Monday was the 90th anniversary of the Sarajevo assassination, the event that sparked (but did not cause) World War One. Though most media were trying to deal with the early transfer of bogus sovereignty to the puppet regime in Iraq, wire services found time to note...
“Reformer” wins Serbian election
According to preliminary results of the runoff election, Boris Tadic of DOS - I mean, DS - is the new President of Serbia, having won 54% of the votes by 48% of the Serbian electorate. Notes our resident Balkans observer Chris Deliso, the results were accompanied with...
Viceroy’s vendetta hurt anti-terror efforts?
According to a Washington-based intelligence newsletter Defense and Foreign Affairs, Bosnia's viceroy "Paddy" Ashdown's eagerness to support his late friend Alija Izetbegovic resulted in a major blow to anti-terrorism intelligence efforts on the eve of the Athens...
Clinton proud of Kosovo
Bill Clinton's memoir hit the shelves this week, pompously titled "My Life." The philanderer-in-chief also went on CBS' "60 Minutes" to hype the book defending his emperorship. According to agency reports, Clinton confessed he messed around with Monica Lewinsky "for...
Empire Discredited?!
According to Michael Lind, writing wistfully in the Financial Times, the Iraq campaign has punctured the "mystique" that made the American Empire possible. Lind laments that the neocons had fouled the playground for the "neoliberals" like him - a breed that cheered...
Defining Empire
I've been asked several times what I mean by "Empire." The best I can say is that it is not so much a place, as a state of mind (credit to Chris Deliso for the phrase). Though historical analogies are perilous, tempting inappropriate parallels and interfering with...
Oil Found in Bosnia!
According to the Banja Luka daily "Nezavisne Novine," oil has been found in the northern Serb Republic (RS), at the depth of some 2 km. Estimates are that the find runs anywhere between 20 and 50 million (metric) tons. Chris Deliso gives a fair roundup of the story...
Stupid quote of the week
Surely there can't be anything more idiotic out there: "...today, in Iraq as in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan, we've tied ourselves to Muslim people. We're helping them. In the long run, they'll understand that and appreciate that." - Rich Tucker, The Heritage...
Democrats pushing Albanian cause?
According to Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti (Evening News), the most influential Albanian drganizer of the event was Richard Holbrooke, while many of his former cohorts from the Clinton days took part: Madeleine Albright, Wesley Clark and James Rubin, as well as...
Iraq Postmortem
Steve LaTulippe over at LewRockwell.com does an "autopsy" of the Mess in Potamia. Even though the specifics all relate to the Iraq war, the conclusion is applicable to all Imperial adventures: It was a geopolitical felony, committed with malice aforethought,...
