Bosnia

Ema Hasanovic, a young Bosnian Muslim girl, pays her respects near to the coffin of her uncle, in the Srebrenica massacre Memorial center in Potocari, 200 km northeast of Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, July 9, 2014. (AP/Amel Emric)
Once every year, the Mothers of Srebrenica host a ceremony to remember their fathers, sons, husbands, and brothers who were hunted down and systematically murdered by Serbian forces on 11 July 1995. They were killed because they were Muslim.

Russia’s contemporary involvement in the Balkans is comparatively minimal. Russia does do business with Serbia, including with Serbia’s military, but the business does not involve anything that one could call ‘make or break’ for either side. This is particularly true for Russia.

I like Tim Kelly. He does very interesting, fairly in depth interviews, considering the time constraints everyone of us deals with."Our Interesting Times" will be perma- linked in the sidebar.  Just got to hear this interview today and it is a MUST LISTEN interview, the perfect partner to the post covering the fallacious concept of safe zones as anything having to do with safety.  It's not an easy interview- but it's better to understand the reality of warfare as a business model.

Lengthy but worth reading.. Or it wouldn't be hereInspired by the vileness of Votel and far too many evil psychopaths: Syria safe zones ‘a viable concept’ top US military commander says Washington Post Feb 23/17

What was supposed to be an historical moment of reconciliation between Serbs in Belgrade and those trapped in Mitrovica, in the disputed territory of Kosovo, has been disrupted by a show of force from Kosovar Albanians.
A train from Belgrade bound for Mitrovica was stopped by ethnic Albanians currently in charge of Kosovo, a legal part of Serbia which unilaterally declared independence in 2008. Kosovo currently has limited recognition as a state.
The proximate cause of the disruption was a slogan written on the side of the train reading ‘Kosovo is Serbia’.

'Post-truth', spoiled Americans and the 'PizzaGate' pushback + this day in history w/the Jonestown massacre and our song of the day by Remy on your Morning Monarchy for November 18, 2016.

The word peacekeeping is like the word terrorism: it is meaningless on its own and able to be molded to serve the interests of a political clique. Like Alex P. Schmidt’s description of terrorism in The Routledge Handbook of Terrorism Research, peacekeeping “is usually an instrument for the attempted realization of a political…project that perpetrators lacking mass support are seeking.”1

Exclusive: The transformation of the Democratic Party from the relative “peace party” to a belligerent “war party” occurred during Bill Clinton’s presidency and is likely to resume if Hillary Clinton is elected, writes James W Carden. By James W Carden The…Read more →

Also Dunford's visit to Incirlik, Suspicious Yildirim, Colonel at Incirlik learned about Coup from CNN , Turkeys Spymaster Hikan Fidan- Still on the job? And of course Syria.I’ve already covered the fire, the outing of certain US generals etc. So here is where we cover some other interesting news itemsWonder if tonight- as the despicable Olympics kick off -  will yet another  attempt to take over Turkey's civilian government take place?And then there is Syria to consider? The rebels have failed to break the siege.

(ANTIMEDIA) Though Europe do not have the rates of gun violence the United States continues to grapple with, European governments have made over a billion euros by fueling gun violence in the Middle East and North Africa.