March 25, 1999

The U.S. government has again decided to carry out the massive bombing of a sovereign country. Today, thousands of bombs and missiles began crashing down on the people of Yugoslavia. For the last two months, U.S. air force planes and cruise missiles have been carrying out a similar reign of terror against the people of Iraq.

Clinton portrays this bombing as a humanitarian gesture on behalf of the Albanian national minority that resides in Kosovar, a region of Yugoslavia. That is a lie. It is war propaganda designed to justify and conceal the real objective of this war of aggression.

Yugoslavia, like Iraq, is a regional power in a strategic area that the Pentagon and Wall Street corporations seek to dominate. The Yugoslav government is presented as being akin to Adolf Hitler. This is the same rhetoric that is reserved for Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Manuel Noriega earlier in Panama.

The truth is that these governments have in one way or another resisted the designs of the U.S military and economic establishment to turn their countries into semi-colonies ruled by puppet governments.

The U.S. government says it speaks on behalf of all of the people of this county when it carries out this war. But working people need to consider who the U.S. government really represent. It is the biggest corporations and banks that call the shots. Clinton or George Bush before him are simply the paid politicians who do the bidding of corporate America.

Is it conceivable that the worldwide political agenda of corporate America is motivated by humanitarian concerns? These corporations care about two things only profits and super profits. IBM, Exxon, Bankers' Trust, and General Motors are willing to lay off thousands of workers in the United States in order to open up new factories and operations in the Third World and in the territories that used to belong to the Soviet Union.

Corporate America doesn't give a damn about the lives of working people, especially people of color, who suffer from racism, discrimination, and police brutality.

If corporate America and the White House want to fight on behalf of national minority peoples, they could declare a war against racism right here at home. Instead, they are tearing up affirmative action agreements and civil rights gains while protecting racist police forces that function as a virtual occupation army inside Black and Latino neighborhoods inside the United States.
We were lied to about the Vietnam War. Millions of young men and women in the U.S. armed forces were sent to kill and be killed. Who dies in these wars? It is working class youth who are asked to be cannon fodder, but the Pentagon wars serve only the interests of the biggest Corporations.

Demand that the U.S. stop bombing and oppose any U.S./NATO army of occupation In Yugoslavia. He want money for jobs, education, housing, not war.

We have been participating in demonstrations and have literature on the Balkans. Please call (410) 235-7040 or email apcbaltimore@pipeline.com for information.

All Peoples Congress, 426 E. 31st St., Baltimore, Md. 21218, phone: (410) 235-7040