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 […]
Comment: Sasha Uzunov, Editor Alternate Comms POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS IN EASTERN EUROPE/ BALKANS We still don’t know who was the real mastermind behind the attempted assassination of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico. And why? Was it a foreign state? Or a domestic lone wolf? Obviously, the incident is now the focus of intense conspiracy theories. In […]
– Macedonia’s Presidential and Parliamentary elections Comment by Sasha Uzunov, Editor Alternate Comms Without getting carried away with all the hype, time will tell us where Professor Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova stands on key issues, such as the Bulgarian blackmail of Macedonia for EU entry. Having said that Professor Siljanovska-Davkova makes history by becoming Macedonia’s first ever […]
By Sasha Uzunov In 1965 a United States Congressman Mr Henry Reuss raised questions over the value of a US Army funded medical and scientific project to study Indigenous Australians (also referred as Aborigines) and their survivability in hot, arid climates such as deserts. The man entrusted with the project was a well known New […]
Comment: Sasha Uzunov, Editor, Alternate Comms The Vienna Convention (Article 41) of 1961 regulates diplomatic relations. It forbids foreign diplomats from interfering in the host nation’s internal affairs. ARTICLE 41 – “Without prejudice to their privileges and immunities, it is the duty of all persons [diplomats] enjoying such privileges and immunities to respect the laws […]
