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Fools' Crusade: Yugoslavia, Nato, and Western Delusions Paperback – Illustrated, November 1, 2002

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Military interventions on supposedly humanitarian grounds have become an established feature of the post-Cold War global order. Since September 11, this form of militarism has taken on new and unpredictable proportions. Diana Johnstone's well-documented study demonstrates that a crucial moment in establishing in the public mindand above all, within the political context of liberalism and the leftthe legitimacy of such interventions was the "humanitarian" bombing of the former Yugoslavia in 1999.
In the course of the civil wars that led to the break-up of Yugoslavia, a complex history came to be presented as a morality play in which the parts were scripted to meet the moral needs of the capitalist West. The identification of Muslims as defenseless victims and Serbs as genocidal monsters inflamed fears and hatreds within Yugoslavia, and prepared the way for power to be shifted from the people of the region to such international agencies as NATO.
Deceptions and Self-Deceptionstests the popular myths against the reality of Yugoslav history. Johnstone identifies the common geopolitical interests running through such military interventions, and argues persuasively that they create problems rather than solving them. She shows that the "Kosovo war" was in reality the model for future destruction of countries seen as potential threats to the hegemony of an "international community" currently being redefined to exclude or marginalize all but those who conform to the interests of the United States.
A concluding chapter shows how the script prepared for Yugoslavia is being re-enacted in Afghanistan. Whether Milosevic's trial before the International Court at the Hague or the capture of bin Laden will provide an adequate conclusion to this ideological play-making, remains an open question.

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November 1, 2002
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A discussion of the political illusion created by the humanitarian bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 that tests popular beliefs

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Diana Johnstoneis a distinguished researcher and commentator on contemporary global politics. She is the author of The Politics of Euromissiles: Europe’s Role in America’s World (Verso, 1985). Her writings have been published in New Left Review, Counterpunch, and Covert Action Quarterly.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Monthly Review Press; 1st edition (November 1, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 158367084X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1583670842
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.73 x 8.5 inches

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David Parker

The only true account of what was done to Yugoslavia

Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2018

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The only accurate account of the destruction of Yugoslavia at the hands of the US and how the US used NATO against Yugoslavia, followed by Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, Libya, and now Syria.
"Humanitarian" bombing was invented to justify genocide of the Serbian people. The concept is now de riguer for all US deep state attacks on foreign governments.
Diana Johnstone is one of the very few who are not MSM lemmings endlessly repeating whatever the state department wants said. I might add that with her open and objective reporting, she is probably on a CIA target list. The lady has courage, a quality totally missing in "western journalism", the polar opposite of gutless, brainless, socialist Penny Marshall.

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Gets Around

You'd have to believe ...

Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2015

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To believe the official view of this situation you'd have to believe NATO and the U.S. waged a war in the name of humanitarianism and human rights. You'd have to believe the country that murdered 180,000 Guatemalan civilians in the 80's in cold blood to protect U.S. business interests intervened in Kosovo to protect human rights. You'd have to believe that the country that helped murder 300,000 East Timorese civilians up to the mid-90's to protect U.S. business interests suddenly went somewhere else to protect human rights. You'd have to believe the country that killed 100,000 civilians in El Salvador to protect U.S. business interests suddenly invaded Yugoslavia to save lives. Or 60,000 civilians murdered in Nicaragua. The list goes on and on and on. Likewise, you'd have to believe that the administration that saw to the deaths of several million people in Africa because Gore and Clinton steadfastly stood in the way of AIDS generics, to protect U.S. business interests, suddenly intervened in Kosovo to save lives. You'd have to believe the country that has never engaged in a humanitarian intervention suddenly did a 180 and went to Kosovo to help the poor. You might as well believe in Mickey Mouse and Santa Claus.
But you can do better these days, you can actually study the record ten years later and discover that no genocide in Kosovo was ever proven. No mass graves were found. The incubator stories and etc. were all lies. It was just another WMD type story used to mobilize the population to support a war. You can't get the people behind you if you unless you tell them it's for good. The same lies are always told and are never true.
Reading some of these reviews, I'm blown away at the gullibility of people to continue to believe the WMD type lies. That's why there is little hope for the future, people like that are just too common.

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Constance Cumbey

Good information - but what is missing -- JAVIER SOLANA -- is equally intriguing

Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2012

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Diana Johnstone writes well and compellingly. However, what was omitted from her book was intriguingly missing. There is absolutely no mention of the person given sole authority to make the military decisions as to what and when military action should be taken against the Serbs / Kosovo / Yugoslavia. That person was Javier Solana who was then Secretary General of Kosovo. On or about January 30, 1999, per Madeline Albright's then State Department website, Solana was given the power which Solana himself boasted of in his USA speeches between January 30th and March 21st, the date President Clinton went on national TV saying " I agree with Javier Solana's decision to do this." The displaced people formerly known as Yugoslavians cynically called new portions of their bombed out region "Solania." It is interesting then that nobody in the press asked "Who is Javier Solana"? Then as now, he appeared to be Mr. Untouchable. He left that NATO assignment a little early to head the CFSP for the European Union and a month after that to head the Western European Union which was supposed to last for only a year, but that year sure lasted a long time -- over 10! There is a mystery here. Is it because Solana was a Socialist and the writer appears to come from a left wing perspective. She astutely, however, names other factors -- Wesley Clark (who reported, per his books, to Solana), George Soros, the Carnegie Institute, Solana's NATO successor, George Robertson, etc., etc. WHY WAS SOLANA OMITTED FROM THIS BOOK? Did she not know of his important role? I don't see how she could have done serious research and missed it! OR, was she pressured to omit him? I would love to know. There is a mystery here that needs an explanation!

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Radomir Samardzic

Great insight into lies

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2015

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Great insight into lies, manipulations and agendas of Western powers. Yes, it is about Yugoslavia, but more than that it is a window to Globalization lead by the U.S. Superpower acting consistently outside the Law with impunity. As an American I cannot help feeling shame and as Yugoslav, anger and helplesness. Must read for all Yugoslavs and Americans interested in historical facts and truth. Very well documented and written with very deep knowledge of history and present afairs.

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Brian S. Meredith

If you think you know about Yugoslavia, you need to read this book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 1, 2014

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Excellent book exposing what must be the most extraordinarily successful campaign of deception and disinformation in recent years. The western media's portrayal of the Yugoslav civil war as an act of aggression by Serbs against their innocent neighbours, who were saved from the attempted genocide only by the selfless and timely intervention of NATO. That's the plot of the movie we watched on TV news, night after night and read about in the press. But in fact almost everything you think you know about the Yugoslavian conflict is untrue. Diana Johnstone painstakingly unravels this tangled web of misinformation, half truths and outright lies to reveal a sordid clandestine war waged with both words and bombs by NATO on behalf of the US and the EU against the state of Yugoslavia. If you have any interest at all in what really happened, you need to read this book.

And the real value of a history book like this is if it also encourages everyone to be a bit more discriminating about how other conflict zones are reported, such as Ukraine.

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Tajka Dumjezo

Bombing for peace and other hypocricies

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 27, 2015

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At the time when Diane Johnstone wrote this excellent book very few people were aware that the war of aggression against Yugoslavia and demonazation of an entire nation (Serbs in this case) was just the beginning of America’s hegemonic project otherwise known as “Globalization of War” whereby the U.S.- NATO military machine – coupled with covert intelligence operations, economic sanctions and the thrust of “regime change”— is deployed in all major regions of the world. This “Long War against Humanity” has continued ever since and is currently carried out at the height of the most serious economic crisis in modern history. It is intimately related to a process of global financial restructuring, which has resulted in the collapse of national economies and the impoverishment of large sectors of the world population.

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Steve Church

Fool's Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO, and Western Delusions

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 4, 2013

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I would consider "Fool's Crusade" recommended reading for anyone interested in seeing beyond much of the propaganda surrounding the idea of "humanitarian intervention" as well as the West's manipulation of the media, the corruption of genuine indigenous movements for reform, and it's overall disingenuous intentions for the region.

It is a dense book, so detailed it sometimes becomes confusing keeping all the actors in mind, but once you've settled into it, and are not averse to taking notes, it is a book that will probably be considered one of the definitive accounts of the perversity of Western "diplomacy", if it can be called that. A courageous book.

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Derek Sidney Martin

Three Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 4, 2018

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Miks

just great

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 6, 2018

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service to the public to expose all that simplistic baloney about Yugoslav civil war.

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