Reuters' presstitute Paul Gallagher writes yesterday about the trial of Yugoslav general Pavle Strugar for the alleged destruction of the medieval port of Dubrovnik. Quite honestly, I didn't think even the Hague Inquisition would dare to propagate positions that are...
Clark at ICTY
In today’s article on Wesley Clark’s appearance at the Hague Inquisition, Elaine Sciolino of the New York Times reveals some important information. Apparently, I’m not the only one wondering why Clark’s testimony came at this stage of the show trial, when the Kosovo...
ICTY’s new hypocrisy
The Hague Inquisition convicted Bosnian Serb General Stanislav Galic Friday, of "command responsibility" in the siege of Sarajevo. According to BBC, Galic was found guilty of "murder" (?) and "infliction of terror," and sentenced to 20 years in prison. I lived in...
Power and propaganda
LewRockwell.com, always a useful site when it comes to libertarian views on politics, economics and philosophy, has a very interesting link today. It doesn't mention the Balkans at all - in fact, it's about French fast food. But it contains an interesting examination...
Serbs and victimhood
I received a note from a reader yesterday about an article on the Financial Times website . Without presuming to speak about the actual contents of the article - read it and make up your own mind - the author caught my correspondent's attention with these passages:...
The Imported Georgian “Revolution”
Interesting piece in the Washington Post today partially reveals how the recent "revolution" in the Caucasus nation of Georgia (Gruziya) was modeled after the Serbian coup of 2000. This confirms the rumors and news of Serbians "training" Georgian opposition groups...
Double standards: Iraq and Bosnia
In today's New York Times , neocon Leslie Gelb advocates a partition of Iraq into three ethnic statelets. Then he invokes a "precedent" (sic): Yugoslavia. According to Gelb, it was held together by Tito's laudable coercion, but the supposed Serb coercion to that end...
…And Nothing but the Truth?
What happens if an Agent of Empire disobeys his masters and tells the truth, for once? He gets fired, and his work dropped into the Memory Hole. Such is the case of Chris Stephen, of the London-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), who found out...
More about Izetbegovic
The same day as The Real Izetbegovic, Izetbegovic's former colleague in the Bosnian Presidium, Nenad Kecmanovic. published his obituary of the not-so-dearly departed Bosnian Muslim leader in the Serbian weekly NIN. The full article, availabe in Serbian on NIN's...
How we can win
Today's article by Karen Kwiatkowski at LewRockwell.com is an interesting take on the way to defeat the neocons - and generally, anyone who relies on the argument of force, rather than the force of argument. Now, I'm a fan of cultural history, which is relevant...
