On the related cozying up to Milosevic, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2284777.stm footnotes to the David Walls pieces in New Politics, the journal to the left of Dissent. Michael Pugliese
Subject: How Project Censored Joined The Whitewash of Serb Atrocities
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Dubious Sources: How Project Censored Joined The Whitewash of Serb Atrocities
David Walls <snip> Notes
Censored 1999, Censored 2000, and Censored 2001 are all published by Seven Stories Press in New York (www.sevenstories.com/); the 20th anniversary volume is titled 20 Years of Censored News (Seven Stories, 1995). Project Censored's website is at www.projectcensored.org. return
See "The Busy Bosporus Is Likely to Get Even Busier," New York Times, January 28, 2001; and "Caspian's Oil, Chevron's Sweat: A Saga," Wall Street Journal, February 26, 2001, p. A14. return
A. Belden Fields, Trotskyism and Maoism: Theory and Practice in France and the United States (Brooklyn: Autonomedia, 1988), pp. 148-150; on Clark and the International Action Center, see Ian Williams, "Ramsey Clark, the War Criminal's Best Friend," Salon, June 21, 1999 (www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/06/21/clark/index.html) and John B. Judis, "The Strange Case of Ramsey Clark," The New Republic, April 22, 1991, pp. 23-29. return
See the report of the International Crisis Group, "Trepca: Making Sense of the Labyrinth," at www.intl-crisis-group.org/projects/showreport.cfm?reportid=9. return
See Dr. Helena Ranta's report on the autopsies at www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/kosovo/Kosovo-Massacres2.htm. return
Joshua Hammer, "Unearthing the Truth," Newsweek, April 24, 2000, p. 49. return
J. Rainio, K. Lalu, and A. Penttilä, "Independent Forensic Autopsies in an Armed Conflict: Investigation of the Victims from Racak, Kosovo," Forensic Science International, Vol. 116, Issues 2- 3 (February 15, 2001), pp. 171- 185 (available at http://worldnews2.homestead.com/files/ racakautopsies.htm; Berliner Zeitung, January 17, 2001, available on the web (in German) at www.BerlinOnline.de/aktuelles/berliner_zeitung/politik/.html/1510.htm. For FAIR's statement on Racak, see "Doubts on a Massacre: Media Ignore Questions About Incident That Sparked Kosovo War" (www.fair.org/press-releases/racak.html); also Martin A. Lee, "More Bloodshed in the Balkans: The Bitter Legacy of NATO's 'Humanitarian' War," San Francisco Bay Guardian, March 26, 2001 (www.sfbg.com/reality/21.html). return
The Executive Summary of June 2000 is available, along with related news reports and interviews with Helena Ranta, on the Balkan Witness website (www.glypx.com/BalkanWitness/racak.htm). return
"Grave Found in Bosnia With 200 Bodies," New York Times, July 9, 2001. return
Marlise Simons, "Tribunal in Hague Finds Bosnia Serb Guilty of Genocide," New York Times, August 3, 2001, p. A1 (available at www.nytimes.com/2001/08/03/international/europe/03BOSN.html); the ICTY judgment is available at www.un.org/icty/krstic/TrialC1/judgement/index.htm. return
Michael Parenti, To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia (London and New York: Verso, 2000). return
Marlise Simons, "Bosnian War Trial Focuses on Sex Crimes," New York Times, February 18, 2001, p. 4 ; Marlise Simons, "3 Serbs Convicted in Wartime Rapes," New York Times, February 23, 2001, p. A1. return
Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1997), ch. 5, pp. 76-86. return
Vulliamy's reports on the Bosnian camps and on the ITN/LM libel trial are available on the web at www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/itn/. (Diana Johnstone was also represented in Censored 1999 with an article supporting the #17 story.) return
The Milomir Stakic indictment of March 13, 1997 is available at www.un.org/icty/indictment/english/kov-ii97031e.htm. See also Marlise Simons, "3 Ex- Guards at Bosnia Camp Are Sentenced by Hague Panel," New York Times, November 14, 2001, p. A6. return
See the Tadic judgment at: www.un.org/icty/tadic/trialc2/judgement/tad-tsj970714e.htm. return
George Monbiot, "Living Marxism--Festering Fascism?" Prospect, November 1998; see also Matthew Price, "Raving Marxism," Lingua Franca, April 2000. return
Ramsey Clark et al., NATO in the Balkans: Voices of Opposition (New York: International Action Center, 1998). return
Amanda Ripley, "Fascist Lefties," Washington City Paper, May 22-28, 1998; letters between Allen and CAQ's publishers are available on the web at www.nettime.org/nettime.w3archive/199807msg00031.html. return
Johnstone's "Seeing Yugoslavia Through a Dark Glass: Politics, Media, and the Ideology of Globalization" is available online at www.covertaction.org/yugo3.htm. return
www.emperors-clothes.com/images/bosnia/camp.htm. return
Check the references to Jared Israel in the index to Kirkpatrick Sale, SDS (New York: Vintage Books, 1974), and Alan Adelson's pro-PL account, SDS: A Profile (New York: Scribner, 1972). Censored 2001 gave an award (#17) to a story by Chossudovsky and Israel; Chossudovsky's sympathy for Maoism is apparent in his book Towards Capitalist Restoration? Chinese Socialism After Mao (New York: St. Martin's, 1986), that concludes with hopes for a second cultural revolution. (p. 221) return
See, for example, Mark Danner, "America and the Bosnia Genocide," The New York Review of Books, December 4, 1997, pp. 55-65--a review of books by Roy Gutman, Ed Vulliamy, Omarska camp survivor Rezak Hukanovic, and others (available at www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?19971204055F); "The Evil at Omarska" -- an excerpt on Hukanovic's experience -- in The New Republic, February 12, 1996, pp. 24- 29; and Eric Alterman, "Bosnian Camps: A Barbed Tale," The Nation, August 4, 1997, pp. 18-20--an
article about the ITN libel suit against LM which challenged the substance of Deichmann's article.
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Peter Phillips, "Disinformation and Serbia: U.S. Media Bias" (reproduced at: www.computec-int.com/bsc/war/archives/disinfo1.htm). return
For links to further discussion in the alternative media of Project Censored's purpose and methodology, see Tim Redmond, "The Censored Debate," on the San Francisco Bay Guardian website, April 19, 2000: www.sfbg.com/censored-debate. return
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