Kosovo War all about BIG OIL??

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By Mackubin Thomas Owens

Kosovo was about oil and nothing but oil, with maybe some uranium thrown in and a dash of "wag-the-dog." And you thought it was to save the poor Kosovar Albanians.


Of all the ethnically "cleansed" peoples around the world, some numbering in the millions, the beneficent powers of NATO decided to draw the line with the Kosovar Albanians. About 2,000 of the ethnic Albanians had been reportedly killed by Serbs in the last several years, so it was time for the humanitarian guard to take action.


No matter that about as many Serbs had been killed by the Albanians, and that Kosovo is a part of the sovereign state of Yugoslavia, and that this conflict had been ongoing for centuries. Big Oil required a pipeline through Kosovo and the poor Serbs just happened to own the wrong real estate at the wrong time.


How do I know that the Kosovo action was about oil or, to be exact, about establishing a safe haven for an oil pipeline? Just recently Bill Clinton signed an historic agreement with Azerbaijan on this very matter. Azerbaijan is one of the former Soviet republics that became a separate country with the breakup of the USSR. Formerly, Caspian oil would have come into the world market as a Soviet export but not anymore. It now comes under the flag of this newly independent nation via Turkey where it is transshipped by way of Turkish seaports. And Russia has been deftly unlinked from the world oil market.


Now, keen interest in Azerbaijani oil is nothing new. The Germans have had a compelling interest in this oil going back to 1905 and extending through the two world wars up to and including the present. One of Hitler's primary goals in his push to the east was to capture the Azerbaijani oil fields. But where the Kaiser and Nazi Germany failed, it seems the New World Order featuring Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, and other socialists is going to succeed. The plan is now to route the oil in a way that will fulfill Germany's long-sought-after objective.


Here is how the oil is going to run. It starts from the oil fields of Baku, Azerbaijan's capital on the Caspian Sea. It is piped from there across Azerbaijan and Georgia through Turkey. But the plan of Clinton, and the rest of the present-day Neue Ordnung, is now to have it piped from Turkey directly through Bulgaria. In this way it can reach the Danube and the Adriatic Sea the Danube being a direct route to Germany and the Adriatic bringing it much closer to Western Europe. And Russia is expected to look on, while it's being aced out of this highly lucrative action.


But before reaching the Danube and the Adriatic, as you've probably guessed, the pipeline must first go from Bulgaria through Yugoslavia and Kosovo! Slobodan Milosevich, however, has had other plans for oil shipment through his country that are more to his liking (and Russia's) and was unwilling to cooperate with this scenario. The NATO socialists were attacking Russia, by proxy, in stealing Kosovo from Serbia.


Now it begins to make sense, doesn't it? The reason becomes clear why, of all the ethnic and religious oppression in the world, NATO chose this area tucked away in the Balkans for its ground-leveling "humanitarian" aid. And why the One World media places Slobodan Milosevich, a small-time local tyrant, alongside Hitler and Stalin.


During the shameful and cowardly NATO bombing of the historic bridges across the Danube River, the mouthpieces of the Government-Media complex ceaselessly propagandized. Jamie Shea, the English soccer thug; James Rubin, Mad Half-Bright's Stooge; Solana, the Spanish socialist; an unnamed Luftwaffe general; and others continued the Big Lie. They were bombing Serbian civilians (hospitals, schools, trains, powerplants, apartments, orphanages) to save Albanians!


They were also destroying Kosovo to save it. These international war criminals were led by General Wesley Clark (a Rhodes Scholar from Arkansaw) who clicked his shiny heels for the commander-in-grief, Bill Clinton (another Rhodes Scholar from Arkansaw).


But the greatest shame must fall upon the tendentious media hacks. ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, and most columnists of the neo-right all fell in line: "The criminal bombing was just. It was to save the innocent 'ethnic' Albanians from the evil [non-ethnic] Serbs." Have you now heard one of these hacks apologize or admit they were duped? Used by Big Oil to apologize for, no, to justify, NATO war crimes?


Even their "reportage" on the recent demonstrations of more than 25,000 Greek citizens was biased. Both by under-reporting the number ("hundreds," blared the San Francisco Examiner) and by ascribing the legitimate protests against Clinton's war crimes to "communists" and anti-American sentiment going back to the 1970s!


With the NATO presence in Kosovo, the way is now clear for the pipeline and for the ethnic Albanians to ethnically cleanse the province of the remaining, helpless Kosovar Serbs, Gypsies, and Jews. To make the world safe for Big Oil's trans-Kosovo pipeline.

[Adam D]

Anything to follow up on whether or not the pipeline was ever built?

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http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/no...clin-n27.shtml



i thought only conservatives support an "imperialist" agenda:

American spokesmen have openly stated that the US views its pipeline proposals as crucial to an overall strategy of weakening the position of Russia and bringing the former Soviet Republics in Transcaucasia and Central Asia into Washington's sphere of influence. The war against Moscow's chief ally in the Balkans, Serbia, as well as America's concentration on Turkey are part and parcel of this strategic thrust by US imperialism into the vital Caspian region.

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He(the writer) cites a report issued earlier this month by the United Nations special representative on human rights in the former Yugoslavia, Jiri Dienstbier, who said that “the spring ethnic cleansing of ethnic Albanians accompanied by murders, torture, looting and burning has been replaced by the fall ethnic cleansing of Serbs, Romas, Bosnians and other non-Albanians accompanied by the same atrocities.”

why was'nt the media entrenched into the stories of these attrocities?

unbelievable.

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BUSH AND HIS OIL CRONIES!!!!


NO WAR FOR OIL!!! NO WAR FOR OIL!!!

The most significant event of Clinton's stay in Turkey was the signing of agreements between Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan in support of US-backed plans to build an oil pipeline from the Azeri capital of Baku to the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, and a second pipeline to deliver natural gas across the Caspian Sea from Turkmenistan to Turkey. Washington has been working feverishly for the past several years to bring these projects to fruition, making no secret of its opposition to alternative, cheaper and more direct routes that would flow through either Iran or Russia.

[Satchel]

If your only defense is to attack Clinton, then you really have no defense now do you?

[Adam D]

Originally posted by bfp
http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/no...clin-n27.shtml



i thought only conservatives support an "imperialist" agenda:

Clinton was basically a conservative, too. But no, the Left (at very least) criticizes both conservatives and liberals for their imperialism.

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the reason this topic was created was to show the outright hypocricy of the left.. we never heard anything about clinton and his energy lobby associates from EXXON/MOBIL using the kosovo war as a reason to "make certain companies rich"..

it just goes to show you how much of an influence media bias sways public opinion..

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Originally posted by Adam D
Clinton was basically a conservative, too. But no, the Left (at very least) criticizes both conservatives and liberals for their imperialism.

please... this is utter nonsense...

there were no anti-war/imperialist protests during clinton's occupation of kosovo..

[Adam D]

Originally posted by bfp
please... this is utter nonsense...

there were no anti-war/imperialist protests during clinton's occupation of kosovo..

There were, just less than there was with Iraq.

[Adam D]

Originally posted by bfp
the reason this topic was created was to show the outright hypocricy of the left.. we never heard anything about clinton and his energy lobby associates from EXXON/MOBIL using the kosovo war as a reason to "make certain companies rich"..

it just goes to show you how much of an influence media bias sways public opinion..

There was, I'm guessing you never saw any of it because you don't read leftist literature.

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Originally posted by Adam D
There was, I'm guessing you never saw any of it because you don't read leftist literature.

i try my best, but i get sick to my stomach from the far far far left literature that wants us to go back to the old days of candlelight and transportation using horse carriage's.. those people are mentally disabled.. i tend to ignore that crap..

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Originally posted by Adam D
There were, just less than there was with Iraq.

true, but they were the anti-war/anti-globalization crowd.. and they get no press whatsoever...

but seriously, the coverage of the anti-war banter compared to the war in kosovo is just staggering.. mainly because the majority in europe and across the globe are so anti-bush/anti-capitalist/pro-socialite, etc.

you cant deny that.. 4 million in europe alone gathered for the protests with the war in iraq..

[Adam D]

Originally posted by bfp
i try my best, but i get sick to my stomach from the far far far left literature that wants us to go back to the old days of candlelight and transportation using horse carriage's.. those people are mentally disabled.. i tend to ignore that crap..

What "far far far left literature" is that? I keep up with what I imagine you call "far far far left literature" and I've yet to see any of that.

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thats because i dont agree with it..