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February 23, 2008 | As the current campaign for the Democatic nominee for the US presidency unfolds while Kosovo has recently declared it's independence, an historical perspective evolves as Hillary Clinton's touted foreign policy "experience" comes under some scrutiny. Leaving such scrutiny of Clinton as secondary, what of the US support for Kosovo as an independent state? There are a few articles culled from blogs below that paint a different picture than you might glean from our US mainstream media.
A postmodern declaration-Kosovo's sovereignty is a fiction: real power lies with EU officials backed by western firepower, by John Laughland, The Guardian, Tuesday February 19 2008 Threatening the Foundations of a World Order, The Independence of Kosovo, By Gary Leupp, Professor of History at Tufts University Independence in the Brave New World Order- NATO's Kosovo Colony, by Diana Johnstone, author of "Fools' Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusion" (Monthly Review Press.) Emperor's Clothes Articles on Yugoslavia, [Why Albanians Fled Kosovo During the 1999 NATO Bombing, Interview with Cedomir Prlincevic, Formerly the Chief Archivist of Kosovo and President of the Jewish Community of Pristina; driven from Kosovo by KLA terrorists in 1999 NATO's War of Aggression in Yugoslavia: Who are the War Criminals? by Michel Chossudovsky, Third World Traveler. [Related articles at Third World Traveler The NATO-Media Lie Machine "Genocide" in Kosovo?, by Edward S. Herman & David Peterson and Where Are All the Bodies Buried? NATO commits acts of aggression,by Michael Parenti]
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