To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia

If millions believe the lies again and again, it is because that is all they hear. After a while, it becomes the only thing they want to hear.

To arrive at a closer approximation of the truth is the first duty of a democratic citizenry.

As it frequently the case, liars can be the best witnesses against themselves.

In fact, the US presidents never lie so much as when they talk about US policy.

Some people argue that nationalism, not class, has been the real motor force behind the Yugoslav conflict. This presumes that class and ethnicity are mutually exclusive. In fact, ethnic enmity can be enlisted to serve class interests, as the CIA tried to do with indigenous peoples in Indochina and Nicaragua—and more recently in Bosnia and Kosovo.

NATO’s aggression was directed not only against Yugoslavia’s people and production facilities but also against its ecology. Serbia is one of the greatest sources of underground waters in Europe, and the contamination from tons of depleted uranium and other explosives continued to be felt in the surrounding area all the way to the Black Sea. NATO bombed national parks and reservations that had made Yugoslavia one of the world’s thirteen richest bio-diversity regions.

The Confederation of Trade Unions of Serbia produced a list of 164 factories destroyed by the bombings—all of them state-owned. Not a single foreign-owned firm was targeted.

The civilian population does not suffer accidental or collateral damage from sanctions; it is the prime target