From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest) To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #98 Reply-To: abolition-usa-digest Sender: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk abolition-usa-digest Saturday, March 27 1999 Volume 01 : Number 098 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 09:57:58 -0500 From: War Resisters League Subject: (abolition-usa) War Resisters' International Statement on Kosovo Statement of War Resisters=92 International on Kosovo The War Resisters' International, an international network of more than 7= 0 pacifist groups in more than 30 countries, including the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Croatia, condemns the NATO bombing and the hypocrisy of NATO governments in mounting this war. The original rationale for threatening military action was to make Milosevic sign a peace agreement. This fatally misreads Milosevic and the mood of the Serbian people after years of nationalist propaganda. Far fro= m undermining Milosevic, this allows him to tap into the Serbian and Yugosl= av traditions of heroic military defence. Now, the current rationale is that the bombing is to prevent a humanitari= an catastrophe. Already at the time of writing, it is clearly precipitating = an even greater disaster - and with the evacuation of the OSCE verification mission and foreign relief workers and expulsion of foreign journalists, there are now even fewer ways to respond. NATO has been using the conflicts in the former-Yugoslavia to redefine it= s role, pretending to be the world's police force. To this end, it pursues its own institutional interests - against those of non-military intergovernmental bodies, such as the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the United Nations - and it decides on military action according to its own organisational logic. It is selective about which 'crimes' it seeks to redress and what counts as a 'humanitarian catastrophe'. Far from weakening the Milosevic regime, and protecting Kosovo Albanians, the NATO bombings are already having disastrous - and predictable - consequences. In Kosovo itself, it is now 'open season' for Serbs - be th= ey police, military, paramilitary or armed civilians - against the entire Albanian population and its institutions. In Serbia proper, the Belgrade regime has already moved against anti-war voices, such as Radio B92.=20 The governments that make up NATO displayed very little active interest i= n supporting nonviolent efforts by Kosovo Albanians throughout the nine yea= rs in which they refused to take up arms in response to Serbian repression a= nd violence. Indeed, they consented to the exclusion of Kosovo from the Dayt= on accords. On those occasions when foreign governments did acknowledge that the wholesale violation of 90 per cent of the population of Kosovo was anything other than an 'internal affair' of Serbia, it was to offer assurances that they did not even try to live up to. For eight years the Albanians of Kosovo persisted in their strategy of refraining from violen= ce and concentrating on maintaining their social cohesion and institutions such as parallel schools. Their nonviolent struggle using strikes, boycotts, peaceful demonstrations and alternative institutions was largel= y ignored by the world. Instead of a world order based on NATO breaking international law to purs= ue military action, War Resisters' International works to strengthen nonviolent methods of dealing with conflict. We have worked against the militarism of the Milosevic regime; we have worked through the Balkan Pea= ce Team to promote dialogue between Serbs and Albanians; and we have worked = to increase awareness of the variety of nonviolent methods of social struggl= e that can be deployed in such situations. A more understanding response to the Kosovo Albanian population on the part of the governments now prepare= d to bomb Serbia, Kosovo, Vojvodina and Montenegro could have made a decisi= ve difference. Unfortunately, this was not forthcoming. Their decision-makin= g is dominated by short term considerations of power-politics and 'military reality'. The 'criminal' they now want to bomb to the negotiating table i= s the man they erected into the 'guarantor of the Dayton peace'. The mission of the OSCE 'verifiers' was too little, too late. Hastily improvised, poorly prepared, and with a mandate that was inadequately articulated, the OSCE verifiers succeed in de-fusing some flashpoints, th= ey were beginning to build some cooperation with civil society groups, but they could not stem the rising tide of violence. Rather they increasingly were verifying that an atrocity had been committed. Nevertheless, their deployment was infinitely preferable to the NATO's bombings. =20 NATO does not exist to protect populations condemned to live under crimin= al regimes. How can it when its own members include countries like Turkey, whose methods against the Kurds are equally horrific? NATO's military strategy in Kosovo is not designed in the interests of the population, bu= t rather to minimise the risks to NATO's own soldiers - whatever the consequences for those who are now hostage to Serbian vengeance. NATO=92s= new strategy seems to be a test for new weapons systems in a large scale atta= ck against a Central European country, first use of US Air Force B-2 Bombers= , first active battle participation of German Air Force since Second World War, military integration of new NATO-members into the military command t= o European NATO headquarters. NATO=92s attack on Yugoslavia is a first precedent of the new NATO strategy, which will be passed in April. In thi= s strategy NATO explicitly stresses its =91right=92 to intervene everywhere= in the world on its own right, without the need of being mandated by the UN = or other intergovernmental bodies. In the immediate circumstances, WRI calls for a halt of the NATO air strikes and calls on its members to organise vigils and other demonstrations against NATO at appropriate embassies or War Ministries or at air bases. We call on the soldiers of all countries taking part in thi= s attack to refuse to participate in this war. In the medium term, we will try to work alongside our friends in the anti-war groups in Serbia and with people in Kosovo trying to create a ju= st peace.=20 In the longer term, WRI redoubles its commitment to promote civilian responses to conflict - in particular the development of nonviolence as a means of waging social struggles and the use of methods of nonviolent conflict resolution and dialogue. wri (warresisters@gn.apc.org) War Resisters International 5 Caledonian Road London N1 9DX UK tel. 00 44 +171 278 4040 fax 00 44 +171 278 0444 http://www.gn.apc.org/warresisters ********** War Resisters League 339 Lafayette St. New York, NY 10012 212-228-0450 212-228-6193 (fax) 1-800-975-9688 (YouthPeace and A Day Without the Pentagon) wrl@igc.apc.org web address: http://www.nonviolence.org/wrl - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:50:09 -0500 From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Kosovo statement >Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 13:09:01 -0500 >Subject: Kosovo statement >Priority: non-urgent >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true >To: wilpf-news@igc.apc.org >From: wilpf@iprolink.ch (wilpf@iprolink.ch) > >Dear Friends, > >We have written to the NATO Headquarters and to the members of the UN >Security Council. Pelase use this statement to ask your government, if it >is a member of NATO, to take urgent action to stop the bombing in >Yugoslavia. > >Lohes Rajeswaran > >Geneva, 25 March 1999 > >Open letter to >Governments of NATO member states >Members of the UN Security Council > >Dear Excellencies, > >The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom is outraged over the >aerial bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia by NATO forces. We >call for an immediate halt to this aggression against a sovereign UN Member >State and for withdrawal of NATO forces from the region. > >We also call on the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to >halt its brutal attacks against the population of Kosovo and order its >forces to return to their barracks. > >We call on the Security Council of the United Nations to take its >responsibility under the United Nations Charter and undertake a genuine >process of negotiation and mediation of the conflict with the aim of >assisting the search for a solution that allows all the citizens of the >Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to live in safety and to rebuild the country >in the interests of all. The military action by NATO only adds more death >and destruction to an already badly damaged population without finding and >eliminating the root causes of the conflict. > >Surely, the experience of the past few years has shown clearly that >military actions do not resolve the deeply-rooted conflicts we are >witnessing in different regions of the world, whether they be internal or >across borders. It is high time for the Security Council to take truly >peaceful approaches to the solution of today's conflicts. It requires a >genuine desire to assist all sides involved in a conflict, use of skilled >mediators and patience. > >We urge you to bring pressure to bear on those engaged in military action >to halt it and for the United Nations institutions to use all its skills >and means to bring genuine peace to the Balkan region. > >Furthermore, we wish to point out that the decision by NATO to go to war >against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia shows an appalling disrespect >its members have for the global institutions, whose mandates are based on >international treaties and agreements. We are alarmed and deeply concerned >about the consequences this action may have for the future development of >civilized relations, based on equality among nations and on values rooted >in the Charter of the United Nations. > >Sincerely, > > >Bruna Nota Barbara Lochbihler >President Secretary General > > > > > > >Women's International League for Peace and Freedom >International Secretariat >1, rue de Varembe >C.P. 28 >1211 Geneva 20 >Tel: +41 22 733 61 75 >Fax: +41 22 740 10 63 > Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons. - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 07:54:18 -0800 (PST) From: Timothy Bruening Subject: (abolition-usa) A Solution To The Kosovo Crisis! I have a solution to the Kosovo crisis! I propose that KLA guerrillas, other Albanians, and Serbs be integrated into a Kosovo Peacekeeping Force to police the Kosovo Peace Pact. I believe that this would be more acceptable to the Serbs than a NATO Peacekeeping Force. I also propose that the Kosovo Peacekeeping Force be supervised by military officers from Russia, Albania, and other East European nations. I don't know if my idea would work, but it sounds better than bombing Serbia back to the Stone Age. I believe that its worth a try. Another idea is a peacekeeping force comprised of troops from Russia, Albania, and other East European nations. - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:59:40 -0500 From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: UK Nuclear News 25 March 1999 >Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:36:57 -0500 >Subject: UK Nuclear News 25 March 1999 >Priority: non-urgent >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true >To: nfla.news@conf.igc.apc.org >Cc: abolition-caucus@igc.apc.org >From: nfznsc@gn.apc.org (nfznsc@gn.apc.org) > >>>Return-Path: >>>X-Sender: gadams-gmresearch@mail.u-net.com >>>Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 15:11:37 +0000 >>>To: nfznsc@gn.apc.org, fbarker@gn.apc.org, jkwoolley@gn.apc.org, >>> Morten.Bremer.Maerli@nrpa.no, markjohnston@gn.apc.org, >>pma@xtra.co.nz, >>> sean.morris@leeds.gov.uk >>>From: Geoff Adams >>>Subject: NPU Bulletin 25 Mar >>>X-UIDL: 89f8db5cc02168d586b62b77311e5c01 >>>DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN - NUCLEAR POLICY >>> >>>Thurs 25 Mar 1999 >>> >>>99-8136 Itar Tass news agency warns that Russian tactical n/missiles >>> could be moved back into Belarus, on the border with Poland, >>> as a retaliatory measure after Nato air strikes on Kosovo. >>> G 25 Mar >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------- - --- >>>Geoff Adams, Information Officer, Greater Manchester Research, 4th Floor, >>>Metropolitan House, OLDHAM, Lancs, UK, OL1 1QD >>>Tel: 0161 911 4179 / Fax: 0161 627 1736 >>> >>> >>>UK newspaper URLs: >>>- >******************************************** >* Nuclear Free Local Authorities * >* Town Hall * >* Manchester M60 2LA UK * >* * >* Tel: + 44 (0) 161 234 3244 * >* Fax: + 44 (0) 161 234 3379 * >* Email: nfznsc@gn.apc.org * >* Website: http://www.gn.apc.org/nfznsc/ * >* * >******************************************** > Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons. - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 13:33:42 -0500 From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Russia ends Y2K co-operation >Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 12:35:51 -0500 >Subject: Russia ends Y2K co-operation >Priority: non-urgent >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true >To: abolition@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca >X-FC-Forwarded-From: brobinson@ploughshares.ca >From: abolition@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (abolition@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca) > >Next, we're going to hold our breath until we turn blue... > > >March 26, 1999 0:18 p.m. ET > >Russia calls off Y2K cooperation with US > >MOSCOW, March 26 (Reuters) - Russia's Defence Ministry >called off cooperation with the United States on the so-called >millennium computer bug on Friday in response to NATO air >strikes on Yugoslavia, Interfax news agency said. > >Interfax said a ministry representative had made the >announcement at a meeting of a government committee trying to tackle the >computer glitch, which results from old programmes that may not >distinguish >between the years 1900 and 2000. > >Officials could not be immediately reached for comment. > >The U.S. Defence Department sent specialists to Russia last month to >discuss >the problem, especially insofar as it may threaten the functioning of the >trigger >to Russia's nuclear missile arsenal. > >Russian and American experts both say it is virtually impossible for the >bug to >spark an accidental nuclear launch, but have suggested that both sides >take >extra precautions to prevent a computer foul-up from causing a false >alarm. > >The American proposal, which U.S. officials had said was favourably >received >in Moscow, would have placed Russian and U.S. technicians side-by-side in >a >joint nuclear command centre during the months before and after January 1, >2000. > >But Interfax said the Defence Ministry representative specifically ruled >out such >a move on Friday. > >Russia has been deeply outraged by NATO air strikes on Yugoslavia, which >President Boris Yeltsin called ``naked aggression.'' Russia has suspended >all >cooperation with the Western military alliance. > >Copyright 1999 Reuters News Service. > >-- >Bill Robinson, Project Ploughshares, >Conrad Grebel College, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G6 >Phone: 519 888-6541 x264 Fax: 519 885-0806 >E-mail: brobinson@ploughshares.ca >http://www.ploughshares.ca > >Project Ploughshares is a member of the Canadian Network to Abolish >Nuclear Weapons (http://watserv1.uwaterloo.ca/~plough/cnanw/cnanw.html) > Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons. - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 15:31:32 -0500 From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: [csdgen] War in Europe >From: Global@aivaschenko.home.bio.msu.ru (Global@aivaschenko.home.bio.msu.ru) > >APPEAL >OF THE FEDERATION OF PEACE AND CONCILATION, >RUSSIAN FEDERATION PEACE COMMITTEE, >RUSSIAN FUND FOR PEACE, >UN ASSOCIATION OF RUSSIA, >CENTRE "ECO-ACCORD" > >March 25, 1999 > >The mankind has not succeeded to meet the new Millennium without a war. >NATO member-states have initiated the war in Europe, having opened "the >Pandora box" full of new danger. The norms and rules of the international >law do not allow any country to use military forces against sovereign >states without the decision taken by the UN and the UN Security Council. >These norms are hardly broken down. All further aggressors will be able to >refer to the NATO action as to the >precedent, which has broken down rules and norms of the civil order in the >world, stated in the UN Charter. Moreover, the whole world system being >created after the World War II and the UN existence itself is in danger. >The Federation of Peace and Conciliation, the Russian Federation Peace >Committee, the Russian Fund for Peace, UN Association of Russia in advance >to the NATO aviation bombing have come to the world community with a call >to prevent new military action against Yugoslavia. We claim today to >immediately stop the war and use political tools for the conflict >resolution. >Unacceptable for Russia military action has led to the serious aggravation >of the relationship between Russia and the West. This aggravation tendency >is not less dangerous then the war, being already initiated in the center >of Europe. The way to a new age of political and military confrontation >between Russia and the West should be closed immediately. All >political forces and parties should act responsibly. > >In reply to the provocative military action no one should "add oil to a >flame" and follow thoughtless appeals to start again weapon supply to the >conflict area (breaking the UN sanctions) or even move tactical nuclear >weapon close to this zone. Let us prevent involvement of Russia to the >military conflict! The peace on Balkans must be restored by political >means: through negotiations, diplomacy, active role and position of the >world public opinion. Based on the rules of the international law civilized >and peaceful order in the world must be restored towards new millennium! > Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons. - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 12:02:13 -0800 From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) Fw: Web News Sources Inside Serbia/Kosovo - -----Original Message----- From: Carol Moore To: Peace list from Date: Saturday, March 27, 1999 10:19 AM Subject: Web News Sources Inside Serbia/Kosovo >Go soon to get links.... > >Source: Wired > Country: Yugoslavia > Feeling news-deprived because CNN got booted from Belgrade? Not to > worry; first-hand reports are available at the source of all good > things -- the Internet. (3/26/99) >URL: >http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/18754. html > > > > - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 20:36:53 -0500 From: Norm and Karen Cohen Subject: (abolition-usa) [Fwd: ] demonstration in philly on kossovo monday This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --------------95AB61D4DDEE0B0682055230 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by smtp-out1.bellatlantic.net id UAA25722 fyi to those near philly and who want to oppose our bombing of serbia/kossovo peace norm - -- > Coalition for Peace and Justice UNPLUG Salem Campaign PO Box 2344, Cape May, NJ 08204 609-886-7988 or 609-889-8667 =93Not a mile from here are people living 10 to a room, and few streets further on they=92re sleeping in doorways and boxes, some of them children......... - -Paul Kantner, Shadowlands =93We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for victims of our nation, and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers=94 - -Martin Luther King, 1967, Riverside Church - --------------95AB61D4DDEE0B0682055230 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from mail7.bellatlantic.net ([207.68.32.38]) by immta2.bellatlantic.net (InterMail v03.02.07 118 124) with ESMTP id <19990327195307.NSSN17136@mail7.bellatlantic.net> for ; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 14:53:07 -0500 Received: from snip.net (mail.snip.net [208.211.64.14]) by mail7.bellatlantic.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA03604 for ; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 14:53:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from [209.204.72.216] [209.204.73.56] by snip.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-4.07) id A8CC1F3800C8; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 15:00:12 EST Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 14:53:21 -0500 To: Norm Cohen From: Michael Cc: sidorick@ix.netcom.com X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable STOP THE BOMBING OF YUGOSLAVIA! MONEY FOR JOBS & EDUCATION, NOT WAR! Demonstrate Monday March 29th 4:30pm =46ederal Building 6th & Market St. (5:15 marching towards City Hall, in order to reach out to Market Street pedestrians) The U.S. is bombing for humanitarian reasons? LIES! For excellent background info, check out: =93The BosnianTragedy " There are Saturday protests around the country (& world), but because of SalemNJ and 3MileIsland protests Sat. & Mumia visibility, and Sunday's School of the America's protest, we've scheduled Phila. event for Monday. THOSE ATTENDING SAT.& Sun. PROTESTS PLEASE ANNOUNCE MONDAY'S PROTEST! There is a rally for juvenile rights and against death penalty at city hall at same time. If they agree, we can join up with them at end, demanding =93Money for jobs and education, not for jails and war.=94. Issued by: International Action Center; 813 S. 48th St., Phila, PA 19143; 215-724-1618 e-mail: philnpc@op.net - --------------95AB61D4DDEE0B0682055230-- - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 20:09:54 EST From: DavidMcR@aol.com Subject: (abolition-usa) War Resisters International Statement on Kosovo Subj:=09 WRI Kosov@ Statement Date:=093/27/99 7:07:55 AM Eastern Standard Time WAR RESISTERS' INTERNATIONAL STATEMENT ON KOSOV@ The War Resisters' International, an international network of more than 7= 0 pacifist groups in more than 30 countries, including the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Croatia, condemns the NATO bombing and the hypocrisy of NATO governments in mounting this war. The original rationale for threatening military action was to make Milosevic sign a peace agreement. This fatally misreads Milosevic and the mood of the Serbian people after years of nationalist propaganda. Far fro= m undermining Milosevic, this allows him to tap into the Serbian and Yugosl= av traditions of heroic military defence. Now, the current rationale is that the bombing is to prevent a humanitari= an catastrophe. Already at the time of writing, it is clearly precipitating = an even greater disaster - and with the evacuation of the OSCE verification mission and foreign relief workers and expulsion of foreign journalists, there are now even fewer ways to respond. NATO has been using the conflicts in the former-Yugoslavia to redefine it= s role, pretending to be the world's police force. To this end, it pursues its own institutional interests - against those of non-military intergovernmental bodies, such as the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the United Nations - and it decides on military action according to its own organisational logic. It is selective about which 'crimes' it seeks to redress and what counts as a 'humanitarian catastrophe'. Far from weakening the Milosevic regime, and protecting Kosov@ Albanians, the NATO bombings are already having disastrous - and predictable - consequences. In Kosov@ itself, it is now 'open season' for Serbs - be th= ey police, military, paramilitary or armed civilians - against the entire Albanian population and its institutions. In Serbia proper, the Belgrade regime has already moved against anti-war voices, such as Radio B92. The governments that make up NATO displayed very little active interest i= n supporting nonviolent efforts by Kosov@ Albanians throughout the nine yea= rs in which they refused to take up arms in response to Serbian repression a= nd violence. Indeed, they consented to the exclusion of Kosov@ from the Dayt= on accords. On those occasions when foreign governments did acknowledge that the wholesale violation of 90 per cent of the population of Kosov@ was anything other than an 'internal affair' of Serbia, it was to offer assurances that they did not even try to live up to. For eight years the Albanians of Kosov@ persisted in their strategy of refraining from violen= ce and concentrating on maintaining their social cohesion and institutions such as parallel schools. Their nonviolent struggle using strikes, boycotts, peaceful demonstrations and alternative institutions was largel= y ignored by the world. Instead of a world order based on NATO breaking international law to purs= ue military action, War Resisters' International works to strengthen nonviolent methods of dealing with conflict. We have worked against the militarism of the Milosevic regime; we have worked through the Balkan Pea= ce Team to promote dialogue between Serbs and Albanians; and we have worked = to increase awareness of the variety of nonviolent methods of social struggl= e that can be deployed in such situations. A more understanding response to the Kosov@ Albanian population on the part of the governments now prepare= d to bomb Serbia, Kosov@, Vojvodina and Montenegro could have made a decisi= ve difference. Unfortunately, this was not forthcoming. Their decision-makin= g is dominated by short term considerations of power-politics and 'military reality'. The 'criminal' they now want to bomb to the negotiating table i= s the man they erected into the 'guarantor of the Dayton peace'. The mission of the OSCE 'verifiers' was too little, too late. Hastily improvised, poorly prepared, and with a mandate that was inadequately articulated, the OSCE verifiers succeed in de-fusing some flashpoints, th= ey were beginning to build some cooperation with civil society groups, but they could not stem the rising tide of violence. Rather they increasingly were verifying that an atrocity had been committed. Nevertheless, their deployment was infinitely preferable to the NATO's bombings. NATO does not exist to protect populations condemned to live under criminal regimes. How can it when its own members include countries like Turkey, whose methods against the Kurds are equally horrific? NATO's military strategy in Kosov@ is not designed in the interests of the population, but rather to minimise the risks to NATO's own soldiers - whatever the consequences for those who are now hostage to Serbian vengeance. NATO=92s new strategy seems to be a test for new weapons syste= ms in a large scale attack against a Central European country, first use of = US Air Force B-2 Bombers, first active battle participation of German Air Force since Second World War, military integration of new NATO-members in= to the military command to European NATO headquarters. NATO=92s attack on Yugoslavia is a first precedent of the new NATO strategy, which will be passed in April. In this strategy NATO explicitly stresses its =91right= =92 to intervene everywhere in the world on its own right, without the need of being mandated by the UN or other intergovernmental bodies. In the immediate circumstances, WRI calls for a halt of the NATO air strikes and calls on its members to organise vigils and other demonstrations against NATO at appropriate embassies or War Ministries or at air bases. We call on the soldiers of all countries taking part in thi= s attack to refuse to participate in this war. In the medium term, we will try to work alongside our friends in the anti-war groups in Serbia and with people in Kosov@ trying to create a ju= st peace. In the longer term, WRI redoubles its commitment to promote civilian responses to conflict - in particular the development of nonviolence as a means of waging social struggles and the use of methods of nonviolent conflict resolution and dialogue. War Resisters' International 5 Caledonian Road London N1 9DX England tel: +44 171 278 4040 email: warresisters@gn.apc.org >> - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 21:07:37 -0800 From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) Internal nuclear threat? [from website reference below] [Russian and Chinese "Speznatz" or special forces Army teams are always inserted on strategic recce, assasination and sabotage missions in the enemy rear. Nuclear weapons, command HQs and VIPs will be their targets. The weapons are already in the United States. They are stored in hidden caches, including conventional, nuclear, chemical and nuclear "brief case" bombs. Colonel Stanislav Lunev - Former GRU Officer] 2 key paragraphs from below story: ...."In 1999, I presented the K.S. Wu information to Colonel Lunev for his evaluation. According to Col. Lunev, Russian and Chinese army operatives in the U.S. have created large stockpiles of arms for use in time of war. These communist weapon caches are reportedly hidden all over America. According to Lunev, the Chinese and Russian weapon stockpiles include explosives, nerve gas, anthrax and as many as 120 "suitcase" nuclear bombs! I have confirmed Colonel Lunev's story with several members of Congress. Red China and Russia have pre-positioned nuclear, chemical and biological weapons on American soil with the intent of destroying our nation. President Clinton and Congress are aware that China and Russia have smuggled nuclear bombs into the United States. "........ [above excerpts from] "Part 2, Dead Men Tell No Tales" Softwar, Charles Smith, Tuesday, March 23, 1999 http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_smith/19990323_xcsof_dead_men_t.shtml In 1994, "American" businessman K.S. Wu traveled with Ron Brown to Communist China. Today, Mr. Wu is reported to be dead, and no one in the Democratic Party (Democratic National Committee) wants to talk about him. In my last column, we learned that, in August 1994, Mr. Wu accompanied Ron Brown to China and Hong Kong. Wu was invited to various special events, including a post Hong Kong dinner and Democrat fund-raiser. Wu traveled with several major DNC donors, including Bernard Schwartz, CEO of Loral; Sanford Robertson, CEO of Robertson & Stephens; Democratic Gov. Caperton of West Virginia; and Edwin Lupberger, CEO of Entergy Corp. Entergy Corp., of course, is part owned by the Riady family and the Lippo Group. In fact, Wu actually worked for Chinese billionaire Li Ka-Shing. According to documents provided by the Commerce Department, Wu, Lupberger, Caperton and Brown met with PRC billionaire Li Ka-Shing in Beijing during the 1994 trip. K.S. Wu, CEO of a so-called "American" firm, traveled at the expense of the U.S. taxpayers, to meet his Chinese boss Li Ka-Shing. Li Ka-Shing owns the vast shipping enterprise, Hutchison Whampoa, Ltd. Li works closely with the official PRC shipping carrier, COSCO. Li and COSCO own both ends of the Panama canal. Li and COSCO tried to buy the former Navy port at Long Beach. Li financed several satellite deals between Hughes and China Hong Kong Satellite (CHINASAT), a company half owned by the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA). Li Ka-Shing and the Chinese navy nearly obtained four huge roll-on/roll-off container ships, financed by loans backed by U.S. Treasury notes. The bio of Li Ka-Shing was forced from the White House by this author during a lawsuit filed in federal court. The Commerce Department claimed the material was withheld for review by another "agency." In fact, the material was secretly sent by Commerce to the real authors, the White House, which is not an agency. The legal "Catch-22" situation was all too obvious to Commerce and White House lawyers who caved in rather than being made to look stupid in front of a Federal Judge. The reason for the resistance becomes all too clear when Li Ka-Shing's bio is compared to the accompanying materials forced from the grips of the White House. Li was the only so-called "civilian." Li's bio was included by the White House along with the entire leadership of Communist China from Jiang Zemin to the mayor of Shanghai. The Long Beach affair demonstrated that Li Ka-Shing is an agent of Beijing. The White House material clearly shows that Mr. Li Ka-Shing is a member of the Communist government. The Long Beach deal led by Li Ka-Shing was clearly a national security threat. It was canceled after U.S. intelligence sources revealed that Li Ka-Shing's empire is used for PRC espionage. Li Ka-Shing provides fronts for Chinese military operations and "civilian" covers for PLA soldiers to enter the U.S. under "commercial" camouflage. In 1995, Mr. K.S. Wu of Pacific Century -- a company owned by Li Ka-Shing, teamed with Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia to provide Red China with an airbase only 50 miles from downtown Washington, D.C. According to a January 1996 speech by Gov. Caperton on the Democrats' website, "Mr. Wu was a trusted adviser to Sen. Rockefeller and me. He was instrumental in helping Senator Rockefeller develop the Swearingen aircraft project. He was also extremely helpful in expanding our relationships with China and Japan. We extend to his family our deepest respect and sympathy. His death is a deep loss to West Virginia." Today, Sen. Rockefeller will not comment on either the departed Mr. Wu, or the Li Ka-Shing airbase at Martinsburg, West Virginia. The Jan. 1996 speech by Governor Caperton published on the Democrats' website was removed from the Internet immediately after I submitted a fax copy to Sen. Rockefeller's office in Washington, D.C. Yet, in 1996, Sen. Rockefeller led a delegation of Asian investors to Martinsburg, West Virginia. According to Gov. Caperton, K.S. Wu was instrumental in helping Rockefeller bring the Asian investors to West Virginia. In fact, these investors were so special that Rockefeller ran a VIP train to transport them to West Virginia from Washington, D.C. The joint U.S.-Sino delegation broke ground for a new aircraft plant now located at the Martinsburg airport under a project called "Sino-Swearingen SJ-30." The Sino-Swearingen plant in West Virginia is a joint project between Texas based Swearingen aircraft, the AFL-CIO, and Sino-Aerospace Investment Corporation. The joint interests of PRC billionaire Li Ka-Shing, a big U.S. union, and Sen. Rockefeller were teamed up to manufacture business jets in the remote mountains of rural West Virginia. The so-called SJ-30 "business" jet is state-of-the-art. The SJ-30 can travel 2,500 miles at nearly the speed of sound and is rated to cruise at 49,000 feet. The SJ-30 is considered to be the leading edge of U.S. commercial aerospace technology and includes all the latest in avionics such as GPS navigation. The immense speed, range and altitude capability of the SJ-30 can be attributed to the twin Rolls Royce/Williams FJ-44 turbofans that power it. The Williams FJ-44 is also used in the Swedish SK-60 military attack trainer and powers the USAF DarkStar stealth robot spy plane. Williams is best known for making the jet engines for U.S. Tomahawk and ALCM cruise missiles. The Sino-Swearingen facility is located at the Martinsburg airport just south of the town along U.S. Rt. 81. Martinsburg is a key point in the West Virginia hills, located only 50 miles from downtown D.C. The narrow valley is a major north/south and east/west crossing for U.S. microwave and fiber-optic telecommunications. The Martinsburg airport is supported by the U.S. taxpayer via the National Guard facilities and the airport ground facilities, such as fire and rescue. In 1996, a host of the Asian officials attending the groundbreaking included Dr. Shih-Chein Yang of Taiwan Aerospace and Benjamin Lu of the Taipei Economic office. In fact, the entire groundbreaking at Martinsburg is covered in detail on Sen. Rockefeller's web page, including a wonderful photograph of Rockefeller and several Asian businessmen with shovels in hand. In 1996, Jay Rockefeller had very close ties to the real money behind the Sino-Swearingen aerospace deal, Li Ka-Shing. Li Ka-Shing is also a known PLA operative. Today, Asian "engineers" roam the hills of West Virginia with a "commercial" cover. The perfect location, complete with jets to test fly and a huge facility constructed to order was paid for by American and Chinese taxpayers. There are two more twists to this tale of a PRC base only 50 miles from the White House. A fellow reporter, Danny Casolaro, was murdered in Martinsburg West Virginia while investigating Hillary Clinton and her business connections to an Arkansas airport called Mena. Casolaro was found in his Martinsburg hotel with his wrists slashed in 1991. He was reportedly trying to meet an informant who had documented evidence of the involvement of the CIA and NSA in dope smuggling to support military operations in Central America. Casolaro was murdered after he had linked Rose Office clients with the NSA attempts to penetrate foreign banks to monitor drug dealing and money-laundering. The worst news comes not from a dead reporter but a living hero. Softwar has obtained an exclusive interview with former GRU Colonel Stanislav Lunev. Col. Lunev is the highest-ranking member of the former Soviet Union intelligence services to defect to America. He is, to this day, surrounded by FBI agents for his protection. In 1999, I presented the K.S. Wu information to Colonel Lunev for his evaluation. According to Col. Lunev, Russian and Chinese army operatives in the U.S. have created large stockpiles of arms for use in time of war. These communist weapon caches are reportedly hidden all over America. According to Lunev, the Chinese and Russian weapon stockpiles include explosives, nerve gas, anthrax and as many as 120 "suitcase" nuclear bombs! I have confirmed Colonel Lunev's story with several members of Congress. Red China and Russia have pre-positioned nuclear, chemical and biological weapons on American soil with the intent of destroying our nation. President Clinton and Congress are aware that China and Russia have smuggled nuclear bombs into the United States. Li Ka-Shing and his new airbase in Martinsburg are the perfect delivery points for PRC special forces operations. Chinese Army operatives in Li Ka-Shing's employ can be "activated" years after being planted, whenever needed. For example Charlie Trie, Johnny Chung, John Huang, Hua Di and K.S. Wu all had the perfect "civilian" credentials. Trie, Chung, and Huang await justice in America but Wu is dead and Hua Di has "defected" back to China. According to Lunev, PRC special forces agents are rotated on a regular basis in and out of America, usually through diplomatic sites at the U.N. or the PRC Embassy. Washington and New York are only minutes away from Martinsburg by jet. A so-called "civilian" project could put PRC bombers over the U.S. capitol without warning. A single "business" jet with a suitcase bomb could fly to ground zero with satellite navigation accuracy and a GPS autopilot. Such an unmanned flight in the crowded skies of Washington D.C. would go unnoticed until the final fatal second. The surprise nuclear attack will kill the entire U.S. leadership. U.S. military leaders in the Pentagon, the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court and nearly a million Americans will die in a single flash. If there were enough concerns to shut down the planned PRC takeover of Long Beach then the PRC airbase in Martinsburg should at least also undergo close scrutiny. The relationship between Li Ka-Shing, Ron Brown, K.S. Wu, Sen. Rockefeller and Bill Clinton should be investigated by an FBI director and attorney general interested in protecting the national security. We need to kick out known espionage agents and close their front operations. Covert operations to put atomic bombs on American soil are an act of war. We should confront the Red Chinese and Russian leadership with a demand to remove these devices at once. The threat now lies buried in our own soil, next to our homes and within minutes of our nation's capitol. RELATED ITEMS: Dead men tell no tales -- Part 2 Source documents http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_smith/19990323_xcsof_dead_men_t.shtml - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. 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