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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ANDRE GUNDER FRANK Senior Fellow Residence World History Center One Longfellow Place Northeastern University Apt. 3411 270 Holmes Hall Boston, MA 02114 USA Boston, MA 02115 USA Tel: 617-948 2315 Tel: 617 - 373 4060 Fax: 617-948 2316 Web-page:csf.colorado.edu/agfrank/ e-mail:franka@fiu.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Subject: NEW WORLD ORDER Section on AGF web-page This NEW Section of my web-page REPLACES the existing NATO/Kosovo section of postings from 1999 that is incorporated into this new one, which however is wider ranging and more up to date. SOME of the NATO/Kosovo postings specified below by title [and in brackets by location date] are to be inserted in this NEW WORLD ORDER section in the places indicated below. The rest of the NATO page, or to make things procedurally simpler THE ENTIRE OLD NATO PAGE, is to be added into this NEW WORLD ORDER page at its very end, as also indicated below. The NEW WORLD ORDER section of my web-page will consist of and is to be constructed out of the major building blocks and individual bricks detailed below: The 1999 and earlier ones are already in the NATO page and are to be copied/linked [each from where indicated in brackets]. Recent essays are to be found and placed here from those of mine already in ON-LINE ESSAYS [never mind that sometitles will be repeated] and from individual message files I have sent in last 2 days. I may also add more stuff as time goes by. The New Section will consist of: An Introduction - newly written and at the beginning of the file below A. The New World Order Strategy The 1991 AGF Essay on Third World War in the Gulf [Iraq] and New World Order Jimmy Carter 1999 essay Brezhinski material 3 press reports [1 from 1999 ,2 from 2002] Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio) protests Patriot Act 2002 On Oil a few items from 1999 to 2002 B. On War Against Afghanistan AGF Essays On Geo-political-economy On International Legal [DisOrder] C. THE WAR AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA 1999 ESSAYS BY ANDRE GUNDER FRANK SUMMARY ESSAY NATO's Kosovo Political Bomb [1999] ANALYTIC ESSAYS several PROGRAMATIC ESSAYS several ON THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL [DIS] ORDER ESSAYS BY fRANK AND DOCUMENTATION OTHER ESSAYS AND DOCUMENTATION [the old NATO page as a whole] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ANDRE GUNDER FRANK Senior Fellow Residence World History Center One Longfellow Place Northeastern University Apt. 3411 270 Holmes Hall Boston, MA 02114 USA Boston, MA 02115 USA Tel: 617-948 2315 Tel: 617 - 373 4060 Fax: 617-948 2316 Web-page:csf.colorado.edu/agfrank/ e-mail:franka@fiu.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [All things in brackets below are instructions/guides to you Paul to help you find things and put them in the right place. But these things in brackets are NOT to appear on the web-page] [Replace the NATO section by one entitled and with a new intro as follows] ON THE NEW WORLD ORDER President George Bush father coined the term a NEW WORLD ORDER in 1991 as a name for what he was trying to do with his War Against Iraq. Was it historical amnesia that failed to recall who used the very self-same term to describe an earlier geo-political ambition? - Adolf Hitler! The Clinton Doctrine continued to work on the same American project, notably with the NATO War Against Yugoslavia. It was mis-called the >=Kosovo@ war, especially inasmuch as it was militarily directed against Yugoslavia and politically against Russia and was accompanied by the US sponsored expansion of NATO eastward: New, ex-Warsaw Pact members were ushered into NATO, and for the first time and in contravention with its own Charter NATO undertook both offensive military action and did so >=out of area.@ NATO extended its power and military action south-eastward toward the sources of oil and the existing and potential pipe-lines to carry it. [One of the latter >=happens@ to be the valley that runs parallel to the Kosovo/Macedonia border, through which a line would be run from the Black to the Adreatic Sea]. An additional related effect, if not purpose, of the NATO War was to help foreclose European independence from the US and to maintain and extend US geo-political power in Europe and world-wide. President George Bush son is now working over time to continue to build up and extend the NEW WORLD ORDER that his father started to construct in 1991. But Bush the younger is extending this order not only geographically but also programatically through a combination of complete unilateralism [never mind the allies and even NATO, literally not to mention the UN] and >= you=re either with us or against us=> plain English blackmail. The words are the same as the ones John Foster Dulles used in the early Cold War. But then those against us were left under the umbrellas of the Soviet Union and China. Now >=against us@ INCLUDES Russia and China among those subjected to US political economic blackmail - and, along with a half a dozen other >=rouge=> states, American nuclear threat as per Pentagon planning recently publicized by the press. At home in the meantime, the people are encouraged to show pride to be an American while, as Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio) wrote, the Bill of Rights is being abrogated and the Constitution dismantled. A critical analysis of this NEW WORLD ORDER under construction is offered in the opening chapters of EMPIRE by Hardt & Negri, published by Harvard University Press in 2000, which argues that the entire world is now imperial per se in which the US occupies a position of priviledge, which includes that of re-defining the ethical and legal standards of good and evil to be imposed on one and all. More significantly still is the formation of an active group of rigth wing policy makers and opinion leaders [the usual suspects from the most dangerous wing of the Reagan and Bush administrations plus some younger converts] in Washington DC who argue that the United States is de facto THE IMPERIALIST POWER in the world today, so that it should accept that fact, make proud of the lable and carry out its imperial/ist responsibilities to the full extent of its abilities, which are and should be far greater still than those of the only ''hesitant'' Bush doctrine. So far, the most visible international part of this NEW WORLD ORDER has been the US War Against Afghanistan. Its real purpose and pursuit should have come as no surprise. The Clinton administration had already taken many important steps to extend American influence and power through the Caspian Sea and Central Asian region under the Orwellian NewSpeak APartnership for Peace.@ US planning, both political and military, for a War Against Afghanistan was well under way long before the events of September 11, 2001 offered >=legitimation=> for the same. Under cover of this war, the US established new military positions and political alliances not only in Afghanistan itself, but also in a half dozen neighboring states in Central Asia in which the US has brokered an at least temporary agreement to share power with Russia B and to encircle China now also from the West, as still in the East, including newly again in the Philippines and elsewhere. So, the NEW WORLD ORDER is the name of the game on its world-wide scale if we are to accept its baptism by President Bush father. In Central and Inner Asia, it is to pursue the same BIG GAME twenty-first-century style that then Great Britain and Russia already fought over the Eurasian heartland MacKinder.and Huntington already identified it as the region from which to dominate the world and its APulse@ as the measure of global geo-politics a century ago. In his 1997 book on the Global Chessboard, Zigniew Brezinski did so again for the present and future. Suitable pretexts came to hand or were made up easily a century ago as they are again now to >=legitimize=> such policy - so long as they are not examined for more than a minute. In 1991 the pretext was >= violation of sovereignty;=> in 1999 >=protection of human rights;=> and in 2001-2 >=combating terrorism.@ No matter that on the record, it has been and continues to be US policy and praxis more than anyone else=s to violate sovereignty [what else the Yugoslavia policy?] and human rights and to support terrorism around the world [against Palestinians by Israel, Kurds by Turkey, Arabs by Saudi Arabia, by all the new US supported governments in Central Asia, not to mention by US allied and puppet regimes around the world during the past half century and longer]. World-wide condemnation of present US policy is manifest in countless resolutions passed by the UN General Assembly and increasingly by critiques of even the closest US allies in Europe. In the United States, to name only two former public personalities, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark [and even Henry Kissinger ], and former President Jimmy Carter has oft been publicly critical of US foreign policy and publicly opposed the War Against Yugoslavia.. An important statement in that regard by President Carter is posted below. This web-page section entitled ON THE NEW WORLD ORDER therefore deals with elements of its construction, especially in three US wars over the last decade: The War against Iraq in 1991, but which continues to this day through bombing and embargo at an estimated cost of over one million lives [When US Secretary of State was asked about that a few years ago, she answered point blank that the by then already one half million lives sacrificed >=has been worth it@]. Frank wrote several analytic essays on that war, but only the most inclusive one on THE THIRD WORLD WAR is posted here. It is now placed at the beginning of this Section not only because of when it was written, but because with a decade of hindsight it also still correctly outlines the major characteristics of n THE NEW WORLD ORDER, including the principal procedure for its establishment: US unilateral blackmail ultimatum threats to destroy your country if you do not do the US bidding. Bush son would later formulate it through his either with us or against us doctrine. If the latter, first Iraq, then Yugoslavia, now Afghanistan and where next is the example of what you will get. The 1999 NATO War against Yugoslavia, preceded by years of violence in Bosnia and Croatia and followed by military occupation of Kosovo and Macedonia was the second major example, and the 2001-02 War Against Afghanistan became the third.. Material on these wars and the policy behind them is posted below in reverse chronological order, beginning with the most recent - and so far here least examined one, then the by much the longest section on This web-page section incorporates what used to be a separate web?page and then a separate section on this web?page, which was created and built up during the 1999 NATO War against Yugoslavia [miscalled Kosovo War]. Examination of this page reveals both the striking parallels of that war with the present one against Afghanistan and the clear line of continuity from the one in 1999 in Yugoslavia [and indeed already from the war in 1991 against Iraq] to the present one 2002 War in Afghanistan and the threat of continued war elsewhere, including again against Iraq. This NATO Section contains a few 1999 essays by Andre Gunder Frank, many analyses by others that were selected by Frank for inclusion here, and ample documentary material, eg. chapter and verse in international law that was being violated in that war as also in the War against Afghanistan, as well as all along in the still continuing War against Iraq. The material was posted in 1999 chronologically by date, but with the latest on top; so that it now appears on the web?page in reverse chronological order ending on June 16 and beginning with postings on April 16,1999. Therefore essays by Frank, many of which appeared early and were at the end of the web?page, are now selected out into this introductory section. They are complemented here by a few supporting citations of international law [more extensive ones are in the 3 Part International Lawyers Brief posted on May 11] and a very interesting article by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Of particular current 2002 interest also are the postings on June 17, 1999 about that war and already then Caspian Sea/Central Asian oil and Russia. The latter is complemented by an article on the same by Frank written in December 2000. Several themes are repeated in the analysis and postings here on all three and the intervening periods. It might be useful to separate these themes and the postings thereon into separate sub-sections below, e.g. on the red thread of oil that runs though all of them, and wider geo-political-economic issues in the construction of a NEW WORLD ORDER. One essay by Frank questions whether the US can be successful in imposing this order however. An oft repeated theme is the also of repeated violation, nay total abrogation, of international law and the United Nations system, and its replacement by new MIGHT IS RIGHT in a uni-polar world, not seen since >=Pax Britannia=, which however was much more peaceful than the century past or as the present one is beginning. Since all these and other issues are interconnected in the real world, it is difficult to separate them out here below other than to supply some topical sub-titles. [PAUL: place the following titles and links here from On-Line essays/contemporary] A. ON NEW WORLD ORDER STRATEGY Third World War : A Political Economy of the Gulf War and New World Order 1991 Essay by Andre Gunder Frank [take from NATO page April 20] HAVE WE FORGOTTEN THE PATH TO PEACE? Essay by Jimmy Carter 1999 [take from NATO page 28 may] INTERVIEW OF ZBIGNIEW BREZINSKI > National Security Adviser in the Carter Administration > [sent to you] Also see "THE GRAND CHESSBOARD ? American Primacy And It's Geostrategic Imperatives," Zbigniew Brzezinski, Basic Books, 1997 and e Brzezinski on the site of Council on Foreign Relations http://www.cfr.org/public/resource.cgi?pers!1446 Ziggy wants to make the world safe for .. the USA! Excerpt 1999 [from 20 April] It's the Russians [not Kosovo] Stupid! Excerpt 1999 [in NATO page 16 june] Charting US grand chessboard moves - Christian Science Monitor [sent to you] From Suez to the Pacific US expands its presence across the globe [sent to you] Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio) protests Patriot Act abrogation of civil rights [sent to you] ON OIL Nato & Caucasus/Central Asia Oil Excerpt 1999 [ on 16 june] The 'Great Game' for Caspian Sea Oil .Essay by Gunder Frank 2000 [take from on line essays/on central asia] Also see CUI BONO essay by A.G Frank below B. THE WAR AGAINST AFGHANISTAN 2001-2002 Essays by A.G. Frank ON GEO-POLITICAL-ECONOMY The Tragedy of September 11: CUI BONO? [2001] U.S. Economic Overstretch and Military/Political Imperial Blowback? [2001] ON INTERNATIONAL LEGAL [DIS]ORDER The United Nations and International Law [2001] Michigan State University Model United Nations [2001] On Kofi Annan and the Nobel Peace Prize [2001] Frank also has a file elsewhere of hundreds of 2001-2002 essays and documents on a large variety of related issues that were and are still being copied from the web. They are not posted here, but some could be supplied on this or that topic on request to franka@fiu.edu C. THE WAR AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA 1999 ESSAYS BY ANDRE GUNDER FRANK SUMMARY ESSAY NATO's Kosovo Political Bomb [1999] [find in ON-Line essays!] ANALYTIC ESSAYS NATO BOMBS Essay by Gunder Frank [in 16 april] NATO AGAINST THE LAW & YUGOSLAVIA Essay by Gunder Frank [in 16 april] NATO HYPOCRISY IN YUGOSLAVIA Essay by Gunder Frank [in 16 april] PROGRAMATIC ESSAYS Whats Left? Do the Right Thing! Whats That? Essay by Gunder Frank [in 16 april] A MODEST LEGAL/UN PROPOSAL TO ACT! Essay by Gunder Frank [in 16 april] OH CANADA: SAVE THE WORLD AND THYSELF?A PROPOSAL Essay by Gunder Frank [in 26 april] POLITICAL ANTI?NATO WAR PRAXIS & PROGRAM Essay by Gunder Frank [2 june] DISCUSSION OF FRANK NATO ESSAYS ON THE NET On AGF on NATO Excerpt [in 17 april] ON THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL [DIS] ORDER [from May 3] War Crimes on all sides, including NATO Excerpt [from 18 april] MIGHT[&]TWO WRONGS MAKE A RIGHT? Essay by Gunder Frank [from 16 April] NATO AGAINST THE LAW & YUGOSLAVIA Essay by Gunder Frank Nuremberg & personal resposibility Excerpt [from 17 April] Nuremberg principles [for the record] Excerpt Genocide definition Excerpt [ from 28 May] WAR CRIMES LAW APPLIES TO U.S. TOO ? former , prosecutor at Nuremberg War Crimes Trial Essay by Walter J. Rockler War Crimes Web?site on Factual and Legal Briefs to ICT?Y Excerpt [from 11 May] International Criminal Tribunal?Y vs NATO member # 1 Excerpt Lawyers charge NATO Leaders for War Crimes # 2 Excerpt Lawyers' proposal to indict all NATO leaders for war crimes #3 Excerpt OTHER 1999 ESSAYS AND DOCUMENTATION in reverse chronological order [simply copy & link entire list from the old NATO section]
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