Author: Nebojsa Malic

With the 10th anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords yesterday, every liar, calumnist and imbecile in the mainstream media has felt the need to flap their gums about it, preferably in the context of paeans to American interventionism, empire and “commitment.” In the same breath that praises the Clintonian Empire for ending the “genocide” in Bosnia, they parrot the current party line that Dayton needs to be revised and abolished, because it simply doesn’t work any more.

“Stephen Schwartz” (a.k.a. Suleyman Ahmad), that old champion of the Islamic cause, goes a step further, claiming that Dayton was unfair (“not felicitous,” to use his flowery prose) to the Muslims of Bosnia. Under its provisions, the 45% (sic!) “plurality”saw “Muslim Bosnia” (sic) reduced to 28% of the country’s territory, just as they “had created a real army that was winning their land back.”

Most of his article in yesterday’s online “Weekly Standard” is the standard prattle of Muslim (or is it “Bosniak”? Ahmad himself doesn’t use the term, strangely enough) apologists: Croatia and Serbia conspired to carve up Bosnia, and were held off only by the lone efforts of heroic and virtuous Alija Izetbegovic; Britain, France and Russia conspired to help the Serb “aggressors” and stop the military intervention on the Muslim side, the only just solution to the war; etc. Continue reading “Delirious Dayton Drivel”

Yes, there is a video game that simulates the overthrow of governments through protests and propaganda (see story in Wired, on the news page this morning) but to bill this as “resistance,” or even “non-violent” is misdirection at the very least.

There is a mountain of evidence that the “democratic revolutions” of the aught-years, from the October 2000 events in Serbia to last year’s “Orange Revolution” in the Ukraine were not popular movements, but coups, instigated and funded by the Empire. Groups like Otpor, Pora, Kmara, etc. may have been student movements on the surface, but their funding, training and purpose came from outside intelligence agencies. That’s not a conspiracy theory, but a statement of fact. Continue reading “But Is It “Resistance”?”

After almost five years of Thursdays, Balkan Express (est. October 19, 2000) is moving – by a day. From this week onward, it will appear on Wednesdays. It may be five years since the ‘revolution’ in Serbia, and ten since the Bosnian War ended, but the Empire is still knee-deep in the Balkans mud, and getting deeper.

Will the illegal occupation of Kosovo end in an ethnically-cleansed Albanian statelet? Will the efforts to create a centralized Bosnia-Herzegovina lead to peace and harmony, or another war? Will the EU devour the region, and either solve its problems or create new ones? That, and a lot more, as Balkan Express enters its sixth year – now on Wednesdays.

I’m such a cynic that few things can make me really angry anymore, but reading Bernard Henri-Levy’s “thoughts” about Francis Fukuyama was one of them. Nonetheless, I thank Mike for posting this; it would have otherwise slipped by me.

Fukuyama is a consummate statist, whose “end of history” thesis served as the Holy Writ of “neolib” interventionists prior to September 11 (a.k.a. The Day Everything Changed – but not really). I don’t really consider him a neocon; he’s above all an imperalist, no matter who occupies the White House. In any case, he does not provide the “the first serious—I mean theoretically articulated—objection to the war [in Iraq].” The best Fukuyama can do is argue that it was prosecuted wrongly, but his imperialism blocks him from challenging it on principle.

Then again, Bernard Henri-Levy is a moron. Worse, he is a demented quasi-philosopher who wants to remake Europe in Bosnia’s image. If his assessment of neocons as “noble spirits who don’t do enough actual politics” isn’t proof enough of his lunacy, I don’t know what would be. Just mentioning his name in the same breath as Alexis de Tocqueville is an insult to the noble 18th-century Frenchman. Not only is he not a modern-day de Tocqueville, Henri-Levy isn’t fit to shine de Tocqueville’s boots.

I wrote “Smokescreen” in the early hours of July 13, so I could not have read, much less mentioned, an editorial that appeared later that morning in Newsday. Titled “Serbs finally look within,” the editorial manages to pull together just about every strand of Official Truth about Srebrenica, and can thus serve as an exemplar of mainstream opinion. It is somehow fitting that such an” honor” belongs to a paper that peddled the Pulitzer-winning atrocity propaganda of Roy Gutman, early in the Bosnian War. Continue reading “Official Truth in a nutshell”

As Justin said, the possiblity has indeed been raised that the explosives used in the London came from the Balkans; the first rumor was that explosives were Serbian, but just as the accusations in the run-up to the Iraq invasion that Serbs “supplied Saddam”, this proved to be spurious.

According to one retired colonel of the Yugoslav army, the explosives used in London could have come from a factory in northern Montenegro – but these have been in possession of all sides in the 1991-95 wars, and some have even reached the KLA terrorists in Kosovo and Macedonia. One of the persons under investigation by the Brits lived with the mujahedin in northern Bosnia, who certainly had access to these explosives.

However, now that the London bombings cannot be pinned on Serbs, trust the legacy media to completely bury the Bosnian/Kosovo angle, and never so much as mention the possibility that Bosnian Muslims were anything but pure, innocent victims of evil Serb aggression. Certainly, claims that the ruling Muslim party has numerous connections with Islamic extremist groups and governments will either never be raised, or will be dismissed out of hand.