Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Louis Proyect (not verified) on Fri, 11/04/2005 - 20:56.
Bill, there is no point explaining Oric's behavior in terms of prior bad behavior by the Serbs. There were no "good guys" in Bosnia. Despite attempts by people like Susan Sontag and Christopher Hitchens to ennoble the Moslems, there was ethnic cleansing going on across the board. Croats victimized Serbs. Serbs victimized Moslems. Moslems victimized Serbs. And so on. Yugoslavia imploded because of economic pressures brought on by international lending institutions, a declining economy, etc. The one thing that you anarchists seem unable to explain is the particular animosity directed toward Milosevic which differed little than that directed toward any attempt today in the former Soviet bloc to institute measures against rampant neoliberalism. Privatization has created economic misery in Serbia. The IMF understood that the Titoist underpinnings of the Yugoslav state had to be smashed. I realize that things like a job in a state-owned factory are not exciting to somebody with anarchist dreams of humanity's glorious classless future but when you have bills to pay, such mundane considerations do tend to matter.
The inconvenient facts and unanswered questions surrounding the attacks are legion, but the endemic sloppiness of the self-styled "researchers" is delegitimizing the entire project of critiquing the "official version." The ostentatiously named "Truth movement" is not clearing the air, but muddying the water.
WW4 Report pamphlets
WAR AT THE CROSSROADS
An Historical Guide Through the Balkan Labyrinth
The Balkan region is intensely multicultural—a point of crossroads and clash for some of the world's major religions, cultural spheres, and economic systems. While there have been vicious wars in Balkan history, these have taken place in the context of manipulation by imperial powers—from the Roman empire to NATO.
WW4 Report pamphlets
TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK:
LEGACY OF REBELLION
A Century and a Half of Protest & Resistance on New York's Lower East Side
A concise chronicle of the Tompkins Square riots of 1857, 1863 (Civil War draft riots), 1874, 1877 (national railroad strike), 1967 (hippies fight back) and 1988 (anarchists versus police state)—and how the battles over one small park in lower Manhattan have been a microcosm of the class and social struggles that have shaped America and the world.
Bill, there is no point expla
Bill, there is no point explaining Oric's behavior in terms of prior bad behavior by the Serbs. There were no "good guys" in Bosnia. Despite attempts by people like Susan Sontag and Christopher Hitchens to ennoble the Moslems, there was ethnic cleansing going on across the board. Croats victimized Serbs. Serbs victimized Moslems. Moslems victimized Serbs. And so on. Yugoslavia imploded because of economic pressures brought on by international lending institutions, a declining economy, etc. The one thing that you anarchists seem unable to explain is the particular animosity directed toward Milosevic which differed little than that directed toward any attempt today in the former Soviet bloc to institute measures against rampant neoliberalism. Privatization has created economic misery in Serbia. The IMF understood that the Titoist underpinnings of the Yugoslav state had to be smashed. I realize that things like a job in a state-owned factory are not exciting to somebody with anarchist dreams of humanity's glorious classless future but when you have bills to pay, such mundane considerations do tend to matter.