Stoking Conflict in the Caucuses /Caspian Sea RegionĪdding to the barrage or propaganda, the U.S. The Lucrative Business of Destroying and Rebuilding. The Allure of Rich Resources and Cheap Labor. Becoming 'Irrational," "Vindictive" and Threatening Nuclear Attack. "Control of Space Means Control of Earth". Girdling the Globe with U.S.-led Military Alliances. 
Intensifying Antagonisms Between the U.S. Profits for the Military-Industrial Complex. McDonald's Needs McDonnell Douglas to Flourish. So let's examine some of the rationales for the war and then look at some of the real motives. That process needs to be accelerated by exposing the palliatives designed to mislead the public and getting down to a true diagnosis which can help lead the peace and justice movement to an effective response. Already, the U.S./NATO war against Yugoslavia has awakened millions of people to the ferocious nature of the U.S. This basic understanding is essential for paving the road to a powerful united worldwide resistence movement. We need to see the ways in which military dominance increasingly works in close tandem with economic globalization, privatization and the drive for corporate super profits. This skillful disinformation campaign has been spectacularly successful in derailing sections of the traditional peace and progressive movement.īut, today, as never before, we need to tear away the mask of lies and disclose the real goals of this "new world order" imperialism and see clearly how it hurts workers and the poor within our own borders and globally. The unmistakable message is that the "Serbs got what they deserve." It also masterfully conceals, and therefore allows unimpeded momentum toward, the true goals behind the stepped-up saber-rattling of the world's super-power and its allies. The ongoing media hype, including the unprecedented demonization of the Serbs, is designed to continue molding public opinion to accept the "justice" of the war. The public is being repeatedly assured that the means -the bombing of the people of Yugoslavia-were justified by the ends. Given these scenarios, it is hardly surprising that Clinton and the leaders of the other NATO countries continue to glorify the aggression against Yugoslavia as "preventing a humanitarian catastrophe," "promoting democracy" and "keeping the peace "against a Hitler-like dictator who would not adhere to "peace" agreements. troops gathered at the Skopje, Macedonia airport. We can do it tomorrow, if it is necessary, somewhere else," he told U.S. President Bill Clinton recently praised NATO for its campaign in Kosovo saying the alliance could intervene elsewhere in Europe or in Africa to fight repression."We can do it now. The assault against Yugoslavia threw open the floodgates for new wars including wars of competition among the industrial powers, with nuclear weapons part of the equation. at the helm, are likely to try intervening in a similar way against North Korea, China - any country refusing to be a "New World Order" colony by allowing its wealth and labor power to be plundered by the TNCs. We can also expect the new mission of nuclear-armed NATO - intervening over so-called "humanitarian concerns" against sovereign nations-to be implemented elsewhere, with great speed, especially in the Caspian Sea/Caucuses areas of the former Soviet Union.īurgeoning military alliances, with the U.S. We can expect rapid steps to further fragment the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY). and its NATO underlings undoubtedly will be vastly emboldened by their "success" in ensconcing themselves in Kosovo, Bosnia and the other remnants of Yugoslavia-Croatia, Slovenia and Macedonia. 
Here and reposted as it has been referred to a few times on this web site.īacking up Globalization with Military MightĬovert Action Quarterly, Issue 68, Fall 1999 This article about globalization and the use of the military to help globalization efforts is therefore backed up The following article is from Covert Action Quarterly whose web site just recently went off line.
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