From Belgrade to Damascus – from war to war

Zivadin Jovanovic Belgrade Forum, Serbia

Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals

1999 Aggression on Serbia (FRY)

• Outside of NATO territory• Without UN SC aproval• NATO – terrorist KLA alliance• Violating:– 1949 NATO Founding Act– UN Charter– National Constitutions– Crime against peace and stability

Precedent for ensuing Wars

• Afghanistan, November 2001• Iraq, March 2003• Libya, March 2011• Syria, 2011• Mali 2012

Common Caracteristicsc Stage One

Media role in demonizing victim1. Accusations for human rights violations2. Distabilizing role oppositon, extremists 3. Staged attacks on civilians (Rachak, sarin)4. Invoking “right to protect”5. Launching of military opperation

Stage Two

1. “Free and fair democratic elections”2. Installing of puppet regime3. Transfer of national wealth to multinational

corporations4. Continuity of puppet regimes

Stage three

• Chaos, misery, ethnic or religious conflicts • Refugees, displaced persons • Unemployment • Fragmentation of states,

redrawing of borders

Occupied Kosovo serves to control:

1. Oil and gas pipeline routes 2. Caspian Basin, Russia, Middle East 3. Multi-billion dollar heroin trade.4. Support to operations in Afghanistan, Iraq

Militarization

Camp Bondsteel 1999. • 4 new USA bases in Bulgaria & 4 in Romania• Upgrading Adriatic harbors for US navy deployment• NATO expansion East – ARMS RACE

The KLA

• KLA began terrorist actions in 1996• Financed, armed, trained by NATO countries 1997, US Envoy, Robert Gelbard: “KLA terrorist group” 1999 war KLA was NATO ground force

Drug Tarficking

• Since 2001. Avgan herion production rosed 40 fold• 60% of heroin trade controlled by Albanian mafia• Destoying European youth• Financing Albanian lobbies• Financing terrorist actions

Human organ traficking

• Evidence destroyed in Hague • Pierre Pean: “ ‘Just war’ for mafia state”• CE Parlamentary Assembly (Dick Marti) Report

Global Objectives

• Abolishing sovereignty• Global control of humanity • Global profit - centered system• Global imperialism

Alternatives

Global peace or global war?

Thank you!

Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals