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, […]
by Sasha Uzunov Melbourne’s community television, Channel 31, has removed a Macedonian language program over what it claims is a copyright breach but would not reveal which copyright law, whether it was Australian or foreign, was broken. The program in question, Macedonians in the Aussie Land uses a Macedonian symbol, the Sun of Kutlesh (Star […]
A controversial World War II Serb nationalist leader, given sanctuary by the US postwar and wanted for Nazi war crimes in Yugoslavia, was given permission to enter Australia in 1965 and 1975, according to a newly declassified Australian intelligence (ASIO) file. His first visit may have been in support of Australia’s war in Vietnam. Momcilo […]
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 […]
