Charles,
The site, www.wsws.org, is indeed a good reference for some topics --not for every topic! Its weakness lies in its pathetic anti-Americanism.... I mean, the authors tackle each and every subject with a Eurocentric slant. Should the U.S. takes some military escapade on, then they'll hastily stick by the opposite side --according to some "Stalinist" ironclad ideology.
As far as an attempt to terminate Serbia's Minister of Information goes, it reminds me of what I said about one year ago: NATO's therapy was essentially a preemptive cure. And the problem with preemptive cures is that they make it impossible for us to know what would have happened if no military intervention was started.... Think of WWII, for instance: back in, say 1938, Goebbels was the Minister of Information of the IIIrd Reich. Who would blame the US today for an hypothetical attempt to kill him at that time?
Today, Europe's media (ie TVs, radios, newspapers,...) focus on the mess in Mitrovica. Journalists got a wild card to enter the French-controlled city and chase the dozen Serbs who defiantly chose to remain among the 50,000+(?) Albanian population. So, I guess you and I get the picture: public opinion is astutely twisted against those "barbaric" Albanians who can't help harassing these brave, heroic Serbs who've always longed for a multiethnic Kosovo [off-laughter].
Broadcasts show streets in Pristina crossed by plateless cars.... Hence the assumption that all these BMWs, Mercedes, etc. are stolen property from Western Europe. Next shot: a lively disco somewhere in Belgrade showing Serb youths dancing and laughing together on a rock-n-roll beat.... Obviously, one doesn't need to be a psyop expert to find out the overall impact such reports will have on Europe's public opinion.
Of course, NATO General Wesley Clark never had the leeway to do in Yugoslavia what Putin is doing in Chechnya....
While we're at it, about one week ago, there was a TV-report on a couple of Albanian-Kosovars who were granted asylum in Belgium --there were mothers with their kids, elderly folks, and young men in the prime of life. The RTBF (Belgium's official broadcast network) report puported that they were just all so happy to leave Belgium and to rush to their ransacked homeland. Obviously, the journalist obligingly interviewed male Albanians only: they were too proud not to tell the Belgians how they felt about being pushed to the exit door (I guess they too were granted a BEF100,000 [$2,500] check to sugar their "exit pill").
So, we watched these Albanian men at the airport, rejoicing about building up their homes, about recovering their ancestral villages.... I for one would have preferred to hear Albanian mothers' opinion --I bet you they would have preferred to stay in Belgium, if only for their kids. BTW, Charles, what happened to the 20,000+ Albanians who have been granted asylum in the US? I mean, do you also plan to send them back home with a few cash?
Milosevic, Putin, Haider, hmmmm... those are pretty gloomy features developing in the European fabric. |
