Comrade Ceausescu
11th December 2003, 01:08
The bombing of Yugoslavia is a crime under international law and a violation of the US constitution, which requires a declaration and debate before launching a war. It is specifically a violation of all the rules and treaties embodied in the United Nations Charter. The United States no longer controls the United Nations as it did during the War against Iraq, which is why the administration has selected NATO as its chosen instrument to implement its policy goals in the Balkans.
Dr. Bernard Lown, the Harvard Medical School cardiologist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, coined an aphorism: The US media lies by telling the truth once and exactly once. The New York Times did print one report in January of this year on the tremendous mineral wealth of Kosovo and the possibility of building an oil pipeline to transport oil to Europe from the Middle East. The Primary US interest in Kosovo is a huge mining complex in the province that contains an enormous deposit of coal as well as gold, tin, zinc, etc. To my knowledge no other news outlet has informed its readers of this fact.
The issue here is theft of resources belonging to a sovereign government. Our hostility to that government is based on the fact that its policies are not supportive of US corporate business interests.
Before the US started the current war, an administration official publicly labeled the Kosovo Liberation Army a terrorist organization. In fact, the KLA has killed many ethnic Albanian Kosovars who did not support its policies and goals. The reported atrocities carried out by the Yugoslav military are a tissue of lies; they are simply war propaganda.
The lies this time are reminiscent of a story made up during the war against Iraq. Iraqi soldiers then were accused of dumping babies out of 325 incubators outside the Kuwait City Hospital. Nobody seemed to have noticed the implausibility of that story. Tiny Kuwait was supposed to have had over 300 incubators while the metropolitan area of Los Angeles with a population of 14 million has a mere 14 incubators. The story was concocted and engineered by the public relations firm of Hill and Knowlton on behalf of the Kuwaiti Royal government; Amnesty International apologized—later, when it was too late—for its gullibility.
The US is killing people by the thousands in Yugoslavia with its bombs. This criminality must be stopped. Isn’t it time for a healthy skepticism of the media on the part of the US population? After all the lies we’ve been told by our government about Viet Nam, Grenada, Panama, etc., why should our people believe anything said by the administration and reported in the newspapers and on the TV as justifications for waging war.
Great and knowlegable article by a good friend of mine.
Dr. Bernard Lown, the Harvard Medical School cardiologist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, coined an aphorism: The US media lies by telling the truth once and exactly once. The New York Times did print one report in January of this year on the tremendous mineral wealth of Kosovo and the possibility of building an oil pipeline to transport oil to Europe from the Middle East. The Primary US interest in Kosovo is a huge mining complex in the province that contains an enormous deposit of coal as well as gold, tin, zinc, etc. To my knowledge no other news outlet has informed its readers of this fact.
The issue here is theft of resources belonging to a sovereign government. Our hostility to that government is based on the fact that its policies are not supportive of US corporate business interests.
Before the US started the current war, an administration official publicly labeled the Kosovo Liberation Army a terrorist organization. In fact, the KLA has killed many ethnic Albanian Kosovars who did not support its policies and goals. The reported atrocities carried out by the Yugoslav military are a tissue of lies; they are simply war propaganda.
The lies this time are reminiscent of a story made up during the war against Iraq. Iraqi soldiers then were accused of dumping babies out of 325 incubators outside the Kuwait City Hospital. Nobody seemed to have noticed the implausibility of that story. Tiny Kuwait was supposed to have had over 300 incubators while the metropolitan area of Los Angeles with a population of 14 million has a mere 14 incubators. The story was concocted and engineered by the public relations firm of Hill and Knowlton on behalf of the Kuwaiti Royal government; Amnesty International apologized—later, when it was too late—for its gullibility.
The US is killing people by the thousands in Yugoslavia with its bombs. This criminality must be stopped. Isn’t it time for a healthy skepticism of the media on the part of the US population? After all the lies we’ve been told by our government about Viet Nam, Grenada, Panama, etc., why should our people believe anything said by the administration and reported in the newspapers and on the TV as justifications for waging war.
Great and knowlegable article by a good friend of mine.