I. Goals &
History
The New World
Order's goals are quite simple, they desire unity. Unity in
government, eliminating wars; unity in religion, eliminating hate;
unity in thought and deed eliminating dissension, all eventually
leading to the reunification of all life, matter, forces, spirit and
space/time. Anyone or anything which is opposed to the general
consensus is obviously some sort of disruptive influence and must also
be eliminated.
More specifically,
the Order desires or finds acceptable:
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Conformity to a
given set of standards,
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Objectivity
applied to subjective reality,
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Universally
Acceptable Ethical Principles,
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One World
Government,
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An Educated
Populace,
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Well Regulated
Militia,
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Bureaucracy and
Administration,
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Mind Development
and awakening of inner abilities,
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Mind control
through technology and applied mental development,
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Complete File
Records and Information on all subjects,
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Establishment of
a universally acceptable scientific paradigm.
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The belief that
change and dynamism is for the better, belying the static image of
the technocracy.
The Order officially
began in 1492 with the purpose of bringing about this unity through
the New World which had just been discovered. Previously they had been
power hungry groups which sought selfish ends. Among them are the
Cabal of Pure thought, the Knights Templar, and even the Bavarian
Illuminati. This changed when the possibility of a New Society in the recently
discovered New World arose at the close of the 15th century.
The many
conspiracies united under a cell structure that persists to this day.
No one is quite sure of who or what their superiors are. This prevents
the structure from compromise. The Hierarchy is very strict and
obedience is required and ingrained during training which is done by
specific cells to ensure consistent results. These training cells are
the true controlling entities of the NWO and the only ones that know
the exact nature of the cell structure.
II. Unified Field
Theory
The illumination or
awakening of the NWO cell members comes when they realize that all
things were indeed united at the beginning of the present continuum.
All forces, matter, and life came from one unifying force (called
Prime by tradition mages) This force broke down into sub-forces of
Entropy and Mind, Entropy paradoxically causing the breakup of the
Prime into three distinct units: Prime, Entropy and Mind (or
Awareness). These are the three spheres that NWO mages begin with.
They must raise *all* of them *together* when spending experience
until they graduate to Intelligence Analyst status.
This theory makes
advanced and expensive apparatus nearly unnecessary for NWO mages who
rely on less technical apparatus like Bureaucratic Red Tape,
Litigation, or Executive Orders for coincidental effects.
Unfortunately, any deviation from predetermined structure and theory
will result in difficulty.
MIND
makes the awareness of the Prime Unified force that all true secret
masters are able to control, the more one's mind is in tune with
Prime, the more one's mind can do. Once all minds are attuned to the
same goals, Prime can once more be unified.
Suggested Apparatus:
Files, Background checks, Surveillance Equipment, Research Design,
Universal Ethical principles, Red tape (forms), Litigation
PRIME
is the flow of the universal force controlled by the development of
mental ability.
Suggested Apparatus:
Electricity
ENTROPY
(or quantum flux) breaks down Prime into other less powerful forces
(which are more organized ironic way) these organized forces are
Electromagnetism, Gravity, Kinetic, and Nuclear (strong and weak).
These forces combine in different ways to produce Matter and
Space/Time.
Suggested Apparatus:
Electrical Equipment, Phone Equipment, Quantum Mechanics
FORCES
are controlled by Mind, organized by Entropy, and fueled by Prime. Any
forces effect without apparatus will need to be a Conjunctional effect
of all four spheres. (at level 2)
Suggested Apparatus:
Electrical Equipment, Research Design and Theory,
MATTER
is the organized form of forces, even further broken down from mere
Prime by Quantum flux. It is controlled by the application of nuclear
physics, and resource distribution. As such it requires a Forces level
2(which means Prime, Entropy and Mind) conjunctional effect to use
without Apparatus.
Suggested Apparatus:
Nuclear Plants, Chemical Compounds, New Materials (like ceramic
composites)
LIFE
is a complex form of matter that can replicate itself. This is
primarily the area of the Progenitors, and the New World Order comes
into contact with Life primarily from an administrative standpoint.
Although the Progenitors can directly make someone live or die, it is
the New World Order which determines the right to life. The
Technocracy's outlook on Abortion and Euthanasia are yet to be decided
by public opinion. Matter 2 is a requirement for Life Magic performed
without Apparatus.
Suggested Apparatus:
Hospital Forms. Ethical Debate,
CORRESPONDENCE
& TIME are linked
together by the Unified Field Theory and require a forces of two (and
Prime, Entropy, Mind) without apparatus. The concept of Space/Time
affects technomancers who are busy trying to combine these two spheres
requiring them, like Prime, Entropy and Mind, to spend experience to
progress these two spheres at the same rate.
Suggested Apparatus:
Schedule Book, Calendar, Watch, Phone systems (...at the tone the time
will be ... whatever you want!), Any and all communication equipment.
SPIRIT
is the direct result of uncontrolled mental effects upon the Unified
Field. This causes resonance to and from people's dreams and
subconscious belief structures. The spirit realm is a dangerous
resource that should be closely monitored by the Void Engineers. Since
they often concern themselves more with their theory and science than
security, it is up to the Order to pick up the slack. By using the
VE's to install satellites for communication, surveillance, and
defense purposes instead of pure research, the New World Order ensures
the Void Engineer's contribution to the POGROM.
Suggested Apparatus:
Satellites, SDI, satellite communications, Surveillance Photos.
III. Traits
A. Backgrounds
ARCANE
"Secrecy is
paramount to the security of the New World Order. Maintain a low
profile at all times. Leak no information." - NWO Training
Doctrine
Arcane directly
translates into Security Clearance among members of the New World
Order. The more you know, the less others know about you.
AVATAR
"Self-Discipline
and professionalism reflect upon your organization as a whole. Do not
disappoint others by failing to uphold the highest standards of
personal behavior." - NWO Training Doctrine
DESTINY
"Your tests
have shown a phenomenal capacity and innate ability for leadership and
quality control, you have been assigned to administrate the 3rd Sub regional
District." -NWO Internal Memo
"Unfortunately
you have scored low on all areas of your aptitude tests, you have been
reassigned to MECHA for work in the service research sector." -
NWO Internal Memo
DREAM
"Search
reveals--103,587,978 items with the keyword 'Armageddon' Abort, Retry,
Fail?" -Random Search Engine String
"...Retroactive
Hypnosis Therapy has proven to be effective in this case, The subject
will be able to use Autohypnosis to feel around in the vast pool of
knowledge created by the Collective Unconscious." - Excerpts from
the 1953 report on Mental Development.
NODE
Places that have a
stronger connection to the Unified Field, They must be sanitized in
order to prevent bleeding from the Umbra into reality.
TALISMANS
It is now possible
to directly affect and generate the Primal Field with certain
technological items. Built correctly, a variety of astonishing effects
can be created.
B. Other Traits
ARETE
The quality of
synthesis between MIND, PRIME, and ENTROPY. The New World Order
believes this to be the key to Ascension.
QUINTESSENCE
A unit of
measurement for Unified Field Energy.
PARADOX
The effect of
dissonance between opposing mental effects upon the Unified Field. An
excellent justification for the Unity of Thought and Deed.
IV. Archetypes
A. CHARACTER
ARCHETYPES
Bureaucrats
:Paradigm Control: (Prime)
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Politician,
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Administrator,
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Lawyer,
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Office Manager,
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Clerk,
Espionage :POGROM
Enforcement: (Entropy)
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Secret Agent,
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Man in Black,
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Technician,
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Gadgeteer,
Psychiatry :Mind
Control: (Mind)
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Soulless
Scientist,
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Mind Control
Expert,
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Orderly,
B. ORGANIZATIONAL
ARCHETYPES
Utility Companies
Power Company
Phone Company
IBM
Research Institutes
Think Tanks
Political Parties
Universities
V. Disinformation Concerning
Other Conventions
ITERATION X:
Excellent soldiers
in the army of Technocratic Acenscion. This convention does not rely
on the ability of its members but on a Objective technology. They
follow directive and orders very well, but they are the most
inflexible of the conventions. Ascension will take more than the path
the Machine has programmed.
Progenitors
A fairly free rein
is given to these individuals, due to their being quite loyal to the
POGROM. Unfortunately their experiments frequently grow out of
control. They should be watched carefully and stopped before they
become a danger to themselves and others.
$yndicate
Useful middle
managers, and nice to have someone willing to maintain control of
resources, but their belief that the Market cannot be controlled
except by some "invisible hand" is fallacious, and endangers
the POGROM. A unified distribution system for all resources is
absolutely necessary for Acension. Their unusual respect for the
Nephandi is something to keep a close watch on.
Void Engineers:
In the past a fairly
free rein was given to this convention, but their lack of contribution
to the POGROM and several blatant disruptions of the Paradigm has
forced us to clamp down upon the activites of these Space Cadets.
Recently this procedure is being reevaluated. Currently the activities
of the Void Engineers is undergoing a reorganization, with more
orientation toward the POGROM and Paradigm control.
VI. Disinformation
Concerning The Traditions
Akashic
Brotherhood
They control too
much to be the rigid acsetics they claim to be. Their philosophy of
the mind is outdated and inaccurate. Watch all their activities
closely in order to determine their overall strategy.
Celestial Chorus
They have the right
ideas but carry them out in a superstitious, primitive manner, we must
show them the error of their religious ways.
Cult of Ecstasy
Useless fools, they
contribute nothing to society and cause much dissention. They must be
eliminated. (The unwholesome influence of the Cult of Ecstasy is a
paramount concern to the New World Order. The ease that they seduce
members of the Order is very threatening to the Paradigm.)
Dreamspeakers
Primitive and
inconsequential, their culture must be studied and catalogued, for it
will soon no longer exist.
Euthanatos
A interesting group
that seeks to contribute by destruction. They do not see the benefit
of a diverse society of like minded individuals. If they cannot be
recruited then they must be eliminated.
Order of Hermes
The once great group
now clings to past glories, they can only be redeemed by joining the
New World Order, which has replaced their mythic ways.
Orphans
A sad consequence of
failing to maintain the POGROM, the must be turned to our cause or
eliminated.
Sons of Ether
These insane
traitors to the Technocracy have no place in the paradigm, they are a
danger to themselves and others. Eliminating them is a necessary
action to protect the masses from their unconventional ways.
Verbena
These witches
threaten the paradigm, they must be eliminated.
Virtual Adepts
The worst danger
that the traditions pose. Our top priority must be to eradicate the
entirety of this renegade convention.
***REM You got that right you Man in Black, you! - the White Rabbit
(I'm late, I'm late!) REM***
VII. Disinformation
Concerning Methodologies
Methodologies follow
the road to dissention, they should not be encouraged.
In actuality, Three
major methodologies exist: Bureaucrats, who control the government
behind the scenes and maintain the files and records of the
Technocracy, processing information; Espionage, which enforces the
POGROM and gathers information for the files and records of the
technocracy; and Psychology, which studies the mind and how to control
it.
The war between the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) and the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia has opened a new chapter in the history of international
relations. The cold war ended in1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The post-war period came to a close in 1991 with the collapse of the
Soviet Union. The Kosovo crisis marks the end of ten years of
uncertainty and disorder in international politics and the emergence
of a new order for the coming century.
The present period
is dominated by economic globalization. That process needs to be
backed up by a new global security arrangement, and the Kosovo
conflict has provided the opportunity to sketch in its main
components. In this respect, Nato's first war has a truly inaugural
quality. For the international community it was a leap in the dark, a
move into unexplored territory that doubtless has many surprises in
store, as well as many pitfalls and dangers.
Above all, the
causes, methods and aims of this war have nothing in common with those
to which we have been accustomed.
The Causes
Basing its case on
the atrocities committed by the Belgrade regime, Nato claimed
humanitarian, moral considerations as the cause of the conflict.
According to the French prime minister, Lionel Jospin, the values of civilization
itself were at stake (1). History, culture and politics - the causes
of conflict since time immemorial - have suddenly become obsolete.
This is more than a military revolution. It is a revolution in our way
of thinking.
Humanitarian
intervention is now being posited as an overriding moral imperative.
On that basis, Nato has unflinchingly breached two fundamental
principles of international politics: the sovereignty of states and
the statutes of the United Nations Organization.
Sovereignty used to
reside in the person of the king, who ruled by "divine
right". Following the Enlightenment, the American and French
Revolutions of 1776 and 1789, like all subsequent democracies, vested
it in the people. Article 3 of the Declaration of the Rights of Man
and Citizen, promulgated in August 1789, states that "the
principle of all sovereignty resides essentially in the nation".
It is that principle
that entitles governments to settle conflicts within states according
to their own laws, without any outside interference. On 24 March of
this year, after more than 200 years, that principle was broken. So
much the better, some people say, not without reason. Too many abuses
have been committed by states against their own citizens under cover
of a principle that forbids other states to come to the help of the
victims. And in the case of Yugoslavia, many consider Slobodan
Milosevic to be a dictator, even if he was formally elected by
democratic process - and a dictator who was charged with war crimes by
the International Tribunal in The Hague on 27 May. Since a dictator
does not derive legitimate authority from the people, the sovereignty
of his state is a legal fiction that allows him to indulge in
arbitrary rule. Such sovereignty does not deserve to be respected.
Especially when the dictator breaches human rights and commits crimes
against humanity.
In recent months
even sovereign decisions of an undeniably democratic country like
Chile have been ignored - i.e., those concerning Augusto Pinochet,
which were taken jointly by all the major political parties of right
and left. They did not prevent the former dictator's arrest in London
or the request for his extradition to Spain where he could be put on
trial for crimes against humanity.
And the very purpose
of setting up an International Criminal Court (to which the United
States is still opposed) is to try the perpetrators of crimes against
humanity, for which there is no statute of limitations irrespective of
any legal decision by a sovereign state.
State identity and
sovereignty is also being undermined by globalization which abolishes
frontiers, homogenizes cultures and flattens out differences in its
path. The distinguished French writer, Alain Joxe, has pointed out
that the establishment of an American world empire through the spread
of the market economy has a balkanizing effect by abolishing the
regulatory prerogatives of traditional states (2).
So where does state
sovereignty now reside? Are we moving towards the establishment, under
the aegis of the West, of a world-wide system of "limited
sovereignty" similar to that envisaged by Leonid Brezhnev and the
Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s for the states in the communist
bloc? Is the old colonial device of the protectorate to be revived for
the purpose, as envisaged for Somalia in 1991, as currently practiced
in Bosnia and Albania, and as proposed for Kosovo now the war is over?
Sovereignty passed
from God to the nation. Is it now to be vested in the individual?
After the nation state, will we witness the emergence of the sovereign
individual, endowed with all the attributes and prerogatives hitherto
vested in states? Globalization and its ultra-liberal ideology would
doubtless accommodate to and even welcome a transformation of this
kind, which the new communication and information technologies make
technically feasible.
And what about the
UN? The bombing of Yugoslavia was decided by Nato without a resolution
of the Security Council. It was the first time the UN, the only
international body responsible for conflict resolution and
peace-keeping, has been side-stepped on such an important issue.
Since the beginning
of the 1990s there have been many indications that the US no longer
wishes to see the UN play its rightful role. Boutros Boutros-Ghali's
mandate was not renewed. Instead, he was replaced as secretary-general
by Kofi Annan, reputedly more amenable to pressure from Washington.
The Dayton accords on Bosnia were signed under the aegis of the US
rather than the UN, as was the Wye River memorandum on the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The decision to bomb Iraq was taken
unilaterally, not by the UN.
It would seem that
the US no longer wishes to be restricted by the UN. It is no longer
prepared to let the organization's legalistic procedures stand in the
way of US hegemony. We believed that the UN and its forerunner, the
League of Nations, which have existed for almost a century, testified
to an advance in civilization. It turns out that they owed their
existence simply to a stand-off between competing powers of comparable
size, none which was able to defeat the others, at least on the
battlefield. The balance was upset by the demise of the Soviet Union.
For the first time in 200 years, one country - a
"hyper-power", to use an expression coined by the French
foreign minister, Hubert Védrine - overwhelmingly dominates the world
in the five key areas of political, economic, military, technological
and cultural power. That country, the US, sees no reason to share or
accept limits on its hegemony when it can exercise it without
restriction, unchallenged by anyone, not even the UN.
The two breaches of
the international order - non-respect for state sovereignty and
non-acceptance of the authority of the UN - were committed on grounds
of humanitarian concern. But even on that level they raise a number of
problems. For how is humanitarian concern to be reconciled with the
use of force? Is there such a thing as ethical bombing, especially
when persistent targeting errors cause hundreds of civilian deaths? Is
it possible to speak of a "just war" when there was such a
colossal military and technological gap between the two sides? And by
virtue of what moral principle must the legitimate defense of the
Kosovars involve the destruction of the Serbs? These questions are
troubling the consciences of most social-democratic leaders, many of
whom are former 1968 militants - erstwhile Trotskyists, Maoists,
communists or pacifists. They belong to the flower-power generation
who once chanted "Make love, not war" and fiercely opposed
the Vietnam war (a just cause by today's criteria).
Some Green party
leaders had trouble reconciling gung-ho support for the war with their
usual concern for the environment. They could see that the war in
Yugoslavia, like any war, was in itself an environmental disaster. The
destruction of oil refineries was poisoning the air with toxic fumes;
the bombing of chemical factories was polluting rivers and destroying
animal life; graphite bombs were spreading cancerous dust; depleted
uranium bombs were raising radiation levels; fragmentation bombs were
releasing into the environment hundreds of devices that can properly
be described as anti-personnel mines (the US having refused to sign
the Ottawa treaty banning their use); and live bombs jettisoned in the
Adriatic were endangering the lives of sailors and fishermen.
Other people are
asking why Nato does not intervene on humanitarian grounds in other
countries where whole populations are suffering - in Southern Sudan,
Sierra Leone, Liberia, Angola, East Timor and Tibet, for example.
Still others point out that humanitarian concern is not always free
from double standards. The US and United Kingdom are still bombing
Iraq daily without any international mandate. France, Russia and China
are in favor of lifting the UN embargo on humanitarian grounds, but
the other two permanent members of the Security Council, the US and
UK, remain doggedly opposed to lifting an embargo that has directly or
indirectly caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi
civilians since 1991.
Again, some people
ask why the right of humanitarian intervention should be confined to
the strongest. But how could it be exercised by the weak? Can we
imagine an African country intervening in, say, Mississippi to protect
blacks from civil rights violations? Or a Maghreb country intervening
in a European state where North Africans are suffering systematic
discrimination?
And if intervention
is justified, what about a right of social intervention? Ii is
scandalous that 50 million people in the European Union are living in
poverty. Does it not count as a major violation of human rights? In
fact, one human being out of two on this planet has less than two
dollars a day to live on. And a billion people are living in dire
poverty on less than a dollar a day. The 59 million dollars Nato is
spending every day on bombing Yugoslavia would feed 77 million people.
The Methods
The conflict in the
Balkans was also an entirely new type of war in terms of its conduct.
General Wesley Clark, Nato's supreme commander, was waging it in a
manner unprecedented in military history. "Zero casualties"
has become an absolute imperative. In the course of two months'
bombing, not a single Nato soldier died in action. That is something
never seen before.
Material losses are
apparently insignificant. General Clark planned for a war without loss
of aircraft (3). More than 35,000 sorties were flown and only three
planes lost. (Even then, the pilots were picked up from enemy
territory by special commando groups and returned safe and sound.)
What is more, not a single Nato ship, tank or helicopter was damaged
in action.
Yugoslavia, however,
has suffered extensive material losses. The military and industrial
infrastructure (including power stations) has been badly damaged or
rendered unusable, as have the main transport links (including
bridges, railway lines and motorways). All the country's electronic
systems have been scrambled and telephone communications permanently
tapped. Several thousand Serbian soldiers are said to have been
killed. According to certain US generals, the country has been set
back 20 years and Serbia could find itself back where it was at the
end of the second world war. Fifty years of reconstruction, the work
of two generations, have been wiped out in a matter of weeks.
The balance of
forces between Nato and Yugoslavia is so unequal that it is improper
to speak of war at all. This was punishment - punishment such as no
country (except Iraq) has ever received. Nato's strategy was such that
Yugoslavia could not fight back because the enemy was always beyond
its reach.
There were actually
two wars going on. The first was a war of the strong against the weak
- Nato against Yugoslavia. The second - Serbia against the Kosovars -
was a war of the weak against the weaker, pitting the troops of
Belgrade against the KLA. On one hand we had sophisticated electronic
and technological warfare; on the other, chain-saw massacres, mass
deportation, rape and summary executions.
Another peculiar
feature of the war was Nato's avowed aim of not killing anyone. Not
even Serbian soldiers, let alone civilians. It was a war of hardware
against hardware, machine against machine - almost like a video game.
As soon as anyone was killed owing to a targeting error, Nato fell
over itself apologizing, beating its breast and begging forgiveness.
Crushing an abstract
enemy is all right. Killing a flesh-and-blood enemy is not. Umberto
Eco has pointed out that in what he calls "neo-war", the
side that kills too many people loses the fight for public opinion
(4). That is the new rule and the media are there to make sure it is
applied. So manipulation of the media remains one of the main
objectives of both sides. Here, there has been no major innovation
since the Falklands model, which was based on experience in the 1982
war and perfected during the Gulf war in 1991. The media control
system deployed by Nato was essentially the 1980s version improved in
the light of Gulf war experience. In a nutshell, the aim was to render
the war invisible and make Nato itself the main source of information
for journalists. While journalists have become much more prudent, they
cannot always evade this new form of democratic censorship or remain
immune to the soft-pedaled propaganda. Especially as the traditional
form of censorship and crude propaganda practiced by Belgrade are even
less conducive to discovering the truth.
For two months the
media was reduced to commenting on a missing central image, that of
the atrocities committed by the Yugoslav army against the civilian
population of Kosovo. Many deportees have described these crimes, and
their reality is not in question (5). But we have had no images of
them and no reporters have seen them with their own eyes. This is a
setback for the media machine, especially television, which has spent
a decade trying to convince us that informing the public means
enabling it to be present on the spot.
Hence too the heated
arguments between the defenders of Nato's "official truth"
and a few seasoned observers intent on upsetting the apple cart.
Britain's foreign minister, Robin Cook, called John Simpson, the BBC's
correspondent in Belgrade, an "accomplice of Milosevic"
simply for drawing attention to the existence in Serbia of democratic
opponents of the regime, to the destruction of schools, etc. The
British government (and a Labor government at that) even tried to
pressure the BBC into calling Simpson home, which it refused to do.
Ennio Remondino, an Italian television correspondent who strongly criticized
the bombing of Belgrade and especially the Serbian television
building, was fiercely attacked by journalists and intellectuals in
uniform who called him an "agent of Milosevic". And in
France, Régis Debray was practically lynched for comments he made
after a short trip to Kosovo which did not gel with the official truth
(6).
The Aims
For reasons of their
own, the EU and the US are each pursuing highly specific aims that
have not been made public. The EU's aims are strategic, but the
meaning of strategic importance has changed. In the past a region was
strategically important if its possession conferred an appreciable
military advantage, such as access to the sea, a navigable river,
high-lying ground or a natural frontier, or if it gave control over
key resources such as oil, gas, coal, iron or water, or vital trade
routes such as straits, canals, valleys or mountain passes.
By this definition,
Kosovo is of no strategic importance. Its possession would give an
occupying power neither a military advantage nor key resources nor
control of a vital trade route. However, in the present era of
satellites, globalization and a "new economy" based on
information technology, the old concept of strategic importance no
longer applies.
For a wealthy bloc
like the EU, the strategic importance of a region lies in its
potential to cause damage outside its boundaries by exporting
phenomena such as political chaos, chronic insecurity, illegal
immigration, delinquency and mafia-based drug trafficking. Viewed in
this light, two regions have been of prime strategic importance to
Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall. They are the Maghreb and the
Balkans.
The Kosovo crisis
intensified after the implosion of Albania in 1997. As the country
plunged into chaos, it indirectly provided the KLA with a ready source
of arms and a safe haven for incursions into Kosovo. In those
circumstances the "war of liberation", fought over a
territory claimed with fanatical passion by two enemies determined to
stop at nothing, was likely to be long and cruel. Could the EU afford
to live for five or 10 years with a conflict of this kind on its
doorstep? And with all the likely knock-on effects in Macedonia and
the rest of the Balkans and with tens of thousands of refugees
struggling to get into Italy and from there into the rest of the
union? The Nato bombing of Yugoslavia was the answer to these
questions.
For the US, which
tiptoed into the Balkan crisis in 1991, Kosovo is of no strategic
interest either in the traditional or in the modern sense. But the
crisis provided an ideal opportunity to wrap up something of prime
importance, the need to secure fresh legitimacy for Nato. As a
defensive alliance established during the cold war, Nato was designed
to withstand attack by a specific enemy, the Soviet Union. After the
demise of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the collapse of the
communist countries and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, Nato ought
to have disbanded. And it ought to have been replaced in Western
Europe by a specific defense organization. Opposed to this, Washington
is seeking to remain a European power and has done everything it can
to strengthen Nato and extend its influence by bringing in three
Eastern European countries - Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary.
According to the American political commentator William Pfaff, there
is no doubt that Nato was maintained because it gives the US political
influence in Europe and blocks the development of a European strategic
system to rival that of the US (7).
The Kosovo crisis
has given the US the opportunity to apply Nato's new strategic concept
only a few weeks after its latest version was officially adopted in
Washington on 25 April (8). But the outcome is far from clear