Nebojsa Malic

In a day or two, the European Union is set to accept 10 new member countries, many of which were once dominated by another Union – Soviet. One of the ten is the former Yugoslav republic of Slovenia. On the occasion, the London-based supporter of Empire (and EU, unsurprisingly) IWPR published a series of articles … Continue reading “Balkans and the EU”

Unlike Sofia Coppola’s charmingly discombobulated film, there is nothing funny or charming about the way the Imperial “order” is crumbling everywhere, from the Balkans to Babylonia. Driven by a devastating mix of arrogance, ignorance, malice and stupidity, foreign occupiers in Iraq, Bosnia and Kosovo strain to keep their grip on power, but are actually losing … Continue reading “Lost in Translation”

Almost a month since the pogrom in Kosovo, both its consequences and lessons seem to have faded from memory. Indeed, the occupation authorities are rewarding violence and appeasing its perpetrators, even as they grow more bold and hostile. They, too, see reports from Iraq, where a mass uprising against the occupation authorities has the Empire … Continue reading “Hubris and Nemesis”

After the mid-March pogrom against Serbs in Kosovo, which clearly aimed at their physical destruction, Empire’s propaganda machine went into full spin trying to cover up the extent of the occupiers’ failure to prevent such aggression. Albanian partisans in the West launched passionate tirades about the necessity of giving the “Kosovars” independence now, and helping … Continue reading “Imperial Relapse”

What Albanian separatists did in occupied Kosovo in four mid-March days resulted in over 30 deaths, the destruction of over 30 churches and hundreds of homes and vehicles – but more so, threatened to yank off the idyllic mask the occupiers and the compliant media have been forcibly keeping on things for nearly five years. … Continue reading “Saying It Ain’t So”

Last week’s organized campaign of ethnic violence aimed at Kosovo’s Serbs petered off Saturday, with the arrival of NATO reinforcements and announcements they were prepared to shoot to kill. Diplomatic and media attacks continued, though, and the spin machine honed over the years to justify the illegal occupation of this Serbian province is hard at … Continue reading “Rummaging Through the Ashes”

It is Déjà vu in Kosovo, back to 1999. After four years of creeping secession and covert ethnic cleansing, the Albanians have taken the next step and begun a war on UNMIK, KFOR, and whatever Serbs remained after the 1999 war. Throughout the occupied province, Serb houses and churches are burning, UN offices and KFOR … Continue reading “Kosovo Burning”

The terrorist attacks in Spain and the resulting meltdown of the pro-Bush regime in Madrid, along with the ongoing implosion of the occupation in Iraq, are currently the stuff of headlines. Little attention is paid to developments in the Balkans, which continue to challenge policy assumptions and ideological trappings of both the “humanitarian hegemony” of … Continue reading “Notes on the Margin”

From its very beginning, the Yugoslav crisis has vexed both the people of the western Balkans and the world powers intervening in the region. Almost 14 years of efforts by all to reach some sort of solution, all the self-congratulatory and optimistic rhetoric aside, have resulted in repeated failures, often of catastrophic magnitude. That is … Continue reading “A Mockery of Reason”

The troubled Balkans pot continues to simmer. In Macedonia, people mourn the death of President Trajkovski, whose plane crashed in the highlands of Herzegovina last Thursday. Meanwhile, the Empire once again protects Kosovo Albanian separatists from facing arrest, while condemning the new Serbian government for refusing further extraditions to the kangaroo court in The Hague. … Continue reading “Balkans Woes Continue”