One year ago, NATO unleashed a savage air war against Yugoslavia which lasted three months. This ferocious assault, which used more bombs than the US used against Germany in all of World War II, was aimed at destroying Yugoslavia's infrastructure - not only bridges, highways, radio transmitters and factories, but also schools and hospitals.
NATO's war against Yugoslavia had nothing to do with "helping" Albanians in Kosovo; in fact NATO has now turned Kosovo into its protectorate. U.S. imperialism, the leader of NATO's attack, oppresses most of the countries of the so-called "Third World," it keeps Puerto Rico as a colony and continues the oppression of African-Americans within the U.S., as the recent series of police killings shows once again.
Yugoslavia was the only country in East Europe that stood up to the dictates of the U.S. and NATO, refusing to open up its whole economy to the demands of the IMF or to apply for NATO's misnamed Partnership for Peace program.
The U.S. can not resign itself to any country that refuses to submit to its will. This is why it has maintained a savage blockade against revolutionary Cuba for 40 years, and refuses even to allow a small boy, Elián Gonzalez, to rejoin his family in Cuba.
NATO has continued its march to the East. In the weeks before the war against Yugoslavia, it incorporated its first three East European members: Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. Now it is moving on Ukraine. The pro-NATO President Kuchma is trying to abolish the Parliament, in which the Communist opposition is strong, and the leaders of the Partnership for Peace just held a meeting in Kiev, Ukraine's capital.
The U.S. and its European NATO partners are trying to grab as much of the former Soviet Union and East Europe as they can, and to put down the workers and all others who oppose US/NATO domination.
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