Kosovo
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War as a “Humanitarian Endeavor”: NATO’s Libya ‘hope’ strategy is bombing By Gen. Lewis MacKenzie
In a bizarre development, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has said it will extend the campaign for 90 days, surely a first in the history of war when one side ‘extends the contract’ for a set period. Continue reading
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NATO Newslinks 8 June 2011
8 June 2011 — williambowles.info NATO: Time to plan for post-Gadhafi Libya CNN International By the CNN Wire Staff NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen: “We will keep up the pressure for as long as it takes.” (CNN) — It is time to start planning for what to do in Libya after leader Moammar Gadhafi’s Continue reading
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NATO testing ‘Kosovo model’ in Libya and Syria By Pyotr ISKENDEROV
On the 23d of May the naval forces of the US, NATO, South Europe and North Africa launched the maneuvers codenamed Phoenix Express.Politically, the aim is to demonstrate that members of the alliance are ready to join efforts in case anything goes wrong in Libya. As far as the maneuvers themselves are concerned, training is… Continue reading
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Commentary: Libya overshadowed by “Kosovo model” By Wu Liming
In the 21st century, some Western countries take ‘neo-interventionism’ as their standard practice and even try to apply the so-called ‘Kosovo model’ elsewhere in the world. This should ring an alarm bell to the international community. Continue reading
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BALKAN ENIGMA AND NATO’S CHAINS OF PROGRESS By Gaither Stewart
NATO seems to find Serbia’s autonomy outrageous, its semi-neutrality unacceptable, its modernity anomalous and above all its path to progress dangerous. For North Atlantic Treaty planners and schemers, Serbia—maverick, outsider, rebel—is an infectious disease to be eradicated. Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘Noble’ War In Libya Part 2
Like a skilled conjuror, the media slips effortlessly, and without explanation, between the obvious need for ‘positive engagement’ and the obvious need to ‘confront tyranny’. Continue reading
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Libya is Kosovo revisited (kind of) By William Bowles
Right from the very beginning of ‘Operation Odyssey Dawn’ something just didn’t smell right about the Libyan ‘revolution’. From the outset this was no peaceful, civilian insurrection such as those taking place elsewhere in the region. In other words it started life as a civil war heavily disguised—with Western help—as a ‘peoples’ revolution’, but one… Continue reading
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Four must read articles on Libya
Four excellent articles on the Imperial ramp-up to war on Libya Continue reading
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Libya and the Return of Humanitarian Imperialism By Jean Bricmont
The whole gang is back: The parties of the European Left (grouping the ‘moderate’ European communist parties), the ‘Green’ José Bové, now allied with Daniel Cohn-Bendit, who has never seen a US-NATO war he didn’t like, various Trotkyist groups and of course Bernard-Henry Lévy and Bernard Kouchner, all calling for some sort of ‘humanitarian intervention’… Continue reading
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Another NATO Intervention? Libya: Is This Kosovo All Over Again? By Diana Johnstone
Less than a dozen years after NATO bombed Yugoslavia into pieces, detaching the province of Kosovo from Serbia, there are signs that the military alliance is gearing up for another victorious little ‘humanitarian war’, this time against Libya. The differences are, of course, enormous. But let’s look at some of the disturbing similarities. Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 13-18 February, 2011
19 February, 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation Unreal Revolutions 18.02.2011 | 10:58 | LEBEDEVA Irina (US) The practical aspect of the plan was that the US Department of State would be directly involved in providing financial, technical, and organizational support, training, and coordination assistance to oppositional youth movements across the world, with an emphasis on Continue reading
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Rerun: Kosovo “Freedom Fighters” Financed by Organised Crime By Michel Chossudovsky
Deafening silence of the Western corporate media. The links of the KLA to organized crime, which are now being revealed by the European Parliament’s investigation were known and documented by Interpol and the US Congress prior to the onslaught of the 1999 war on Yugoslavia. Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation New Articles 20-25 December, 2010: India / Russia / Kosovo / Arms Race
25 December, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation India-Russia ties in the “neo-liberal” age 24.12.2010 | 12:47 | BHADRAKUMAR Melkulangara (India) If the official visit by President Dmitry Medvedev to India this week came anywhere being marred, that was from a most unexpected quarter – onions. Indians can’t make curries without onions and the price of Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from 22-28 August, 2010
28 August, 2010 — Strategic culture foundation 2010-08-22 Elena PUSTOVOITOVA The Rising Star of Gen. Hamid Gul “The former General holds that the longer the US forces stay in the region – in Iraq and Afghanistan (or in Pakistan, if they choose to move into the country) – the more they will antagonize the respective Continue reading
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Renaissance of Ethnic Separatism In ‘United Europe’ By Pyotr ISKENDEROV
New serious inter-ethnic conflicts are brewing in Europe as it battles the global economic crisis. Typically they are deeply rooted in history, but the very fact that the renaissance of ethnic separatism in Europe is taking place in the epoch of European integration is noteworthy. Obviously, the enlargement of NATO and the EU neither brought… Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from 1-8 August, 2010
6 August, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation 2010-08-03 Pyotr ISKENDEROV Tensions over the European External Action Service “The situation is unfolding on the UN highest court’s verdict on Kosovo’s independence. Now that the legality of Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia has been recognized, the West seems to be pushing forward its ‘offensive’ on Continue reading
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Pyotr ISKENDEROV: Kosovo Case in the International Court of Justice: Time to Shed Illusions
The International Court of Justice was supposed to unveil its ruling in April, 2010 but, as the media found out, serious disagreements surfaced among the Court judges and the process took longer than initially expected. Moreover, there were indications that the West deliberately postponed the ruling to exert additional pressure on Belgrade over the extradition… Continue reading
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“Kosovo is as independent as Vichy France” – RT Top Stories
‘Kosovo is as independent as Vichy France was in WWII. It’s a puppet state. It suffers from endemic corruption, abuse of power. Its governmental structure can be better described as organized crime,’ the journalist added. Continue reading
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Full Circle: NATO Completes Takeover Of Former Yugoslavia By Rick Rozoff
Until the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1991, NATO had never staged operations outside the territory of its member states. In 2004 it ran eight operations in four continents, including a training mission in Iraq and combat deployments in Afghanistan.… Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation online magazine – Latest publications from 14-19 March, 2010
2010-03-15 Aleksandr SALITZKY & Vladimir TATSIY China’s Accelerating Economic Growth (I) “China’s leaders described 2009 as the year when the country’s economy had to face the toughest challenges since the turn of the century while navigating increasingly complicated domestic and international situations. The job done by China to meet the challenges must have been remarkable Continue reading
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