Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Kosovo -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (17139)	10/7/2000 8:20:35 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Respond to of 17770

How the U.S. is Backing the Yugoslav Revolt by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky Jared Israel (editor, Emperor's Clothes) Prof. Peter Maher Nico Varkevisser Karen Talbot (Covert Action Quarterly) 10/6/00 Despite the statement that "Milosevich is a dictator," repeated by the Western mass media like a mantra, Yugoslavia is a parliamentary democracy. That is the plain, simple truth. The Yugoslav government is able to govern because it has a parliamentary majority. In the last election the government increased its parliamentary strength. Today, mobs brought to Belgrade by the democratic opposition parties (DOS) attacked the Parliament building, burning part of it. They sacked and looted the Socialist Party headquarters. They destroyed the Serbian Television station, RTS, the same station that NATO bombed last year. And they attacked ordinary citizens. The burning of parliament and the sacking of Belgrade property along with attacks and threats against citizens who don't support the opposition, confirm our worst fears. The violent measures we have witnessed this week, the presence of a violent mob, brought into Belgrade, coupled with copious bribes for those who switch sides to DOS – these are intended to destroy the legal framework of Yugoslavia. The goal is to install a US-controlled government in power. No wonder Secretary of State Albright is cheering. These are her kind of democrats. DOS, and its handlers in Washington and Bonn, were never interested in electing Mr. Kostunica President. That's why the Western and Yugoslav "independent" media started charging that Milosevich would "surely" steal the election weeks before elections took place. In other words, for DOS and the West, the crucial thing was not to win, but to cry "Fraud!" and then stage provocations. If DOS simply wanted to win the Presidency, why didn't they embrace the runoffs? After all, Kostunica had a 10% lead. One reason DOS didn't want to participate is that they were worried about the 40% of the electorate that abstained in round one. Most of these people are nationalists, firmly opposed to NATO. Under no circumstances would they vote for DOS which they see as connected to NATO. So Kostunica could well lose a runoff election. But this was not the main reason DOS boycotted the runoffs. Their main concern was that the Yugoslav President has no power unless he is backed by a parliamentary majority. DOS lost the Parliamentary elections. Absent terror and massive bribery, the DOS forces in parliament are a minority. The goal of DOS, as planned in Washington and Bonn, was not to defeat Milosevich for President. It was to overthrow the democratic will of the Yugoslav people – to destroy the entire parliamentary system. We have documented NATO's close ties with DOS. Indeed, NATO has demonstrated these ties in many ways, not least of all by the US government flooding Yugoslavia with millions of dollars in bribe money. Therefore the DOS has used the charge of "election fraud," endlessly repeated but never accompanied by evidence, as an excuse to boycott the runoffs. In contrast, nothing is said about the fraud involved in the US financing of every aspect of DOS activity. The import of vast quantities of US bribe money is an attack on Yugoslav sovereignty no less than last year's bombing campaign. Using the veneer of protesting election fraud, the "democrats" are mobilizing all possible forces in an attempt to seize power by force. These include pro-fascist Croatians and pro-KLA Albanians who are the hard core supporters of the pro-NATO Djukanovic government in Montenegro, they include , secessionists from the Serbian province of Vojvodina and southern Serbia, young people who have never worked and who are being fed trickles of cash from the several hundred million dollars the US has pumped into opposition hands, people coerced by superiors at work or by school headmasters to demonstrate, people bribed by a taste of the vast sums of money the US has pumped into Yugoslavia especially in the past two weeks, and people who have been fooled by the massive, US funded campaign, by "independent" media, public relations firms and election pollsters, into believing that their falling living standards, caused by sanctions just as severe as those imposed on Iraq, are the "fault of one man – Milosevich" and that the US-backed opposition will bring prosperity. In fact they would bring the prosperity of the grave. 128.121.216.19

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (17139)	10/7/2000 8:30:38 AM
From: George Papadopoulos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

>The overthrow of Milosevic is just the outcome of economic exhaustion and political frustration --the big Euro-carrot waved at the Serbian population did more to topple Milosevic than the US big stick --15,000 GIs stationed next door (in Kosovo). For once, I agree 100% with you, you nailed it! I hope the Europeans do the right thing and help the Serbs wholeheartdedly. The US now is saying that they "could" lift sanctinons quickly, the conditions are already starting... detnews.com