November 2007

November 28, 2007 Jan Oberg Written for and © by IPS We seem to live in an age in which spin and deliberately distorted information threaten to replace knowledge. Politicians, journalists and many people, including left-wingers and peace activists, talk about the Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) as if it were mainly about defence. It is not. BMD is based on the perverse wish that the United States shall be able to start, conduct and win a nuclear war – a Nuclear Use Theory (NUT). BMD is a fundamental break with the logic of nuclear deterrence, or Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) that the world has lived with since 1945. Undoubtedly a provocative statement, here is the philosophy of MAD and NUT. Imagine two nuclear parties, A and B, pitted against each other. They have their arsenal of nuclear weapons in silos on the ground, under the wings of planes and on submarines...

The soon-to-come tragedy called Kosovo – caused more by international than local factors News media cover violence rather than underlying conflicts. That’s why you hear so little about the soon-to-be-again tragedy called Kosovo. There is growing risk that, in a few weeks, we shall witness another round of violence, repression and other human misery. And then the media will be there. Since 1991 TFF has analysed and predicted developments in former Yugoslavia. Thirteen years ago we began publishing ideas, models and plans for a peaceful solution to the Kosovo+ conflicts. If the above prediction comes true, it will neither be the fault of the Serbs nor the Albanians. It will be caused by the international so-called community (IC). It did nothing to prevent violence or negotiate peace when both were possible, i.e. in the early 1990s. See TFF’s books and reports about former Yugoslavia, including “Preventing War in Kosovo” from...

Af Jan ØbergNagoya, Japan, November 22, 2007 Den kommende tragedie i Kosovo vil være mere forårsaget af internationale faktorer end af lokale Medierne dækker hellere vold end de underliggende konflikter. Det er derfor at du hører så lidt om den snart tilbagevendende tragedie kaldet Kososvo. Inden for få uger eller måneder vil risikoen øge for at at vi skal være vidne til endnu en runde af vold, undertrykkelse og anden menneskelig ulykke. Og så skal medierne nok være der. Siden 1991 har TFF analyseret og forudsagt udviklinger i det tidligere Jugoslavien. For 13 år siden begyndte vi at udgive ideer, modeller og planer for en fredelig løsning til Kososvo konflikterne. Hvis den ovenstående forudsigelse går i opfyldelse, vil det hverken være serbernes eller albaniernes skyld. Det vil være forårsaget af det internationale -såkaldte – samfund (IS), det samfund der intet gjorde for at forebygge vold eller forhandle fred da begge...

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