Normally, it would be quite uninteresing to read about a new tax in Bosnia. But when the said tax is designed as a dedicated source of funding for the unconstitutional central government; when it's pushed by the Empire and international financial institutions (e.g....
Macedonia referendum watch
Voters in Macedonia are supposed to decide today whether to accept the re-districting law designed to give ethnic Albanians more power and influence in the government. Unlike the elections in the U.S., this referendum actually can make a difference. If Macedonians...
Elections for Emperor & the Balkans
Today is that most holy day in the American statist pantheon, when millions of believers gather at makeshift temples and wait in lines to worship the State. (What, you didn't know I hated Democracy? After this? Come on!) Even though this election is being pitched as...
Myth of the 10,000
It is not my intention to disparage my fellow columnist Ivan Eland's otherwise excellent book, "The Empire Has No Clothes: US Foreign Policy Exposed" (reviewed today by Anthony Gregory), but I do have to note an objection that concerns my field, such as it is....
Another Hague Travesty
My latest article on trial of Slobodan Milosevic was just posting as the news came from The Hague that the Inquisition decided to impose lawyers on the former Serbian president. The decision was immediately hailed by the prosecution and the ICTY partisans, and...
Support your Balkans analyst
Last time we had a pledge drive at Antiwar.com, I somehow missed calling on my readers to contribute - but I think many did so nonetheless. This time, I'll make it official: help Antiwar.com stay afloat, and you can count on more Balkan Express coming your way. So for...
More Mythical Bosnia
American Ambassador Robert Beecroft finished his mandate as head of the OSCE mission in Bosnia in early July. In his open farewell address, published by the Imperial propaganda outfit IWPR, and reposted by NATO propaganda outfit ISN, he offers an interesting...
“Aggressive” Balkans solutions
Last Thursday's issue of NIN, the foremost Serbian news weekly, carried an interview with Morton Abramowitz, the eminence grise of the Washington foreign policy establishment and founder of the International Crisis Group. Abramowitz has been one of the leaders of the...
Another snag in the Milosevic show trial
According to wire and newspaper reports, Slobodan Milosevic, the man Empire loves to hate, may be too ill to stand trial - even a show one, staged so ineptly by the Hague Inquisition over the past two years. His defense, scheduled to begin Monday, was postponed till...
Tadic: Empire’s Dark Horse?
Leave it to Laura Silber, author of a major propaganda pamphlet about the destruction of Yugoslavia and now a "senior policy advisor" for George Soros's Open Society Institute, to lay out in the open Empire's plans for Serbia. In an opinion piece for the New York...
