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by Christophe » 21/03/04, 11:46

Life Policy Press Releases - March 20, 2004

In transfer, a very interesting article from the Belgian journalist Michel Collon, for all those who are interested in world politics and the developments of the 3rd World War United States / Europe / East. Definitely, the human species is sick. We all really need to mobilize in the face of the madness of predators and for peace.

Sincerely, Christian Cotten


Michel Collon

Why the US wants to create another "Israel" in the Balkans

"The current drama in Kosovo, carefully concealed, will explode again", we wrote two months ago in the dossier accompanying our film The Damned of Kosovo (boxed). Those who have already seen this film, will therefore not have been surprised.

MICHEL COLLON & VANESSA STOJILKOVIC

In reality, the war "ended" in June 99 was not at all. Because its real objectives have still not been achieved.

The official version for opinion was: the United States - along with Europe - attacked Yugoslavia to stop a "genocide". They have since recognized (but discreetly) that there was no genocide. The manufacturer of this lie? Alastair Campbell, Blair's communications advisor, also the inventor of Iraqi "weapons of mass destruction".

Anyway, the facts speak. NATO-occupied Kosovo has been subjected to real permanent ethnic cleansing for five years, which has killed 2.500 inhabitants, kidnapped 1.200 missing and expelled 230.000 non-Albanians: Serbs, Roma, Jews, Turks, Muslims, Gorans, etc.

With the complicity of the United States, said the German police on mission there: "When you see how the worst mafia obviously enjoy the protection of the Americans, you get a tantrum".
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,263670,00.html

Balkans: we are fighting for a strategic area

What then were the real goals of this war?

1 ° To liquidate the self-management and the social rights of the Yugoslav workers to privatize. The crisis forces multinationals to constantly conquer new "lands", new markets. By bombs when necessary. Social Security and workers' rights having been trampled on, US Steel, for example, was able to buy Sartid, the largest steel factory in the Balkans, for a crust of bread. Relocation in perspective, and also in Europe. Multinationals believed they had won by imposing an IMF government on Belgrade, but this government has just been completely disowned in the recent elections.

2 ° Control the strategic way of the Balkans. Berlin wants the oil route to pass through the Danube (and therefore Belgrade), to transport oil and gas from the Caucasus and the Middle East to Hamburg and Rotterdam. (This would also be used for products from factories located in the Balkans). Seeking to weaken and control Europe, Washington wants a route further south through its puppet states: Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania. To this end, he built in Kosovo a gigantic military base: Camp Bondsteel (shown in the film The Damned of Kosovo).

Why Washington Uses Terrorists

The instrument of the USA to realize this strategic plan? The UCK, degenerate nationalist movement, which has always wanted to create an ethnically pure "Greater Albania" (Albania + Kosovo + pieces of Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Greece). When it declared this UCK "terrorist", Washington literally bought it and renamed it "freedom fighters". Goal ? Explode this Yugoslavia then too far to the left and create a new Israel in the Balkans.

Why ? See how well Israel serves them in the Middle East! A puppet state, a hyper-army funded by Washington, a gendarme who has already attacked all its neighbors, a hotbed of permanent tension to be excited each time we want to weaken the resistance of the peoples of the region.

Creating a new Israel in the Balkans, also fanaticized by a doctrine of ethnic cleansing and apartheid, is very useful for Washington. Such a dependent state will not question its huge strategic military base.

It will be used by all US maneuvers to destabilize the European continent at this time of intense economic war. This is why the United States, according to Canadian expert Chossudovsky, concluded "a marriage of convenience with the mafia in Kosovo".

Today, the KLA wants to end the cleanup by attacking Mitrovica, the only region where Serbs still live. But incidents happen everywhere at the same time! “Planned, coordinated, one-way violence against Serbs. Nothing in Kosovo happens spontaneously. "Says a UN police official.
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm...fm?id=312192004

It is a pity that the media have again presented these "pogroms" as "interethnic clashes" when it is a concerted operation of ethnic cleansing (a "crystal night", said a UN official). It is a pity that they relayed the rumor-in-which lies that three Albanian children were thrown into the river and drowned by Serbs. A lie, however, denied from the very beginning by Derek Chapell, head of the UN police in Kosovo.

Why now ? Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan, Balkans = one global war

This US / Europe rivalry is the real key to the current drama. French soldiers are the target in Mitrovica. The blow comes from Washington. In Iraq, Bush is bogged down and neither Chirac nor Schröder are doing anything to help him get out of trouble. In addition, the Madrid attack weakened the European alliances of the USA. Here are the "reprisals" from the White House. Green light for UCK terrorists.

But the local factor also counts a lot. The new Kostunica government has just replaced a government of national capitulation. The Serbian people always show their resistance although through a confused vote, for lack of an alternative developed on the left. But by this attack, Washington intends to destabilize and subdue Kostunica.
By protecting and arming UCK terrorists, Washington reinforces the hatred between Serbs and Albanians.

As in Afghanistan (another pipeline route!) And in Iraq, "divide and conquer". Success ? The UCK burns Orthodox monasteries, Serbian racists retaliate by burning a mosque. Silly, because Kosovars are hardly Muslim. Idiot, because Washington is not the friend, but the enemy of the Moslems. A Serbian Muslim minister condemned the attack on the mosque, but added that "the greatest responsibility is that of the international community".

It is time to reopen the debate on Yugoslavia. The support of the European left for NATO was a tragedy of which the people are victims. Five years of results raise all doubts: privatizations, social misery, ethnic cleansing and mafia in Kosovo, was that what we should support? The wars of the United States are never "humanitarian".

The Damned of Kosovo
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The film Les Damnés du Kosovo, a documentary by Vanessa Stojilkovic & Michel Collon, VHS 78 ', gives voice to the forgotten media: 20 exclusive testimonies from Serbs, Roma, Jews, Muslims, Turks, Gorans, Albanians ... describe the terror daily, today in Kosovo. And the complicity of the USA. Exclusive documents. In French, Dutch, English, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian, Italian. 10 euros + shipping: 2 euros Belgium, 3 euros Europe. michel.collon@skynet.be (or via solidarity)

The true history of Yugoslavia
How do you think you were informed? With this film, you receive the Autopsy of Yugoslavia file (to understand the next wars of globalization). With two surprising "media tests".

Peace inspectors
Belgian progressives and trade unionists had just launched an appeal to send an "international mission of peace inspectors" to Kosovo this summer. Objective: understand the situation and verify the actual acts of NATO. Meeting the "privatized" trade unionists in Serbia will also shed light on the underside of this war.
Info: mplahaye@yahoo.com

Screenings and discussions
Film The Damned of Kosovo
Liège (Le Parc cinema): May 27 at 20 p.m.
Sessions in preparation in Brussels, Gembloux, Louvain-la-Neuve, Mons, Waremme, Verviers.
info: nessa.kovic@indymedia.be


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by Dearcham » 30/03/04, 12:21

On another territory, I had the opportunity to see a truly impressive documentary: The Venezuelan of Chavez.

Even if it was presented by the support committee to Chavez in France (via Attac), it was edited by a CNN team who came to do a doc on him; it was then taken in full during the events of April 2002 and was able to film it from the inside (for those interested you can perhaps join attac to get it)

Here is what I found closest to it on the internet:

Interviews with Maurice Lemoine & Thierry Deronne
Coup in Venezuela: the media cheat


What really happened from April 11 to 13 last, in Venezuela? A failed coup is certain. Who is behind this coup and how was it orchestrated? How did the media, Venezuelan and then international, react to the events? An analysis was lacking at the time of the facts to understand the complexity and the fragility of the emerging democracy in Venezuela, where the ghosts of the old corrupt regime still lie dormant.


by Stéphanie Fontenoy
8th May 2002


Thursday, 11th of April. The crowd is cheering in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. President Chavez, democratically elected two and a half years ago, was overthrown by a military coup. Within hours, he was replaced by an interim president, Pedro Carmona, who was supposed to restore order and democracy.

Less than 48 hours later, new scenes of jubilation in Caracas. The crowd celebrates the return of its president, Hugo Chavez, to the presidential palace. This one owes its return to the street, and to its many sympathizers in the army. The international media, which had not hesitated to denounce the populism of Chavez, going so far as to make General Tapioca of service, put on gloves. To the point that the truth, more complex than the simple jolt of a distant dictatorship, is still pending.

Oil and the United States at the heart of the crisis

Venezuela is a country that is just waking up from 40 years of oligarchic power. The awakening was done through the ballot boxes, in December 1998, during the brilliant election of the putshist ex-lieutenant-colonel Hugo chavez. This former democratically elected officer is leading the way beating his Bolivarian revolution against poverty and inequality, glaring in this country hitherto led by an elite sharing most of the oil rent. The middle and upper classes represent 5% of the population in Venezuela, the vast majority of Venezuelans living below the poverty line.

The oil conflict is the detonator of the recent crisis. The troubles start when the new president decides to do the "cleaning" within the national company Petroleum of Venezuela (Pdvsa), the mamouth of the Venezuelan mono-oil industry, symbol also of the corrupt elite, through all kinds of under-the-table contracts and hidden agreements with North American companies. Chavez decides, in 1999, to appoint to the head of Pdvsa executives who contrast with the liberal policy developed until then, "nationalist" leaders, who share his vision of refocusing the economy on the country to the benefit of a policy social. At the same time, it imposes an additional 10% tax on North American oil extraction companies. "What the United States and the domestic opposition had long imagined, what was visible in the press, official statements by the United States, the image given to Chavez by the commercial media - Chavez terrorist , friend of Castro - all this is accelerating with the oil conflict, "explains Thierry Deronne, Belgian journalist and filmmaker living in Venezuela for 8 years.

An opposition demonstration as a backdrop

The announcement of a general and unlimited strike at the call of the largest Venezuelan union, a survival of the old regime and strongly linked to the employers, and the demonstration which follows, will serve as a backdrop for the crisis. "The aim of these demonstrations is to create a situation of violence, up to possibly looking for the dead with the avowed aim of completely destabilizing the regime and of justifying a return to order," explains Thierry Deronne. On April 11, 300 people, opponents of Chavez, took to the streets to demand the resignation of the president. "We have all the ingredients to trigger the crisis: an oil conflict which is hampering the United States and the existence of a trade union mafia opposed to Chavez, always endowed with provocative capacity. We then see, at the call of this union, the middle class, which has always been opposed to Chavez but which sociologically represents 000% of the population take to the streets and demand the resignation of Chavez, "explains Maurice Lemoine, journalist specialist of Latin America for the Diplomatic World. "It is happening in a very dignified, very peaceful way, people are expressing their dissatisfaction and request the departure of Chavez, as happens in any society," said Maurice Lemoine, who was in the demonstration in Caracas at time of the events. “There was a conspiracy. The day changes when the leaders of the opposition, including Pedro Carmoma, who will become the de facto president, decide to launch this demonstration on Miraflores. Everyone knows that if the demonstration of the opposition goes towards the presidency, it will inevitably meet around the presidential palace the inhabitants of the popular districts descended to defend Chavez. People who embark on this operation know very well that it is extremely dangerous. The National Guard does not put in place any security device. There is therefore clearly a conspiracy on the part of the high command of the National Guard. Then comes the second stage of the conspiracy. These are snipers who set up on the roof of the presidential building and who start shooting. They start shooting at supporters of Chavez since the first four dead are supporters of Chavez. Then they shoot in opposition, ”says Maurice Lemoine.

Fabricated reality

The role of the Venezuelan media takes on its full significance here. While we now know that the snipers are part of the conspiracy against Chavez, the Venezuelan commercial media in the hands of the putschists, relayed by international press agencies, announce that it is President Chavez who is shooting his opponents. "Media treatment says twice the opposite of reality," says Thierry Deronne. "Fortunately good soldiers and a good democratic president are arriving who, thanks to the resignation of Chavez, another lie, are going to make Venezuela return to the happiness of democracy when it is exactly the opposite," he said.

Maurice Lemoine, who experienced the events on the spot, explains that a scene showing a shooting between five supporters of Chavez and the snipers was broadcast repeatedly on Venezuelan televisions. “This scene was completely taken out of context and interpreted as the Bolivarian circle shooting at an opposition demonstration. During these two days, there was a serious manipulation of information by the commercial media, all of which belong to the opposition. "

For Thierry Deronne, who analyzed the media treatment of the coup, the Venezuelan media had largely prepared the ground for contestation. "We are in the internet age, but for about a year now, on websites that range from the radical alternative to the rather quiet left, we had very very many indications that there was a blow state in preparation. The media treatment of the Venezuelan media, where the person of Chavez was obviously presented as the dictator of service who had to be overthrown, was unequivocal at this level. "

"During the days of strike preceding April 11, the media broadcast hours of interviews with opposition leaders, interspersed with regular calls for insurrection," adds Maurice Lemoine.

According to Thierry Deronne, the machine to disinform the Venezuelan media is based on several "fabrications":

Chavez fired on his opponents, when it is now known that the snipers belong to the opposition.

Chavez resigns. The resignation of Hugo Chavez was announced by the Venezuelan media very quickly after the coup. " It is understandable. Because if the president resigns, it is already a way to legalize, or in any case to pave the way for the transition, "explains Thierry Deronne. This information, relayed by press agencies, or unreliable correspondents, was disseminated by the largest media. The BBC has published the text of Chavez's resignation, which never existed, on its website. The journalist from El Païs in Caracas claimed on Spanish TVE that there was a video of Chavez's resignation. "This video never existed, nor did the resignation. You see that it goes very far, that the media has fabricated evidence. It is completely attackable in legal terms, and unspeakable in journalistic terms, "regrets Thierry Deronne.

Self-proclaimed President Pedro Carmona will restore democracy. “Pedro Carmona was presented as a very respectable person, he is an economist, he took courses at the ULB. He was given the image of a democrat when his supporters were already carrying out revenge and assassination and wiping out elected officials at all levels of the country with their sticks. 'administration set up by Chavez,' says Thierry Deronne.

"When I heard these bulletins, when I read these articles which defended a boss of the bosses like a great democrat, these articles which were accomplices and which trivialized the coup d'etat, which therefore trivialized what was happening in the putsch police underground, I was like 'watch out, there's something rotten in the world of journalism.' Where is the duty to remember? The role of the media in the coup in Venezuela is of the same importance as in the coup against Salvatore Allende in Chile. So we cannot say "We did not know".
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© COPYRIGHT RTBF online 2002.


Ps for econo: compared to your article: I do not think that we can really put Palestine on the same level as Iraq or that what is happening in Kosovo.
Anyway, this global hegemony is starting to seriously piss me off: angry:
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by Christophe » 30/03/04, 19:16

Here it makes me think that I downloaded a report on the gold diggers in French Guyana ... the French administration would be complicit in many abuses .... the pb: I no longer have room on the account econology to put it online ... maybe on a P2P network this could be done .... (the authors could not broadcast this report on a TV decided to broadcast it freely on the internet)
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by Christophe » 30/03/04, 21:15

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by Dearcham » 31/03/04, 16:15

good game :) p2p is really useful for the distribution of documents (and not only to create a "shortfall" for the majors)

For the lazy, small and live stream
http://nib.free.fr/videoplayer.html
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