Michael Karadjis

  • Kosova revisionists let NATO off the hook

    "The massacres that never were", ran the headline in the right-wing London Spectator. The article reported claims by journalist John Laughland that "only" hundreds of Albanians had been killed in Kosova during the NATO-Serbia

  • Kosova: colonialism, violence, partition

    According to the New York Times of November 14, "Serbia proper begins at the heavily guarded bridge ... in Kosovska Mitrovica, some 30 miles south of Kosovo's actual border with Serbia". The term "Serbia proper" means Serbia

  • Kosova: towards partition?

    The Trepca zinc, lead, cadmium, gold and silver mining and metallurgy complex in the north of Kosova has been described as the "most valuable piece of real estate in the Balkans" by Chris Hedges, the Balkan writer for the New

  • Kosova: what remains after 'victory'?

    Kosova: what remains after 'victory'?Who won the Kosova war? According to Western leaders, NATO did, and Slobodan Milosevic "totally capitulated". According to Milosevic, the war ended with a "victory for Serbia's peace

  • Imperialism and the Kosovar struggle for independence

    There is considerable contention on the left about the Kosova Liberation Army's relationship to NATO and position in the Balkans war. It is charged of being an extreme nationalist organisation that would "slaughter" the Serbs if

  • Serbian oppositionists condemn NATO and Milosevic

    A declaration condemning the NATO attack on Serbia was released in April by 17 organisations which have long opposed the Serb national chauvinist regime of Slobodan Milosevic. Their stance reveals how little NATO's

  • Milosevic and imperialism edge towards a deal

    The May 6 agreement of the G8 countries (the major imperialist countries plus Russia) underlines that NATO's terror bombing of Serbia has nothing to do with helping the oppressed Kosovar Albanians. The genocide unleashed by the

  • Chossudovsky's frame-up of the KLA

    NATO's bombing has caused hundreds of civilian deaths in Serbia, strengthened the Milosevic regime and resulted in a massive escalation of the Serbian regime's genocidal assault against Kosova's Albanian majority. This confronts

  • Is Serbia socialist?

    One view expressed about the war in the Balkans is that NATO is attacking Serbia because the Milosevic regime somehow stems the advance of Western economic penetration of the region, or, in more extreme versions, that it is

  • Yugoslavia and history

    Yugoslavia and historyJerome Fitzgerald ("Write on", GLW #348) correctly points to the importance of history and the need to get our facts right. Unfortunately, he repeats some common views on the conflicts in Yugoslavia

  • US in 'even-handed' betrayal of Kosovo

    New atrocities against Albanian villagers by the Serbian occupation forces in Kosovo have further highlighted the western powers' "even-handed" policy. Even more than last year, virtually every commentary in the media has

  • Kosovo betrayed: What NATO is really up to

    Just who is kidding whom about Kosovo? NATO is ready to bomb Serbia "to force it to back down". US special envoy Richard Holbrooke holds hours of talks with Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic, and comes out saying that