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Mick Hume
History and politics are never a ‘High Court’ matter
It is a sad sign when a leading war reporter can declare that big issues are not for ‘media debate’ and threaten critics with libel writs.
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| Wednesday 13 May 2009 |
Philip Hammond
The Hague: a tool of ‘legal vengeance’
ESSAY: The ICTY’s Kafkaesque decision to bump up a prisoners’ sentence by 12 years shows that it is nothing like a proper court of law.
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| Tuesday 24 March 2009 |
Philip Cunliffe
The legacy of Kosovo? International paternalism
The transformation of Kosovo into a colonial-style protectorate exposes the authoritarianism behind Western governments’ ‘ethical’ foreign policies.
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| Tuesday 24 March 2009 |
Philip Hammond
The rise of the laptop bombardier
Journalists and editors did more than simply cheer NATO’s bombing of Belgrade: they wrote the script for it.
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| Tuesday 24 March 2009 |
Tim Black
When is a war crime not a war crime?
When it is devised and defended by whiter-than-white Clare Short rather than by evil Israel or George W Bush.
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| Wednesday 23 July 2008 |
Mick Hume
Who’s dressing up Karadzic?
The former Bosnian Serb war leader has been painted as a Hitlerian monster to try to boost the moral authority of the international community.
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| Wednesday 20 February 2008 |
Philip Cunliffe
Kosovo and the end of national liberation
The doublespeak in Kosovo’s ‘supervised independence’ sets a dangerous precedent, dressing up occupation as ‘freedom’ and interference as ‘democracy’.
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| Monday 18 February 2008 |
Philip Cunliffe
Kosovo: the obedient child of Europe
Kosovo has not ‘declared independence’. It has slavishly submitted to the rule of UN officials, NATO troops and dictatorial modern-day viceroys.
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| Tuesday 15 January 2008 |
David Chandler
Kosovo’s Declaration of Dependence
Hashim Thaci, one-time guerrilla turned PM of Kosovo, has promised to break away from Serbia. It's independence, Jim, but not as we know it.
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| Monday 10 December 2007 |
Phil Cunliffe
Kosovo: plaything of the Great Powers
Ignore the shrill claims about irrational ethnic desires pushing Serbia and Kosovo towards conflict - it's foreign meddling that is fracturing the region.
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| Tuesday 6 November 2007 |
David Chandler
What about democracy for Bosnia?
Western commentators fret about dictatorships in Burma and Pakistan yet turn a blind eye to the EU's colonial rule in 'over-emotional' Bosnia.
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| Wednesday 12 September 2007 |
David Chandler
Reviving the idea of the ‘good war’
The French and British governments are cynically using and abusing the situation in Kosovo to try to resurrect support for liberal imperialism.
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| Monday 11 June 2007 |
Tara McCormack
The Milosevic trial: a travesty of justice
A new book shows how the international community undermined every legal principle in its desperate bid to convict the former Yugoslav leader.
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| Wednesday 16 May 2007 |
David Chandler
Serbia and Europe: who’s ruling who?
Many are shocked that Serbia has been made president of the Council of Europe, yet they turn a blind eye to the EU’s blackmail of elected Serb politicians.
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| Tuesday 6 February 2007 |
David Chandler
Kosovo gains independence - again?
Under the guise of granting sovereignty, the UN is dumping responsibility for its mess in Kosovo on to the European Union.
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| Wednesday 24 January 2007 |
Philip Cunliffe
Serbia votes, the West decides
The people have marked their ballots, yet the region's future is more likely to be decided in New York than Belgrade.
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| Tuesday 3 October 2006 |
David Chandler
Whose Kosovo is it anyway?
The Serb government's restated claim over Kosovo was more a symbolic gesture than 'war talk'.
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| Thursday 11 May 2006 |
Tara McCormack
The EU and Serbia: treating a state like a naughty child
What gives European officials the right to punish Serbia for failing to arrest former Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic?
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| Thursday 20 April 2006 |
David Chandler
Bosnia: whose state is it anyway?
The European Union is in denial about its undemocratic domination of this tiny Balkan republic.
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| Thursday 16 March 2006 |
Brendan O’Neill
What Milosevic meant to them
Why some in the West are taking the death of the dictator personally.
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