The Tyrant of Bosnia Goes Home After over three years of holding near-absolute power, the tenure of Jeremy "Paddy" Ashdown as the Imperial viceroy of Bosnia-Herzegovina is coming to an end. He told the press he intended to be home for Christmas....

Toward the Kosovo "Negotiations" The Imperial endgame for Kosovo proceeded apace early this week, as former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari was appointed the special UN envoy for final status talks regarding the occupied Serbian province. There was no...

U.S. Envoy's Unwitting Revelations It did not take Washington long to take the first step towards "finishing the job" in the Balkans; it came in the form of Nicholas Burns, undersecretary of state for political affairs, who visited Belgrade, Pristina, and...

Finishing the Balkans Interventions Just days after the anniversary of Serbia's misnamed "revolution," three things came to pass that suggest a next stage of Balkans tragedy is getting underway. First, the Bosnian Serbs caved in and approved the European...

Serbia, Five Years Later The Official Truth goes that five years ago on the streets of Belgrade, the disaffected citizenry of Serbia rallied in support of the Democratic Opposition (DOS), charged the parliament, and forced the hated dictator Slobodan Milosevic out of...

Boris Tadic, Serbia, and the Empire Whether the American Empire – a belligerent entity that has usurped the physical body and much of the mind of the republic once known as the United States of America – is loved or hated by peoples of the world, it is still...

The Bizarre Balkans Stage It is arguably the Bard's most famous play; there is hardly a civilized soul on Earth who has not heard of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. It has been modernized, localized, deconstructed, filmed countless times, and even translated...

Of Omnipotent Government More than lives and property was drowned by the fetid waters that deluged New Orleans and the media-forsaken coastlines of Mississippi and Alabama in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Any credibility that the Imperial government may have had...

And the Hypocrites Who Do It In October 2004, Roger Cohen wrote a column for the International Herald Tribune titled "The Serbian Question," arguing that reducing Serbia to a more manageable size and turning it over to the benevolent hegemony of the European Union...

Serbia's Hysterical Jacobins Last week, several charges against members of Slobodan Milosevic's family were dropped by the Serbian judiciary, drawing howls of fury from the political and media opposition to the current government. "Milosevic is making a...