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 […]
Comment: Sasha Uzunov, Editor, Alternate Comms website Considering Victorian State Premier Jacinta Allan’s critical stance on British colonialism in Australia and a possible treaty with Indigenous Australians, her government should grant late 19th century Irish outlaw “bushranger” Ned Kelly and his comrades a posthumous amnesty and declare them as de facto combatants against the British […]
Opinion/Comment – Sasha Uzunov, Editor, Alternate Comms. Australia’s new Governor General-King Charles III’s representative-Ms Sam Mostyn has attacked Britishness in Australia over “colonialism” and its impact on indigenous Australians but has hypocritically promoted Americaness which has its own colonial issues. Not one word condemning US mistreatment of native Americans. Criticism of Sam Mostyn is justified […]
Analysis/Opinion- Sasha Uzunov The terror attack on a concert hall in Moscow, the Russian capital on 22 March 2024- there is something that just doesn’t add up. Something has been bugging me about this terror incident. Something just doesn’t sound right. A group called ISIS-K, an Islamist/Jihadist group, is believed to be behind the attack […]
Declassified Cabinet documents reveal: By Sasha Uzunov Australian federal government cabinet documents on the 2003 Iraq War, recently declassified by the National Archives of Australia, reveal the Defence Department was able to control the Australian media and largely silence opposition to Australia’s involvement in the controversial US war in Iraq. A declassified cabinet document titled: […]
