In March 2004, tens of thousands of Albanians rampaged across Kosovo, the occupied Serbian province then still nominally under UN and NATO authority. After three days of murder, arson, pillage, and ethnic cleansing, the 1999 myth of the noble "Kosovar"...
Eastern Frontiers
One of the many erroneous beliefs held by Imperial policymakers and their supporters is that history can end – and on their terms, no less. Back in August, German FM Guido Westerwelle told Belgrade that, "The map of southeastern Europe has been laid down and...
Chasing Fukuyama
Diplomats Gone Wild
At the Crossroads
The Bosnian Standoff
Westerwelle’s Big Adventure
Serbia Prepares a New Case Over Kosovo
BELGRADE - Serbia is preparing to go before the United Nations next month to renew negotiations over the future of Kosovo, its southern breakaway province that has declared independence and been recognized by a number of countries. Serbia is planning its next steps...
The Sorrow of Empire
Pax Ottomanica?
You know that something strange is happening when the usual crew of neocon critics takes out after Turkey – yes, Turkey! – a country that, as Inter Press Service's Jim Lobe points out, they long cultivated and supported as a key ally and supposedly model democracy in...