Media
Advisory:
CEASEFIRE
SUBTERFUGE:
Despite
Claims of Serb "Stalling," NATO Ploy Delayed Kosovo Deal
Media
Advisory:
WHAT
REPORTERS KNEW ABOUT KOSOVO TALKS -- BUT DIDN'T TELL
Was
Rambouillet Another Tonkin Gulf?
Do you want Dick Holbrooke as
the next US Ambassador to the UN?
"Mr. Holbrooke abandoned diplomatic efforts in
Belgrade and Pristina -- in the midst of a four-day NATO air-strike deadline
-- to return to New York to give a speech to the Siemens AG electronics
firm for a $24,000 honorarium."
"Reducing
Kosovo to a speech Holbrooke gets a $40,000 payday"
Washington Times 05/05/99 by George Archibald
"Records
confirm Holbrooke was paid for speeches"
Washington Times 05/06/99 by George Archibald
"Every government is run by liars, and nothing
they say should be believed," journalist I.F. Stone observed long ago.
His judgment may seem harsh -- but it continues to be verified in the real
world."
excerpted from "American
Journalists Have No Reason To Be Smug" By
Norman Solomon
"Trust no one not even us...but keep the faith!"
Radio B92 slogan
submit links to joed
"It is extremely depressing that human beings are used as pawns on this
type of macabre and rather machiavellian chessboard."
Jamie
Shea, NATO Press Conference, 4/20/99
"The fact that a chemical factory has been hit does not mean that this
process has been disregarded in this instance, it was a military target,
it has been hit, we knew what we were doing and we are not aware
of any ecological catastrophe that is going on. "
General
Marani, NATO Press Conference, 4/20/99, answering
a question regarding the bombing of a chemical factory on 4/18/99.
Read "Poison
Cloud Engulfs Belgrade" The Times (UK)
4/19/99
and
"Sci/Tech
Bombing threatens Serbs' environment" BBC News 4/19/99
"Since I'm here I can't help noting that one of the truly striking aspects
of this moment is the stark contract [sic] it illuminates between a free
society with a free press, and a closed society where the press is used
to manipulate people by suppressing or distorting the truth."
REMARKS
BY THE PRESIDENT TO AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEWSPAPER EDITORS April
15, 1999
"He dropped his bomb in good faith, as you would expect a trained pilot
from a democratic NATO country to do.''
Jamie
Shea, NATO Press Conference, 4/15/99, said of the pilot who bombed
an Albanian refugee convoy on 4/14/99.
"There has been too much propaganda and too little
plain truth."
VIDEOTAPED
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT [Clinton] TO THE SERBIAN PEOPLE 3/25/99
More
Almost Unbelievable War Quotes
"CNN Can't Find
Dissent From The Left (April 8, 1999)"
and
"American Journalists
Have No Reason To Be Smug"
and
"Building A Media
Agenda For War"
and
"NATO'S
"ASTONISHING" RADIOACTIVE WEAPONS" also see
"Radioactive
weapons used by U.S./NATO in Kosovo"
at
FAIR
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
"Kosovo
Highlights Journalism's Failings"
and
"Beyond
B92: 24 Online Sources of Kosovo News"
at
Online Journalism Review
"INTERNATIONAL
PERSPECTIVES ON THE NATO BOMBING"
and
"BALKAN
FALLOUT FROM NATO BOMBING"
at
Institute for Public Accuracy
www.antiwar.com LATEST
NEWS COLLECTED FROM VARIOUS MEDIA SOURCES
Institute For War & Peace Reporting
Central
Europe Online Introduction to Kosovo Conflict
Reliable
Independent Media Sources Partial, nationalistic or
state-controlled media are not listed,
links to Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Macedonia (FYROM), Montenegro,
Serbia (Kosovo and Vojvodina), Slovenia
at
Press Now Independent
Media in Southeast Europe
HR-Net The
Hellenic Resources Network Latest News
Common Dreams
Kosovo News Center
"Destroying
Kosovo"
and
"The
Myth and Milosevic"
at
The Nation
Balkans: No to
NATO Expansion
includes
"Radioactive weapons used
by U.S./NATO in Kosovo"
at
International Action Center
includes Local War Protest Schedules
"Bombs Away!" By Immanuel
Wallerstein
and
"The Current Bombings: Behind
the Rhetoric" By Noam Chomsky
at
Helpful Original Essays
from ZNet Magazine Regarding the NATO Bombings HIGHLY
RECOMMENDED
"There
IS an Alternative to Bombing" By JONATHAN POWER March
31, 1999
at
The Transnational
Foundation for Peace and Future Research
"Kosova: Prospects
for Peace" by Howard Clark Jan-Feb 1999,
good background on Albanian Non-Violent Movement and KLA
at
WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE
"Welfare for Weapons
Dealers 1998: The Hidden Costs of NATO Expansion"by William D. Hartung
and
Target Kosovo
VERY
INDEPTH MILITARY ANALYSIS
at
The Federation of American
Scientists
"101 Reasons Why
NATO's War Sucks"
at
The Exile
"The CIA, The KLA
& International Narco-Trafficking"
at
Protest.Net
"Ground
War Euphemisms, How can we justify invading Kosovo after promising not
to? Sounds like a job for Bill Clinton."
By William Saletan (Posted Wednesday, April 7, 1999)
"Doing
Injury to History, Finding a solution to the Kosovo crisis must begin by
rejecting false analogies to the traumas of the past" by
Henry Kissinger, a "Hawk" explains why Clinton screwed up
Beograd.com News from Yugoslavia (reported by numerous beograd.com readers from their communities and taken from local media)
Inet.co.yu Frequently updated first person news from Belgrade
"Kosovo For Absolute Beginners"by
Zoran Milutinovic, Belgrade
at
Net4s.com
Alert.EUnet more
links
Kosova Liberation Peace Movement the Albanian Question
Facts on Kosovo FRY site
Daily Press Briefings
at
NATO US site
US Air Force Air Power Over Kosovo
US State Department Kosovo Page watch them spin
