Chossudovsky on the Financial Collapse
The Great Depression of the 21st Century: Collapse of the Real Economy
Michel Chossudovsky is Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), which hosts the critically acclaimed website www.globalresearch.ca.
I became acquainted with Chossudovsty’s writings around the time the Clinton administration decided to bomb Serbia, ostensibly on behalf of the Albanians in Kosovo. Chossudovsky, in his paper, Dismantling Former Yugoslavia,
Recolonising Bosnia (1996), exposed the deliberate and ultimately successful campaign to dismantle Yugoslavia by the western powers. A later article also posted on this website, NATO’s War of Aggression Against Yugoslavia: An Overview (1999), is a powerful indictment against the entire war. There are some interesting tidbits in that report:
The reader will recall that prior to 9/11, hardly anyone in the U. S. had ever heard of Osama bin Laden, and even fewer were aware that he was allied to the Kosovo Liberation Army, an organization that the U. S. was supporting.An Unholy "Marriage of Convenience"
In addition to the dispatch of Western special forces, Mujehadeen mercenaries and other Islamic fundamentalist groups (financed inter alia by Iran and Saudi financier Osmane Bin Laden) have been collaborating with the KLA in the ground war.
"[B]y early December 1997, Iranian intelligence had already delivered the first shipments of hand grenades, machine-guns, assault rifles, night vision equipment, and communications gear... Moreover, the Iranians began sending promising Albanian and UCK [KLA] commanders for advanced military training in al-Quds [special] forces and IRGC camps in Iran.....
Bin Laden's Al Qa'ida allegedly responsible for last year's African embassy bombings "was one of several fundamentalist groups that had sent units to fight in Kosovo, ... Bin Laden is believed to have established an operation in Albania in 1994 ... Albanian sources say Sali Berisha, who was then president, had links with some groups that later proved to be extreme fundamentalists".
Interestingly enough, the Kosovo Pages on the Jackson Progressive, even though seldom updated now, are some of the most frequently-visited pages on this website. It is as though the entire Balkans have slipped down a memory hole.