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 July 14, due to Milosevic’s ongoing blood pressure problems.
Cartoon from The Guardian (thanks to Ian Miller for the link). Continue reading “Another snag in the Milosevic show trial”
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 Times-owned International Herald Tribune today, titled “Serbian voters bring good tidings,” Silber gushes over the election of Boris Tadic as the last best hope to “set this geographic lynchpin [i.e. Serbia] right once and for all.” Her policy prescriptions are as cringe-worthy as her prose… Continue reading “Tadic: Empire’s Dark Horse?”
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 the anniversary. Some, like the Associate Press, used boilerplate propaganda denying Austria-Hungary’s aggressive designs and instead claiming that Gavrilo Princip, the young assassin, was one of the “Serb nationalists who saw their own nation as the rightful master of the region.”
AP even quotes a former Izetbegovic henchman, Muhamed Filipovic, saying that “the same force drove Princip in 1914 as drove Milosevic and his henchmen in 1992 – ‘the idea of using force to create … a greater Serbia’.”
Austria-Hungary has been dead for 86 years, but that Vienna-spawned lie not only lives still, but has grown in the telling.
On the other hand, Agence France-Presse (AFP) put together an article entirely devoid of propaganda. Found thanks to Google News , it was published in the Philippines’ Manila Times. No indication any US paper picked it up, though it is possible; at least three US papers carried the AP story. Continue reading “Propaganda and History”
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 much self-congratulatory rhetoric from the Empire and the Serbian political classes. Given that Tadic was supported by the entire political establishment, most media, and the Empire – which not so much rooted for him as demonized his opponent – the fact that his victory was hardly a landslide ought to be sobering. But the Powers That Love Democracy are too intoxicated with success to pay attention. Continue reading ““Reformer” wins Serbian election”
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 Olympics. Says DFA:
“Significantly, it was understood to be SFOR leadership which caused the Bosnia-Herzegovina ‘High Representative,’ Paddy Ashdown, to attempt a face-saving move in June 2004 which effectively reversed his decision of April 20, 2004, to arbitrarily remove the Head of the [Serb Republic] Secretariat for Cooperation with the [ICTY], Dejan Miletic.
Mr Miletic had been removed for refusing to sign off on a statement which essentially — at Ashdown’s insistence — accepted responsibility for the so-called ‘Srebrenica Massacre’ of 1995. The Secretariat had provided substantial evidence contradicting Ashdown’s totally unsubstantiated claims about the incident.
SFOR officials subsequently told the Office of the High Representative that this move had dealt a major blow to counter-terrorism intelligence in Bosnia-Herzegovina at a critical time.” Continue reading “Viceroy’s vendetta hurt anti-terror efforts?”
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 the worst possible reason. Just because I could.”
Well, that explains a lot – and not just about his sexcapades. Continue reading “Clinton proud of Kosovo”
