday, Aug. 31, 2001; 6:03 p.m. EDT BERLIN Opposition leaders demanded the resignation of Germany's defense minister Friday, enraged that he used government planes to shuttle between Berlin and a Spanish vacation just as German troops joined NATO's hazardous mission in Macedonia. Rudolf Scharping's office denied the defense minister misused taxpayers' money. In comments for the Saturday edition of the daily Bild, Scharping said he abided by his ministry's guidelines and added, I'm fulfilling my work obligations 100 percent. Scharping has been under fire from the opposition for months over issues including belated compensation for Cold War-era radar technicians who suffered from cancer to complaints that Germany's military is ill-equipped for NATO peacekeeping missions. The German media also has been scathing. After a magazine last week showed Scharping frolicking in a pool on the Spanish island of Mallorca with his girlfriend, the influential weekly Der Spiegel ran a cover story Monday calling him an embarrassment to the center-left government, which faces national elections next year. On Friday, the conservative Christian Democrats' leader in parliament, Friedrich Merz, demanded that Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder put an end to the colorful goings-on. His call was echoed by other Christian Democrat party leaders, including chairwoman Angela Merkel. Schroeder and Scharping are from the center-left Social Democrat party. The liberal Free Democrats' leader, Guido Westerwelle, told the daily Die Welt that a defense minister without authority can't stay in office. In comments televised late Friday, Social Democratic Secretary-General Franz Muentefering defended Scharping's good work and his right to a vacation. He said there were no grounds for Scharping to step down. Scharping raised eyebrows last week when Germany's Bunte magazine printed the pictures from Mallorca just as the government scrambled to assemble a parliamentary majority for German participation in NATO's operation to disarm Albanian rebels in Macedonia. Following a newspaper report of Scharping's flights to and from Mallorca, the Defense Ministry said Friday he had used government planes to return for a special Cabinet meeting on Macedonia last week and for a parliament session this week to approve sending the contingent. Commercial flights couldn't be obtained, the ministry said. All these flights are oriented toward the valid guidelines on using government planes. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com - This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Crimes Under The Guise Of Human Rights [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - [For some reason the author seems to be an admirer of Mr. Kostunica, but otherwise his points are worth taking.] CRIMES UNDER THE GUISE OF HUMAN RIGHTS Dr. Milan Tepavac September 1, 2001 It seems to me that I've never in my life read something so disgusting, distorting and poisonous as this piece of a NGO which calls itself Human Rights Watch (see below). If Goebels and Zdanov were alive they would die of envy. We have here an example of what the Orwellian New World Order has done to the mind and soul of some people.This is my first and last time that I pay any attention to that organization. 1. Can the United Nations Security Council establish an international court? Of course not. The fact is that the Security Council, when adopting the resolution 827, establishing International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugososlavia (ICTY) acted ultra vires and the passing of time cannot validate it. Quod initio invalidum est, non potest tractu temporis convalescere. That resolution is really a black hole of international law, and - I do not hesitate to say - that those fifteen sitting in the SC who adopted it are criminals under international law because they delivered a death blow to international law and should be accountable for it under its very law - Article 7(4) of its Statute. Many international lawyers have the same opinion about ICTY. A German NGO from Berlin simply states: 1. The indictment [against Mr. Milosevic] issued by the Chief Prosecutor of the so-called International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia is legally invalid because this Tribunal has no jurisdiction whatsoever in the present or any other case. 2. The Tribunal derives its raison d'être exclusively from Security Council resolution 827, adopted at the Council's 3217th meeting on 25 May 1993. In this resolution, establishing the so-called International Criminal Tribunal, the Security Council states that it acts under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations. 3. When adopting the above resolution, the Security Council acted ultra vires. According to the provisions of the U.N. Charter, the Council has no competence whatsoever in judicial matters. The provisions of Chapter VII determine the Council's competence in matters of international security but not in matters of criminal justice or other judicial matters. The sole authority in international judicial matters rests with the International Court of Justice Now, any further discussion about ICTY from the legal point of view should stop here. But, let's, for the sake of argument, suppose that it were established legally. So, even if ICTY were established according to international law, its Statute would invalidate it with many of its provisions and - its omissions! The Security Council had no right whatsoever to formulate substantive rules of international criminal law and prescribe penalties for them, since it is not legislative body!!. But, omissions are even more interesting! It lacks the prime, supreme international crime - the crime of aggressive war, whether international or internal, civil war. It was purposely done by those fifteen criminals in the Security Council: in order to protect from criminal responsibility those who planned, instigated, ordered, committed or otherwise aided and abetted in the planning, preparation or execution of the secessionist wars in Yugoslavia and NATO aggression against it. So, we have the situation that a Bosnian peasant worker gets life imprisonment, while real culprits - Tudjman, Kucan, Izetbegovic, Gligorov, Genscher, Kohl, Clinton, Pope, Badinter, Carrington, Albright, Zimmermann, Eagelberger, Wesley Clark and many more - get red carpets. So, those fifteen of the SC made a mockery of international law and irreparable damage to the concept of justice. It is a deadly blow to our civilization. Maybe the greatest crime today against international law and order is the attempt to impose the pronouncements of such a Tribunal as international law! 2. Indictment against president Milosevic Now, let us turn to the indictment against Mr. Milosevic, disregarding, again for the sake of argument, the illegality of the ICTY and its Statute. The conditio sine qua non for the application of the international humanitarian law is the existence of the war or armed conflict on a given territory. Without a war or armed conflict there are no violations of the rules of IHL. So, the chief prosecutor of the ICTY Louise Arbour had to have a war or armed conflict in the sense of international humanitarian law. She needed it. So, she just invented it by stating that there was in Kosovo the state of war! Let's look at the positive international humanitarian law: Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949 and Relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II) in para 1 of Article 1 states
What Billions Buy In Belarus [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - [This 'report' is from Transitions Online, one of heaven knows how many newspapers and Web sites owned by George S. throughout Eastern Europe and the world. I would seriously doubt that he himself can remember what he owns, except that there's very little he doesn't, so by process of eliminationAnyway, they can all be depended upon to toe the line. With the billions of dollars being lavishly dished out by the State Department, the OSCE, the National Endowment for Democracy, the Open Society Institute and scores of others, it's downright reassuring that the best they can come up with are adolescent inanities like those described below. Enough to give one faith in the future. Times for changes, indeed] posted on TOL Wire on 31 August 2001 Happy birthday, Lukashenka! from Racyja MINSK, 30 August (Racyja)--Members of the youth opposition organization Malady Front intended to give incumbent Alyaksandr Lukashenka a criminal code, tomatoes, and dried crusts for his birthday. The action was staged near the president?s administration. Demonstrators held orange balloons with the slogan I love Belarus and a ballot-box with the inscription Chose another president!, in which they placed the gifts for Lukashenka. They were recommended by policemen to mail their presents to the president. Meanwhile, the youth coalition Time for changes was also gathering presents for Lukashenka on the Freedom Square, including an old bed pan, a pack of crusts, and chicken eggs. Their slogan was: Make a present for the dear man in the last days of his fruitful activities!. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com - This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
NATOized Hungary Revels In Its Fascist Past [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - [The following bit of revisionist apologetics is typical of much of Eastern Europe in the era of a revitalized, expansionist NATO. From Latvia to Hungary and from Croatia to Estonia, NATO members and candidates - seemingly as a matter of course and design - are now celebrating their World War II Axis collaborationist regimes, rewriting their text books to make heroes out of villains, inciting anti-foreigner and irredentist sentiments among the populace, and clamoring for the return of territory redistributed after the end of the war. The government of Hungary, one of the first three members inducted in NATO's first round of expansion, is even promoting a sort of pan-Magyarism by granting passports and presumed citizenship rights to ethnic Hungarians living in Yugoslavia, Romania, Slovakia and elsewhere. How this will play out in the future dismemberment of what's left of Yugoslavia as well as in Romania and elsewhere seems obvious. We've alread seen Hungarian officials refuse to apologize for the death camps their allegedly non-fascist government ran in the Vojvodina area of Yugoslavia in World War II. In fact they've attempted to justify their role in the extermination of Serbs, Jews and Roma there. Anyone unconvinced about the nature of the nazi-collaborationist, clerico-fascist regime in Budapest in the 1930s and 1940s only has to look up information on Admiral Horthy and the Arrow Cross Party on the Internet and come to their own conclusions. If this is the New World Order, it bears frightening resemblances to the old.] The Budapest Sun August 30, 2001 - Volume IX, Issue 35 Lobbying groups reject 'fascist era' label By Gerson Perry THE unearthing and resurrection of a statue to Greater Hungary by Viktor Orbán's Government and an Associated Press report on the incident under the headline Fascist-Era Statue Raised in Hungary, has sparked an outcry by Hungarian lobbying groups. The Hungarian Lobby, a political and cultural action group, bombarded the executive editor of the Associated Press Jon Wolman with hundreds of e-mails and letters demanding a correction to the article that suggested the statue was raised during Hungary's Fascist era. Dr F L Jajczay, a member of the Presidential Board of the Hungarian National World Council, said, The editor, who approved the release of this news item, should review the definition of Fascism/Fascist and the historical facts about the political and social system in Hungary between the two World Wars. This news item is a very nice example of inciting hatred against an identifiable group. Fascism, according to Webster's New World Dictionary, is a system of government characterized by rigid one-party dictatorship, forcible oppression of opposition, belligerent nationalism, racism and militarism. László Papp suggested fellow Hungarian Lobby members write to the AP along these lines: May I respectfully suggest you send your reporter or correspondent back to History Class 101. His concept and information on a 'Fascist Hungary' is totally and shamefully wrong. Yes, there was a Fascist regime in Hungary, but not in 1934, instead in 1944 after Germany occupied the country. Papp added, The country had a conservative rightist majority in the democratically elected Parliament in 1934 with leftist minority, including Social-Democrats, and some other liberal parties. So did and do other countries. You would not characterize the Bush administration 'Fascist' for its conservative ideology? Or do you? A correction and apology is in order. Another lobby member, writing in a similar vein said that, our weak anti-Jewish laws angered Hitler, but actual deportations took place only after the occupation of Hungary... More than 200,000 thousand Jews were saved in the 'Last island of freedom in Europe, east of the Pyrenees'. Jajczay said, As far as the Hungarians hating Trianon and the revisionism is concerned, there is a question for you: If after a lost war Great Britain would have lost - without a plebiscite - Scotland to Norway, York to Denmark, Kent to Netherlands and Cornwall to France, the United States would have similarly lost New Mexico and Texas to Mexico, Florida to Cuba, New York to Canada. What would have been the reaction of the English and American people and governments? The Associated Press has yet to respond - or offer a correction - to its August 12 article. Copyright 2001 * The Budapest Sun * All Rights Reserved __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com - This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click
NATO: Big Plans For Bulgaria [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - [Just in the past few days two leading members of the U.S. Senate foreign policy elite - John McCain and Richard Lugar - have issued separate calls for Bulgaria's early entry into NATO. McCain even made a special trip to Sofia. The Graf Ignatievo airforce base, referred to below, is of strategic importance to NATO's activities in the Balkans, and is to be substantially upgraded to become even more so. The accelerated development of Bulgaria as a key NATO base of operations is planned in conjunction with NATO's new role in Macedonia.] Blue News Newsnewsgroup: Blue News Bulgaria English, 31.08.2001 10:02:30 Bulgarian air force base converted to NATO standards Sofia (Bluebull) - Bulgaria's Minister of Defense Nikolay Svinarov formally announced the completion of a major reconstruction at the Graf Ignatievo airforce base, near Plovdiv. The main strip of the base was extended to 3 km which makes it compliant with the landing requirements for all NATO fighter and cargo aircraft. The whole project, which includes the relevant signal and safety infrastructure, was completed for three months by a local state-owned construction company. The ministry of defense has spent BGN 10 million on the whole project. The Graf Ignatievo airforce base houses also the headquarters of the international peace-keeping brigade comprising military units from several Balkan states. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com - This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Castro Says Palestinians Suffer 'Genocide,' Hits US [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - Castro Says Palestinians Suffer 'Genocide,' Hits US http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010901/wl/race_castro_dc_1.html Saturday September 1 8:16 AM ET DURBAN, South Africa (Reuters) - Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Friday branded Israeli actions against Palestinians as genocide and blasted the United States for seeking to hobble debate at a U.N. conference against racism. ``(Nobody) has the right to set preconditions to the conference or urge it to avoid the discussion...(of) the way we decide to rate the dreadful genocide perpetrated, at this very moment, against our Palestinian brothers,'' Castro said. At least 548 Palestinians and 157 Israelis have been killed since protests against Israeli occupation erupted in September last year after peace talks froze. On Saturday the Palestinians accused Israel of assassinating a senior security official in a car blast in Gaza. Israeli security officials denied Israel was responsible. Middle East bloodshed has dominated the 153-nation World Conference Against Racism that opened in the South African city of Durban on Friday. The United States has cut its representation to a junior level in protest at what it sees as an anti-Israeli bias and has warned it may withdraw altogether unless the language in draft texts is revised. Middle East tension and demands by some African states that rich countries pay reparations for the past ills of slavery are threatening to torpedo the conference which organizers intended as a landmark in the struggle against racism. The veteran Cuban leader backed the call for reparations, saying that countries that had grown rich on ill-gotten gains from human trafficking had the resources to pay. ``This is an unavoidable moral duty,'' Castro said in his formal address to the conference which is being attended by some 6,000 delegates from 153 countries. The conference, which runs until September 7, is due to draw up a declaration of principles along with a detailed plan of action to fight racism worldwide. But Washington and European powers are wary of issuing any formal apology for slavery for fear it could give grounds for legal action against them and they reject any talk of reparations. ``(The) rich and squandering world is in possession of the technical and financial resources necessary to pay what is due to mankind,'' Castro said. __ Copyright 2001 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Copyright 2001 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.yahoo.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com - This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
FYROM Demands UN Troops To Patrol Borders [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - [Please note UN - and not NATO - forces to restore order; and a UN mission to patrol the borders, not to maintain the status quo after foreign-based terrorists have seized as much territory as they could. Exactly as with Kosovo three years ago, the only role for any outside force should be to protect a sovereign nation and its people from terrorist assaults emanating from abroad; assaults that could never have occurred without Western connivance and assistance. The rest of the report that follows is the standard NATOise pabulum about evil nationalist Slavs and so forth. Though the final paragraph is significant in that it quotes verbaim, without commentary or disclaimer, the non-negotiable demands placed by the CIA-trained NLA/KLA, which is not a party to the so-called peace accords, on the multi-ethnic parliament of Macedonia as though such a threat was perfectly normal and worthy of being honored.] Macedonia demands U.N. peacekeepers Copyright 2001 by United Press International.September 01, 2001 SKOPJE, Macedonia, Aug 31, 2001 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- President Boris Trajkovski called on the international community Friday to guarantee peace in Macedonia after ratification of a political accord and rebel disarmament are completed. We expect the international community to help us keep and enforce the peace, he said in an address to parliament. I am asking today for a reintroduction of the United Nations Preventative Deployment force --UNPREDEP, that operated in Macedonia from 1992 until March 1999. UNPREDEP was a successful mission and it kept the peace by patrolling the borders, Trajkovski said. U.S. soldiers led the former U.N. peacekeeping operation in Macedonia, which consisted of about 1,000 soldiers deployed along the country's borders with Albania, Kosovo and Serbia. The mission was scrapped after China vetoed an extension of its mandate in the U.N. Security Council on the eve of the NATO campaign against Yugoslavia. NATO has said that its current force of about 5,000 troops in Macedonia will leave at the end of its mandate to collect weapons from ethnic Albanian rebels. Western diplomats have been discussing in recent days what, if any, international presence could be sent to Macedonia to keep the lid on ethnic tensions after the guerrilla force known as the National Liberation Army is disbanded. Trajkovski also urged his country's parliament to ratify the internationally mediated peace deal signed almost three weeks ago by both ethnic Albanian and Macedonian political leaders. The agreement is not perfect, but no agreement ever is, Trajkovski told legislators. It is the best thing we have right now and it does have many positive points. Macedonian hard-liners are opposed to the deal, saying the country is being forced at gunpoint to overhaul its constitution. Strasho Angelovski, head of an extreme nationalist political party known as MAAK, led a blockade of parliament Friday morning to try to prevent lawmakers getting inside and opening debate on the agreement. The planned morning session was delayed six hours until riot police pushed back the few hundred demonstrators blocking the entrances to parliament. Angelovski said that in particular he was opposed to a provision of the peace accord that would guarantee proportional employment of ethnic Albanians in police and government. He said the new law would encourage a demographic explosion of Albanians seeking to further expand their share of government jobs in the future. Inside the parliament, Branko Crvenkovski said his moderate SDSM would support the peace deal, as expected. Officials of the prime minister's VMRO party have also said they will back initial parliamentary measures to move debate on the agreement forward. However, two members of parliament from VMRO addressing the session said they would defy their party leadership and vote against the deal. One of them, Gjorgi Kotevski, said a referendum should decide the fate of the accord because the parliament alone lacks the moral authority to make such sweeping changes. Ethnic Albanian rebels have made the passage of a procedural vote expected by next Tuesday a precondition for further handovers of weapons to NATO. We expect the Macedonian Parliament to meet its commitments in order to [also] complete the first phase, an NLA Commander known as Cela told the Albanian-language Fakti newspaper. If parliament does not start implementing the agreement, we will interrupt the operation and we will not continue the second phase of disarmament until the (parliament) meets the obligations foreseen in the agreement. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com - This Discussion List is the follow-up for the
Re: STATEMENT OF PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC ON THE ILLEGITIMACY OF THE HAGUE
Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - Dear Party of Citizens, the ICTY is not the same as the International Criminal Court (ICC) created in Rome in 1998. The ICC, in fact, has yet to be officially inaugurated as it lacks the proper number of ratifications for the treaty to enter into force. The ICTY should also not be confused with the ICJ (International Court of Justice), which was designed to adjudicate disputes between states and in front of which Yugoslavia brought a complaint against NATO states for their aggression in 1999 (the case was apparently dropped by the new NATO-backed authorities in Yugoslavia). So what is the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)? Good question. The ICTY was created in 1993 as an ad-hoc creation of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in violation of Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 the UN Charter, which empowers the UNSC only to create subsidiary organs. The ICTY however is an organ of the UN that over-rides state sovereignty in the persecution of individuals, is open-ended and was never ratified by the members of the UN General Assembly. Thus the ICTY is of dubious legal identity as an international court since it was created without the approval of UN member states, but was an adhoc creation of the UNSC under dubious circumstances. This is the difference between the various courts, hope this helped. Cheers! Kole - This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Some of US Army Soldiers in Europe to Be Shifted to Asia-Pacific Region [WWW.STO
Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - Military equipment stationed in Europe for an Army combat brigade was already being moved to Asia as part of a new Bush administration strategy, White told a group of reporters. He said that troops were likely to follow. However, White did not say exactly how much weaponry and equipment would be moved and how many soldiers would be shifted. US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has not announced a change in defense strategy, but he has indicated that in the aftermath of the Cold War it would make sense to increase focus on potential threats in Asia and the Pacific. It's a signal once again that we are going to shift our available resources around to fit the new strategy putting more emphasis on Asia, White said. But, the US Army's top civilian official said that he will fight any Pentagon move to cut his 480,000 troops. I don't intend to cut force structure, White said, adding that Rumsfeld was letting the services make initial decisions on force size. That study is to be completed for Congress by the end of September. Currently, the United States http://www.peopledaily.com.cn/english/data/usa.html has some 100,000 military personnel from all services stationed in Europe and another 100, 000 in the Asia-Pacific region. The Army has 65,000 in Europe, most of them in Germany http://www.peopledaily.com.cn/english/data/germany.html , and 21,000 in Japan http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/data/japan.html and South Korea. . . [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] - This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Israeli Communist Forum condemns assasination of Palestinian Leader [WWW.STOPNAT
Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - . . [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 4:02 AM Subject: Israeli Communist Forum statement From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 00:00:13 - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Peoples War] Israeli Communist Forum statement State Terrorism Backed by the United States The criminal assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, is a further sharp escalation in the bloody march of the Sharon Government, increasing even more the danger of all-out war in the Middle East. The Israeli Communist Forum condemns the Sharon-Peres Government, in which nearly all Zionist parties participate, for this despicable crime of murdering in cold blood a political leader, head of the second-largest organization in the PLO. We strongly condemn the support (more manifestly biased than ever) which the United States government extends to the policy of murder and aggression - a support which encouraged the Government of Israel to commit that heinous crime. The Sharon-Peres-Ben Eliezer government does not content itself with this murder. It is escalating its military operations, making use of fighter airplanes, helicopter gunshots, missiles and tanks against Palestinian towns and villages. Barbaric military operations are conducted deeper and deeper inside territory which is supposed to be under complete Palestinian control (A areas). The experience of the past months has shown, again and again, that all the assassinations and bombings did not stop the struggle of the Arab Palestinian people. On the contrary, it increases their determination to gain their legitimate national rights. This is also evident in the acts of resistance which followed immediately upon the despicable murder. In the past months, the Palestinians made important achievements in their struggle. This is evident, among other things, in the fact that in many parts of the Occupied Territories there is nearly no Israeli civilian traffic; that the state of Israel is paying a heavy economic price for the escalation, including an almost complete collapse of the tourist industry; and that the Palestinian position on the international arena is improving, while that of Israel is weakening. The closure and blockade of Palestinian communities, the daily humiliation suffered by Palestinians who need to cross Israeli military checkpoints, and the ongoing rampage by settler vigilantes - none of them can stop the Palestinian struggle, nor can they prevent the Palestinian authority from continuing to function. Still, the Israeli measures are taking a daily toll of casualties among the Palestinian civilian population, causing a further deterioration of their already depressed standard of living; this situation is pushing some Palestinians into acts of desperation, such as suicide bombings directed at innocent civilians inside Israel. The inescapable conclusion from the events of the past months is that no solution can be achieved by force. Not only will the use of even more force by the Israeli Army solve nothing; on the contrary, it would lead to even more bloodletting - not only of Palestinians but also of Israelis. We call upon the government of Israel to cease its policy of state terrorism, assassinations and barbaric bombings, and to accept a cease-fire on the basis of recent diplomatic initiatives. An inseparable part of such a cease fire would be the return of Israeli forces to the positions held prior to October 2000, as well as a complete freeze of construction in all settlements. Israel must carry out all its obligations under previous agreements, and start negotiations on a permanent solution. Such a solution can only be achieved on the basis of withdrawal to the June 1967 borders, the creation of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including East Jerusalem, and recognition of the Palestinian refugees' right to have their problem solved in accordance with the relevant UN resolutions _ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ - This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to:
Protest NATO: Oct 6 Ottawa [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - . . [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 4:08 AM Subject: Protest NATO: Oct 6 Ottawa Forward from mart. Please Distribute Widely. Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - In a message dated 03/08/01 18:56:02 Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Calling all Activists! This is an urgent Call to Dis Arms! NATO PA* is coming to Ottawa! October 5-8, 2001 Please join us in building towards the: No to NATO! Festival of Creative NonViolence-- what Saturday, October 6, at 1 p.m. -- when Gathering at the US Embassy (MacKenzie Ave.) -- where JOIN THE FESTIVITIES! Celebrate the diversity of creative nonviolence!! Here are some of the ideas we've been discussing. We need your help now to turn these and other ideas into reality: large puppets and street theatre symbolic conversion of police barricades around NATO mtgs. into prison walls to contain war criminals poetry/spoken word/musical performances speaker phone/sound system creating a live connection to anti-NATO activists around the world radical cheerleaders, the Raging Grannies and the Grumbling Gramps (?) interfaith peace service distribution of free vegetarian food civil disobedience to attempt citizens arrests of NATO war leaders boycott of corporations sponsoring/supporting the NATO visit projecting images of NATO's war against Yugoslavia (slides, videos) onto exterior walls of significant buildings GET BUSY! Start preparing for Olympics of nonviolent action! We are inviting activists from far and wide to come together to build this celebration of peacemaking! We would like to see as many creative activities as possible to counter NATO's warmaking. Let's demonstrate to NATO, corporations, governments, the general public and the media, that there is a vibrant, dynamic, diverse and lively movement opposed to militarism and corporate globalization. Please work with others to take on a project (large or small) to prepare the most imaginative action, performance or display that you can muster! Embrace your spirit of creativity and nonviolence to send the message loud and clear: We are holding NATO leaders accountable for their crimes against peace and humanity! A FEW THINGS THAT YOU CAN DO: (1) PUBLICITY! Please help to promote this Festival. Spread the word to friends and colleagues: Circulate this email announcement to your contacts, to listserves, make phone calls, put notices in publications, make announcements at meetings, shout from the rooftops and generally encourage as many people as possible to attend! (2) ENDORSMENTS! Please ask organizations to endorse the Festival so that our list of sponsoring groups is as comprehensive as possible on future publicity materials. Please consider asking for endorsements from groups focused on peace, anti-globalization, human rights, the environment, social justice, poverty as well as labour unions and religious, youth and feminist organizations, to name but a few. (3) CREATIVITY! Please urge groups to bring their creative energies, props and performances to the Festival. Get together with others to plan some particular activity that creatively conveys a message that you feel strongly about. (We're hoping to see puppets, costumes, street theatre, satirical songs, clever banners, flags, photos, signs and many other diverse symbolic representations to dramatically conveying who we are, what we stand for and why we think NATO should be behind bars!) Please let us know what you're planning so we can compile a list to help publicize your activities and possibly direct some volunteers your way for a specific project! (4) FINANCIAL SUPPORT! Of course, some money would help too! We have received no funding for this event. If you can't make it to the Festival, or even if you are attending, please remember that any donation -large or small -- would be very much appreciated. Please ask unions, NGOs and other individuals for grants or donations to help us make this festival a great success. Cheques can be made payable to the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (or just COAT), and mailed to 541 McLeod St., Ottawa Ontario K1R 5R2 Canada (earmarked Festival of Creative Nonviolence.) (5) JOIN OUR LIST SERVE! The Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade has created the no_to_nato list serve to discuss and build nonviolent responses to NATO's visit to Ottawa. To join our list, just send the following message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] : subscribe no_to_nato (Then, when you receive an automated email simply reply to it and you're subscribed.) You can connect to the no_to_nato archive of email postings from the COAT website: http://www.ncf.ca/coat or view
Nepal: Hopes Of Breakthrough - Maoists Say They Are Committed ToPeace - BBC Onli
Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - . . [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 10:42 AM Subject: Nepal: Hopes Of Breakthrough - Maoists Say They Are Committed ToPeace - BBC Online From: Stasi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 08:16:41 +0100 To: Peoples War [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Peoples War] Nepal: Hopes Of Breakthrough - Maoists Say They Are Committed To Peace - BBC Online http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1518000/1518556.stm Friday, 31 August, 2001, 12:29 GMT 13:29 UK Hopes of Nepal breakthrough The Maoists say they are committed to peace By Sushil Sharma from Kathmandu Hopes for the peaceful settlement of the Maoist insurgency in Nepal have increased after the first formal talks between the government and the rebels. There has been no substantive outcome, but the talks are the beginning of the negotiating process. The first face-to-face meeting between the two sides has helped reduce mutual distrust and increase crucial confidence. The outcome of Thursday's four-hour long meeting at the luxury resort, Godavari, on the outskirts of the capital, Kathmandu, has been welcomed by violence-weary Nepalis. Committed to talks Having witnessed the death of nearly 1,800 people in less than six years of the bloody Maoist rebellion, the generally peaceful Nepalis had been longing for peace. Nearly 1,800 people have died in less than six years What until recently was considered elusive now looks achievable following the first formal peace talks. The most significant factor about the talks was the public commitment of the government and the rebels to peace. The two sides vowed to resolve all problems and differences peacefully. In keeping with this commitment, they have agreed to continue talking - with the next round scheduled in two weeks. This has increased hopes that the truce, which came into force last month, will become permanent. Not surprisingly, the mood is upbeat. Differences The outcome of the first formal talks have been widely hailed as a vital breakthrough, though fundamental differences still divide the government and the rebels. The government is determined to defend the constitutional monarchy and multi party parliamentary democracy, which the rebels want to replace with a communist republic. But the two sides can ill afford to let these differences get the better of the peace moves, in the wake of the continuing pressure at home and abroad for a negotiated solution. It is likely that despite their public rhetoric the rebels will eventually settle for much less than what they have been fighting for - a republican regime. The government is also likely to be flexible enough to agree to drastic changes in the present constitution to accommodate most of the rebels' demands. The journey ahead looks exciting after the first formal peace talks in six years, but the road to peace will certainly not be without hurdles. _ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ -- - This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Fw: PENTAGON NASA TOGETHER ON SPACE DOMINATION [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: Global Network Against Weapons Nuclear Power in Space [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mailto:Undisclosed-Recipient:;@mindspring.com Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 4:21 PM Subject: PENTAGON NASA TOGETHER ON SPACE DOMINATION http://www.space.com/news/military_space_010829-1.html === + === Thurs. Aug 30, 2001 U.S Air Force and NASA Work Closer on Strategic Space Control By Leonard David Senior Space Writer ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO -- The United States Air Force and NASA are beefing up their cooperative efforts to develop reusable launch vehicle technologies in an effort to assure the American military's dominance and control of space for national security purposes. A just completed review of NASA and Air Force cooperation in space urges for a closer affiliation with the civilian space agency on reusable space launch technologies, and other technology work now underway. Reusable space launchers An early outcome of this affiliation is for the U.S. Air Force Space Command in Colorado Springs, Colorado to significantly increase the Air Force presence at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. The NASA field center is now engaged in shaping next generation reusable space launch vehicles, ostensibly to replace the space shuttle in future years - a $5.8 billion, five year program tagged the Space Launch Initiative, or SLI for short. For its part, NASA has committed to better focus technology work in reusable launchers toward national security objectives, but doing so in a way that is consistent with the space agency's primary objectives in SLI, said Air Force Lt. General Roger DeKok, Vice Commander, USAF Space Command. The Air Force is going to be involved far more closely with NASA in their Space Launch Initiative, DeKok said. Realignment and restructuring Lester Lyles, Commander, Air Force Material Command, said that a realignment is now underway between the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center in Los Angeles, California with the U.S. Space Command. This new organizational structure may also include the realignment of some Air Force laboratories to enhance work on space technologies, he said. We cannot afford to loose this battle of technological dominance, and we will not loose that battle, Lyles said. Science and technology to protect U.S. space assets, and to deny any adversary use of similar hardware, demands preeminence in research, Lyles said. And we are dedicated to keeping it that way, he said. There's a lot more we can gain by a closer link with NASA and their various centers in the area of space and aeronautical technology, Lyles said. Partnership in the making A Space Partnership Council video meeting was held earlier this month, bringing together NASA's Daniel Goldin, General Ralph Eberhart, Commander of the U.S. Space Command, and Keith Hall, Director of the National Reconnaissance Office. That meeting kick-started a 60-day review by the Air Force to look at the basis for NASA's decisions in awarding contracts for the SLI, and also to gain a military perspective regarding the space agency's X-series of programs, including the now-canceled X-33 program. The X-33 was a possible replacement for the Space Shuttle The X-33 was an experimental reusable, suborbital space plane that was scuttled by NASA after the space agency and industry teams spent over $1.2 billion. There is on-going discussion regarding revival of the project, but under the wing of the U.S. Air Force. DeKok and other Air Force officials offered snapshot views of a reshaping of military space prowess here at Space 2001, a conference organized by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and being held here August 28-30. The shift toward greater emphasis on space for national security needs is being led by Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld. Prior to being appointed to his post by President Bush, Rumsfeld led a national commission on use of space for national security needs. Space power Acknowledging that melding military organizations to create a more unified aerospace force is a tough assignment, DeKok said this is not a hostile takeover. This is a merger of the willing. We are mindful of the fact that people are going to judge us not by what we say, but what we do in this process, DeKok said. This new organization will allow the U.S. Air Force to be a better steward of all of the services' requirements, along with the needs of the National Reconnaissance Office, in establishing a more coherent and better focused national security space program, he said. Retired General, R. Fogleman, former Air Force Chief of Staff, likened the growth of military space power today to the evolution of air power that began
EU US Software Giant at odds over Monopoly [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - Habana, August 31 (RHC)--Share indexes fell on Wall Street yesterday with the news that the European Commission would be expanding its charges against Microsoft Corporation for including Media Player in its program, which limits user preferences. The operating systems of Window 2000 and Windows XP both include such software, which gives them an unfair advantage over competitors, says the new complaint. Media Player permits one to see and hear audio and video files on the computer. The Commission said it would not attempt to block the distribution of the new Windows XP system, but would energetically pursue Microsoft under anti-trust legislation. Due to its current monopoly on the world market, Microsoft maintains an unfair advantage over its competitors, claims the Commission. The charges brought against Microsoft are separate from those brought against the software giant in the US, in which 17 states have filed anti-monopoly cases against it. Microsoft was found guilty as charged in a June court ruling. The Wall Street effect on the second most important corporation in the US was to drive prices down, ending the day with a slide of 100 points. Microsoft's share price dropped from $5.18 to $3.15 after the announcement was made. . . [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] - This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: What Billions Buy In Belarus [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - Reminds me of those characters, Oxfor... On 1 Sep 01, at 5:11, Rick Rozoff wrote: Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - [This 'report' is from Transitions Online, one of heaven knows how many newspapers and Web sites owned by George S. throughout Eastern Europe and the world. I would seriously doubt that he himself can remember what he owns, except that there's very little he doesn't, so by process of eliminationAnyway, they can all be depended upon to toe the line. With the billions of dollars being lavishly dished out by the State Department, the OSCE, the National Endowment for Democracy, the Open Society Institute and scores of others, it's downright reassuring that the best they can come up with are adolescent inanities like those described below. Enough to give one faith in the future. Times for changes, indeed] posted on TOL Wire on 31 August 2001 Happy birthday, Lukashenka! from Racyja MINSK, 30 August (Racyja)--Members of the youth opposition organization Malady Front intended to give incumbent Alyaksandr Lukashenka a criminal code, tomatoes, and dried crusts for his birthday. The action was staged near the president?s administration. Demonstrators held orange balloons with the slogan I love Belarus and a ballot-box with the inscription Chose another president!, in which they placed the gifts for Lukashenka. They were recommended by policemen to mail their presents to the president. Meanwhile, the youth coalition Time for changes was also gathering presents for Lukashenka on the Freedom Square, including an old bed pan, a pack of crusts, and chicken eggs. Their slogan was: Make a present for the dear man in the last days of his fruitful activities!. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com - This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down - This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Macedonian leader thanks Russia [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Title: Message Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - Macedonian leader thanks Russia KIEV, Ukraine - Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday for his country's position on the conflict in the Balkan nation and called for an international conference on borders in the region, a news report said. The two leaders met on the sidelines of Ukrainian independence celebrations. Russia has supported the Macedonian government in its conflict with ethnic Albanian rebels, and on Thursday, Putin expressed doubts that NATO's mission to disarm the rebels would succeed. At the meeting Friday morning, Trajkovski thanked Putin for Russia's position on the conflict and for its role in the Balkans in general, the Interfax news agency said. Trajkovski called for joint Russian and Macedonian efforts for peace in the Balkans and for an international conference on borders and human rights in the Balkans, the agency said. "This is the only way to bring the region out of crisis," he was quoted as saying. After the meeting, Putin told journalists that tension in the Balkans stemmed from "terrorists, and not rebels who are allegedly concerned about humanitarian, language and religious problems." Russia, a harsh critic of NATO actions in Kosovo, has suggested that the conflict there spilled over into Macedonia because of the alliance's failure to disarm the Kosovo Albanian rebels./The Associated Press/ - This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Global Justice, Not Global Economy, Should be Canada's Agenda [WWW.STOPNATO.OR
Title: Message Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - Global Justice, Not Global Economy, Should be Canada's Agenda by Mohamed Elmasry The U.S. is still driving hard to promote its global economy agenda, an agenda that would see massive expansion of free trade around the world. As the world's largest economic power, the U.S. naturally stands to reap the greatest direct benefit from globalization. But the world cannot survive with such a single-issue agenda. There is dire need for a balancing force, a global justice agenda, for which only Canada can campaign. Most Canadians rightly believe that this great, unique, and distinct nation of ours has a mission in the world to promote global justice and fight against hunger, poverty, desperation and human misery. Most Canadians also believe that justice is necessary for the achievement of true world peace and they will, therefore, support their government on policies which effectively promote this two-fold goal, both at home and abroad. They have applauded Canada's past peace-keeping and diplomatic efforts in Bosnia, Kosovo and numerous other troubled parts of the world. They have stood behind the movement to obliterate anti-personnel landmines from every continent. They have lent their support to efforts at reforming the United Nations Security Council. At heart, Canadians sincerely believe in their collective power to do good, so it is not surprising that they are liked and respected the world over. Numerous Americans thank God that their neighbour, Canada, has spoken out on critical international issues when their own government has been held hostage to self-seeking domestic politics. In fact, many Americans have come to believe that their government, regardless of who is in power, has no true foreign policy to speak of, only a domestic one. This has been alarmingly apparent from day one of President George W. Bush's administration. He insisted on excluding Cuba from the Quebec Summit of the Americas (to please influential Cuban Americans); he asked Palestinians to stop Middle East violence without demanding an end to the Israeli occupation of their land (to appease the American Jewish lobby); he withdrew from the Kyoto Environmental Agreement (to satisfy the corporate lobby); and he stopped funding any medical clinics abroad where therapeutic abortions might be performed (to appease right-wing religious fundamentalists). There is some virtue in being so blatantly selfish, for it can be rationalized away as "self-preservation." By whatever name you call it, U.S. international policies (myopic as they are) are firmly in its grip. But Canadians cannot afford to follow the American lead (or, retreat) where international relations are concerned. We have long realized that a firm commitment to global justice and peace must be an integral part of our struggle for social justice here at home. The late Lester Bowles Pearson, one of Canada's most loved and respected Prime Ministers, introduced a comprehensive pension plan for the elderly, a national medicare system to keep our people healthy, and even managed to unite Canadians around a new maple leaf flag -- how could we imagine Canada Day without it? And on the global stage, Pearson's efforts as Minister of External Affairs (1948-57) to resolve the Suez Crisis were accorded the well-deserved honour of the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize. Pearson showed generations of Canadians that when diplomacy fails, the solution is more diplomacy -- not outdated and dangerous threats of war-reparations, or punishing economic sanctions which seem to be the only recourse of current American policy. War and sanctions cannot achieve any goal more effectively than genuine peace can. While some conflicts may seem temporarily justifiable, it is irresponsible to fall back on the old "first, arms buildup -- then negotiations" style of intervention. Canada is far more qualified to avert wars than to launch them, for conflict resolution is closest to the essence of our national psyche. Yet despite Canada's impressive track record as one of the world's most respected peace-brokers, our American neighbors seem not to want our advice. Even at this moment, ongoing U.S. sanctions against Cuba, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan and Sudan are hurting this planet's most vulnerable people -- its children. Sanctions are a genocidal policy anywhere and certainly do not contribute to achieving peace. Just as a polluted environment could eventually kill us all, while a few make tons of money in the short-term, so sanctions produce a short-term illusion of peace, when all they really do is degrade and weaken a society to such an extent that mere survival absorbs all its energies. The negative impact of a foreign policy that is gradually abandoning Canada's traditional role as a peacemaking and
