Well Worth the Time: New Books
Ratko Mladic: Tragic Hero
Read this and make up your mind whether Ratko Mladic is guilty until proven innocent ... or innocent until proven guilty.
David Binder, New York Times Reporter since 1963
The First General to Fight Islamic Fundamentalism in Europe
“Ratko Mladic: Tragic Hero” is the first book-length study to appear in English about the controversial Serbian general. It departs radically from mainstream news coverage of General Mladic because it presumes him to be innocent of charges of war crimes and genocide until he has been proven guilty. Furthermore, Ratko Mladic: Tragic Hero presumes that the West has been acting against its own best interests by supporting Islamic fundamentalist terrorism in the former Yugoslavia, while at the same time attempting to prosecute General Mladic for alleged crimes for which there is still no proof, even after the passage of more than a decade. Genegal Ratko Mladic was the first General to fight Islamic fundamentalism in Europe. Why has he been demonized while others, who have done little or nothing—or who have even aided and abetted the rise of Islamic fundamentalism—have been praised?
“Ratko Mladic, Tragic Hero” consists of an abridgment of Mr. Stojadinovic’s book, “Ratko Mladic, Hero or War Criminal?” (Evro, Belgrade, 2001) which discusses Mladic’s biography, his successes and failures as a general, the dilemmas he faced as a soldier, and tries to answer the question: how good a general was he, and is he a war criminal? It is followed by “Bringing Democracy to Bosnia,” by Gregory Elich, a respected journalist whose work has appeared on CounterPunch.org and Covert Action, which examines the results of the Dayton Peace Accords in Bosnia, and demonstrates that the West has imposed a dictatorship in Bosnia that benefits only globalists and multinational corporations.
Background chapters provide a context for the Bosnian War that the mainstream media has systematically ignored. “Bosniacs, Nazi Muslims, Mujahideen, and Bin Laden” traces the rise of Bosnian Muslim fascism and its connection to Islamic fundamentalism as exemplified by the Nazi SS Handzar Division during WWII, which was organized by Himmler and Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.
Alija Izetbegovic, former President of Bosnia-Herzegovina, began his career as recruiter for the Handzar Division and acted as a historical link, connecting resurgent Muslim fascism and fundamentalism in Yugoslavia in the 1990s to that of WWII. “Ustashi, Murderer Monks, and the Modern Croatian State” examines the Ustashi Nazi Puppet state created by Hitler in Croatia during WWII, and the involvement of the Roman Catholic clergy in the administration of the Jasenovac death camp, as well as many others like it. The contemporary Croatian state is shown to be a direct heir to the Croatian Nazi puppet state of WWII.
The most controversial chapter is “Srebrenica, the Phantom Massacre,” which analyzes the alleged “Srebrenica Massacre” and challenges the groundless accusation that “7,000 Muslim men and boys” were killed there. This analysis relies on mainstream news coverage of The Hague Tribunal, the work of independent analysts, and the Srebrenica Report (authored by Darko Trifunovic) that was issued by the Republika Srpska in 2002. UN High Representative Paddy Ashdown dismissed this 2002 Report without ever having read it. The analysis argues persuasively that at most about 1,800 armed Bosnian Muslim soldiers died in combat, and that about 100 were killed in summary executions. In other words, there was no massacre—only combat fatalities.
Seventy pages of interviews with General Mladic appear in English for the first time, along with appendices that reprint key articles by David Binder, A.M. Rosenthal, Chris Hedges, Kosta Cavoski, and T.W. Carr. The Hague indictment is also reprinted.
“Ratko Mladic: Tragic Hero” will contribute to a greater understanding of General Mladic’s role in the Bosnian war that will benefit scholars, historians, journalists and students, as well as Americans who want to take a more critical look at U.S. military adventures overseas.
Ratko Mladic is a tragic hero because he fought the rising tide of Islamic fundamentalism and neo-fascism in the Balkans.
“Justice” or Triumphal Vengeance?
“This book allows the reader to determine whether the Ratko Mladic case is about “justice” or about triumphal vengeance, about going after and destroying those who would dare to oppose the New World Order. It offers another perspective, a perspective meticulously censored and suppressed in the US and Western mainstream. Moreover, the book is essentially antiwar because it shows how wars are manipulated and exploited and fomented by self-interested outside powers and interests. They maliciously foment war and incite hatred and encourage killing, then sit back and judge and impose their “justice.”
This book is highly recommended. It encourages critical and independent thought, not mindless, lock-step conformity and obeisance.”
An excerpt from the “Ratko Mladic: Tragic Hero” book review by Carl Savich
Revenge of the Prophet: How Clinton And His Predecessors Empowered Radical Islam
Book by Vojin Joksimovich, Ph.D., also available at Regina Orthodox Press
“Vojin Joksimovich has gone to great lengths to bring some sense of great understanding to Western audiences about the Islamist threat which they have refused to comprehend. Few people have paid heed to the understanding and warnings contained in Dr. Joksimovich’s Kosovo Crisis study in 1999. If they read and debated his findings at the time, then the current crisis of ineptitude and arrogance of the international community in managing Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina situations would not have reached such profoundly sad and destructive proportions. I commend this book to you as a part of the process of that great and necessary understanding.”
Gregory Copley, President of International Strategic Studies
Association and Editor GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs
The subject of 9/11 root causes did not receive due attention in the 9/11 Commission report. Islamism, the radical fusion of religion and politics with jihad at its center, is an obvious root cause. Islamist ideology is centered on reintroduction of a caliphate, an Islamic super-state governed by Islamic Sharia law. In the post Cold War era, Islamism has been competing with the U.S.-led globalization ideology for world domination.
The primary tool for long-term expansion of Islamism is proselytism of Islam, Saudi Wahhabi Islam in particular. Terrorism is a tactic of asymmetric warfare, a great cost-effective equalizer, causing huge political and economic impact on a short-term basis.
The Islamist terrorist networks flourished and grew exponentially during the Clinton era. The President’s lack of resolve to fight terrorism and his turning the blind eye to radical Islam fueled the rise of Osama bin Laden from isolation and obscurity to a planetary hydra-like monster. The track record qualifies Clinton to be characterized as the Neville Chamberlain of the 1990s. His predecessors going back to President Roosevelt in 1945 have also contributed a great deal to empower radical Islam.
Strange Liberators: Militarism, Mayhem, and the Pursuit of Profit
Book by Gregory Elich, also available at Llumina Press
From war and sanctions to corporate plunder and the looming threat of climate change, the harrowing accounts in Gregory Elich’s Strange Liberators comprise an essential source for understanding today’s world. This is U.S. foreign policy as seen by those on the receiving end.
“Informed Americans know about their government’s interventions into Vietnam, Cuba, Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere. They know about the violations of international law, the injustices, the lies, and the harm caused by these actions. But the case of Yugoslavia tends to draw a blank. Even worse, it tends to elicit support for this ‘humanitarian’ intervention. Correcting this gross misunderstanding and distortion of history is one reason among many for reading this book.”
William Blum, author of Killng Hope and Rogue State
“Using a wealth of historic evidence and revelatory analysis, deep research and eye-witness investigation, Gregory Elich treats what lawyers call the ‘hard cases’: Yugoslavia, Croatia, Zimbabwe, North Korea, and certain untouched questions about Iraq, issues that have been most thoroughly misrepresented in the corporate media and even by political commentators and activists who claim to be on the left.
Elich wastes no time with genuflections to the dominant ideology. Instead he sticks to the awful facts and glaring truths that compose the underlying reality of the U.S. global empire. He ties in his deeply informed case studies to the wider issues of U.S. imperial policy, the broader questions of war and peace, and the general crisis that faces the entire world and the planet’s ecology itself. Thereby he performs a most valuable service to persons all across the political spectrum.”
Michael Parenti, author of The Culture Struggle,
The Assassination of Julius Caesar and To Kill a Nation
“Gregory Elich is the model investigative journalist of the anti-imperialist left; tenacious, thorough, penetrating, meticulous and above all, uncompromising. On Yugoslavia, North Korea, Zimbabwe, and Iraq, no one digs deeper, and no one uncovers more, than Elich.”
Stephen Gowans, political commentator, What’s Left
“For years, Gregory Elich has made his mark as a journalist-historian who pairs a special literary flair with a talent for uncovering real time, tightly held intelligence secrets. In this profoundly ominous time of modern history, there are precious few contemporary writers who brook no compromise with the truth. This volume stands tall, and the author is a special breed.”
Louis Wolf, publisher of Covert Action Quarterly
“Gregory Elich offers a clear and vital analysis of the goals of private interests and their secret collusion with the Bush administration to cover up a broad range of dangers, from war to global warming. Scholars, researchers and the lay public interested in US foreign policy will find this book both vital and illuminating.”
Lenora Foerstel, Vice President of Women for Mutual Security
and author of
Confronting the Margaret Mead Legacy
“Gregory Elich has dedicated himself to skillfully unearthing and disseminating the information that typically goes unsaid. He provides us with the well-researched fundamentals we cannot and should not expect to get from our newspapers or televisions. Put another way, Elich teaches us to identify the ‘gates’ that restrict our freedom of thought.”
Mickey Z, author of The Seven Deadly Spins and
50 American Revolutions You’re Not Supposed to Know