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The Hijacking of a Nation, Part 2: The Auctioning of Former Statesmen & Dime a Dozen Generals

30 November 2006

By Sibel Edmonds
In the second of a two-part exposé, whistleblower Sibel Edmonds makes a detailed case for the dangerous pervasiveness of government corruption, lobbying and foreign interests in America today.
“The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes.”- Justice Felix Frankfurter
It used to be the three branches – congress, the [...]

The Hijacking of a Nation, Part 1: The Foreign Agent Factor

29 November 2006

By Sibel Edmonds
In the first of a two-part exposé, whistleblower Sibel Edmonds makes a detailed case for the dangerous pervasiveness of government corruption, lobbying and foreign interests in America today.
In his farewell address in 1796, George Washington warned that America must be constantly awake against “the insidious wiles of foreign influence…since history and experience prove [...]

Photo of the Week

26 November 2006

The Days of the Dissident: Milovan Djilas Remembered

24 November 2006

By David Binder*
In the following piece, the author reflects on the life and legacy of Milovan Djilas, a key founding member of Communist Yugoslavia who was later imprisoned by that same regime because of the excessive freedom of his ideas. Djilas is remembered today for numerous books and occasional writings, and also a great quote: [...]

Photo of the Week

19 November 2006

A Brief Travelers’ Guide to Sarajevo’s Local Traditions

17 November 2006

By Lidija Jularić*
Sometimes it seems that in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia & Herzegovina, everyone knows everything about everyone. The position of Sarajevo itself in some way implies that this is a city in which social control is very strong. It lies in a long narrow valley surrounded by wonderful little hills that are [...]

Formative Early Events in Kosovo’s Serbian History, and the UN-Overseen Destruction of that Historical Legacy

15 November 2006

By Carl Savich
When discussing the opposing claims of Serbs and Albanians over Kosovo, its history and its rightful future status, mass media reports often include the obligatory sentence about Kosovo being “Serbia’s historic and culture heartland.’ Usually, the unstated implication for including the phrase is that the Serbs are unfortunate and delusional nostalgics, living in [...]

Photo of the Week

12 November 2006

Greek Islands for Sale! Super-Rich Only Need Apply

11 November 2006

By Ioannis Michaletos
Greece is a country of thousands of islands, islets and rocks scattered around the Aegean archipelagos and the Ionian Sea. What most people don’t know is that plenty of those are privately owned, and that their landlords are eager to develop them with the help of real estate agents or else sell them [...]

Photo of the Week

5 November 2006

Austrian Heads

4 November 2006

By Ferid Muhic*
It was during the dying days of World War I, and the Austrian army was retreating from the Thessalonica front, up through the mountains of northwestern Macedonia. The fate that befell them remains almost unknown today, with the author’s chance conversion with an elderly Italian man in 1970 representing perhaps the sole remaining [...]

Greek Energy Diplomacy and Future Balkan Oil Pipelines

2 November 2006

By John Demopoulos*
Energy diplomacy has come to dominate the foreign policy agenda for countries on Europe’s periphery and the Balkans is no exception. As the West seeks to strengthen and diversify its energy supplies, the region has become awash with proposals for new transit routes to ease the flow of resources from the Caspian. [...]


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