Showdown at Goat Gate
Nebojsa Malic on the empire’s Kosovo gamble
Nebojsa Malic
Nebojsa Malic left his home in Bosnia after the Dayton Accords and currently resides in the United States. During the Bosnian War he had exposure to diplomatic and media affairs in Sarajevo. As a historian who specializes in international relations and the Balkans, Malic has written numerous essays on the Kosovo War, Bosnia, and Serbian politics. His exclusive column for Antiwar.com debuted in November 2000.
Winter is Coming
Nebojsa Malic on the wasteland of Empire’s victory
Hostage to Hubris
Nebojsa Malic says the empire is trapped in Kosovo
Law and Disorder
Among the many half-successes, pretend-successes and outright failures, until this week the Empire could still plausibly claim that it had scored a victory in the Balkans. Nearly two decades of efforts to dismantle Yugoslavia just so, and install pliant governments in its arbitrarily arranged shards, seemed to have been crowned with a triumph last fall, … Continue reading “Law and Disorder”
An End to Surrender
Serbia delivers last fugitive; now what? asks Nebojsa Malic
A Tale of Two Secessions
Nebojsa Malic on the Murder of Yugoslavia
Invasion of the Mind Snatchers
Nebojsa Malic on the Empire’s revolution business
Conjuring the Black Hat
In the afternoon hours of May 26, the president of Serbia called a surprise press conference to announce, in Boratesque English, the arrest of General Ratko Mladic, wartime commander of Bosnian Serb forces. Entirely by coincidence, or so President Tadic’s crack team of spin-masters would have everyone believe, this happened on the very day EU’s foreign policy … Continue reading “Conjuring the Black Hat”
Empire Folds
What Just Happened in Bosnia Something unusual happened in Bosnia last week. It made barely a blip on the news radar, as the mainstream media focused mostly on stateside sex scandals. What little did get mentioned was bent and twisted to conform to the official narrative. A typical example is this terse report by the … Continue reading “Empire Folds”
Whose Victory?
Bin Laden and the Empire Emperor Obama announced on Sunday, May 1, that Osama bin Laden was dead, killed by SEAL commandos during a raid in Pakistan. Jubilant crowds gathered in New York and D.C., in an unseemly display resembling a soccer riot. Darkly amusing gaffes in coverage, with many proclaiming Obama dead, illustrated the … Continue reading “Whose Victory?”