Syrian War - Remember Yugoslavia ?? OK - But Let's Remember the Real Story.
In the context of Syria, today, many on the "Left" are citing Yugoslavia as a "good war" where we were, after all, not killing "black or brown people," for a change. Let us have a look back, and consider the real reasons for that war and the parallels to today's "proposed adventure" to "liberate" Syria.
Cut to the Chase: The Primary Reason for the Yugoslav war was "privatizing" resources, held by a socialist-government, for Transnational-Corporate Theft {6}. The Eastern-Bloc's resources and infrastructure had already been transfered to Transnational-Corporate hands, yet the people of Yugoslavia had not yet been stripped of their birthright and infrastructure-fruits of their labor. "Humanitarian concerns" - while very real - were incited by the West to be used for political calculus; if those were the primary reason for war, Saudi Arabia would have been bombed long ago.
To Incite the Yugoslavian Well-Planned War of Colonial Aggression*, the first US broke up the existing, signed, peace treaty (this was before major battles and so-called 'atrocities'). On March 18, 1992 the Lisbon conference reached an agreement between the leaders of the three ethnic factions {7}, but on March 28, after attending a meeting that day with US ambassador to Yugoslavia Warren Zimmermann, Bosnian Muslim leader Alija Izetbegović withdrew his signature; what was said at the meeting remains an unresolved topic of debate {8}. Does this remind anyone of the Gillespie meeting with Saddam Hussein? The "We don't have a defense-treaty with Kuwait" meeting? After the war, the Bosian-Islamist faction was no better off than they would have been under the Lisbon treaty; pawns in a game are rarely rewarded for their useful-idiocy (any more than American workers have been for supporting Koch-DLC candidates).
With the war started, the US then undermined the UN weapons-ban, and had the CIA coordinate the airlifting of Islamic fighters and weapons shipments, resulting in the creation of a persistent “trans-national criminal network" {10}. Sectarian strife was minimal before the West began coordinating and inflaming it, primarily via economic means {6}, similarly to the method used recently to incite the "grassroots revolution" in Egypt.
NATO (the North Atlantic Terrorist Organization) backed the Nazi-allies (Croats) and the Islamic Fundamentalists in a bid to break up Yugoslavia and expand the Transnational-Corporate Globalist Empire. The Yugoglavians are left with the birth-defects to show for this "great crusade" for Transnational-Corporate Domination; {1} the US has blocked a UN probe investigating this correlation {2}.
The Yugoslavian War was one part of the "Arc Of Crisis" strategy Brzezinski had implemented to "get the Russians." This continued even after the end of the USSR, as peace with Russia was Squandered one more time. The Afghanistan proxy-war was another part in that strategy; we only found out a few years ago that the US STARTED the war with the Soviets there {4}, as then national-security (sic) director Brzezinski (CFR puppet of Rockefeller) proudly admitted - along with no regrets for those "stirred up Muslims" (aka "Terrorists"
he created to get the job done. That whole "Olympic Boycott" thing with the Russians via Reagan over their response to US aggression? Can you say Pure Theatre?
The Muslim Brotherhood (Egypt) are also former Nazi allies {5}, like the Croats, and were brought into the Western-Terrorist Tool Chest by MI-6 after WWII. They have been a key murder-squad to oppose "sectarian nationalism" - the use of the region's resources to better their own people (see: Nasser).
Another summation of the Real Motivations behind the US attack on Yugoslavia is presented by Dr. Michael Parenti {3}:
Between 1960 and 1980 (Yugoslavia) had one of the most vigorous growth rates: a decent standard of living, free medical care and education, a guaranteed right to a job, one-month vacation with pay, a literacy rate of over 90 percent, and a life expectancy of 72 years. Yugoslavia also offered its multi-ethnic citizenry affordable public transportation, housing, and utilities, with a not-for-profit economy that was mostly publicly owned. ...
The dismemberment and mutilation of Yugoslavia was part of a concerted policy initiated by the United States and the other Western powers in 1989. Yugoslavia was the one country in Eastern Europe that would not voluntarily overthrow what remained of its socialist system and install a free-market economic order. ...
U.S. policymakers also want to abolish Yugoslavia’s public sector services and social programs — for the same reason they want to abolish our public sector services and social programs. The ultimate goal is the privatization and Third Worldization of Yugoslavia, as it is the Third Worldization of the United States and every other nation.
This same lesson applies to Kadaffi's Libya, which had the highest standard of living in the region, zero-interest loans for new businesses, and an almost-complete water pipeline (built using its own foundry employing its own people sans "outsourcing" or Bechtel) which could have helped feed millions of Africans. As Kissinger is purported to have said, "Control oil to control nations" and "Control food to control people." There was no "slaughter" happening there, until the US formed a "rebel army" of Fundimentalist-Islamacist head-choppers to initiate it.
I hope no one on this board bought into the "humanitarian lie" that was the Libyan war, but to those that did, remember this: When *peaceful unarmed* demonstrators in Bahrain are murdered - where the USA has a Naval Base - not a peep from the press, and CNN suppresses reporting from their own correspondent {9}. To keep the DLC democrats quiet, Bahrain buys the help of former Howard Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi {9}.
By contrast, when Western-armed Radical-Islamist murder-arson gangs begin a tidal-wave of armed-destruction in Libya and Syria - nations with long-standing religious tolerance - where there is a LOT of oil and a Russian naval base, respectively per, it is billed as a "Humanitarian Crisis" where the Islamacist "head-choppers" who want to exterminate all those with different faiths are the "good guys." CFR-mouthpiece Foreign Policy Magazine even boldy declares, "Two Cheers for Syrian Islamists" {10)
Ready to puke at the Glaring Hypocrisy, yet? Just Swallow Hard and remember your NewsSpeak:
Assad Chemical Weapons = Bad.
US Radioactive Depleted Uranium Weapons = Good.
Even though, clearly, the LAST thing Assad would do right now is use chemical weapons - and against civilians? Why? He was winning - THAT is why the "red line" had to be crossed. And who would have the motivation and means to do this? Remember those Libyan stockpiles Kadaffi gave up before getting a knife in the back? Were those shipped out of Bengazi along with the rest of the "Arms For Al Qaeda" CIA-wrapped gift-package? Maybe we will find out in 40 years or so, when Ms. Rice writes her memoirs.
This would not be the first time the blame was shifted to the victim of a chemical weapons attack. Remember when those "Evil Iranians" used chemical weapons in the Iran-Iraq war? At least, that is what Transnational-Corporate owned News-Speak told us at the time. But then, later, when our "ally" Saddam was no longer useful, it is revealed to us that it was HE who used them, though the fact it was done with Full US Backing and Support at the time seems to have missed the front pages of the NYT.
To clarify the Larger Picture, using Orwell's Animal Farm:
Four legs good, Two legs bad (War when a Rethuglican is president).
Four legs good, Two legs better (when a Koch-DLCer union-destroyer is president). (**)
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{*}Note that under the Transnational Corporate Model - we are **ALL** colonies, which explains the whole-sale sellout of US Working-Person's interests via outsourcing, union-busting, etc.
{1} "The United States also used DU ammunition in the Bosnia and Kosovo wars. Pediatricians in Sarajevo now report a fivefold increase in childhood leukemia."
http://www.warchildren.org/hidden_killer.html
{2} "... NATO officials had refused to cooperate regarding their use of depleted-uranium weapons. Pekka Haavisto, task-force chairperson, said his team was unable to determine the extent of pollution caused by uranium-tipped weapons. He said NATO refused either to admit using the weapons or to cooperate with the task force."
http://www.iacenter.org/depleted/un_du.htm
{3} http://www.michaelparenti.org/yugoslavia.html
{4} "Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul."
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/BRZ110A.html
{5} http://wariscrime.com/new/al-qaeda-from-serving-hitler-to-serving-the-cia/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relations_between_Nazi_Germany_and_the_Arab_world
http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=eJUKWae6blg
{6} Chossudovsky, Michel (1997). Dismantling former Yugoslavia, recolonizing Bosnia. Capital & Class; Summer97 Issue 62, p1-12, 12p
{7} Friedman, Francine. (2004) Bosnia and Herzegovina : A Polity On the Brink
Postcommunist States and Nations. Pp 42-43. New York. Taylor and Francis.
{8} Krnjevic-Miskovic, Damjan de. Alija Izetbegovic, 1925-2003. 2003. The National Interest. Volume 2. Issue 41. October 22. Washington, DC.
http://inthenationalinterest.com/Articles/Vol2Issue41/Vol2Issue41dkmPFV.html
{9} "Why didn't CNN's international arm air its own documentary on Bahrain's Arab Spring repression? A former CNN correspondent defies threats from her former employer to speak out about self-censorship at the network"
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/04/cnn-international-documentary-bahrain-arab-spring-repression
Also: http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=zB2DeZBgTEk
{10} Two Cheers for Syrian Islamists - By Gary Gambill
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/08/23/two_cheers_for_syrian_islamists
{11} Mincheva, L. and Gurr, T. R. , (2007) Unholy Alliances: New Evidence on Linkages between Trans-State Terrorism and Crime Networks" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention, Hilton Chicago, CHICAGO, IL, USA Online. Feburary 28.
http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p178915_index.html
Further reading on Yugoslavian/Balkan Propaganda on upholding the Big Lie:
http://original.antiwar.com/david-gibbs/2012/06/10/welcome-to-the-balkan-propaganda-machine/
** Primarily referring to Bill Clinton / NAFTA / GATT / WTO moves here, there wasn't much "union" left for Obama - at least in the private sector. But then, we haven't seen the TPP yet - because it is a Corporate-Government Partnership Secret. Also, please send a link if President Obama criticised Boeing for evading Union-Labor my moving manufacturing out of Washingon to a "Right to Work and Be Poor Anyway" state (or the car companies who made similar moves).
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It never ceases to amaze me how credulous people are about depleted uranium...
(Hint: it's not radioactive, and it's less toxic than the molybdenum it replaced.)
No. It's a dense metal that is made into essentially huge javelins that are used to punch holes in tanks and armored bunkers.
If you keep reading more, you will have the, "OMG, Everything I Was Taught Was A Big Lie" moment. And then your intellectual-life begins anew.
The colonized Eastern Bloc was basically the Soviets' bread winner.
It is no magical coincidence that the breakup of Yugoslavia coincided with the dissolution of the Soviet union. It was the ultimate power held by one person (Tito was "lifetime President" . Once Tito died they simply invented a rotating presidential order with the top elites in charge. It was the same formal system for all intents.
