By Barry Lituchy October 1995
(*Published in the October 1995 issue of the College
Voice. College of Staten Island, C.U.N.Y.
Barry Lituchy has taught history at Brooklyn College,
N.Y.U. and Dowling College)
To travel from New York to Belgrade and then back again
is to pass from the enemy's camp to the beleaguered camp of
a small oppressed people and then back again. But it is also
to pass from a world of lies and war crimes to a world at
war. The United States of America is at war with the Serbs.
Everyone in Yugoslavia and in most of Europe knows this. But
here it is denied.
Even when the most massive weapons of destruction are
launched from U.S. aircraft carriers in the Adriatic or from
NATO warplanes 50,000 feet in the sky, each day brutally
butchering civilians, -- men, women and children, -- still,
war is denied.
Even as one million refugees flood into Serbia in the
greatest humanitarian catastrophe in Europe since the Second
World War and the U.S. deliberately withholds, blankets,
food, aid of any kind, in order to punish the Serbs as part
of its war policy against not just the government, but the
entire people -- still. war is denied.
Even when an entire people, the Serbs of Croatia, are
destroyed in a true act of genocide, carried out by the
fascist Croatian military, but organized and led by U.S.
military personnel -- still, war is denied.
And these events are either not reported or under-
reported for the details are too gruesome, too revealing,
and too convincing of America's guilt. For the truth is that
America is guilty of war crimes in Krajina. In the Krajina,
the Serbian region of Croatia, in entire people have been
wiped out. But still, America's war against the Serbs is
denied.
Instead, Americans are taught to stick their heads in the
sand of television dope-operas like the O.J. Simpson "murder
mystery." In this way our cultural establishment
successfully trains a country of ostriches how to accept,
love and obey a government and a system that destroys
smaller countries and peoples, encouraging them to kill each
other, while at the same time spouting the most cynical lies
about "peace plans," "democracy" an "human rights."
Fascism and the New World Order
We are living in a new age that we do not yet fully
understand. What is certain it that our American
institutions, our so-called "intellectuals" and "cultural
leaders" will not explain it for us. Our academics.
scholars, teachers and journalists are as likely to tell us
the truth as a whore on 12th Avenue is likely to resemble a
nun. Their job is to justify and legitimize the status quo,
or to obfuscate the mendacities of the power-brokers in
Washington or on Wall Street. Hence, you get the verbal
gymnastics of a Professor Dobos (History professor at
College of Staten Island) who does fine tricks to convince
people that Islamic fundamentalism and Croatian fascism are
nothing to worry about, and that all the while America is
really on the side of the Serbs.
But people in Belgrade (and I'm sure in other countries
as well -- indeed, wherever entire peoples are threatened by
American military aggression) are beginning to theorize
about this new age of darkness that
humanity is now entering, this new ago since the end of the
Cold War that is sometimes referred to as the "New World
Order," arrived in Belgrade on August 29th. the day before
the NATO bombings of the Serbs began. I was there throughout
the two weeks of massive bombings. I saw the horrendous
destruction of civilian villages and the atrocities
committed by NATO against the Bosnian Serbs on Serbian TV
and in the newspapers. On one day ten infants were blown up
by NATO jets. On another a small Serbian farming
village that unfortunately lay on the road between Belgrade
and Pale was destroyed, killing the inhabitants and the
livestock. I was at the Serbian parliament and saw that
miserable wart of a man Richard Holbrook walk out of his
meeting with Yugoslav (Serbian) President Milosevic, acting
as if he owned the building of Belgrade. And I saw the mood
of the people of Belgrade and Serbia undergo a
transformation during the three weeks I was there, from
feeling of betrayal and sadness to one of ever growing
outrage and hatred for America and its Western European
allies. I saw demonstrations of thousands of Serbs calling
for death to America, burning American flags. and. had hey
not been held back by the Yugoslav military, prepared to
seize the U.S. embassy.
And still, every day, the U.S. kills more Serbian
civilians, every day commits more war crimes. And when I am
asked what is the one word that I heard used over and over
again most often to describe Americans, I have no need to
hesitate for the answer is: "NAZIS!" Americans, say the
Serbs, are the Nazis of today. Isn't time for Americans to
look at themselves critically and to ask themselves what
they are doing? Isn't time for Americans to ask themselves
what they are becoming? For surely others in the world are
already making up their minds. Americans are becoming the
Nazis of the New World Order.
Economic Sanctions: Fascist or Democratic?
The internationally respected Yugoslav philosopher
Mihailo Markovic has written an essay that should be widely
read here entitled "Fascism and the New World Order." In it
he draws certain historical parallels between the Fascistic
"World Order" that Hitler and his allies tried to create in
the 1930's and 40's. and the "New World Order" being
constructed today. Markovic stresses that there are several
important differences between the two systems: the ideology
of liberalism versus fascism, the much higher level of
economic and technological development in the America, the
contrast between Fascism's culture of militancy with that of
Liberalism's induced passivity and apathy. However. he makes
clear that these differences are less important than the
similarities. The main point being that while the U.S. may
have different (and vastly more effective methods) for
achieving its objectives, the intentions and objectives of
American imperialism are almost exactly the same as those of
Nazi Germany: to establish military and political domination
over the entire world and over all peoples in order to
ensure absolute and total obedience and total economic
exploitation.
America's aim of achieving a global monopoly of
political and military power by the U.S., as well as a
monopoly on the wealth of the world. is little different in
its essentials from the Nazi-fascist dream of a dominant
Aryan race controlling the earth for a thousand years. As
long as the Soviet Union existed, it prevented the
realization of both Nazi Germany and American world
domination. But today this mad dream is deemed possible by
the regime in Washington.
In terms of domestic and foreign policies there are more
similarities than differences between American and Nazi
imperialism. The media is a good example. While there is a
very limited degree of free speech here in the U.S. and
Western Europe, criticism of the government and the elites
is completely marginalized and excluded from the mainstream
media in the United States. Indeed, there is a very clear
line beyond which all media with any weight in American
society will not overstep. Also. the interests of the
mainstream media and cultural institutions are harmonized in
precisely the way the Nazis intended their own cultural
establishment to be designed. In fact, the Nazis had a word
for it "gleichschaltung," which meant the harmonizing of
mainstream cultural institutions with Nazi institutions and
its ideology. Thus, American society corrupt in its
objectives as Goebbel's propaganda machine was, while at the
same time far more effective and damaging in its scope.
Likewise. there are clear similarities in U.S. and Nazi
methods for dealing with political dissent: the vast police
and intelligence system of the American state dwarfs that of
anything constructed by Hitler and Himmler, though the
American approach is less crude.
The similarities are even greater when we come to
foreign policy. As Markovic points out, The method of
applying sanctions against entire nations and states is
essentially fascist. An individual, individual
responsibility and culpability are axioms of the liberal
cultural and political tradition. If it proves impossible to
identify the culprit for the crime, the true offender will,
according to the tradition, be relieved of criminal
responsibility rather than punish an innocent ma. Only
fascist totalitarianism which, in this respect, followed the
custom of the most primitive tribal civilizations in
principle allowed for the collective responsibility and
collective punishment of a nation or race. The current
sanctions against all countries which have found themselves
in the way of attainment of the interests of the leading
powers of the "new world order," equally affect all
citizens, including the vulnerable old population and the
newly born children, only because they belong to a country
and a nation. This moral and political scandal of world
civilization at the end of the 20th century manifests a way
of thinking which does not belong to a liberal and
democratic tradition and fully corresponds to fascism.
Methods of Global Domination in the New World Order used
against the Serbs
Indeed, economic sanctions are an act of war, even
though, the U.S. and its allies deny that this is so.
Naturally. the United States government would consider it as
such if the same sanctions were ever imposed against this
country. Nevertheless, sanctions are just one of the many
new and sophisticated weapons of modern warfare that the New
World Order is deploying against the Serbs. It is a type of
warfare where both the victim and the aggressor are hidden
from view: a warfare of unconventional armies and methods.
These methods make sure to destabilize and weaken the
country long before any direct military intervention is
publicly discussed. In the end, the country that is targeted
is either coerced into absolute obedience, or else
destroyed.
Clearly, the intentions and goals of U.S. foreign policy
in the New World Order bear a striking resemblance to those
of Nazi Germany, the conquest and destruction of entire
entire nations as part of an overall strategy for total
world domination. What is needed now is an overview of the
various methods and institutions that are being developed
and deployed today in America's war against the Serbs, for
surely they will be used tomorrow to destabilize and destroy
other countries end peoples.
Cold War institutions or continuing significance for the
New World Order those of the I.M.F., World Bank and other
aid agencies which aim to impose a relationship of economic
aid and then political dependency on the targeted country.
In this way all future economic aid and foreign capital is
gradually tied to the ever stricter imposition of policies
made in Washington. Once this point is reached the country
in question has abdicated its sovereignty and becomes little
more than a colony. If we recall the early stages of the
effort to destroy Yugoslavia, we will remember that it was
through these agencies that U.S. foreign policy was
enunciated prior to 1981. For countries like Yugoslavia,
which refused to bow down to the dictates of the IMF and the
US government in the period 1988-1990, the next step is
massive destabilization. In the case of Yugoslavia this
meant first of all the incitement of ethnic conflict and
financial and political support for separatist or
secessionist movements. The objective is simple: to divide
people, against each other, thereby legitimizing a policy
calling for the destruction of their state, which can then
be replaced with smaller, easier to control and exploit,
mini-states.
Sponsorship of ethnic conflict is closely followed by
the launching of a media propaganda campaign against the
targeted country and the introduction of the so-called
"human rights groups." Human Rights groups today have as
little to do with human rights as the slogan "arbeit macht
frei" did with the liberation of the inmates of Auschwitz.
In reality these are merely agencies of the U.S. government
-- from which they receive their financial support. All
human rights groups in the U.S. today receive sizable
amounts of government financial assistance and repay that
financial assistance by carrying out the foreign policies of
the U.S. government. Thus, they are sent to the country
targeted for aggression with the task of investigating or
manufacturing human rights abuses (such as the supposed
oppression of Croats or Bosnian Muslims that we heard so
much about) which can then lay the basis for the next step
in the destabilization plan: the media war.
Since I've already written a piece on this subject for
this publication (see the February 1995 issue) I will limit
my comments simply to this: just as the human rights
organizations set the stage for war by falsifying or blowing
up small incidents into major atrocities, thereby pitting
peoples against each other and creating international
incidents, the media plays an even greater role in that not
only is it the vehicle for propagating phony human rights
abuses (real human rights abuses rarely get broadcasted),
but in that it is absolutely necessary to demonize a people
in the media to order to destroy them. This too has such
clear parallels to Nazi methods of conquest that it needs no
comment.
Another related institution of modern fasist warfare
that is being developed and deployed today against the Serbs
is the so-called "international war crimes tribunal." The
brazenly one-sided and fraudulent institution is glaringly
apparent in light of the fact that (as of September 1995) no
Croats or Muslims soldier has been indicted thus far, even
as they rampage, pillage and murder across vast regions of
Serbian territory. Ironically, this new weapon of
destruction derives it's real historical inspiration, not
from the famous Nuremberg and other anti-Nazi trials, but
rather from the Nazi and Stalin show trials of the 1930's
and 40's. It is from the latter that they derive their real
objective: the annihilation of all political opposition and
freedom. In the context of the New World Order they are also
designed to strip a people of their right to self-
determination.
Closely related to the human rights organization are the
so-called NGO's or non-governmental organizations or
foundations. There is a massive literature that already
exists on this extraordinarily sinister phenomenon which
goes back to the early part of this century. The
Rockefellers, who played a big role in establishing so many
of these foundations spoke of foundations as being force
greater than governments for achieving the political
objectives of the super-rich elites and their corporations.
The most
infamous of these in Europe today is the Soros foundation,
established by the billionaire currency trader George Soros,
reputed to be the richest man in the world. Through
foundations such as the Soros, a country can be effectively
destroyed from within. The Soros foundation has bought off
important figures throughout Eastern Europe and financed the
training and activities of tens of thousands of young people
indoctrinated in the most reactionary and totalitarian
notions of American culture. In simple terms, Soros has
created a new generation of future leaders -- a fifth column
-- prepared to take over the governments and countries of
Eastern Europe within the next several years and to govern
them like banana republics, completely according to the
dictates of Washington. Recently the Soros foundation branch
in Belgrade has been shut down for the simple reason that it
financed the most extreme pro-American and treasonous
activities imaginable for the last three years, supporting
every U.S. policy against the Serbs including sanctions and
bombings! If this isn't sabotage, destabilization and
treason on a large scale then nothing is.
Also connected to the imposition of American sponsored
foundations is the pressure on smaller countries by the
United States to allow a degree of political pluralism and
diversity of opposition parties in the country it seeks to
destabilize that is itself maintains. Thus, while in the
U.S. there are no political alternatives to the so-called
"two party system" whatsoever, the U.S. insists on and helps
to finance literally hundreds of opposition parties and
organizations in Yugoslavia today, thereby creating
political climate of extreme uncertainty, political
paralysis and near ungovernability. Many of these political
opposition organizations got their start through Soros.
Of course, one of the very most important methods of
world conquest in the New World Order is the use of the
United Nations and its deployment of so-called
"peacekeepers." With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the
UN is today completely controlled by the U.S. and its
allies. As such, the UN has been transformed into one of the
most powerful and multifaceted weapons in the American
arsenal for the establishment of the New World Order (i.e.:
U.S. global conquest). It was through the UN that the U.S.
was able to impose sanctions and a naval embargo on the
Serbs and make it binding on all nations. It is through the
UN that international foreign policy of war against the
Serbs is harmonized. And, of course, the imposition of UN
"peacekeepers" in Yugoslavia was a key turning point in the
conflict because it handcuffed Serbs militarily and
established the basis for military occupation of the region
against the Serbs. The UN acts under the false pretense of
neutrality, but they are anything but neutral in the civil
war
in Yugoslavia. Their task from the outset was to militarily
weaken and handcuff first the Yugoslav army and then the
Croatian Serb and Bosnian Serb armies. In this way they
prepared the way for the military build-up of the Croatian
and Bosnian Muslim armies that were covertly financed,
armed, trained and even led by (in order of importance) the
U.S., Germany, Austria, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Iran, and
ultimately the military defeat of the Serb forces there.
The U.N. forces provided the necessary cover and entree
through which the U.S. military collected intelligence data
on the Serb forces and installations prior to the NATO
bombings and for the covert arming of the Bosnian Muslim
army that went on throughout the sham "arms embargo."
Clearly, the UN plays a key military, diplomatic and
economic role in the imposition of U.S. world hegemony by
providing the cover of neutrality for the initial military
and diplomatic assaults on the country targeted for
destruction. This too has enormous influence on the media
and the human rights organizations that are, in way or
another, connected to the UN. It should be noted that prior
to the recent wave of NATO bombings in September. 22 of 23
human rights groups associated with the UN Commission on
Refugees voted for and advised in favor of the bombings. In
other words, nearly all of the so-called human rights
organizations called for war crimes against the Serbian
civilian population of Bosnia! No doubt they will do so
again in regard to Serbia proper (Yugoslavia) when the time
comes.
Finally, we come to the use of military force itself,
which (in contrast to the "New World Order" initiated by
Adolph Hitler) is shrewdly and covertly recognized by the
American fascists and their allies to be used only as a last
resort. In most cases the threat of massive destructive
force is sufficient to impose total obedience over a people,
where it is not, as in the case of the Cubans, Grenadians,
Libyans, Panamanians, Iraqis and now Serbs, it must be used.
but only after the proper conditions are met so that its
effectiveness is immediate. Because once it is introduced,
all other methods, including war itself, gradually lose
their potency, In the first instance. mercenary armies are
covertly armed, trained and led by the U.S. and its closest
regional allies (in the Balkans that is Germany). Hence, the
build-up and training of the Bosnian Muslim and Croatian
armies from zero to their present level of superiority in
weaponry. Direct military involvement by the U.S. itself
must be introduced when the endgame is near and only then.
Otherwise. its expense. its unpopularity, its obvious
barbarism. and its tendency to force the tortured victim to
stand up and fight to the death against the American invader
(as in Vietnam) can turn the tables on fascists. I won't
comment on the so-celled embargo which was simply an
illusion designed for liberals and other day dreamers to
ponder.
Thus, American strategy in the New World Order is to
hold back direct military involvement to the last moment and
to rely on other methods to weaken and destroy a people.
Essentially, this means combining various methods of low-
intensity warfare (sanctions, peacekeepers. media war, etc.)
for long durations. decades if necessary, interspersed at
strategic moments with high intensity, terroristic use of
high-tech weaponry (the equivalent of the policy of dropping
atomic bombs on Japan in 1945) for short durations. Another
reason for this policy is the complete apathy of most
Americans toward involvement in these colonial wars (despite
the enormous media campaign). This problem is more than
compensated though by the enormous technological advantage
the U.S. has against its victims. Consequently, Americans
can drop smart bombs from 50,000 feet or launch Tomahawk
missiles from aircraft carriers hundreds of miles away,
murdering hundreds of thousands of civilians, and yet suffer
virtually no casualties! This is yet another important
contrast between German and American fascism in that the
Nazies were forced to exhibit a higher level of humanity and
courage when butchering civilians than Americans, whose
methods are by comparison far more depraved and
dehumanizing.
What is this war really about?
Having just returned from Yugoslavia I am an eyewitness
not just to a war, but to a genocide. I know very well how
this term is deliberately misused today by the media and
governments to rewrite history, denying the real crimes
while exculpating the real criminals. This is precisely what
the Bosnian Muslims, the Croats, the Germans and the
Americans have done. And why not? They are the biggest
genocidal murderers of all time! Americans don't know and
aren't told that the Croatian and Bosnian Muslim
concentration camp of Jasenovac nearly a million people
systematically murdered between 1941 and 1944, including
most of Yugoslavia's Jews. Nor that two Bosnian Muslim SS
Divisions were raised in World War II to murder the Serbs of
Bosnia. But for those of us who do know the history of the
Balkans, and who know what is happening today, the term
genocide is appropriate for describing what is being done
and being planned for the Serbs. For if genocide means the
deliberate destruction and murder of a people, this
describes exactly what this war is all about.
The early strategy was to divide and conquer the Serbs.
First, you have the Serbs of Croatia. They already have
been destroyed -- all killed or exiled. Croatia today is a
racially pure, Catholic state. just as they intended during
the Second World War. It has race laws granting full rights
only to pure Croatians; all other peoples have minority
rights. Not only do they kill Serbs and burn and pillage
their houses, they burn all books which mention the name
Yugoslavia or that have print in the Cyrillic alphabet.
Next are the Bosnian Serbs. They are currently being
massacred by NATO bombings which have destroyed most
communications, water, electricity, and housing, and
prepared the way for the launching of new military
offensives by the Muslims and Croats. NATO aggression will
not stop until the Croat and
Muslim forces are capable of a mass murder surpassing that
achieved by the wartime fascist regime. The resurrection by
the United States and Germany of a powerful fascist Croatia
once again in Central Europe will prove to be a nightmare
for all of humanity.
And, finally. there are the Serbs of Yugoslavia proper.
They are next. The U.S., Germany and its allies cannot
tolerate even this strong a Serbian state in the Balkans.
Three years of sanctions have literally starved the country,
have killed thousands of civilians and forced hundreds. of
thousands of other Serbs to emigrate. It shut down all
industry. It cut living standards by half. It has created
50% unemployment. It has destroyed not just the economy but
the very fabric of society undermining the development of
the country not for a few years, but for a generation. But
that's just for starters. America is preparing to tear even
Yugoslavia apart: Kosovo's Albanian separatist movement lies
in the wait for its orders to attack and launch a new civil
war in the south of Serbia and in Montenegro. The U.S. and
Germany are also determined to cut of the northern part of
Serbia and hand it over to Croatia so that Croatia control
the Danube River and prevents the economic development of
Serbia and the southern Balkans. There already are bills in
Congress in preparation for this.
But why destroy the Serbs? First of all, it is important
to .... .... .... the original objective was the destruction
of Yugoslavia, and in particular, socialist Yugoslavia. To
destroy Yugoslavia it was necessary to destroy the Serbs
because they were about half the population and they had the
most to lose and the most to defend. Most importantly. they
were the most interspersed people in the country. living in
sizable proportions in all parts of the country except
Slovenia. They were therefore the most supportive of the
maintenance of both the multi-national and socialist nature
of the state. The Croat, Slovene, Bosnian Muslim, and
Albanian populations on the other hand all had historical
connections to fascistic separatist movements supported by
Germany and the U.S., and indeed had a long history of
support for such movements. They were therefore the long
destined clients of the U.S. and Germany in a post-Communist
Balkans. When these movements were brought back to life by
the West in 1989 they revived their old racist ideologies,
programs and traditions as well, among which included the
destruction of the Serbs. It must also be remembered that
Serbs are historically the most powerful of the peoples of
the Balkans. historically, it has been the Serbs who have
posed the greatest threat and obstacle to foreign colonial
domination. It was the Serbs who were mainly responsible for
the gradual destruction of the Ottoman and Hapsburg empires
in the Balkans, as well as the defeat later of Nazi Germany
and its allies in the Second World War. In a neo-colonial
new world order the Serbs would have to be destroyed at the
outset, or else the Balkans could never be conquested. I ask
myself often how it is that Americans can justify or allow
the murder, the destruction of an entire people? And every
time I come down to the same conclusion: in the end the
Serbs really don't matter. This war is not really about the
Serbs: it's about America and what it's becoming. It's about
a country that can butcher ten infants and then turn around
and preach about "human rights" and "democratic
institutions." It's about this new dark era we are entering,
referred to as the New World Order. The Serbs. for all of
their great accomplishments as a people and their
determination to be free of the foreign tyranny that now
confronts them, are to be destroyed by a new fascism that is
developing in this country, before our very eyes. And the
Serbs are only the first of many peoples to die as a result
of it.
Imagine if only Hitler. Himmler and Goebbels could awake
from their graves and witness their present day vindication
by America's new fascist alliance in the Balkans!
Undoubtedly, they would reluctantly have to smile and say,
"America. we've got to hand it to you. You did it far better
than we ever could!"
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