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out saying that no country can put pressure on the USA to change its
system or to rectify its wrongs (some ofthe most atrocious of which are
mentioned in this book). The USA empire has become such an accepted
fact that one Wa/1 Street Journal writer forecasts much of the world will
become ever more like "little Americas," with fo reign middle classes
being totally "Americanized" (even speaking English and "consuming
the same media, goods and services"), although "regional instability
forces the USA to install permanent armies (known as peacekeepers) in
both Africa and Russia" (Zachry, 2000). While USA politicians (such
as the Bush family) often propagandize USA control of foreign countries
as being required because of "a world that 'depends on America
to reconcile old rivals and balance ancient ambitions"' (Calmes, 1999),
they fail to mention the fact that the foreign rivalries used to "j ustify"
USA interventions are often deliberately promoted by the CIA and general
USA policies themselves (Blum, 1995). As New Yo rk Times writer
Thomas Friedman ( 1999) stated in the middle of the USA bombing of
Yugoslavia, "The hidden hand of the market will never work without
the hidden fist."
This USA "strategy" of world domination has had a murderous effect
on the people of the world, as the Soviet Union is now no longer around
to inhibit the USA's subversion and attacks on other countries. For
instance, the number of wars and armed conflicts in the 1990s bas doubled
from the level of the 1980s (Associated Press, 1999h), with these
violent conflicts having caused the deaths of 60 million children in the
1990s (Deutschland, 2000). Some, especially those who do not have a�
adequate knowledge of USA history and gullibly believed USA President
George Bush's propaganda about a "kinder" America (Greene,
2000), predicted that the USA's Cold War victory would result in the
USA becoming more benevolent once its primary enemy of the post­
World-War-II period had been defeated. However, it is actually only
necessary to see that the USA was founded (and stolen) via genocide2
to be able to realize that the foundations of the country are criminal and
to be able to forecast a continuation of that core evit,l especially after
examining all the millions of people killed in the hundreds of countries
attacked by the USA in the past.4
In fact, the USA in the 1990s has continued its murderous, imperi � list
policies that it has practiced almost continuously throughout its hts-
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tory. The costly maintenance of the "kind" embargo against Iraq, which
still kills thousands of innocent civilians each month from preventable
diseases, represents just one obvious example (Flounders, 1998b ). s
The various wars and embargoes launched against Yugoslavia by the
USA (and its NATO tool) in the 1990s represent further evidence of
USA "kindness" in action after the ending of the Cold War. The lAC
(1998a) has documented the background and context of the war in
Yugoslavia, demonstrating that it merely represents a continuation of
imperialism by the USA and other NATO powers. For instance, West
Germany gave the local ruler of the Yugoslav province of Croatia $2
billion in 1988 in order to assist in recreating "a new independent State
of Croatia with international borders in the form originally set up by
the German chancellor, Adolf Hitler, in 1941." In addition, despite the
fact that "during World War II, Croatia was a Nazi puppet state in which
the Croatian fascist Ustashe murdered as many as one million Serbs,
Jews, and Romani (Gypsies), [the resulting newly 'independent'] Croatia
adopted a new currency in 1994, the kuna, the same name as that
used by the Ustasha state, and the new Croatian flag is a near-duplicate
of the Ustasha flag."
Nevertheless, most of the world has come to believe that the Serbs
are the "bad guys" in Yugoslavia (Independent Commission of Inquiry,
1999), even though Serbia itself (with its democratically elected coalition
government) had exhibited only very limited signs of repression
until after the USA's overt attempts to overthrow the government (Block,
1999b). One cause of this general misperception was a USA public
relations firm, which "was paid to tum Serbs into monsters, fascists,
� �ts" in the public eye, and journalists seeking out the "bad guys"
WIIhngly cooperated to invent evidence of Serb atrocities even though
�such evidence has been disproved (lAC, 1998a). While Serbia was
being demonized by the Western media in the 1990s, Western powers
w� busy arming anti-Serb terrorists in Bosnia and Kosovo as well
� m Croatia (Oberg, 2000), Croatia was renaming the "Square of Vic­
1 999), and "8 00,000 to 900,000 Serbs" were being "ethnically cleansed
lilnsofFascism" the "Square of Croatian Heroes" (Levene and Roberts,
from Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo" (Oberg, 2000).
. � outright war launched by the USA and NATO against Yu gosla­
V!a m 1999 is especially illustrative. Despite all the absurd propaganda