MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
MURDERER, WAR CRIMINAL, HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATOR & PROFESSOR AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
APR 11, 2022
Somehow this didn’t make it to the current version of Hausfrauleaks. I’m putting it up because Albright has been dead for two years—and we should celebrate.
Madeleine Albright, Catholic, later Episcopalian, born Jewish, died March 23, 2022. Lavishly praised by the Mainstream Media, including the New York Times, for being the first woman Secretary of State (1997-2002) and being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama, she nevertheless had a dreadfully dark side: the complete and utter destruction of Yugoslavia and the deliberate murder of 500,000 Iraqi children.
Born Marie Jana Korbelovna in Prague, in what was then Czechoslovakia, she was the daughter of a Czech diplomat. Entering the U.S. as a refugee, she went on to marry Joseph Albright and worked as a fundraiser for Sen. Edmund Muskie (D-Maine) in his failed 1972 presidential campaign. Subsequently, she worked as Muskie’s chief legislative assistant before going on to join Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor and architect of the Afghanistan disaster as well as Islamic terrorism.
Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service
Tight with influential Democratic politicians and policy makers, she taught international affairs at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service between 1982 and 1983. She later taught at Georgetown every year that she was not at the UN or Secretary of State, a total of some 40 years.
President Bill Clinton named her American ambassador to the United Nations (UN) in1993. There, she backed an increased role for the U.S. in UN operations, especially those having a military component.
In 1999, despite being a supposed “forceful champion of democracy and human rights”, Albright exhorted NATO to bomb Yugoslavia. The battle, which some called “Madeleine’s War”, lasted 78 days. This included 38,400 aviation sorties which destroyed billions of dollars’ worth of infrastructure, commercial buildings, schools, health institutions, media headquarters, and cultural monuments. The object was, in Prof. A.C. Grayling’s phrase, to dehouse, deculturalize, destabilize, and destroy the country. Along the way, Madeleine’s generals bombed a bus full of women and children, struck a hospital, and killed three diplomats when they “accidentally” targeted the Chinese embassy. When Serbian TV criticized Albright and Clinton, it was bombed as well, with 16 people dying as a result.
What was once Yugoslavia
When asked about this in 2013, Madeleine asserted that it was not legal but rather “fair”. According to journalist Danny Haiphong, Albright was an infamous “Serb-hater” who intentionally sabotaged negations with that country prior to the bombing campaign. (According to the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette, this came from her efforts to charge Serb leaders, such as former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and the wartime Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, with war crimes.)
Madeleine also used, Haiphong noted, the Yugoslav war to promote NATO’s eastward expansion. This policy would directly impact Russian policy in the Ukraine which has resulted in the unnecessary conflict currently unfolding in Eastern Europe.
Her sinister role in Iraq is no less reprehensible, as Ahmed Twaij, an independent journalist, noted. President Bill Clinton proclaimed her as “a passionate force for freedom, democracy, and human rights.” Joe Biden, for his part, asserted that she “was always a force for goodness, grace and decency—and for freedom.”
Twaij, an Iraqi, commented “…the memory of Albright will forever be tainted by the stringent sanctions she helped place on my country at a time when it was already devastated by years of war. Millions of innocent Iraqis suffered terribly, and hundreds of thousands died because of the sanctions which, in the end, achieved almost none of Washington’s policy objectives….”
In 1996, on CBS’ 60 Minutes, Leslie Stahl, one of the show’s journalists, asked Albright if the sanctions causing the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children, more than died in the atom bombing of Hiroshima, were worth it. Madeleine said they were.
Some of the 500,000
Twaij added that it was next to impossible to maintain contact with family and friends in Iraq because the phones did not work. Visiting Iraq, he said “even the most basic products—like milk—could not be found in local markets. The people were hungry and hopeless.” All thanks to Albright’s “goodness”.
Georgetown University, which once awarded me the degree of Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service (B.S.F.S.), went all out on its website praising the sinister Albright. Captioned Georgetown Honors Beloved Professor and Human rights Advocate Madeleine Albright, university president John J. DeGioia, gushed “We honor the life of Madeleine Albright—a leader who served not only our nation, but our world.” Continuing, DeGioia effused “…We remember her as a distinguished public servant, a groundbreaking leader, a devoted professor, and a seasoned diplomat who has demonstrated her visionary leadership on complex international issues…”
John DeGioia, President
Although Georgetown University presents itself as a ‘forward-looking, diverse community devoted to social justice, restless inquiry and respect for each person’s individual needs and talents.”, it has, in fact, been and is home to remarkably intolerant and right-wing professors and policies.
Some Examples. Reader, please note that, in the past, I wrote three times to Georgetown’s president asking how many Israeli professors were teaching there and how much of its endowment was invested in Israeli or Israeli-owned firms. I never received a reply.
Georgetown has also been linked to the Syrian group affiliated to Al-Qaeda: The White Helmets. “On November 14, 2016, Georgetown’s Foreign Service School, its Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS), and its Middle East-North Africa (MENA) Forum featured the Netflix propaganda film “The White Helmets”. Following the film (which the Helmets had shot), the university hosted a one-sided panel discussion that bypassed any mention of its role in aiding armed militias fighting against their government. My article WHITE HELMETS: NATO's Finest Terrorist-Linked 'First Responders' Shamelessly Promoted by Georgetown University - carried both by 21st Century Wire and Global Research, concluded “it’s one thing for Georgetown University officials to foist this off on their students as Syrian current events. It’s another for the students to sit there and swallow it. A former professor at Georgetown clarifies this. Nicholas Greenwood Onuf once said that Georgetown, a Catholic Cow College [down-market school], has students that “can’t or won’t think.” (N.B. If link not work, please copy and paste into browser.)
This was borne out by the student newspaper The Hoya. On March 24, 2022, it glorified Madeleine Albright in a torrent of ink. Apparently ignorant of history, as befits a Catholic Cow College, the paper wrote, in part:
Her foreign policy achievements included championing NATO expansion into Eastern European countries like Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, encouraging intervention to combat mass atrocities in Eastern Europe and working to decrease the spread of nuclear weapons.
Her leadership was characterized by a blend of pragmatism and idealism, accompanied by her generous spirit and legendary, disarming humor, according to colleagues.
She also advanced the role of women in foreign policy, according to longtime friend and colleague Melanne Verveer (SLL ’66 [School of Languages and Linguistics], GRAD ’69). Verveer, who now serves as executive director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, worked closely with Albright during the Clinton administration, including in preparation for the 1995 United Nations Fourth Conference on Women in Beijing.
“She will be remembered as a tremendous force for the values we share and for the good of the world,” Verveer told The Hoya.
Former ambassador Verveer
As the Arabs say Wallahi! (I swear to God!).
Georgetown was also home to Jeanne Kirkpatrick, President Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy advisor, and, later, his ambassador to the UN. After a stint as a research analyst at the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, she moved on to Georgetown in 1967, later becoming full professor of political science in 1973, ultimately retiring in 2002. As the Encyclopedia Britannica remarked, “…a noted neoconservative, Kirkpatrick was known for her anticommunist stance and for her tolerance of authoritarian regimes. In the mid-1980s she was involved in the Iran-Contra Affair—a political scandal in which weapons were secretly sold to Iran and the funds diverted to Contra rebels in Nicaragua…”
Jeanne Kirkpatrick
To the end, Albright was an unreconstructed Cold Warrior and advocate for death and destruction. In February 2022, a month before her death, she wrote in the New York Times, “Mr. Putin’s revisionist and absurd assertion that Ukraine was entirely created by Russia and effectively robbed from the Russian empire is fully in keeping with his warped worldview…. [When meting Putin for the first time] she said…he was small and pale and so cold as to be almost reptilian.” One would have assumed these would have been Putin’s sentiments after meeting such a ghoulish figure. Ending her undiplomatic diatribe, she added that “even if Western powers are able to stave off an all-out war, Putin would simply wait for another chance to ‘strike’ and said that the U.S. must ‘deny him that opportunity”.
Madeleine Albright is dead and can do no further harm. Sadly, her disciples, indoctrinated at Georgetown, are now embedded in America’s political system. Meanwhile the University continues to sanctify former government officials, no matter their intolerance and devotion to murder, war crimes, and human rights violations, evidently hoping this would lend a certain cachet to the school.
J. Michael Springmann is an attorney, author, political commentator, and former diplomat, with postings to Germany, India, and Saudi Arabia. He previously authored, Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider’s View, recounting how the U.S. created and used Islamic Terrorism. Additionally, he penned Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos? Merkel’s Migrant Bomb, an analysis of the alien wave sweeping the Continent. He currently practices law in the Washington D.C. Area. Internationally recognized as a knowledgeable pundit, he is a frequent commentator on Arab, Iranian, and Russian news programs.
Blacklisted by the US news media, he is also on the Ukraine’s “Enemies List”, having questioned, inter alia, that country’s refusal to honor the Minsk Accords and for stating that its government is Nazified.