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 […]
by Sasha Uzunov I put in Freedom of Information (FOIA) request with the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for release of files, documents on a controversial ethnic Albanian nationalist politician in Macedonia called Ziadin Sela. Sela in 2012 threatened to burn down Macedonia’s Parliament and in 2017 was physically assaulted in that parliament during a […]
by Sasha Uzunov The Federal German Prosecutor General Dr Peter Frank has not responded to a media question over whether he will launch a criminal investigation into the actions of German Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas, regarding a breach of German law which forbids glorification of Nazism. Dr Frank’s office was contacted on 11 May via […]
US PSY-OPS IN MACEDONIA – the Armageddon that never was ? By Sasha Uzunov In 2017 the Ukraine Ambassador to Serbia, Oleksandr Alexandrovych, taking his cue from one of those American television evangelists, conjured up an end of days scenario, a final judgement; Armageddon about to befall Europe. And the great Satan, according […]
