ANFALLSKRIG, DET
VÄRSTA BROTTET
Den australisk-födde John Pilger är en känd undersökande journalist, som i flera decennier har skrivit mycket
läsvärt. Senast han förekom på svenska var i den småskriftserie som förlaget
Karneval ger ut. Hans bok heter ”Strangeloveeffekten” med undertiteln ”eller hur vi duperats att acceptera ett
nytt världskrig.”
Nu läser jag en lång artikel av honom. Där tar han upp vad
västmakternas senaste krig har lett till. Om angreppet på Irak 2003, som
beljögs för sina massförintelsevapen, skriver han efter att ha påmint om vad
domstolen i Nürnberg mot de ledande nazisterna fatslog.
”Att lnleda ett anfallskrig är inte
bara ett internationellt brott, det är det värsta internationella brottet, som
skiljer sig från andra krigsbrott genom att det leder till alla andra
förbrytelser”
Och han fortsätter:
”Had the United States and its satellites not initiated their
war of aggression in Iraq in 2003, almost a million people would be alive
today; and Islamic State, or ISIS, would not have us in thrall to its
savagery.”
”KATASTROFEN” I LIBYEN
Insatsen mot Libyen 2011 kallar Pilger för en ”katastrof”. (Där
var Sverige också med på ett hörn). Han skriver:
”In
2011, Nato launched 9,700 "strike sorties" against Libya, of which
more than a third were aimed at civilian targets. Uranium warheads were used;
the cities of Misurata and Sirte were carpet-bombed. The Red Cross identified
mass graves, and Unicef reported that "most [of the children killed] were
under the age of ten".
The
public sodomising of the Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi with a
"rebel" bayonet was greeted by the then US Secretary of State,
Hillary Clinton, with the words: "We came, we saw, he died." His
murder, like the destruction of his country, was justified with a familiar big
lie; he was planning "genocide" against his own people. "We
knew... that if we waited one more day," said President Obama,
"Benghazi, a city the size of Charlotte, could suffer a massacre that
would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the
world."
Om det laglösa kaos i Libyen som blev
följden av Libyenkriget säger Pilger inte mycket, mer än att han tar upp de
kristna koptiska gästarbetarna, som mördades av ISIS. Skälet till Natos
ingripande var ekonomiskt, påstår han:
”For
Obama, Cameron and Hollande, Gaddafi's true crime was Libya's economic
independence and his declared intention to stop selling Africa's greatest oil
reserves in US dollars. The petrodollar is a pillar of American imperial power.
Gaddafi audaciously planned to underwrite a common African currency backed by
gold, establish an all-Africa bank and promote economic union among poor
countries with prized resources. Whether or not this would happen, the very
notion was intolerable to the US as it prepared to "enter" Africa and
bribe African governments with military ¨partnership’ ".
JUGOSLAVIEN
Om Jugoslaviens sönderfall och
Nato-angreppet 1999 skriver Pilger:
”In
1999, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair sent Nato to bomb Serbia, because, they lied,
the Serbs were committing "genocide" against ethnic Albanians in the
secessionist province of Kosovo. David Scheffer, US ambassador-at-large for war
crimes [sic], claimed that as many as "225,000 ethnic Albanian men aged
between 14 and 59" might have been murdered. Both Clinton and Blair evoked
the Holocaust and "the spirit of the Second World War". The West's
heroic allies were the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), whose criminal record was
set aside. The British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, told them to call him any
time on his mobile phone.
With
the Nato bombing over, and much of Serbia's infrastructure in ruins, along with
schools, hospitals, monasteries and the national TV station, international
forensic teams descended upon Kosovo to exhume evidence of the
"holocaust". The FBI failed to find a single mass grave and went
home. The Spanish forensic team did the same, its leader angrily denouncing
"a semantic pirouette by the war propaganda machines". A year later,
a United Nations tribunal on Yugoslavia announced the final count of the dead
in Kosovo: 2,788. This included combatants on both sides and Serbs and Roma
murdered by the KLA. There was no genocide. The "holocaust" was a
lie. The Nato attack had been fraudulent.”
AFGHANISTAN
Västs försyndelser på 60- 70- och
80-talen mot afghanerna skildrar Pilger så här:
”In
the 1960s, a popular revolution swept Afghanistan, the poorest country on
earth, eventually overthrowing the vestiges of the aristocratic regime in 1978.
The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) formed a government and
declared a reform programme that included the abolition of feudalism, freedom
for all religions, equal rights for women and social justice for the ethnic
minorities. More than 13,000 political prisoners were freed and police files
publicly burned.
The
new government introduced free medical care for the poorest; peonage was
abolished, a mass literacy programme was launched. For women, the gains were
unheard of. By the late 1980s, half the university students were women, and
women made up almost half of Afghanistan's doctors, a third of civil servants
and the majority of teachers. "Every girl," recalled Saira Noorani, a
female surgeon, "could go to high school and university. We could go where
we wanted and wear what we liked. We used to go to cafes and the cinema to see
the latest Indian film on a Friday and listen to the latest music. It all
started to go wrong when the mujaheddin started winning. They used to kill
teachers and burn schools. We were terrified. It was funny and sad to think
these were the people the West supported."
The
PDPA government was backed by the Soviet Union, even though, as former
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance later admitted, "there was no evidence of
any Soviet complicity [in the revolution]". Alarmed by the growing
confidence of liberation movements throughout the world, Brzezinski decided
that if Afghanistan was to succeed under the PDPA, its independence and
progress would offer the "threat of a promising example".
On
July 3, 1979, the White House secretly authorised support for tribal
"fundamentalist" groups known as the mujaheddin, a program that grew
to over $500 million a year in U.S. arms and other assistance. The aim was the
overthrow of Afghanistan's first secular, reformist government. In August 1979,
the US embassy in Kabul reported that "the United States' larger
interests... would be served by the demise of [the PDPA government], despite whatever setbacks this might
mean for future social and economic reforms reforms in Afghanistan." The italics are mine.”
UKRAINA
Intensiteten i smädekampanjen mot
Ryssland och porträttet av dess president som en skurk, säger Pilger, liknar
inte något jag har har upplevt som reporter. Om Ukraina hänvisar han till Robert Parry, en av USA:s mest
undersökande journalister, som avslöjade Iran-Contra-skandalen:
"No
European government, since Adolf Hitler's Germany, has seen fit to dispatch
Nazi storm troopers to wage war on a domestic population, but the Kiev regime
has and has done so knowingly. Yet across the West's media/political spectrum,
there has been a studious effort to cover up this reality even to the point of
ignoring facts that have been well established... If you wonder how the world
could stumble into world war three - much as it did into world war one a
century ago - all you need to do is look at the madness over Ukraine that has
proved impervious to facts or reason."
På svenska finns en liten bok av Rober
Parry i Karnevals förlags småskriftserie. Den heter ”Bakom kulisserna i Kiev” och har undertiteln ”Om hur amerikansk nykonservatism och ukrainsk nynazism drev fram en
kupp och ett krig i Ukraina”. Den kostar bara 50 kr.
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