antarchi's quotes

Following NATO's victory over Yugoslavia and occupation of Kosovo, there then transpired the "largest ethnic cleaning in the Balkans [in proportionate terms]" (Jan Oberg), with some 150,000 Serbs put to flight along with thousands of Roma—with thousands of Roma suffering the loss of houses torched by the returning Kosovo Albanians. All this was done under NATO authority.

A Green Party activist, was searched and then arrested at the entrance to the Climate Camp ... for alleged 'possession of a controlled substance'.

He was handcuffed and taken away by the police to Medway Police Station in Gillingham, where he was put into a windowless cell without proper drinking water or toilet facilities for the next five hours. His fingerprints and thumbprints were taken, and a DNA swab from his mouth, thus putting him onto the national police database.

Only after nearly five hours was the substance in question actually tested by the police and found to be, as Mr Wootton had explained from the start, vitamin C.

In March 2004, the press reported that the UK had signed a new bilateral extradition treaty [with the US], and given the US an undertaking that any person extradited from the US to the UK would not be surrendered to the ICC.

A letter from David Blunkett, the British Home Secretary, to John Ashcroft, the US Attorney General, states: 'the UK would contest any request from the ICC for each surrender, as being incompatible with Article 98 (2) of the Statute of the ICC'.

Media critic Philip Hammond observed that within 24 hours of the start of NATO bombing, "the Yugoslav president had been described by the UK press as a 'warlord' a 'Serb butcher', the 'Butcher of Belgrade', the 'Butcher of the Balkans', 'the most evil dictator to emerge in Europe since Adolph Hitler', a 'psychopath', a 'Serb tyrant', a 'psychopathic tyrant', 'evil', a 'man of no mercy', and a 'former communist hardliner'. Casting around for insults, the Star added that he was 'dumpy'.

In late September 1991, over 120 Gospic Serbs, including prominent professors and judges, were abducted and murdered, their bodies destroyed or hidden.

...this was the first massacre carried out as a deliberate act of ethnic cleansing, designed to frighten the Serb population of Croatia into fleeing. Yet it was ignored by the world's media. The name of Gospic never became part of the litany of atrocities repeated by news media covering Yugoslav wars.

"Soon after I informed Bowman [a high-level official in the FBI who deals with terrorism and counterterrorism] the FBI authorized the destruction of the Ames cultural anthrax database," Professor Boyle said. The Ames strain turned out to be the same strain as the spores used in the attacks. The alleged destruction of the anthrax culture collection at Ames, Iowa, from which the Fort Detrick lab got its pathogens meant that there was no way of finding out which strain was sent to whom to develop the larger breed of anthrax used in the attacks. The trail of genetic evidence would have led directly back to a secret government biowarfare program. "Clearly, for the FBI to have authorized this was obstruction of justice, a federal crime," said Boyle.

In December 2004, Naomi Oreskes of the University of California at San Diego reported in the leading journal, Science, on her analysis of a sample of 928 papers published in scientific journals between 1993 and 2003 under the keywords "climate change"...

Of all the papers, 75% either explicitly or implicitly accepted the consensus view; 25% dealt with methods or climate issues in the geological past, taking no position on current human-induced climate change. Remarkably, not one of the papers disagreed with the consensus position.

The principal mechanism for cutting carbon dioxide emissions is carbon trading, which essentially entails enclosure of the last remaining commons – the carbon absorption capacity of the atmosphere – by allocating property rights to those who are already destroying it. This is none other than a neoliberal extension of commodification of the atmosphere...

Two thirds of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere originates from the G7 countries, with currently 13 per cent of the world’s population

...if the whole world wished to consume at the level of the United States - a consumption pattern which has been fuelled, incidentally, by the credit binge which led to the current economic crisis - we would need, conservatively, over 5 planets like earth to support them. But, under the current pattern of unequally distributed benefits from growth, to lift everyone in the world onto a modest $3 per day, would require the resources of around 15 planets like ours. Where, you might ask, will the other 14 come from?