Same Old Story: Film at Eleven

THE MORE THINGS CHANGE..... Over the last few weeks a realization has been trickling down into the dimmer reaches of the US media. It is a realization that a specter is haunting Europe, the specter of Greater Albania. There is much open shock and dismay – now...

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America’s War Against Christianity

THE MYSTERY OF SELF-CRUCIFIXION What I don't get is this: how come American born-again Christians slavishly rationalize the casual brutalities of Israel's every twist and turn, close their eyes to the killing of Palestinian children, and hail the butcher Ariel Sharon...

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BARAK’S LEGACY

Israel is presently experiencing a clear return to the past. The younger generation – Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak, born in the 1940's – was forced out of the political arena, and the older generation – Ariel Sharon (as Prime Minister) and Shimon...

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Toward a Less Intrusive Foreign Policy?

It is possible to view events this week as evidence that an administration that has evinced little passionate interest in foreign policy, assuming office after a campaign in which foreign policy played almost no role in the debates or the outcome, could be drawn...

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Wesley’s War

Breathtaking in its scope, monumental in its sheer brazenness, the hypocrisy of Wesley K. Clark – former supreme commander of American occupation forces in Europe during the Kosovo war – is an awesome sight to behold. This perfumed prince of the military...

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Unhappy Anniversary

On March 24, 1999, at 1858 GMT, NATO warplanes attacked Yugoslav positions outside Pristina and Belgrade – and the Albanian juggernaut was launched. By March 24, 2001, that juggernaut will have rolled deep into Macedonia, while the suddenly "non-interventionist"...

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Macedonia Explodes

If you want an example of multiculturalism in practice, you have only to look at Macedonia – which is now exploding in a paroxysm of inter-ethnic violence. The Albanian minority in that war-torn nation has been accommodated and coddled to a degree that even our...

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Selective Amnesia: The Epidemic

I take great pleasure in my job as a columnist and editorial director of Antiwar.com: what could be more enjoyable than the life of a pundit, sitting around commenting on the wicked ways of the world? But sometimes, especially lately, it becomes downright depressing:...

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Decision Time in Kosovo Coming?

Is there a chance the Bush Administration will do anything other than muddle through with the failed and failing policies put in place by the Clinton administration in Kosovo and the Balkans? Early on some comments by National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice...

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Why are we in Ko$ovo?

When we first set up Antiwar.com, and started covering the outrages of the Kosovo war on a daily basis, we got a lot of emails asking essentially the same question: Why Kosovo? Here, after all, was a Balkan backwater that very few Americans had even heard of, and...

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