Libya, where NATO loses its way

31.07.2011

 

It is by now patently obvious that in Libya, NATO has violated every rule in the book, has violated international law, has broken the Geneva Conventions, has breached diplomatic conventions, has insulted the United Nations Organization and fundamentally, has even violated its own charter. Why? In three letters, oil.

NATO is the most despicable type of syphilitic whore that ever appeared on the international stage, a mutation of the worst kind which sprang out of the defensive agreement among nations quaking in their boots at the military supremacy of the Soviet Union, a mutation which turned what was supposed to be a defensive alliance into a supra-national monster. NATO is not a defensive military alliance, it is not only offensive in nature but is also fundamentally criminal in character.

To begin with, we have to disassociate NATO from politics, if we want to give an iota of credibility to the politicians that people elect in NATO member states. If we do not disassociate NATO from the political class in countries whose foreign policy NATO controls, the harder you look, the more sinister it gets.

For a start, NATO was supposed to be a defensive military alliance protecting its member states from attack from the Soviet Union. Those of us on the other side of the curtain always had a good laugh at this because not only were the military forces of the Soviet Union essentially defensive in nature but also, in each and every war games exercise, the USSR thrashed the crap out of NATO, as indeed the Russian Federation would today. The aperitif was the Georgia campaign in 2008. Who started it and who ran screaming with its tail between its legs? Whose military advisors were on the ground, whose mercenaries came back home in body bags?

When the countries composing the USSR decided to go their separate ways, NATO lied and said it would not encroach to the East if the Warsaw Pact was dissolved. Several times. The Warsaw Pact was dissolved and what did NATO do? It encroached to the East. The first round of lies belongs to NATO.

NATO, we saw then, was obviously not a defensive organization, which was already more than apparent given the millions of dollars it spent in terrorist operations and in supporting terrorist factions and fascist dictatorships around the world. So since 1990 we have seen more and more where NATO was going and what NATO is. It morphed into the armed whore of the lobbies which control the capitalist system across the globe: the banking lobby, the weapons lobby, the drugs lobby, the energy lobby.

Within a decade of the voluntary dissolution of the USSR (catered for in its Constitution) and the ensuing dissolution of the Warsaw Pact (in good will), NATO had already started the foundation of the European base of the international heroin trade: Kosovo. Between 80 and 90 per cent of the European heroin trade comes through Kosovo, from Turkey, from Afghanistan. The common link in all these theatres of activity is - you got it - NATO!

In Afghanistan, the production of heroin has risen by forty (40) times, since NATO started fighting the forces it created back in the 1980s (Mujaheddin) to fight the socially progressive government, destroying the society which guaranteed children's rights, women's rights and the freedoms people do not have today.

So we see now where NATO stands: alongside terrorists (the KLA was a terrorist organization, the Mujaheddin became the Taleban) and overseeing the heroin trade which by the way is worth billions of dollars a year.

It does not matter to NATO how many families it destroys in the process. It never did. Through the manipulation of fear (creating successive "thems" to justify the "us") NATO managed to control public opinion and maintain itself on the political agenda of its member states, without ever having been elected yet controlling their foreign policy (how Constitutional is that?).

Until Iraq, NATO managed to mastermind a certain image of credibility for those who bought the Soviet Threat bullshit story. After Iraq, it didn't. The mass murder of Iraqi civilians, the torture, the illegal detention of persons, rape, disrespect for human life, the deployment of military hardware against civilian structures... you name it, NATO did it.

And now, Libya. It was patently obvious from the start that this was yet another NATO operation, this time not for drugs but for oil and much more: Muammar al-Qathafi's stance on forging African unity through the African Union so that African nations could stand on their own feet and not be systematically raped by ex- and neo-colonialist powers meant that the banking lobby missed out, the energy lobby missed out, the weapons lobby missed out.

The name of the game is to destroy the African Union and substitute it with AFRICOM. The many humanitarian projects and programmes sponsored and financed by Muammar al-Qathafi do not matter to NATO because NATO is not interested in the welfare of Africans, it simply wants to control Africa's resources.

And the sinister way in which NATO implements policy makes it the most hated organization on the planet. And here we see whether the politicians of the NATO member states have anything to say to save their necks. Whether or not they will ever answer these questions (as yet sent but not replied to) is a measure of their arrogance and an indicator as to who not to elect next time around.

Under which international laws was the Libyan water pipeline a target?

Under which laws was it legitimate to target a factory supplying water pipes to repair the system?

Under which laws was it legitimate to target a house with precision weaponry - and we are speaking of laser technology and telecommunications systems responding from ten kilometres in the sky, so it was no accident - in which Muammar al-Qathafi was outside feeding the animals and his son and three grandchildren were murdered?

Under which laws is it legitimate to support and arm terrorists in an internal conflict?

Under which laws is it permitted to strafe hospitals?

Under which laws is it allowed to strike civilian structures such as the electricity grid?

Under NATO's laws, yes. Because NATO does not answer to any international legal organism, indeed it has already stated there is no organism controlling its actions. Under the laws of the member states of NATO, no. And under international law, no.

But then again NATO does not operate under international law. It is a criminal organization run by criminals. So we repeat the question: where do the politicians come into this? If they support NATO, they are criminals. If not, then why are they members?

In which case ladies and gentlemen, in your wonderful western democracies, you have two alternatives: vote for your political representatives who support NATO and become guilty by association or else vet who is running for office by asking them their opinion on foreign policy and by doing the right thing and setting the appropriate legal measures into force punishing those involved in this criminal act of murder and holding them responsible for their crimes.

Do you support the terrorists in Libya? Yes? Then you are supporting child murderers and so...no vote. No action = guilt by association, meaning the citizens of these NATO states sit in silence while their armed forces commit acts of murder daily, in support of thousands of armed terrorists. Is THAT what your countries stand for? Apparently, it is.

 

Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey

Pravda.Ru

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/31-07-2011/118622-libya_nato-0/

Serbia and the New World Order

31.07.2011

 

There is no doubt that in the massive wave of popular outrage against NATO's support for terrorists in Libya, a spontaneous international movement of decent people from all walks of life from the four corners of the Earth, the people of Serbia have opened their hearts speaking out in the name of justice. It is time for us to do the same for Serbia.

Twelve years ago I had the honour to speak out in the name of justice against the murderous terrorists of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)/Ushtria Çlirimtare e Kosoves (UÇK in Albanian). It is time for us to do the same for Serbia, because while NATO commits its outrage in Libya, slaughtering children, precision-bombing homes, targeting civilian structures with military hardware, the Serbian people are being sold out by their own politicians.

The recent decision by the "Kosovo authorities" brought matters to the fore. (Kosovo is an illegal state because under international law, it is part of Serbia - how would the countries that recognised it like it if the heart of their country was torn out and given to a neighbour?) The "Kosovo authorities" in Pristina, the capital of this Serbian province, decided not to import any more Serbian products.

 The Serbs took to the streets in protest, and while the NATO forces under KFOR either looked on or went away, the Albanian "Prime Minister" of Kosovo (he may as well call himself King of Saturn, the legitimacy is the same), Hashim Thaçi, sent the ROSU special police units, which began opening fire on unarmed Serbian civilians (1).

What is more ominous is the declaration of the by now hated Serbian President, Boris Tadic, who since 2004 has done absolutely nothing for his people except sell their interests down the river and bow to the demands of large Western corporations, selling their jobs and souls and futures to those whose only desire in life is to destroy Serbia and break the spirit of its brave people. In an interview with the German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine, he allegedly stated that the Serbian idea of ​​creating a Greater Albania is considered dangerous but the Serbian people could live with that if there was an agreed solution.

Added to this was his demonstration of pig-faced arrogance: The more they ( people ) hate me, I'm more sure that I'm doing the better job. Now his latest contribution is that he is trying to destroy the arms factory in Kragujevac.

How can a President of Serbia acquiesce to one of the greatest outrages in modern history, namely the violation of every fibre of international law creating a mafia state (which controls 80 to 90 per cent of the European drugs trade) in the heart of the Balkans, namely the illegal state of Kosovo, the soul of the Serbian nation?

The answer to that question is "easily", because since Milosevic was illegally kidnapped and illegally detained at The Hague, it appears that the general guidelines for Serbian politicians is the more corrupt and the worse for the people and the future of the country, the better it is.

There are obvious reasons for this, since western corporations are already starting to eye up the fertile plains of Vojvodina, which Monsanto would no doubt love to use as a base to launch a multi-million dollar GM crop business right in the heart of Europe. This would involve, of course, the eventual separation of Vojvodina as well, and there are rumours that Hungary, Germany and who else? the UK and USA are already active in this process.

Therefore the attempts by Tadic to control and muzzle Serbia's media make sense for a person who is beginning to realise how hated he is. What do his paymasters say about this, those who spend half a century bleating about Freedom of Expression? Nothing, of course. What do you expect from leaders of countries that drop precision bombs on family homes in Libya?

The recent sacking of the chief editor of Alo magazine was part of this process - he was the only one to have the guts to criticise Tadic. And President Tadic himself, after his declarations about climbing into bed with a Greater Albania, might have something to say about the allegations that his bedfriend Hashim Thaçi is involved in the trafficking of human organs, ripped out of Serbs in Kosovo, that "nation" supported by NATO.

This, it is alleged, along with the drugs trade masterminded all along the supply route from Afghanistan (NATO) through Turkey (NATO) to Kosovo (NATO) is part of the pay-back to the members of the US Congress who sponsored the "independence" of Kosovo - being the only way the Kosovar Albanians can garner enough money to pay back their puppet-masters what they owe (after all, the "independence" comes at a price - the USA does nothing without self.-interest).

Tadic might also ask his bedfellow Thaçi what part he and his friend and advisor Xhavit Haliti had in the murder of the journalist Ali Uka in Tirana.

As the heroic Serbian people stand beside the heroic people of Libya in defending the Jamahiriya of the man who has done more for Africa and his people than anyone else, it is time for this wave of sympathy to be extended and to embrace them also. I stood with the people of Serbia 12 years ago denouncing the barbaric and murderous NATO attack, I stand with the Serbian people now as evil foreign forces strive to dismember their wonderful country.

(1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHi2E4gbw0g&feature=relmfu

Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey

Pravda.Ru

http://english.pravda.ru/world/europe/31-07-2011/118623-serbia_world_order-0/

Kosovo Bomb Exploding Serbia's South

Kosovo Bomb Exploding Serbia's South

28.07.2011 | 19:49

The situation in Kosovo after the clashes between Serbs and Albanians remains tense. The situation became aggravated on July 25, when Kosovo Albanian authorities have tried to establish full control over the entry and exit points in Yarin and Brnyak on the administrative border with Serbia. Many Serbs interpreted this as an attempt to occupy the northern part of the region inhabited mainly by Serbs, with its government, supported by Belgrade.

Pristina sent riot police in the area that had to fight with the local Serbs. In two days of armed clashes more than ten people were injured. The decision to send Special Forces was taken by Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci.

It is worth mentioning that the responsibility for the control of the check points on the Serbian border lies on the European Union Mission in the rule of law and order (EULEX). Brnyak was seized by the Albanians because the representatives of the EU offered no resistance, while Serbs managed to defend Yarin. They managed to block the track to this checkpoint with cars and construction equipment.

It was reported that German General Erhard Bühler, the commander of the international KFOR, participated in resolving the situation. However, in practice it had no effect, because his men were in no hurry to disperse the Albanians who have violated the agreement on the control of the checkpoint at the administrative border with Serbia. According to Borislav Stefanovic, head of the Serbian delegation at the talks with Pristina, he has reached an agreement with Erhard Bühler that the Albanian Special Forces would be taken to Pristina, and then Serbs will take down the barricades. Only then the EULEX staff and police of Serbian nationality would return to the checkpoint in Brnyak.

However, the Albanians have acted differently. They pretended to leave Brnyak, but later returned. As a result, the clashes between Albanians and Serbs resumed. Shortly before this, in the evening of July 26, Thaci made very different statements and conducted himself with great assurance. One gets the impression that his actions were originally agreed upon with the EU. According to him, the actions of the police in northern Kosovo should not be interpreted as a provocation. "The goal is to ensure law and order throughout Kosovo," said Thaci. "We cannot forever endure that our sovereignty is violated, and a part of our country is used for smuggling." In turn, president of Kosovo Atifete Yahyaga made a statement that the control over the entire country is a sovereign and legitimate right of any state. This right, in his opinion, was violated by Serbia who did not let the people on both sides communicate and exchange goods. Thus, the president placed the responsibility for the aggravation on the Serbs, and warned that Belgrade's behavior may affect his desire to join the EU. He also sharply criticized the statements of some Serbian politicians about the need to withdraw the Albanian Special Forces from the north.

In his claims Atifete Yahyaga referred to the aggravation that occurred on July 20, when the Kosovo government banned the import of goods from Serbia, explaining the decision by the fact that Belgrade does not recognize Kosovo's customs and prevents the import of the Kosovo goods to Serbia. The Serbian side did not specify the goods in question. However, many Serbs believe that Kosovars are unhappy with the fact that Belgrade is struggling with a flourishing drug trade in Kosovo. In addition, there is evidence that the Kosovars transported weapons to their fellow-Albanians on the territory of Serbia.

Note that the current operation of the Kosovo Albanians was the first attempt to establish a complete control of Pristina since the proclamation of Kosovo's independence in 2008, which was a flagrant violation of all previous agreements between the Serbs, Kosovars and the West. In this situation, the international forces of KFOR have shown their utter helplessness. However, the most striking thing was not the behavior of the Albanians and representatives of the EU and KFOR, as the West continues its previous policy of eliminating Serbia as a state, but the reaction of the Serbian leadership to these events. President Tadic said that Belgrade "would not wage a war" in response to the Kosovo campaign to capture the Special Forces checkpoint at the administrative border of Serbia and Kosovo, and would seek to resolve the conflict exclusively through diplomatic means. Tadic urged everyone to remain calm and not to react to any provocations. He urged the citizens of Serbian and Albanian nationality to maintain peace and encouraged the representatives of Pristina not to make any risky steps. He also noted that the representatives of some political forces consider it necessary to engage in new wars, but the majority of the citizens of Serbia do not support such a policy. On the contrary, it is necessary to continue to engage in a dialogue and promote peace. He added that fight for peace is the most difficult one, as it is much easier to plunge into a war and violence.  

In his comments to "Pravda.ru" President of the Academy of Geopolitical Issues Leonid Ivashov said:

"These events should have been expected. The policy of endless self-abasement and concessions allowed Kosovo extremists, entrenched in the leadership of Kosovo, to squeeze the Serbs from the place sacred for them. I would note that Tadic is doing everything to get into the EU. He gave Hadzic and Mladic, the heroes of the Serbian people, to the slaughter. But this is not sufficient to join the EU, as the West has already told Tadic. To do this he has to completely humiliate and degrade the entire Serbian people: Belgrade must recognize the independence of the sacred to the Serbs Kosovo and Metohija. Tadic, apparently, is ready for to do it and sell the remains of the national pride in order to make the Serbs the EU's migrant workers. As for the behavior of the West and the Albanians in this story, this proves once again the fact that now it is all about brute force. In the end Serbia may seize its existence. "

Note that these fears are not unfounded. The segregation of Kosovo did not stop all of the Serbs' problems. On the contrary, each year the negative trends in terms of separatism only increase. In this case it is not only Sandžak, but also several other southern Serbia areas inhabited by Muslims and Albanians, and Vojvodina where the Hungarian nationalists are raising their heads.

The recent developments in Kosovo show once again that the West is indulging the extremists and motivating them to greater action against Belgrade. The only question is when these bombs explode.

Sergei Balmasov

http://english.pravda.ru/world/europe/28-07-2011/118610-kosovo_bomb-0/

CAIRO – Why Serbia in particular?

Why Serbia in particular?

By Mohssen Arishie – The Egyptian gazette
Sunday, July 31, 2011 12:59:28 PM

CAIRO – Members of the April 6th Movement have confessed to receiving training in Serbia and this should raise many questions. This Serbian tour opened divisions in the movement and led several of its pioneers to break away in October 2010. 

 

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   In its 69th statement, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces bluntly accused the political movement of trying to drive a wedge between ordinary Egyptian citizens and the Army. 

   The SCAF's statement also accused the movement of receiving money from overseas and training there. 

   The Army's accusations came after young demonstrators left Tahrir Square and marched to el-Abbasiya, northeast of central Cairo, to demonstrate outside the military headquarters. 

   They chanted slogans, which insulted the Egyptian Army and cast doubts on its post-Mubarak loyalties. They went too far when they chanted slogans against Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi and members of the SCAF. 

   Whether it was deliberately planned or not, this anti-Army demonstration coincided with the nation's celebrating the Egyptian Revolution of July 23rd 1952, which was sparked by the Army. 

   There have been allegations that the movement's members received 'military' training, to help them overpower riot police during the mass demonstrations. 

   Partially confessing to these accusations, the movement's spokesman, Mohamed Adel, said that he had travelled to Serbia and received training in 'non-violence', the manipulation of the masses and how to mobilise and control them. 

   The instructors in the Serbia-based training camps did a good job. The movement's spokesman proudly attributed their success in leading the mass demonstrations that ousted Mubarak to the instructions and advice they received in Serbia. 

   Adel did not explain how long they had spent in Serbia before graduating and returning home to Egypt to put their 'theoretical studies' into practice in Tahrir Square and other public places across the country. The movement's spokesman strongly denied that they were traitors or agents paid to cause instability in their country. 

   One of the movement's secessionists said that he had declined the invitation to travel to Serbia for training there. 

   Tareq el-Kholi, the coordinator-general of the 6th of April Movement's Democratic Movement (a breakaway movement from the 6th April Movement), also denounced his former colleagues for allowing foreign agencies to grease their palms with US dollars and euros as a reward for their participation in the Serb-based training camp. 

   Serbia has a long way to go before it will be given the ticket to join the European club of democracy-exporting countries. Its hands are stained with the blood of tens of thousands of innocent Muslim women, children and young men in Serbia-controlled areas. 

   Serbia has desperately been trying to remove these big, indelible stains from its history by collaborating with the massive hunt for the perpetrators of this ethnic cleansing of Muslim minorities in the old Yugoslavia in the 1990s. 

   This horrendous genocide has been described as the most brutal since the First World War. Dozens of the Serb leaders of these large-scale massacres went into hiding to avoid the arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court in The Hague. 

   The suspects included late Serb President Slobodan Milosevich, who died on March 11 in his prison cell in The Hague. He was charged by the International Criminal Court with Bosnian genocide when he led Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica from 1992 to 1995 to massacre Muslims under his army's control. 

   Milosevich was arrested by Yugoslav federal authorities on Saturday, 31 March 2001 and was sent to The Hague.  

   Charges levelled against Milosevich and his army commanders included the killing of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims, as well as the mass expulsion of another 25,000 or 30,000 Bosnian Muslims, in and around the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina, committed by units of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) under the command of General Ratko Mladiv. 

   The ethnic cleansing throughout areas controlled by the Bosnian Serb Army targeted Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats. 

   It included unlawful confinement, murder, rape, sexual assault, torture, beating, robbery and inhumane treatment of civilians; the targeting of political leaders, intellectuals and professionals; the unlawful deportation and transfer of civilians; the unlawful shelling of civilians; the unlawful appropriation and plunder of real and personal property; the destruction of homes and businesses; and the destruction of places of worship. 

   How can a country, whose majority are connected, religiously, to the war victims in areas that used to be controlled by Serbian Army, give lessons about the peaceful transfer of power?

   We do not know whether Serb war veterans led the training classes for these young Egyptians. The Serbians should revive at home the nightmarish memory of the young Muslim men, who travelled to Afghanistan to fight the old Soviet Army in this Muslim country. 

   Returning to Egypt after learning the art of war, these young people described themselves as the Mujahidin (Holy Warriors) and formed militant groups, responsible for terrorist attacks in Egypt in the 1980s and the 1990s. 

   The comparison here should ignite fears that, after the war of terror launched by Muslim radicals in September 2001, the world community, including Egypt, could witness a war of terror launched, this time, by Christian radicals. 

   The random killing of young people by an ultra-Christian extremist in Norway should substantiate these fears.

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