FOOTBALL & WAR / SPORT & POLITICS Comment / analysis by Sasha Uzunov, Alternate Comms Editor The Australian Football League (AFL) is more than just the governing body of Australian Rules Football in Australia. It is one of the most influential and powerful sporting/cultural institutions, which plays a role in shaping public political opinion. But […]
– Opinion/Comment: Sasha Uzunov, Editor, Alternate Comms Note the deliberate omission of the Macedonian flag during Macedonia President Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova’s (GSD) recent visit to Sofia, Bulgaria to meet its President Rumen Radev. Note the signal it sends! It’s only matter of time before GSD surrenders to EU/French/US demand for Macedonia to accept Bulgar blackmail for […]
Comment / Opinion by: Sasha Uzunov – Editor of Alternate Comms – On the 8th of September Macedonia celebrates 33 years of independence but is it independent? In 1991 Macedonia broke away from the Yugoslav Federation, of which it had been a member since 1944. It avoided the brutal wars fought in Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina which […]
Comment by Sasha Uzunov, Editor, Alternate Comms. Ever since the Macedonian election brought centre-right conservative Macedonian political party, VMRO-DPMNE, to power and right wing Albanian Neo Nazi party DUI ejected from successive coalition governments, that have “run” (I use the word loosely – as the United States runs the show) Macedonia over the past 20 […]
Alternate Comms field team research unit ! Comment by Sasha Uzunov, Editor of Alternate Comms Last Sunday, 11 August 2024, I drove two hours from Melbourne to the central Victorian town of Maryborough, a former gold ming centre. My interest was to find the grave of Tom Banks, an extraordinary man. We have seen members […]
Scottish Canadians Can Jump ! by Sasha Uzunov The father of Basketball, Dr James Naismith, a Canadian of Scottish parentage and a British Subject, only became a citizen of the United States of America very late in life and well over 30 years after he invented the game for which he is famous. Unearthed US […]
Newly declassified Australian space documents released by the National Archives of Australia– concerns about negative publicity over US allegedly crashing space station in Australia deliberately. By Sasha Uzunov Prominent American journalist C. Renwick Breck raised concerns that US spy base in Australia Pine Gap might have been the reason for the US allegedly crashing a […]
Comment/Opinion by Sasha Uzunov, Editor Alternate Comms Extraordinary colonial arrogance and racism- reading between the lines! Ex US State Department mandarin Mathew Nimitz says he is “alarmed” and has “advised” (meaning orders) the newly elected Macedonian government of Hristjan Mickovski to use (the US imposed) prefix of “North” on Macedonia’s name (or face US consequences). […]
TAX FUNDING FOR AFL – Australian sports and politics Comment by Sasha Uzunov – Editor, Alternate Comms If The Australian Football League (AFL) is a [US corporate style] “entertainment industry” rather than a governing body of an Australian sport, Australian Rules Football, why is it getting millions of Australian taxpayer funding? Australian govt cut subsidies […]
by Sasha Uzunov Stojan Andov has died (1935-2024). He was Macedonia’s first Parliamentary Speaker (1991-96; 2000-02) when it became independent on 8 September 1991 by breaking away from the then disintegrating Yugoslavia. Andov, a former high ranking communist Yugoslav official and diplomat, in 1990 set up his own political party, the Liberal Party, after the […]
