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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
 
 

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Quotes

"I think I quoted Winston Churchill, I should have quoted Benjamin Franklin
 when I said the other day that either we all hang together or we all hang separately. "
Jamie Shea, NATO Press Conference, 5/01/99
 

"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
 
 

Media: Fair Coverage, Sensationalism or Propaganda?

"Two Dueling Views of Reality Vying on the Airwaves"
By FRANK BRUNI / New York Times, 4-18-99
 

"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
 
 

"Independent" International News

Dispatch From Kosovo   LA Times reporter Paul Watson is one of the few western correspondents filing stories from Kosovo
 

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
 
 

"Independent" Analysis and Editorial

"NATO and Kosovo / part two"
at
The Nonviolence Web
 

"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
 
 

"Independent" Sites From/Regarding Yugoslavia

Keepfaith.com   daily e-mails/phonecalls from a 74 yr old woman in Belgrade to her daughter in US

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

Radio B92 OnLine

"Kosovo For Absolute Beginners"by Zoran Milutinovic, Belgrade
at
Net4s.com

Serbia Now!

Alert.EUnet   more links
 
 

"Independent" Sites From/Regarding Kosovar Albanians

Albanian WWW Homepage

Kosova Liberation Peace Movement   the Albanian Question

Kosova Home Page

Kosova Crisis Center

Kosova Task Force

"Government" Sponsored Sites

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Official Web Site

Facts on Kosovo FRY site

BETA News Agency

Daily Press Briefings
at
NATO   US site

US Air Force Air Power Over Kosovo

US State Department Kosovo Page   watch them spin