AUSTRALIAN PRESS HISTORY by Sasha Uzunov Australian Britisher and Scotsman David Syme (1827-1908) was a legendary colonial Australian newspaper editor on par with the controversial American press baron William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951). In fact there are some eerie parallels between the two men. Syme, a Scottish migrant to the British colonial of Victoria, Australia, became […]
by Sasha Uzunov A.G. Sainsbury, the Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police- the police force of Victoria, a state in the Commonwealth of Australia,-proposed the setting up of an Australian Police Brigade to fight for the British Empire in World War I and with himself as the commander of the unit. However the proposal was rejected […]
UKRAINE-MACEDONIA – THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS & SELF-DEFENCE? Op-Ed by Sasha Uzunov You’ve all been following the crisis unfolding in the Ukraine, US at first alleging that Russia is about to invade Ukraine and the associated tough talking from US President Joe Biden and a cacophony of his allies or proxies ranging from the […]
Two Australian Foreign Affairs file covering the period 1992-93, declassified and released to the Australian public two years apart, have confirmed what many Macedonians have long shouted about: the role of the United States and the United Kingdom in deliberately delaying, blocking, sabotaging Macedonia’s recognition under its name in favour of Greece’s veto of the […]
SPORT & POLITICS – L.T.A.A. (TENNIS AUSTRALIA) GOES ALL THE WAY! by Sasha Uzunov The Australian government hatched a scheme in late 1970 to use the country’s Tennis Davis Cup team to push Australia’s foreign policy in Asia set against the backdrop of the US war in Vietnam, declassified documents in the National Archives of […]
US Secretary of State James Baker played a leading spoiler role in stopping Macedonia from gaining international and European Union recognition after it declared independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, according to a newly declassified 1992 Australian Foreign Affairs file over 250 pages long. The US Secretary of State is America’s Foreign Minister. Baker, a part […]
by Sasha Uzunov Following the 2022 Australian Open, Tennis Australia, the governing body, will review a claim made on its website that Australian Norman Brookes was the first “foreign man” to win the singles title at Wimbledon, the All England Tennis Championships and unofficial World title in 1907 after Alternate Comms website pointed out that […]
Op-Ed by Sasha Uzunov – Editor, Alternate Comms I’m wondering what “last minute instructions” visiting high ranking US State Department mandarin Gabriel Escobar gave Macedonia President Stevo Pendarovski and the “continuously” outgoing Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and the US’s Albanian proxies? Hand over Macedonian identity to Bulgaria for EU entry? Who could forget flamboyant US State […]
TENNIS FIRST “FOREIGN” WINNER OF WIMBLEDON? – Norman Brookes (Australia) or Bill Tilden (United States)? by Sasha Uzunov The Australian Open tennis tournament starts next month in Melbourne, Australia and so I was reading the Tennis Australia website profile on Sir Norman Brookes, the country’s first tennis superstar and a man of many parts. What […]
Australian Rules Football by Sasha Uzunov For many Australians, Football, the native Australian variety is more than a sport it is a religion. With that in mind, you would think that the pioneers of game would be loudly commemorated and celebrated. On a recent visit to Melbourne General Cemetery and Fawkner cemetery in Melbourne’s north, […]
