Post by Novi Pazar on Apr 5, 2008 20:21:09 GMT -5
This is an excellant read!.
Propaganda of the Deed
The Racak Massacre Exposed as US Government/Media Hoax
By Carl K. Savich
The Finnish forensic team sent by the European Union (EU) to investigate the Racak Massacre has reached its conclusions. The forensic team of pathologists will publish the results in the February issue of Forensic Science International. There is a pre-publication report, however, that analyzes the findings of the team. According to the conclusion of the report, there was no evidence of a massacre. The Finnish team found that none of the bodies were mutilated.
At the time of this supposed massacre, US media reports were replete with accounts of how the Serbian police had mutilated the bodies, gouging out the eyes of victims, bashing in skulls. What did the EU investigative team find? There was no mutilation of the bodies. Where did the mutilation accounts come from that dominated US media reports and government pronouncements? The report found no evidence of torture. Only one victim was shot at close range. Thirty-seven of the bodies showed evidence of gunpowder residue on their hands, indicating that they had fired weapons at the Serbian police. Of the victims, there was only one woman. Only one of the victims was below the age of 15. Moreover, the EU pathological team could find no evidence that the victims were from the Kosovo town of Racak itself.
President Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright, James Rubin, and William Walker were quick to determine that a massacre had occurred, the Racak Massacre, the event that precipitated a 78 day bombing campaign against Yugoslavia that resulted in the deaths of over 500 Serbian civilians. President Clinton stated: "We should remember what happened in the village of Racak... Innocent men, women, and children were taken from their homes to a gully, forced to kneel in the dirt, sprayed with gunfire---not because of anything they had done, but because of who they were." As the EU team has shown, however, no massacre occurred at Racak. The Racak Massacre was merely an example of a routine propaganda technique known as Propaganda of the Deed, the manufacturing of a propaganda event. The Racak Massacre was merely a staged, manufactured propaganda event concocted by the US State Department and the media propaganda machine it controls.
Why is the US government/media manufacturing propaganda events, why is it engaged in propaganda of the Deed? What is Propaganda of the Deed?
Propaganda of the Deed is based on a primary tenet of all propaganda: Nothing in propaganda and in politics happens by accident or chance. Everything in propaganda and politics is planned and calculated and pre-arranged. Bogus events which are staged are used as pretexts for war. There are famous examples that have been recited ad nauseam: The 1898 sinking of the battleship Maine used by William Randolph Hearst and the US government to declare war on Spain (factually, no one knows why the Maine sank, most historians believe it was caused by a spark in the coal room, due to incompetence by US sailors), Hun atrocities against Belgians, such as the mass rapes of Belgian girls, cutting off limbs of Belgian children, carrying Belgian infants on German bayonets (no evidence has ever been found for any of these "allegations"), the Gleiwitz radio station attack by Polish Army troops, killing several Germans (factually, Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich staged this event with the approval of Adolf Hitler), the Iraqi incubator hoax alleging that Iraqi troops murdered Kuwaiti infants by taking them out of incubators (factually, US Government with aid of Hill & Knowlton PR firm in conjunction with Tom Lantos staged and manufactured this "propaganda event"), and, we can now add to this growing list, the Racak Massacre Hoax of 1999, manufactured by the US Government with the media, especially CNN, to justify an illegal war against a sovereign nation, Yugoslavia. While propaganda methods and techniques never change and remain constant, the masses never seem to learn from them. Is it due to stupidity? Ignorance? Wilfull blindless?
There is an old saying that you can't cheat an honest man. So, to a large degree, we see what we want to see. In other words, we delude and deceive ourselves. The US Government owned and operated propaganda outlet known as NPR (National Public Radio), is a classic example of government-controlled media. NPR is really a kind of Radio Free America(RFA), a model of Radio Free Europe, the CIA-controlled propaganda outlet. NPR beams its propaganda message internally/domestically at America's own citizens unlike RFE which beamed its propaganda broadcasts to the Communist bloc. NPR, despite its pandering to the intellectual elites and the elite climbers and wanna-bes, represents a subtle form of government control, a domestic propaganda machine to keep the American cattle and herd in line. CNN and NPR are both US Government controlled. Factually, there is very little in the way of independent and free media in the United States. The New World Order demands conformity, thought and mind control, government control of the masses. We must all think alike, indeed, we must all think the same. How does an outrage like the Racak Massacre Hoax occur? How does such a brutal and mindless crime against all human decency and justice happen? The New World Order climate of total and complete conformity and mind-control is highly conducive to such a propaganda event or stunt. To borrow a phrase from the 19th century German philosopher Georg Hegel, this is the Zeitgeist of our era, this is the Spirit of our Time, men and women as mindless NPR-educated robots, men and women as thought-controlled zombies guided by US State Department spokespersons and hacks. How could the Racak Massacre Hoax have occurred? Indeed, how could it not have occurred is the better question?
Is the Racak Propaganda of the Deed event unique in any way? It is part of a pattern and modus operandi prevalent in the Persian Gulf War and throughout the Yugoslav conflict. Hearst staged propaganda events throughout the 1890s to induce a needless war with Spain. Hearts used the pretext of "liberating" Cubans from Spain and preventing Spanish "atrocities" but in fact he was guided by imperial/colonial expansion. This MO or paradigm guides US propaganda today. The US bombs only to "free" and to advance "democracy" in the world NPR tells us. But examined closely, US intervention is based in economic, political, and strategic considerations, in other words, the same things that guided Hearst, colonial/imperial expansion, economic exploitation.
The US Commerce Department has begun selling Ore mines in Kosovo, recently advertising the sale of the Ferronickel Metallurgical Complex in Kosovo, seeking to sell it to US economic interests. The Ron Brown mission in 1996 went to Bosnia for economic and military strategic reasons. US companies were planning to help "reconstruct" Bosnian infra-structure after it was destroyed by a US war the US State Department claimed the Bosnian Muslims could win, i.e., after a war the US caused and then needlessly prolonged.
So Racak is not unique in any way. In fact, just months before Racak, there was another US Government and media propaganda event: The Orahovac Massacre of 1998. The Orahovac Massacre was totally manufactured and staged by the US Government and media. Orahovac did not work. But it was the dress-rehearsal for Racak. What happened at Orahovac?
The German newspaper Tageszeitung on August 5, 1998 claimed that the Serbian police had massacred 567 unarmed Kosovar Albanian civilians. What was the source cited? The German "journalists" used as their source "an unnamed Gypsy gravedigger"! They wouldn't even give us his name! Is this journalism or propaganda? How can anyone mistake this for journalism? It shows a total disregard for our humanity, a total contempt for our dignity as human beings. These "journalists" and media of the free world insult our intelligence and treat us like a herd of cattle or swine. These NPR/CNN intellectual elites treat us American citizens as brainless cattle, as mindless robots glad to be living in a democracy and so happy to be members of the free world. If this is what NPR/CNN call freedom, I shudder at the thought of what they consider unfree. George Orwell put it best: Freedom is Slavery, Slavery is Freedom. The US Government and media picked up this Orahovac Massacre story. But there were conflicting accounts of how many Kosovars had been massacred. The unnamed Gypsy said there were 567 bodies which he himself counted. Albanian sources said there were over 200. US newscasts said over 200, several hundred. Another Albanian source said 50 had been killed. How many in fact had been killed? Most likely none at all or only KLA members. Oddly, the US media and Government backed off almost immediately on this story. Someone smelled a rat. Only the editors of the Canadian magazine Maclean's were insane enough to publish an article on it, "Kosovo: A massacre revealed".
A primary axiom of all propaganda is not to engage in propaganda that can be easily disproven, especially before the bombing had even started. Usually propaganda is disproven after the war when no one cares anyway and it is academic. Who cares after the war! But no propagandist wants to be easily disproven and held up to ridicule. Propagandists hate that the most. So the US propaganda machine wanted nothing to do with the Orahovac Massacre. It was too ridiculous. But why even engage in such propaganda?
Wars come and go but propaganda techniques remain constant and static. All governments rationalize war and aggression through propaganda. Hearst justified the US war against Spain by focusing on "Cuban atrocities". Hitler justified the war against Poland by focusing on Polish "atrocities" against the German minority. Clinton justified the Bosnian and Kosovo wars by focusing on Serbian "atrocities". Before the US invaded Haiti in 1994, Clinton focused on Haitian "atrocities". Is there a pattern here? But why do governments have to rationalize war and killing? Why don't governments just do it, just go ahead and kill the "enemies" without brainwashing us citizens and controlling our thoughts? The saying "to defeat a enemy by force alone is to only win half the battle" goes a long way in explaining why governments lie and deceive so that they can kill. The dictum the "first casualty in war is the truth" also sheds some light. Before we kill, which we all know is wrong, we have to first convince ourselves that what we are doing is right. So in fact, the first victim of war is the nation that initiates the war. That nation must corrupt itself and degrade itself, actually delude itself, into justifying war by hating an enemy which it has manufactured in its own mind, an unbalanced mind. Why? Because the masses will not kill without this self-delusion. What we would get is another Vietnam. People would question, there would be debate, discussion, reasoning. We can't have that. Marshall McLuhan, the so-called media guru said it best in The Medium is the Massage (1967): "Propaganda ends where dialogue begins." But dialogue does not help the war effort. Do we want another Vietnam? The lesson of Vietnam is that there must be no dissent, no debate, no dialogue on the homefront. There must be total thought-control. And in fact, that is what we got. During the Persian Gulf War, Bosnia, and Kosovo, there was total thought control. Indeed, the Pentagon had psyops specialists at the largest media outlet, CNN. The media was totally and completely under the control of the US government? Is this appropriate in a democracy? We will never know because there is no dialogue on this issue. Instead, there is total thought-control. But why were we fooled about Racak? Didn't anyone detect the hoax?
French journalists Renaud Girard of Le Figaro and Christophe Chatelot of Le Monde published article on January 20, 21, 1999, in which they questioned the account of William Walker, who led the OSCE verification mission in Kosovo. An AP film crew had filmed the Serbian police assault on Racak. The Serbian police had notified the media that there would be an arrest made in the village. Two OSCE verification monitor teams were also in the town. Albanian eyewitnesses were also interviewed. They could find no evidence of a massacre. Moreover, there was hardly any blood or spent cartridges at the massacre site. KLA gunmen were also shooting at the police from the surrounding area which the KLA controlled. How could the Serbian police have carried out a massacre when they faced gunfire themselves? This is what the French reporters wondered as well. Who, by the way, was William Walker, and what was he doing in Serbia? Walker has been described as a US State Department "warhawk" , a veteran "destabilizer" and US State Department operative in the Banana Republics; Walker has a long history of work in the Banana Republics, a Banana Republic specialist. He worked under Oliver North and Eliot Abrams to overthrow the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. Using the cover of "humanitarian operations", he armed and trained contra death squads in El Salvador. He is implicated in the massacre of six Jesuit priests which his clients, the contra death squads carried out. The Jesuits accused Walker of being a "silent participant" of this real massacre. So Walker was good at covering up real massacres and manufacturing phony massacres. Walker was the ideal man for the Kosovo job. Even before any investigation or examination, Walker listened to his KLA clients who told him that the Serbian police had perpetrated a massacre. Without any tangible evidence, Walker accused the Yugoslav government of guilt for the Racak Massacre. The rest is history.
What really happened at Racak. Obviously all the victims in the trench, which, by the way, was dug out by the KLA terrorists so they could kill Serbian policemen, had been brought there by the KLA. The victims had been shooting at Serbian policemen and civilians. The gun residue on their hands proved this conclusively. They had been killed in an ambush of Serbian police officers or in a gunfight. The OSCE Finnish team could not establish that the victims were from Racak. Why is this important? It shows that the KLA dumped the bodies from other areas around Racak. The KLA assembled and dumped their war dead in the trench, collected from other battles and ambushes. The KLA then invited the media to view the massacre, staged to look like a World War II massacre. Slobodan Milosevic was re-creating the German Nazi massacres of Jews. That is what our government and media parrotted ad nauseam. Racak is a classic example of the Propaganda of the Deed technique in propaganda. Of course, the MO was used constantly during the Bosnian Civil War. There was the Sarajevo Breadline Massacre, Markale Marketplace Massacre I, Markale Marketplace Massacre II, the Srebrenica Massacre, an endless stream of massacres, classic examples of Propaganda of the Deed. The US government and media stuck to what worked. The propaganda theme relied on allusions to the Holocaust and targeted a Jewish audience. The Albanians were equated with the Jews. This too is not new. The Bosnian Muslims, had earlier also been equated with the Jews, even though the Bosnian Muslims had two Nazi SS Divisions in World War II and during the REAL Holocaust supported the genocide of Jews and actually helped kill Jews. Gary Wilson, in the article "Warhawk Behind U.S. Kosovo Policy Amb. Walker Covered Up Real Massacres in El Salvador" published in the International Action Center, NY, noted that the KLA neo-fascist terrorists of Kosovo, heirs to the Holocaust era 21st SS Division Skanderbeg, which rounded up Kosovo Jews to German concentration camps where they were killed, was being supported by the US, Germany, and Israel. Israel was supporting the KLA. Wilson also found out that Zionist ultra-nationalist and war criminal Ariel Sharon, was backing the KLA: "On news of the alleged massacre, right-wing Israeli Ariel Sharon wrote a statement that was passed by parliament condemning the Yugoslav government and calling for its ouster." Like Walker, Sharon has some familiarity with REAL massacres. In 1982, he masterminded the Sabra and Shatila REAL massacres of unarmed Palestinian men, women, and children, a horrendous war crime that rivaled anything the Nazis ever did. Sharon sparked the current bloodshed and turmoil in the Middle East by storming the Dome of the Rock mosque, the third holiest site to Muslims. Was this Zionist madness or a planned, organized attempt to "destabilize" the Ehud Barak regime and scuttle the "peace process"? So as David Finn, himself Jewish and the head of the PR firm of Ruder-Finn, could have told us, focusing on the Holocaust was the ideal propaganda card to play for obvious reasons. From a propaganda point of view, it was the logical way to go. The Israel lobby, Israel, the US State Department, and Germany were backing the KLA terrorists. Allusions to World War II were ideal for all involved because they all knew something about REAL massacres. It was merely a propaganda game that revealed more about the propagandists themselves. During the NATO bombing campaign, CNN, NPR, and the US government accused the Yugoslav authorities of assassinating and murdering Albanian political leaders such as Ibrahim Rugova. In fact, none of the Albanian leaders were harmed. Rugova showed up in Belgrade in discussions with Milosevic. Many of the other "assassinated leaders" called CNN themselves informing them that they were alive. But this is a classic instance of propaganda projection. Only Israel and the US assassinate foreign political leaders. It is established Israeli policy, although illegal under all international laws, agreements, and covenants. The US Congress is currently planning to make such assassinations legal again, made illegal after the chickens came home to roost with the JFK assassination. Again, propaganda shows us the mindset of the propagandist. The propagandist accuses the Serbs of committing acts which he himself is guilty of or which he himself would commit, an example of transference or projection onto the enemy in propaganda.
What are the lessons of the Racak Massacre Hoax? In my view, there are none. To again quote Hegel, Hegel concluded that nothing is ever learned from history. In a book which contained his lecture notes and published posthumously in 1832, Hegel stated: "What history and experience teach is this---that peoples and governments never have learned anything from history." Perhaps because peoples and governments do not want to learn anything. They could if they wanted to. Ignorance is better, in fact, it is bliss. So history will little note the Racak Massacre Hoax. Who cares once the purpose was achieved? But what was the purpose? To prevent genocide? But there is no evidence of genocide either. What is the explanation. NPR adduced that Milosevic incinerated the corpses at the Trepca furnaces, an allusion to the furnaces of the German concentration camps, i.e., the Holocaust propaganda strategy. But investigators could find no evidence at all of this NPR allegation. But is this the end of it. No. NPR will try again. The US Government and media will try again. For although wars come and go and propaganda techniques do not change, they know how the masses think and what they think because they told them how and what to think. They also know that peoples and governments never have learned anything from history. So the Racak Massacre Hoax is not the end, but only a beginning. Or only a continuation. The same old same old. What else is new?
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