Dear RN list, May 7 Andre Gunder Frank is an economist who has been living in Canada, and whose essay/play _OH CANADA: SAVE THE WORLD,QUEBEC, AND YOURSELF, EH!_ - A Three Act Play Written for Immediate Performance on the World Stage, has been getting rave reviews. Examples: from Sandy Greenberg (of Razzmatazz for Kids, based in Halifax) writes: "The email you forwarded to me on Canada saving the world in a three-act play is brilliant! Can you tell me where it came from? I'd like to forward it to the PM, MP's, etc., but I want some background on it." Monique Lavoie: " Special thanks for the message from the Women in Black and for the 3-act play by Andre Gunder-Frank. I am glad that this great economist now lives in Canada." I wrote to Andre Gunder Frank to let him know of this support and he replied that he was travelling in the US just now and has not had time to get his idea (see below) promoted much, especially with the media. I'm hoping we can help with some of this work. all the best, Jan PS As you will see, in the second message below, Andre Gunder Frank's home page is a handy source for some of the very best articles analyzing the Yugoslavia situation. ********************************************************************* Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 14:34:24 -0400 From: Eric Fawcett <•••@••.•••> Subject: sfp-41: CANADA/UN/NATO/KOSOVO PROPOSAL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: ANDRE GUNDER FRANK 250 Kensington Ave - Apt 608 Tel: 1-514-933 2539 Westmount/Montreal PQ/QC Fax: 1-514-933 6445 Canada H3Z 2G8 e-mail:•••@••.••• My Personal/Professional Home Page> http://www.whc.neu.edu/gunder.html My NATO/Kosovo Page> http://csf.colorado.edu/archive/agfrank/nato_kosovo/ My professional/personal conclusion is the same as Pogo's - We have met the enemy, and it is US ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OH CANADA: SAVE THE WORLD,QUEBEC, AND YOURSELF, EH! - A Three Act Play Written for Immediate Performance on the World Stage . As a non-Canadian non-resident in Montreal, I offer a modest proposal to resolve the present NATO/Kosovo crisis that only Canada is in a position to implement, but the implementation of which is also of vital interest and benefit for Canada.: 1. ACT ONE Canada should take the initiative to convene an Emergency Session of the United Nations General Assembly to deal with the present serious crisis in the UN system, the Balkans and the world. For the Security Council is paralyzed by the split down the middle vetoes of its permanent members, three of which have therefore made an end run around the SC and replaced the UN by NATO. This move sets a most serious precedent to set aside the UN and its security and peace keeping institutions and mechanism altogether and threatens to spell the deathknell of the UN as Manchuria in 1931 and Abessinya in 1936 did to its League of Nations predecessor before WW II. And now NATO seems unable to do anything better than to expand its illegal war more and more and perhaps to provoke WW III. The important and relevant Canadian counter-move precedent was set by Prime Minister Lester Pearson when in face of a similar threat in 1956 he convoked the UN General Assembly to deal with the Suez Crisis, in which Britain and France were the aggressors and also paralyzed the Security Council by their veto power. Moreover, Pearson elaborated, presented and got approval and implementation of a United Nations Emergency Intervention Force [UNEIF], whose military planning and then overall command were in the hands of a Canadian general. British and French aggression forces were replaced by and naturally excluded from this UNIEF. The establishment of such a UNIEF is foreseen by the UN Charter, under whose Articles 41 and 42. such a UN military force can be used within the scope of exiting international law, which is decidedly NOT the case of any and all allegedly 'UN sanctioned' interventions, such as that assembed by the US under its own command in the 1991 Gulf War against Iraq.That violated more than a half dozen sections of the UN Charter, including some in Articles 41 and 42. The NATO action, of course, virtually abrogates the entire UN Charter, organization and peace keeping provisions and mechanisms. It was Lester Pearson's concern and merit to preempt that. Today it should and can be Canada's role again to lead the General Assembly to demand an immediate stop to the bombing and ethnic cleansing and to establish a new multinational UNEIF to go in on the ground to clean up, and avoid spreading further, the mess NATO has made in Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Albania, etc. That would also offer NATO a way out. Prime Minister Jean Chretien has said several times that as a member of NATO, Canada had the obligation to go along with the other member's decisions. Actually, that is not so, as Charles De Gaulle proved to the extent of NATO moving its headquarters out of France. It can be forcefully argued however that Mr. Chretien has far more mandate, obligation, and precedent to 'go along with' - and indeed to exercise a leadership role in - the United Nations for peace, as Canada more than any other country has done in the UN over the past half century, and NOT for war, which he is unwilling even to declare or to let Parliament debate. In a word, history has placed Canada in a privileged position to initiate and take steps to save the world and the United Nations in this period of crisis. As it happens, Canada now also has a seat on the Security Council, but to what avail? One would be to call the SC into emergency session as well if only to dramatize the paralysis and ineffectiveness of the SC - and of its titular head, the UN Secretary General, who maintained a thunderous silence during this past month of war, the prevention of which is the primary duty of his office under the UN Charter. If Canada cannot move the SG to act, then perhaps it and others can make the SG move out, that is to resign in protest against those on the SC who are making it impossible for him to carry out even minimally the duties of his office. Little would be lost, and much gained; since that would be a political impulse now to reform the SC, which is long overdue anyway. ACT TWO A second motion that Canada - and others - should bring in this Emergency Session of the UN General Assembly is to move the United Nations out of the United States. Under present circumstances, such a Canadian motion may be considered with favor by many member state delegations, and all the more so if Canada garners prestige and shows some independence of initiative and action [especially within North America] through its motion in Act One. An additional factor that may incline some delegations to move the UN out of the United States is that , after repeated requests and agreements, the United States remains in arrears in its payment of dues to the UN. Yet the US wishes to use the UN it in its own interests whenever it is convenient , but to disregard it whenever it is not. A third motion that Canada could and should then bring before the General Assembly is to invite and welcome the UN to move to Canada in general and to Montreal in particular. Canada and Montreal can offer the United Nations a whose series of advantages that would be difficult for others to match: - close to where it is now and still to Washington DC, yet in a country that is independent [if it has shown itself to so be in Act I!] -the only North American infrastructure cities outside of the US - in Montreal a truly bi-lingual city speaking two of the major UN languages [attractive for francophone delegations!], and immigrants who speak many other languages - centrally located already metro accessible available and/or constructable office and meeting space on Ilse St. Helene - abundant housing at low costs relative to any other major city that could harbor the UN - relatively economical, given its present price level and the exchange rate of the Canadian dollar - voted the best country in the world to live in! ACT 3 What's in it for Canada? Plenty - The prestige of reviving its traditional role of doing something useful in and for the UN and the world. - The need of taking an independent line on this UN issue will not only garner further international prestige per se, but it could serve as an impulse for greater Canadian independence and bargaining power in other matters as well. - Bringing, constructing, running the UN site in Canada brings hundreds of millions of dollars into Canada The UN in Canada offers extra employment to the people of Quebec and ROC Canadians , both highly and less skilled . Bringing the UN to Montreal is likely de facto to settle the Quebec in-or-out of the Federation issue in one fell swoop: With the UN in Montreal, Quebec could not afford to and would not wish to secede from Canada any more. Moreover, the Province of Quebec and the City of Montreal [like New York City now] and the UN could make bi-lateral 'administrative' arrangments for their co-habitation, so that these and the UN itself could serve as a institutional and moral guarantors of Quebec as a distinct society. Of course, Canada still could and should accommodate the Quebecois, but it would not need to fall and drown in any more Meech Lake like swamp. And with Quebec finally safe and sound in the Confederation of Canada , so would be the Maritimes, Alberta, and BC. That is, Canada itself would be saved. CURTAIN CALL In three simple acts building on Canadian precedent and prestige at the United Nations, Canada today has the golden opportunity to not only to save the United Nations itself, but The World, Quebec, and Canada itself into the bargain. All we [I wish I could say 'we' ] need is a little bit of the political will and leadership in the tradition of Dief and Lester. JUST SAY YES! LET'S DO IT!! [Applause] ******************************************************************** Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 04:11:20 -0500 From: Mark Douglas Whitaker <•••@••.•••> Subject: Gunder Frank's New NATO/KOSOV web page (fwd) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ANDRE GUNDER FRANK 250 Kensington Ave - Apt 608 Tel: 1-514-933 2539 Westmount/Montreal PQ/QC Fax: 1-514-933 6445 Canada H3Z 2G8 e-mail:•••@••.••• My Personal/Professional Home Page> http://www.whc.neu.edu/gunder.html My NATO/Kosovo Page> http://csf.colorado.edu/archive/agfrank/nato_kosovo/ My professional/personal conclusion is the same as Pogo's - We have met the enemy, and it is US ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please establish hot-links to this page if you have a Kosovo page or section and/or post this announcement on your discussion or other related e-mail net regarding: http://csf.colorado.edu/archive/agfrank/nato_kosovo/ This is Gunder Frank's new NATO/KOSOVO web page with dates of my postings, containing: - ESSAYS BY GUNDER FRANK [titles in capitals,1-4 thousand words] - ESSAYS BY OTHERS [titles in capitals, authors in lower case] - excerpted items of news and documents [tiles in lower case, length 200-400 words] FOR TABLE OF CONTENTS SEE BELOW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ANDRE GUNDER FRANK 250 Kensington Ave - Apt 608 Tel: 1-514-933 2539 Westmount/Montreal PQ/QC Fax: 1-514-933 6445 Canada H3Z 2G8 e-mail:•••@••.••• My Personal/Professional Home Page> http://www.whc.neu.edu/gunder.html My NATO/Kosovo Page> http://csf.colorado.edu/archive/agfrank/nato_kosovo/ My professional/personal conclusion is the same as Pogo's - We have met the enemy, and it is US ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gunder Frank's Essays and Selections on NATO/Kosovo --------------------------- LINKS TO: Gunder Frank home page| Z Magazine on NATO/Kosovo | Jay's Leftist Resources | ------------------------------ 19 April 1999 WAR IS PEACE NATO BIG BROTHER ASSURES US Long analytic essay by Gunder Frank first posted March 26 NATO VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW Essay by Gunder Frank NATO AGAINST THE LAW & YUGOSLAVIA Essay by Gunder Frank NATO HYPOCRISY IN YUGOSLAVIA Essay by Gunder Frank CANADA CAN MAKE PEACE IN KOSOVO Essay by Joanna Santa Barbara in TORONTO STAR YUGOSLAVIA THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY Essay by Diana Johnstone KOSOVO/YUGOSLAVIA BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS Essay by Arno Tausch THE CLINTON DOCTRINE by Boris Kagarlitsky Essay by Moscow WHY NATO EXPANSION Essay by Douglas Roche, MP and former Canadian Ambassador to the UN for Disarmament IMPACT OF NATO BOMBING [till April 11] Essay by M. Chossudovsky FATAL STRATEGY FLAWS Essay by Gen.Satish Nabiar [recently commander of UN mission forces in Yugoslavia] FROM SELF DETERMINATION TO NATO IN YUGOSLAVIA Essay by Hannes Hofbauer (Vienna) in German CURRENT BOMBING Essay by Noam Chomsky DISMANTLING YUGOSLAVIA Essay by M .Chossudovsky Excerpts from News and Documentary Items Freedom of the Press from the Horses Mouth - Excrpt Kosovo Crisis Points to Global Realignment Excerpt The Path to Crisis: How the United States and Its Allies Went to War Excerpt same and more chemicals again Excerpt which side are you on? Excerpt more 'collateral' chemicals in the sky Excerpt Voices from the Serbian opposition to Milosevic Excerpt France splits NATO for fear of Russia Excerpt one journalist begs to differ Excerpt more 'collateral' [non civilian? non?] damage Excerpt Nuremberg & personal resposibility Excerpt 18 April 1999 MIGHT[&]TWO WRONGS MAKE A RIGHT? Essay by Gunder Frank more 'collateral' chemicals in the sky Excerpt 17 April 1999 genocide definition Excerpt on AGF on NATO Excerpt Nuremberg principles [for the record] Excerpt 16 April 1999 Clinton with Serbian-Americans and in re NATO Excerpt A MODEST LEGAL/UN PROPOSAL TO ACT! Essay by Gunder Frank no civilian collateral damage? Excerpt freedom of the press Excerpt church appeal Excerpt The Blue Danube Excerpt forward planning - but not for Albanians Excerpt humanitarian pretexts and precedents Excerpt YU ground invasion alternatives Excerpt russian volunteers and consequences Excerpt proliferation Excerpt profits Excerpt WHATS LEFT? DO THE RIGHT THING!WHATS THAT? Essay Gunder Frank depleted uranium warheads Excerpt rambouillet Excerpt CIA & other warnings Excerpt Kosovo mining wealth Excerpt KLA Excerpt Fatal Flaws in NAto mission Excerpt Hague Court appeal by Russia Excerpt Kosovo genocide? Excerpt OSCE Pan European/North Am alternative to NATO Excerpt NATO war dividends Excerpt The cost of war in Kosovo Excerpt
