IP & War / War on East Europe & Asia / NATO's war on Yugoslavia

Noam Chomsky Lies

Chris Hedges' Lies

International Lawyer Christopher C. Black writes on Facebook, Dec. 2017:
 
"The Lies of Chris Hedges
No one shares this without my note because I am only posting it to show what a liar Chris Hedges is-here every paragraph is a lie, every line, every phrase, every word. He is a shill for US-NATO intelligence services and now the NATO show trial division of the ICTY trying to shore up their false conviction of Mladic. Once a New York Times (CIA) man, always one. His recent posing as an anti establishment type, always suspect, serves to give him a following (for his bosses higher up) so that he can dish out this NATO propaganda."
 
"He is not misinformed - he is one of the architects of the NATO propaganda. It is deliberate, I can go through it paragraph by paragraph and show you it is deliberate -eg listening to radio intercepts - whose? He does not say? How since they were coded? He does not say. And no radio intercepts he claims he listened to were ever used in evidence at Mladics trial. The fact that he says the left approved things on say Israel-Palestine means nothing since the US estbalishment is itself divided and he reflects that. But he works for the man - that is clear to me." On this article: 'Enabling Genocide', Nov 26, 2017, TruthDig 

More NATO Intellectuals

 
 
 
Bernard-Henri Levy: "A careful investigation comparing Bernard-Henri Lévy’s words with his deeds.

How do we explain what Perry Anderson calls “the bizarre prominence of Bernard-Henri Lévy,” easily the best-known “thinker” under sixty in France? “It would,” he continues, “be difficult to imagine a more extraordinary reversal of national standards of taste and intelligence than the attention accorded this crass booby in France’s public sphere, despite innumerable demonstrations of his inability to get a fact or an idea straight. Could such a grotesque flourish in any other major Western culture today?”

This book, based on a careful investigation comparing BHL’s words with his deeds, seeks to explore the remarkable persistence of this celebrity pseudo-philosopher since he burst onto the scene in 1977. Delving into his networks in the spheres of politics, the media and big business, Lindgaard and de la Porte reveal what the success of this three-decade long imposture tells us about the degeneration of contemporary French intellectual and cultural life." The Impostor. BHL in Wonderland, 2012, Verso
 
 

Politicians lie for NATO

"Germany's Social Democratic (SPD)-Green party coalition government employed fabrications and manipulated facts to overcome popular opposition to the participation of the German armed forces in NATO's war against Yugoslavia two years ago. A German TV report by journalists Jo Angerer and Mathias Werth entitled “It Began With a Lie” provides proof of this." Find this in middle of the page
 
 
 

NATO's War Crime on Yugoslavia

Lord David Owen, former EU Special Envoy for the Balkans, described Milosevic as a "Yugoslav” who was anything but an ideologue for a Greater Serbia or promoter of "ethnic cleansing. I agree with Owen. Milosevic often took Croats and Bosnian Muslims under his protection, and he stressed how they were used by the West and misled. He also mentioned in his defense the support of the Bosnian Muslim forces by foreign mujahideen. However, he was opposed to any overestimation of the "Islamic terror." He stressed instead that the U.S. was responsible for the importation of Islamic fighters. It was no coincidence that the non-Serbs facing charges also respected him.

I was impressed by the reports of the defense witnesses, with whom I had close contact. They were Western politicians, diplomats, military officers, journalists who, in one way or another, witnessed the war. And all of their statements they confirmed that the allegations against Milosevic were as false as everything else that has been reported about Yugoslavia." -- Cathrin Schütz, part of Milosevic' defence team

"... the strength of the report is that it unequivocally shows how the German government, which includes the Green party that was once at the fore of the pacifist movement in Germany, pushed through the first combat deployment of German troops since the demise of the Nazi regime. To achieve this aim, the government employed a propaganda apparatus that has also not seen its like since 1945." -- Dietmar Henning, 2001, on 'It Began With a Lie, German TV Report'

"During the lecture “After Libya – Syria and the permanent members of the UN Security Council”, professor Tunander compared propaganda in Libya and Syria to propaganda in Bosnia during the war. “It appears a common practise to perform so-called “false-flag operations” prior to the enactment of UN Decisions, more precisely, to fake attacks against own population, in order to give legitimacy to military intervention”, says the Norwegian expert."

Conclusion: "Nazi Germany committed genocide in Yugoslavia 1944-45. NATO, Germany with US & Europe committed genocide in Yugoslavia (on Serbs) in the 1990ties. This time ALL Western politicians, media and academics joined the propaganda lies to have NATO destroy Yugoslavia. The critical (true) literature is evidence that the NATO war.on Yugoslavia was based on a Big Conspiracy Lie supported by the total Western 'coverage'. It then becomes a prism for the later as 'totalitarian' illegal wars on Iraq, Libya and Syria etc. It shows the Western intel agencies' ability to control the Western public sphere and make the Western peoples applaud Nuremberg scale war crimes." -- Homo Sociologicus/LJ, 2017

Text excerpts to show the truth ab. NATO's War on Yugoslavia

“To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” Walter J Rockler

 
"For the United States, alias "NATO," the planning and launching of this war by the president heightens the abuse and undermining of warmaking authority under the Constitution. (It seems to be accepted that the president can order his personal army to attack any country he pleases). The bombing war also violates and shreds the basic provisions of the United Nations Charter and other conventions and treaties; the attack on Yugoslavia constitutes the most brazen international aggression since the Nazis attacked Poland to prevent "Polish atrocities" against Germans. The United States has discarded pretensions to international legality and decency, and embarked on a course of raw imperlalism run amok."
 
"As the bombs, smart and dumb, fall ceaselessly on Serbs, Montenegrins and sometimes Albanians, on bridges, waterworks, electric generation plants and factories, and on trains, trucks and homes, the remorseless crusade for "humanitarianism" presses forward to the applause of journalistic and academic shills. To paraphrase the Roman historian Tacitus, we are busy creating a desert, which we can then call peace." May 17, 1999, Letter by Walter J. Rockler, Former prosecutor, Nuremberg war crimes trials  

NATO & Politicians lied to the public: a Nuremberg Level War Crime 

"Professor Ola Tunander, from the Peace Research Institute in Oslo, claims he was told by several sources that, after the investigation, NATO concluded that the Bosnian Army forces controlled by Alija Izetbegović are responsible for shelling of Sarajevo’s Markale Market. But this incident was misused to legitimize NATO intervention in 1995 against Serbian side in Bosnian war. The Norwegian professor with close ties to NATO says he was told by the NATO Crisis Headquarters’ representative, the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee Vigleik Eide and subsequent Norwegian Defense and Foreign Affairs Ministers that the investigation concluded that “the Bosniak side”, as he called forces under Izetbegovic’s control, was responsible for the shelling incident. “They all said that NATO’s conclusion was that this incident was Bosniak’s attack on their own population. But this was never announced publicly”, said Tunander during the conference titled “Nordic Peace Talks” (2013), held in the Swedish city of Degerfors.

During the lecture “After Libya – Syria and the permanent members of the UN Security Council”, Tunander compared propaganda in Libya and Syria to propaganda in Bosnia during the war. “It appears a common practise to perform the so-called “false-flag operations” prior to the enactment of UN Decisions, more precisely, to fake attacks against own population, in order to give legitimacy to military intervention”, says the Norwegian expert. (..) The Hague tribunal sentenced Serb general Stanislav Galić for the shelling of Sarajevo’s Markale Market and the same charges are included in the indictments against former Serb President Radovan Karadžić and General Ratko Mladić." Ola Tunander: Main reason for NATO intervention against Serbian army was falsified 

'It Began With a Lie': German TV report refutes government propaganda in Balkan War, March 2001, by Dietmar Henning

"Germany's Social Democratic (SPD)-Green party coalition government employed fabrications and manipulated facts to overcome popular opposition to the participation of the German armed forces in NATO's war against Yugoslavia two years ago. A German TV report by journalists Jo Angerer and Mathias Werth entitled “It Began With a Lie” provides proof of this. 
 
The report, which was first broadcast on the nationwide ARD public channel on February 8, set off a large-scale public discussion in Germany. It was the subject of a parliamentary debate in the Bundestag [the German federal parliament] on February 16. (...)"
 
"In the TV report, the authors juxtapose step by step the results of their own meticulous research to the statements made at the time by Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, Minister of Defence Rudolf Scharping (both SPD) and Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer (Greens)."
 
'... the strength of the report is that it unequivocally shows how the German government, which includes the Green party that was once at the fore of the pacifist movement in Germany, pushed through the first combat deployment of German troops since the demise of the Nazi regime. To achieve this aim, the government employed a propaganda apparatus that has also not seen its like since 1945.

NATO spokesman Jamie Shea, who is featured repeatedly in the report, was and is fully aware of the role of propaganda in whipping up support for the war. “The political leaders played the decisive role with regard to public opinion,” said Shea with a self-satisfied grin.

Shea continued: “They are the democratically elected representatives. They knew which news was important for public opinion in their country. Rudolf Scharping did a really good job. It's not easy, particularly in Germany, whose population for 50 years had known only military defence, meaning the protection of their own country, to send German soldiers hundreds of miles away. Psychologically, this new definition of security policy is not easy. Not only Minister Scharping, but also Chancellor Schröder and Minister Fischer provided an outstanding example of political leaders who don't just run behind public opinion, but know how to shape it.

“It makes me optimistic to see that the Germans have understood that. And despite the very unpleasant side effects, the collateral damage, and the long duration of the air raids, they stayed on course. If we had lost public support in Germany, we would have lost it throughout the alliance.”   

'The Great Leap Backward: America’s Illegal Wars on the World':

"A cabal of neo-conservative policy wonks first sketched what I call the Great Leap Backward into lawlessness as a revival of the myth of the frontier in the 1990s. “The Plan for a New American Century” (PNAC) envisaged the 21st century as a unilateralist drive to entrench American values globally - what the PNAC ideologues call “freedom and democracy” - through preemptive wars and regime change. This frenzied delirium of US military domination turned into official foreign policy with the Bush Doctrine after 9/11, but it was the Clinton administration’s Doctrine of Humanitarian Warfare before 9/11, that shut the door on the prohibition of aggressive wars by the UN Charter, remaking the map of the world into a borderless American hunting reserve by removing the principle of sovereignty and replacing it with “right to protect” (R2P) - or humanitarian pretext for use of force.

Clinton’s doctrine was an act of supreme, even witty, exploitation of liberal principles and commitment to policies of human rights. It was how the liberal left was induced to embrace war and imperialism as the means of defending human rights." Luciana Bohne, 2016, CP   

The Dismantling of Yugoslavia (Part II) The UN in NATO’s Service. Monthly Review, 2007, by E. S. Herman and David Peterson

"A striking feature of U.S. policy since the collapse of the Soviet deterrent is the frequency with which it relies on the Security Council and the Secretariat for its execution—before the fact when it can (Iraq 1990–91), but after the fact when it must (as in the cases of postwar Kosovo and post-invasion Afghanistan and Iraq). Even though the Security Council never authorized these last three major U.S. aggressions, in each case the United States secured degrees of council assent and ex post facto legitimation. 
 
No Security Council resolution has ever condemned these U.S. wars as contrary to the UN Charter or recognized the rights of the Serbs, Afghans, and Iraqis to resist alien subjugation. Instead, after each of these “supreme international crimes,” the Security Council simply revised its extant mandates to accommodate the supreme international criminal, and instructed the Secretariat to mitigate their inhumanitarian consequences. (...)"
 
"Neither UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali’s An Agenda for Peace (June 1992) nor its Supplement (January 1995) advocated “humanitarian” war, much less the right to take sides in civil wars; and yet before the end of the decade, “humanitarian” war and the related notion of a “responsibility to protect” had been placed near the top of his successor Kofi Annan’s agenda. “The logic of peace-keeping flows from political and military premises that are quite distinct from those of enforcement,” the Supplement asserted. “To blur the distinction between the two can undermine the viability of the peace-keeping operation….”42

The UN struggled to respect this distinction throughout the wars in Croatia and Bosnia. But as the United States became the dominant player in these theaters, it pushed the UN’s “peacekeeping” mandate toward “enforcement”—toward becoming a “party to the conflict,” invariably taking sides against the Serbs of Croatia, Bosnia, and Serbia itself.
 
Even at the time of the crisis in late May 1995, when two hundred UN personnel had been taken hostage by Bosnian Serb forces following NATO air strikes against them, Boutros-Ghali insisted that “UNPROFOR is not a peace-enforcement operation,” and blamed the demands that it act on the “ambiguities” and “confusion” that followed from the frequent reference by Security Council resolutions to Chapter VII of the charter.43

But just three months later, when NATO conducted an extensive bombing campaign against the Bosnian Serbs, the distinction was obliterated. In To End A War, his memoir of the time he spent as the chief U.S. negotiator for Bosnia, Richard Holbrooke recounts an episode when Kofi Annan, then the head of UN peacekeeping, “won the job” to succeed Boutros-Ghali some fifteen months before the event. With Boutros-Ghali “unreachable on a commercial aircraft,” Annan “instructed the U.N.’s civilian officials and military commanders to relinquish for a limited period of time their authority to veto air strikes in Bosnia. For the first time in the war, the decision on the air strikes was solely in the hands of NATO.” The result was Operation Deliberate Force, the “largest military action in NATO history.”44

The United States and NATO had found a crack in the door, and rushed through it. In a very short period—maybe three months at most—the UN went from a peacekeeping to a warmaking mode in Bosnia, with NATO its enforcer. As one U.S. National Security Council officer later described Annan, he “[understood] that the U.S. military is not the enemy.”45

In contrast with Boutros-Ghali, whom Washington denied a second five-year term,46 Annan’s long tenure can only be understood as a recognition of his willing service to the United States and NATO. In what Michael Mandel calls an “emotional defense of unilateral interventionism, using Kosovo as the example of the next intervention,” Annan warned in June 1998 that “all our expressions of determination to never again permit another Bosnia…will be cruelly mocked if we allow Kosovo to become another killing field. (...)”
 
"York University professor of international law Michael Mandel argues convincingly that the ICTY’s main function was to allow a claimed pursuit of justice to avoid the settlement of the armed conflicts until NATO’s objectives could be met. With the ICTY’s help, Serb targets were more fully demonized, and their leaders declared untouchables at the negotiating table. ICTY president Antonio Cassese openly bragged about how ICTY indictments had prevented the Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic and general Ratko Mladic from participating in negotiations at Dayton in 1995—“Let us see who will sit down at the negotiating table now with a man accused of genocide,” Cassese told L’Unita newspaper. Such brazenly politicized use of indictments was a prime modus operandi of the ICTY. The most spectacular was the indictment of Milosevic and four others in May 1999, in the midst of NATO’s seventy-eight-day bombing war on Yugoslavia. (...)
 
But perhaps even more remarkable is the fact that this indictment was compiled hastily, on the basis of unconfirmed “evidence” supplied to her office by the United States and United Kingdom, and issued just when NATO was coming under criticism for having turned to targeting Serbia’s civilian infrastructure. Thus the ICTY was providing a public relations cover for NATO war crimes carried out within the framework of NATO’s UN Charter violation of aggression—the “supreme international crime”!"
 
"Language and imagery derived from the Nazi’s attempt to destroy Europe’s Jews were applied on a regular basis to events in Bosnia from the summer of 1992 onward, then reprised in Kosovo beginning in early 1998 (see section 10). In both accounts the perpetrators and victims were defined according to ethno-religious categories: Serbs against “Bosniaks” and “Kosovars.” Armed conflicts were translated into strictly racist pogroms; victory lay not in the surrender of an enemy but in the cleansing or purifying of the victim-race from the Serbs’ living-space. The series of indictments of Milosevic et al. for Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo illustrate well the role that the example of the Nazis played for the ICTY, and shared by historians and journalists."  

"British SAS and Americans were attacking Serbian Churches, Monasteries, Refugees." - Jacques Hogard, Colonel in the French Foreign Legion. (Book Interview: Europe died at Pristina)

"Jacques Hogard was one of the first Western officers who entered the territory of Serbia after the signing of the Kumanovo Agreement in 1999, and there he saw that the information he was given by NATO command does not correspond to the truth.

He realized that there was no humanitarian war, but on the contrary – as an field officer he saw that KLA terrorists were constantly under control of German and British military services, even when attacking Serbian churches, monasteries and refugee columns just after the end of the NATO bombing. - This is why his unit on several occasions got into armed conflict vs. both KLA and Brits who were often seen with KLA units. "United States had the interest to weaken and break up Yugoslavia and Serbia, since Serbia is a natural support for Russia in the region. Destruction of Yugoslavia was a step closer to Russia. The consequence we see today in Ukraine. Also, the Germans had traditional interest in destruction of Serbia as well." Hogard interview about his book / Hogard Wikipedia.fr / Video Interview / Book L'Europe est morte à Pristina, 2014  

"The majority of the local media [in Berlin] then described Slobodan Milosevic as they describe Muammar al Gadhafi today. Take your pick: Either he was a megalomaniac, evil, genocidal, yes, even a new Hitler. You were part of his defense team. What was it like?"

"Lord David Owen, former EU Special Envoy for the Balkans, described Milosevic as a "Yugoslav” who was anything but an ideologue for a Greater Serbia or promoter of "ethnic cleansing." I agree with Owen. Milosevic often took Croats and Bosnian Muslims under his protection, and he stressed how they were used by the West and misled. He also mentioned in his defense the support of the Bosnian Muslim forces by foreign mujahideen. However, he was opposed to any overestimation of the "Islamic terror." He stressed instead that the U.S. was responsible for the importation of Islamic fighters. It was no coincidence that the non-Serbs facing charges also respected him.

I was impressed by the reports of the defense witnesses, with whom I had close contact. They were Western politicians, diplomats, military officers, journalists who, in one way or another, witnessed the war. And all of their statements they confirmed that the allegations against Milosevic were as false as everything else that has been reported about Yugoslavia." ‘Milosevic put his accusers on trial’ / »Milosevic brachte seine Ankläger auf die Anklagebank«.' March 2011, Rüdiger Göbel interviews Cathrin Schütz, Junge Welt Link German    

"The question is: why are the Western powers pressing for the expansion of NATO?

Why is NATO being renewed and extended when the “Soviet threat” has disappeared? There is clearly much more to it than we have so far been told. The enforcement of a precarious peace in Bosnia is only the immediate reason for sending NATO forces into the Balkans." By Sean Gervais, former advisor to JFK: "By any standards, the sending of a large Western military force into Central and lSastern Europe is a remarkable enterprise, even in the fluid situation created by the supposed end of the Cold War. The Ball:an task force represents not only the first major NATO military operation, but a major operation staged “out of area”, that is, outside the boundaries originally established for NATO military action.

However, the sending of NATO troops into the Balkans is the result of enormous pressure for the general extension of NATO eastwards. 

If the Yugoslav enterprise is the first concrete step in the expansion of NATO, others are planned for the near future. Some Western powers want to bring the Visegrad countries into NATO as full members by the end of the century. There was resistance to the pressures for such extension among certain Western countries for some time. However, the recalcitrants have now been bludgeoned into accepting the alleged necessity of extending NATO."
 
Read on: 'Why Is NATO In Yugoslavia?'  "This paper was presented by the late Sean Gervasi at the Conference on the Enlargement of NATO in Eastern Europe and the Mediterrenean, Prague, 13-14 January 1996. It was published on Global Research when the Global Research website was launched on September 9, 2001.

The late Sean Gervasi had tremendous foresight. He understood the process of NATO enlargement several years before it actually unfolded into a formidable military force. He had also predicted the breakup of Yugoslavia as part of a US-NATO project." Sean Gervasi’s 1993 video interview  / Video: How the U.S. Caused the Breakup of the Soviet Union, Sean Gervasi 1992 Lecture
 
 
Go to HS Big Business Behind WWI & II to learn that both US and European Big Business were selling to both the allies and the Nazis through the war! I. G. Farben was convicted at Nuremberg for being responsible for Nazi Germany's 'Foreign Policy' but they received only a few years in prison before they were back into business...  
 
To appreciat the destruction of Yugoslavia as a piece of a big older plan, go to HS Big Business' 100 Years Old Plan for German Corporate Europe/Nazis/CIA  
 
 

 

 

 

 
 
 
Germany took over Europe with its Deutschmarks more easily than with its Panzer divisions.
Sean Gervasi, former JFK advisor,

Europe Died at Pristina

Academic Documentation: all info was lies and propaganda

Links on Syria page, will be here later
 
'Syrian terrorists were trained by the KLA in Kosovo', Meyssan [2012]: "These are the same people who led the U.S. Congress to rearm in 1995, and who organized the dismemberment of Yugoslavia. We must remember, for example, that Alija Itzetbegovic had as policy advisor Richard Perle, as military adviser Osama bin Laden, and as media advisor Bernard-Henri Lévy."
 
 
 
 
 
J Hogard: la Serbie, colloque de l'Ass. pour l'Histoire, 2015

The Dismantling of Yugoslavia (Part I-4+), Recomm.: Part 2 UN corruption_2007, E. Herman
 
 
The ICTY Karadzic Judgement and Milosevic: Victims of “Fascist Justice”, 2016, by Int. Criminal Lawyer, CS Black

'The Disneyfied Narrative of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia', 2016, M Djurasovic

NATO in the Balkans: Voices of Opposition. 1998 R. Clark et al. Pdf.

The Bogus ‘Humanitarian’ War on Serbia, Aug, 2016, John Pilger

Nikos Sarantakos site with info on the war in Yugoslavia

"The Great Leap Backward: America’s Illegal Wars on the World." 2016 Bohne
 
How the IMF Dismantled Yugoslavia, by Michel Chossudovsky

Bombs for Peace: NATO's Humanitarian War on Yugoslavia, 2014, G Szamuely
 

Queen of Chaos. The Misadventures of Hillary Clinton. 2015, D Johnstone

'NATO’s Full-Spectrum War against Yugoslavia: Demonization of Serbs Was Key'. Mar 2016, Herman

Travesty: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic and the Corruption of International Justice 2007, J Laughland

'The Exoneration of Milosevic: the ICTY’s Surprise Ruling'. Aug., 2016 A. Wilcoxson
 

Media Lies and the Conquest of Kosovo, 2007, M Collon

Liar's Poker: The Great Powers, Yugoslavia and the Wars of the Future. 2004, M Collon

'Controlling History: The Sordid Story of the International Tribunal for Yugoslavia and NATO Aggression'. Apr. 2016, J Steppling

To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia. 2001, M Parenti

The Politics of Genocide. 2010, E Hermann
 
 
 

'The Legacy of Slobodan Milosevic', Sep, 2017, M Papadopoulos