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Media Lies and the Conquest of Kosovo
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by Michel Collon
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Perfect Paperback: 278 pages
Published by: Unwritten History, Inc.; First American edition August 1, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0970919816
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0970919816
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.7 x 0.4 inches
Weighs: 1 pounds
Product Description
Why can we expect to see more wars? What countries have been singled out to be the next targets? Are Russia and China being threatened? Is the world running the risk of a major conflict? Michel Collon correctly predicted the war against Yugoslavia in his previous book, Liar s Poker (1998). His latest book, Media Lies and the Conquest of Kosovo, looks at the Kosovo War as a for-profit venture instead of a humanitarian war. Media Lies and the Conquest of Kosovo is an anti-Globalist handbook, an anti-manipulation manual. Each war begins with media lies. Public opinion must support the troops. Isn't that so? Are we condemned to always learn the truth too late? No, says Collon, who exposes the principles and devices employed in the Kosovo propaganda war. Massacres, mass graves, ethnic cleansing: how can one disentangle truth from falsehood in these shocking images? And what is being concealed from us by the terms blunders and collateral damage ? In Yugoslavia, did NATO really bomb the Chinese Embassy, two refugee columns, an international train, the market and the hospital in Nis, and numerous other civilian targets by accident ? These questions must be answered in order to understand the true objectives of the Great Powers. And in order to avoid being deceived by the media into supporting the next illegal war of aggression. For the past twelve years, Michel Collon has been studying the Global War that the U.S. has been conducting in order to dominate and recolonize the planet. His books and films have unmasked the clandestine rivalry between the US and the EU, specifically, their battle to control black gold, a strategic raw material that must not fall into the hands of rivals: Whosoever wishes to rule the world must control the oil. All the oil. No matter where it is.
About The Author
Michel Collon is a journalist who writes for the Belgian weekly, Solidaire. He is the author of Attention, Media! The Media Lies of the Gulf War. An Anti-Manipulation Manual (1994) and Liar s Poker: The Great Powers, Yugoslavia and the Wars of the Future (2002), which was published in an American edition.
Reader Reviews
This book is certainly an important contribution to the literature on media and war and on the examination of the media's role in the Balkans in the 1990s. That being said it also has several shortcomings, the most prominent being that it is poorly organized and with so many `did you know' style boxes leaves the reader bewildered, frustrated and feeling like they are in a high school classroom. The central argument, one that is hard to contest, is that the media create the myths needed to propel NATO, the U.S and the EU into war in Kosovo in 1999. It shows, conclusively, that the `massacres' and `genocide' that the media hyped, the supposed 100,000 `missing' Albanians and the 11,000 `massacred' Albanians were sheer myths, completely created to justify Nato or American intervention. What is most important about this book is how it gives the readers documents and then gives point by point analysis showing how the article or document is used to deceive the public. But the point by point analysis goes to far in several cases, claiming things itself that is not true and exaggerating points. Nevertheless, this technique is interesting and convincing. The most important document that this book finally brings to light is the actual text of the Rambouillet accords that Serbia was pressured into signing. When Serbia refused to sign them the bombing began on the pretext that Serbia was committing a genocide and that Serbia was not willing to `compromise'. But by finally bringing to light what was actually forced upon Serbia one understands the severe violation of sovereignty and the extreme nature of what was `offered' at Rambouillet. Nato was to be granted "unimpeded access" throughout the former Yugoslavia. It was to have the "use of airports, roads, rails and ports without payment of fees" and was to be "immune from all legal process." And it was to have the "right of bivouac, maneuver, billet" and other uses of Serbian facilities. This ridiculous list is ironic when one considers that one of the grievances behind the American war of independence was the billeting of British soldiers in homes without payment. This document also forced Serbia to grant Kosovo independence. No nation would willingly give up one of its provinces, no more than the U.S would give up Texas at the behest of China, and thus the subsequent Nato bombing campaign was merely western aggression. This book can rest on the revealing of that document alone. Other reports about Nato supported terror in Serbia, the bombing of civilians and the destruction of all the minorities of Kosovo (250,000 Serbs displaced as well as Roma and Turks) shows how malicious the 1999 bombing was. This is an enlightening read on the role of media in creating war. Seth J. Frantzman
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