Editor’s Note: This special edition of The Hieronimus & Co. Journal was written by Zohara M. Hieronimus, mostly throughout the year 1999. Portions of it were broadcast over the air as commentary reports by Zohara.
Author’s Note: “Nation Taking As Extreme Politics” is an essay examining the process by which nations are being stripped of their autonomy by various forms of geopolitical, military and economic weapons. Using primarily NATO’s effort to take total possession of Yugoslavia as an example, the reader will be shown the stark brutality of technobarbarism and the rise of global fascism as an economic world model.
I do not pretend to be an expert in foreign affairs nor do I have any great command of history of the region. I am, however, a talented observer of patterns and see in NATO’s illegal ransacking of Yugoslavia, like other destabilization strategies in foreign affairs, a predictable outcome based on a predictable goal. “Nation Taking As Extreme Politics” is a condemnation of NATO’s brutal destruction of Yugoslavia, the hypocrisy of NATO’s members and their underwriters in the multinational fraternity of war racketeers.
This essay is dedicated to the men, women and children of Yugoslavia, who, despite their suffering and loss, still strive for a united nation built upon the foundation of representative law making. Ultimately, it is in this process, that liberty is inherited and freedom preserved anywhere on Earth. I invite every person who supported NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia to see this undeclared war and “nation taking” from another point of view.—Zoh M. Hieronimus, January 13, 2000
The ruins of Kosovo are, for me, a sorry symbol on the lid of the 20th century. When the corporate state underwrites the destabilization of a nation through its government contractors, and then facilitates, through loans and hiring contracts, the rebuilding or takeover of the demolished territory and its economy, neither our laws nor our governments offer sanctuary. Yet, those subject to this megalithic global oppression have not identified the nature of this system that is attacking all nations simultaneously. As a member of the media, I believe if the media would shine a light on this insidious for-profit death economy, as evidenced in the U.S.’s drug war or NATO’s international wars, humanity would rise up and insist upon the creation of a life economy, or one that would value all life on Earth above all else.
NATOSLAVIA —THE NATION TAKEOVER
The occupation of Yugoslavia by NATO in 1999 is an example of modern day imperialism. It is a demonstration of “nation taking”, much like a corporate takeover. Nation taking, like some corporate buy-outs, is a form of brutish lawlessness, in this case militarized corporatism. It is a form of global seizure. Those in power have been selling off the nationstate; in some cases they sold out by privatizing state functions and infrastructures, and in others by militarizing the community in order to diminish sovereign liberties.
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