Author: Nebojsa Malic

Forget Iraq (for a moment, anyway) – what is going on in Ukraine?

Following the narrow victory (well, 3%, just like in the US election) of Viktor Yanukovich over challenger Viktor Yushchenko, the Yushchenko-ites have adorned themselves with bright orange garments and taken to mass street protests, challenging the legitimacy of the election and demanding a re-vote. Yushchenko even took an oath of presidency, before a group of parliamentarians well short of the quorum he needed.

But here’s a problem: the elections weren’t stolen. So says the BHHRG, one of the few NGOs in the West that isn’t a handmaiden of the Empire.

What we’re seeing is rather a re-run of “revolutions” in Belgrade (2000), Tbilisi (2003) and the attempted coup in Belarus (2001), which prominently features CIA-trained student activists from Serbia, and propaganda and financial support from the Empire.

This isn’t a popular movement, much less a democratic revolution. Commentator Jonathan Steele of the British Guardian calls this circus a “postmodern coup d’etat”. His colleague, reporter Ian Traynor, lays out the facts about the mechanism behind Yushchenko: it’s a must-read.

Lew Rockwell dispenses with the “revolutionary” nonsense on his blog:

“In fact, the US is engaging in an imperial adventure. It is seeking to install its man in office via the CIA, and to have Ukraine join Nato and become a US satellite. This is the equivalent of the old Russia subverting Mexico, and having it join the Warsaw Pact, a very hostile act.

Every neocon in the world is screaming the same line. No rational man could agree on that basis alone.”

Lew also says that because of Ukrainians’ suffering under Stalin and Communism in general,
“…one can understand Ukrainian feelings towards Russia. Still, becoming the agent of a hostile power is not a good idea. In any event, it is none of the US’s business.”

I couldn’t agree more.

And that’s what it really comes down to: becoming the agent of a hostile power. In addition to being a very destructive political system, democracy has become a means of Imperial conquest as well. Any time Washington and/or Brussels want to take over a country, they activate the fifth column of NGOs and “human rights” organizations, print posters and slogans, and threaten violence unless their candidate is elected. For all their shouting about some alleged resurgence of Russian imperialism, it’s the Western Empire that’s behaving like the Soviets now. It would be ironic, were it not so true.

After the sham “elections”in occupied Kosovo were finally certified by the Imperial viceroy, Albanians announced their new “government” will be led by two parties: Ibrahim Rugova’s LDK, and Ramush Haradinaj’s AAK. This means Hashim Taqi, the former supremo of the terrorist KLA, won’t be in the government again. Only trouble is, Haradinaj is KLA as well. And he’s under investigation by the Hague Inquisition. Continue reading “Terrorist PM OK?”

I don’t think anyone in Serbia has had time to read the Politics of Destruction yet, but it appears I’m not the only one to see things that way. That’s encouraging.
Here’s some excerpts from an article in the Thursday, November 18 issue of a Belgrade daily, Nacional, headlined “Kostunica resurrecting Milosevic?!”:

…American Serbs are watching their political influence drastically wane due to anti-Serb statements by Serbian leaders… In a recent interview for AP, [foreign minister Vuk] Draskovic commented that ‘”Serbia is obviously and tragically returning to the era of Slobodan Milosevic.”
Draskovic clearly notified Washington that [PM] Kostunica and [his party] DSS should be permanently removed from power, claiming Kostunica has ties to Milosevic.
“Draskovic is spreading fear in Washington that Kostunica will lead Serbia back into ethnic conflict…” says a reputable Washington analyst.
[Nota bene: Wasn’t me; I’m not reputable.]
Draskovic’s comments have forced even Serb partisans in Washington to stop and think whether he knows something they don’t.
[…]
“Draskovic is creating an atmosphere in which it’s impossible for Washington to pay attention to Serbian interests. Once again, someone in the Serbian government is sabotaging the country’s national interest.”
[…]
Instead of firing Draskovic and offering evidence of his ‘foul play’ in cahoots with the DS [President Tadic’s Democratic Party], Kostunica actually gives credence to his specious attacks, defending local arrangements with Milosevic’s longtime associates.
“Unless Kostunica can control Draskovic and stop this anti-Serb propaganda by one of his own government ministers, Serbia should prepare for another period of isolation, and maybe even war,” says our source in Washington. Continue reading “Serbia Takes Notice”

One can only hope that future historians will look to Ron Suskind’s account of Bushite scorn for “reality-based communities” as an explanation for events of the early aughts. But it would be a mistake to attribute this kind of thinking to Bushites only. It is ingrained in all imperialists.
Earlier this year, mentor to the previous crop of “liberal” Imperialists and ICG founder Morton Abramowitz made an exasperated comment to a Serbian interviewer:
“My answer is that there is no entirely rational answer… you seek perfect reasoning, which does not correspond to reality on the ground.”
In other words, don’t bother with logic; there isn’t any.
Abramowitz’s acolytes (the Holbrookes and Albrights of this world) at least used the language of principles and values to sell their interventions to the world, even as they follow the same philosophy as the Bushites: power over reality.
And therein’s the clue: the Empire is Nietzschean. Its world is devoid of reason, reality or principles, and contains only power and Will to Power. Continue reading “A Nietzschean Empire?”

Normally, it would be quite uninteresing to read about a new tax in Bosnia. But when the said tax is designed as a dedicated source of funding for the unconstitutional central government; when it’s pushed by the Empire and international financial institutions (e.g. IMF); when it’s a whopping 17% on every sale; and when the government resigns because the legislature exempts some food items from it; then it does merit a mention.

Voters in Macedonia are supposed to decide today whether to accept the re-districting law designed to give ethnic Albanians more power and influence in the government. Unlike the elections in the U.S., this referendum actually can make a difference. If Macedonians reject the government (i.e. Imperial) proposal, they may well derail the Ohrid Agreement and its slow murder of that country. Also, EU and NATO may then refuse to admit Macedonia – which actually isn’t a bad thing.Western press reports from the area are woefully inaccurate, as usual, but Chris Deliso of Balkanalysis (and often a contributor to Antiwar.com), has put together a list of nine chief misconceptions that ought to set things straight fairly well.
There is tremendous pressure to disrupt the referendum… Continue reading “Macedonia referendum watch”