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20 years later, NATO has no regrets about murdering thousands of Serbs in airstrikes

Joaquin Flores
FRN
Sun, 24 Mar 2019 20:40 UTC
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American democracy comes to Europe in 1999: NATO 'shock-and-awe' in Belgrade, capital of Yugoslavia before it was dismembered at gunpoint by Washington and London.
The North Atlantic Alliance is still of the opinion that the bombing of Serbia's civilian areas for nearly three months in the spring and summer of 1999 was "necessary and legitimate", despite the absence of approval from the UN Security Council. This was stated this morning on March 24 at NATO Headquarters.

"The purpose of the operation was to put an end to all hostilities and repression against the civilian population of Kosovo, as well as to ensure the return of refugees and access to humanitarian organizations," the NATO spokesperson read aloud.

NATO added that the decision to start the operation was made "after more than a year of fighting in Kosovo and several unsuccessful attempts <...> to find a peaceful diplomatic solution to this crisis."

The previous day the German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas also justified the NATO bombing , calling them "responsible" and the only correct answer to "massive human rights violations, including massacres."

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Flashback China declares opposition to US arms sales to Taiwan

Yurou
Xinhua
Tue, 25 Sep 2018 22:27 UTC
Chinese spokesman on US arms sale to Taiwan
A spokesperson for the Chinese military said Tuesday that it was strongly dissatisfied with and resolutely opposed to planned U.S. arms sales to Taiwan.

"The Chinese military lodges solemn representations to the U.S. side over the move," said Ren Guoqiang, spokesperson for China's Ministry of National Defense.

Ren's comment came after the U.S. government informed congress of its decision to sell weapons worth about 330 million U.S. dollars to Taiwan on Tuesday.

Comment: Building good international relations is not the US's strong suit.

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Cult

The Mueller investigation should be considered a coup attempt against President Trump

Joe Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Sat, 23 Mar 2019 20:16 UTC
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Barack Obama, James Comey, Robert Mueller
It's perpetrators should be treated as such

We reported in April 2018 that DAG Rod Rosenstein was required by law to ensure Mueller had no conflicts of interest to be Special Counsel - yet there is no way Mueller could have passed a reasonable level of scrutiny! But then Mueller created an entire team with similar and worse conflicts of interest. These conflicts prove that the Mueller investigation was a coup attempt from the start!

The Special Counsel law requires that the Attorney General or Assistant Attorney General ensure that the appointed Special Counsel has no conflicts of interest. There is no way that Rod Rosenstein could have determined that Robert Mueller had no conflicts of interest and was eligible to lead this special counsel.

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Bad Guys

Hungary-EU clash heats up: Foreign minister says the Fidesz party was NOT suspended from EU parliament, 'we suspended ourselves'


RT
Sun, 24 Mar 2019 19:42 UTC
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto
© RTHungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto
Hungarian FM Peter Szijjarto says the European People's Party (EPP) did not suspend Fidesz from the European Parliament. They've suspended themselves, rather, until experts decide if the populist party is a good fit for the bloc.

In a conversation with RT's Sophie Shevardnadze, Szijjarto discussed this week's bomb-shell revelation that the Hungarian party, headed by euroskeptic conservative Viktor Orban, would be suspended from the center-right EPP pending an investigation. Whereas many had framed the events as Fidesz being forced out, the minister was clear in describing the decision as "consensual."
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Best of the Web: 20 years ago today, NATO began bombing a European country - 'This is why we will never join NATO,' says Serbian Defense Minister


RT
Sun, 24 Mar 2019 15:01 UTC
An anti-NATO protester man waves a flag in downtown Belgrade
© AFP / ALEXA STANKOVIC
Serbia will never be part of NATO, even if it is the only non-member European country, the country's defense minister, Aleksandar Vulin, said during anniversary events of the 1999 NATO bombing of former Yugoslavia.

Vulin said on Saturday that Belgrade has chosen to be militarily neutral at all times.

"We made this choice because we were bombed, but first of all because we will never do to other nations what they have done to us."

On March 24, Serbia marks 20 years since the 1999 NATO bombing that saw hundreds of civilians killed and many more injured. Countless civilian structures across the country were left in ruins after the airstrikes.

"We won't be in NATO, I made it clear speaking to [Secretary General Jens] Stoltenberg," Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said in a sit-down interview with Russia's Channel 1 on March 22. Serbia, which was the heartland of former Yugoslavia, "isn't something that you can break down or destroy," he said.

"Yes, we are ready to forgive but we will never forget."

Comment: The 78-day illegal bombing campaign against Yugoslavia had no UN support. 15 tons of depleted uranium was used. The psychos called it Operation Noble Anvil, killed over 2,500 civilians, and devastated the country's highly developed civilian infrastructure.

The event is, arguably, what shocked Russia out of its slumber regarding Western intentions. By the end of the year, Putin was in power.

Watch the RT documentary 'Hellbent: 78 Days of Bombing Yugoslavia' to learn more.


Edit March 2024, the above video is no longer available in all countries. An article on RT that introduced the video has:
23 Mar, 2019 17:24 Hellbent: 78 Days of Bombing Yugoslavia
This RT America special presentation commemorates the 20th anniversary of NATO's 78 day bombing campaign against Yugoslavia. It examines the lead up to the operation, the nearly 3 months of relentless attacks by NATO and the aftermath 20 years down the road. The special also explores the idea that the NATO alliance had planned the bombing campaign long before any accusations of wrongdoing against Yugoslavia. RT America's Alex Mihailovich was there when the bombing began. He revisits Serbia now to see how the scars of war still haunt this part of the world.
Another article:
23 Mar, 2019 13:42 How NATO bombed Serbs into submission and left toxic legacy behind (DOCUMENTARY)
Two decades ago, NATO started its 78-day bombing campaign against Yugoslavia. RT America's Alex Mihailovich revisits the Balkans to recall how the intervention happened and see the harm the people in the Balkans still suffer from.

The 1999 NATO operation was the culmination of Yugoslavia's decade of bloody dissolution, which split the entire region along ethnic and religious lines. Mihailovich was there when the cruise missiles started hitting Novi Sad and other major cities. Touted as a surgical humanitarian intervention to stop the violence in Kosovo, in reality, Operation Allied Force killed more civilians than troops and devastated civilian infrastructure of the nation.

It had plenty of unintended consequences too, from hitting a civilian train, a marketplace and the Chinese Embassy, to polluting the land with depleted uranium. The toxic substance is used for armor-piercing munitions and is believed to be the cause of a spike of cancer cases today.

The political legacy is arguably as toxic as the medical. Kosovo, the area split with the help of NATO battering, remains unrecognized by plenty of nations and turned out to be a bountiful recruiting ground for jihadist groups like Islamic State. And ethnic divisions in the Balkans don't seem any less severe.


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Five things the Democrats hoped for in the Mueller investigation that didn't happen

Byron York
Washington Examiner
Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:40 UTC
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Robert Mueller has delivered his report on the Trump-Russia investigation to Attorney General William Barr. Sometime soon, perhaps within hours, Barr will send the report's "principal conclusions" to Congress. It will first go to the chairperson and ranking member of both the House and Senate Judiciary committees. It is unclear what will happen after that, but certainly other lawmakers will see the document, and there will be a steady stream of leaks of what is in the report.

The Mueller investigation is over, and it is apparently the case that Mueller does not recommend any new indictments.

At this point, it is not possible to say what is in the report. But even at this early moment, it is possible to note some things did not happen during the Mueller investigation.

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Star of David

Trump offers occupied Golan to Israel, yet the indignation is verbal only

Elijah J. Magnier
ejmagnier.com
Sat, 23 Mar 2019 19:00 UTC
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US President Donald Trump has announced that it is time to recognise the occupied Syrian Golan Heights as part of Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is under attack at home, subject to prosecution for corruption and bribery, has welcomed the gift from Trump. The timing is perfect for Netanyahu, who is struggling to eke out a majority in forthcoming elections. His political rivals, the Blue and White party, appear to the public as a relatively centrist alternative to Netanyahu, even though their leaders, former Chief of Staff Benny Gantz and ex-finance minister Yair Lapid, are far from being moderates.

How will the world react? Will anyone oppose Trump's illegal move?

When questioned about the relationship between the timing of his announcement and the Israeli domestic elections during an interview with Fox News, President Trump contradicted himself. "I wouldn't even know about that (the Israeli elections), I have no idea (about the Israeli elections)." But he then confirmed that he is informed about the Israeli elections: "I hear he's doing okay", Trump said.
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AIPAC's Howard Kohr: 'Intense hatred of Israel is moving from the margins to the center of US politics'

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Sun, 24 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC
Howard Kohr
© screenshotHoward Kohr, CEO of AIPAC
The AIPAC policy conference in Washington began today on a defensive note, with the Israel lobby organization's chief executive saying that Israel's friends face a terrible new challenge, "the scurrilous charge of dual loyalty" and declaring, "The intense hatred of Israel is now creeping from the margins to the center of our politics."

Howard Kohr addressed thousands at the Washington convention center after several non-Jewish warmup speakers pronounced, "I'm an American and I stand with Israel."

AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee) is plainly responding to the decision by several Democratic presidential candidates to sidestep the conference as well as the controversy over Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's statement last month that some American supporters of Israel don't know where their allegiance lies.

The theme of Kohr's angry speech was that it is American as apple pie to support Israel, and building an even stronger relationship between the countries will make both countries better.

Comment: See also:

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Document

Here's why the dust won't settle after Mueller's report

Patrick Lawrence
Consortium News
Tue, 19 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC
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© wikimediaPresident Donald Trump • Attorney General William Barr
It won't be "full and thorough" and Democrats will continue to look for political payoff from Russia-gate, writes Patrick Lawrence.

Last week gave us mounting indications that Robert Mueller has finished his two-year probe into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 elections and is about to issue his long-awaited report.

But those who hope to read the results of the "full and thorough investigation" promised when Mueller was appointed special counsel should adjust their expectations. After spending upward of $12 million, Mueller is almost certain to hand Attorney General William Barr a light-on-evidence document that dodges many more questions than it resolves. Neither is it clear whether the AG will make all, part, or none of the Mueller report public.

There are two certainties we can rely upon as we await Mueller's final word, none a cause for relief.
  • The special counsel's office did not undertake a credible investigation of the two core charges related to the 2016 elections - that Russian intelligence hacked Democratic National Committee email servers while colluding with Donald Trump as he sought the presidency. Mueller failed to call numerous key witnesses, and failed to pursue alternative theories, a duty of any investigator in Mueller's position. These omissions are more or less fatal to the legitimacy of Mueller's work.
  • Among the mainstream Democrats who have incessantly hyped the "Russia-wrecked-our-elections" story, there is no remorse for the damage it has done to our governing institutions, our foreign policy, and our national security. Russia-gate has consolidated Cold War II. The chance to rebuild mutually beneficial relations with Moscow has been damaged.

Comment: See also:

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Blue Planet

Iran is expanding its regional influence and in a big way

Salman Rafi Sheikh
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 23 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC
Dock Iran
© Unknown
Last few weeks have seen the Iranian diplomats and top officials engaging in a lot of diplomatic activity in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq and Syria, marking a systematically built web of relations that Iran is building as part of a policy based upon what its supreme leader recently described as 'resistance.' The emphasis on 'resistance' is meaningful in that it highlights the intensity of the situation as well as an Iranian resolve to tackle the way the Saudis and the Emiratis are, through the use of their money, trying to re-establish their presence in both countries to potentially base themselves closer to Iran.

The Iranian supreme leader made it clear when Syria's Assad visited Iran three weeks ago that the war in Syria was a manifestation of that very resistance against the US and its allies, and that their defeat has made them hatch new conspiracies, adding that "the issue of the buffer zone, which Americans seek to establish in Syria, is among those dangerous plots that must be categorically rejected and stood against."
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