Comment: By Sasha Uzunov, Editor of Alternate Comms Local council elections in Macedonia are a gauge, a barometer for the subsequent national election. SDSM-theSocial Democrats, did badly but that doesn’t mean it will lose power at the national level when elections do come. The US and EU have too much at stake in erasing Macedonian identity […]
by Sasha Uzunov The Covid pandemic has forced the United States’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to delay responding until 2023 to a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request for any file the CIA might have on controversial Albanian nationalist politician in Macedonia, Ziadin Sela. The Office of Government Information Services (OGIS), the Ombudsman for FOIA, was […]
Op/ed By Sasha Uzunov The announcement of AUKUS is one of the greatest timed pieces of political spinning and sound-biting of all time. What better way to take away international focus from the US over its 20- year debacle in fighting and losing the war in Afghanistan and throw a political life vest to US President […]
Local municipal elections in Macedonia – October 2021 Right wing Albanian Neo Nazi party (DUI) leader Ali Ahmeti, despite claiming to have an environmental/green platform, has not distanced himself from right wing Neo Nazi ideology nor torn down the WW2 Albanian Nazi collaborator statues built post 2006 by party comrade Nevzat Bejta. The city of […]
Op/ed By Sasha Uzunov After centuries of foreign domination, Macedonians finally fulfilled their long cherished and hard fought for dream of independence when Macedonia voted to secede from the crumbling Yugoslavia on 8 September 1991. Thirty years on, instead having a nation-state of their own, Macedonians have ended up in an odd political entity, with […]
Analysis by Sasha Uzunov The fall of Afghanistan will have long lasting repercussions for the US. Put bluntly, can the US ever be trusted by its allies and potential allies? Britain has ruined its excellent post 1949 counter insurgency war record in Afghanistan for the US; Australia has damaged the good standing of its […]
BRITAIN & AMERICA’S GREEK CIVIL WAR LEGACY – GOLDEN DAWN By Sasha Uzunov Greek Neo Nazi party Golden Dawn has proven a useful bogeyman for the US in achieving its strategic objectives in the Balkans, in particular Macedonia. With Golden Dawn’s usefulness no longer required, it has convienently been pushed off the political stage. The […]
THE HAT TRICK – Football, politics and German hypocrisy Op-Ed By Sasha Uzunov Hungary’s bombastic, populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban is not my idea of a political role model, I prefer Nelson Mandela, but Germany’s attack on the controversial and contradictory demagogue has been nothing short of breathtakingly hypocritical, arrogant and reminiscent of past brazen […]
CIA REFUSES FOIA FILE ON MACEDONIA SPY CHIEF – Why is Washington protecting him? By Sasha Uzunov The United States’ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has rejected a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request on any file it might have on Macedonian Intelligence (ANB) chief, Viktor Dimovski, red-flagged by Washington in 2007 for having previous links […]
