TARGET YUGOSLAVIA: NATO's WAR OF AGGRESSION / Apr 29 1999 Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit CUBANEWS FROM RADIO HAVANA CUBA E-mail: rhc@radiohc.org http://www.radiohc.org TARGET YUGOSLAVIA: NATO's WAR OF AGGRESSION Thursday, 29 April 1999 Radio Havana Cuba presents its coverage of the ongoing U.S.- led NATO aggression against Yugoslavia. ------------------------------------------------------------ NATO warplanes on Thursday again bombed an area in southern Serbia, close to where a similar attack two days ago claimed the lives of at least 20 civilians, including 11 children. The attack came as residents of the farming community of Surdulica -- with 15,000 inhabitants -- were burying nine of the victims from Tuesday's bombing. According to Serb authorities, the bombardment destroyed 50 homes and damaged another 600. NATO spokesman Jamie Shea admitted that one of the alliance's so-called precision-guided missiles veered off course from its target: a Yugoslav army barracks located some 300 yards from the residential area. But according to the Italian News Agency ANSA, western journalists allowed to visit the area stated that it was impossible for just one missile to cause so much destruction. The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that one of its journalists in Surdulica said bodies were blown apart or charred beyond recognition. The reporter interviewed a Serb woman who is the mother of one of the 11 children killed while hiding in a cellar. All that remained, according to the woman, were small pieces of burned flesh stuck to bedsheets. -------------------------------------------------------------- RADIO HAVANA CUBA'S VIEWPOINT / U.S. WORLD DISORDER Thursday, 29 April 1999 A specialist in political ethics at the University of Binghampton in the US, Professor James Petras, has written an article in which he states that the economic decline and subsequent weakening of Japan and Russia actually prompted Washington to carry out its current military intervention in Europe. According to Petras, new frontiers are being sought by the US which seeks to extend its influence and military alliances, imposing its interpretation of free trade on the rest of the world. The US is the nation that will profit from the Kosovo crisis the most. Europe will probably not recover for many decades, but Washington has shown that it can impose its will on NATO and that it will jump at its command. Thus the message is clear. We can gather the forces necessary to bomb you back to the stone age if you dare to say `no' to our demands. There are thousands of border and ethnic confrontations on the five continents of this planet. The whole ethnic issue is just an excuse to make an example of a rogue state. The world order according to Washington WILL prevail. And US investors and corporations are laughing all the way to the bank. Their investments buy US defence contractor's stock which, of course, is very healthy nowadays. Their investors and corporations are given priority through the IMF, World Bank and World Trade Organization. Of course, for US arms suppliers and defense contractors to continue to do business they must have conflict on the planet. War has always been good business for some. A recent scandal in Great Britain revealed that schools, universities, charities and aid agencies have been investing their employee's pension funds in weapons industry stock because this industry is producing the highest earnings. And who benefits from a divided, disorganized post-Kosovo Europe? The European Union block with its new currency is the biggest threat to US global commercial interests. By gaining NATO and thus EU backing in a venture that was against the wishes of Russia, Washington has effectively isolated and further humiliated Moscow. It's a dangerous game that is being played by the White House and one which will ultimately hit the foreign offices of Europe's nations square in the face. But by then it will be too late. The use of the phrase "world policeman" has often been used to negatively describe the actions of the US. But this assumes a legality to the actions that it takes. It lends a moral air to its brutal, imperial behavior. "World gangster" would be more appropriate. -30- [c] 1999, Radio Habana Cuba All rights reserved Articles cannot be reproduced, reprinted or published in any system without the consent of RHC. This prohibition includes the distribution of this material via Usenet News, "bulletin board" services, e-mail lists, print media, radio and television. For the complete RADIO HAVANA CUBA NEWSCAST and other features, please write for our daily broadcast schedule. We welcome your comments and suggestions. For further information, contact us at: Postal Address: Radio Havana Cuba P.O.Box 6240 Havana, Cuba Telephone: (53) (7) 791053 Fax: (53) (7) 795007 E-mail: rhc@radiohc.org WWW: http://www.radiohc.org rhc-eng-12628 1999-Apr-29 19:58:00