by Ramsey Clark, Nadja Tesich, Michael Parenti, Slobodan Milosevic, Monica Moorehead, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Gloria La Riva, Michel Chossudovsky and many others
International Action Center, 2002
From the International Action Center:
This book is a follow-up to the extremely powerful and informative NATO in the Balkans.
Hidden Agenda: U.S./NATO Takeover of Yugoslavia tells the truth about U.S. and NATO strategy in the Balkans. It exposes the reality and scope of the war crimes committed by the U.S. and NATO during and after their war against Yugoslavia.
This new work contains writings by over 30 of the courageous and articulate voices who opposed U.S./NATO war crimes during and after the bombing of Yugoslavia. In its 360 pages, the book details the media campaign that hid the brutal destruction of Yugoslavia in the NATO war. Twenty pages of photographs show the real damage to civilians and infrastructure.
There is also a historical record of the many Tribunals organized by activists throughout the United States and Europe which found NATO guilty of war crimes. The war crimes are listed and explained in great detail in this book.
Hidden Agenda is a tool for students and activists to use to understand and explain the real story about the U.S/NATO war and occupation. It is the only historical record in English documenting NATO’s illegal war in Yugoslavia. Its contents must be known worldwide. And the truth about the brutal reality of NATO occupation must be told.
Washington and NATO strategists invoked humanitarian principles to justify their inhuman war. But they practiced the ruthless divide-and-conquer tactics used by empires since the days of Imperial Rome.
Behind the facade of concern for self-determination, they sliced away most of the republics of Yugoslavia, one by one, through economic pressure, political threats and, finally, outright warfare.
This book presents evidence gathered by dozens of nongovernmental hearings in 1999 and 2000 that NATO countries engaged in a decade-long conspiracy to foment war in Yugoslavia in order to split it up.
Now NATO has military bases all over the Balkans, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. They are the Roman legions for Western transnational corporations and Big Oil.
In the 40+ essays presented here, leading anti-war activists and analysts from many countries take up the Hague Tribunal, the occupation of Kosovo, media lies, war crimes and the blatant illegality of NATO aggression. Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark writes on “Blaming the victim.” Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, demonized in the Western press, stands up to the NATO tribunal based in the Hague.
Excerpt from the chapter “Abolish NATO and Its Court”, by Sara Flounders:
“The United States may have the world’s largest military machine but ultimately this government cannot control the forces it has unleashed. There is a rising global movement against this ruthless competition and spiraling economic chaos. Six months after NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia a new movement against corporate globalization was born in Seattle. Hundreds of thousands of young activists have focused on the brutal policies imposed by the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the trade agreements such as NAFTA and the FTAA, and the World Trade Organization. This is a movement outraged at sweatshop conditions, prisons, environmental devastation and capitalist chaos.
“We are confident that the material published in this book will contribute toward the judgment of history. NATO means continuing war, crisis and colonial domination. Here at home NATO’s existence means greater poverty and repression. This book is our effort to develop an understanding and to plant seeds of resistance. Resistance is needed, resistance is possible. The new movement against corporate globalization has shown that resistance will grow.”
Table of Contents
Several full chapters and excerpts are available athttp://www.iacenter.org/hidden_toc.htm
— with more to be posted.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Authors
A Brief Chronology of Yugoslavia
Abolish NATO and Its Court — Sara Flounders
I. Challenge To The Hague Tribunal
Patriots Will Soon Rule Serbia — President Slobodan Milosevic
Blaming the Victim — Ramsey Clark
The Greatest Purveyor of Violence — Ramsey Clark
Indictment of U.S./NATO — Ramsey Clark
The Breakup of Yugoslavia — Evangelos Mahairas, Preface to Milosevic Statement
Illegitimacy of the “Tribunal” — President Slobodan Milosevic
A History of “Legal” Oppression — R.M. Sharpe
II. Propaganda and Demonization Set Stage for War
Demonization and the Media Blitz — Lenora Foerstel
The Media and Their Atrocities — Michael Parenti
The Racak “Massacre” — Doris Pumphrey and George Pumphrey
Scharping’s Lies Won’t Last — Thomas Deichmann
The U.S. Prison House — Monica Moorehead
From Death Row: NATO/U.S. Out of Yugoslavia — Mumia Abu-Jamal
III. Photo Section
NATO Is Guilty — Elmar Schmaehling
Targeting Civilians — Compiled by Polly Sylvia
IV. Crimes Against Peace: Prelude to War
We Are Not an Instant Culture — Nadja Tesich
Washington’s NATO Strategy — John Catalinotto
Controlling Oil and Gas Routes — Michel Collon
The Hidden Hand [excerpt] — Gary Wilson
Kosovo: Winter 1998-1999 — Roland Keith
Austria’s Role in the Aggression — Gregor Kneussel
The Rambouillet Accord — Richard Becker
V. War Crimes Committed During U.S./Nato War
Lawless War — Michael Ratner
NATO’s Civilian Targets — Sarah Sloan
Bombing the Hospitals — Ellen Catalinotto
Zeroing in on China — Judi Cheng
Ecology and Health — Janet M. Eaton
Depleted Uranium — Carlo Pona
VI. U.S./EU Intervention Since June 1999
Belgrade: The Struggle Continues — Gloria La Riva
Pentagon Enforces Globalization — Brian Becker
The Destabilization of Macedonia — Heather Cottin
U.S./EU Manipulate Elections — Gregory Elich
Economic Terrorism — Michel Chossudovsky
VII. Crimes Against Humanity: Kosovo Under NATO Occupation
Cultural Genocide — Milos Raickovich
Interviews with Refugees — Barry Lituchy
The Persecution of Roma — Shani Rifati
Women Are Enslaved — Leslie Feinberg
VIII. Appendix
International Panel finds U. S./NATO Leaders Guilty — European Tribunal Greeks
Reject NATO — Bill Wayland
Ukraine War Crimes Tribunal — Bill Wayland
German Government Sued — John Catalinotto
In the “White Book,” facts accuse — Milos Petrovic
Index
About the International Action Center
Related pages
American/NATO State Terrorism of the Yugoslavian Peoples
Book review:
To Kill A Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia
by Michael Parenti
The U.S./NATO Terror Campaign: Nine Myths and Realities
At A Serb Funeral: Tears For Victims Of A “Regrettable Mistake”
The Geopolitical Strategy of Imperial America
Book review:
NATO in the Balkans: Voices of Opposition
Video review:
NATO TARGETS: The Civilian People of Yugoslavia
Related sites
For information which is very different indeed from the mass of lies and spin which dominates the American mass-media, check out the following sites:
Death on a Very Small Planet
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/1/rem.htm
Photos comparing Belgrade in 1999 with New York City in September 2001
“It Began With a Lie”: German TV report refutes government propaganda in Balkan War
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/mar2001/koso-m01.shtml
Depleted uranium responsible for cancer among Europe’s Balkan troops
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/jan2001/uran-j09.shtml
Depleted uranium weapons used in Balkan War expected to cause thousands of fatal cancers
http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/aug1999/du-a05.shtml
Memorandum On Foreign Interference In The Yugoslav Elections, September-October 2000
http://emperors-clothes.com/memor.htm
Yugoslavia in Crisis — reports and analyses
http://www.iacenter.org/yugo_crisis.htm
The Media and their Atrocities
by Michael Parenti, Ph.D; May 2000
http://www.michaelparenti.org/MediaAtrocities.html
Yugoslav Sojourn: Notes from the Other Side
by Michael Parenti, Ph.D; January 2000
http://www.michaelparenti.org/YugoslavSojourn.html
The Rational Destruction of Yugoslavia
by Michael Parenti, Ph.D; November 1999
http://www.michaelparenti.org/yugoslavia.html
Why was NATO at war with Yugoslavia?
World power, oil and gold
http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/may1999/stat-m24.shtml
After the slaughter:
Political Lessons of the Balkan War
http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/jun1999/balk-j14.shtml
Yugoslavian
Military Medical Academy
Reports,
Civilian Casualties:
http://www.vma.sv.gov.yu/Civil/index_engleski.html
WARNING — this site has gruesome photos that show what American cluster bombs have done to human bodies.
Every victim was somebody’s daughter, somebody’s son, somebody’s brother, sister, wife, husband, mother, father, grandfather, grandmother. Each one was somebody’s friend.
They could just as well be your loved ones.
If you’re not a media-numbed moron, these photos will be deeply disturbing to see.
But these photographs constitute a public record of gruesome American war crimes — a record which our truly EVIL American leaders and military will NEVER be able to deny or live down.
These victims are the future of America’s government and military.
WSWS : News & Analysis — The Balkans
http://www.wsws.org/sections/category/news/eu-balk.shtml
This is the index page for an extensive collection of news articles and high-quality political analysis about events in the Balkans, Yugoslavia in particular.
International Action Center
http://www.iacenter.org/
Balkans: No to NATO Expansion
http://www.iacenter.org/bosnia/balkans.htm
The Activist site:
Photo Gallery of NATO’s Bombings in Yugoslavia
http://users.westnet.gr./~cgian/nato.htm
KFOR MY ASS!
http://crash.to/KFORMYASS
US psychological warfare experts worked at CNN and NPR during Kosovo War
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/apr2000/cnn-a18.shtml
“Cable News Network (CNN) and National Public Radio (NPR) have acknowledged that eight members of the US Army 4th Psychological Operations (PSYOPS) Group served as interns in their news divisions and other areas during the Kosovo war. PSYOPS is a highly specialized unit of the military whose personnel are trained in the production and dissemination of US government propaganda, including on television and radio programs.”
“Three PSYOPS personnel also worked at the Washington DC headquarters of NPR, a publicly-funded radio network. They worked for periods ranging from six weeks to four months from September 1998 through May 1999 on such programs as All Things Considered and Morning Edition.”
NATO WAR CRIMES
http://www.nato-warcrimes.gr/
Related books
To Kill A Nation:
The Attack on Yugoslavia
by Michael Parenti
NATO in the Balkans:
Voices of Opposition
by Ramsey Clark, Sean Gervasi, Sara Flounders, Thomas Deichmann, Gary Wilson, Richard Becker and Nadja Tesich
NATO TARGETS
(video)
produced by Gloria La Riva
NATO’s Empty Victory
by Ted Galen Carpenter (editor)
Cato Institute 2000
A New Generation Draws the Line:
Kosovo, East Timor and the Standards of the West
by Noam Chomsky
Verso Books, 2001; ISBN 1-859-84789-7
What Uncle Sam Really Wants
by Noam Chomsky
Rogue State:
A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower
by William Blum
Killing Hope:
U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since WWII
by William Blum
The Fire This Time:
U.S. War Crimes in the Gulf
by Ramsey Clark
Desert Slaughter:
The Imperialist War Against Iraq
by the Workers League
The Beast Reawakens
by Martin A. Lee
Blackshirts and Reds:
Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
by Michael Parenti
Against Empire
by Michael Parenti
The Sword and the Dollar:
Imperialism, Revolution and the Arms Race
by Michael Parenti
The Culture of Terrorism
by Noam Chomsky
The Real Terror Network:
Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
by Edward S. Herman
Western State Terrorism
Alexander George, editor; essays by Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman, Gerry O’Sullivan and others
Terrorizing the Neighborhood:
American Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era
by Noam Chomsky
Pressure Drop Press, 1991
Pirates and Emperors, Old and New:
International Terrorism in the Real World
by Noam Chomsky
Apocalypse 1945:
The Destruction of Dresden
by David Irving
The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media:
Decoding Spin and Lies in Mainstream News
by Norman Solomon
Inventing Reality:
The Politics of News Media
by Michael Parenti
Manufacturing Consent:
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
War, Lies & Videotape:
How media monopoly stifles truth
edited by Lenora Foerstel; multiple authors
Derailing Democracy:
The America the Media Don’t Want You to See
by David McGowan
Bloody Hell:
The Price Soldiers Pay
by Daniel Hallock
