BOOK REVIEW
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Yugoslavia
The book also shed light on the US propaganda focused in the 1990s on Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic, a socialist who sought to keep Yugoslavia together, accusing him of genocide in Kosovo and elsewhere.
Milosevic, a socialist, aimed to maintain the unity of Yugoslavia and prevent its fragmentation. This effort was driven by his desire to counteract Western nations' potential expansion of influence and the establishment of US military bases in a strategically vital area.
Interestingly, the most severe instances of ethnic cleansing during the war were actually executed by the Croats through Operation Storm, a plan devised by the CIA.
The Clinton administration additionally provided support to the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which sought to establish an ethnically homogeneous Albanian state. This endeavor involved targeting Serbs and other minority groups.
Financing from the drug trade played a significant role in sustaining the KLA, leading the State Department to label it a "terrorist organization". The NATO North Atlantic Council identified the KLA as the primary instigator of violence in Kosovo.
The narrative of genocide and the Serbs running concentration camps once again heavily relied on the testimony of an individual who openly admitted to not witnessing any killings - propagandist reporter Roy Gutman. This account was eventually discredited when a British journalist visited an alleged death camp, discovering that the inmates had voluntarily sought refuge from the nearby conflict in surrounding villages.
Yugoslavia was a highly successful state that united numerous contemporary Baltic nations under the banner of communism, and it met its demise when the United States and NATO waged a war against it, killing hundreds of civilians in the notorious bombing campaign it launched on the country in order to "sow democracy" there.
Syria
The same man who was one of the main reasons behind the collapse of Yugoslavia was almost able to do the same with Syria. Gutman played a major role in another similar war launched over a decade later against Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.
The propaganda effort pushed by Gutman was similar to the one he peddled earlier, with it including the mass murder of people at the hands of the government without any evidence backing up these claims.
Western media and regimes falsely accused Al-Assad of carrying out attacks with chemical weapons against his own people while the attacks were likely carried out by US-backed terrorists.
Back in November, the Grayzone website published a series of leaks that expose how senior officials of the OPCW censored this explosive finding in the Syrian city of Douma.
In its investigation, the website stated that "in the early days of the OPCW’s investigation of an alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria, expert toxicologists ruled out chlorine gas as the cause of death for more than 40 civilians reported at the scene."
A repost from almayadeen
ADDITIONAL NOTES
YUGOSLAVIA
From 1991 on, Yugoslavia and its successor states were exploited for classically realpolitik ends as:
1] To preserve NATO (despite the disintegration of the Soviet bloc) and justifying NATO as putative reason for its existence;
2] To negate the UN Charter’s commitments to non-interference and respect for the sovereign equality, territorial integrity, and political independence of all states - but, instead to favour right of those “more enlightened” to interfere in the affairs of “failing” states, and even to wage wars against “rogue” states;
3] To humiliate the European Union (EU) over its inability to act decisively as a threat-making and militarily punitive force in its own backyard;
4] To dismantle the last economic and social holdout on the European continent yet to be integrated into the “Washington consensus.”
5] To initiate the next phase of Brzezinsk's Grand Strategy to the Eurasian hinterland.
SYRIA
1] The eclipse of USSR allowed the United States to shift to Naked Imperialism, John Foster 2006.
2] United States adopted a policy of promoting militant “political Islam” to thwart nationalist and radical movements and governments in the region; (see Samir Amin, “Political Islam in the Service of Imperialism,” Monthly Review, December 2007).
3] Igniting of the “Imperial America” strategy: (Richard Haass, “The New Thirty Years’ War,” Foreign Affairs, November–December, 2014).