by Sasha Uzunov The first man of African ancestry to play Australian Rules Football at the top level in Australia (both VFA & VFL/AFL) was Tom Banks with the Fitzroy club from 1888 to 1897. He was also one of the founders of the AFL in 1896. His father, a runaway African slave, escaped from […]
Comment by Sasha Uzunov, Editor, Alternate Comms Right wing Albanian Neo Nazi extremist Ali Ahmeti and his comrades’ building of WWII Albanian Nazi monuments, statues, street names etc in Macedonia all glorify the concept of a Greater Albania, supported, promoted by first Fascist Italy and then Nazi Germany. It involved the brutal ethnic cleansing of […]
Alternate Comms field investigation – conducted by Sasha Uzunov – Tuesday 7 November 2023 – Melbourne General Cemetery, Carlton, Melbourne, Australia. ——————————— Alternate Comm’s Editor Sasha Uzunov today visited the grave of Englishman and ex British Army Captain and Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Frederick Standish, the founder of Australia’s iconic horse race, the Melbourne Cup, […]
Analysis – Sasha Uzunov, Editor, Alternate Comms Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan using the Palestine issue as a vehicle for his foreign policy agenda is not surprising. As a political Islamist he wants to be seen as the leader regionally, as in the Balkans-Turkey’s old stomping ground, and the Caucasus-Central Asia, and globally of the […]
Sports & Pop Culture Comment by Sasha Uzunov If you’re a follower of US sports and pop culture no doubt you would have noticed the enormous interest generated by US pop star Taylor Swift dating US NFL footballer with the Kansas City Chiefs Travis Kelcie. Much has been made by the US media and the […]
– Analysis & Comment: Sasha Uzunov, Editor, Alternate Comms If you are a Ukrainian, Russian, Palestinian Arab or Israeli Jew or Chinese or just an international onlooker you could be excused for thinking that the world is fast approaching nuclear armageddon. There are now two major conflicts that have erupted – one in Eastern Europe […]
The New Australian [migrant] helping the Old Australian [Aborigines] – Comment – Sasha Uzunov, Editor, Alternate Comms Is the Indigenous Voice to Parliament deeply flawed? Yes. Will it help Indigenous Australians? We don’t know. Can it be misused and manipulated at a later time? Probably. By whom? In all likelihood the US State Department. Yet […]
Australian Rules Football By Sasha Uzunov Melbourne Football Club will not be inviting the UK High Commissioner (Ambassador) to Australia to present the club’s Best and Fairest award named in honour of a Mebourne footballer who volunteered to fight for Britain in WWII and was tragically killed 80 years ago, according to the club spokeswoman […]
COMMENT – Sasha Uzunov, Editor, Alternate Comms Powerful US State Department mandarin Gabriel “Pablo” Escobar rushed to Macedonia, flying some 7,000km from Washington DC, to “convince” the main Opposition leader Hristjan Mickovski of the VMRO-DPMNE, centre right party, to remove its “opposition” to the Bulgarian blackmail for EU entry, that is changing Macedonia’s Constitution, after a […]
Op-ed: US STATE DEPARTMENT – WINNER OF THE WORLD CUPS Comment by Sasha Uzunov, Editor, Alternate Comms The US State Department is the big winner, culturally and politically, from the football (soccer) world cups held in 2022 for the men and 2023 for the women. Here comes the mandatory rhetorical question – how on earth […]
