The election of 24 September 2000
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- Who Are the G-17
- By Michel Chossudovsky, Friday 22 September 2000. The
Yugoslav group G-17, which wrote the Program adopted by the
so-called
democratic
opposition and its Presidential
candidate, Vojislav Kostunica. It is funded mainly through
the Washington-based Center for International Private
Enterprise
(CIPE), which is a core institute
of
the CIA front, the National Endowment for Democracy.
- Yugoslavia; imperialism, the
democratic
opposition
and the liberal-left
- By Dave Silver, September 2000. Lacking a class
analysis, sectors of the liberal-left such as the Pacifica
reporting by Jeremy Scahill on WBAI's Democracy Now,
or the Vietnam Vets Against the War, the Brecht Forum, and
assorted neo-marxists, social democrats and
new
left
currents, jump on the Washington, Berlin and
Paris and NATO chorus supporting intervention in Bosnia
and then Kosovo.
- Level the playing field: What a media
concept!
- By Norman Solomon, Creators Syndicate, 1 October
2000. Eager to oust Slobodan Milosevic from power, the
U.S. government has funneled millions of dollars to media
projects in Yugoslavia. The announced tab for aid to foes
of Milosevic during the just-ended fiscal year was $25
million. For the next year, the budget is $41.5
million. The largest share of that money goes toward
‘civil society’ programs, such as those that
support independent media. U.S. officials say they are
seeking only to level the playing field.
- Federal ministry of Foreign Affairs addresses
a memorandum to the UN Security Council
- Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Federal Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, Yugoslav Daily Survey
Belgrade, 5 October 2000. Before as well as during the
electoral process conducted so far, the FR of Yugoslavia
and its citizens have been incessantly exposed to
systematic, brutal pressure by some influential
international factors, primarily the US Administration and
NATO countries, with an undisguised aim of directly
interfering in the electoral process in the FR of
Yugoslavia and of an inadmissible pressure brought to bear
on the will of its population.