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Grubacic: Richard Holbrooke, the Butcher of the Balkans
Commentary, December, 18 2010
Andrej Grubacic
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Richard Holbrooke was a war criminal. He helped organize the military and institutional framework for the mass slaughter of Yugoslav people.
Grubacic: Kosovo: A new War in the Balkans? From supervised independence to unsupervised violence
Commentary, December, 10 2007
Andrej Grubacic
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Kosovo: A new War in the Balkans? From supervised independence to unsupervised violence
Grubacic: Kosovo's Unworthy Victims: an Interview with Paul Polansky
Commentary, May, 01 2007
Andrej Grubacic
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In its rush to proclaim a supervised independence for the "embattled and violent" region of Kosovo, the international capitalist community is ignoring and covering up a tragedy of Roma people in this colonized region, a tragedy for which they are ...
Grubacic: State building in Western Balkans
Commentary, March, 09 2007
Andrej Grubacic
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I was reading an EU journal today, I think it was the Frankfurter Rundschau, when a curious article attracted my attention. European defense ministers are meeting in German town of Wiesbaden to discuss "State Building in the Western Balkans". Javi...
Grubacic: Eisenhower's Mistake: A Tale of an Astonishing Letter to the Former German Chancellor
Commentary, February, 18 2007
Andrej Grubacic
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The first time I heard of Willy Wimmer was during the NATO "freedom through bombs" campaign in Serbia in 1999. "Never before so few lied so thoroughly to so many, as in connection with the Kosovo war", he famously observed. "People died for this"....
Grubacic: Between Balkan Primitivism and European Future
Commentary, January, 28 2007
Andrej Grubacic
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If you read the mainstream press last week, there is a probability that you have read that, in Serbia, that "pivotal Balkan State", people went to the polls for a "crucial election", the most important one since the fall of "deceased strongman" Sl...
Grubacic: Self-Management Returns To Serbia?
Commentary, July, 16 2006
Andrej Grubacic
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Listserves and inboxes all over the world have been filled with the following plea for global solidarity with the workers of the Serbian factory Jugoremedija, a factory that is resisting privatization while organizing to run the workplace themselv...
Grubacic: The Departure of the Balkan Clouseau1
Commentary, February, 15 2006
Andrej Grubacic
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In ancient times and during the middle ages, enlightened people spoke de mortuis nihil nisi bene - nothing ill of the dead. This polite habit can be explained by the fact that the middle ages saw nothing of the Ibrahim Rugova phenomenon. Reporter ...
Grubacic: A "New Phase" in the Balkans[i]
Commentary, December, 17 2005
Andrej Grubacic
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The scandal which erupted after the recent Guardian interview with Noam Chomsky - that "exercise in defamation that is a model of the genre" (Chomsky) - is not, at least at first glance, completely unexpected: the Balkans, we can say with some pri...
Grubacic: The Multi-Ethnic Dream of Kosovo
Commentary, June, 16 2004
Andrej Grubacic
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Admiral Gregory Johnson, the NATO Commander in charge of Kosovo, as recently as a week ago has linked the violent Albanian struggle for independence to "ethnic cleansingÓ Ð and expressed that the recent attacks against Serbs and Romas were "orches...
Grubacic: Post-Yugoslavia After the State of Emergency
Commentary, August, 26 2003
Andrej Grubacic
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The Serbian Government often likes to point out that the state of emergency had helped rid the country of the most lethal heritage of Milosevic's regime - the legitimacy of organized crime. To some degree, this statement is most probably true. Dur...
Grubacic: Global Movement
Commentary, August, 19 2003
Andrej Grubacic
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In preparing a book on anti-corporate globalization and international organizing, I have been interviewing activists around the world. Here are the results an interview with an Australian activist/scholar, Brett Neilson, author of Free Trade in th...
Grubacic: Global Movement: Interviewing Adamovsky
Commentary, July, 05 2003
Andrej Grubacic
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This is the first part of a series of discussions on movement perspectives, written for Z sustainer program, and as a part of my forthcoming book, Global Movement.
Grubacic: Yugoslav Absurdistan
Commentary, June, 20 2003
Andrej Grubacic
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According to articles in several influential US strategic magazines, the US Government is finalizing plans for the relocation of the entirety of its military forces stationed in Germany to new bases in the Balkans: to Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgar...
Grubacic: Paris of the East
Commentary, April, 29 2003
Andrej Grubacic
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The so-called "Paris of the East" - Bucharest, was recently visited by the international battalions of Greenpeace, the mainstream ecological organization that drew volunteers from Belgium, Holland, the Slovak republic, Hungary and England for a c...
Grubacic: Between Old Yugoslavia and New Europe
Commentary, April, 04 2003
Andrej Grubacic
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In the month prior to the most recent events to rock Serbia, the question posed to me most frequently concerned the February 15th antiwar demonstrations and why such a small number of people in Yugoslavia had protested against the planned bombing ...
Grubacic: What Happened In The Turkish Elections
Commentary, February, 16 2003
Andrej Grubacic
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Many qualities could be ascribed to the recent parliamentary elections in Turkey, but dullness is certainly not one of them. To begin with, ever since the inauguration of the secular regime imposed by Kemal Ataturk in 1923, a party of Islamisist o...
