Triumph of the Imaginary Balkans Last week's media flurry over the alleged arrest of Gen. Ratko Mladic – reported by certain Serbian media as fact, then denied by officials both in Belgrade and The Hague – coincided with the start of "negotiations"...
Fabrications Persevere, Return As the world continued to ponder how cartoons could provoke deadly rioting, an important anniversary almost slipped under the public radar on Monday. It was four years since the "trial" of Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic...
After over six years of occupation, and a year of preparatory propaganda, it appears the Empire is ready to finally separate Kosovo from Serbia. Treated as a fait accompli in the media as they reported on the death of Albanian President Ibrahim Rugova two weeks ago,...
Albanian Leader Ibrahim Rugova, Dead at 61 This week was supposed to mark the start of "negotiations" over the future status of the occupied Serbian province of Kosovo. According to the International Herald Tribune, some form of independence was inevitable....
Merry Christmas, EUFOR-Style In the Serbian Orthodox Church, which observes the Julian calendar, Christmas falls on Jan. 7. In occupied Kosovo, the Serb community of Mitrovica marked the holiday with a service in the ruins of a church sacked and destroyed by Albanians...
At the end of 2004, omens for the following year in the Balkans were bad. Spurred by the U.S. presidential campaign, the March pogrom of Serbs in Kosovo, and the increasingly abundant signs that the short, victorious war in Iraq was neither, the Empire turned its eye...
Balkans and the Demise of Principles As 2005 draws to a close, the ruined remnants of what used to be Yugoslavia are nowhere near the peace or prosperity both their demagogic leaders and imperial interventionists have promised. Saddled with the heritage of state...
Last Wednesday, Spanish police arrested Ante Gotovina, a former Croatian general accused of war crimes, at a hotel in the Canary Islands. He was soon remanded to the custody of the Hague Inquisition, where he pleaded not guilty on Monday. Official Zagreb welcomed the...
Manipulating the Bosnia Dead Tuesday's Washington Post describes the wondrous successes of Bosnia as an example of how "active and sustained international intervention must be to rescue a failed state." In the staff editorial, the Post invokes the...
Re-igniting Bosnia In November 1995, after months of cajoling, threatening, scheming, plotting, bombing, and blackmailing, the American-organized peace conference in Dayton, Ohio, resulted in a peace agreement that ended the hostilities in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The...
