AP reports that Ramush Haradinaj, the "Prime Minister" of the "provisional institutions of self-government" in the occupied Serbian province of Kosovo, has resigned upon receiving the ICTY indictment against him, and is scheduled to fly to The Hague tomorrow. All over...
Balkan Express turns 200
Columns, that is. Tomorrow’s edition will be the 200th appearance of my exclusive column for Antiwar.com. It began in the fall of 2000, in the aftermath of Serbia’s “October revolution,” and has chronicled events in the former Yugoslavia ever since: the Presevo...
Serbian President in Kosovo
Serbian president Boris Tadic visited Kosovo this week, touring besieged Serbian enclaves and opposing the occupied province's independence. The visit was met with mixed sentiments by the Imperial press, largely depending on the degree of their Albanian favoritism....
Wesley Clark and “Free Kosovo”
In a commentary for Wall Street Journal yesterday (February 1, 2005; Page A12), pretentiously titled “Set Kosovo Free,” none other than the real Butcher of Belgrade, ex-General Wesley Clark, stumped for the latest outrage by his employer, the International Crisis...
More on Hungary and Serbia
In responding to Sophie Johnson's letter yesterday, I said that Vojvodina was ceded to Yugoslavia by the Treaty of Trianon (1920). A fellow historian wrote me yesterday to say that while this is technically correct, Serbia's claim to this territory is even stronger: a...
Kostunica in Kosovo
At the midnight liturgy on Christmas Eve in Belgrade, president Tadic appeared in the first row of worshippers, right next to Prince Alexander Karadjordjevic. Technically, the prince was all chummy with the man who usurped his birthright, since the republic was...
The Ukraine Coup
Forget Iraq (for a moment, anyway) - what is going on in Ukraine? Following the narrow victory (well, 3%, just like in the US election) of Viktor Yanukovich over challenger Viktor Yushchenko, the Yushchenko-ites have adorned themselves with bright orange garments and...
Terrorist PM OK?
After the sham "elections"in occupied Kosovo were finally certified by the Imperial viceroy, Albanians announced their new "government" will be led by two parties: Ibrahim Rugova's LDK, and Ramush Haradinaj's AAK. This means Hashim Taqi, the former supremo of the...
Serbia Takes Notice
I don’t think anyone in Serbia has had time to read the Politics of Destruction yet, but it appears I’m not the only one to see things that way. That's encouraging. Here’s some excerpts from an article in the Thursday, November 18 issue of a Belgrade daily, Nacional,...
A Nietzschean Empire?
One can only hope that future historians will look to Ron Suskind's account of Bushite scorn for "reality-based communities" as an explanation for events of the early aughts. But it would be a mistake to attribute this kind of thinking to Bushites only. It is...
