2 new books from the International Action Center
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia is set to open a so-called trial of former Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic on Feb. 12 at The Hague,
Netherlands. With this trial, Washington and its NATO allies
hopes to pin the guilt for the 10 years of civil war in the
Balkans on the Yugoslav leader. The goal of these big powers is
to shift the blame for the war they fomented onto the victims,
the Serbian people and all the other peoples of
Yugoslavia.
As part of the popular struggle to expose the causes of the
war in the Balkans and put the blame where it belongs, the
International Action Center has published two new books on the
situation there. The books will be ready for sale in
mid-February. A description follows of the books and how to
purchase them follows:
Hidden Agenda
U.S./NATO takeover of Yugoslavia
Confused about why the U.S. bombed Yugoslavia? That's
because you never heard about the hidden agenda behind the
dismemberment of this multiethnic country.
Washington and NATO strategists invoked humanitarian
principles to justify their war. But they practiced the
divide-and-conquer tactics used by empires since the days of
imperial Rome.
Behind the façade of concern for self-determination,
they sliced away most of the republics of Yugoslavia, one by
one, through economic pressure, political threats and, finally,
outright warfare.
This book presents evidence gathered by dozens of
nongovernmental hearings in 1999 and 2000 that the NATO
countries engaged in a decade-long conspiracy to foment war in
Yugoslavia in order to split it up.
Now NATO has military bases all over the Balkans, Eastern
Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. They are the Roman
legions for Western transnational corporations and Big
Oil.
In the 40+ essays presented here, leading anti-war
activists and analysts from many countries take up The Hague
Tribunal, the occupation of Kosovo, media lies, war crimes and
the blatant illegality of NATO aggression. Former U.S. Attorney
General Ramsey Clark writes on "Blaming the victim." Former
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, demonized in the Western
press, stands up to the NATO tribunal based in The
Hague.
Liar's Poker
The great powers, Yugoslavia, and the wars of the future
By Michel Collon
How was Belgian journalist Michel Collon able to predict
the wars unleashed in Yugoslavia, Macedonia and
Afganistan?
By magic powers? Or by a powerful method of
analysis?
"Liar's Poker" illuminates the fundamental interests of the
Great Powers and their strategic interests in controlling oil
routes and key areas of the world. It offers the reader an
efficient guide for understanding international policy for the
next 20 years. And the true long-term goals of these powers:
dominating Russia and China.
Collon demonstrates how and why NATO, since 1991, has
programmed various "necessary" wars. "Liar's Poker" points out
the countries that are under threat in the coming years. And
how the methods employed in the Balkans will be put to use once
again.
Collon also uncovers the clandestine rivalry, first and
foremost in the Balkans, between Washington and Berlin. Why did
the special European envoy to Bosnia, Lord Owen, accuse the
United States in his memoirs of "having uselessly prolonged
this war for several years"? Will a confrontation arising from
a sharpening of the world economic crisis finally take place
between the U.S. and the European Union?
Using a unique graphic technique on its large-size pages,
"Liar's Poker" also offers a brilliant demonstration of media
lies. How is organized disinformation used to manipulate public
opinion and sell a war? The revelations are shocking. "Liar's
Poker" is like a manual, showing step-by-step how to defend
yourself from media manipulation in the future.
ALSO
AVAILABLE:
NATO in the Balkans: Voices of Opposition
Selections from Ramsey Clark, Sara Flounders, Sean Gervasi,
Nadja Tesich and others.
War, Lies & Videotape: How Media Monopoly
Stifles Truth
Exposes the links between the government, the media and the
military. War propaganda and NATO's expanding role.
To order
Hidden Agenda, 408 pages, maps, photographs, index,
$19.95.
Liar's Poker, 208 pages (8.5x11 in.), maps,
photographs, index, $19.95.
Order before March 1 and get a special 20 percent discount.
Pay $15.95 instead of $19.95, plus postage and
handling.
When ordering both books, get an additional $2 off; pay
$29.90.
NATO in the Balkans: Voices of Opposition, 1998, 236
pages, indexed, $15.95.
War, Lies & Videotape: How Media Monopoly Stifles
Truth, 2000, 288 pages, indexed, $15.95.
Special rate on all four books covering the U.S./NATO war
on Yugoslavia: $49.90 (a $71.80 value).
In all cases, add postage and handling--$5 for the first
book and $1 for each additional book.
For booksellers or associations interested in ordering 10
copies or more, please contact iacenter@iacenter.org for
special discounts and shipping arrangements.
For direct orders of Liar's Poker (only from Europe,
Asia, Africa and Latin America), contact Michel Collon directly
at michel.collon@skynet.be
for prices.
Otherwise send orders to :
International Action Center
39 West 14th
Street, Suite 206
New York, NY
10011
Or, after Feb. 8, 2002, buy online through www.leftbooks.com.
Reprinted from the Feb. 7, 2002, issue of
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