This would have been happening about a year ago if it wasnt for NATO's little sortee in the Balkans. The problems in the Balkans have been mostly created by imperialist intervention for centuries now. The ottomans, the Austrians, Russians, Germans, The British and in recent times the Americans. Dimitrov, the communist leader of Bulgaria in the 40's said "As long as the Balkans remains the target of the great powers, it will always be the powder keg of Europe"

If you haven't seen it before check it out...

 http://news.freeb92.net/index.phtml

Do anti-Yugoslav Western
interests Control Radio B292?
by Paul Treanor

[Note from www.emperors-clothes.com : This piece was written about
nine months ago but is still quite timely.]

A new radio station using the name of the former B92 radio has
started broadcasting in Beograd (Belgrade) under the name B2-92.
They also have a new website, taking over where the much-visited
Help B92 website left off.

Like the Help B92 website, the new website of Free B92
 http://www.freeb92.net/ is owned by KPN Telecom, (a middle-rank
European telecom company), through its subsidiary XS4ALL
Nederland BV.

Koninklijke KPN NV (Royal Dutch Telecom) is the privatizsed
former telecom organization of the Netherlands PTT, originally the
ministry for Post and Telegraphy.

Legal control of both the Help B92 website, and the Free B92
website were, and are, ultimately exercised by the board of KPN
Telecom. The CEO at KPN Telecom is Wim Dik, a former
Netherlands Secretary of State for Foreign Trade.

More realistically, daily control of the content of the websites
probably rests with Maurice Wesseling, director of XS4ALL
Nederland BV, whose name is under the press release /e-mail
announcing the new site.

As you can imagine from this information, B92 is *not* a radical
left-wing revolutionary progressive radio station, although an
extraordinary number of people do believe this myth. B92 was the
Serbian radio of the Soros Foundation, which through its Open
Society Funds and Foundations controls a surprisingly large sector of
the media in some eastern European countries. (The Soros
Foundation got in first, and had the most money).

B92 was therefore never an "independent" radio. Its function was to
promote the values of a liberal-democratic free-market society in
Serbia and Montenegro, and specifically the classic-liberalism of
George Soros. It continued to do this even during the air war on
Serbia, when for a time it broadcast from aircraft on the Serbian
border (obviously with at least the military approval of the NATO
which controlled the airspace), and also from Austria on Austrian
government transmitters. Both of these projects were apparently
abandoned: perhaps because they were making the station an easy
target for pro-Milosevic propagandists. In any case, in the present
uncertain climate, the station and its financiers are ready to try
again.

For those in any doubt about the ideology of the new station, its
website includes a speech by George Soros
 http://www.freeb92.net/media/statement/soros.shtml This is a
commencement speech delivered at the Paul H. Nitze School of
Advanced International Studies at John Hopkins University on May
27, 1999: here is the original at the university website
 http://www.sais-jhu.edu/events/sorospeech.html

In this speech Soros sets out his view that a world sovereign
authority is necessary, to authorize intervention in states. He
defends the NATO intervention in Kosovo, as you would expect...

"Nor do I have any doubts that the situation required outside
intervention. The case for intervention is clearer in Kosovo than in
most other situations of ethnic conflict because Milosevic
unilaterally deprived the inhabitants of Kosovo of the autonomy that
they had already enjoyed. He also broke an international agreement
into which he entered in October of last year."

Soros goes a lot further, though, in proposing that a new alliance of
open societies should be set up, to militarily impose an open society
on the rest of the world:

"A political alliance dedicated to the promotion of open society might
even be able to change the way the UN functions, especially if it had
a much broader membership than NATO.NATO could still serve as
its military arm."

Remember that B2-92 operates in a society where hundreds of
civilians died in NATO bombing a few months ago: it clearly feels
that it can now go further than during the war. At the same time, the
new version is much more explicitly a Soros/NATO radio than the
pre-war version. (I would guess that they have dumped any
journalists who had doubts about the tougher pro-NATO line, but I
have no confirmation of that).

That last comment was choice. I have been worried about the LARGE coverage given to these events in the UK media, I'm even starting to think that both sides were in the thrall of one master and that we have all been duped ;) I am encouraged by some comments about a leftist slant in some of the demo's but of course our media are hailing a victory for 'democracy' and freedom to shop..... oh and BTW, a whole bag of neo-liberal adjustments, including the enforced watching of coke and macdonalds adverts (didnt I hear everyone was made to watch episodes of panorama that showed Milosevic eating babies?).

Is there an Indymedia for Serbia? surely what we need now are the activists to make contacts and get some real news out.... or haven't they got any p.c.'s there?