TELSTRA – COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN by Sasha Uzunov You have an elderly parent, a pensioner, who still has a landline telephone and has stubbornly stuck with major Australian telecommunication company (telco), TELSTRA for 30 years. They speak English with a very thick Southern European accent or a really thick Scottish accent that not even Mel Gibson […]
ASIO MONITORED MACEDONIAN BISHOP KIRIL (CYRIL)by Sasha Uzunov The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), the country’s counter-intelligence service, was monitoring Macedonian Orthodox Bishop Kiril (Cyril) in late 1970s over his close association with the then Yugoslav Communist government’s attempt to bring Australian-Macedonian Orthodox Churches under the control of Belgrade and his connection to controversial Yugoslav […]
NATO Secretary-General Lord George Robertson surrounded by media at Skopje Airport, The Republic of Macedonia. Photo by Sasha Uzunov 2002. Why is Big George so afraid of Scottish independence? ALBA ALONE – why is Lord Robertson afraid of Scotland going solo? by Sasha Uzunov For those Balkan Watchers, Lord George Robertson was Team Blair’s and […]
Next year Scotland will hold a referendum on independence. The status of the United Kingdom is being called into question and it has an ideological impact here on Australian politics. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s Scottish spinner John McTernan was recently caught in a war of words with popular Sydney radio host Ben Fordham (2GB) […]
CRACKING CHINESE CODES & JAMMING JIHADIS by Sasha Uzunov copyright 2013. I have been critical in the past over the effectiveness of our nation’s counter-intelligence service, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), in combating terrorism and foreign espionage. In the 1970s and 1980s, ASIO was either ordered to by the powers to be in Canbera […]
THE RISE OF THE RACIST RIGHT IN GREECE by Sasha Uzunov He has a long beard, wears a head covering and long flowing robes and preaches religious and ethnic hatred but he is not the stereotypical fire-breathing Islamic Imam or a “Mad Mullah” or an “Angry Ayatollah” that the media so likes to portray but […]
SKOPJE STRIKES BACK – do I have permission to speak?by Sasha Uzunov Professor Biljana Vankovska is a highly credentialed “public intellectual” and charter member of Macedonia’s “Capital City of Skopje elite”. She has this shtick of being feisty in her writing, whether it be a newspaper column in Macedonian, or offering an opinion on politics, […]
MACEDONIA – FROM THE YUGOSLAV HELL TO THE EU NIGHTMARE subtitles:SFRJ becomes Socialist Federal Republics of Europe (SFRE)USSR becomes the European Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (EUSSR) by Sasha Uzunov Initially, Macedonia’s communist ruling elite was reluctant to embrace an independent Macedonia in 1991 and for that matter membership of the European Union. But […]
FILM REVIEW – SINISTERAustralian cinema release 30 May 2013 by Sasha Uzunov. I was surprised to find an envelope with a DVD of the supernatural horror film Sinister, starring Ethan Hawke, from Mel Gibson’s former production company, Icon Films, in my Post Office box. No doubt sometime ago I was put on a mailing list of bloggers/journalists/independent […]
ESPANA EXPIRED – the end of Spain ?by Sasha Uzunov The concept of Spain has survived the ravages of time: the Moorish invasion, a brutal civil war, a repressive dictatorship and various separatist movements but now a demographic crisis might accomplish what swords, bullets and bombs fail to do so. Spain, Espana in Castillian Spanish, is […]
