NATO bombed Yugoslavia because the Serbian delegation did not sign up the Rambouillet accord, because of a secret Annex B, inserted by Madeleine Albright's delegation on the last day. It demanded military occupation of the whole of Yugoslavia Nato. It was later conceded by British Foreign Office Minister 'to deliberately to provoke rejection by the government in Belgrade." As the first bombs fell, the elected parliament in Belgrade, which included some of Miloevic’s fiercest opponents, voted overwhelmingly to reject the accord.

Neil Clark has pointed out, "the rump of Yugoslavia ... was the last economy in central-southern Europe to be uncolonized by western capital. Yugoslavia had publicly owned petroleum, mining, car, and tobacco industries, and 75 percent of industry was state- or socially owned." In the bombing campaign, it was state-owned companies, rather than military sites, that were targeted. NATO’s   destruction of only 14 Yugoslav army tanks compares with its bombing of 372 centers of industry, including the Zastava car factory, leaving hundreds of thousands jobless. "Not one foreign or privately owned factory was bombed," wrote Clark.

Kosovo today is a violent, criminalized UN-administered "free market" in drugs and prostitution. From here more than 200,000 Serbs, Roma, Bosnians, Turks, Croats, and Jews were ethnically cleansed by the KLA with NATO forces standing by. KLA hit squads have burned, looted, or demolished 85 Orthodox churches and monasteries, according to the UN.

Africa and Charles Taylor

In Africa, there is a never-ending litany of wars, famines, death and misery, thanks to the unholy union of Western mineral multinationals and their African crony dictators and militias.

Following the civil war in Angola in 1990s for diamonds with terrible consequences, in 1999, the UN Security Council acted to enforce sanctions on diamond sales by the UNITA rebel group and the conflict finally ended a short time later. However, since then, further diamond-related conflicts have raged in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Congo .UN has passed resolutions and reports but rape of Africa by multinationals continues unabated.
Charles Taylor, the exiled former strongman of Liberia was brought to the Sierra Leone capital from the Nigeria-Cameroon border when he tried to flee Nigeria, which had granted him exile status under a 2003 peace deal.

It is strange that it happened just around the time President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria was to visit the White House. The monthly magazine 'The Atlantic' had an article 'Nigeria ;worse than Iraq' and speculated on the possible implosion of Nigeria .Was it a deal to provide good news of the Western international justice imposed on third world to jack up Bush's plummeting popularity and shore up a unpopular Obasanjo. Nigerians nay African would not be proud that some one given asylum has been handed over. When Taylor represented by a court-appointed lawyer, was asked to plead, he refused. "I do not recognize the jurisdiction of this court," he said. He had said earlier,"I think this is an attempt to continue to divide and rule the people of Liberia and Sierra Leone." Western pattern is same all over the world.

Court officials asked the trial be moved to The Hague, Netherlands, because of fears that Taylor, once among the most feared warlords in the region, could still spark unrest in West Africa the U.S. would have balked at the idea if it meant transferring jurisdiction to the International Criminal Court (ICC), which Washington opposes. [US have bribed many countries to sign accords that they would not report US suspects to ICC.]  However, no matter where the actual trial is held, control of the case will stay with the Special Court, which Washington sees as a model for future war crimes courts and a welcome alternative to the permanent ICC.

At such contrived courts, obscure judges from obscure third world countries, says Samoa, would be paid well to participate in such charades.

Because of its minerals, Africa remains a free for all for western multinationals. Let us take Democratic republic of Congo, a former Belgian colony, one of the most miserable places in the world with horrifying colonial exploitation record of the Belgian King. Its resources rich northeast province of Ituri, adjoining Uganda was the cause of civil wars and border clashes. Apart from the region's farmland and valuable cross-border trade, Ituri is the gateway to the Kilo Moto gold field, the world's biggest, where exploration rights are claimed by Canada's Barrick Gold, among others.   And interest is rising in Ituri's oil reserves in the Lake Albert basin, where Heritage Oil, signed a licensing deal last year.

Dogs of wars and black mercenaries continue to play their games for personal gains or for foreign mineral multinationals to rob the impoverished masses of vast mineral wealth being mined in Congo and elsewhere.  Unless these powers and vested interests are controlled, ethnic conflicts and killings would continue. The vested multinational mineral interests are rarely mentioned in media. Years of wars, destruction, famines, and the vast debts amounting to US$ 14 Billion left behind by Mobutu are major problems. He died a rich man benefiting his benefactors. 

An October 2002 report written for UN by an independent panel of experts, accused dozens of multinationals including Barclays Bank, De Beers and Anglo American of facilitating the plunder of Congo's wealth. This scathing account accused 85 multinational companies based in Europe, the US and South Africa of violating ethical guidelines in dealing with criminal networks which have pillaged natural resources from the war-torn country.  A scramble for gold, diamonds, cobalt and copper by army officers, government officials and entrepreneurs from Congo and neighboring African countries had generated billions of dollars, which found its way to mining companies and financial institutions.

"In this inhuman exploitation ,the list of the local accused is a roll call of top military officers, government officials and businessmen, --The elite networks derive financial benefit through a variety of criminal activities, including theft, embezzlement, diversion of public funds, under valuation of goods, smuggling, false invoicing, non-payment of taxes, kickbacks to public officials and bribery," the report said. So lucrative and elaborate was the looting that there were attempts to prolong the fighting by stirring conflict between rival militias and rebels. "Those [criminal] groups will not disband voluntarily. They have built up a self-financing war economy centered on mineral exploitation," the report added. Rwanda's claim to have stayed in Congo to hunt the Hutu militia responsible for the 1994 genocide was described as a cover for its army's desire to strip minerals. 

Verily, the era of colonization and exploitation is far from over. In Africa, globalization means rapacious loot of its mineral wealth. 

Gaddafi calls Saddam Hussein trial illegal –He is still the legal President of Iraq

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi became a darling of the west after giving up efforts to build a nuclear bomb. Can any one take that seriously Remember how Gaddafi had sent his deputy Major Jalloud with a chequebook to Cho-en Lai in early 1970s to purchase a few nuclear bombs. Recently Gaddafi also handed hundreds of millions of dollars to victims of air accidents, which the West accused were carried out by Libyans, but many reports saw the hands of Mossad and doubt the integrity of Western trials.

Gaddafi told an Italian TV Channel that Saddam Hussein's trial was illegal under the Geneva Convention. While he always considered Saddam a dictator, the former Iraqi president was nevertheless a “prisoner of war" and as such should have been released by now.

Gaddafi also dismissed the election last year of an Iraqi parliament, saying it was invalid because it took place under foreign occupation. Saddam was still the legal president of Iraq, because "he wasn't toppled by his people".