Balkans

The Birkenstock Bomber: When Bernie did Serbia

On April 26, 1999, even before his most recent vote of shame, Sanders’s office was occupied by fifteen radical Vermonters sickened by his stance […]

NATO’s Reign of Terror in Kosovo & the Destruction of Yugoslavia 2021-04-14
The following text was written in the immediate wake of the 1999 NATO bombings of Yugoslavia and the invasion of Kosovo by NATO troops […]
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Dealing With the Bosnian Conundrum 2021-04-14
There is a Serbian saying that when an idle priest can think of nothing better to do he entertains himself by baptising goats. Bosnia’s High Representative Valentin Inzko apparently finds himself in a similarly absurd position […]
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How Corrupt is the American Government? 2021-04-14
The biggest companies own the D.C. politicians. Indeed, the head of the economics department at George Mason University has pointed out that it is unfair to call politicians “prostitutes”. They are in fact pimps … selling out the American people for a price […]
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NATO’s War on Yugoslavia and the Expulsion of Serbs from Kosovo 2021-04-14
In the period before the 1999 NATO attack on Yugoslavia, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) waged a campaign to secede and establish an independent Kosovo […]
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The Balkan Vlachs (1) 2021-04-14
These traditionally rustic people, who spoke a language, which is mostly closed to the modern Romanian, but not purely understandable by the speakers of standardized Romanian, are concentrated in mountainous terrains of Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Serbia, and Bulgaria […]
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