A Most Stubborn Reality
Glitches in Empire's Matrix In the virtual reality concocted by the Empire, the lynching of Moammar Gadhafi was a splendid victory for NATO. Never mind now that it was the “transitional rebels” who were supposed to be fighting the “kinetic military action” in Libya —...
Occupations, Faux and Real
To an observer of Balkans affairs, it is impossible to watch any sort of popular protest anywhere in the world, and not think of October 5, 2000. That was the day the Empire-supported "democratic opposition" in Serbia orchestrated a coup and ousted from...
The Emperor’s Speech
Hostage to Hubris
An End to Surrender
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...
1941
In the early morning of April 6, 1941, Axis armies began their Balkans campaign. Originally aimed only at Greece, the operation was officially expanded a week earlier to include the kingdom of Yugoslavia. By the end of April, all of the Balkans was in Axis hands....